You are right. We are headed toware oligarchy, but you have the group wrong. I'd look at the people that always think they are smarter than everyone else and who are very comfortable telling everyone else what to do for their own good. You could look at people like Tipper "don't play those vulger language CDs" Gore, (her husband Al "don't have a carbon footprint like me" Gore, Hilary "it takes a village (to tell you how to raise your child)" Clinton, Barack "I'm the smartest guy in the room (just ask the press)" Obama.
People like that are very happy to be your oligarchy. I'm not sure the right (except for the turbo religious nuts like Huckabee et al.) have the desire to tell you in detail what to do for your own good.
No, we're socialists, remember? Spread the wealth, remember? Get your story straight.
There is no place for people like that in your party. That is why they are leaving. Admit it.
And I've heard this all before. I remember this bullshit in the 90's. Gore wants to ban video games, sensor radio and cable and ban guns. And they want to tax cigs.
Trust me, after 8 years of GOP rule, I find those comments even funnier than I did in the 90's.
Who knew you guys would abuse your power this much. Now for you to come back with such weak Tipper Gore bullshit.
After Bush took away Habius Corpus and the new Conservatives on the Supreme Court not following Stari Decisis and trying to ban abortions and banning stem cell.
We followed your nonsense for long enough. Now you're going to pull out the Tipper argument?
Want to end that kind of bullshit from liberals? Stop painting us as the immoral party. Yes, that was bullshit what she tried to do. But what do you expect when your party paints them as godless and bad for families and bad for America. They had to appeal to the religious right too.
How dare you after 8 years of Bush where the rich got richer and more people fell into poverty that you would dare suggest I'm projecting.
And remember the 90's? Clinton did a better job than Bush 1 or 2. The two Bush bookends. Both of them had horrible recessions. Hell, 3 between them in the 3 terms they served.
I'll admit I'm a man without a party. I quit the Rep party when I realized I'd been misinformed and most republicans were not like Reagan, they were like Bush, Dole, Bush, McCain, Spector et al. Now, if the Republicans decide to purge themselves of the riff-raff like Spector, I might consider coming back. Although I won't come back if it is just a sheild for the social conservative wing of the party. I have no interest in pushing a bunch of anti-abortion et al. agenda items. If that is a de-emphasized part of the agenda, that's ok, but it can't be the focus.
You're STATISTS. It doesn't really matter what your economic focus is. You want centralized power of the state and de-emphasized autonomy of the individual.
You can't bait me into defending either Bush, I didn't like either one of them. I didn't like Bush II from the beginning in 2000 before he got the nomination. That I voted for him twice I view as a failure on the Dems part for not putting up somebody better. Afterall, you only get to pick between the two main guys for who is going to win.
I did enthusiastically support Bush I in 1988. However, after I found out that he wasn't going to support the Reagan revolution, my vote in 1992, I put like this, "Better a third-class fireman than a First Class Arsonist." His son wasn't even a third-class fireman, he was probably a half-assed firebug.
I don't give a shit about your immorality. I do care about your party's constant, incessant corruption. The Repubs have their own corruption problems, but they really pale by comparison.
The stuff you said about the court is just plain wrong. You are misinformed.