Tuesday, December 02, 2008
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Chambliss Rolls In Georgia
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Posted by:
Hugh Hewitt at
11:58 PM
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Senator Saxby Chambliss cruised to a decisive win in the Georgia run-off, and GOP activists are smiling across the country. Not only is a theoretical filibuster safe, but this is evidence that the Obama coattails are short indeed. If the GOP gets its house in order, there's every reason to expect 2010 and 2012 to be very good years for the Republicans as the "change" mantra runs its course and voters begin to recollect that the Democrats took over the Congress in January of 2007 --before the economy cratered.
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The Obama coattails are the reason there was a runoff election at all. This is GEORGIA, for gosh sakes; the Deep South. McCain won Georgia handily, and with about twice as much turnout as the runoff.
Filibusters are still unlikely to be a problem: too many moderate Republicans, mavericks, etc. And further Democratic pickups are likely in 2010, with many more GOP senate seats up for reelection and in jeopardy. |
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The Republicans are going to have to sharpen up to rouse the conservative base and make a valid case to the broader American public. This should not be difficult ... but never underestimate the abilities of the Republicans to shoot themselves in the foot.
The Repubs need to recognize that the Dems play the game like a war -- they play to win, anything goes. Repubs need to go to school on Saul Alinsky methodology and effectively counter it -- now the Obama is the boss, this methodology is going to be even more prevalent. Strap it on, grow a pair, get mad, get mean. |
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I think the reason Obama was a no-show is because he didn't want a filibuster-proof majority.
Why? He needs Republican filibusters as scapegoat for failed attempts to push through card check, the fairness doctrine, etc. The liberal base wants this legislation passed, but Obama knows it would kill his chances at re-election. Now he has a convenient scapegoat: "I tried, but the Republicans blocked the damned thing...!"
I'd almost rather let him have the 60 seats so he is forced to hang himself. |
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...that the Obama coattails are short indeed." - No, crap like this is why nobody can ever take you seriously. The incumbant republican had to win a runoff election in Georgia. That's right, Georgia. You need to put down the pipe. Republicans had their heads handed to them this year, courtesy prez-elect Obama. I'm still stunned over North Carolina. The only thing that would make this more perfect is if Jesse Helms was alive to see this. |
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"...there's every reason to expect 2010 and 2012 to be very good years for the Republicans...."
Should we also expect the Ohio State Buckeyes to beat USC to win National Championships in football & basketball, as well as the Cleveland Browns winning three Superbowls and Indians the world series?
Hugh, thanks for starting my day with a big, hearty laugh....you crack me up. |
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If the weaker, linguini-spined Repubs can stand up against the withering disapproval of Katie Couric and other titans in the media, then maybe we can blunt 0bama. This is a very big 'IF'.
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..."Never cut off your nose to spite your face"! |
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This win is just like Coverdale in 1992. This was the first race of 2010. 2010 should be a huge year for Republicans much like 1994. With Obama set to let the Bush tax cuts expire in 2011, Republicans will make huge congressional gains and should pick up several senate seats. |
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19 Republicans and 16 Democratic seats are up in 2010. Of the 19 Republican seats, the most vulnerable is Voinovich's of Ohio. The other 18 seats are in very red states not likely but not impossible they could go to dems. Conversely, dems will be defending 16 seats in marginally red to light blue states with at least four seats in trouble. Lincoln-AR, Salazar-CO, Dorgan-ND and Reid NV will have battles. Of these I see Lincoln & Reid as the most vulnerable. There is especially no love for Harry Reid in Nevada and even though he is the dem Majority Leader, comments like 'smelly tourists' reinforce with the voters the arrogance of this man. |
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The left says Obama is brilliant, but it will never change the fact that he is a LIAR.
Obama ran his campaign on a platform of a tax cut for 95% of the people and bringing home the troops soon. He has already revoked both plans before even taking office. No Ivy League rubber stamp can change that.
