Danger: NOT Politically Correct!!!

[Michelle420]

QL is what walking sticks would call "fat". Which also means she is not beautiful, right? Wrong. Oh. Wait. You are talking about 500 lb people. Wait a sec. Is there a limit to what "fat" is? Just so everyone knows whether they are a fat ugly person due to their weight, perhaps some of you should give us your ....ahem...rules...about what is fat and ugly to you so we can jot it down in Things We All Must Know book.

It happens to men to, I am thinking of how people fat shamed Elvis, and also when Marlon Brando had gained weight they wanted him to walk around carrying mangos and displaying his belly in apocalypse now. Media tells us what is physically attractive and we are conditioned by it.

I came across this blog and liked what she had to say:

The thing is? How I feel about myself isn't actually all that matters. It also matters that how I feel about myself is worthy of comment by virtue of an entire culture built around the exhortation and expectation that I should hate myself.

I don't need gold stars and infantilizing cheers for my radical rejection of a cultural imperative that tells me and everyone else to hate my body. I need people with privilege to be as angry about the fact they're asked to hate my body as I am.

I need people with privilege to stop giving me permission to accept myself, and start giving themselves permission to accept me
Shakesville

Also anyone who speaks out against fat shaming, must automatically be fat, (another sly dig trick used by fat shamers)

 

[Steelplate]

Disagreeing with Pres. Obama is not a racist act. Redefining "racism" is a product of political correctness. The left plays the race card in the same manner certain religious extremists play the "infidel" card.

If the right would stay out of people's bedroom and mind our own business we would have less problems? It is the left that wants the government to pay for contraception. Why is this the governments job? Why does the left always want to control private activities? The left of course wants to invade people's bedrooms because they want the government to invade every aspect of people's lives, privacy and speech.

No...disagreeing with Obama is not a racist act. Talking shit about a "bone through his nose" or some other nonsense like that is.

The left wants government to pay for contraception? Oh you mean that they want contraception to be part of the insurance exchanges that they themselves pay for? Imagine that....someone wants something to be part of the benefits package that they choose. That's called demand...and if one insurance doesn't offer it, I'd imagine the ones that include it will do much better.

BTW...what better solution to bring down the number of abortions in this country than to make contraception readily available and cheap? What's worse having contraception as part of an insurance package, or abortion? Oh yeah...I forgot...abstinence only. Well, that might be practical for the 3-5 out of a hundred that practice masturbation because they can't get a date, but for most people, it's not going to work.

I don't expect a rational, pragmatic answer because you guys are incapable of it. You just blindly believe the dogma that gets vomited out of hate mongers' mouths.

The left wants to invade the bedroom? Tell me how. The ONLY people I see telling others what they can and can't do is you guys on the right.

Yes, talking "shit" about a "bone in the nose" or some other nonsense like that is racist. Accusing somebody of racism because one disagrees with Obama's agenda is not racist.
Confusing the two is the art of playing the race card.

Yes, the government wants to pay for contraception by forcing people who are against contraception to pay for it by government decree (Obamacare). Obamacare has nothing to do with choice when it becomes mandatory. Also, who is talking about abstinence in terms of insurance? Abstinence is a private choice. I still want to know why it's the governments job to force people to pay for practices they don't believe in. As for myself, I love contraception. Contraception is my friend. Why am I obliged to be forced to pay for other people's contraception though? Why is it any of my business? If you are so concerned about how people have sex then buy your friends a condom but why drag me into your pathological interest in other people's sex lives?

By the way, you did exactly what I expected you to do. You deny that government is forcing itself into the bedroom and then you talk about why government should force itself into the bedroom. You say," What better way to bring down the number of abortions in this country than to make contraception readily available and cheap?". Of course contraception is already readily available and cheap so that argument doesn't even make sense.

Here's my favorite part of what you said though. You said that you don't expect a rational pragmatic answer because "you guys are incapable of it", but right before this quote you insisted that people who disagree with you are busy masturbating because they can't get dates. LOL! Of course, in the left's world, the government should force everybody to pay for someone else's porno, hand lotion and tissue so the ability for masturbation is readily available and cheap.

