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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
That reminds me of that reaction gif
from an old Bugs Bunny cartoon. Bugs cuts Florida away from the rest of the 50 states with a hacksaw and kicks it off to drift into the Gulf of Mexico.
I'm not sure if Warner Bros had no Floridians in its studio to protest the measure, or if they did and those Floridians found the joke hilarious.
edited 21st Feb '13 10:56:45 AM by RadicalTaoist
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.Pretty good article highlighting just how out of touch the Tea Party is with reality and the GOP establishment. I hope it continues.
Though the "Rove=Himmler" thing was just pathetic.
Laser-Guided Karma, after what he did to John McCain back in 2000. Imagine if McCain had been in the chair instead of Dubya...
What has happened to the GOP? I liked John McCain. I wouldn't vote for him, ever, but I could at least respect him. One reason he lost was because his campaign staff refused to let him be himself and instead tried to make him Younger and Hipper to appeal to Democrat voters, who weren't fooled. The new of GOPers are fanatics.
edited 21st Feb '13 12:41:47 PM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiAgain, the Tea Party Patriots supposedly pulled a picture off of a Bing search and, without looking closer, put it into their email. They already apologized (and yes, Bing still has the nazi uniform parody as the FIRST result under images). GISSyndrome, except... Bing.
The Tea Party happened, which then hijacked the GOP into what you see today.
The most Conservative Republicans today aren't really Republicans. The Tea Party leaders would go so far as to call moderate Republicans RINOs.
The tea party made the positions that many of the people in this thread are railing against that don't make any more sense.
edited 21st Feb '13 1:18:09 PM by DevilTakeMe
Glove and Boots is good for Blog!The other reason being that after Dubya, you could have had Jesus himself descend from the heavens in a blaze of glory to run for the GOP, and have replaced the Democrat candidate with a cardboard cutout of Rodney Dangerfield in a speedo and covered with Squeezy Cheeze, and the cutout would have won by the same landslide.
Well, yeah, sure. But McCain was a Republican who I could, if not vote for, then at least have some confidence in. Let's face it, if you could choose: either Mitt Romney wins the 2012 election, or John McCain wins the 2008 one, you'd pick McCain every time. I don't feel that way about any of the current GOP crop, with the exception of John Huntsman (who I would hold up as a "model Republican"), who is out of favor. America needs a genuine centre-right alternative. I wouldn't vote for it, but it would be vital to the health of our democracy, which is ailing. What we have at the moment is a centrist party and a hard rightist party, and it sucks ass.
edited 21st Feb '13 1:28:13 PM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der Partei![]()
I'm not sure that is entirely the case. The Democrats had 2008 in the palm of their hands, but could have lost it in the same way that Romney lost 2012, by being seen as crazy and/or out of touch.
The Republican Party derailed itself over its crazies while at the same time the Democrat Party experienced a resurgence, both of community organizing and of party cohesiveness. Both of these trends are ongoing.
edited 21st Feb '13 1:31:39 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Eh, Mc Cain in 2008 might have been better, but only because the Republicans in congress back then wouldn't have stonewalled anything and everything they could, and deficit hawkisms weren't really as big a thing and, since it would have been a Republican president, wouldn't have become a thing.
Mc Cain as president would only have been better because of the extortionists having played nice.
Well, yeah. Less deficit hawkism would have been good.
Schild und Schwert der ParteiSome new "scandal" for them to latch onto? I mean, isn't that the way of things?
"The marvel is not that the Bear posts well, but that the Bear posts at all."http://www.theatlanticwire.com/business/2013/02/fbi-declares-war-scooter-store/62383/
Kind of a weird thing going on right now. I'm not really sure what to think of it.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112378/trb-huntings-decline-turns-liberals-silent-majority#
Also this, for thoughts.
Moral of the story: Solving your problems by throwing money at them is not always guaranteed to succeed.
edited 21st Feb '13 5:46:58 PM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Your money was wasted for two reasons. One, you hired people to do your work who are as greedy and conniving as you are. Two, the American people are starting to figure out that your message blows.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"That is what happens when the veneer of Astroturfing fades away - what looked real and prosperous at first quickly turns to looking gaudy and as fake as plastic when you peel it back.
The Koch brothers boosted what was originally a grassroots Libertarian/Populist movement that was against tax increases and government spending, and artificially inflated it with "majority moralists" to the point where it's infected the GOP.
Yes, you wasted your money by trying to buy elections.
Glove and Boots is good for Blog!

edited 21st Feb '13 8:15:39 AM by Lascoden
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