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How the GOP Destroyed Its Moderates

Started by Queequeg, October 09, 2012, 03:38:39 PM

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Eddie Teach

#15
October 09, 2012, 06:23:41 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on October 09, 2012, 06:08:36 PM
:bleeding: at Timmay-esque error in title.

At least he spelled your name right.
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DGuller

#16
October 09, 2012, 06:32:04 PM
Woah, Habbaku can blow?  Source?

Ed Anger

#17
October 09, 2012, 06:33:01 PM
Quote from: DGuller on October 09, 2012, 06:32:04 PM
Woah, Habbaku can blow?  Source?

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Habbaku

#18
October 09, 2012, 06:37:48 PM
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
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Sheilbh

#19
October 09, 2012, 10:44:56 PM
Quote from: Phillip V on October 09, 2012, 04:50:54 PM
The current Republican Presidential candidate is a moderate from Massachusetts. In last week's debate, he declared that he would not lower tax bills for the rich, that regulation was good and necessary, and that he would not cut education. What's funny is that conservatives don't care anymore and loved it. :D
In fairness he didn't say that he wouldn't lower taxes for the rich.  He said he'd cut taxes but it would be revenue neutral and that the rich would pay the same proportion of revenue as they do now.

QuoteWhat's up with Dem posters thinking we want to read large walls of politically slanted text?
The problem with the American left :bleeding:
Let's bomb Russia!

Queequeg

#20
October 09, 2012, 10:51:17 PM
QuoteThe problem with the American left
I find the GOP far more interesting than the Democrats, and tbh in terms of temperament I'm about evenly split between the last time the two parties were sane (approx. 1960).  The powerlessness of the GOP's sane wing is a problem for the country, and all Americans should be concerned. 
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

garbon

#21
October 09, 2012, 10:55:17 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on October 09, 2012, 10:51:17 PM
QuoteThe problem with the American left
I find the GOP far more interesting than the Democrats, and tbh in terms of temperament I'm about evenly split between the last time the two parties were sane (approx. 1960).  The powerlessness of the GOP's sane wing is a problem for the country, and all Americans should be concerned. 

That's probably a good way to get people to agree. Label your political opponents insane.
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Queequeg

#22
October 09, 2012, 10:56:29 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 09, 2012, 10:55:17 PM
That's probably a good way to get people to agree. Label your political opponents insane.
We have three topics on the front page on GOP antics. 
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
"Dysthymia?  Did they get some student from the University of Chicago with a hard-on for ancient Bactrian cities to name this?  I feel cheated."

Lettow77

#23
October 09, 2012, 11:02:10 PM
 So by talking into an echo-chamber, you heard of their naughty mischief so much you deduced they must be insane?

It can't be helped...We'll have to use 'that'

Eddie Teach

#24
October 09, 2012, 11:02:33 PM
That says more about Languish than about the GOP. /shrug
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garbon

#25
October 09, 2012, 11:02:41 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on October 09, 2012, 10:56:29 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 09, 2012, 10:55:17 PM
That's probably a good way to get people to agree. Label your political opponents insane.
We have three topics on the front page on GOP antics. 
Which is could easily be an indicator that we've a bunch of Dems getting their panties in a twist.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

jimmy olsen

#26
October 09, 2012, 11:19:11 PM
I thought it was pretty good, I'm definitely one of those moderate Republicans who are jumping ship at this point. Obama definitely represents my policy choices than the current GOP. I just don't trust them. Of course it doesn't really matter since I'm from Rhode Island.

I voted for Bush twice, and for McCain by the way.
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Sheilbh

#27
October 09, 2012, 11:19:49 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 09, 2012, 11:02:41 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on October 09, 2012, 10:56:29 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 09, 2012, 10:55:17 PM
That's probably a good way to get people to agree. Label your political opponents insane.
We have three topics on the front page on GOP antics. 
Which is could easily be an indicator that we've a bunch of Dems getting their panties in a twist.
Of course we do.  They think they're losing.  It's a mark of Romney's success last week.
Let's bomb Russia!

Habbaku

#28
October 09, 2012, 11:43:27 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on October 09, 2012, 10:56:29 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 09, 2012, 10:55:17 PM
That's probably a good way to get people to agree. Label your political opponents insane.
We have three topics on the front page on GOP antics.

Two are about Arkansas.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Viking

#29
October 09, 2012, 11:47:59 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 09, 2012, 10:55:17 PM
Quote from: Queequeg on October 09, 2012, 10:51:17 PM
QuoteThe problem with the American left
I find the GOP far more interesting than the Democrats, and tbh in terms of temperament I'm about evenly split between the last time the two parties were sane (approx. 1960).  The powerlessness of the GOP's sane wing is a problem for the country, and all Americans should be concerned. 

That's probably a good way to get people to agree. Label your political opponents insane.

Having insane political opponents means you are probably not going to agree regardless. :contract:
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.
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