Nutcases exist. Real treason is generally the province of sane, ambitious people. As for “second amendment remedies”, while the idea of doing something like that to Obama is insane, it is the way we handle lawless officeholders if nothing else works:
Fortunately, in the case of the President, we have remedies that do work: first, we boot his party out of Senate control, then we defund anything he tries to do illegally on his own. If he refuses to enforce the law, we write the laws so that he has no wiggle room.
adaher holds a unique position in the great chain of being. He represents the seventh standard deviation away from the mean of being wrong in his beliefs, a position once held for a brief period of time by David Lloyd George.
Thing is that that depressing level of support for Tancredo (good that he lost but look at that) would had been higher if the other candidates had not been there, still, he came in second.
That is only a recipe for stagnation and decay. I do not want to see creationism taught in public schools, I do not want to see the EPA not able to control CO2 emissions and those nuts need to be constantly reminded about the rights of minorities.
I live in Singapore - and some days, when I squint my eyes just right, clutch my left nut, poke my tongue out the right side of my mouth and then read stories like this I appreciate the political climate and media control here. (then I come to my senses)
But seriously - at some point of idiocy, at some level of inflammatory language, when you go past the last bastion of stupidity isn’t there something that can be done to or about people like this? naturally - we can point and laugh and ridicule - but doesn’t “the press” have some level of responsibility not to repeat it? Or shouldn’t something be done to stop this?
Not, as the Supreme court showed in all the items I mentioned. And indeed I picked those issues up to see if you could get it, not impressed with you as usual.
Geez. To put it calmly, I disagreed with the policies of the W Bush administration to the nth degree. I thought some of those policies were madly dishonest, terribly destructive, sometimes evil. But never did I suggest revolution or assassination. The POTUS is the POTUS.
Obama can appear wishy-washy from my vantage point, but it is hard to deny that he makes facts-and-reasons-based decisions. I feel like he could do better, I suspect he is partially corrupted by the money and the push-and-pull of the politics of History’s most powerful nation, but he is hardly a criminal who deserves to be impeached. That line of thought is sheer right-wing nutjobbery. That line of thought represents the doubling-down on the doubling-down on the doubling-down of extremist right-wing rhetoric, which is getting rather stale and worn-out if you ask me.
At some point, right-wingers are going to have to acknowledge some relevant facts and reasons, or they are going to rant themselves into utter irrelevance.
most of us do not believe that Obama should be overthrown, and exactly none of us actually plan to do anything about it.
It should also be noted that no right-wing filmmakers have made movies fantasizing about the assassination of Obama. The nuttiness on the left was thick enough to cut with a knife during the Bush years.
The first clause may be technically true, if “most of us” means “at least 51% in the Party of Buffoons,” but the second clause is an obvious lie.
Did you miss that Tancredo is a major politician, not just some moronic dunkard? Would you disown him? How about Ted Cruz? How about Paul or Ryan the Ayn Randophiles? Limbaugh and Beck, your key intellectuals? :eek: How about Palin, Bachmann, etc.?
At some point you need to admit that yours is the party of buffoons, lunatics and hypocrites. Most of us would happily stipulate that the U.S. needs a Party of sane conservatives, but the GOP is no longer it.
Looking at the wikipedia page for the Colorado Gubernatorial election of 2014, it lists the supporters of each of the R candidates (which I assume means those who offer a public endorsement). Tancredo was unique among them, in that his supporters consisted of
[ul][li]Joe Arpaio[/li][li]Michelle Malkin[/li][li]Ted Nugent[/ul][/li]in contrast with the others, who each listed at least one supported from Colorado (the nominee has the backing of Adolph’s kids, which really has to count for something there).
Tancredo is a national Republican? He’s a former House member who hasn’t won anything since. He’s equivalent to Cynthia McKinney or Sheila Jackson Lee.