[Rhodes22-list] Praise Jesus, the Republicans are going to save us from the Republicans

[Herb Parsons]

I think it's funny that the candidate that was considered as a running 
mate for the Democratic choice a few years back, is now being touted as 
"more of the same". Keep trying though, you guys may find something that 
works.

What exactly makes Palin a "religious kook", that fact that's she 
religious? I think your colors are beginning to show.

petelargo wrote:
> Ben, thanks for your post. As you may have noticed, there is no dialogue with
> the right-wing extremists. You are wrong, end of discussion and your an
> idiot to boot.
>
> When John McCain won the nomination, Bush disappears overseas. At the RNC,
> no Bush, no Cheney (and no mention of them). They know it's a failed
> administration. Where were the solutions. Once again, they are trying to
> frame the campaign as an ideology argument rather than an issues discussion. 
>
> Today on Face the Nation, "Sis Cum Ba and WHA-LAA", McCain is now the change
> candidate and stated that he will end the incredible corruption in
> Washington and the failed policies. John McCain has re-defined a whole new
> level of flip-flopping on over two dozen key issues within the last eight
> years including his own authored bill that he was for and now against. 
>
> I couldn't give a poop about the experience argument of Palin vs Obama. It's
> a waste of time.  The entire Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Rice-Rove, etc
> administration could be argued to be the most experienced administration in
> the history of the White House. A huge amount of prior "executive
> experience".  For the first time in recent politics the Republicans had the
> power in the white house, judicial, house and senate. How was it for you? 
> It's one thing to drive a tractor trailer up our butts, but when they start
> blowing on the horn while there're doing it, it's really gone too far. 
>
> A big thank you for the memories: the debt, the dead, the twisting
> intelligence to "sell" us a war on a country that did not attack us, the
> good ol boy ineffectual cronyism, and finally the shredding of the
> constitution. With Palin we now we get to have another religious kook to
> satisfy the so-called conservative extremist religious right to 'bridge'
> them into this administration and get money.
>
> Spending 5-10 billion dollars a month on Iraq and kissing chinese ass
> (borrowing the money) of the most Marxist suppressive government on the
> planet at this time is a conservative value? 
>
> Finally, the biggest hypocrisy of all . That these extremists actually think
> that they and the republicans are the vanguards of conservatism?  The two
> top key pillars of conservatism are less government and government intrusion
> and fiscal responsibility.  The only administration that walked that talk in
> 50 years was a Democrat that left Bush a 500 billion dollar surplus. He blew
> threw that in one year and it was prior to 9-11.  And there is no greater
> government intrusion that being told what you can or cannot do with or put
> into your body. Palin wants privacy for her family decisions, but she wants
> to legislate publicly what you should do with yours. No thanks.
>
>
>
> Ben Cittadino-2 wrote:
>   
>> My Dear Culture Warriors;
>>
>> So....are we having fun yet?
>>
>> First, I'd like to thank Richard and Slim for stepping up to join the
>> "Assault on the Citadel".  
>> The bullets don't sting as much when the adversary's fire is spread out
>> among more than one target.
>> In the words first uttered by Gen. "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell, "illegitimi
>> non carborundum".
>>
>> As for Tootle, Brad, and Herb, you guys crack me up.  I posted about Obama
>> only because I saw Tootle's post that 
>> suggested anybody supporting Obama was either a marxist, or a farm animal. 
>> What did he expect when he said that?
>> Herb, where was your outrage that Tootle would refer to some of his fellow
>> "Rhodies" in such derogatry terms? Supporting Obama or McCain 
>> may turn out to be right or wrong, but if we debate policy and don't
>> engage in mere name-calling this "sailor's bar"  could be an interesting
>> place.
>>
>> Richard's "geezer" remarks are defensible on several grounds. First, he
>> was provoked. Second, he was defending ME.
>> Third, it was funny. Calling someone a "marxist" as Tootle did is several
>> magnitudes worse than gentle kidding of the 
>> "old fart" kind. Surely you see the difference.
>>
>> The positions I tried to lay out as reasons some people support Obama were
>> intended as an outline of ideology (as Slim noted), 
>> not an argument supporting any position.  For example, Herb, you are
>> pro-life and will probably vote for McCain/Palin in part for that reason.
>> I am pro-choice, pro-embryonic stem cell research and so I will support
>> Obama/Biden in part for that reason.  It is not hyperbole to  point out
>> the policy differences that explain my choice.  What I know for sure is
>> that marxism and "sheepiness" have nothing to do with it. I have thought
>> about all of my positions on the issues I mentioned and am completely
>> prepared to explain and justify them.  In Brad's oft' repeated mantra I
>> know I have "done my homework".
>>
>> Enough for today. The games will be on soon. 
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Ben C. , s/v Susan Kay, Highlands, NJ
>>
>>
>>
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