Well, I’m not a Republican…but…
I’m really not sure if I’m a pharisee or a wingnut. How can I tell?
I always thought a wingnut was someone with big ears.
Well, if you skulk around in a sinister way with shifty eyes and a sly expression in Biblical epics, you’re a pharisee.
If you’re about 1/2 inch in diameter, shiny and have great big flanges coming out your sides, you’re a wingnut.
Must be.
I have to admit that I haven’t heard it used by anybody else but grumpy old blokes who served in the forces back in WW2 in recent years, but WingNut and Wingers was extremely common around these southern climes back in the 70’s and 80’s in particular. The current generation call their Asian mates Phong and Joe…'cos that’s their names. 
Dontcha just love local antiquated colloquialisms. 
Or you are miniaturized Mouseketeer.
What if you’re 1/2 inch in diamiter with flanges coming out of your sides, and skulk around in biblical epics?
“Jesus of Nazareth must be silenced! Oh, and can someone tighten me?”
“Wingnuts” are also hardcore West Wing fans.
Now, I’ve heard Ross Perot called a lot of things before now, but a wingnut?
Perhaps wingnuts could refer to ardent bird fanciers.
I was going to start a thread about this myself. The idea of that tyrannical bastard plagiarizing from Harry Truman and representing himself as a crusader against tryanny is so bitterly vile that were it a snake poison, it would kill its host. Naively, I thought that at last the board’s left and I could find a common ground on which to stand. But come to find out, it’s nothing more to you than something to joke about.
What. The. Fuck?
How is it that you can blather endlessly about his haircut, his accent, and even his goofy smirk, but the actual danger the man represents flies over your heads like a high altitude jet stream. I mean, are you people on drugs or something?
Bravo!
Anyways, a wingnut is a person who is a rabid fan of the Detroit Red Wings. Don’t see what that has to do with Dubya and his Posse, but I’m not the OP.
The sole and dreadful consolation in this whole terrible metamorphosis of America is that the vast majority of the people losing their liberty are giving it up voluntarily, and deserve not to have it.
Oh, good. I was checking the most recent additions to this thread, and I was thinking to myself, “you know what’s missing from this discussion? A bit of sanctimonious prickery from Liberal, that’s what.” Thanks for the scold, Grandma. Now my ship has well and truly been righted.
WingNut? Antiquated? Shirley, you jest!
I use that term all the time, and so do a lot of my friends. Our friend ~? is using it correctly.
WingNut: A nutty person who resides on an extreme political wing. AKA Crazy political fanatic, hopefully only seen in headlines after bombing government buildings or shooting up abortion clinics or spiking trees. Lately seen more and more often in mainstream protests, hosting Fox “news” programs, and in the Oval Office.
See also: Biplane WingNut, i.e. Phred Phelps.
See also: SchwingNut, i.e. Ann Coulter.
Oh, we’re well aware of the actual danger he represents, make no mistake. Making fun of his haircut, accent, and smirk are just fringe benefits.
I’ve got it.
I’m a pharischwingnut.
::eyes darting with conspiratorial intensity as he madly sports impressive wood::
Help me out here. There must be at least one big-time political extremist from Buffalo, right?
Is Frank Perdue a political extremist?
How are Rove and Ashcroft going to save this country? On a WingNut and a PrayerNut.
Eh, I got nothin’.
My cousin was once half of a folkie duo called Wingnut Buckbolt.
I know some Honda Gold Wing owners who call themselves wingnuts.
Liberal, when I heard about that stuff in the speech about wiping out tyranny in the world, I first thought, “Well, that’s it. He’s gone completely off the edge.” Then, I reconsidered. First, I could be wrong about exactly when he went through the guard rail. Second, if we get out of Iraq in time, he clearly intends to jump into another war right away. After all, we haven’t even worked through the Axis Of Evil yet.
I didn’t watch the speech. When it came on, I realized I didn’t have enough Old Crow to get through the speech while watching our warlord president. I read it in the next day’s paper, so I could get it in small, almost bearable chunks.
Actually, I turned to drugs in an effort to rid myself of the images of a smirking George Bush that have been haunting me everywhere the past several years. Hasn’t worked all that well, though. Now in these hallucinations, I keep seeing him repeating the word ‘freedom’ like a looped recording as flecks of spittle accumulate near his lips and a strange lump on his back pulses with a strange, deep reddish glow. Freaks me right out, I’m telling you.
I do not use pharisee to mean either crazy or ignorant. The crazies and ignorant are nowhere near as great a Threat to Liberty.
I Am open for a better word to use that conveys my meaning. Until then, please accept:
pharisee (def): One who believes in the Law (or Word) over the Truth or the Ideal.
etymology – The Pharisees were a religious sect that believed their Holy Book(s) was law. They do not understand or agree to the Separation of Church and State. They see Truth as a Threat to Law. If they obtain enough power, they take steps to silence or eliminate the messenger(s).
Bad news: The pharisees have prospered and multiplied. They still (again?) rule: both Church and State. They may Know the Law, but they cannot Understand the Truth.
The main argument I hear about why it’s okay for a certain tyrannies, is that it is WRITTEN. They then point to the Bible or the Constitution. They are not aware that their tyranny violates the spirit of God and Country. “It’s the Law. I Believe. I’m a Christian.”
pharisees: Admit who you are, if this is not accurate, explain it to me.
Yes, we must beat this lumbering elephant of a beast until stops its rampage and is tamed.
And yes, I do feel so much better now. Thanks.
r~