GOP committing political suicide

[Bfgrn]

ooh WOW! Hit a nerve, did I? I've yet to see you utter a damn thing on here that you didn't come from some George Soros funded PAC. So don't preach to me bout independent thought.

WHO hit a nerve...

What's the matter, is your brain too small to READ the excerpt from the Republican Party platform. It's not from George Soros, it is actual history. It was written BY the Republican Party, before the right wing authoritarians hijacked that party...oh, that's another story written by a Republican insider...

Invasion of the Party Snatchers

By Victor Gold

After four decades as a Republican insider, Victor Gold reveals how the holy-rollers and the Neo-Cons have destroyed the GOP. Now he's fighting to get his party back.

As a man who served as press aide to Barry Goldwater and speechwriter and senior advisor to George H. W. Bush (in addition to co-authoring his autobiography), Victor Gold is absolutely furious that the Neo-Cons and their strange bedfellows, the Evangelical Right, have stolen his party from him. Now he is bringing the fight to them.

Invasion of the Party Snatchers is a blistering critique not only of the Bush-Cheney administration but also of the Republican Congress. Gold is ready to tell all about the war being waged for the soul of the GOP, including the elder Bush's opinion of his sons work domestically and abroad, the significance of the newly elected Congress, and how Goldwater would have reacted to it all. Gold reveals, among other explosive disclosures, how George W. has been manipulated by his vice president and secretary of defense to become, in Lenin's famous phrase, a "useful idiot" for Neo-Conservative warmongers and Theo-Conservative religious fanatics.

Although there have been other books by dissident Republicans attacking the Bush-Cheney administrations betrayal of conservative principles, none have been by an insider whose political credentials include inner-circle status with Barry Goldwater and George H. W. Bush.

Review:
"Make no mistake: author Gold, a former speechwriter for George H.W. Bush and aide to Barry Goldwater, is one disgusted Republican. The GOP of the 2006 midterm election, he writes, is 'a party of pork-barrel ear-markers like Dennis Hastert, of political hatchet men like Karl Rove, and of Bible-thumping hypocrites like Tom Delay.' Gold looks to Goldwater, 'a straight-talking, freethinking maverick,' as the yardstick by which to measure just how far the party of Lincoln has fallen.

He traces the beginning of the end to the 1980 Republican National Convention and the presence of 'a militant new element...personified by Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell.' The other half of the equation, the neoconservatives, are embodied by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, 'two cuts from the same Machiavellian cloth.' In efficient prose, Gold scrutinizes a significant swath of recent GOP history, in particular Newt Gingrich's 104th Congress and the Bush II White House, without losing momentum.

He also has choice words for 'the Coulterization of Republican rhetoric,' the revolving door between Capitol Hill and K Street, and 'sideshow' legislation like the Flag Protection Amendment. Gold sees a promising future for the Republican Party, but not until they lose some major elections and are able to keep down a slice of humble pie; for those disillusioned with the state of the GOP, this quick, uncompromising polemic provides substantial support, along with a large dose of cold comfort." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Synopsis:
The last real Goldwater conservative in America attacks the current state of his movement and his party.
Powell's Books - Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP by Victor Gold

Victor Gold grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he attended the public schools, and Tulane University. After working as a reporter-correspondent for the BIRMINGHAM (Alabama) NEWS, he earned his law degree (J.D.) from the University of Alabama. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, 1950-52.


In 1958 he moved to Washington, D.C., and joined the public relations firm of Selvage & Lee. Six years later he became Deputy Press Secretary to Senator Barry Goldwater during the 1964 presidential campaign.


In 1965 Gold opened his own political public relations firm in Washington, listing among his clients then-Republican House leader Gerald Ford and Senator Bob Dole. At the Republican conventions of 1968 and 1976 he worked with press secretary Lyn Nofziger on behalf of the presidential candidacy of then-California Governor Ronald Reagan. During the Nixon administration he served as press secretary to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew until January, 1973.


In 1980 Gold joined the staff of Republican presidential candidate George H. W. Bush as a speechwriter and senior advisor, a position he held during the Reagan-Bush campaigns of '80 and '84. He served on the Bush vice-presidential staff in 1981, and as a Bush advisor in the campaigns of 1988 and 1992. In 1992 he received the Distinguished Achievement Award for Political Communication from his alma mater, the University of Alabama.


In 1989 Gold served as a member of President Bush's election-oversight delegation to the first free Romanian elections.


