And bring back our christian nation, where God’s laws (I wonder who gets to pick and choose) will take precedence over the Constitution and laws “of men”. Where government will stay out of healthcare, but give my my medicare, medicaid, and social security. Where young people will jump to fight in wars, when I myself hid from the draft and never served in any capacity, military or civilian. Where I can brandish my guns and talk about “second Amendment” solutions to the “nigger in the White House”, but anyone who talks about “my” boy W is a traitor.
More like they got interested once a faux-moderate got into office and instantly started governing like the full-blown liberal that he really is, accompanied by an arrogant, out of control congress knowingly defying the will of the people.
And as to why now, I’d say it’s that this administration and congress have been the straw that broke the camel’s back. My impression is that most Tea Partiers have been unhappy with the direction this country has been headed for a long time and Obama plus Reid and Pelosi’s congress have finally pushed them over the edge.
Guys like you may like to pretend the problem is Obama’s race, or you might even actually believe it. But the real problem is and has been throughout his administration that the government has tried to take the country much further to the left than it wants to go - which is to say ‘not at all’, given that in reality this is a center-right country.
Guys like you might like to pretend the problem is Obama’s race, or you might even actually believe it. But the real problem is and has been throughout Obama’s administration that the government has tried to take the country much further to the left than it wants, which is to say ‘not at all’ given that in reality this is a center-right country and you guys only got elected because you ‘weren’t Bush’. But that’s okay. While you guys continue to wander around in the wilderness seeking one true non-racist and looking down your noses at everyone you think doesn’t fill that role, we’ll be keeping our eyes on the ball and taking away the keys to the car that you’ve been driving with such abandon and arrogance since the last election. Most every sixteen-year-old knows that if you want Daddy to let you drive the car, you’re going to have to drive it the way he wants. You guys just ain’t been doin’ that and now you’re about to lose your driving priviliges.
In your alternate universe, does it rain?
Not even you believe those unutterably stupid lies. Obama has moved far to the right since he took office. He has turned out to be just another Bill Clinton – which ain’t bad, but it ain’t what his supporters thought they were campaigning for, either. Any disappointment you see is for that reason alone.
Damn! Sometimes editing is not my friend. My apologies.
Well, golly, if this is a cernter right country, how come you guys lose so often? Ought to have a comfortable majority just about everywhere, but the righty guy won the 2000 popular vote by minus half a million. Barely squeeked in 2004, got killed in 2006, double killed in 2008. And this after your team pulled just about every dirty trick in the book.
You and the Tea Party share a poltiical myth, that they represent the “real” Ameicans, that they and you represent the silent majority, that really these election results are just a trick by a non-existent liberal media. In truth, the country is dominated by the Apathy Party. Apathy and hopelessness are far worse an enemy that the rightarded.
Taking the long view, over the forty odd years I’ve been in this game, how come you’re losing? How come the ideals that I espoused then and expouse now, ideas that used to be radical and extreme, are growing increasingly centrist? If I’m losing, what are you bitching about all the time? If I’m losing, how come you’re not winning? Wheres the comfortable majority of a center-right nation, how come you gotta fight dirty all the time? How come your hopes are riding on a crop of nutbars and extremist loons? If this were truly a center-right country, the corporatist conservatives wouldn’t need to make these unholy alliances, and moderate Republicans would still have some power. Instead of cringing before the onslaught, offering lip service to putrid positions that would gag a maggot.
You are as coy as a blushing maiden of old, Starving. You won’t actually defend the Tea Party extremists, so you attack their attackers. So, tell us: what parts of the Tea Party agenda fill you with pride? The anti-gay stuff? The anti-Muslim stuff? The fundamentalist stuff? Would you vote for someone who wanted to make teaching evolution illegal? Would you vote for a man who wanted a sexualilty test for school teachers, that they must prove they walk the straight and narrow when they walk to the bedroom?
Instead of telling us what you don’t like about us, tell us what you like about them.
And oh, by the way, about Daddy’s car. Its not his car. Its ours.
That is like saying that the problem with the Titanic was the arrangement of deck chairs.
Illegal immigration. Gays recruiting. And I am sure the Jews are involved somehow. They always are.
Oh, stop pretending that it’s a real, thinking person already.
-Joe
You think your grandparents would be honored that you said this? Were they abusive? Or mean-spirited?
I just don’t get the coolness factor of dissing your blood relatives. How cool would be if your grand-kids called you “sand-nigger?”
So, where exactly is the tipping point, what was the last straw? Is it a certain level of debt, or deficits for some number of years in a row? What line did we step over to provoke this righteous anger?
C’mon, give us something we can measure. Nail your colors to the mast. But remember that this place has a long memory; and next time Republicans are in power and say “deficits don’t matter”, your words will still be here.
It’s ridiculous to think that this country has only gone in one direction. From 2001-2007[sup]*[/sup], the country moved hard to the right. Now there have been a couple steps to the left and you claim that there’s been some long-simmering pot that just boiled over? I’m not buying it.
Let’s not kid ourselves about 1993-2001, either. If this is some long-term trend, does anybody think today’s Tea Partiers were happier under Clinton than George W. Bush?
Silly me, and all these years I thought that it was Sikh men who are known for wearing turbans, not Muslims. Oh wait, it is.
The hockey game doesn’t run the country. Presumably, if a political movement neglects to attract an audience with a particular group that is relatively representative of its area demographics, there’s something going on.
Of course he doesn’t.
This is the most hilariously dead fucking wrong thing I’ve read in at least a month. I mean, you almost literally reversed the situation.
Whatever. Now we know his background. He’s not a real American. He may be Muslim himself. He should get out of our country. He doesn’t belong here. :dubious:
Oh, really? I missed that part, I only recall him being cutie-pie coy about his ethnicity, building up to the point where he would astonish and devastate us with the revelation. Guess he thought somebody would care.
Aha!!! Exactly!!! We don’t like none o’ them cutie pie types neither!!!
Well, some people respond to SA’s obstinacy with insults. I take the opposite approach. (Even defended him once when I thought the insults got out of line.) He even insulted me once. I at least like to put the lie to his claims that he only fights back when provoked.
I like the ones with poor eyesight and/or low standards.
Don’t forget ACORN, and all that voter fraud.
And I’m sure the liberals some how confused conservatives on many more issues than just evolution. I bet if you looked, you’d find that post conservatives thought thy were voting AGAINST Obama, what with all that complicated language we tend to use.
I saw that! The Horse’s Ass Whisperer, right?
Really? Is that the first thread of his you’ve read? Cause there are 750 more just like that.