Obama is a LIAR. He lied to the people just to get elected. Just like Clinton.
That being said, he would have to be an idiot to follow through on his lunatic, left-wing promises anyway. It is better for America if his outrageous promises are left unfulfilled. Including Universal Healtcare.
Thank goodness the Dems didn't get the Magic 60!!! |
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The left says Obama is brilliant, but it will never change the fact that he is a LIAR.
Obama ran his campaign on a platform of a tax cut for 95% of the people and bringing home the troops soon. He has already revoked both plans before even taking office. No Ivy League rubber stamp can change that.
Obama is a LIAR. He lied to the people just to get elected. Just like Clinton.
That being said, he would have to be an idiot to follow through on his lunatic, left-wing promises anyway. It is better for America if his outrageous promises are left unfulfilled. Including Universal Healtcare.
Thank goodness the Dems didn't get the Magic 60!!! |
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Minnesota Seat. If Smarmy Harry tries a little Senate coup for the hideous Al Franken...ALL HELL must be raised. |
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Snowe, Collins, Specter, Lugar, Voinivich, Grahamnesty, and McCain will provide the Democrats with the votes they need for cloture when they need them. |
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I wrote here that Saxby's win eliminates Franken's 'Senate Option:
http://www.letfreedomringblog.com/?p=3422 |
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Conservatism did not lose the 2008 election, even as we (the US) elected the most liberal senator as president. The clever deceiver convinced many who only barely paid attention that his policies would be more conservative than would McCains! That's amazing, but the Rassmussen post-election polling shows that was the motivation for about 60% of Obama voters.
We must expand new media, where more people will read and hear and see actual facts, bypassing the editorial sludge present in every mainstream "news" report. |
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'in charge' persona as required by the script in the fictional Office of the President-Elect. He knew his man in Georgia was going to lose anyway so he stayed away to avoid sullying his unbeaten streak. Instead, he dispatched Algore and Bill, a couple of lame 'possums, to stir things up. Meanwhile, the Carpetbagger is still mining for votes up north. |
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that when ACORN and the rest of the so-called Dem "get-out-the-vote" (or the get-everyone-out-to-vote-4-or-5-times) efforts are not in full tilt, the Republican wins decisively. Hmmm... |
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He fails ro realize that the party in power traditionally loses seats in the mid-term elections. The Republicans bucked that trend in 2002 by adding seats in both Houses of Congress but that was the exception to the rule. I look for the Republicans to do very well in 2010 if they can get back to their small-government, low-taxes values. |
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Mitch can now stop, domestic socialism, not that obambi would have time anyway. Islamists will make sure he does not have time for the lesbo, homo radical agenda, the global warming hoax, or the "alternative fuel" fairytale, instead they will be testing and probing, bombing and murdering. In other words, no time for fantasies, theories, or flights of fancy. He and the left will be forced to see the world as it is, and with his national security picks, and having seen the intelligence, he most certainly has seen the light. The world is a damn dangerous place, and it seems old, "W", wasn't so bad after all, hey obambi! Those permanent bases in Iraq will stay, too, much to the chagrin of the American left. He is already hearing from them, too. But, isn't that what ya' get when you elect someone who has NO track record? |
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looks like you need to be taken to the woodshed, the woodshed of truth. Listen up, "Mikey" boy. I will be using as my "belt", two Rasmussen surveys, one taken on Oct.2, and the other right after the election. On Oct.2, the survey found that 59% of the respondents AGREED with the sentiment expressed by RONALDUS MAXIMUS, now listen up "Mikey" boy, what was his sentiment, well, that "government is not the solution; government is the problem". That's not really a "leftists" sentiment is it ,"Mikey", and just 28% disagreed! That survey also found, now i want you to pay particular attention to this, "Mikey" boy, is that it found that 44% of obambi voters agreed with RONALDUS MAXIMUS, and 40% did not. That's right, "Mikey" boy, by a margin of 44% to 40%, obambi voters agree with RONALDUS!! Shazzam, "Mikey" boy, but that's not all. 43% of voters viewed it as a positive to describe a candidate as being like RONALDUS MAXIMIUS, while just 26% consider it a negative!! But that's not all, "mikey" boy, no no, seems obambi used RONALDUS MAXIMUS'S electoral strategy of taking one or two big ideas and repeat them until the people identify you with those ideas. Obambi took the idea of cutting everyone's taxes(even those who don't pay any) and rode that pony all the way to the oval office!!! "Cutting taxes", not really something the left likes to do, right, "Mikey" boy.