A frequent speaker on the national political and campus circuits, Gold has also appeared on numerous network television shows. His articles, covering politics and sports, have appeared in NEWSWEEK, HARPER'S, ATLANTIC MONTHLY, PLAYBOY, CONNOISSEUR, READERS' DIGEST, NATIONAL REVIEW, THE WEEKLY STANDARD, NEW REPUBLIC, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, and THE WASHINGTON POST.

The above post yet again proves that ya' can't fix stupid!

Package this fool with Chris, rdean, Ravi, Zona, and a few others, and we've got the makings for a fucking asyllum!

WOW, you sure told me...

Bad news/good news for 'ya...There is a clinical explanation for that rattling sound when you shake your head. You have a detached pea...unfortunately it's inoperable.

But the good news...That stench when your breath backs up can be cured. Have an adult teach you to use your nose to distinguish chocolate from dogshit...

 

[BolshevikHunter]

Hey Bfgrn, You must be on dope if you believe even half of what you claim is the truth. Fucking Bfgrn Bizzaro Land. Put down the bong bro. ~BH

 

[Bfgrn]

Hey Bfgrn, You must be on dope if you believe even half of what you claim is the truth. Fucking Bfgrn Bizzaro Land. Put down the bong bro. ~BH

Here's what I believe BolshevikHunter. Ironically, your screen name serves as a perfect pretext. The 20th century witnessed 2 failed revolutions that ended very badly for average hard working human beings. The Bolshevik revolution, and the Reagan revolution. Both were based on an extreme ideology with no regard or buffer for human foible.

Unfettered communism and unfettered capitalism both failed.

 

[BolshevikHunter]

Hey Bfgrn, You must be on dope if you believe even half of what you claim is the truth. Fucking Bfgrn Bizzaro Land. Put down the bong bro. ~BH

Here's what I believe BolshevikHunter. Ironically, your screen name serves as a perfect pretext. The 20th century witnessed 2 failed revolutions that ended very badly for average hard working human beings. The Bolshevik revolution, and the Reagan revolution. Both were based on an extreme ideology with no regard or buffer for human foible.

Unfettered communism and unfettered capitalism both failed.

You got one correct, but concerning the other I would strongly suggest that you remove your head from your poop tube. ~BH

 

[Bfgrn]

Hey Bfgrn, You must be on dope if you believe even half of what you claim is the truth. Fucking Bfgrn Bizzaro Land. Put down the bong bro. ~BH

Here's what I believe BolshevikHunter. Ironically, your screen name serves as a perfect pretext. The 20th century witnessed 2 failed revolutions that ended very badly for average hard working human beings. The Bolshevik revolution, and the Reagan revolution. Both were based on an extreme ideology with no regard or buffer for human foible.

Unfettered communism and unfettered capitalism both failed.

You got one correct, but concerning the other I would strongly suggest that you remove your head from your poop tube. ~BH

Really...view the carnage...we're living in it right now.

30 years and STILL waiting for trickle UP to turn into trickle down.

Reagan: The great American Socialist

Let’s go back to the early 1980’s. In 1981, Reagan signed a law that sharply reduced the income tax for the wealthiest Americans and corporations.

The president asserted his program would create jobs, purge inflation and, get this, trim the budget deficit.

However, following the tax cut, the deficit soared from 2.5 percent of GDP to over 6 percent, alarming financial markets, sending interest rates sky high, and culminating in the worst recession since the 1930’s.

INTEREST RATES

Soon the president realized he needed new revenues to trim the deficit, bring down interest rates and improve his chances for reelection. He would not rescind the income tax cut, but other taxes were acceptable.

In 1982, taxes were raised on gasoline and cigarettes, but the deficit hardly budged. In 1983, the president signed the biggest tax rise on payrolls, promising to create a surplus in the Social Security system, while knowing all along that the new revenue would be used to finance the deficit.

The retirement system was looted from the first day the Social Security surplus came into being, because the legislation itself gave the president a free hand to spend the surplus in any way he liked.

Thus began a massive transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class, especially the self-employed small businessman, to the wealthy. The self-employment tax jumped as much as 66 percent.

In 1986, Reagan slashed the top tax rate further. His redistributionist obsession led to a perversity in the law. The wealthiest faced a 28 percent tax rate, while those with lower incomes faced a 33 percent rate; in addition, the bottom rate climbed from 11 percent to 15 percent.

