The Club for Growth is airing ads showing republican senators Snowe and Voinovich, who oppose Shrubya’s tax cut, standing in front of Digitally Inserted French Flags. Moderate Republican groups now have to waste money defending Republicans from Republicans. This is one of the stupidest things i’ve read lately, as the story says, it sounds like something the Iraqi Information Minister would dream up! Where is Shrubya’s “i’m a uniter, not a divider” rhetoric now? If i tried to insert all the rolleyes smilies this story deserves, i’d get carpal tunnel syndrome from clicking quadrillions of times, and the resulting post would nuke the server.
Ah, Tars, always good for a little knee-jerk anti-George rhetoric, aren’t you? Just how in the hell did you tie “Shrubya” into this, pally?
Oh, and take one of these witcha: :rolleyes:
You’ll make us French whom?
–or what?
[goes away to scrub out brain with Lysol]
for the TaxGuy’s among us
Let’s see if we can follow the bouncing ball… the Republican senators in question oppose the Bush tax cut plan, according to the cite:
So, I’d say including “Shrubya” in the argument isn’t that much of a stretch. While I’m sure Bush didn’t make the ad in question, I’d be curious to know where he stands on such blatant propagandizing as this.
Personally, I agree with this reaction:
The ad says worse things about the “Club for Growth” than it does about Sens. Snowe and Voinovich. It says that propaganda and insult are still alive and well among politics today.
Personally, I hope that Bush will step up and denounce the ads for the outright stupidity they represent. But I’m not exactly holding my breath on that score.
Um, ok TwistofFate, I guess you’re subtly implying that I haven’t read the OP.
For the TwistofFate’s among us,
is different than:
I don’t care if people don’t like Bush or didn’t vote for him or whatever, but it frustrates the shit out of me when these people (a) are opposed to everything he is for simply because he is for it and/or (b) blame everything Republicans and other conservatives due on him.
Tar Tarkas:
Repeat after me: Mr. Bush is not a member of The Club for Growth. Mr. Bush did not authorize these ads. Anyone that attacks Mr. Bush for the actions of The Club for Growth is intellectually dishonest.
Thanks.
- Rick
While I’m not blaming GWB for this, it is pretty fucking stupid alright. Are these Growth Muppets the same asshats that came up with the Freedom Fries et cetera?
Some of us are opposed to what Bush does because he has bad ideas (e.g., a tax cut which largely benefits only a few already-affluent taxpayers and will not improve the economy but will bust the budget and further expand the national debt). As for the ads that are the subject of this thread, I agree Bush is likely not personally responsible for them but, as his party’s highest-ranking member, he probably should tell his more zealous supporters to knock off their internecine attacks on those within the GOP that they think are less then “patriotically correct.” After all, it’s supposed to be people on the left side of ideological spectrum who regularly tear each other new ones over who’s more pure, not conservatives.
A. Bush is the defacto leader of the Republican party (aka he’s the prez, which should give him more power than the backroom guys)
B. Bush claimed that he would put partisan differences behind him and work on bipartisan plans that don’t divide people
c. Bush can’t keep his own party in line, who now have to waste money defending themselves from their friends instead of spending it campaigning against their opponents.
D. I have yet to see Shrubya denounce this campaign, ergo he is a silent participant
E. Bush’s failure to unify his own party and silent consent of in party bickering is a cause of a larger symptom of polarity emerging throughout America on dozens of issues
F Conclusion: Bush’s “i’m a uniter, not a divider” statement is a falsehood.
So, if French Fries are really “Freedom Fries”, does that make a French flag a “Freedom Flag”?
Mmmmm. Baguettes.
Baghdad Baguettes?
This is what you call overconfidence. After winning the Presidential election, picking up seats in Congress, and kicking some Iraqi ass, the Pubbies are so confident of their continued rule that they can afford to alienate those who fail to toe the party line.
How quickly we forget that more people voted for the other guy in that Presidential election, the picked-up seats in Congress were not exactly picked up by landslides, and there’s still a long way to go in Iraq and plenty of time for people to realize that they still don’t have jobs.
Alienating those in the center while the mainstream of the party runs to the right seems like a great way to give Bush a one-way ticket back to the ranch.
Dr. J
Why in the world would Bush want to make a statement that associating someone with the French is a bad thing? We’re about to start trying to mend diplomatic fences with them.
Since he’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t, silence sounds like exactly the right reaction here, particularly if the affected parties say “it barely deserves a response.” Do you think Voinovich’s spokesman is lying?
Tar Tarkas, I would like to take this opportunity to register my outrage at your silent participation in the molestation of children, the racial hate acts of the KKK, and, most disgusting, your silent participation in the murder of Laci Peterson. You disgust me.
- Rick
Cripes, where have you been for the last ten years? Welcome to modern politics; principles, logic, and simple professional respect have no place here. I figure it’s only a matter of time before our elected representives start trading gunfire on the floor of Congress. And I for one can’t wait. Why not? I’ve yet to see the pol who couldn’t do his job just as well with a lead slug lodged in his medulla oblongata.
Haven’t read my profile, have you?
no, but Bush could set a precedent by stamping out party infighting. Not that i expect him to do anything of the sort, but here is a perfect oportunity.
Miller: remember the good old days when they just beat each other with canes? good times…
No, it’s not the “perfect oportunity” (sic). Doing so would inevitably make it look like he was beating up the French more than he already is.
The best thing to do, for all concerned, is to ignore it and it will go away, just like the Senator’s spokesperson suggested.
You are incorrect. Move along.
Bush could be the better man, and issue a statement saying that the campaign is harmful to the harmony in his party as well as insulting to -for better or worse- long-time ally France. Although I’ll concede that ignoring it is another valid option, given the stupidity of the campaign at hand.