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Rachel Slajda | January 29, 2010, 12:10PM
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Former vice presidential candidate and current Fox News contributor Sarah Palin said last night that the Republican Party should merge with tea partiers.
Fox's Greta Van Susteren asked if tea party candidates would end up siphoning votes from GOP nominees, or if the movement will "merge with the Republican Party."
"They need to merge," Palin said. "Definitely, they need to merge. I think those who are wanting the divisions and the divisiveness and the controversy -- those are the ones who don't believe in the message. And they're the ones, I think, stirring it up."
As we've reported at TPMmuckraker, the tea party movement has been increasingly divided. Much of the friction has been over the national tea party convention to be held in Nashville. Critics say the convention, with its expensive tickets and for-profit organizer, doesn't jive with true tea party values. Yesterday, we reported that Reps. Michele Bachmann and Martha Blackburn have dropped out.
Palin, whose speaking fees are rumored to be around $100,000, told Van Susteren she is still on for the convention. "You betcha," she said.
On the divisiveness, she continued, "We need to ignore that and we need to forge ahead with a cohesive message. It's a common sense message. It, again, is, Government, limit yourself so that the private sector, our families, free individuals can grow and thrive and prosper and enjoy America's freedom!"
As for whether the tea partiers want to merge with Republicans, that's a different story.
(H/T Huffington Post)
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The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
January 29, 2010 12:26 PM
I'd like to say it's time for the MSM to stop giving her oxygen if it wasn't so apparent that her oxygen deprivation issues go back to the day she was born.
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Steaming Pile
January 29, 2010 2:03 PM in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
Unfortunately, she just got hired by one of them, you know, the one most likely to be included in your basic cable lineup.
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jeffgee
January 29, 2010 3:03 PM in reply to Steaming Pile
That makes a case for a la carte cable pricing.
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dougom
January 29, 2010 3:19 PM in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
If they didn't, Greta Van Susternenenen would be out of a job.
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DeathSquad
January 31, 2010 11:27 PM in reply to dougom
She could always take a job at the celebrity scientologist center in Hollywood. She could serve kool-aid.
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DownriverDem
January 29, 2010 3:39 PM in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
Actually it is good that she is the face of the GOP. Most Americans would not vote for her.
So bring it on Sara!
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fla_kracker
January 30, 2010 7:29 AM in reply to DownriverDem
Exactly the louder she whines the more people are turned off. Cable news Fox included are a drop in the bucket of TV viewership
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lousgirl84
January 29, 2010 5:00 PM in reply to The Commenter Formerly Known as NCSteve
Amen to that. My head is going to explode if I have to hear anymore from this sociopath.
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rbeats
January 29, 2010 12:28 PM
I advise the GOP to do whatever this woman says.
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expat46
January 29, 2010 4:31 PM in reply to rbeats
I'm with you rbeats. Sarah Palin is one of the most brilliant politicians this country has ever seen. The tea party people that don't want to merge with the GOP aren't true believers in the message anyway.
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JNagarya
February 1, 2010 2:48 AM in reply to expat46
Yeah, I suppose the further into retardation a person dives the more likely they are to come out on the other side as genius.
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Sailormarlowe
January 29, 2010 12:33 PM
"Whether we be young or old, our destiny, our being's heart & home is with infinitude, and only there. With hope it is; hope that can never die; effort, expectation, & desire, and something evermore about to be." Sarah often reads & relishes these lines from Wordsworth. Unity of purpose, common goals, achievment, clear vision. This defines Sarah & her political philosophy.
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AhTrini1
January 29, 2010 1:28 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
ROTFLMBAO . . . .
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EastWest
January 29, 2010 2:03 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
You're making that up. Sarah can't read.
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JBL1955
January 29, 2010 2:18 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
Often reads and relishes Wordsworth's autobiographical "Prelude," does she?
What a fascinating concept: the same person who is proudly ignorant of so many things, from the value of fruit fly research to the role of the vice-presidential office she sought, "often reads and relishes" nineteenth century romantic poetry.
Who knew? Thanks for the, um, enlightenment.
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fla_kracker
January 30, 2010 8:27 AM in reply to Sailormarlowe
Methinks thee has allowed thy true century to expose itself
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Andreams
January 30, 2010 8:11 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
Now I know why I never liked Wordsworth.
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_agave_
January 29, 2010 12:40 PM
WTF does that even mean? Infinitude?
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Sailormarlowe
January 29, 2010 12:45 PM in reply to _agave_
Buy a dictionary instead of lottery tickets. But wait...aren't all you lefty Sarah bashers highly edgy-kated?
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Marinus van der Lubbe
January 29, 2010 1:12 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
Most of us arent strapped to a thesaurus or a portable book of quotes that offset the fact your education is akin to barely making it out of highschool with your parents asking for a special needs IEP to alleviate their guilt at having such a moron for a son. A word like 'infinitude' is archaic and rarely used by normal modern people who even have a graduate education.
Your tired act or channeling Cellulite Sarah is somewhat psychotic and disturbing and even tho amusing in some odd way in the beginning its really sor tof a chronic dysfunction you have.
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lousgirl84
January 29, 2010 5:03 PM in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe
ROTFLMAO. Talking about skewering!!! That was masterful Marinus!!
