The Hardcore Right - It'll get worse before it gets better

[Stephanie]

It is the same "Obama is Arab" crowd that John McCain rebuked and Sarah Palin embraced.

They are the ones who boo gay soldiers, cheer over executions and scream "Let em die" as a solution to healthcare. There are Republican snake oil salesmen (Rush, Beck, Hannity...) who make millions off of these people

Dems just sit back, smirk and remind people...This is what Republicans are like

omg, you all think so highly of yourselves and Democrats..
we watched your kind poop on police cars..

idiot

most of you liberals here are, but damn funny watching how far your noses in the air can block out the sun

 

[SniperFire]

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SniperFire's predictable attempts at diversion/deflection aside:

Another fascinating thing about these hardcore righties' calls was that, when they went on their Levin/Savage-inspired rants about Obama, and the (non-crazed) conservative talk show host said something like "well, let's calm down, I wouldn't go that far", the callers sounded genuinely betrayed when the talk show host didn't agree with them.

I think that, since it was a conservative talk show host, the callers expected them to scream "yeah, Obama's a Marxist Leninist socialist Kenyan commie Muslim who's trying to destroy Amurrrrica!" just like they did. And when he didn't, it completely threw them off track. These people think that anyone who isn't a commie socialist liberal is supposed to be as crazed as they are.

Pretty funny.

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It doesn't strike me as funny at all. People are really scared, justifiably or not. But I think most are missing the boat in identifying where that fear comes from.

At the risk of repeating myself, I claim the core of the bitter divisiveness we see in politics today is the increasing departure from constitutionally limited government. And here's the kicker: Despite the current gloating of liberals over recent 'victories', they are as prone to this kind of irrational fear as conservatives are. Don't any of you remember how much the left was freaking out when Bush was pissing all over the Constitution?

Dependable limits to the scope and power of government are what makes liberal democracies viable. This concept is what makes it acceptable to lose an election, safe in the knowledge that there's only so much damage your ideological opponents can do. Without such assurance, all bets are off. Without a court dedicated to keeping the federal (and state) governments in check, and, more importantly, without a genuine conviction from leaders and voters that government should be so limited, we're only going to see more of this kind of hysteria. I'm not even sure I'd call it hysteria - it's a relatively understandable panic at seeing our nation dissolve before our eyes.

C'mon, dblack. You are either for mob rule against the Bill of Rights, or you are a 'division pimp'.

 

[Si modo]

We are a constitutional republic. Our leaders swear an oath to uphold and protect that constitution. When they don't, there are going to be issues with the masses.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Dems are in for a huge smack down in mid term

Huge!

Kiss the Senate goodbye!

 

[rightwinger]

omg, you all think so highly of yourselves and Democrats..
we watched your kind poop on police cars..

idiot

most of you liberals here are, but damn funny watching how far your noses in the air can block out the sun

moron

 

[buckeye45_73]

idiot

most of you liberals here are, but damn funny watching how far your noses in the air can block out the sun

moron

criminal lover...have you hugged a school shooter today?

 

[Oldguy]

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Radio hosts Michael Medved and Mike Rosen (KOA/Denver) are both conservative talk show hosts who avoid the whacked-out hyperbole practiced by the Limbaughs, Levins, Savages, Becks and Hannitys (the division pimps) of the world. So while they're committed partisans, they at least make the effort to be thoughtful, mature and reasonable.

In the last couple of days, however, they both had to deal with hardcore conservative callers who have been driven so over the top by their ideology (and, most likely, the aforementioned division pimps) that the talk show hosts were clearly embarrassed and had to disavow the callers.

In both cases, the talk show hosts were discussing gun control. And in both cases, the callers went into angry tirades about Obama. To paraphrase, both said something like "we all know that Marxist communist is gonna try to take our guns, and when he does, we're gonna defend ourselves against all those socialists who think they can destroy Amurrrrica." Something like that.

In both cases, the host sighed and paused, trying to find a way to respond quickly and respectfully. They then politely disagreed with the caller and moved on. I can only imagine what was going through their head, but I suspect it was something like "how do we get rid of these people?"...

Thing is, these people aren't going away. We see them here on this board, and they really believe the stuff they say. It's not a game. And they're so blinded that they don't realize how this is looking, what damage it's causing their own side.

They have to be marginalized, but how? I don't see how you get from here to there.

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Two words come to mind....Alan Berg.

 

[rightwinger]

Dems are in for a huge smack down in mid term

Huge!

Kiss the Senate goodbye!

Funny

Republicans should have won the Senate in the last two elections. But they allowed candidates who embrace the sentiments of the OP to give away Senate seats that should have easily gone Republican

What makes you think they have learned their lesson?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Dems are in for a huge smack down in mid term

Huge!

Kiss the Senate goodbye!

Funny

Republicans should have won the Senate in the last two elections. But they allowed candidates who embrace the sentiments of the OP to give away Senate seats that should have easily gone Republican

What makes you think they have learned their lesson?

Only won 70 seats in 2010.

 

[Oldguy]

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Like moths to a flame.

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lemme ask you this...........


do you believe it's a coincidence that Obama issued 23 executive orders 1 month after Newtown?