For the first time in history, the top rate fell and the bottom rate rose simultaneously. Even unemployment compensation was not spared. The jobless had to pay income tax on their benefits.

A year later, the man who would not spare unemployment compensation from taxation called for a cut in the capital gains tax.

Thus, Reagan was a staunch socialist, totally committed to his cause of wealth redistribution towards the affluent.How much wealth transfer has occurred through Reagan’s policies? At least $3 trillion.

DEFICITS

The Social Security hike generated over $2 trillion in surplus between 1984 and 2007, and if it had been properly invested, say, in AAA corporate bonds it could have earned another trillion by now.

At present, the fund is empty, because it has been used up to finance the federal deficits resulting from frequent cuts in income tax rates. If this is not redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich, what else is?

Thus, Reagan was the first Republican socialist - and a great one, because his wealth transfer occurred on a massive scale. His accomplishment dwarfs even FDR’s, and if today the small businessman suffers a crippling tax burden, he must thank Reagan the redistributionist.

However, FDR took pains to help the poor, while Reagan took pains to help the wealthiest like himself.

Reagan’s measures were similar to those that the Republicans adopted during the 1920s, which were followed by the catastrophic depression. More recently, such policies were mimicked by President George W. Bush and they are about to plunge the world into a depression as well.

Ironically, the Reagan-style socialism or wealth redistribution is about to destroy monopoly capitalism, the very system that he wanted to preserve and enrich.

The Right wing 'Nanny State'...

 

[BolshevikHunter]

You're preaching to the wrong dude bro. I have raged against Liberal Republicans for decades. I am not swallowing any of your bullshit that is an attempt to deflect from the subject. I am an Independent Conservative by the way. I bet you Can't wait to see your herO Obama's numbers eh? ~BH

 

[Murf76]

You continue your straw man argument and continue to exhibit your scurrilous rationalization of liberals based on YOUR own cold blooded callousness...the people who are MOST angry at Arizona's racist law are the people whose genetic profile is the target of that law...and liberals like myself are appalled at the racist discrimination intrinsic in this draconian 'show me your papers' law. The wisdom of President Kennedy comes to mind: "The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened."


Protests against Arizona immigration law go nationwide

(CNN) -- Thousands of protesters in cities across the United States waved American flags as they rallied Saturday against Arizona's tough new immigration law and pushed for national immigration reform.

"Si se puede," "Yes we can" and "Boycott Arizona" were common refrains for groups protesting from Los Angeles, California, to New York City.

May 1 is traditionally a rallying day for supporters of immigration reform. But protesters across the country said they were galvanized by Arizona's recent passage of a law cracking down on illegal immigration.

The new Arizona law requires immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times and requires police to question people if there is reason to suspect they are in the United States illegally. Critics say it will lead to discrimination and racial profiling.

Hispanics Oppose AZ Immigration Law, 70% To 27%

More than twice as many Hispanics oppose Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law as favor it, according to a new WSJ/NBC News poll.

Not a surprising finding but it's still good to get some data that supports the anecdotal evidence.

The message sent by this poll is arguably that politicians who come out in favor of the Arizona law risk losing a lot of votes in an increasingly significant voting bloc.

WSJ/NBC Poll: Hispanics Strongly Oppose Ariz. Immigration Law - Washington Wire - WSJ

It was Thomas Jefferson who said: "It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."

"Strawmen"?... from the King of Strawman Village. How absurd. What was all that "1950's Republicans" bullshit just last page?
You're so full of deflections, you must lean when you walk... and you want to accuse others of presenting "strawmen"?

Once more... There is ALREADY a stop and identify statute on the books in AZ, as well as in 23 other states. These statutes have been upheld by SCOTUS in 2006. So the left's hysteria in regards to the "show-me-your-papers" aspect of Arizona's immigration law is obviously a feint to cover their race-baiting vote pandering.

You people don't give a fucking shit about "liberty" or "the rights of every man".. because if you did, you'd be concerned about the CITIZENS of Arizona who are unsafe from drug traffickers, kidnappers, gang-bangers, drunk-drivers, terrorists, and murderers. The PURPOSE of government is to guarantee the rights, property, and security of law-abiding CITIZENS, not to score political points from useful idiots at the expense of them.

 

[Old Rocks]

Well, we will see how the Republican strategy flys this November.

