I was going to write much the same as grendel72; we’re expressing our views in a political debate, not advocating the restriction of someone else’s human rights. I get pissed off when you question somebody’s views or judgement and they say “Oh, don’t I have a right to freedom of speech?” Fuck off; it’s you who is advocating the denial of my freedom of speech. We’re actually the ones who are with Voltaire in believing that you should have the right to state your shitty views. This “right” does not mean that no-one is allowed to disagree with you, or that the government can’t legitimately pursue a different policy.
For the record I don’t regard this as a specifically right-wing trait, nor do I go around stating my opinion on everybody’s actions (my flatmates may disagree with that assertion).
For instance, have you considered whether or not you would be comfortable with the, uh, limitations of Republican sexual behavior? If you can’t picture Ann Coulter doing a particular thing, its probably “off the menu”, so to speak.
There is no accredited mental health treatment for Republicanism. I got better myself due to a rigorous application of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll. Up from Objectivism, so to speak. And if it doesn’t work, well, I mean, what the hell, you know?
An intrepid hitch hiker walks beside a nearly abandoned stretch of rural highway deep in the middle of nowhere. It’s was too early in the day for the sky to be getting dark so the heavy clouds above might be holding some rain. It had been an hour since the last car had passed him and he despaired of getting a ride. Just then a car pull up to him and shouted through a half rolled window “Are you a democrat or a republican?” The hitch hiker proudly replied “democrat” and the driver said “Walk bum” and drove off.
The wind was picking up and the hitch hiker plodded down the road with his thumb out and waited another hour till another car came by. As it pulled over the window came down and again was heard “Are you a democrat or a republican?” Well, our man had marched in the '60s and avoided grapes in the '70s and was too principled to lie so replied “democrat.” As that car drove off without him it began to drizzle.
As the next hour proceeded that light drizzle progressed into a steady downpour and what started as a tickle in the back of his throat was quickly becoming a hacking cough. Just then another car pulled over, driven by the most beautiful woman you’re ever likely to see on a nearly deserted back stretch of rural road. She called out to our hitch hiker “democrat or republican ?” Uncertain if it was the fear that the inclimate weather might turn a chest cold into walking pneumonia or the unquestioned allure of the lovely driver but our man heard himself croak out “republican.” “Well you just hop on in then” and they were off down the road.
Only a few minutes passed before his political conscience caught up with him and he asked the driver to let him out. When asked why he replied “look lady, I’ve only been a republican for fifteen minutes and I already feel like screwing somebody.”
Phil Gramm is being driven across rural Texas by his personal driver on a rainy day when he hears a WHAM and the car comes to a halt. They’ve run over a pig, and the driver can see a farmhouse in the distance. The car isn’t damaged too badly, but Gramm fears that this could be bad publicity if someone finds out, so he sends the driver over to tell the family in the farmhouse what happened to their pig. He falls asleep waiting in the car for the driver, and when he gets back to wake Gramm it’s morning again. Gramm yells, “Where the hell were you?!” The driver replies, “Well, first the family gave me some dry clothes because I had walked so far in the rain. Then they made about the nicest dinner I’ve ever seen for me. And last night I had sex with their really hot daughter.” Gramm is puzzled. “Why the hell did that happen?” The driver shrugs. Gramm then asks, “Well, what did you say to them?” The driver says, “Well, when I walked in I said I’d been driving Phil Gramm around all day and I ran over the pig.”
OK, not a Republican joke per se, but I’m angry at Gramm because I learned he wants to put a Ronald Reagan Monument on the National Mall. Just saying that gives me nausea.
56b) And the fifth amendment should only take effect in trials for white-collar crimes that involve large sums of money.
Otherwise anyone who does not want to talk is obviously guilty and should be publically executed immediately.
I must have missed the memo where ‘what Mr Moto thinks’ became inarguably right.
Yes… but what Joe Blow from East Armpit thinks doesn’t end up being forced on me, since he doesn’t make the laws. Maybe if they disagree so much with what Republicans politicians do, they should do something insane like not vote for them, rather than vote for them and then insist they don’t really believe all that stuff. Then maybe I’d believe them.
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ok, first off, you have very unusual ‘Republicans’ where you live. Secondly, and more importantly, I ask again. If these people disagree with that many of the major platforms of the republican party, why the hell are they voting for them? If you think there should be some degree of gun control, there shouldn’t be enforced christianity, gays should have rights, the environment needs protecting, and abortion should be left alone, why the fuck would you repeatedly vote for a party that opposes every bit of that?
manhattan has it wrong. Republicans tend to slice, Democrats hook.
Anyway, Guinastasia you have my sympathy. I’ve just been accused on another forum of being a tree-hugger, so my reputation is also pretty well shot now.
Oh, c’mon Daikona, that statement most certainly does not deserve a rolleyes. Seems to me that any Republican that can pop into this thread and participate with the same all-in-good-fun spirit that everyone else is, then that’s commendable. I don’t see why a simple spirited defense deserves a critique. Particularly since, in light of elucidator’s unnumbered rule (“And you must, of course, become very thin-skinned about your dignity and abandon any sense of humor”), Mr. Moto’s probably a closet Democrat anyway.
And, just to keep in the spirit of things:
57) States rights are of paramount importance, except when they get in the way of Republican goals, in which case said goals are a federal issue anyway.
58) In the same way, judicial activism is just plain evil, unless it serves to advance a Republican agenda, in which case it’s called “correction of past judicial activism”.
It’s that dyed-in-the-wool Republicans shouldn’t work to correct their slices, they should glory in them. In the most ideologically correct, a drive ideally should be started two fairways over, describing a right-angle parabola and winding up in the correct fairway.
But never into the woods, where you might wind up being corrupted by tree-huggers.
