Shockingly low for those who profess libertarian ideals.
Says nothing, he doesn’t speak for us. We are a loosely connected association of like minded individuals who were fed up with the direction the country was taken during 7 years of Republican rule.
In Limbo, awaiting their arrival. The Tea Party will either be re-absorbed into the Republican Party, or they will vanish.
There is a subtle distinction between a political movement and a protest movement. The Tea Party is much more a protest movement. Shit, they don’t even have the discipline of the progressive movement,and we are the very definition of a herd of cats!
The tighty righty side has oodles of discipline, and are eagerly offering its availability.
The proud stalwarts of the Tea Party
Have lusts that are hearty but naughty
Such as offering their sacks
As mid-morning snacks
To all and to sundry! How haughty!
When Ayn Rand met William F. Buckley, the first thing she said to him was, “You are too intelligent to believe in God.”
A political movement has certain goals and/or principles that characterize it as such. If one insists that no such tenets exist, one is intrinsically admitting that no movement exists.
The fact of the matter is that the Tea Party movement has chosen a number of candidates in Republican primaries and put forward decrees in various states. Those are the leaders and the principles. They are certainly not libertarian and little different from the previous GOP, which is not surprising given how the movement got started.
They are not there for their own benefit-they are there for the benefit of the conservatives. The Tea-baggers sling the mud that conservatives used to have to throw themselves.
This from someone who uses the word “diaperhead?”
Well, there are these guys. (Granted though, a lot of them are from CANADA, the fucking commies. ;))
(Uh, people – you can’t link to searches.)
Well, the Contract from America says:
Which is libertarian at least in the smaller-government sense, and there is nothing in it about gay marriage or abortion.
I asked for no apologies. I simply pointed to your post to illustrate the kind of crap that gets said about conservatives around here hundreds of times a day, and to explain why I post the way I do. (And where on this board is all that “traitor get out kick your ass bullshit” that you appear to be claiming conservatives on this board say all the time? I hardly ever see it and on those rare occasions when I do it’s usually said by somebody that ends up getting banned shortly.)
And as far as your determination to post “whatever crazy dumb ass shit” you want, I say knock yourself out.
That’s all well and good but I asked to you point to where I insulted you without provocation, not simply to post the insult itself. How am I supposed to be able to determine if the insult was unwarranted if I don’t know what preceeded it? And no, I’m not only not gonna look it up. For one thing there isn’t anything there that this board’s search engine could key on. But I do have a recollection of your claiming that specific insult was unwarranted once before and I was able to show that you had indeed insulted me first. I also find it very fishy that you didn’t link to it yourself, especially when I’d offered to apologize if I was wrong. One would think you’d be champing at the bit to get that apology and it’s more than a little suspicious that you chose not to post a link to the appropriate thread. I hope it doesn’t turn out that you’re a dishonest person after all and that I was wrong when I said you seemed to be a good guy.
And Buckley’s response, as he related the story to Charlie Rose, was, “I’m afraid you’re going to have to document that.”
She had to go get a retraining order?
That’s a lot to be reading into a survey that merely reports that nearly half identify themselves members of the Christian conservative movement.
Lotta daylight between “not self-identifying as a member” of a movement and “disagreeing with” that movement. Not to mention that it begs the question of whether “Christian conservative movement” and “Christian Right” are interchangeable terms.
Yup. Ask the folks who financed this Astroturf, and you’ll know what they want to accomplish.
I was so surprised to hear that the Tea Party had such a strong position on net neutrality, and so much supported the positions of Comcast and Verizon. I may have mentioned that. Sure tried.
Yup, it’s everyone else’s fault. Never your own. Never because you’re an asshole, a partisan windbag, a lair, or a jerk. It’s everyone else’s fault. You post like a raving lunatic because this board is too liberal. Not because what you post is crap, it’s because we’re all so liberal, and you’re so conservative.
It has nothing to do with you being a conservative. Even the conservatives on this board won’t defend you, you are an embarrassment to them. You are a giant cliche.
You haven’t made a valid point in all the years I’ve been here. You spew garbage and nonsense until you run out of hot air, then declare victory so you can go off to another thread to do it all again.
You have yet to answer for the lies you posted here, and when you got called on it you scampered away in tears.
In this thread you were asked for cites to back up the many bogus claims you made. And in response you had the gall to ask for $20 per cite! After countless attempts to tap dance away from the issue you posted a google search for only mildly related terms. It wasn’t even the search phrase you were supposed to be looking for!
What you’ll see in those two threads, plus this one, plus countless others, are everyone’s attempt to fight your ignorance, but mostly just a lot of people laughing at you.
Seriously, go play with your grandkids, have a beer, listen to some Elton John, and take a nap. We’ll do just fine fighting ignorance without you, and I’m pretty sure the conservative members of this board would gladly welcome you not “helping.”
But Elton John’s post-1968!!! He’s part of those “hippies!!!” :rolleyes:
Starving Artist, we don’t give you shit because you’re conservative. We give you shit because you’re stupid. And stupid knows no political ideology.
I posted the insult. I can’t link the provocation because it doesn’t exist.
You want to see what preceeded that post? See where it says "Originally posted by Starving Artist’, and then there’s a little arrow? Click on that arrow. You’ll go directly to the post in question, with all the context you could ever want. If that post includes a quote, click on that arrow the follow the discussion backwards. No searching necessary.
And let me make it easier, here is the link to where you insulted me. The full thread, in plain view, available to everyone and anyone.
The one time this subject came up before, you said it wasn’t an insult; that saying you “couldn’t believe” I was that stupid meant that you actually had a reasonable opinion of my intelligence.
Here is that post, in its full context.
Here is where you said my behavior was “assholey”.
There it is; all linked and in context. Just one click away. You say I must have provoked you? You say you’ve already shown it once before? Fine, show it now.
Until then, let this thread stand as evidence of your dishonesty.
He’ll find the link for you, but it will cost you $20
Now we wait while he moves the goal posts around.
Queue bullshit attempt to blame liberals in three…two…[the one is silent]