Why should I have to pay? The Narcissist's question to everything....why should you have to pay for a life saving treatment? Why should you have to pay for a kid's 104 degree fever?

You like that huh? It's called sarcasm dipshit....look it up. But it's pretty fucking fitting when one of YOUR elected officials tell women to put an aspirin between their fucking knees.

 

[JohnL.Burke]

No...disagreeing with Obama is not a racist act. Talking shit about a "bone through his nose" or some other nonsense like that is.

The left wants government to pay for contraception? Oh you mean that they want contraception to be part of the insurance exchanges that they themselves pay for? Imagine that....someone wants something to be part of the benefits package that they choose. That's called demand...and if one insurance doesn't offer it, I'd imagine the ones that include it will do much better.

BTW...what better solution to bring down the number of abortions in this country than to make contraception readily available and cheap? What's worse having contraception as part of an insurance package, or abortion? Oh yeah...I forgot...abstinence only. Well, that might be practical for the 3-5 out of a hundred that practice masturbation because they can't get a date, but for most people, it's not going to work.

I don't expect a rational, pragmatic answer because you guys are incapable of it. You just blindly believe the dogma that gets vomited out of hate mongers' mouths.

The left wants to invade the bedroom? Tell me how. The ONLY people I see telling others what they can and can't do is you guys on the right.

Yes, talking "shit" about a "bone in the nose" or some other nonsense like that is racist. Accusing somebody of racism because one disagrees with Obama's agenda is not racist.
Confusing the two is the art of playing the race card.

Yes, the government wants to pay for contraception by forcing people who are against contraception to pay for it by government decree (Obamacare). Obamacare has nothing to do with choice when it becomes mandatory. Also, who is talking about abstinence in terms of insurance? Abstinence is a private choice. I still want to know why it's the governments job to force people to pay for practices they don't believe in. As for myself, I love contraception. Contraception is my friend. Why am I obliged to be forced to pay for other people's contraception though? Why is it any of my business? If you are so concerned about how people have sex then buy your friends a condom but why drag me into your pathological interest in other people's sex lives?

By the way, you did exactly what I expected you to do. You deny that government is forcing itself into the bedroom and then you talk about why government should force itself into the bedroom. You say," What better way to bring down the number of abortions in this country than to make contraception readily available and cheap?". Of course contraception is already readily available and cheap so that argument doesn't even make sense.

Here's my favorite part of what you said though. You said that you don't expect a rational pragmatic answer because "you guys are incapable of it", but right before this quote you insisted that people who disagree with you are busy masturbating because they can't get dates. LOL! Of course, in the left's world, the government should force everybody to pay for someone else's porno, hand lotion and tissue so the ability for masturbation is readily available and cheap.

Why should I have to pay? The Narcissist's question to everything....why should you have to pay for a life saving treatment? Why should you have to pay for a kid's 104 degree fever?

You like that huh? It's called sarcasm dipshit....look it up. But it's pretty fucking fitting when one of YOUR elected officials tell women to put an aspirin between their fucking knees.

You seem upset. Want a cookie?

 

[Brawd]

It happens to men to, I am thinking of how people fat shamed Elvis, and also when Marlon Brando had gained weight they wanted him to walk around carrying mangos and displaying his belly in apocalypse now. Media tells us what is physically attractive and we are conditioned by it.

I came across this blog and liked what she had to say:



Also anyone who speaks out against fat shaming, must automatically be fat, (another sly dig trick used by fat shamers)

makes sense.

"'Plus-size' is just a euphemism for fat", kind of like high cheek bones, is a sign of a fat face, and by the looks of this OP poster I dont know where she gets off throwing stones from her glass house.

High cheek bones and jowls, she is no one to talk. Maybe she needs bigger glasses.

IMHO

 

[Gracie]

QL is what walking sticks would call "fat". Which also means she is not beautiful, right? Wrong. Oh. Wait. You are talking about 500 lb people. Wait a sec. Is there a limit to what "fat" is? Just so everyone knows whether they are a fat ugly person due to their weight, perhaps some of you should give us your ....ahem...rules...about what is fat and ugly to you so we can jot it down in Things We All Must Know book.

