The Rant & Vent about the Right Wing thread

[SFGuy]

I have to ask this: As a moderate Republican, am I they closest to the right then anybody else on this board. Am I the only registered Repubican. I assume all of you are liberal Democrats (most of my friends are liberal Democrats and we NEVER talk politics for the sake of our friendship).

Well, you're probably way to the right of most, but hard to tell.  Some of us lose our cool from time-to-time, but would probably agree that 'it's the music, dummy!' would trump most things.  It's probably good to have a Republican around, as most of us can't quite fathom how the GOP brain works, and you might shed some light on that.

I kind of feel the same way about liberals (not necessarily Democrats as I have a great deal of respect for Feinstein).

I'm an old school Republican who thinks of state rights over the feds (so no constitutional ban on gay marriages for me). I believe in lower taxes for all, a strong military (supported the invasion of Afghanistan, was in favor of the Iraq war in the beginning but quite frankly Bush f up'd by listen to two idiots). But I HATE Religious conservatives (the party of racist scum like Jerry Fawell and Pat Robertson). The Republican Party I joined is not the party is today. I think John McCain could change that in '08.

If I were to register today, I would sign up as an Independent. As I think the majority of both parties are scum. I have respect for those who try to help our country rather then themselves. I think Dianne Feinstein, McCain are fine. It's the Ted Kennedy and (former) Senator Santorum that I hate.

[mshray]

I think that Teddy is past his prime & sometimes seems like a caricature, but I don't hate him. Other than that, I can agree with every point you just made.  If the Dems start acting like they did in the late 70's I could even go back to being an independent, like I was in '80, when I volunteered for the John Anderson campaign.

[urth]

I have to ask this: As a moderate Republican, am I they closest to the right then anybody else on this board. Am I the only registered Repubican. I assume all of you are liberal Democrats (most of my friends are liberal Democrats and we NEVER talk politics for the sake of our friendship).

Well, you're probably way to the right of most, but hard to tell.  Some of us lose our cool from time-to-time, but would probably agree that 'it's the music, dummy!' would trump most things.  It's probably good to have a Republican around, as most of us can't quite fathom how the GOP brain works, and you might shed some light on that.

I kind of feel the same way about liberals (not necessarily Democrats as I have a great deal of respect for Feinstein).

I'm an old school Republican who thinks of state rights over the feds (so no constitutional ban on gay marriages for me). I believe in lower taxes for all, a strong military (supported the invasion of Afghanistan, was in favor of the Iraq war in the beginning but quite frankly Bush f up'd by listen to two idiots). But I HATE Religious conservatives (the party of racist scum like Jerry Fawell and Pat Robertson). The Republican Party I joined is not the party is today. I think John McCain could change that in '08.

If I were to register today, I would sign up as an Independent. As I think the majority of both parties are scum. I have respect for those who try to help our country rather then themselves. I think Dianne Feinstein, McCain are fine. It's the Ted Kennedy and (former) Senator Santorum that I hate.

Y'know--it sounds like we do agree on a few points (religious conservatives, Feinstein & McCain) but disagree on others (military, Afghanistan & Iraq, and while Kennedy is a long way from either of his brothers, I don't have a problem with him).

[SFGuy]

If anyone is looking for a right wing point of view from me, you ain't gonna find it. Hell, in some areas of the country, I would probably be considered a liberal Repubican.

BTW, I had an ultra distain for Jesse Helms the same level I have for Ted Kennedy (JFK would probably be considered more conservative on some issues then a lot of recent GOP if he were around today).

I found it curious that in Wisconsin, a blue state, voted to ban gay marriages. I thought a liberal state like Wisconsin would of voted it down. Then again, it did pass in liberal Oregon in 2004.

[mshray]

RUMSFELD RESIGNS!!

Hallelujah.

[RGMike]

RUMSFELD RESIGNS!

updates to come...

[urth]

RUMSFELD RESIGNS!

updates to come...

I'm glad to see him out but the phrase "cut and run" comes to mind. Now that things aren't going to be such a cakewalk for the Bush admin in the last two years of their term, he bails.

[RGMike]

OMFG it never ends...

The Missouri GOP has issued a report that says the reason we have illegal immigration in the US is because (wait for it) abortion has reduced the number of potential American workers:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/11/13/national/a151852S62.DTL

[Alicat]

OMFG it never ends...