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Marinus van der Lubbe
January 29, 2010 10:40 PM in reply to lousgirl84
He is the guy from 'Silence of the Lambs' dancing in a Sarah-wig, glasses and the weeny tuck. Such a slimacious troll...
xxx
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CityGuy
January 29, 2010 1:13 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
I am a hi-lee edge-kated left-handed person. What do you have against that Sailormarlowe?
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ClosetLuddite
January 29, 2010 3:41 PM in reply to CityGuy
Clearly you are sinister.
Thanks, everybody! I'm here all week. Tip your waitresses.
Don't forget Wednesday night is Republitard Awareness Night. Bring a dish.
(If you didn't get that, go ask a linguist)
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CityGuy
January 29, 2010 5:47 PM in reply to ClosetLuddite
Yes I am. But thankfully, I'm in my right mind! da dum dum!!
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Marinus van der Lubbe
January 29, 2010 10:35 PM in reply to CityGuy
LOL...hey when youre a southpaw, use your right hand and its almost like getting strange. SailorManLove learned it in school from the other boys.
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Kuyleh
January 29, 2010 1:52 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
Only retards think being educated is a bad thing.
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Steaming Pile
January 29, 2010 2:12 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
Infinitude is the mathematical property of being infinite. As in, "the infinitude of primes," meaning that there are infinitely many of them.
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DownriverDem
January 29, 2010 3:42 PM in reply to Sailormarlowe
You bet we are. Your side is lacking sorely in education and critical thinking skills. Your side is a total embarrassment.
No joke. Folks in other countries just shake their heads at how dumb many American are. So bring it on Sara. Continue our downward slide with the likes of you.
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tropicgirl
January 29, 2010 12:44 PM
Gee, let's not.
She obviously has no idea why the true Tea Partiers exist. The GOP is trying to use the Tea Partiers just like Obama used the progressives. Stay free, split and independent. Don't become warmongers or social retards. The Tea Party movement may just get somewhere.
And for all those who were wondering if Sara Palin would be a sellout... here is the definitive YES. Case closed, memo is in... She is just as neo-con and corporate as Boehner, McConnell, Bush, Cheney, Beck, Rush, Hannity, and all the other GOP failures.
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Moloko+
January 29, 2010 12:59 PM in reply to tropicgirl
Being a shill for the insane billionaires does not make you an ideologue.
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JNagarya
February 1, 2010 2:53 AM in reply to Moloko+
It requires intellect to grip, or be gripped by, ideology. Add IQ to that and one rises above ideology.
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Steaming Pile
January 29, 2010 2:15 PM in reply to tropicgirl
The Tea Party exists because Dick Armey willed it into existence. To suggest that it is some sort of grass roots movement is to reinforce a lie.
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DownriverDem
January 29, 2010 3:44 PM in reply to Steaming Pile
and so many tea baggers have no clue as usual
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morriganinoregon
January 29, 2010 2:52 PM in reply to tropicgirl
"become warmongers or social retards."
hey, look, 'Topicgirl' perhaps you think you can just bash people with Asperger's Syndrome because 'oh, gee, they will not even know they have been insulted.' But you are wrong. Being socially retarded is no joke, even though you think it is OK to use people for the butt of your jokes.
bad form!
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For Want of a Nail
January 29, 2010 12:47 PM
I think what started as a corporate-funded corral to let conservatives blow off steam has gotten out of their control and they are rolling out the big guns to get these people back into the fold. In a year they should make huge gains electorally, this is their only impediment.
http://forwantofanail.com/2010/01/down-the-memory-hole/
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Leftflank
January 31, 2010 1:14 PM in reply to For Want of a Nail
Only impediment? Saying "nucular" is another & seeing everything as some sort of negative (ism) would be one more. The list grows by the day.
Oh yah, the corporate funding is the true impediment.
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RickMassimo
January 29, 2010 12:54 PM
Wow. The Fox News installation of Sarah Palin as the Republican presidential candidate for 2012 is more blatant than even I thought it would be.
Does she ever talk about anything other than what she thinks, about stuff directly related to her political fortunes? Does she ever ask someone questions and report what they say?
Even sociopaths like BillO or Glenn Beck, though they're not hard-news reporters, still basically say "I found some stuff out, and I'm going to share it with you" or "I'm gonna ask someone questions on the show so you can hear what they say" (as false as their information is and as ridiculous as their analyses are). And with several hours to fill a week, they have to delve into stuff they admit they didn't know anything about (though of course their "findings" are pre-ordained).
Not Sarah Palin. It seems like whenever she gets three or four kind-of sentences together, she makes a phone call and a couple hours later, there she is, saying it.
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Cal Gal
January 29, 2010 6:18 PM in reply to RickMassimo
She's the mouthpiece of our Corporate Overlords. She doesn't need to "know" anything. If fact, it's better, when you're a ventriloquist's dummy, to have an absolutely empty head.
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Mr.E.
January 29, 2010 8:14 PM in reply to RickMassimo
Bingo. So far, her entire role as "news contributor" has been as meta-journalist.
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Mr.E.
January 29, 2010 8:16 PM in reply to RickMassimo
Bingo. So far, her entire role as "news contributor" has been as meta-journalist.
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Subliminability
January 29, 2010 12:59 PM
Correction: shouldn't it be "doesn't jibe with tea party values," not "jive"? Unless the latter is a pun.
