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T_i_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-19-09 04:36 AM
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Just kiss the Republican party goodbye
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/18/meghan-mccain-laura-ingraham-ann-coulter

"Kiss my fat ass!"

That was feisty Republican progeny Meghan McCain's short reply to rightwing radio host Laura Ingraham, who made fun of McCain's weight after McCain had the audacity to suggest that maybe Ann Coulter is a little over the top.

McCain has a more substantive response on the Daily Beast, not that an admonishment to kiss her ass wasn't sufficient, given the quality of debate established by the intensely loathsome Ingraham, who also called McCain a valley girl and asserted she hadn't earned the right to express her views.

The feud is getting a lot of attention for all the expectedly grim reasons, starting with "Catfight!" and ending at the increasingly familiar, desperate and yawn-inducing flailings of a party adrift and leaderless, keen to crown the conservative ingénue the future of their unpopular party, after a series of other coronations have failed to produce the Big Awesome: All hail Sarah Palin! No, Joe the Plumber! Wait, we meant Rush Limbaugh! Oops, make that Bobby Jindal! Hang on, let's try Meghan McCain!
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Optical.Catalyst Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-19-09 04:58 AM
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1. Watch for the first signs of a new right-of-center party forming just after the 2010 elections
The Republicans will be down to only 35 Senators after 2010. The Republicans will have their heads handed to them after the 2012 elections and will cease to exist as a viable political entity at that time. The folks who are not Democrats have found that they are not Republicans either. They will form a new political party without the religious fundamentalists, neocons, and right wingnuts who have driven the present Republican Party into the ground.

We are obligated as Americans to hasten the demise of this Republican Party. No compromise with them. We must crush the Republicans politically at every turn and send them packing. President Obama needs to succeed as much as the Republicans need to fail.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-19-09 05:25 AM
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2. George W Bush ...he killed the GOP Party....what a wonderful epitaph it will make
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santamargarita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-19-09 05:44 AM
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3. This asshole couldn't find oil in Texas - and now a two page a book
Everything Bush touches turns to shit
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-19-09 06:02 AM
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4. Yes, indeed. he is a COLLOSAL FRAUD foisted on us BY ROVE...he is the TRAITOR
Rove knew W is a Dufus and yet he pushed for the OVAL OFFICE...

This whole shit falls on ROVE....and yet...

Bush will be getting the Blame......
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-19-09 06:17 AM
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5. Do not count it out. The country always goes up and down
There is always a fine line between just how many rules you need to keep things moving. Remove so many and we get what we have now. A free for all for greed and stealing. How history shows we have been here before. Think the 1880's etc. And I mean that time before WW1 in a world wide view besides our own country. My guess, we are in the middle of a social revolution and both parties will change their ways, just as we all will change our ways. The parties always goes with what the people want as if they do not they have no party. Same with a church. :crazy: OK so my children think I am crazy also.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-19-09 09:04 AM
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6. Would that you are correct, but I fear you are watching the wrong game.
Edited on Thu Mar-19-09 09:06 AM by tom_paine
If politics is the game, then you are correct.

But the Bushies, or the Rushpublics, or whatever you want to call them, are playingthe game that liberals throughout history never seem to catch on to, and are serially unable to stop (with some small exceptions) throughout history.

The Bushies understand how Hitler did his thing, and they pattern their own self-referential cricle of lies after them. They understand that believers in Old America, in liberty and democracy are as stunned, clueless, and confused when shown the nature of RAW POWER. Read Ed Luttwak's "Coup D'Etat: A Practical manual" to understand the repeated nature of tyrants and the liberals who almost always yield to them.

I say this with no joy nor pleasure, nor hatred for liberalism. It is merely what is and apparently (with a few isolated exceptions) always will be.

Playing politics against RAW POWER is futile because RAW POWER knows no rules, no ethics, no mores. Once one side adopts RAW POWER, unless the other side quickly acts to shine a light upon it and defeat it while it is still in it's early stages, reaches a critical mass which once begun, cannot be stopped without hideous horrors "the lancing of the psychotic boil", so to speak.

Bushiganda, media control, Bushie continued control of law enforcement and the military, all of these things allow the Bushies/Rushpublicans to do what they did during Clinton, except the increased power of all their institutions of tyranny are making this go that much faster.

I hope I am wrong, but that is what I see. Certainly, it is too early to judge for sure, but the early signs do not look good.
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