 

[BolshevikHunter]

You continue your straw man argument and continue to exhibit your scurrilous rationalization of liberals based on YOUR own cold blooded callousness...the people who are MOST angry at Arizona's racist law are the people whose genetic profile is the target of that law...and liberals like myself are appalled at the racist discrimination intrinsic in this draconian 'show me your papers' law. The wisdom of President Kennedy comes to mind: "The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened."


Protests against Arizona immigration law go nationwide

(CNN) -- Thousands of protesters in cities across the United States waved American flags as they rallied Saturday against Arizona's tough new immigration law and pushed for national immigration reform.

"Si se puede," "Yes we can" and "Boycott Arizona" were common refrains for groups protesting from Los Angeles, California, to New York City.

May 1 is traditionally a rallying day for supporters of immigration reform. But protesters across the country said they were galvanized by Arizona's recent passage of a law cracking down on illegal immigration.

The new Arizona law requires immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times and requires police to question people if there is reason to suspect they are in the United States illegally. Critics say it will lead to discrimination and racial profiling.

Hispanics Oppose AZ Immigration Law, 70% To 27%

More than twice as many Hispanics oppose Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law as favor it, according to a new WSJ/NBC News poll.

Not a surprising finding but it's still good to get some data that supports the anecdotal evidence.

The message sent by this poll is arguably that politicians who come out in favor of the Arizona law risk losing a lot of votes in an increasingly significant voting bloc.

WSJ/NBC Poll: Hispanics Strongly Oppose Ariz. Immigration Law - Washington Wire - WSJ

It was Thomas Jefferson who said: "It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."

"Strawmen"?... from the King of Strawman Village. How absurd. What was all that "1950's Republicans" bullshit just last page?
You're so full of deflections, you must lean when you walk... and you want to accuse others of presenting "strawmen"?

Once more... There is ALREADY a stop and identify statute on the books in AZ, as well as in 23 other states. These statutes have been upheld by SCOTUS in 2006. So the left's hysteria in regards to the "show-me-your-papers" aspect of Arizona's immigration law is obviously a feint to cover their race-baiting vote pandering.

You people don't give a fucking shit about "liberty" or "the rights of every man".. because if you did, you'd be concerned about the CITIZENS of Arizona who are unsafe from drug traffickers, kidnappers, gang-bangers, drunk-drivers, terrorists, and murderers. The PURPOSE of government is to guarantee the rights, property, and security of law-abiding CITIZENS, not to score political points from useful idiots at the expense of them.

I think that you would get further trying to explain that to your dog. This guy obviously only has Political motives which he clearly put's before the welfare of his fellow citizens and Country. To be blunt, He's a bottomfeeder. ~BH

 

[Bfgrn]

You continue your straw man argument and continue to exhibit your scurrilous rationalization of liberals based on YOUR own cold blooded callousness...the people who are MOST angry at Arizona's racist law are the people whose genetic profile is the target of that law...and liberals like myself are appalled at the racist discrimination intrinsic in this draconian 'show me your papers' law. The wisdom of President Kennedy comes to mind: "The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened."


Protests against Arizona immigration law go nationwide

(CNN) -- Thousands of protesters in cities across the United States waved American flags as they rallied Saturday against Arizona's tough new immigration law and pushed for national immigration reform.

"Si se puede," "Yes we can" and "Boycott Arizona" were common refrains for groups protesting from Los Angeles, California, to New York City.

May 1 is traditionally a rallying day for supporters of immigration reform. But protesters across the country said they were galvanized by Arizona's recent passage of a law cracking down on illegal immigration.

The new Arizona law requires immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times and requires police to question people if there is reason to suspect they are in the United States illegally. Critics say it will lead to discrimination and racial profiling.

Hispanics Oppose AZ Immigration Law, 70% To 27%

More than twice as many Hispanics oppose Arizona's new anti-illegal immigration law as favor it, according to a new WSJ/NBC News poll.

Not a surprising finding but it's still good to get some data that supports the anecdotal evidence.

The message sent by this poll is arguably that politicians who come out in favor of the Arizona law risk losing a lot of votes in an increasingly significant voting bloc.

WSJ/NBC Poll: Hispanics Strongly Oppose Ariz. Immigration Law - Washington Wire - WSJ

It was Thomas Jefferson who said: "It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."

"Strawmen"?... from the King of Strawman Village. How absurd. What was all that "1950's Republicans" bullshit just last page?
You're so full of deflections, you must lean when you walk... and you want to accuse others of presenting "strawmen"?

