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[freedom78]

I think she lacks what most on the right do, which is that she doesn't even understand WHY she thinks the liberty to choose how/when to vaccinate your children shouldn't be taken away but the liberty to marry whom you choose, in fact, should. It's not that she has two views, one of which minimizes government and one of which expands it --- most of us have such conflicts --- it's that she doesn't know how to fit it all within a worldview and to justify liberty in one case and government in the other. Instead, she and the rest of the anti-smart GOP crowd tend to take a broad stance (gubment is the bad) and then have many positions that defy it (gubment should make the gays be not married *drool*), without ever actually realizing that they have a contradiction. When did the right get so dumb (or, in some cases, embracing of dumbness)? Honestly, I think it was Reagan. He gave them a pretty solid formula of simple principles which you repeat as loudly as you can, knowing that that will be what people remember, rather than your constantly defying those principles.

[Mr. Roboto]

I'll give her credit for at least going on shows like Jay Leno and Jon Daily's which is something Palin will never do.

No doubt about that. You can only play the victim card for so long before you look weak. To me it's obvious that Palin hides from "tough gotcha" questions with this method.

[cousin it]

I think she lacks what most on the right do, which is that she doesn't even understand WHY she thinks the liberty to choose how/when to vaccinate your children shouldn't be taken away but the liberty to marry whom you choose, in fact, should. It's not that she has two views, one of which minimizes government and one of which expands it --- most of us have such conflicts --- it's that she doesn't know how to fit it all within a worldview and to justify liberty in one case and government in the other. Instead, she and the rest of the anti-smart GOP crowd tend to take a broad stance (gubment is the bad) and then have many positions that defy it (gubment should make the gays be not married *drool*), without ever actually realizing that they have a contradiction. When did the right get so dumb (or, in some cases, embracing of dumbness)? Honestly, I think it was Reagan. He gave them a pretty solid formula of simple principles which you repeat as loudly as you can, knowing that that will be what people remember, rather than your constantly defying those principles.

1980 sounds about right... kind of amazing that it was Eisenhower that gave us a warning about the "military industrial complex" ,and actually was a great promoter of learning and science.

Raygun, with his hyper-religiousity, fed the fucktards the challenge to overwhelm the mainstream of the party. I have a cousin that is a retired congress critter, was a Republican, and that was pro-science. He has to be disgusted how the party has made stupidity a virtue, these days.

[freedom78]

Even Nixon, dick that he was, would probably look at the modern GOP and call them fucking retarded.

[cousin it]

Even Nixon, dick that he was, would probably look at the modern GOP and call them fucking retarded.

Yep, and I could be wrong, but I think that Nancy Raygun did.

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Bachmann slices raw meat in Des Moines

[Mr. Roboto]

Hawt.

[Timothy]

stroke that beef , baby!!

[wedjat]

Did you see her tonight complaining that Jay Leno "blindsided" her with that question about the vaccine giving someone brain damage? Man, that was a softball question with no real follow up about something that has been in the highlights for a couple of days. How can she say she was blindsided? "They didn't ask that in the pre-show interview." Wah, wah!

What did I tell ya? She's a Palin clone.

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Tea Party Activist Calls on Bachmann to Quit Race

Michele Bachmann's flailing campaign and routine gaffes have damaged the reputation of the Tea Party and she should drop out of the presidential race rather than risk further hurting the movement, a prominent Tea Party activist said in a stinging statement.

[Zimbochick]

This is hilarious! Fallon has just gone up a few notches in my estimation.

http://www.politico....1111/69031.html

[wedjat]

This is hilarious! Fallon has just gone up a few notches in my estimation.

http://www.politico....1111/69031.html

He apologized for it. I give kudos to the band.