It happens to men to, I am thinking of how people fat shamed Elvis, and also when Marlon Brando had gained weight they wanted him to walk around carrying mangos and displaying his belly in apocalypse now. Media tells us what is physically attractive and we are conditioned by it.

I came across this blog and liked what she had to say:

The thing is? How I feel about myself isn't actually all that matters. It also matters that how I feel about myself is worthy of comment by virtue of an entire culture built around the exhortation and expectation that I should hate myself.

I don't need gold stars and infantilizing cheers for my radical rejection of a cultural imperative that tells me and everyone else to hate my body. I need people with privilege to be as angry about the fact they're asked to hate my body as I am.

I need people with privilege to stop giving me permission to accept myself, and start giving themselves permission to accept me
Shakesville

Also anyone who speaks out against fat shaming, must automatically be fat, (another sly dig trick used by fat shamers)

makes sense.

"'Plus-size' is just a euphemism for fat", kind of like high cheek bones, is a sign of a fat face, and by the looks of this poster I dont know where she gets off throwing stones from her glass house.

High cheek bones and jowls, she is no one to talk. Maybe she needs bigger glasses.

IMHO

She who? I'm confused.

 

[Steelplate]

Yes, talking "shit" about a "bone in the nose" or some other nonsense like that is racist. Accusing somebody of racism because one disagrees with Obama's agenda is not racist.
Confusing the two is the art of playing the race card.

Yes, the government wants to pay for contraception by forcing people who are against contraception to pay for it by government decree (Obamacare). Obamacare has nothing to do with choice when it becomes mandatory. Also, who is talking about abstinence in terms of insurance? Abstinence is a private choice. I still want to know why it's the governments job to force people to pay for practices they don't believe in. As for myself, I love contraception. Contraception is my friend. Why am I obliged to be forced to pay for other people's contraception though? Why is it any of my business? If you are so concerned about how people have sex then buy your friends a condom but why drag me into your pathological interest in other people's sex lives?

By the way, you did exactly what I expected you to do. You deny that government is forcing itself into the bedroom and then you talk about why government should force itself into the bedroom. You say," What better way to bring down the number of abortions in this country than to make contraception readily available and cheap?". Of course contraception is already readily available and cheap so that argument doesn't even make sense.

Here's my favorite part of what you said though. You said that you don't expect a rational pragmatic answer because "you guys are incapable of it", but right before this quote you insisted that people who disagree with you are busy masturbating because they can't get dates. LOL! Of course, in the left's world, the government should force everybody to pay for someone else's porno, hand lotion and tissue so the ability for masturbation is readily available and cheap.

Why should I have to pay? The Narcissist's question to everything....why should you have to pay for a life saving treatment? Why should you have to pay for a kid's 104 degree fever?

You like that huh? It's called sarcasm dipshit....look it up. But it's pretty fucking fitting when one of YOUR elected officials tell women to put an aspirin between their fucking knees.

You seem upset. Want a cookie?

Not at all....just pointing out the Narcissim that goes along with "why should I have to pay?" If there was one program that you couldn't use if you needed to....I'd understand that thought process...but, if for some reason(God forbid) you'd find yourself in dire straits...those programs are there for you too.

It's not "why should I have to pay?", it's "what makes us a better country?"

The whole "Atlas Shrugged" mindset is one self importance, self indulgence...Narcissism. I'm glad we don't belong to a culture like that...it's unsustainable. We can see it around us. Those that have, have an incredible amount. Those that don't have nothing...or would if we didn't have the programs we do. Those of us in the middle? We see our numbers shrinking continually.....and it's not for the better.

If this trend continues? Conservatives' worst nightmare is going to become a self fulfilling prophecy. You get enough disaffected people by way of greed at the top, there will be a huge shift to the left. You fear Socialism under Obama? You haven't seen Socialism. You talk tyranny? You don't know what tyranny is.

You have to remember...in this country, it's one man/one vote. Like it or not...we have a Democratic process. If you have enough people that see their country falling apart around them, their jobs disappearing and replaced with bullshit jobs with bullshit wages to the point where many can't afford to live in their own country without subsidation from government, you're going to see a hard swing to the left at the polling places.