So "Mikey", your boy obambi won by being perceived by the voters as being more like RONALDUS MAXIMUS, than was McCain. SHAZZAM..the horror of it all....and Mikey, thinks we had it "handed" to us, silly boy!! The gigs on you, "Mikey", and with these appointments, that he's made, well "Mikey", you simply must be pulling your hair out!! Who handed what to who!! HAHAHAHA! |
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by showing a bonified, legal, vaulted, original, sealed, ture and correct copy of a 1961 birth certificate on the original paper with the old-time 'pica' font from the typewriter of the day and NOT, I repeat NOT a computer-generated, 'arial' font different size, different type of paper, on a brand new looking, fake phony, fraudulent document.
HE WAS BORN IN KENYA! HIS OWN GRANDMOTHER SWORE TO IT! HE IS NOT A US CITIZEN! HE HAS NO RIGHT TO SPIT ON OUR CONSTITUTION AND TELL THE SUPREME COURT TO GO TO HELL.
He truly must believe he is above any laws of this land, as if he is God himself, AND NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE THE NERVE TO TELL HIM DIFFERENTLY! (If I ever see him face to face, I guaranfreakingtee you, I WILL.)
Does ANY American out there give a damnn about this?? Have you all decided to stick your heads in the sand and allow our country to be stolen while you apathetically look on without so much as a whimper? Shame on any of you who don't have the balls to petition the court to make this louse prove he is eligible to be the President of this country. So, you should remember to keep your cowardly mouths shut after you have nothing left but a Socialist/Commie, dictator telling you when to take a eat, sh!t, and sleep!!
Americans don't deserve the reputation of a great patriotic people anymore! |
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get it? You lost, huge, nationwide. You lost states even the weak GWB won in 2004. Obama didn't go to Georgia because he's got Snowe and Collins to fill the last 2 slots to kill filibusters, if not McCain. McCain is so sick of the far right of his party that he'll be back with his immigration reform bill asap.
When will you realize that Barack Obama is not like the candidates you folks are apparently used to? Not even Rove could figure him out, and I can assure you that Newt isn't fighting to be head of GOP because he sees the handwriting on the wall for the party for at least the next two election cycles. Maybe by 2014 things will improve, but the American people are so happy to be rid of Bush, et al, that glow won't wear off for a long time.
Obama will neutralize the far right and far left, he'll govern to the center because the center is now on the left. Even insurance companies know that health care needs to be reformed, etc.
So, Chambliss won the re-election he was supposed to win, in a state that doesn't go Dem. And that's a sign that Obama's coattails are not long? Sheesh, if Obama had just done a few campaign stops, Martin would have won. But Obama had this thing called getting ready to govern and lead to do, something the GOP doesn't really care about. |
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realize this is a CONSERVATIVE BLOOGER'S SITE AND STAY OFF HERE? We're not interested in your ignorant rants! |
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The reasons why Obama didn't bother to campaign for Martin against Chambliss are:
1. As "Virginia Patriot" suggested, Obama can break a Senate filibuster already, by putting together a working coalition of 57 Democrats, 1 socialist (Sanders), and at least 2 moderate Republicans. (Have Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe ever filibustered any Democratic proposals?)
