“Republicans, once hailed as the ‘party of ideas,’ have become the party of stupid,” wrote columnist Paul Krugman.
“Now, I don’t mean that GOP politicians are, on average, any dumber than their Democratic counterparts. And I certainly don’t mean to question the often frightening smarts of Republican political operatives.
“What I mean, instead, is that know-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there’s something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise — has become the core of Republican policy and political strategy. The party’s de facto slogan has become: ‘Real men don’t think things through.’”
Krugman’s examples include the selling of the Iraq war and the current oil drilling debate.
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One word answer. YES!
When you’ve got nothing, just push it harder and more ferverently.
Why else would Dumbo be the parties trademark?
Krugman is stupid.
Drilling WILL produce more tax revenue.
Drilling WILL produce more American jobs.
Drilling WILL reduce the price of gasoline.
Where have Republicans come out against “alternative energy”?
It is liberal Democrats who want to limit our options.
It is liberal Democrats that do not want more drilling, as part of the solution.
On Iraq?
Must we reprint all of the Democrats who said much stronger things than Bush, in support of the Iraq war?
It’s all in the mix.
Oil prices below $116 a barrel. If memory serves, $117 was supposed to be the bifurcation point. Once the price fell below 117, the oil boom was supposedly finishing.
This guy makes me feel old now. I read “Animal Farm” in way back 7th grade.
Krugman should stick to economics rather than shrill commentary.
He’s not all bad as he questioned the blind Obama worshiping when the campaigning first started.
The price of oil continues to drop, for things like oil Shale or coal to oil, and even much of oil exploration in the US to be cost effective doesn’t the price of oil have to be high? And much of the recent oil crisis wasn’t a supply problem anyways but a weak dollar and speculators inflating the price.
Krugman: “The party’s de facto slogan has become: ‘Real men don’t think things through.’””
Heh, right on cue, Franklin:
Krugman is stupid.
Drilling WILL produce more tax revenue.
Drilling WILL produce more American jobs.
Drilling WILL reduce the price of gasoline.
I love it!
EDITORS
Looks like it is time for me to highlight your bias here once again.
This entire past couple of weeks it seems like nothing but negative thread after negative thread against the Republicans.
Still nothing on Obama.
If we are willing to subsidize wind and solar, we should be willing to subsidize oil shale and clean coal. (At least in the research stages)
Lets put everything on the table.
Nathan
Exactly, and in the last couple of weeks, the Obama gaffes have multiplied!
Barry Obama thinks that we are not the great country we once were, while Michelle is proud for the first time.
Hey, I guess it is healthy that they can disagree.
LMAO
That intro is the funniest thing I have read all day!
BTW,
Who said Editorial departments should unbiased?
If they were unbiased they would be in the news reporting department.
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=editorial
‘editorial: (of or relating to an article stating opinions or giving perspectives) “editorial column”‘
More generally, the notion that the WE editors are biased toward Democrats is hilarious.
It just happens to be really bad year for the GOP.
The Eagle has a very noticable trend, and it has been this way forever:
Where the Eagle can not make much of a difference, the Eagle gives lukewarm support to Republicans.
Where the Eagle can make a difference, the Eagle trashes the Republican.
The Eagle rarely trashes a Democrat, at least not in the general election.
Crowson is definitely biased I know this for sure. Although his cartoons are funny, they ALL have a progressive liberal slant and flavor.
Scholfield is an environmental facist wacko and liberal geeky boy.
Brownlee is so far left it’s a wonder he doesn’t keep Das Kapital on his desk.
Holman? Who knows? More female than political. Although she does flick out the bleeding heart ever so often.
Of course, if it is a Prolife Democrat (like Joan Finney) — the Eagle will trash a Prolife Democrat!
Aren’t those on the editorial staff paid to form and communicate their opinions?
You are stating the obvious. It is an editorial department, not a news department.
sure seems like ir Regular has everyone pegged.