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farnsworth
January 29, 2010 1:30 PM in reply to Subliminability
Confusing "jibe" with "jive" is a common error for people with pretensions of erudition. Since this isn't in quotes, it comes from the author of the piece, not some tea bagger twit.
This is sad.
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Subliminability
January 29, 2010 1:59 PM in reply to farnsworth
I do not think it necessarily means pretensions. Seems to be a minor mistake by a busy journalist.
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JBL1955
January 29, 2010 2:22 PM in reply to Subliminability
I agree. The "v" key is right next to the "b" key on a qwerty keyboard and spell check wouldn't have flagged "jive."
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manyamile
January 29, 2010 3:41 PM in reply to farnsworth
Confusing "jibe" with "jive" is a common error for people with pretensions of erudition.
i must confess, from the depths of my soul, that I have also confused jibe and jive,
horrible, isn't it?
i associate jibe with sailing and jive with talking and/or dancing, but when it pops up as a cartoon bubble in the midst of my sentence, i perilously see saw ,
what is it ?
the B or the V???
I have admittedly been known to plunge ahead with abandon ...but I dispute any insinuation that I pretend to be rude!
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henk
January 29, 2010 1:08 PM
What's the sound of two idiots talking?
Fox's Greta Van Susteren asked...or if the movement will "merge with the Republican Party."
"They need to merge," Palin said. "Definitely, they need to merge...
Good Lord, if the T-Baggers aren't already Repugs, they are "Independents" who left the Repugs because they saw them as too moderate.
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jsdc007
January 29, 2010 1:11 PM
And the beauteous and virtuous Sarah Palin shall be made Queen of this Tea Party-GOP. And Greta Van shall be her chamber-maid. And the old Queen of the GOP, Her Royal Highness Mitch McConnell shall be sent back to her closet on high. And all the people from every corner of the empire shall be entertained. The End.
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jeffgee
January 29, 2010 3:11 PM in reply to jsdc007
Doing your best Sailormar parody?
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Kuyleh
January 29, 2010 3:32 PM in reply to jsdc007
Dude...Oily Taint has to have a part in there somewhere. Don't forget her!
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AhTrini1
January 29, 2010 1:12 PM
What merge; they were always one and the same....
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Weitberg
January 29, 2010 1:16 PM
What better way to give the GOP a vibrant, public voice than merging with a for-profit company.
TheWeekinRebuke.com
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farnsworth
January 29, 2010 1:32 PM
Don't expect this merger to happen.
Such a merger would be an admission that the tea baggers were lying all along. And, being liars, they are going to deny deny deny.
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DugFmJamul
January 29, 2010 1:40 PM
Sarah Palin used to be an outstanding spokeswoman for Conservative values and reforming corruption within Government, no longer! Sarah seems to be "shell shocked" from the many personal Liberal attacks over the last year! Sarah does not come across as a "Bold Conservative" anymore, but just a subdued Republican. The Tea Party Movement is about restoring the Republic and the Constitution to its rightful place in Government and until the Republican Party adopts that principle the Tea Party Movement should not line up with the Republicans. The Republican Party is still closer to the Constitution than the Democrats as long as the Democrats embrace Progressive principles. Progressivism is "genuine socialism" and the false doctrine of the "Living Constitution" plus genuine socialism is unconstitutional because it promotes limitless government, not limited government as our Constitution lays out. The Republican Party is still controlled by "Blue Blood Republicans" that believe whatever is good for Domestic or Global Corporations is good for America, not true. Until the Republican Party is about establishing a "Republican form of Government thru out the Union" the Tea Party Movement should still keep the Republican Party at bay.
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Kuyleh
January 29, 2010 1:53 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Many personal Liberal attacks? You mean asking her questions she didn't okay before hand? Calling out her lies? I'm sorry that exposing her for the airhead she is offends you so much...Us intelligent people don't want a bimbo in the White House.
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DugFmJamul
January 29, 2010 2:11 PM in reply to Kuyleh
The venting process on Sarah was much more keener on Sarah than Obama, that's a fact! "Calling out her lies?", you got to be kidding me? Obama's whole Presidency has been about lies and broken promises and if its an "airhead" you are looking for just look at who's occupying the Oval Office in the White House and only an "airhead" would give Constitutional rights to Islamic Terrorists.
Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
Once again you got it wrong Ms. Progressive, the "intelligent people" are the ones that made Scott Brown number 41 and will make the current "bimbo" in the White House a one term President.
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JBL1955
January 29, 2010 2:36 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
It's not "venting," it's "vetting," and the idea that Palin was properly vetted before McCain chose her as his running mate is in complete contradiction to the facts.
Please try to understand why many people are not enthusiastic about a conservative takeover of this country. It is not conservatism we have to thank for the progress we have made in our 200+ years of existence. If we were as true to the vision of the founders as some conservatives would have it, owning slaves would still be legal and women wouldn't have the vote, so you could forget about Sarah Palin being anything other than a housewife. Heck, if it was up to conservatives we'd still be a British colony.
The world has changed, and we have to be able to change with it. Marching backwards to an overly-literal reading of the Constitution is not only the exact opposite of what is needed, it flies in the face of the founders' intent.
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jeffgee
January 29, 2010 3:22 PM in reply to JBL1955
That Sarah sauce is strong stuff. One hit and your brain softens. First symptom is a glassy-eyed expression and losing one's ability to think beyond the word-salad.