Do you believe anything you're told? The Newtown shooting occurred on Dec. 14th. Since that time, Obama has issued.....ZERO Executive Orders. ZERO. NONE.

Barack Obama Executive Orders Disposition Tables

 

[buckeye45_73]

Dems are in for a huge smack down in mid term

Huge!

Kiss the Senate goodbye!

Funny

Republicans should have won the Senate in the last two elections. But they allowed candidates who embrace the sentiments of the OP to give away Senate seats that should have easily gone Republican

What makes you think they have learned their lesson?

I'm still waiting have you visited the Aurora shooter and asked him if any of his rights have been violated? Maybe IF he's convicted, we could get him out early if he's a nice guy in jail.

 

[buckeye45_73]

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Like moths to a flame.

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lemme ask you this...........


do you believe it's a coincidence that Obama issued 23 executive orders 1 month after Newtown?

Do you believe anything you're told? The Newtown shooting occurred on Dec. 14th. Since that time, Obama has issued.....ZERO Executive Orders. ZERO. NONE.

Barack Obama Executive Orders Disposition Tables

I'm just glad the guy offed himself so people like you and Obama dont defend him.

 

[Oldguy]

They are the ones who boo gay soldiers, cheer over executions and scream "Let em die" as a solution to healthcare.

Then, they all go to church on Sunday, join hands and sing "Amazing Grace," and pat themselves on the back for being "Christian," while ignoring what Christ said about loving others as you love yourself.

 

[SniperFire]

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Like moths to a flame.

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lemme ask you this...........


do you believe it's a coincidence that Obama issued 23 executive orders 1 month after Newtown?

Do you believe anything you're told? The Newtown shooting occurred on Dec. 14th. Since that time, Obama has issued.....ZERO Executive Orders. ZERO. NONE.

Barack Obama Executive Orders Disposition Tables

The difference is largely semantically and only there to provide wiggle room for a weasel such as yourself. In fact:

'In at least one instance, a federal district court seemed to use the two terms interchangeably.'

Obama Did Not Sign 23 Executive Orders -- Daily Intelligencer

Obama of course backed down, but got the photo-op you could whack off to.

 

[rightwinger]

Dems are in for a huge smack down in mid term

Huge!

Kiss the Senate goodbye!

Funny

Republicans should have won the Senate in the last two elections. But they allowed candidates who embrace the sentiments of the OP to give away Senate seats that should have easily gone Republican

What makes you think they have learned their lesson?

Only won 70 seats in 2010.

70 seats in the Senate? Bull Shit

 

[dblack]

Dems are in for a huge smack down in mid term

Huge!

Kiss the Senate goodbye!

And then it will be the Republicans' turn to dump all over the Constitution. In their own special way, of course.

Go team!

 

[Oldguy]

Now, is it possible that a few will get so hopped up on Levin & Savage & Rush & Hannity that they'd do something stupid? Yeah, but that'll be rare. Plus, the first time if happens (if it does), it'll shine a bright light on the crazies and they'll probably self-marginalize.



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Yeah...but by then, it might be too late for Barack Obama or some member of his family.

The hatred and anger are so real to some of the true Nutter's that it won't surprise me if one of them tries to "save" America by taking out the President of the United States, plunging the nation into total chaos.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Funny

Republicans should have won the Senate in the last two elections. But they allowed candidates who embrace the sentiments of the OP to give away Senate seats that should have easily gone Republican

What makes you think they have learned their lesson?

Only won 70 seats in 2010.

70 seats in the Senate? Bull Shit

70 Seats in Congress.

Total BlowOut.

 

[Oldguy]

lemme ask you this...........


do you believe it's a coincidence that Obama issued 23 executive orders 1 month after Newtown?

Do you believe anything you're told? The Newtown shooting occurred on Dec. 14th. Since that time, Obama has issued.....ZERO Executive Orders. ZERO. NONE.

Barack Obama Executive Orders Disposition Tables

The difference is largely semantically and only there to provide wiggle room for a weasel such as yourself. In fact:

'In at least one instance, a federal district court seemed to use the two terms interchangeably.'

Obama Did Not Sign 23 Executive Orders -- Daily Intelligencer

Obama of course backed down, but got the photo-op you could whack off to.

Even so, 3 memorandum do not equate to 23 Executive Orders and none of them are a power grab or usurpation of the Constitution.

It would help if you Nutter's actually knew what an EO is, but it doesn't matter, does it? Like Pavlov's dog, you're so conditioned that when somebody mentions "executive order," off you go on another panicked OMG! OBAMA! screaming fit.

 

[NoNukes]

It is the same "Obama is Arab" crowd that John McCain rebuked and Sarah Palin embraced.

They are the ones who boo gay soldiers, cheer over executions and scream "Let em die" as a solution to healthcare. There are Republican snake oil salesmen (Rush, Beck, Hannity...) who make millions off of these people

Dems just sit back, smirk and remind people...This is what Republicans are like

omg, you all think so highly of yourselves and Democrats..
we watched your kind poop on police cars and take over and destroy the people's property

you people crack me the hell up

No one pooped on police cars, only idiots like yourself believe this.