2. Right now, Obama is trying to look inclusive and even bipartisan--witness his appointments of General Jones and Gates. That's why his approval ratings are so high right now. Why expand any of that political capital for just one Senate seat that he doesn't need that badly anyway.
BTW, the latest Gallup poll shows that now, even a majority of *Republicans* think Obama has done a good job so far.
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you far righties should be experts on that topic, lol.
So, you just want an echo chamber? Fox News doesn't do that for you enough?
Let's see, without those of us who have common sense posting here, here's how the thread would go...
Hugh Hewitt: Romney (and now Jeb Bush) rising!
Ronna: Obama is an alien from Mars unless he can prove otherwise!
Cottoneyed: Obambi is not Reagan.
on and on. And then when you keep losing, you blame, hmmm, oh, I know, I know, the MSM!
Hugh sells some more of his unbelievably lame books and acts like he teaches at a real law school.
What fun!
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The dems dont follow laws they dont believe they have to, the laws are for them to use and control others with but not for them to abide to. Hillary will break the law to be sec of state and bill broke the law to hide a disgusting act with an intern, and obama doesnt think he has to abide by birth restrictions enacted by our constitution, and yet we are asked to actually trust him to protect and defend that same contitution, give me a break. this country has fallen into the control of idiots and anti american dems who hate what it stands for.They will over step for they cant help themselves and they dont respect this country or its citizens at all, they will over step and we will see what the idiots who elected them have to say then. |
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i don't see anyone on here who gets it yet. GOP ran a Donkey for Prez, W and the Repubs have pushed the nation to the Left and Chambliss and other Repubs paid for it. Chambliss voted 94% of the time with W. He lives in a Red State - Georgia. The Stupid Party forced us cons to vote indie for the first time ever. 3.5% of us voted indie. That's why Chambliss came close to losing. It was not Obama. It was not the economy. It was nothing but the simple fact that the Stupid Party turned its back on their base.
When they get back to conservatism y'all will see it turned around again as God intended. Right now they need to go and put some salve on their hineys. |
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wants to run our personal lives. |
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Did you happen to see that significant piece of legislation which Harry Reid was crowing about this week?
Yep====Harry was chastising the tourists who pervade the capitol and other fed buildings. Well, actually he was complaining about their BO. He and his leadership have taken care of the problem, though. So, let's no hear any more about their weaknesses. Old Harry has seen to it that a whole new air conditioning system has been installed in his building so as to irradicate the foul smelling touristas. And it only cost the tourists, er, taxpayers $621,000,000.00 to get the nasty job done.
Man, this "Change" in leadership has proven to "freshen" up the place. Now that represents a "Hope" you can really sense. |
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After several rational posts from Hugh regarding the new administration appointments, I guess it makes sense that Hugh was bound to relapse. Hugh Dog, it's GEORGIA! There had to be a runoff in GEORGIA! Obviously it's better than having lost but it bodes for not much at all for Cons. Whoo hoo, Dems don't have a filibuster proof majority by a whopping total of 2 seats! It's an overwhelming trend towards a Con tidal wave. Break out the 70 year-old cognac! What's next? Republicans pull out victory amongst Mormon voters? |
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It looks like Coleman will emerge unscathed from the recount process. He just gained more than 40 votes, widening his lead, and most of the counties left to go are ones he carried on election night. Chambliss just won in a landslide. Obama is showing signs of governing like a Republican, and, like Clinton before him, was smart enough to put the military in the hands of a Republican. But, there are problems he must deal with that he won't be able to solve. With Democrats in control of both houses as well as the presidency, the people will know who to blame next time. Look for big gains by the GOP in 2010! |
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if that's all you got, you got nothin', as always. You are such a pathetic soul. |
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We will soon see when Obama tries for amnesty. Will Chambliss vote with the people of Georgia, who oppose amnesty, or will he vote against them, again?
Start calling amd e-mailing your Senators and Representattives now, folks.