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DugFmJamul
January 29, 2010 3:50 PM in reply to JBL1955
I'm not speaking of McCain's "vetting process" but the "vetting process" of the so-called "Free Press"...Obama got a "Free Ride" from the "Free Press", you must at least agree on that?
I'm not speaking of "conservatism" but "Republicanism" as outlined in our Constitution. Your progressive response shows how little you know of our Constitution and just how far we as a Nation have moved away from the Constitution and it's original intent.
It's not up to this Progressive Government or Progressives to force its will upon the American People through the tyranny of Democracy but instead work within the limits of the Constitution and respect State and minority rights.
...Play your Progressive Mind Tricks on Liberals because they will not work on me! I know and respect the Constitution and if you did you would not have made such ridiculous comments about conservatism, the Constitution and Progressivism.
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expat46
January 29, 2010 4:45 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Play your Progressive Mind Tricks on Liberals because they will not work on me!
These are not the trolls your looking for....
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PosiVista
January 30, 2010 5:10 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Wow, you are terrified of the "the tyranny of Democracy"? And you have the ignorance to call yourself a constitutionalist! Conservatives hate democracy and universal education. Just look at the effort they expend lying to create cynicism so voters (progressives) will stay home. You are anti-democratic traitors.
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DugFmJamul
January 30, 2010 10:03 PM in reply to PosiVista
"ignorance", madam you reek of ignorance. The Constitution does not contain one instance of the word "Democracy", for good reason. The Founders knew about the ills of Democracy and spoke of them in the Federalist 39-43 (take a look sometime) and that is why they gave us a Republic with a "Republican form of Government", not a Democracy. The ignorance lays at your feet madam but you are right about just one thing...this "Conservative" does indeed hate Democracy. Democracy has introduced "genuine socialism" (Progressivism) into our form of government at the expense of this Constitutional Republic. Remember Democracies have elected Hitler, Hugo Chavez and Saddam Hussein, so yes this Conservative hates democracy. As far as voting goes there can be no greater champion of voter fraud than ACORN, the heart throb of the Democratic Party. The Democrats hate the fact our Constitution and election laws state that only U.S. Citizens are entitled to vote. That is why Democrats fight any type of validation of U.S. Citizenship when people register to vote and vote.
Democrats hate our Constitution and can't even bring themselves to say, "Constitutional Republic"...find the cause of your own ignorance madam before you start looking at mine.
CHEERS...
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GOOD NIGHT NOW!
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expat46
January 31, 2010 1:27 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Listen to yourself:
"Good day sir. I said GOOD DAY Sir!!!"
You sound like Foghorn Leghorn and you make about as much sense.
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DugFmJamul
January 31, 2010 1:54 PM in reply to expat46
"You sound like Foghorn Leghorn and you make about as much sense."
I know what I have said defies the law of progressivism, but fortunately I've never studied law.
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PosiVista
January 31, 2010 6:53 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Maybe you'd like to tea-bag me to make sure, but I am definitely a "Sir" (no thanks, I was just kidding). Though the Constitution does not in fact not use the word democracy, here is the definition since you haven't got a clue:
Noun
* S: (n) democracy (the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives)
* S: (n) democracy, republic, commonwealth (a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them)
* S: (n) majority rule, democracy (the doctrine that the numerical majority of an organized group can make decisions binding on the whole group)
A federal republic is by nature a democracy. Sorry to have to scare you with that fact.
As long as voting is still how we choose our representatives (and you hate that to your core), we live in a Democratic Constitutional Republic. It protects We The People from the tyranny of the ignorant minority like you.
Your statement is only partially true:
"I know what I have said defies the law of progressivism, but fortunately I've never studied law."
Allow me to make it more accurate:
"I know what I have said defies the law of [English], but fortunately I've never studied [at all].
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DugFmJamul
January 31, 2010 9:53 PM in reply to PosiVista
Article. IV. - Section. 4.
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion;
FEDERALIST No. 37 - James Madison
Among the difficulties encountered by the convention, a very important one must have lain in combining the requisite stability and energy in government, with the inviolable attention due to liberty and to the republican form. Without substantially accomplishing this part of their undertaking, they would have very imperfectly fulfilled the object of their appointment, or the expectation of the public; yet that it could not be easily accomplished, will be denied by no one who is unwilling to betray his (PosiVista) ignorance of the subject.
FEDERALIST No. 38 - James Madison
The genius of republican liberty seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people, but that those intrusted with it should be kept in dependence on the people, by a short duration of their appointments; and that even during this short period the trust should be placed not in a few, but a number of hands.
FEDERALIST No. 39 - James Madison
The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican. It is evident that no other form would be reconcilable with the genius of the people of America; with the fundamental principles of the Revolution; or with that honorable determination which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government. If the plan of the convention, therefore, be found to depart from the republican character, its advocates must abandon it as no longer defensible.
FEDERALIST No. 43 - James Madison
6. "To guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government; to protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened), against domestic violence.
"In a confederacy founded on republican principles, and composed of republican members, the superintending government ought clearly to possess authority to defend the system against aristocratic or monarchial innovations.”
James Madison could never have conceived a virus called “Progressivism” would use democratic principles to undermine our Constitutional Republic and to erode our “Republican Form of Government” by introducing "genuine socialism" into our form of government, that someday a bonehead simply known as “PosiVista” would wipe away the efforts and principles of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 by insisting that our form of government is a “Democracy” and not “Republican” by design.
