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- PumpItUp, on 04/25/2009, -2/+36Random quote FTA: "But it's been almost 100 days, and your country is not coming back to you. She's found somebody new. And it's a black guy"
Spot on!
Lmao - inactive, on 04/25/2009, -2/+26"They used to be the party of the big tent; now they're the party of the sideshow attraction, a socially awkward group of mostly white people who speak a language only they understand. Like Trekkies, but paranoid."
Wow. That is amazingly on target. I'm certainly no Obama fan, but it's hard to NOT notice the right-wing kooks really have it in for him. I can't figure out if they are just pissed because their home team (Bush, Rove, Cheney) were a bunch of greedy lying criminal pricks that got caught, or if they actually believe that Obama is turning the US into a fully socialist nation and will take away their guns, rape their children, and then force them all to read the Qur'an before welcoming Osama bin Laden to the White House for tea.
The liberals and libertarians have their share of crazy, but come on... the republicans can't even find planet Earth today. - bluechigger, on 04/24/2009, -7/+26This is a ***** description for this awesome op-ed by Bill Maher. Your lackadaisical submission strategy will keep this from getting all of the diggs it deserves. Very disappointed.
- RansomHoldiay, on 04/25/2009, -1/+18the GOP's problem is their core belief that the message isn't wrong. it's who delivered it, or how it was delivered. it's like a religion to them. and they will keep marching off into irrelevance if they don't come around to the fact that the message is wrong.
- TheWriteGuy, on 04/25/2009, -1/+18"And if today's conservatives are insulted by this, because they feel they're better than the people who have the microphone in their party, then I say to them what I would say to moderate Muslims: Denounce your radicals. To paraphrase George W. Bush, either you're with them or you're embarrassed by them."
Maher's right. Moderate, reasonable Republicans must actively, loudly and publicly denounce the radicals in their party. Otherwise, the general public will conclude that their silence is tacit support for these radicals -- and, thus, the moderate Republicans lose (or have already lost) control of their party. - mrsteveman1, on 04/25/2009, -1/+16In case you haven't noticed, the democrats were handed the job because the republicans are ***** incompetent, and not conservative, nor have they ever been conservative. They're pissed off they lost, and now they want to appologize and pretend they "lost their way". For 30 ***** years.
- scoog, on 04/24/2009, -3/+16In place of no description, FTA: "Here are the big issues for normal people: the war, the economy, the environment, mending fences with our enemies and allies, and the rule of law. And here's the list of Republican obsessions since President Obama took office: that his birth certificate is supposedly fake, he uses a teleprompter too much, he bowed to a Saudi guy, Europeans like him, he gives inappropriate gifts, his wife shamelessly flaunts her upper arms, and he shook hands with Hugo Chavez and slipped him the nuclear launch codes. Do these sound like the concerns of a healthy, vibrant political party?"
- evilsnoopi3, on 04/24/2009, -3/+15Bad Submission. Hilarious Piece.
- mediablitz, on 04/24/2009, -4/+15The first paragraph is all win, and says it all. Too bad the submitter couldn't take the time to better summarize this excellent piece.
- sigmaman2, on 04/25/2009, -1/+11"That's what you are, the bitter divorced guy whose country has left him -- obsessing over it, haranguing it, blubbering one minute about how much you love it and vowing the next that if you cannot have it, nobody will.
But it's been almost 100 days, and your country is not coming back to you. She's found somebody new. And it's a black guy."
ROTFL
This is the stuff that makes me like Bill Maher - pseudologue, on 04/25/2009, -1/+10I've always wondered why conservative opinion pieces tend to be all about self-righteous rage while the left tend to monopolize satire, sardonic humor, and snarkiness. I mean, that piece is empty of content however it's funny as *****. All conservatives seem to write about lean on simmering paranoia and indignation.
- inactive, on 04/25/2009, -0/+8Then the 'real' conservatives should stop whining about being misrepresented and deal with the dominant crazies in the Right who take up all the air time. Seriously, you can't complain about misrepresentation when you sit back and let these boneheads run your party. Do something about it.
- darwinwins, on 04/25/2009, -2/+10no they didn't. they wanted an old white guy. any old white guy. because to claim you're a republican voting for smaller government is a goddamn lie. what happened in 2004? did they mistake bush for the smaller government type? ***** you.
- misterrock, on 04/25/2009, -0/+7Bush's immigration policy was one of the few reasonable pieces of legislation he tried to push through.
And the crazy ***** in the fringe of your party destroyed it. - niradg, on 04/24/2009, -1/+8agreed. i find this to be a common problem on Digg.
- CaptOblivious, on 04/25/2009, -0/+7FTA:
"And if today's conservatives are insulted by this, because they feel they're better than the people who have the microphone in their party, then I say to them what I would say to moderate Muslims: Denounce your radicals. To paraphrase George W. Bush, either you're with them or you're embarrassed by them."