Once more... There is ALREADY a stop and identify statute on the books in AZ, as well as in 23 other states. These statutes have been upheld by SCOTUS in 2006. So the left's hysteria in regards to the "show-me-your-papers" aspect of Arizona's immigration law is obviously a feint to cover their race-baiting vote pandering.

You people don't give a fucking shit about "liberty" or "the rights of every man".. because if you did, you'd be concerned about the CITIZENS of Arizona who are unsafe from drug traffickers, kidnappers, gang-bangers, drunk-drivers, terrorists, and murderers. The PURPOSE of government is to guarantee the rights, property, and security of law-abiding CITIZENS, not to score political points from useful idiots at the expense of them.

Hey Murf, I'm not your nanny. If you can't keep up, see if your mommy can help you.

Maybe if you would READ the posts and pay attention to WHO is being addressed instead of ASSuming that it's you, it would make it easier. Unless you are Big Fitz incognito.

The "1950's Republicans" historical information was in response to THIS:

Yeah, the lib's silence on those issues is quite telling.

Obama played those clowns like a violin. And they continue to follow along like the blind lil' ignorant sheep we all know them to be.

Friggin' hypocrits!

Yea, kind of shoots the theory that Obama is a far leftist or a socialist. The truth is Obama acts like a moderate Republican from the 60's.

Are you pea brains that believe America has moved to the left aware of the fact there used to be liberal Republicans? ...LOL

Dumbest Post winner for this thread right here.

Only someone more radical than P-BO would even try to believe he was even CLOSE to centrist let alone on the right. My God. Mao probably wasn't pure enough for you.

Now, IF you actually READ the 1956 Republican Party platform, it clearly could have been written BY Barack Obama. And just as clear; it has NOTHING in common with the current radical right wing authoritarian GOP.


"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the Republican party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."
Barry Goldwater

 

[Murf76]

Hey Murf, I'm not your nanny. If you can't keep up, see if your mommy can help you.

Maybe if you would READ the posts and pay attention to WHO is being addressed instead of ASSuming that it's you, it would make it easier. Unless you are Big Fitz incognito.

The "1950's Republicans" historical information was in response to THIS:

Yea, kind of shoots the theory that Obama is a far leftist or a socialist. The truth is Obama acts like a moderate Republican from the 60's.

Are you pea brains that believe America has moved to the left aware of the fact there used to be liberal Republicans? ...LOL

Dumbest Post winner for this thread right here.

Only someone more radical than P-BO would even try to believe he was even CLOSE to centrist let alone on the right. My God. Mao probably wasn't pure enough for you.

Now, IF you actually READ the 1956 Republican Party platform, it clearly could have been written BY Barack Obama. And just as clear; it has NOTHING in common with the current radical right wing authoritarian GOP.


"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the Republican party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."
Barry Goldwater

So.... your proof that YOU didn't bring the "1950's Strawman" to the thread is YOUR post introducing the"1950's Strawman". Hmmmm....



BH is right. I'd have better luck communicating with my dog. She's a deeper thinker than you are.

 

[Bfgrn]

The above post yet again proves that ya' can't fix stupid!

Package this fool with Chris, rdean, Ravi, Zona, and a few others, and we've got the makings for a fucking asyllum!

He's a slave to his own invented assumptions. He pulls from the air the idea that "all Republicans want a return to the 1950's", and then he goes out in search of evidence... never realizing that he has NO IDEA what people want... because HE DOESN'T LISTEN.

It's not like nobody around here hasn't mentioned what the problem is with Big Government.

WOW, what an ass. I never said "all Republicans want a return to the 1950's"...YOU are the one that said it.

I HAVE no idea what people want? I INVENT assumptions?? The projection that comes out of YOU is mind-boggling!!! Are you THAT self-centered that you only listen to little voices in your head? Were you comatose the last 4 years? In the 2006 and 2008 elections We the People spoke loud and clear...

You are officially the King of right wing pea brains...

 

[Big Fitz]

What would happen to if YOU owned your mind? Because it's clear your little pea is filled to the brim with right wing propaganda...CRYSTAL...

>snip insane freakout<

ooh WOW! Hit a nerve, did I? I've yet to see you utter a damn thing on here that you didn't come from some George Soros funded PAC. So don't preach to me bout independent thought.

WHO hit a nerve...

