Right-Wing Extremism: The Real Referendum of 2012

[The T]

And your's should be next to partisan hack.

You say "partisan hack," I say "guy who writes shit that ignorant Conservatives don't agree with." Potato, meet dipshit.

Actually he doesn't write anything he post links to what other hacks write your kind of slow on the uptake aren't you.

This hack can't get past Sesame Street. He should be summarily IGNORED.

 

[g5000]

Here's my problem with the article quoted in the OP.

Starting with the premise that the GOP has been overrun with psychotic maniacs, I happen to completely agree with that.

Arriving at the conclusion that we should go with the Progressive (Liberal) solutions, I happen to vociferously disagree with.

The solution is to eject the airheads from the GOP who currently dominate the rhetorical landscape.


Let me tell you guys something. I am not voting this year. Again. Precisely because I do not succumb to the illogic of the opening post. Just because my party has gone batshit insane does not mean I am going to vote for the other batshit insane party. As for third parties, well, they have always been batshit insane and always will be. I will not throw away my vote on them, because they will take that to mean they are on the right track. So **** that. My vote has to be earned. Isn't that the free market way? You have to EARN my vote.

And judging by the voter turnout numbers, I am not the only one who has reached this point. This is a rising trend.

So here is the new paradigm to which you must adjust: This year's election, just like the elections of the past six years, is not going to be determined by how many voters each candidate gets to the polls. No, this election is going to be determined by how many voters the other candidate causes to stay home because they are so repulsed by their own party.


What will this mean for the next few years?

In the short term, it means each side will increase their negative attacks on the other, hoping to make the other guy's supporters stay home. But this will only cause the death spiral to accelerate.

In the long run, the grownups will take the parties back and send the people who have the intellectual bandwidth of a bumper stick packing. No more making shit up on the fly, no more parroting of catchphrases, and no more harping on shit that means ****-all to the real world.

So have your fun while you can, kiddies.

 

[blackhawk]

You say "partisan hack," I say "guy who writes shit that ignorant Conservatives don't agree with." Potato, meet dipshit.

Actually he doesn't write anything he post links to what other hacks write your kind of slow on the uptake aren't you.

This hack can't get past Sesame Street. He should be summarily IGNORED.

Agreed.

 

[Provocateur]

The Political Garbage Chute.


At least that is accurate.

 

[Lakhota]

 

[g5000]

Who said they were moving to Canada if Obama gets elected?

 

[Lakhota]

Who said they were moving to Canada if Obama gets elected?

Mexico?

 

[JamesSchlarmann]

Here's my problem with the article quoted in the OP.

Starting with the premise that the GOP has been overrun with psychotic maniacs, I happen to completely agree with that.

Arriving at the conclusion that we should go with the Progressive (Liberal) solutions, I happen to vociferously disagree with.

The solution is to eject the airheads from the GOP who currently dominate the rhetorical landscape.


Let me tell you guys something. I am not voting this year. Again. Precisely because I do not succumb to the illogic of the opening post. Just because my party has gone batshit insane does not mean I am going to vote for the other batshit insane party. As for third parties, well, they have always been batshit insane and always will be. I will not throw away my vote on them, because they will take that to mean they are on the right track. So **** that. My vote has to be earned. Isn't that the free market way? You have to EARN my vote.

And judging by the voter turnout numbers, I am not the only one who has reached this point. This is a rising trend.

So here is the new paradigm to which you must adjust: This year's election, just like the elections of the past six years, is not going to be determined by how many voters each candidate gets to the polls. No, this election is going to be determined by how many voters the other candidate causes to stay home because they are so repulsed by their own party.


What will this mean for the next few years?

In the short term, it means each side will increase their negative attacks on the other, hoping to make the other guy's supporters stay home. But this will only cause the death spiral to accelerate.

In the long run, the grownups will take the parties back and send the people who have the intellectual bandwidth of a bumper stick packing. No more making shit up on the fly, no more parroting of catchphrases, and no more harping on shit that means ****-all to the real world.

So have your fun while you can, kiddies.

I hope you stick around and converse with me on this one. It's interesting to me that you're a Republican who sees the craziness that your party has embraced and your solution is to not vote. I'm not knocking you for that at all, I'm just taken aback because it's hard enough to get Mitt Romney to distance himself from Trump's birtherism, let alone see an actual Republican flat out call the Tea Party insane.