I’m sure if James Madison could foresee the future damage caused by an infection known as “Progressivism” would do to his beloved Republic he would have added, "In a confederacy founded on republican principles, and composed of republican members, the superintending government ought clearly to possess authority to defend the system against aristocratic, monarchial or socialist innovations.” to Federalist No. 43.
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Kuyleh
January 29, 2010 3:43 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
I'm sorry, do you have any proof for these "facts" you're claiming? What proof do you have that Sarah was vetted more than Obama? The fact that you can't accept that we've seen his real birth certificate?
What lies? What broken promises? Use facts, instead of your opinion. I can back mine up, easily.
Sarah Palin can't even be reelected in the state she was governor in. She thought she was qualified on foreign policy because she could see Russia from her porch. She can't list a single book she's ever read. She started the death panel lie. She preaches only Christian abstinence; but her daughter has one, potentially two children out of wedlock. And she supports forcing Christianity on the entire country. These are all facts you can look up, and they're all reasons why those of us who can actually think for ourselves don't trust her and dread having her actually attain office.
Keep touting how important Mass. was. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. We'll see. But the only thing it's solid proof of is the fact that you can't elect unelectable people. yet you retards are clinging to it like it's the end of everything you disagree with.
Anyway, your turn. Let's see some of these facts you carry on about.
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DugFmJamul
January 29, 2010 4:27 PM in reply to Kuyleh
Come on...get real!
Just Google "Obama lies" or "Obama broken promises" there are enough web sites that have listed enough lies told by Obama to fill up this web page let alone the character limit in this text box.
Ok...here is one lie...EARMARKS...Obama lie about earmarks and here is another one...Lobbyist in his Administration.
Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
"She thought she was qualified on foreign policy because she could see Russia from her porch." you are repeating a false characterization of Sarah from Tina Fey on SNL, the real Sarah did not say anything like that..!
Are you a comedy writer?
Because you are making me laugh....
...and I don't know if I should laugh with you or at you..OK...you made my mind up, I WILL LAUGH AT YOU!
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JadeZ
January 29, 2010 2:32 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
what the hell are you talking about??
lol
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expat46
January 29, 2010 3:27 PM in reply to JadeZ
He's speaking in the tea-bagger language.
Sort of like this:
Makes about as much sense as a submarine with screen doors.
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Liberal Jesus
January 29, 2010 3:27 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
Explain "attacks"
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lousgirl84
January 29, 2010 5:04 PM in reply to DugFmJamul
What kind of drugs are you taking? Are you selling ? Sign me up!
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justaJ0e
January 29, 2010 1:41 PM
How can you "merge" something that was never truely a separate entity?
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Massenois
January 29, 2010 1:47 PM
I met a girl that looked identical to Sarah in college. Every time I see her I think of crabs and burning urine.
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tropicgirl
January 29, 2010 2:05 PM
I think the "liberal attacks" can be illustrated by Massenoi's comment.
Its true, Olberman, Maddow, Matthews, Schults, Rhodes and others mercilessly resorted to these types of comments. It really did make her famous. I guess they got the "straw man" they wanted, only you beefed her up to a dangerous point, now that she pledges allegience to the crooked corporations. Most normal people really got sickened by it and felt sorry for her. Nice job.
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Liberal Jesus
January 29, 2010 3:31 PM in reply to tropicgirl
Most "normal people" Tropicgirl??? What does that mean and how do you quantify "normal"...? And how made you the Queen of what normal means? You mean normal like under-educated racist white people normal?
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expat46
January 29, 2010 3:34 PM in reply to tropicgirl
I never heard Olberman, Maddow, Matthews, Schults, Rhodes blame SP for the clap?
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Massenois
January 29, 2010 7:21 PM in reply to tropicgirl
She is not worth of one millisecond of serious consideration. She is no more suited to be President then Rodney Dangerfield is. Anything she says, does, cares about, thinks about is no more significant in importance than the guy washing windshields on the corner. I never feel bad for those that thrust their face out in there for public adoration.
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GTFOOH
January 29, 2010 2:22 PM
They already are merged!
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JadeZ
January 29, 2010 2:36 PM
just wondering why these people need to merge.
were all the teabaggers non voters sitting around watching fox and one day ran out to the same protest?
no.
they are all already republicans so why is the story being put like this??
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calbearinillinois
January 29, 2010 3:58 PM in reply to JadeZ
For fear they'll keep subverting the NRSC and NRCCs plans by supporting no hope hardcore conservatives in races where it takes a moderate to win. Whatever her other legion of failings, she's never been one to put idealogical purity (or the truth) get in the way of winning.
There's reason to worry about Tea Partiers as a right wing Green Party wedge based on conduct to date. Beyond NY 23, stupid acts like rejecting Mark Kirk in Illinois as a RINO even though he's the only elephant with a hope of winning a general statewide election (and not a great one), backing Rubio over Crist in Florida despite the fact that actually helps the Democrat in the race, etc. The GOP got lucky in MA that Brown wasn't exposed as too moderate for the Tea Partiers because he kept talking about his truck and spouting buzzwords.
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expat46
January 29, 2010 4:50 PM in reply to calbearinillinois
I was curious about that, did Scott Brown pass the GOP purity test?