What's the matter, is your brain too small to READ the excerpt from the Republican Party platform. It's not from George Soros, it is actual history. It was written BY the Republican Party, before the right wing authoritarians hijacked that party...oh, that's another story written by a Republican insider...

Invasion of the Party Snatchers

By Victor Gold

After four decades as a Republican insider, Victor Gold reveals how the holy-rollers and the Neo-Cons have destroyed the GOP. Now he's fighting to get his party back.

As a man who served as press aide to Barry Goldwater and speechwriter and senior advisor to George H. W. Bush (in addition to co-authoring his autobiography), Victor Gold is absolutely furious that the Neo-Cons and their strange bedfellows, the Evangelical Right, have stolen his party from him. Now he is bringing the fight to them.

Invasion of the Party Snatchers is a blistering critique not only of the Bush-Cheney administration but also of the Republican Congress. Gold is ready to tell all about the war being waged for the soul of the GOP, including the elder Bush's opinion of his sons work domestically and abroad, the significance of the newly elected Congress, and how Goldwater would have reacted to it all. Gold reveals, among other explosive disclosures, how George W. has been manipulated by his vice president and secretary of defense to become, in Lenin's famous phrase, a "useful idiot" for Neo-Conservative warmongers and Theo-Conservative religious fanatics.

Although there have been other books by dissident Republicans attacking the Bush-Cheney administrations betrayal of conservative principles, none have been by an insider whose political credentials include inner-circle status with Barry Goldwater and George H. W. Bush.

Review:
"Make no mistake: author Gold, a former speechwriter for George H.W. Bush and aide to Barry Goldwater, is one disgusted Republican. The GOP of the 2006 midterm election, he writes, is 'a party of pork-barrel ear-markers like Dennis Hastert, of political hatchet men like Karl Rove, and of Bible-thumping hypocrites like Tom Delay.' Gold looks to Goldwater, 'a straight-talking, freethinking maverick,' as the yardstick by which to measure just how far the party of Lincoln has fallen.

He traces the beginning of the end to the 1980 Republican National Convention and the presence of 'a militant new element...personified by Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell.' The other half of the equation, the neoconservatives, are embodied by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, 'two cuts from the same Machiavellian cloth.' In efficient prose, Gold scrutinizes a significant swath of recent GOP history, in particular Newt Gingrich's 104th Congress and the Bush II White House, without losing momentum.

He also has choice words for 'the Coulterization of Republican rhetoric,' the revolving door between Capitol Hill and K Street, and 'sideshow' legislation like the Flag Protection Amendment. Gold sees a promising future for the Republican Party, but not until they lose some major elections and are able to keep down a slice of humble pie; for those disillusioned with the state of the GOP, this quick, uncompromising polemic provides substantial support, along with a large dose of cold comfort." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Synopsis:
The last real Goldwater conservative in America attacks the current state of his movement and his party.
Powell's Books - Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP by Victor Gold

Victor Gold grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he attended the public schools, and Tulane University. After working as a reporter-correspondent for the BIRMINGHAM (Alabama) NEWS, he earned his law degree (J.D.) from the University of Alabama. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, 1950-52.


In 1958 he moved to Washington, D.C., and joined the public relations firm of Selvage & Lee. Six years later he became Deputy Press Secretary to Senator Barry Goldwater during the 1964 presidential campaign.


In 1965 Gold opened his own political public relations firm in Washington, listing among his clients then-Republican House leader Gerald Ford and Senator Bob Dole. At the Republican conventions of 1968 and 1976 he worked with press secretary Lyn Nofziger on behalf of the presidential candidacy of then-California Governor Ronald Reagan. During the Nixon administration he served as press secretary to Vice President Spiro T. Agnew until January, 1973.


In 1980 Gold joined the staff of Republican presidential candidate George H. W. Bush as a speechwriter and senior advisor, a position he held during the Reagan-Bush campaigns of '80 and '84. He served on the Bush vice-presidential staff in 1981, and as a Bush advisor in the campaigns of 1988 and 1992. In 1992 he received the Distinguished Achievement Award for Political Communication from his alma mater, the University of Alabama.


In 1989 Gold served as a member of President Bush's election-oversight delegation to the first free Romanian elections.