If you want to keep your country. |
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You left us with a mess, for sure, but we'll clean it up, and when 2010 and 2012 rolls around, Americans will be thinking: "Republi-who?!" |
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"irradicate." "$621,000,000.00."
Like Jamesbondi says, this is fun. It is mop-up time in Reepland.. |
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Too funny, this guy who claims to be "principled". Except he's anything but. Below he whines about having better things to do with his time, well, except for his penchant for, nitpicking someone's spelling (LOL). That's deemed "important" enough for his posting "needs". After all, he's "principled".
Oh yes, what else does he lay claim to being? To quote him:
"'pondscum
I'm just posting, chump--I don't know about "need." but i do know that you are full of tough talk--a real hard guy. A Charles Atlas in your mind, kicking sand on us concave, scrawny, 99 lb. weaklings."
Yeah, PL exhibits every bit the characteristic of "scrawny", "99 lb. weaklings" in his own constant redundant barbs, smarmy rhetoric, negative hyperbolic crap---wait a minute, "99 lb. weaklings" do not behave anything like him. Just another indicator of the FRAUD he represents.
AND----THE EVER PRESENT telling quote:
Patriotic Liberal writes: Thursday, August, 07, 2008 8:54 PM
CS
"...the non-masochists in here will be delighted to learn that I am scaling back my posts here. Got better things to do with my time now."
Email It | Print It | Flag as Offensive
What a jacka$$.
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This schmuck, PL, claims to be "principled".
NO?
Well, he also made it very clear several weeks ago that his sole motive for posting on HH was to "demoralize" the oppostion (conservatives).
His words, not mine.
And hardly the behavior of one claiming to be, "principled". I would much rather be one accused of a misspelled word than to be known as a, FRAUD, which he so transparently reveals himself to be; pathetic to the core. |
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you write:
"More people have been killed in the name of religion, including Christianity, than in most wars."
PROVE IT.
Indeed, more people lost their lives to dictators and the like, wars in the 20th century, than in all of history. And, none of them were carried out for "Christianity" as your public education talking points allege.
Hitler did not kill for religious purpose. You think he did? PROVE IT.
Stalin was not religiously motivated in his massive killings. Prove it.
The Rape of Nanking was not carried out by Japanese "religionists.
PROVE IT.
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deaths for the greater Leftward Good in the 20th Century caused by Christianity..? Ohhhhh, that's right, Boyo, they were sacrificed to those gods and pontiffs of the Left: Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Ho, Pol-Pot, Castro and Lil' Danny Ortega.
But, by gum, their newest secular phony religion--EeeeekK--Global Warming will get it right. |
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The idiot left fools you talk to have neither a brain nor and honor, its why they are what they are, you cant talk to them or debate them, so you let them do to you here what they just did to the election, you gat frustrated and fight with them and waste your time. You should be talking with like minded people "those with an actual mind" and finding ways to unite and rid this country of these idiots that are set on its ruin.Yet you fall into the "trap" and get on their subject and fight with someone who you cant get throgh to , THEY HAVE NO BRAIN, they are idiots its why their words upset you so, they are IDIOTS.Talk about real IDEAS and win others over dont respond to these fools , you waste space and time and most of all effort. |
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have no brains or hearts. That has been proven through time. Science has advanced society, religion not at all.
Can't wait for the tax exemptions to be gone. |
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And there you have it. This yahoo has no comment, no reply, no PROOF as to his crap comment I challenged earlier today... |
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A mean-spirited rightwinger gets re-elected from Georgia. Good luck in the Wilderness, Saxby. Say hi to Sarah. |
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"obambi is not Reagan"............no lack of critical thought there, right, Miss Bondi!! |
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or a response from Miss Bondi, you will wait in vain. She like all the rest of the left here at HH, cannot ever prove, anything, for their world is made up of theories, fantasies, and flights of fancy. In short, if it sounds good then by G-D, say it, "we are leftists", and when "we say it, then you must believe it, because we are smarter than you". Need one go any further than the erstwhile, "patriotic liberal" now known, of course as the "pathetic one" as evidence of this "sound good" phenomenon.