In Kansas, Republicans are the party that hates education (of course, after what K-State did yesterday, some of that is now deserved).
Exhibit A: Sharon Schwartz, chair of the House Appropriations Committee–college dropout. Proposed taxing university cities at a higher rate to cop the state out of funding higher ed.
Now, mrcontroversy, take a deep breath; it was the KSU Athletic Department that committed the act that you perceive as particularly heinous, not the University itself.
As to your general observation about education, I hold the opinion that the State of Kansas, as represented by both parties elected by the majority of voters, as a whole isn’t interested in education.
At least the GOP doesn’t have to question the meaning of the word “is”….
“Is GOP the party of stupid?”
Mostly.
I’d say a good two thirds or more of people of the con bent are just not very bright or informed.
We have a few examples of that type here.
The rest of the cons are just plain bad people.
We have some of those posting here as well.
Those liars from the tabloids saying John Edwards is cheating on his dying wife. Oh yes, he got caught red handed or however that was.
Oh and of course there is no small number of cons who are BOTH evil and stupid.
‘Real men don’t think things through.’
“The One” is a real man then,
1. Sit down and talk with Iran with no preconditions?
2. Stay in Jerimiah Wrights’ Church?
3. Hang around convicted terrorists?
4. Cling to their guns and religion?
5. Get out of Iraq in 16 months no mater what?
6. Don’t visit the Vets because you can’t take in a camera?
7. Give every “Family” $1,000.00 of “Big Oils” profits?
8. Inflate your tires and we don’t need to drill?
Sounds like ideas of a 7th grader,
obviously doesn’t think much through…..
Hardly anyone ever runs claiming to be a “liberal” —
Many people, in both parties, like to wear the “conservative” label.
We know that socialism does not work. How smart is it to keep trying to MAKE socialism work?
Obama won’t talk to Hannity, but Obama WILL talk to radical tyrants, all over the world?
Edwards for VP!
Oprah for VP!!!
“Franklin
Posted August 8, 2008 at 2:07 pm | Permalink
Hardly anyone ever runs claiming to be a “liberal” —
Many people, in both parties, like to wear the “conservative” label.
We know that socialism does not work. How smart is it to keep trying to MAKE socialism work?”
There is a fatal flaw in your logic(?) Franklin…. socialism and liberalism are not the same thing.
brian
There is not a hairs worth of difference between modern day, American liberalism and socialism.
RUSSIA INVADES GEORGIA!
Editors?
PLEASE be careful with this headline.
I bet there are thousands of low brow cons in red states hiding under their beds with their guns right now because someone read them that!
“What I mean, instead, is that know-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there’s something effeminate and weak about anyone who suggests otherwise — has become the core of Republican policy and political strategy. The party’s de facto slogan has become: ‘Real men don’t think things through.’”
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Chuckle… Nice thread title there Phillip.
So, in effect, Mr. Krugman writes that Republicans are people of action. Who see solutions and act rather than worry and fret and wring our hands about the what ifs. Who have faith in the future of our country.
I can live with that.
“Franklin
Posted August 8, 2008 at 2:17 pm | Permalink
brian
There is not a hairs worth of difference between modern day, American liberalism and socialism.”
So you could easily name four key principals they each have in common then, right?
Feel free to Google.
I’ve some excellent cheese to go with the whine of yours!
(While cruising in the artic) Having lost sight of their objective, the captain shouted ‘Full Speed Ahead’.
outlander
Posted August 8, 2008 at 2:28 pm | Permalink
“…So, in effect, Mr. Krugman writes that Republicans are people of action. Who see solutions and act rather than worry and fret and wring our hands about the what ifs. Who have faith in the future of our country.
I can live with that.”
What I got from this is Republicans are prone to running and jumping off the diving board before they check to see if there is water.
I would rather our leaders and elected officials know what they are doing and thoroughly check into things before they take a dive (and pull me with them)
I wonder what lib Krugman will say about the Dem John Edwards and his sex affair with that other woman?