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lousgirl84
January 29, 2010 5:11 PM in reply to calbearinillinois
Brown never ran as a republican, his colors were blue - he ran as an independent. That is a fact. He ran a good campaign considering the other one didn't bother to show up until it was too late.
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JNagarya
February 1, 2010 2:57 AM in reply to lousgirl84
He pretended to be independent by saying nothing about his party affiliation and voting record. In palce of that he talked about his truck, and spewed the usual Republican talking poisnts about returning to the cause of the problem is the wa to solve the problem.
In reality he's voted 96 per cent of the time Republican, and has a 100 per cent approval rating with the far-right lunatic fringe gun industry propaganda arm NRA.
And a percentage of women voted for him based upon the fanatsy of having sex with him -- he's alleged to be a "hunk". In truth he's vapid meat.
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ched
January 29, 2010 2:48 PM
Methinks that Sarah is simply trying to preserve her upcoming payday, by promoting the on-the-verge-of-collapse Teabag Nation convention. If the Teabag-Con implodes as a result of the recent exodus of all the high profile wingnuts, Sarah's out $100k. And even if it goes on but Sarah speaks to a half-empty room, that won't be good for future bookings. Like Levi said, it's all about the coin for Caribou Barbie.
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Winski
January 29, 2010 2:54 PM
It's hard to remember how long it's been since we've seen someone this stupid... even the peeps in Alaska think she's an idiot...
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RocketEngineer
January 29, 2010 5:09 PM
It's that she's just so darn cute when she tries to think.
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jay
January 29, 2010 7:29 PM
It continues to be a mystery to me why the media pays so much attention to people like Sarah Palin and Al Sharpton. Serious news media actually have these unsavory characters on to tell us what they think! Why? As soon as Palin, Sharpton, et al come on I turn the TV off as fast as I can. Is there someone out there actually watching them?
Come on TPM, Fox, CBS - you can do better picking someone off the street. When I watch news I don't want it sucking the intelligence out of me.
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des
January 29, 2010 7:59 PM
The only thing better than the Teabaggers running independent candidates, would be for them to actually take complete control of the Republican Party.
Sarah (the Quitter) Palin, former governor of Alaska, has absolutely no credentials for any elective post at any level of government; local, state, or national. As with all modern Republicans, she can campaign and win, but she is incapable of governing. She has continually shown, and revels in, her complete lack of any expertise, whether innate or acquired, in governing. Palin was chosen for two reasons: to try and peel off HRC supporters and, as she was unknown outside of Alaska, she wouldn't overshadow McCain. How'd THAT work out?
Insecure, ill-educated, vain, shallow and vindictive sum up Palin. And those may very well be her GOOD qualities!
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Mr.E.
January 29, 2010 8:24 PM
----"On the divisiveness, she continued, "We need to ignore that and we need to forge ahead with a cohesive message. It's a common sense message. It, again, is, Government, limit yourself so that the private sector, our families, free individuals can grow and thrive and prosper and enjoy America's freedom!"
At the risk of wasting the electrons to post a substantive response to an insubstantive comment and commenter:
1) That statement is complete gobbledegook and froth.
2) Gotta love the desire to merge party Republicans' desire to recapture DeLay-style power, cede domestic control to corporations and promote a neo-con world domination with the Teabaggers' "Keep the gubmint's hands off my Medicare" into a single, cohesive message.
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fcleff
January 29, 2010 8:55 PM
GOT - Grand Old Teabaggers.
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Silence
January 29, 2010 9:24 PM
After one year, Glenn Beck is the second most popular TV personality in America?
Congratulations, Beck!!
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Marinus van der Lubbe
January 30, 2010 7:17 AM in reply to Silence
Popular with racists, tin foil hat wearers, misinformed malcontents, kool-aid swilling sheep, prevaricators, reactionaries, armchair commandos and chickenhawk pukes.
What happened to your stylish Colbert eagle/flag combo? Is the avatar of a 14 year old girl's lower legs and sneakers more apropo?
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Silence
January 30, 2010 8:50 AM in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe
Are you referring to the $550 sneakers worn by Michelle Obama to a soup kitchen? lol These are, in fact, Michelle's legs and the sneakers are indeed juvenile.
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Sailormarlowe
January 30, 2010 9:37 AM in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe
Marina fan der Lube? Sounds perverted. Heehee
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Marinus van der Lubbe
January 30, 2010 10:01 AM in reply to Sailormarlowe
Oh my God, SailorDickLove...one as psychotically repulsive as yourself shouldnt be casting aspersions..please go back to speaking for Cellulite Sarah and Meaningless Mudbrain Michelle as you channel them through your neurotic cross dressing fantasies. We await your weak and tiresome alliterations that in some dark unforeseen room in your mind passes for prose.
Take Silence with you, he probably has K-Y in his back pocket.
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Silence
January 30, 2010 11:43 AM in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe
Being a big Navy guy and all, I'm sure you wouldn't have any trouble reciting the names and ranks of 3 Memorial hall honorees?
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Marinus van der Lubbe
January 30, 2010 12:12 PM in reply to Silence
Navy Divers: Medal of Honor winners.
BTW, there are about a hundred different Memorial's that honor those who served, awarded citations or medals, and those who were KIA. Get your ducks in a row and really, stop exposing yourself for such a petty and thin skinned poof.