I have been asking Miss Bondi, or any of the rest of the anti-Prop 8 lunatics, why oh why have they not administered the same "shyte" tactics to the Muslim adherents, as they have to the Christian and Mormons, ones. As yet, Miss Bondi has not been forthcoming with any sort of answer or reply.
Therefore their protest are little more than the rantings of scared little peons. They simple don't have the conviction or the cajones, to face Muslims!! For Muslims are who they should truly fear, and it is they who will silence them for good! |
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your response is crystal clear.
It also makes a good deal of sense.
Top of the day to you.
And, Merry Christmas. |
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Absent of us, the discussion in here, and on talk radio, and the other Reep venues like FoxNews or WashTimes or whatever, is flat, uninspired, emotive, and irrational. You chumps are reduced to self-insistence.
You children go stamp your feet and hold your breath. We Dems have a country to save--and from the mess you clowns created.
I have tried to engage you. to meet you at the level of philosophic engagement. two years, practically. no luck. with a few exceptions, the guys in here are as florid and dramaqueenish as Richard Simmons. Certainly, delivering insults is a piece of cake. can do that all day, if you want.
But don't think anyone takes you seriously. Your day has come and gone. you are the stewards of a disgraced worldview. Boomer conservatism is dead. Long live post-Boomer liberalism. As for conservatism--like Dudley said, good luck in the wilderness. Godspeed, as there is a need for conservatism. Not your half-witted and toolish version, but conservatism nonetheless.
and do us a favor, nominate Sarah Palin next time around. let her be your leader. She is like a character from a Christopher Guest film or something. what a self-satisified, underwhelming creep--just like her followers.
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"better things to do with my time now", than to post on HH's site. Ha, what a schmuck.
Yeah, that's some significant post you just penned.
You claim to be, "principled", yet you also revealed you mission in posting here is ot "demoralize the oppossition". Hardly principled---unless you belong to the dumbocrat party.
You claim to be a, "99 lb. weakling" to other's tough talkin' abuse. Yeah, right. You only know one style. See paragraph above. Hardly the profile of a poor, little waifish dweeb.
And your incredibly adolescent rant stating that I "stole" your, invectives from you, essentially turning them around and flinging them back at you is beyond laughable----yet, so indicative of your pathologic narcissism.
Yep, you're just, "scaling back". Pathetic.
Get a life, lightweight. You are an embarrassment to your family. |
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"Yeah, that's some significant post you just penned."
In what way is yours any better? |
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If yours was even remotely genuine, I'd answer your ridiculous comment. |
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"If yours was even remotely genuine,"
"Genuine?" You think my post was a fake somehow? In what sense? |
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Liberals caused the problem in housing and republicans did not fight hard enough against the bubble caused by liberals because it seemed to benefit them in the short term. It is impossible to argue against this fact.
This problem started in 1977 under the CRA. Bruce Marks and NACA sued under CRA around 1993 to force BOA to lend 3billion dollars to those who should never have gotten mortgages. Under the Clinton Administration, Freddie and Fannie grew into a socially engineered hedge fund. As weak and pathetic as the republicans were, they tried to stop it from happening.
Also, Wall Street gave FAR more to democrats than republicans over the past 8 years. This is a fact. To be fair, the republicans did not throw down the guantlet and fight hard enough. Bush started touting home ownership as a "success" of his economic program, when in fact the rise in home ownership had nothing to do with him. The rise in home ownership was a false inflationary bubble that naturally had to burst. Amazingly, the republicans are so weak that they allowed this anchor to be hung around their neck.
I am no neocon and I am not a republican. The republican party is not going to make a big comeback in 2010. They are in disarray. I do agree that 60's style neoconservative governing is dead in the water. Who knows what will replace it, but the deomocrats are just as bankrupt.
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