I agree - I think Republican men would like to see themselves as John Wayne. As for Republican women, June Cleaver.
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Grateful_Dave
Posted August 8, 2008 at 2:37 pm | Permalink
I agree - I think Republican men would like to see themselves as John Wayne. As for Republican women, June Cleaver.
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Not a bad goal to set in either department. June Cleaver was no pushover btw. She often told Ward Cleaver how the cow ate the cabbage.
John Wayne the actor. What bad can you say about the man?
GOP = the party of ideas. Thinkers
Democrat = party of emotion. Victims.
On a thread about Republic Party stupidity, “george” defends his party with –
“I wonder what lib Krugman will say about the Dem John Edwards and his sex affair with that other woman?”
Well that certainly is the most important issue this presidential election will turn on, “george.”
“June Cleaver was no pushover btw. She often told Ward Cleaver how the cow ate the cabbage.”
Then he would give her ‘the look’ and she would know better than to continue. Ward had a bad temper. June knew better than to press any issue too far.
Want to see how stupid?
(CNN) — Sen. John McCain made a stop Thursday in Wilmington, Ohio, discussing job losses that could result from closing the local DHL shipping center.
John McCain will talk with people in Wilmington, Ohio, where DHL is planning to close a shipping plant.
McCain didn’t answer any questions from reporters over reports that his own campaign manager lobbied for the corporate merger that led to the plant’s proposed closure.
The campaign manager, Rick Davis, lobbied the Senate in 2003 to approve the merger of Airborne Express with German-based DHL, according to news reports.
DHL announced in May that it planned to close the plant to cut costs. The company reached an agreement with United Parcel Service to have its packages flown on UPS planes. Those packages would go though a nearby airport in Lexington, Kentucky, the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper reported Wednesday.
City officials told the Plain Dealer that the closure of the plant could mean the loss of more than 8,000 jobs.
“I am deeply troubled by the specter of job loss … in the town of Wilmington …” McCain told reporters Thursday afternoon. “We should explore all options in proceeding with [a] viable commercial development plan if DHL ceases operation.”
After the press conference, McCain greeted 150 DHL employees, some whom were holding protest signs.
Democrats have called on McCain to use his past links to the company to help save the thousands of jobs at stake.
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The Washington Post, citing lobbying records, reported in June that Davis’ lobbying firm earned $125,000 from Airborne in 2003 and $465,000 from DHL between 2003 and 2005.
The Post also reported that McCain helped to overcome opposition to the deal by Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, who objected to foreign control of an American shipping company. McCain blocked an effort by Stevens to prohibit the foreign-controlled company from holding U.S. military contracts, the newspaper reported.
McCain’s trip will not be the first time he has answered questions about the DHL plant closing. Mary Houghtaling, a Wilmington resident, asked McCain to investigate the park closing at a town hall meeting in Portsmouth, Ohio, on July 9.
“I have been briefed and read about the situation and the enormous dislocation, I believe it’s 8,600 jobs,” McCain told her. “This is a terrible blow.”
But McCain wasn’t optimistic the plant could be saved and took several minutes to promote his plans for job retraining programs.
“I got to look you in the eye and give you straight talk,” he said. “I don’t know if I can stop it or not; or if it will be stopped, so I have to tell you that. It’s some straight talk. In fact, some more straight talk: I doubt it. OK? But I am for a thorough examination of this situation, and I will do everything I can to see that that’s conducted.”
The Ohio Democratic Party launched a Web ad Thursday highlighting those comments. The ad accuses McCain and Davis of having “played roles in the fate of DHL Express and its Ohio air park as far back as 2003.”
The Ohio AFL-CIO also blasted McCain for helping the Airborne-DHL merger get through.