The Missouri GOP has issued a report that says the reason we have illegal immigration in the US is because (wait for it) abortion has reduced the number of potential American workers:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/11/13/national/a151852S62.DTL

They're smoking crack.
How can a sane person even begin to hypothesize that? :roll:
How can a paper (other than The Onion) print it?

[princessofcairo]

OMFG it never ends...

The Missouri GOP has issued a report that says the reason we have illegal immigration in the US is because (wait for it) abortion has reduced the number of potential American workers:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/11/13/national/a151852S62.DTL

classic! why don't we reinstitute slavery? that would solve employment and tax issues with one fell swoop.

[princessofcairo]

joni mitchell's "tax free."

Front rooms
Back rooms
Slide into tables
Crowd into bathrooms
Joke around
Cheap talk
Deep talk
Talk, talk, talk around the clock
Crawl home
Lie down
Teeth chatter
Heart pounds
I don't feel so good
I don't feel so good
Push a button to escape
Preacher on the tube crying "Lord!"
There's evil in this land

Evangelist:
"Rock and roll music!"
"Cast down these dope-fiends
And there noisy bands!"
"Damn their souls!"

Preacher preaching love like vengeance
Preaching love like hate
Calling for large donations
Promising estates
Rolling lawns and angel bands
Behind the pearly gates
You know, he will have his in this life
But yours will have to wait
He's immaculately tax free

"Mulitiple hundreds of thousands of ..."
Tax free
"Hundreds and millions of dollars"
Tax free
"A hundred billion dollars!
And who is paying the price?
Who, who
"Your children are"

Pissed off
Jacked up
Scream into the mike
Spit into the loving cup
Strut like a rooster
March like a man
God's hired hands and the devil bands
Packing the same grandstands
Different clothes
"Pot in their pockets!"
Different hair
"Sexually active"
Raise a screaming guitar or a bible in the air
Theatre of anguish
Theatre of glory
God's hired hands and the devil bands
Oh come let us adore---ME!
Lord, there's danger in this land
You get witch-hunts and wars
When church and state hold hands

Fuck it!
Tonight I'm going dancing
With the drag queens and the punks
Big beat deliver me
From this sanctimonious skunk
We're no flaming angels
And he's not heaven sent
How can he speak for the Prince of Peace
When he's hawk-right militant
And he's immaculately tax free

"Our nation has lost its guts!"
Save me
"Our nation has lost its strength"
Tax free
"Our nation has whimpered and cried"
Save me
"And petted the Castros"
Tax free
"The Khomeinis' and the Kaddafis'"
Save me
"For so long"
Tax free
"That we don't know how to act like a man"
Save me
"I think that we should turn the United States Marines
loose on that little island south of Florida and
stop that problem!"
"I am preachin' love, I am!"

[SFGuy]

OMFG it never ends...

The Missouri GOP has issued a report that says the reason we have illegal immigration in the US is because (wait for it) abortion has reduced the number of potential American workers:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/11/13/national/a151852S62.DTL

classic! why don't we reinstitute slavery? that would solve employment and tax issues with one fell swoop.

I agree. We could use our "wonderful" politicans (both parties) to do the labor. They could learn what is to really work and not rip off our country.

[RGMike]

as ever, Assmussen sums it all up:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/15/DDASMUSSENBR.DTL

[Gazoo]

GOP's second-in-command: TRENT FUCKING LOTT??!!??

Perhaps signaling a resurgence of the States' Rights Party.  I wonder if the rebuilding of his house is coming along faster than the rest of New Orleans.

[Gazoo]

OMFG it never ends...

The Missouri GOP has issued a report that says the reason we have illegal immigration in the US is because (wait for it) abortion has reduced the number of potential American workers:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/11/13/national/a151852S62.DTL

They're smoking crack.
How can a sane person even begin to hypothesize that? :roll:
How can a paper (other than The Onion) print it?

This whole immigration discussion pisses me off.  If we were sincere about improving the situation -- which we're not -- the way to do it would be to support efforts to improve the freedoms and economy of Mexico, so that people wouldn't be so desperate to leave there. But most of our nation cannot think that way because THEY'RE MEXICANS which means THEY'RE NOT AMERICANS which means THEY'RE NOT LIKE US which means THEY MUST HAVE DONE SOMETHING TO DESERVE LIVING THERE unlike us who are GOD'S CHOSEN NATION.

Fuck it all.  I need a drink.