The status quo of corporatism and government screwing over the masses has got to end. "Why should I have to pay?" Isn't going to cut it anymore. And it will be your own fault.....because of silly.little shit that you righties take a hard line on....4% tax increases on the truly wealthy, having birth control as part of the health care plan...it's asinine shit like that, that is going to turn this country on it's ear.

 

[Michelle420]

Yeah who are you talking about Brawd?

 

[Brawd]

She who? I'm confused.

Yeah who are you talking about Brawd?

Sorry I wasn't clear, I meant the OP, if in fact that is her real picture in her profile.

I changes the post to reflect what I meant.

 

[Michelle420]

She who? I'm confused.

Yeah who are you talking about Brawd?

Sorry I wasn't clear, I meant the OP, if in fact that is her real picture in her profile.

I changes the post to reflect what I meant.

Do you mean the author of the article in the first post?



Pass that steamroller Brawd, I'll take a toke

 

[Brawd]

She who? I'm confused.

Yeah who are you talking about Brawd?

Sorry I wasn't clear, I meant the OP, if in fact that is her real picture in her profile.

I changes the post to reflect what I meant.

Do you mean the author of the article in the first post?



Pass that steamroller Brawd, I'll take a toke

No, I meant the OP Original Poster, not the author of the article but it would fit for her as well. People seem to be rather consumed with other people's life styles as I see a few others are as well.

I havent read the whole the thread because most of it nonsense, but there are people with real physical disorders where there metabolism dont function normally, thyroid problems etc.

There is also a direct connection with the use of high fructose corn syrup and obesity that I didnt read, the body cant digest corn syrup like regular sugar.

The food supply is the biggest issue not the after affects of the people forced to eat it.

I do agree there is a problem, but not with people who have fallen victim to the food supply.

The word that kept coming to mind as I read the first two pages was superficial.

I havent been here in a long time, just happened to see this thread, and thought I would ad my 2 cents.

I am busy lately probably wont see me back in some time either.

 

[JohnL.Burke]

Why should I have to pay? The Narcissist's question to everything....why should you have to pay for a life saving treatment? Why should you have to pay for a kid's 104 degree fever?

You like that huh? It's called sarcasm dipshit....look it up. But it's pretty fucking fitting when one of YOUR elected officials tell women to put an aspirin between their fucking knees.

You seem upset. Want a cookie?

Not at all....just pointing out the Narcissim that goes along with "why should I have to pay?" If there was one program that you couldn't use if you needed to....I'd understand that thought process...but, if for some reason(God forbid) you'd find yourself in dire straits...those programs are there for you too.

It's not "why should I have to pay?", it's "what makes us a better country?"

The whole "Atlas Shrugged" mindset is one self importance, self indulgence...Narcissism. I'm glad we don't belong to a culture like that...it's unsustainable. We can see it around us. Those that have, have an incredible amount. Those that don't have nothing...or would if we didn't have the programs we do. Those of us in the middle? We see our numbers shrinking continually.....and it's not for the better.

If this trend continues? Conservatives' worst nightmare is going to become a self fulfilling prophecy. You get enough disaffected people by way of greed at the top, there will be a huge shift to the left. You fear Socialism under Obama? You haven't seen Socialism. You talk tyranny? You don't know what tyranny is.

You have to remember...in this country, it's one man/one vote. Like it or not...we have a Democratic process. If you have enough people that see their country falling apart around them, their jobs disappearing and replaced with bullshit jobs with bullshit wages to the point where many can't afford to live in their own country without subsidation from government, you're going to see a hard swing to the left at the polling places.

The status quo of corporatism and government screwing over the masses has got to end. "Why should I have to pay?" Isn't going to cut it anymore. And it will be your own fault.....because of silly.little shit that you righties take a hard line on....4% tax increases on the truly wealthy, having birth control as part of the health care plan...it's asinine shit like that, that is going to turn this country on it's ear.