“Those jobs are on the chopping block because Sen. McCain and his campaign were involved in a deal that resulted in control of those positions being shifted to a foreign corporation, and there’s no getting around that,” Joe Rugola, president of the Ohio AFL-CIO, told The Associated Press.
The 1000 jobs he brings into the South with Airbus is going to be more than offset by these peoples jobs!
Backfire Mccain strikes again.
Socialism Schmocialism. How about looking for solutions to problems and forget the labeling exercises.
Energy for tomorrow’s world may be a good place to start. Electrons have no political persuasion.
“Those jobs are on the chopping block because Sen. McCain and his campaign were involved in a deal that resulted in control of those positions being shifted to a foreign corporation, and there’s no getting around that,” Joe Rugola, president of the Ohio AFL-CIO, told The Associated Press.
Ummm….if it was a DHL plant, “control of those positions” was already held by a foreign corporation.
Typical union rhetoric of misleading information.
Here’s the backfire part:
“But thanks to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which this week wrote about Davis’ 2003 lobbying efforts on behalf of DHL, the meeting has invited some unwelcome attention for the campaign.
The Plain Dealer reported that McCain himself argued on behalf of the merger in 2003 after concerns were raised by fellow senators about foreign ownership of the shipping company.
… In a new conference yesterday, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown called on McCain and Davis to use the same connections they had in 2003 to try and stop DH: from abandoning the airport.
“I’m personally calling on John McCain to send Rick Davis to Germany to use his considerable clout with DHL,… to help save these 8,200 jobs in southwest Ohio,” Brown said.
So just how involved in this job killer were Davis and McCain? From the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
Davis was a lobbyist who helped [Deutsche Post World Net] overcome objections in Congress in 2003, when the company was acquiring Airborne Express and its Wilmington airport, as The Plain Dealer reported.
And McCain, then the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, fought back proposed legislative language in a defense spending bill that would have made the deal less attractive — language favored by lawmakers and DHL competitors that wanted to keep the foreign firm out of the air express business in this country.
Davis and McCain were successful in 2003 — and so was Wilmington for several years, with a humming freight airport and a net gain of an estimated 1,000 jobs. But now DHL wants to use rival United Parcel Service for its air freight, saying the move would help stem more than $1 billion in projected losses this year. DHL would stay in the delivery business, even though it would contract with UPS for airlift.
And, what’s more:
In addition (there’s a Ted Stevens connection):
Before the merger, some members of Congress, as well as UPS and Federal Express, cited concerns about a subsidiary of a foreign company controlling a segment of air commerce in the United States. Sen. Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska, tried to insert language in a military spending bill to ban a foreign-owned carrier from flying military equipment or troops. That would have made the Airborne Express purchase less attractive to DHL.
McCain, of Arizona, and fellow Republican Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi objected, saying it would be unfair to keep the Pentagon from using an air carrier it might someday need. McCain, then the chairman of the Commerce Committee, also objected to using a spending bill to set military policy.
Meanwhile, while we are getting nothing but threads against the Republicans…
Edwards Admits Sexual Affair; Lied as Presidential Candidate
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5441195&page=1
John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an extramarital affair with a novice filmmaker, the former Senator admitted to ABC News today.
The workers are scared and desparate enough, he might be able to redeem himself by acting like he’s going to get his damage undone.
“Nathaniel” joins “george” as two proud members of “ksgolfnut’s” “…party of ideas…thinkers.” –
We don’t need to think about energy policies or the total failure of Bushonomics, the war on terror, heath care, the nation’s infrastructure…
No, the real important issue for these paragons of CONservative thought is John Edwards and his sex affair with that other woman.”
Don’t worry MonkeyHawk, I checked my tire pressure. I have already implemented your sides energy policy.
Now what?
“Phantom” –
Quit distracting this election with discussions about the economy or workers’ rights or corporate re- or de-regulation. Such talk distracts the electorate from the key issue our CONservative fellow bloggers are concerned about:
John Edwards and his sex affair with that other woman.