I actually think you're totally right about voters not showing up because their candidate has pissed them off so badly. There are a great many things I don't like about what Obama has done. However, none of them will keep me from voting for him in the Fall, for a couple reasons. One is that I just don't want Mitt Romney to win. He's Bush on Steroids in so many ways and I think that's a bad move backward. Second is that I still believe in him, and I think he could make a big impact in his second term if cooler heads prevail in Congress.

But I do stand by my assertion, which is the crux of the piece, that Right Wing Extremism has absolutely poisoned the Republican party and that at some point Republicans are going to have to take their party back, or start a new party. I'm not even saying we don't have total nutjobs on our side too, of course we do. I'm not a fan of Green Peace, for instance, because they resort to violence to settle matters of civil discourse and debate.

Anyway, thanks for honestly analyzing my work and giving good, constructive feedback/criticism. In this environment, it's quite refreshing.

 

[Lakhota]

Here's my problem with the article quoted in the OP.

Starting with the premise that the GOP has been overrun with psychotic maniacs, I happen to completely agree with that.

Arriving at the conclusion that we should go with the Progressive (Liberal) solutions, I happen to vociferously disagree with.

The solution is to eject the airheads from the GOP who currently dominate the rhetorical landscape.


Let me tell you guys something. I am not voting this year. Again. Precisely because I do not succumb to the illogic of the opening post. Just because my party has gone batshit insane does not mean I am going to vote for the other batshit insane party. As for third parties, well, they have always been batshit insane and always will be. I will not throw away my vote on them, because they will take that to mean they are on the right track. So **** that. My vote has to be earned. Isn't that the free market way? You have to EARN my vote.

And judging by the voter turnout numbers, I am not the only one who has reached this point. This is a rising trend.

So here is the new paradigm to which you must adjust: This year's election, just like the elections of the past six years, is not going to be determined by how many voters each candidate gets to the polls. No, this election is going to be determined by how many voters the other candidate causes to stay home because they are so repulsed by their own party.


What will this mean for the next few years?

In the short term, it means each side will increase their negative attacks on the other, hoping to make the other guy's supporters stay home. But this will only cause the death spiral to accelerate.

In the long run, the grownups will take the parties back and send the people who have the intellectual bandwidth of a bumper stick packing. No more making shit up on the fly, no more parroting of catchphrases, and no more harping on shit that means ****-all to the real world.

So have your fun while you can, kiddies.

I hope you stick around and converse with me on this one. It's interesting to me that you're a Republican who sees the craziness that your party has embraced and your solution is to not vote. I'm not knocking you for that at all, I'm just taken aback because it's hard enough to get Mitt Romney to distance himself from Trump's birtherism, let alone see an actual Republican flat out call the Tea Party insane.

I actually think you're totally right about voters not showing up because their candidate has pissed them off so badly. There are a great many things I don't like about what Obama has done. However, none of them will keep me from voting for him in the Fall, for a couple reasons. One is that I just don't want Mitt Romney to win. He's Bush on Steroids in so many ways and I think that's a bad move backward. Second is that I still believe in him, and I think he could make a big impact in his second term if cooler heads prevail in Congress.

But I do stand by my assertion, which is the crux of the piece, that Right Wing Extremism has absolutely poisoned the Republican party and that at some point Republicans are going to have to take their party back, or start a new party. I'm not even saying we don't have total nutjobs on our side too, of course we do. I'm not a fan of Green Peace, for instance, because they resort to violence to settle matters of civil discourse and debate.

Anyway, thanks for honestly analyzing my work and giving good, constructive feedback/criticism. In this environment, it's quite refreshing.

Amen!

 

[The T]

Here's my problem with the article quoted in the OP.

Starting with the premise that the GOP has been overrun with psychotic maniacs, I happen to completely agree with that.

Arriving at the conclusion that we should go with the Progressive (Liberal) solutions, I happen to vociferously disagree with.

The solution is to eject the airheads from the GOP who currently dominate the rhetorical landscape.


Let me tell you guys something. I am not voting this year. Again. Precisely because I do not succumb to the illogic of the opening post. Just because my party has gone batshit insane does not mean I am going to vote for the other batshit insane party. As for third parties, well, they have always been batshit insane and always will be. I will not throw away my vote on them, because they will take that to mean they are on the right track. So **** that. My vote has to be earned. Isn't that the free market way? You have to EARN my vote.