You're of course wrong in pretty much every point you made but at least you seem to have calmed down a bit. I hope the cookie was tasty. Now, let's see.... uhmmmm... you're doing what a lot of liberals do. You're equating conservatism with libertarianism. There are vast differences between the two even though there are a few areas of agreement. The same is true with progressive liberals and libertarians. Open borders, less military, drug legalization, etc. The alternative to Obamacare is not obliterating insurance. That's a straw man.
You accuse me of narcissism because I don't want to pay for your rubbers. I think it's narcism to expect other people to pay for your rubbers, sponges, etc. My attitude is not a question of narcissism. It's a question of mandating new laws that most people don't want. It's a question of keeping the government out of our bedrooms. It's a question of freedom and privacy.
You reminded me that we have a democratic process. It would be nice however if we used it. Obama passed a government mandated insurance program against the will of the majority of people by conducting back room deals while promising waivers to politicians and lobbyists for their support.
As Obamacare becomes even less popular, more expensive and more intrusive I don't see this hard left voting swing that you predict. We'll see soon enough though.

 

[Steelplate]

You seem upset. Want a cookie?

Not at all....just pointing out the Narcissim that goes along with "why should I have to pay?" If there was one program that you couldn't use if you needed to....I'd understand that thought process...but, if for some reason(God forbid) you'd find yourself in dire straits...those programs are there for you too.

It's not "why should I have to pay?", it's "what makes us a better country?"

The whole "Atlas Shrugged" mindset is one self importance, self indulgence...Narcissism. I'm glad we don't belong to a culture like that...it's unsustainable. We can see it around us. Those that have, have an incredible amount. Those that don't have nothing...or would if we didn't have the programs we do. Those of us in the middle? We see our numbers shrinking continually.....and it's not for the better.

If this trend continues? Conservatives' worst nightmare is going to become a self fulfilling prophecy. You get enough disaffected people by way of greed at the top, there will be a huge shift to the left. You fear Socialism under Obama? You haven't seen Socialism. You talk tyranny? You don't know what tyranny is.

You have to remember...in this country, it's one man/one vote. Like it or not...we have a Democratic process. If you have enough people that see their country falling apart around them, their jobs disappearing and replaced with bullshit jobs with bullshit wages to the point where many can't afford to live in their own country without subsidation from government, you're going to see a hard swing to the left at the polling places.

The status quo of corporatism and government screwing over the masses has got to end. "Why should I have to pay?" Isn't going to cut it anymore. And it will be your own fault.....because of silly.little shit that you righties take a hard line on....4% tax increases on the truly wealthy, having birth control as part of the health care plan...it's asinine shit like that, that is going to turn this country on it's ear.

You're of course wrong in pretty much every point you made but at least you seem to have calmed down a bit. I hope the cookie was tasty. Now, let's see.... uhmmmm... you're doing what a lot of liberals do. You're equating conservatism with libertarianism. There are vast differences between the two even though there are a few areas of agreement. The same is true with progressive liberals and libertarians. Open borders, less military, drug legalization, etc. The alternative to Obamacare is not obliterating insurance. That's a straw man.
You accuse me of narcissism because I don't want to pay for your rubbers. I think it's narcism to expect other people to pay for your rubbers, sponges, etc. My attitude is not a question of narcissism. It's a question of mandating new laws that most people don't want. It's a question of keeping the government out of our bedrooms. It's a question of freedom and privacy.
You reminded me that we have a democratic process. It would be nice however if we used it. Obama passed a government mandated insurance program against the will of the majority of people by conducting back room deals while promising waivers to politicians and lobbyists for their support.
As Obamacare becomes even less popular, more expensive and more intrusive I don't see this hard left voting swing that you predict. We'll see soon enough though.

Yes we will....because it was the.obstructionism of the right that's been on display in Congress the past four+ years...THAT is what people are most angry about....and that falls directly into the lap of the right. Is it any wonder that Bachmann is leaving Congress? She.knows.she has no chance in hell of re-election....so she's bowing.out gracefully and gonna ride the Palin circuit for a while...maybe write a book.