I liked you better when you had the Colbert flag and eagle thing going on. Now youre just pathetically weak.
Eadie, Thomas, Chief Gunner's Mate, USN -- Diver -- 18 December 1927
* Badders, William, Chief Machinist's Mate, USN -- Diver -- May-September 1939
* Crandall, Orson L., Chief Boatswain's Mate, USN, -- Diver -- May-September 1939
* McDonald, James H., Chief Metalsmith, USN -- Diver -- May-September 1939
* Mihalowski, John, Chief Torpedoman, USN -- Diver -- May-September 1939
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Silence
January 30, 2010 12:16 PM in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe
Memorial Hall honorees, not whatever names you managed to pick off the web.
You're lies are showing.
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Marinus van der Lubbe
January 30, 2010 12:57 PM in reply to Silence
I'm retired Diver...these guys are my guys. No lies. Your nonservice has already been recorded. Your disdain for anyone who is progressive who has sevred is a disgusting trait. As if dems who werve are somehow unfit for any respect...the Palin line. Here's a tip for you, chickenhawk, I worked at UCT-1 where Bob Stethem worked. Everyday we would muster and see his plaque with his bronze star, and three of the other guys still served there who were on that TWA flight as well as his kid brother, so stop salivating and shaking like a dog shitting razor blades in your giddiness.. So if you really want to call me out, that's your lookout, as you dont hazard your identity and hide behind a blog. Thats fine, chickenhawk...but you make no points, score no goals, and again, expose how thin your game really is.
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Silence
January 30, 2010 1:17 PM in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe
Hmmm. Chicken Hawk can recite the names, ranks years of graduation and service records of quite a few on that marble plaque. Odd isn't it? Big Navy guy can't, but Chicken Hawk can?
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Marinus van der Lubbe
January 30, 2010 2:14 PM in reply to Silence
Big Navy guy is tired of chicken hawk and no doubt you know shit like that. You probably know more about what life you didnt live than the sorry ass one you do. Yo're the guy who never played the game but knows all the batting averages or whatever stat. I'm done with you on this one, as youre hardwired to just fall into the 'i know u are but what am i?' mode. As stated, I served, am retired and teach. You on the other hand never did, probably bragged to people in bars you did and buy Special Warfare stuff online.
Bye...have good weekend knowing what you arent. Team up with Team SailorManHole and share dreams.
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Silence
January 31, 2010 9:19 AM in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe
Clearing the word vomit from your reg will make the ascent much easier.
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Marinus van der Lubbe
January 30, 2010 9:52 AM
If you can afford them, wear them. In your case, it's just an advertisement for being the pederast you are.
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Silence
January 30, 2010 10:38 AM in reply to Marinus van der Lubbe
Let's see. $3 per plate. That's 183.3 meals for the poor.
Instead, we have photo ops. for designer clown shoes at a soup kitchen/food bank.
Yup. I know. I know. It's all Bush's fault and people who point out something glaringly elitist are racists. See? I'm learning well.
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Marinus van der Lubbe
January 30, 2010 10:48 AM
Dont put words in my mouth...I dont even like to mention the B-word. Don't start itemizing lists and your silly attempt to illustrate how the poor can be fed. as if you ever handed out a nickel, spent time doing charity work or volunteered..I mean, that sounds like ...shhhh...Socialism! Please dont even pretend that has happened.
If you were able to learn that would be one thing, but you cant and as your view is so amazingly narrow, you never will.
Just keep being the little punching bag troll of TPM. Keep droppin gyour little fringe turds of your personal outlook lest all of us elitists forget what we have to deal with. And yes, compared to you it's OK to be termed an elitist as youre just a tennis shoe intellectual who regurgitates anything and everything your pundits blow out of their pie-holes.
Now just diddy off little dog. Figure out how many people could be fed from John Ensign's mommy and daddy's payola and hush money to the Hamptons.
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Silence
January 30, 2010 11:06 AM
I'll bet I could manufacture those shoes for around $3 a pair.
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Silence
January 30, 2010 11:22 AM
BTW, the tax credits for new hires and salary increases won't work.
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susanthe
January 30, 2010 11:08 PM in reply to Silence
Right - only tax cuts for the wealthy will create jobs.
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Silence
January 31, 2010 8:01 AM in reply to susanthe
Nah. Let's do more tax cuts for the poor. Wait. The poor don't pay taxes. They don't create jobs either. It's quite the conundrum, isn't it?
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Tosh
January 30, 2010 1:20 PM
haha i can't believe she said that. what is it supposed to mean?http://www.m65jacket.com
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Anasazi
January 30, 2010 4:54 PM
Tea Party - GOP merger?
The Tea Party activists are the agents provocateurs of the GOP. I think the real question is will the Tea Party take control of the GOP? If so, that will be the first time political shock troopers took control of a mainline political party in the US, excepting the Founding Fathers.
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Leftflank
January 31, 2010 1:57 PM
Don't forget a slice of lemon to complete the merge.
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TexasLittleEl
January 31, 2010 5:55 PM
~Preface~
Sarah Palin like John McCain isn't a conservative. Both are Republicans in the worse sense of the word.
True conservatives believe in small government, balancing the budget, believe whole heartedly in the Constitution of the united States, and the Bill of Rights.
Neither of these two do.
~That being said, why would the Tea Party members join a group that hold very few of the same very views as the Republicans?~
Tea Party members also will agree to disagree on some fundamental issue, Abortion and war being two of them.