And, for the record, I oppose the election of John Sidney McCain the Third (for Shrub’s 3rd term) because of his views on “John Edwards and his sex affair with that other woman.”
Phantom Posted August 8, 2008 at 1:10 pm |
“Why else would Dumbo be the parties trademark?”
As if that Jackass of the Dems is any better, ha!
I believe America should bomb Iran now because of Ahmadinejad views regarding John Edwards and his sex affair with that other woman.
In the words of my dad about the difference between one person saying something that hurtful and everyone saying the same thing. “If one person said you stink they may just not like you. But if an entire class tells you that you stink it may be time to take a bath!”. I would not go as far as saying the party has become stupid but more the mind set of a 12 years old bully.
The Democrats will sweep all elections because of the Republic Party’s most important issue this year. We’ve won all the illegal-abortion advocated because no abortion resulted after John Edwards and his sex affair with that other woman.”
I believe America should bomb Iran now because of Ahmadinejad views regarding John Edwards and his sex affair with that other woman.
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Only if Ahmadinejad kept repeating that he was going to wipe John Edwards off the map.
The real “celebrity” in the ‘08 race:
http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-video-john-sidney-mccain-celebrity.html
MonkeyHawk,
You and your liberal pals have spent the last couple of weeks going on and on and on about how McCain has told some questionable jokes.
So your most important issue this year is that McCain tells bad jokes and you are getting on our case?
At least in the $580 hand-made Italian shoes he wears on his wife’s private jet as they decide which of their eight mansions to fly to, John Sidney McCain the Third (for Shrub’s 3rd term) doesn’t hold elitist views about John Edwards and his sex affair with that other woman.
MonkeyHawk,
We don’t care about how many homes McCain has. He is not pretending to be some poor ol’boy like the liberals do.
These biased attitudes are probably a good part of the reason for the lack of revenue coming into the newspaper companies. Granted, you can get news online these days, but why pay for something you don’t really care for to get the news from when it is generally biased in one direction or the other, rather than the middle.
Example, if the Inquirer had done a story on Rove rather than Edwards having a love child, the media would be making sure it was a headline above the fold every day. Instead they chose it ignore it.
And what about Mr Jefferson (D-Louisiana) having $90G in cold cash in his freezer. Never been much news on that at all, other than the FBI’s alledged violation of Kingdom of the Congress with their seach warrant.
Oh well, no reason to get worked up about it cuz it isn’t going to change because as I see it since I started looking at this newspaper the main people who blog this page will just attack, flame, and call names at anyone they disagree with to make sure they get their point across.
That too is very typical of many people on the left, isn’t it?
Truth is neither party wants an educated / informed electorate …… if the electorate were better educated / informed they would research more and think more about what our politicians are saying and doing …. so guess what? we’re the stupid ones (present company excepted) for letting them get away with it
If the conservatives are so put off by the Eagle’s Editorial Dept, why do they post here so often? Would this incongruence be much different than hating Tiller, but donating to ProKanDo?
That was a talking point that Krugman missed. Being consistent is the hobgoblin of pansies.
Hee hee, you said hobgoblin.
Steven,
It is because I am a cyber bully stalker….
*EYE ROLL*
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Regular
Posted August 8, 2008 at 2:44 pm | Permalink
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Grateful_Dave
Posted August 8, 2008 at 2:37 pm | Permalink
I agree - I think Republican men would like to see themselves as John Wayne. As for Republican women, June Cleaver.
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Not a bad goal to set in either department. June Cleaver was no pushover btw. She often told Ward Cleaver how the cow ate the cabbage.
John Wayne the actor. What bad can you say about the man?
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The key phrase there is, “Like to see themselves as . . .
What the republicans really are is pee wee herman. And as for June Cleaver? More like Connie Morris.
“Is GOP the party of stupid?”
Please don’t associate me with those goobers.