 

[JohnL.Burke]

I agree that Bauchmann had little chance of reelection. This is why the GOP encouraged Bauchmann to leave so her district would stay in republican hands. This is a good thing for the republican party. I know the left's argument centers on republican obstructionism but Obama has to take responsibility for his failed leadership one of these days. Even the mainstream press is turning against Obama. How long do you think Erik Holder is going to stay as attorney general? I give it 30 days or so. This white house is in such a quagmire of corruption that even politicians on the left are calling for investigations. Obama's house of cards is falling.

 

[Foxfyre]

I agree that Bauchmann had little chance of reelection. This is why the GOP encouraged Bauchmann to leave so her district would stay in republican hands. This is a good thing for the republican party. I know the left's argument centers on republican obstructionism but Obama has to take responsibility for his failed leadership one of these days. Even the mainstream press is turning against Obama. How long do you think Erik Holder is going to stay as attorney general? I give it 30 days or so. This white house is in such a quagmire of corruption that even politicians on the left are calling for investigations. Obama's house of cards is falling.

Are you sure about that? When her opponent dropped out immediately after she did? Bachmann is a classic target of unbridled leftwing hatred and frontal attack just because she is a conservative woman. No minority or female who ever catches the imagination of the public and becomes a media star will EVER survive that kind of onslaught. Okay Bachmann was a little different, had a few screwy ideas, and could be considered a tad exreme on this or that, but that was not what condemned her. The ONLY reason she was so attacked was because of the unacceptable "R" after her name.

We know this because the left has some women who are far more bizarre, who commit much more extreme faux pas on a fairly regular basis, but none have an "R" after their name and none have much of a public following, so they are deemed acceptable.

And this is the cruelest cut of all the ugly world of PC. When people's public careers can so easily be destroyed simply because they don't 'look right' or 'talk the right lingo' or embrace the right political party or ideology, I really despair that we will ever be able to get past that.

 

[JohnL.Burke]

I agree that Bauchmann had little chance of reelection. This is why the GOP encouraged Bauchmann to leave so her district would stay in republican hands. This is a good thing for the republican party. I know the left's argument centers on republican obstructionism but Obama has to take responsibility for his failed leadership one of these days. Even the mainstream press is turning against Obama. How long do you think Erik Holder is going to stay as attorney general? I give it 30 days or so. This white house is in such a quagmire of corruption that even politicians on the left are calling for investigations. Obama's house of cards is falling.

Are you sure about that? When her opponent dropped out immediately after she did? Bachmann is a classic target of unbridled leftwing hatred and frontal attack just because she is a conservative woman. No minority or female who ever catches the imagination of the public and becomes a media star will EVER survive that kind of onslaught. Okay Bachmann was a little different, had a few screwy ideas, and could be considered a tad exreme on this or that, but that was not what condemned her. The ONLY reason she was so attacked was because of the unacceptable "R" after her name.

We know this because the left has some women who are far more bizarre, who commit much more extreme faux pas on a fairly regular basis, but none have an "R" after their name and none have much of a public following, so they are deemed acceptable.

And this is the cruelest cut of all the ugly world of PC. When people's public careers can so easily be destroyed simply because they don't 'look right' or 'talk the right lingo' or embrace the right political party or ideology, I really despair that we will ever be able to get past that.

Bauchmann was in charge of the Tea Party caucus in the House and yet they didn't do anything except sit on their butts. I'm not saying she was horrible, just ineffective. Plus she barely won in an extremely red district even though she spent six times the money of her political opponent. The only reason the democrat left when Bauchmann left was because there is no way for a democrat to win in that district unless it's against such a weak opponent. I think Sarah Palin fits more into your category. I have never seen a politician so abused, attacked and maligned right off the bat as Palin was. All because she had the audacity to be a republican woman.

 

[editec]

Good looks indicate good health.

It ought to be no surprise that what we think of as beauty really hasn't change all that much over the eons.

Now I know that some people with a PC agenda will try to convince us that beauty is arbitrary and culturally based.

That's largely nonsense.

What humans find attractive sexually is programmed right into our genes.

Massively overweight, massively underweight?

Both are genetic turnoffs.

WE all know what healthy looks like.

Oh....I know what you're saying....but that's not the point here....the point is that it does no one any good to call an obese person a cow. It makes you look like a dickhead and makes then feel like shit, which they will just turn on themselves and eat more.