A frequent speaker on the national political and campus circuits, Gold has also appeared on numerous network television shows. His articles, covering politics and sports, have appeared in NEWSWEEK, HARPER'S, ATLANTIC MONTHLY, PLAYBOY, CONNOISSEUR, READERS' DIGEST, NATIONAL REVIEW, THE WEEKLY STANDARD, NEW REPUBLIC, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, and THE WASHINGTON POST.

Tard.

Tea Party =/= Neo-Con

That said, he has some interesting things I could possibly agree with. Then again, he misses the real culprit: liberals in the party. Yep. Big gubmint libs. But not the same kinda as in the DNC. No no. These are Big Gubmint Republicans that want to spend like crazy and create a nanny state on religious issues. Make gubmint force people to be GooooooooooD to one another.

That's not the fucking job of the government. You cannot legislate away the right of people to be assholes.

 

[Big Fitz]

Here's what I believe BolshevikHunter. Ironically, your screen name serves as a perfect pretext. The 20th century witnessed 2 failed revolutions that ended very badly for average hard working human beings. The Bolshevik revolution, and the Reagan revolution. Both were based on an extreme ideology with no regard or buffer for human foible.

Unfettered communism and unfettered capitalism both failed.

You got one correct, but concerning the other I would strongly suggest that you remove your head from your poop tube. ~BH

Really...view the carnage...we're living in it right now.

30 years and STILL waiting for trickle UP to turn into trickle down.

Reagan: The great American Socialist

Let’s go back to the early 1980’s. In 1981, Reagan signed a law that sharply reduced the income tax for the wealthiest Americans and corporations.

The president asserted his program would create jobs, purge inflation and, get this, trim the budget deficit.

However, following the tax cut, the deficit soared from 2.5 percent of GDP to over 6 percent, alarming financial markets, sending interest rates sky high, and culminating in the worst recession since the 1930’s.

INTEREST RATES

Soon the president realized he needed new revenues to trim the deficit, bring down interest rates and improve his chances for reelection. He would not rescind the income tax cut, but other taxes were acceptable.

In 1982, taxes were raised on gasoline and cigarettes, but the deficit hardly budged. In 1983, the president signed the biggest tax rise on payrolls, promising to create a surplus in the Social Security system, while knowing all along that the new revenue would be used to finance the deficit.

The retirement system was looted from the first day the Social Security surplus came into being, because the legislation itself gave the president a free hand to spend the surplus in any way he liked.

Thus began a massive transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class, especially the self-employed small businessman, to the wealthy. The self-employment tax jumped as much as 66 percent.

In 1986, Reagan slashed the top tax rate further. His redistributionist obsession led to a perversity in the law. The wealthiest faced a 28 percent tax rate, while those with lower incomes faced a 33 percent rate; in addition, the bottom rate climbed from 11 percent to 15 percent.

For the first time in history, the top rate fell and the bottom rate rose simultaneously. Even unemployment compensation was not spared. The jobless had to pay income tax on their benefits.

A year later, the man who would not spare unemployment compensation from taxation called for a cut in the capital gains tax.

Thus, Reagan was a staunch socialist, totally committed to his cause of wealth redistribution towards the affluent.How much wealth transfer has occurred through Reagan’s policies? At least $3 trillion.

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The Social Security hike generated over $2 trillion in surplus between 1984 and 2007, and if it had been properly invested, say, in AAA corporate bonds it could have earned another trillion by now.

At present, the fund is empty, because it has been used up to finance the federal deficits resulting from frequent cuts in income tax rates. If this is not redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich, what else is?

Thus, Reagan was the first Republican socialist - and a great one, because his wealth transfer occurred on a massive scale. His accomplishment dwarfs even FDR’s, and if today the small businessman suffers a crippling tax burden, he must thank Reagan the redistributionist.

However, FDR took pains to help the poor, while Reagan took pains to help the wealthiest like himself.

Reagan’s measures were similar to those that the Republicans adopted during the 1920s, which were followed by the catastrophic depression. More recently, such policies were mimicked by President George W. Bush and they are about to plunge the world into a depression as well.

Ironically, the Reagan-style socialism or wealth redistribution is about to destroy monopoly capitalism, the very system that he wanted to preserve and enrich.

The Right wing 'Nanny State'...

Last time you whipped out these chart you got called for "Bullshit in chart for too because they're from radical leftist sites."

You say that Supply Side economics is a lie, I see numbers coming out of asses faster than shit through a rhino and a bigger spatter zone.

Somebody else with the time and inclination can find the rebuttals on this site. I'm just not interested in playing.