Sincerely,
Stupid
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“At least the GOP doesn’t have to question the meaning of the word “is”….” — Raptor.
Why don’t you define the word, Raptor? No peeking and the dictionary.
Nathaniel
Posted August 8, 2008 at 4:27 pm | Permalink
Steven,
It is because I am a cyber bully stalker….
*****
EYE ROLL, indeed. I would say you are a miserable failure at your life aspiration, there, boy.
How’s that graduation from college coming?
I nteresting topic. But I would if the eagle even dare to think of changing “Is GOP the party of stupid?” to “Is the DEM’s the party of stupid?”
Interesting topic. But I wonder if the Eagle would even dare to think of changing the topic from: “Is the GOP the party of stupid?” to “Is the DEM’s the party of stupid?”
Oops! Sorry about the previous post not making sense, but my wee little one decided to “make” a few changes and managed to send the previous post on her own when I went to answer the door.
““Republicans, once hailed as the ‘party of ideas,’ ”
When?
By WHO?
Oh I KNOW Barack Obama made that remark. He hardly represents any kind of concensus.
If they did we’d smear them! They da’st not.
BJ
Obama does not have majority American support, granted, but Obama sure as heck speaks for the Democrat party in more ways than you ever have.
He is your nominee, after all!
LOL
Not yet.
McCain is leading the charge of promoting the GOP as the party of stupidity. In a previous ad the argument was that Obama is popular in American and respected in Europe therefore we shouldn’t vote for him and should turn to a Bush clone who is reviled throughout the world.
Now McCain comes with a hypocritical, dishonest ad criticizing Obama for having the same position on Bush’s tax cuts as McCain had.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/McCains_Painful_ad_against_Obama_uses_0808.html
It’s evident McCain is weak. He has to rely on personal attacks and dishonest ads rather than run on his own record which is admittedly shameful. McCain helps prove, once again, that the Republican party is not the party of ideas, unless those ideas happen to be campaign strategies the Bush campaign used against McCain in the 2000 primary.
1.) Bush is NOT “reviled throughout the world”
2.) So what if Bush WAS reviled around the world?
Do you think it is the job of a United States President to make sure that all of the tin pot dictators, that all of the radical moslem tyrants, and that all of the Communist leaders of the world “like” him?
England and France have gone MORE conservative and more US friendly, in recent elections.
“How’s that graduation from college coming?”
While I have not often been a fan of WSU academically, may have to chage my mind with respect to them keeping Nathan out of graduation.
John McCain cheated on his first wife Carol and left her after she was horribly injured in a car crash that caused her to gain weight. He even applied for a marriage license to a 17 year old beer queen while still married to Carol. Additionally, said beer queen was a pill poppin momma that had to steal from her own charity to get her fix
BlueJay posted August 8, 2008 at 6:55 pm
““Republicans, once hailed as the ‘party of ideas,’ ”
When?
By WHO?
Oh I KNOW Barack Obama made that remark. He hardly represents any kind of concensus.”
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BlueJay could ask Daniel Patrick Moynihan, if he hadn’t passed away.
‘Is There Life After Disaster?’
Monday, Nov. 17, 1980
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,950488-4,00.html
Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York wrote tellingly last summer: “Of a sudden, the G.O.P. has become a party of ideas.”
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And again BlueJay, “ideas” does NOT equal good, positive, (etc) “ideas”.
“Ideas” just means “ideas”.
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Franklin
Posted August 8, 2008 at 9:28 pm | Permalink
1.) Bush is NOT “reviled throughout the world”
2.) So what if Bush WAS reviled around the world?
Do you think it is the job of a United States President to make sure that all of the tin pot dictators, that all of the radical moslem tyrants, and that all of the Communist leaders of the world “like” him?
England and France have gone MORE conservative and more US friendly, in recent elections.
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Vladimir Putin Is Bush’s soul mate; he said so himself. Two peas in a pod there.
As for tinpot dictators: hell, what do you think Saddam was?
