The problem here is assuming that the scientists are not telling us the same warnings as before. (and Al Gore was not one, just a popularizer of the science) Scientists are **still **telling us that the trouble is not going away, it is getting worse.
It was reported that even in the McCain Campaign she was seen as a whack job.
IMHO taking that and the early embarrassing episode of conservatives talking about what they really thought about Palin when they thought their mikes were off, it was clear that most of the smart Republicans already knew the albatross they had in their necks, to me seeing all the so called smart Republicans going day in and day out carrying water for her was the moment that told me that most of the Republicans of today, are either not capable of preventing nasty pieces of work from getting elected, or worse, they know better but they will still tell the rank and file that they are selecting the best…
It seems to me that to get a well functioning democracy even the conservatives that do have intelligence should realize that what they are supporting is not good for the future, the blind like Bachman can not lead the blind, and I do think that smart Republicans should send their support elsewhere until the current crop of looney tunes is removed because the usual method of looking the other way is not working.
7 Absurd Michele Bachmann Moments She’ll Always Be Remembered For
Global warming is a hoax and carbon dioxide is harmless
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Oh and BTW I did check the Pajamas Media so called list of supporters of OWS you linked to, the first link from the claimed sources claiming that the Nazi party is supporting OWS claimed that Media Matters was reporting that, but in reality the “support” Pajamas Media is trying to turn into an important one is the same fallacy as what the Heartland Institute tried to do with climate science only to blew up in their faces, it was like telling others that when a dictator or a criminal reports that they like sugar then we should ban it, I just gave up after that, and clearly you should gave up Pajamas Media as a source.
Confession: I was a conservative ® until I saw Ms. Bachman standing in front of a poster of the death camps, and comparing Affordable Health Care to the Holocaust.
I decided then and there that those people were simply too mean-spirited to be associated with.
And, yeah, Bill Maher should never have said that. It was dumb, rude, and offensive.
Now, let’s have a bar-chart showing dumb, rude, and offensive things said by liberal talk show hosts and by conservative talk show hosts. The enormity of the L-curve is established by Rush Limbaugh alone…
The party platform is set by the people who make up the party. If the bulk of them disagree with the platform, they really ought to do something about that. Since there doesn’t seem to be any serious effort in the Republican party to address the explicit bigotry in their party ideology, I question your assertion that this, if you will, silent majority exists.
And none of those figures have any particular pull in the Democratic party, much less are actual elected officials. I never said there weren’t any assholes on the left, we just don’t put them in positions of leadership.
The typical republican/conservative defense essentially boils down to “I only hate poor people, not the fags and niggers. That stuff is just in our platform but I don’t believe in it.”
Why is the OP calling those individuals "conservatives? Michelle Bachmann and her ilk are RINOs at best.
Why haven’t any of these alleged “conservatives” ever explicitly called for the impeachment of the Kenyan Muslin Usurper, let alone his fully deserved execution for treason?
OP needs to listen to more Glenn Beck and the late Andrew Breitbart if he/she wants to be taken seriously by genuine conservatives like myself.
/Just joking, the American Right went totally insane as far back as the Reagan era
I can’t believe this foolish OP has garnered enough attention to remain on the front page.
There are hateful and nasty individuals of all political stripes; liberals are not immune but neither are they over-represented. In fact, I wager that most liberals are liberals precisely because they wish to help those less fortunate than they are – hardly a recipe for nastiness in and of itself, is it?
Of course, in my view, liberals are mostly wrong about the best way to help those less fortunate – but that’s an issue of tactics, not temperament.
This is what is missing in the current political discourse–there can be agreement on goals/strategies even though there is disagreement on tactics. I’m not a registered Republican or Democrat. I’m also not unilaterally liberal/conservative–it depends on the issue at hand.
My idea of a functional two-party system is one where there is normally general agreement on what needs to be done, with various ideas proposed on how to best accomplish it. I don’t expect one side to always have the best ideas.
What we have now is a dysfunctional system where one side (yes, it is the Republicans) refuse to admit to sharing any goals in common with the Democrats. This has reached the level of insanity. How can both parties elected to govern the same country be unable to find any common national goals?
In regards to this, I present Gov. Chris Christie, who is actually being criticized for working with the President of his country to help the residents of his State recover from a natural disaster. As though the right thing to do would be to tell his constituents to FOAD because helping them would require being nice to a Democrat.