That’s pretty weak. Did you read this thread? So let me get this straight. You take no exception with the sentence I quoted–or the posts that answered it with explanations that did not question it, one after another–but you want literal support for the comment I made, actual posts that literally contain the words “Not that I’m aware of”? That’s pretty funny.
This is the filter in action. “It’s THEM.” The liberal media, liberal board, etc.
The answer is: sure. Ron Paul and Rand Paul have often been the voice of reason.
George W. Bush was the only president I know of who seriously tried to do something about child sexual exploitation abroad. He was articulate on the issue. It wasn’t much covered in the press.
Here’s what I posted in response to this question in the Stupid Republican Ideas thread:
You could’ve just given a few examples, as others have, rather than get upset that someone has noticed that the American right seems to have a bad case of collective foot-and-mouth disease. It’s not my fault that Inhofe thinks the bible is a scientific resource or that Palin thinks Obama is endorsing slavery, it’s theirs.
And you went in the wrong direction. Monsieur Tooth would’ve been more appropriate.
That is the most hilarious thing I’ve read all day.
She just couldn’t handle The Tooth. 
Echo chamber effect.
You remember that guy after 2004 saying “How could Bush have possibly gotten re-elected, no one I know voted for him?”… Apparently we have a lot of that guy’s friends on the board.
what lead you to believe that?
No, the support would be actual countering of the posters ignorance. It’s not my job to look for reasonable GOP quotations. But instead of a refutation you choose to mindlessly blast the poster.
First off, it wasn’t a guy, it was a woman named Pauline Kael. Second, she was talking about Nixon, not Bush. Third, that wasn’t even what she said.
He sure didn’t invent it - parliamentary democracies have used it for quite some time. But in the old days there was enough spread of opinion in both parties that coalitions across party lines were put together. I don’t remember it being the case that someone wishing to negotiate or compromise on an issue was treated like dirt. Also, all parties did have some belief that the good of the country was more important than ideological rigidity, though there was of course of variation in what was good for the country. The debt ceiling mess shows this is no longer true for most Republicans.
The Dems have their Blue Dogs, the Pubbies have their Mad Dogs. Same thing, really. Sorta. Kinda.
He was also quite good at support for fighting AIDS in Africa. He started the auto bailout, not that Republicans today will like him for it. He also was smart enough to get out of the way and listen to the experts about the financial crisis.
See, even liberals can give credit where credit it due, but that still doesn’t mean his administration was a disaster on the whole.
Got a nickel says you meant to say “wasn’t”.
Of course. Because she’s the only one who could have possibly said it.
who started the EPA? Who opened China? Who got us off the gold standard for good?
Hint: it was a Republican.
Nixon’s corruption came out of paranoia and a desire to hold onto power. Many of his policies would be called socialist in today’s political climate. Nixon was a pragmatist, not an ideologue. Reagan was also, but was clever enough not to show it and the base was too stupid to realize it.
Go buy yourself a ride on the Staten Island Ferry in 1960.
Google it. First page, Pauline Kael. Google is your friend. Well, mine. Maybe not so much yours, being about facts, and stuff.
Me too, but for a different reason. In the old days a person might be nuts, and might read a local newspaper which was nuts, but when he tuned in to Uncle Walter or Huntley and Brinkley he’d get something reasonable moderate and sensible, working under fairly good journalistic principles. If the read Time or Newsweek, same thing. Today this guy might never encounter a dissenting opinion honestly presented. And if he does he has been inoculated against the “Liberal Media” and their damn facts. The more extreme Fox News gets, the better a lock they have on this audience.
But they are the party of the really good soundbite. I find it astonishing how often I hear the meme of “tax-and-spend Democrats” as though that was worse than the typical Republican behavior which is the equivalent of “dine-and-dash” only it’s leaving the next generation(s) with the bill instead of some poor waitress.