You’re barking up the wrong tree, frank; you bash Obama for going overseas and getting good reactions from those “foreigners”, but praise Bush for doing the same thing. You’re just basically a screwed up human who happens to vote. And we wonder why this country is screwed up. You prove time and time again the republican party IS just plain stupid.
Clearly cosmos and Obama do not understand the difference between ideas and agenda.
Progressives have ideas. Cons have agenda.
BlueJay does not understand grammar.
cosmos aint hurting.
I’ll go look cosmos.
I remember Obama telling folks that were hurting that it was their own fault.
A very con apologist thing to say.
Found it cosmos.
“He added: “I know some say I’ve been too tough on folks talking about responsibility. NAACP, I’m here to report, I’m not going to stop talking about it. Because as much I’m out there to fight to make sure that government’s doing its job and the marketplace is doing its job, … none of it will make a difference — at least not enough of a difference — if we also don’t at the same time seize more responsibility in our own lives.”
Sounds like a con to me there cosmos.
It takes a village cosmos.
BlueJay,
Thank you for proving that my 11:29 pm post was accurate.
Thank you for proving to me cosmos that Obama’s supporters are just as removed from reality as Obama.
Sorry cosmos, I did not have that moment when the light fell on me and I realized I had to vote for Barack.
Now?
I fall in that camp that does not care because we see we lose either way.
Yeah, Brownlee, I see you’ve come off of your hate spewing about Phill Kline now to call the GOP the Party of the Stupid. When will it end you left-wing sycophant? I can’t believe the Eagle lets you sit on the editorial board. You are such a coward. All you do is grovel at the altar of Messiah Obama and fill the Internet with hatred for McCain, Kline, the GOP in general, and anyone who doesn’t agree with your Communist views. Do you sleep with a picture of Karl Marx?
StevenEDavis, I hate Tiller the Killer and I am 100 percent against abortion, but some might be able to be pro-choice AND be against the type of infaticide Tiller the Killer practices. What Tiller does is grab a VIABLE BABY from the mother’s womb and sucks its brains out. Then Tiller the Killer holds a baptism ceremony for the baby he just murdered, lets the woman who allowed Tiller the Killer to murder her baby to hold the dead baby in her arms, and then incinerates the dead baby in his crematorium. Tiller the Killer is simply a sick, depraved modern-day Josef Mengele operating an Auschwitz on Kellogg. Many believe a woman should have a right to choose, but there’s a major difference between an abortion at seven weeks and Tiller the Killer’s infaticide. I happen to be against all abortion, but I can see their point, too, unlike you.
ICTisInferior, sounds like you have issues. I hope you don’t go out mailing anthrax like your fellow anti-abortion terrorist Ivins. Why do you terrorists hate America and its freedoms? Why not go to Saudi Arabia, abortion is illegal there so you should be happy.
ICTisInferior . . . ain’t you the one telling us to quit bashing kline? You’re a real piece of work.
This article tells us nothing except Paul Krugman is apparantly the writer for the stupid.
I have been a Republican for over thirty years and I have the same opinion of the party and actions I have seen since 2003. I refer to it as the “12 y.o. mentality, the only solution is to punch the boy in in the nose that you are arguing with. I have found most arguments that the GOP politicians present today to be childish and without thinking. But its like they think that the common people i.e the American voters are just that non-thinking. As if they are addressing those whom live in a bubble and no exposure to the world outside.
In a sense we are or have become that way. more people can tell you whom won the last three Survivor contest than can tell you whom their national reps have been.
Lets take the off shore drilling since it was mentioned, I lived in Southern Oklahoma in the mid-eighties.
What kill off most domestic drilling was the fact that foreign oil was cheaper than drilling in the U.S.
Active holes were shut down because of it and many lost their livelihoods. The argument that there is a shortage of places to drill is asinine. Yet that is the argument the public is hearing from the GOP.