They have agreed to set aside those differences for the time being because they KNOW that they are divisive issues designed to keep people apart instead of working toward commons goals.
You will find a gamut of people who are Tea Partiers, both liberal and conservative, republican and democrat, libertarian and independent. All united to reign in government spending that both sides have promulgated over the last 60 years.
Mra. Palin must be deranged if these self same people will unite just under the banner of the Republican Party, and have the exact same thing that happened in 1994, occur yet again. Lots of promises and little action.
Fool us once, shame on you Mrs. Palin, fool us twice, never again.
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JNagarya
February 1, 2010 3:09 AM in reply to TexasLittleEl
"True conservatives believe in small government,"
Please provide statements from the Founders/Framers which supports the horseshit about "small gov't". Othewise, stop misreprenting their view, which was that they wanted a strong, central, Federal gov't.
None of whioch includes the word "small".
In other words: you've swallowed the far-right lunatic fringe anti-gum'mint/-American bilge.
"balancing the budget,"
Nor will you find any of the Founders/Framers jabbering about "balanced budget".
"believe whole heartedly in the Constitution of the united States, and the Bill of Rights."
Which neither you nor they have actually read.
"~That being said, why would the Tea Party members join a group that hold very few of the same very views as the Republicans?~"
The "Tea Party" morons don't hold any "views" unless confused ignorance has attained the status of "view".
"Tea Party members also will agree to disagree on some fundamental issue, Abortion and war being two of them."
"Tea Party" members are stupid enough to get bogged down in sticking their nose in others' private business -- abortion -- while at the v3ery same time demanding that gov't stay out of their lives.
Confused ignorance is not a "view," let alone a viable idology.
"They have agreed to set aside those differences for the time being because they KNOW that they are divisive issues designed to keep people apart instead of working toward commons goals."
But in reality -- which to them is an illegal alien -- they are falling apart at the seams because they've never been anything more than chickens running around with the heds cut off and yelling about how the sky is falling -- and attempting but failing to find a leader to latch onto, in part becaseu they don't trust leaders.
"You will find a gamut of people who are Tea Partiers, both liberal and conservative, republican and democrat, libertarian and independent."
NONE of them are "leberal" becasue liberals are socially liberal -- they believe in te social programs the suckers oppose against their own interests and in favor of the wealthy they also hate.
"All united to reign in government spending that both sides have promulgated over the last 60 years."
There's nothing wrong with gov't specning, Mr. Clueless: if you KNEW ANYTHING about our system of gov't -- and such as the Constitution -- you'd get it that We the people are --
1. The taxpayers.
2. The gov't.
3. and have every right to determine what WE will do with the taxes we pay into the treasury.
"Mra. Palin must be deranged if these self same people will unite just under the banner of the Republican Party, and have the exact same thing that happened in 1994, occur yet again. Lots of promises and little action."
Umm -- you leave out that if they united behind the deranged Palin, then they too are deranged. But the evidence is already in: both are illiterate as concerns the fundamentals, and deranged in their grounless "beliefs".
"Fool us once, shame on you Mrs. Palin, fool us twice, never again."
You are so deeply fooled, and have been ffor so long, that it all looks normal to you. Meanwhile, you invoke the Constitution and Bill of Rights -- which you've NEVER READ.
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horklet
January 31, 2010 7:30 PM
yes, Sarah, oh yes!!!
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DeathSquad
January 31, 2010 11:22 PM
The democrats should merge with anarchists!
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bonncaruso
February 1, 2010 8:49 AM
I am a democrat, somewhere between centrist and progressive, more progressive than centrist. I am a huge fan of Obama, he has my utmost of respect. And I have watched the utter disintegration of the GOP with a mixture of horror and light amusement.
But we should be careful about making assumptions about "Tea Partiers" - I have discovered that they are a much more diverse and much more loosely formed group than many think.
From what I can see, at the very core are the hard core libertarians, who see both major political parties as destructive and were last truly happy when Goldwater ran in 1964. These people believe with all their hearts that we should completely dismantle the government and let everyone fend for his or herself.
Second, I see a large wave of people who remind me very much of the Perot supporters from 1992, people who are upset and angry, but either not exactly sure why or over what they are angry about, or they have simply very awkward timing in expressing it, because the core of their complaints about fiscal responsibility should have been screamed from the rooftops during the Bush 43 years instead of now.
Third, there is a small but potent white supremacist racist element here, and not necessarily limited to the south. To their credit, I have also seen tea-baggers shun these individuals. HOwever, their presence at the tea parties could not be photoshopped away.
Fourth, there are the GOP opportunists who would like to incorporate this movement, but as we can see, this will be much harder to do than we think.
Because I am a homeland loving, patriotic American, I respect their rights to their views, I respect their right to express them when and where they want to. But I disagree with practically all of them, and more importantly, I disagree with their timing.
Finally, remember how diversity works. No group is monolithic. Go back and look at the GE 2008: In spite of massive demonization of Obama, he still got around 20% of the evangelical vote.
Realizing this, the democratic majority in congress had better get off it's duff and listen to what the President said at his SOTU speech and at the thumping he gave the GOP congressional caucus on Friday. Forget being Mr. Nice Guy, get the job done, even if it means throwing everything down the GOP's throat with reconciliation.
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