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sugar
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 Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:42 am Post subject: "Accustomed to the rhetoric of violence" |
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A vote for Mittens is a vote for letting the inmates run the asylum!
| Quote: | The Republicans are radicals, not conservatives
Nugent told supporters of the National Rifle Association recently that he'd "be dead or in jail" if President Obama were re-elected. Nugent and his right-wing apologists have since denied that he was making any kind of threat to the president's life. The Secret Service evidently felt otherwise and paid a visit to the well-known gun fetishist.
Nugent has come out in support of GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney. When asked, Romney condemned violence generally without referring to Nugent. The Secret Service concluded that the rock musician best known for singing "Cat Scratch Fever" had no intent to assassinate anyone.
Well, that's good to know, but what was the context of his little chat? Something about Obama being a criminal, that his administration is evil, and that conservatives need to "chop their heads off." Yeah, sounds about right.
For the record, I enjoy gutter-sniping and trash-talk. It's deliciously lowbrow and a grand tradition in American oratory. The theatricality of the Nuge is part of his appeal, too. But Romney is a presidential candidate. That he seems unwilling to distance himself from Nugent suggests he and the GOP are so accustomed to the rhetoric of violence that they are inured to radicalism when it's in front of them.
US Rep. Barney Frank has said Democrats aren't perfect, but Republicans are nuts, conceding that voters have a less than ideal choice but Dems are at least functional. Yet "nuts" is only half right. Since 2008, and especially since 2010, the GOP has become extremist, so much so that its current state challenges the very notion of "conservatism." |
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/republicans-are-radicals-not-conservatives
Title edited for compliance with the Schwarzenegger's mother clause of the OTW Posting Guidelines. — JRG
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Still stuck on the C word 'eh?
I remember being 14 too.
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Muso
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| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 9:11 am Post subject: |
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Thank you for supporting my hypothesis with your inability to create unique thoughts.
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You forgot to provide your link to the illustrious and credible source of those pearls of objective wisdom. Sounds like some left-wing ivory tower college professor to me, venting his butt-hurt and lack of real-world perspective.
You also failed to mention that the violent rhetoric was started this election by Democrat union thug Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., who said, "Let's take these son of bitches [sic] out!"
Nugent isn't even a politician. This would be like Republicans get upset over something R. Kelly or Lady Gaga said. 
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| sugar wrote: | | The Earth wrote: | Still stuck on the C word 'eh?
I remember being 14 too. |
You should, it was only last week.
Are you sure you're allowed to use Mom and Dad's computer to troll people on the internet? |
You know he's like.... a hundred right?
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Hey, sugar... do you recall the Giffords incident, and how Dbags claimed the violent rhetoric needed to stop, but continued to engage in it? There's your tag.
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Saying republicans are like this, and democrats like that ... so 2006. We all know they are basically the same beast, with different coat pattern  |
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Republican disregard for the constitution is less egregious than that of the Democrat party. They're also not the party having gone berserk over 'violent rhetoric' in the past and then went on to ignore their own sputum about said rhetoric.
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wow... "we know our candidates suck, but theirs are even worse!" that really makes me want to vote democrat. (not).
when both candidates are fucking terrible, you're actually best off voting out the incumbent. |
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| sugar wrote: | | The Earth wrote: | | Thank you for supporting my hypothesis with your inability to create unique thoughts. |
what a burn! |
Just an observation. I make a joke, and you just respond with a variation of "I'm rubber, you're glue". It's very often the case that when someone says something legitimately funny, the unfunny target of the joke lacks the creativity to come up with his own ideas, so he just tries to imitate.
It's not your fault though, not everyone can be naturally funny.
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Sugar is naturally funny (in a tragic, Special Olympics sort of way). 
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| Bigun wrote: | | sugar wrote: | | The Earth wrote: | Still stuck on the C word 'eh?
I remember being 14 too. |
You should, it was only last week.
Are you sure you're allowed to use Mom and Dad's computer to troll people on the internet? |
You know he's like.... a hundred right? |
I did stage 1 geology at university. I think I know a thing or two about the real age of the earth.
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