And judging by the voter turnout numbers, I am not the only one who has reached this point. This is a rising trend.

So here is the new paradigm to which you must adjust: This year's election, just like the elections of the past six years, is not going to be determined by how many voters each candidate gets to the polls. No, this election is going to be determined by how many voters the other candidate causes to stay home because they are so repulsed by their own party.


What will this mean for the next few years?

In the short term, it means each side will increase their negative attacks on the other, hoping to make the other guy's supporters stay home. But this will only cause the death spiral to accelerate.

In the long run, the grownups will take the parties back and send the people who have the intellectual bandwidth of a bumper stick packing. No more making shit up on the fly, no more parroting of catchphrases, and no more harping on shit that means ****-all to the real world.

So have your fun while you can, kiddies.

I hope you stick around and converse with me on this one. It's interesting to me that you're a Republican who sees the craziness that your party has embraced and your solution is to not vote. I'm not knocking you for that at all, I'm just taken aback because it's hard enough to get Mitt Romney to distance himself from Trump's birtherism, let alone see an actual Republican flat out call the Tea Party insane.

I actually think you're totally right about voters not showing up because their candidate has pissed them off so badly. There are a great many things I don't like about what Obama has done. However, none of them will keep me from voting for him in the Fall, for a couple reasons. One is that I just don't want Mitt Romney to win. He's Bush on Steroids in so many ways and I think that's a bad move backward. Second is that I still believe in him, and I think he could make a big impact in his second term if cooler heads prevail in Congress.

But I do stand by my assertion, which is the crux of the piece, that Right Wing Extremism has absolutely poisoned the Republican party and that at some point Republicans are going to have to take their party back, or start a new party. I'm not even saying we don't have total nutjobs on our side too, of course we do. I'm not a fan of Green Peace, for instance, because they resort to violence to settle matters of civil discourse and debate.

Anyway, thanks for honestly analyzing my work and giving good, constructive feedback/criticism. In this environment, it's quite refreshing.

Amen!

Amen to WHAT exactly?

 

[dblack]

By James Schlarmann

Over the last couple of weeks, the Right Wing has trotted out the idea that this 2012 Presidential Election is going to be a referendum on Barack Obama. They claim that the American people have been let down by the President’s economic performance, and that it’s time get the good ol’ tricke down started again. They claim that so many people are out of work and hurting financially, and they know it’s because Obama has failed to pull us out of the Depression (seriously, it’s a Depression that we’re in), and thus this election will be all about Americans saying “no” to the Obama Administration.

The thing is, they’re right about this election being a referendum. And maybe they could be right about it being a referendum on Obama, but only for their own electorate. Instead, I think there’s a much larger picture being painted with this election, and it’s for the moral compass of this country’s economy and social policy. For the first time in many, many years, Americans are being asked to dictate the direction of the country not just in terms of its economy’s heart and soul, but of the heart and soul of the nation’s stated beliefs when it comes to human rights. The Mitt Romney/Tea Party/George W. Bush/Grover Norquist/Wall Street is King/Greed is Good message of fiscal and social extremism is really what’s on trial here. As much as the GOP would have you believe this election is about the other guy, is much more about them, and their apparent decision to let the lunatic fringe of their party drive the ship.

The War on Women, the Fight Against Marriage Equality and the Let the Rich Get Richer forces of the Republican party are going to be put under intense scrutiny by the Obama campaign, and they may be shocked when their messages of intolerance, devolution and Plutocracy are left to die on the vine.

All over the nation, people are being given a choice. Conservatives now more than ever are trying to rush us into a massive nuclear-powered Delorean and take us as far backward as they can, be it a social issue or a fiscal policy. People like Paul Ryan are proposing budgets that kill social programs but pump still even more money into the Defense budget. Over a thousand bills restricting women’s health care and access to abortions and contraceptives have been introduced since the rise of the Tea Party. The storm is gathering, and showdown is coming.

More: Right-Wing Extremism: The Real Referendum of 2012 | The Political Garbage Chute

Yeah, right. Romney is severely conservative. And Obama is a socialist.

Is anybody really falling for that? Are they pro wrestling fans by any chance?

 

[Lakhota]

I hope you stick around and converse with me on this one. It's interesting to me that you're a Republican who sees the craziness that your party has embraced and your solution is to not vote. I'm not knocking you for that at all, I'm just taken aback because it's hard enough to get Mitt Romney to distance himself from Trump's birtherism, let alone see an actual Republican flat out call the Tea Party insane.

