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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"A Conservative History of the United States" Posted by Jack Hitt at the New Yorker
A Conservative History of the United StatesPosted by Jack Hitt at the New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2012/09/a-conservative-history-of-the-united-states.html?mbid=social_mobile_tweet
"SNIP...........................................
1500s: The American Revolutionary War begins: The reason we fought the revolution in the sixteenth century was to get away from that kind of onerous crown.Rick Perry
1607: First welfare state collapses: Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.Dick Armey
1619-1808: Africans set sail for America in search of freedom: Other than Native Americans, who were here, all of us have the same story.Michele Bachmann
1775: Paul Revere warned the British that they werent going to be taking away our arms, by ringing those bells and making sure as he was riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free.Sarah Palin.
...........................................SNIP"
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"A Conservative History of the United States" Posted by Jack Hitt at the New Yorker (Original Post)
applegrove
Sep 2012
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applegrove
(118,759 posts)1. ROTFLMAO! If you don't laugh you have to cry.
Yooperman
(592 posts)2. Mindboggling! Simply Mindboggling!
Thanks for posting the link...
YM
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)3. K&R for visibility of their stupidity.
Monk06
(7,675 posts)4. These people are not stupid. Palin, Quale, Perry, Hucklebee, Bachman are all completely aware that
they are lying. That's the GOP motto, "Stand behind the lie. Don't back down. Don't retract."