Simple no brainer that we are fed by people that thinks you are some idiot.
Sadly it is also the effect of the Neoconservatives influence with in the Republican party. They start with the premise that you are just to stupid to understand the issues and it is their job to spare you from having to think. Its call “the noble lie” it is OK to lie if that is the simplest way to get what you want. It explains a great deal of what we hear from Washington D.C.
Also their believe in big government where they control everything that concerns the public a very socialist way of thinking. If you take into account that the Democratic also feel it is Government’s duty to protect you too. How can we win and how can our country remain a free one? The partisanship is a tool that is used to keep people from seeing the reality. If the issue is Iraq, the Democrats have had the power to stop it since 2006. But the beat goes on has it not!
Our politicians are as stupid as they think we are, they say things that if you took a few minutes to check out. You would see that it is not just a misunderstanding of the fact but out and out lies. BUT they know that the majority will not stop watching a meaningless show or take the time to research a subject that effects their very lives. We get our informant from two second sound bytes or a partisan commentator.
A classic example of the right’s source and just how he felt you would not be the wiser.
Bill O’Reilly in his defense of an alleged war crime committed by U.S, Troops. He stated not just once but three times and even after he was corrected several times. That U.S. soldiers during WW2 killed unarmed German soldiers whom were taken as POW. He even dared those he was arguing with to look it up in the history books. The history books if you were to look it up would show that it was the Germans whom slaughtered 88 U.S. soldiers in France. But his lie was making his point and that was more important to him the truth.
Brothers in the party get aware and informed, just think and not allow the party to be stupid. Otherwise every time you state your party affiliation, you are saying “ahh I am stupid!”.
The GOP is perfect for modern America.
Violence, ignorance, obesity, hardcore religion, guns and ideology go hand in hand with the GOP.
It’s easier to follow their blind ideology than actually think and rationalize.
The GOP is the party of fear. Fear of intelligence.
Stupid is as stupid does. Stupid does what Stupid has always done.
BlueJay,
More ad hominems?
Please explain how the definition of the word “ideas” varies depending on whether or not a person “aint hurting”.
Years ago, in the Texas Observer, Karl Rove described his philosophy of winning elections:
By definition, half the people in America are below average intelligence. By combining the stupid with the corrupt, he’d be guaranteed a permanent majority.
George Herbert Walker Bush was swept into office with Willie Horton ads (to get the racists), the Pledge of Allegiance (to secure the rabid flag-wavers), and “Read my lips, no new taxes” (to secure the corrupt base for Reaganomics deficit spending).
That’s the Republic Party coalition to this day.
That’s the Republic Party coalition to this day.
. . .except it started before George the First. Ronald Reagan swept into office with the very same coalition–with George HW as a senior partner.
As a aside, one notes that in 1984, Roger Ailes joined the Reagan campaign as a media consultant. Ailes, of course, is the founder and president of Fox News.
Is GOP the party of stupid?
Yep . . . and you just can’t fix stupid.
“Is the GOP the party of stupid?”
ANS:
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Cheney to Speak at Republican Convention
By Dan Eggen
Vice President Cheney will speak at the Republican convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul on the same day as President Bush, contrary to reports earlier in the week that he was not seeking a slot at the gathering, officials said today.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/08/cheney_to_speak_at_republican.html?hpid=sec-politics
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A twofer!
Can’t you just hear the relieved sighs being heaved out of country clubs all over America (christ, martha, finally we’ve decide how to handle the nasty problem of you know who speaking, or not, at the convention)?
At least they got ‘em speakin’ on the same day, stems the damage two days, especially two non-consecutive days, of the massive blood loss such idiocy would surely lead to.
hellzyeah, they’re freakin’ idjits!
I doubt they’ll be foolish enough to have them
on the stage at the same time. That would be great, bush introducing mcsame, and giving him head rub.
Party of stupid?
http://www.snotr.com/video/1500
‘nuf said.