Calling a fat a person a cow is just fucking RUDE and CRUEL.

There's nothing POLITICAL (correct or otherwise) about that.

 

[editec]

Political correctness (such as the speech codes in colleges) stems from a far left view that Orwell wrote so eloquently about in the book 1984. It's an attempt to intimidate the masses. Brainwashing through rhetoric. an attempt to convince people that 2+2=5. It's an acidic and dishonest rhetorical device used to bludgeon ones political adversaries while not having to study information available. Some of the tools of political correctness include the race card. A metaphorical ninja throwing star usually used as a way to bypass facts and equate government with righteousness. A war-on-women meme was used as a way to deflect the encroachment of government into religious institutions. Political correctness is a bias wrapped in a psychobabble and disguised as a thought process.

The only thing I might add to the above is that PCism also attempts to lay claim to the HIGHER MORAL ground.

 

[Foxfyre]

I agree that Bauchmann had little chance of reelection. This is why the GOP encouraged Bauchmann to leave so her district would stay in republican hands. This is a good thing for the republican party. I know the left's argument centers on republican obstructionism but Obama has to take responsibility for his failed leadership one of these days. Even the mainstream press is turning against Obama. How long do you think Erik Holder is going to stay as attorney general? I give it 30 days or so. This white house is in such a quagmire of corruption that even politicians on the left are calling for investigations. Obama's house of cards is falling.

Are you sure about that? When her opponent dropped out immediately after she did? Bachmann is a classic target of unbridled leftwing hatred and frontal attack just because she is a conservative woman. No minority or female who ever catches the imagination of the public and becomes a media star will EVER survive that kind of onslaught. Okay Bachmann was a little different, had a few screwy ideas, and could be considered a tad exreme on this or that, but that was not what condemned her. The ONLY reason she was so attacked was because of the unacceptable "R" after her name.

We know this because the left has some women who are far more bizarre, who commit much more extreme faux pas on a fairly regular basis, but none have an "R" after their name and none have much of a public following, so they are deemed acceptable.

And this is the cruelest cut of all the ugly world of PC. When people's public careers can so easily be destroyed simply because they don't 'look right' or 'talk the right lingo' or embrace the right political party or ideology, I really despair that we will ever be able to get past that.

Bauchmann was in charge of the Tea Party caucus in the House and yet they didn't do anything except sit on their butts. I'm not saying she was horrible, just ineffective. Plus she barely won in an extremely red district even though she spent six times the money of her political opponent. The only reason the democrat left when Bauchmann left was because there is no way for a democrat to win in that district unless it's against such a weak opponent. I think Sarah Palin fits more into your category. I have never seen a politician so abused, attacked and maligned right off the bat as Palin was. All because she had the audacity to be a republican woman.

Bachmann founded the tea party caucus in the house, but being comprised of only about 60 members it could have only so much influence. And the caucus itself has been a target of unrelenting dishonest attacks and accused of all many of things--another example of bullying attacks wrapped in PC concepts--that have successfully dminished the tea party in public perception. And just like the Democrats, we do have Republicans who are far more concerned with getting re-elected than with getting anything done or actually doing anything positive and important for the country. So they shun the tea party that would be a positive influence if it was allowed to do so.

It was interesting that only one Tea Party member endorsed Bachmann during the last presidential campaign. This no doubt because the PC crowd had been so successful in marginalizing her.

PC is indeed a cancer in our society, and perhaps not the largest threat to our constitutional concepts of liberty and self governance, but it is definitely a threat. It has become one of the most powerful weapons of the left.

In private life, it hurts feelings, is hateful, and sometimes takes away opportunities for people. In public life, it can ruin careers and take away people's livelihood.

I can find little justification for it.

 

[Foxfyre]

I do agree that it was even worse for Sarah Palin as she was a much greater threat to the left. I have never seen so vscious, unrelenting, and downright cruel hatred intentionally thrown at anybody. And they want us to believe that liberals are the 'compassionate' and 'caring' ones.

 

[Ravi]

If only we treated Palin in Bachman in a PC manner instead of laughing at their unbelievable idiocy. After all, they can't help that they are idiots.