I actually think you're totally right about voters not showing up because their candidate has pissed them off so badly. There are a great many things I don't like about what Obama has done. However, none of them will keep me from voting for him in the Fall, for a couple reasons. One is that I just don't want Mitt Romney to win. He's Bush on Steroids in so many ways and I think that's a bad move backward. Second is that I still believe in him, and I think he could make a big impact in his second term if cooler heads prevail in Congress.

But I do stand by my assertion, which is the crux of the piece, that Right Wing Extremism has absolutely poisoned the Republican party and that at some point Republicans are going to have to take their party back, or start a new party. I'm not even saying we don't have total nutjobs on our side too, of course we do. I'm not a fan of Green Peace, for instance, because they resort to violence to settle matters of civil discourse and debate.

Anyway, thanks for honestly analyzing my work and giving good, constructive feedback/criticism. In this environment, it's quite refreshing.

Amen!

Amen to WHAT exactly?

Words that are coherently arranged to make logical sense to sane people...

 

[The T]

Amen!

Amen to WHAT exactly?

Words that are coherently arranged to make logical sense to sane people...

So why did you utter the word?

 

[Lakhota]

Inside the Fearful Conservative Mind: The Right-Wing's Latest Race Terrors | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Inside the Fearful Conservative Mind: The Right-Wing's Latest Race Terrors | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet

Do you ever immerse yourself in anything other than left-wing extremist propaganda? You know, it's rotting your mind, like, big time.

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Inside the Fearful Conservative Mind: The Right-Wing's Latest Race Terrors | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet

 

[g5000]

I hope you stick around and converse with me on this one. It's interesting to me that you're a Republican who sees the craziness that your party has embraced and your solution is to not vote. I'm not knocking you for that at all, I'm just taken aback because it's hard enough to get Mitt Romney to distance himself from Trump's birtherism, let alone see an actual Republican flat out call the Tea Party insane.

I actually think you're totally right about voters not showing up because their candidate has pissed them off so badly. There are a great many things I don't like about what Obama has done. However, none of them will keep me from voting for him in the Fall, for a couple reasons. One is that I just don't want Mitt Romney to win. He's Bush on Steroids in so many ways and I think that's a bad move backward. Second is that I still believe in him, and I think he could make a big impact in his second term if cooler heads prevail in Congress.

But I do stand by my assertion, which is the crux of the piece, that Right Wing Extremism has absolutely poisoned the Republican party and that at some point Republicans are going to have to take their party back, or start a new party. I'm not even saying we don't have total nutjobs on our side too, of course we do. I'm not a fan of Green Peace, for instance, because they resort to violence to settle matters of civil discourse and debate.

Anyway, thanks for honestly analyzing my work and giving good, constructive feedback/criticism. In this environment, it's quite refreshing.

I will not vote because my vote has to be earned. "Vote for us to keep the other guy out" is the worst possible appeal to emotion. When we keep voting for the lesser of two evils, we get more and more evils to choose from.

It is time for this illogic to be stopped.

I firmly believe the crazies in the GOP helped elect Barack Obama, and stand a good chance of re-electing him. They got the President they deserved, and their wailing and gnashing of teeth is pleasing to my ears.

 

[Qball]

Ironically, the true extremism is the obsession liberals have in painting right-wingers as being extremists. Being principled and defending ideas instead of politicians and slogans (see: Obama, Barack; "Yes We Can", "Hope", "Change" ) doesn't make us extreme.

 

[The T]

Inside the Fearful Conservative Mind: The Right-Wing's Latest Race Terrors | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet

Do you ever immerse yourself in anything other than left-wing extremist propaganda? You know, it's rotting your mind, like, big time.

LaDorka doesn't care...until his goodies he defends ENDS...as they will in the very near future...LaDorka MIGHT have to work for a change.

 

[The T]

Ironically, the true extremism is the obsession liberals have in painting right-wingers as being extremists. Being principled and defending ideas instead of politicians and slogans (see: Obama, Barack; "Yes We Can", "Hope", "Change" ) doesn't make us extreme.

As a matter of fact/ They are re-writing things to turn the world 180 out of phase by design...to make Conservatives look like they are implimenting what the Democrat Statists are doing actively.

They think WE don't notice thier skullduggery though.

Come November? They will notice fully and cry foul as they realize they just LOST.