Sadly, the entire country is embarrassed by the !right and the republican party. - fury420, on 04/25/2009, -0/+6i heard an elected republican representative talk about how he hadn't seen obama's birth certificate
oh wait, is that what you meant by the wing nut fringe of the republican party? - USArugula, on 04/25/2009, -0/+6Hmmm, your is 6 hours old with 72 diggs and hasn't front paged. This one is 15 hours old and front paged with 34 diggs.
I wish I could figure out the basics of Digg's algorithm - darwinwins, on 04/25/2009, -1/+7we won across the board. get over it. the reality we have is the one we're making which is perfectly fine because that then becomes the reality for everyone. so follow your own advice.
- Dumbledorito, on 04/25/2009, -1/+7"They used to be the party of the big tent..."
They were? When? I mean, they may have promised things to all kinds of people, but other than servicing the wealthy and the corporations they had close ties to, who did they actually bring in under this "big tent?" - inactive, on 04/25/2009, -3/+8CLAP! CLAP!
- bdogm, on 04/25/2009, -1/+6So, as far as I can tell from your post: the tea parties actually were about illegal immigration?
"This is reporting?": This is Bill Maher! - Pimptastic, on 04/25/2009, -1/+6To be honest, I like the last paragraph. This was an excellent op-ed that gives a nice perspective on how some of my fellow crazy right wingers are behaving and thinking. But it also shows the typical dismissal from the left whenever the right raises a question. He did seem to forget that a lot of us at the tea bag rallies were focused on the runaway spending. you know the type that the left screamed at Reagan and W. about.
Though not divorced from reality, more or less we grew up without parents and made friends with some hooligans(the neocons). It was great to see the left rally around the idea of change. while us in the gop aint got a clue what to rally around. - RansomHoldiay, on 04/25/2009, -0/+4but can you name me 5 honest republicans that don't "fail" to enact the message? i mean your point is valid, but it's not like it's a couple of people.
- darwinwins, on 04/25/2009, -1/+5being uneducated about how the constitution works about equal application of the laws for the minority classes pretty much makes one a bigot. just saying. maybe racist is too strong a word for some of these people but the same thought process goes on behind their eyeballs.
- mrsteveman1, on 04/25/2009, -2/+6At least Maher makes sense most of the time.
- mrsteveman1, on 04/25/2009, -2/+5I hear jesus is coming back soon, maybe convince him to run?
- inactive, on 04/25/2009, -2/+5The GOP is finished, but that doesn't mean we should all flock to the dems. Both parties are power hungry and wasteful. We deserve better than these two parties. Lets re-think politics and create a system that will truly represent us. Why can't we get rid of our congress man and just vote on laws via the internet? Direct representation is definitely a viable possibility with today's technology.
- Pyros7, on 04/25/2009, -9/+12The Republicans don't have anything but God and Guns left. They've spent decades proving that they can't deliver on the "smaller government, lower taxes" issues that they've promised.
The rest of the article is flame bait. Rush hates democrats, Bill Maher hates republicans. Their arguments are each as well thought out and factual as the other guy's. If you're too dumb to see that, you probably love one of them. - DrunkRobot, on 04/25/2009, -0/+3That my be true but middle class people living in the "red states" also have to get a grip on reality.
It makes absolutely no sense for them to support the Republican party. I'm not saying they should vote for Democrats. But they need to recognize the GOP represents big business and the super wealthy. Period. They simply don't care about the poor or middle class. "Conservatives" have been enacting laizzes faire capitalism (free trade) and trickle down economics policies since Reagan. Those policies destroyed the middle-class in this country. All the wealth once held by the middle-class has been given to the wealthy through tax cuts or shipped overseas along with all the jobs. But Republicans don't campaign on those issues. They instead use Demagogy and campaign on guns, god, abortion and taxes.
Middle-class people in all states have to wake up to that fact and start electing people who actually represent them. Like actual middle class candidates instead of wealthy lawyers and CEO's. As they say "fool me once, same on you... fool me twice, shame on me". - DrunkRobot, on 04/25/2009, -0/+3He doesn't hate all Republicans, he hates the narrow minded, hypocritical idiots. Both parties have them but unfortunately, the majority of Republicans fall into that category. Bill was absolutely right, time for the sensible people in the party to speak up and distance themselves from Rush, Newt, Hannity and Fox News.
- c010rb1indusa, on 04/25/2009, -2/+5Thanks for keeping it real Bill!
- WasabiBomb, on 04/26/2009, -0/+2"It's twoo! It's TWOO!"
- skolera, on 04/26/2009, -0/+2If you are going to cherry pick any random states to suit your own worldview, I guess I'll do the same. Take median household income, where in the Republican state of Mississippi it is only $36,338, or 38% below the national median. Meanwhile, Maryland, a Democratic state has the highest median income at $68,080, or 36% above national median. In fact, out of the top 10 only one state -Alaska - can be said to be completely Republican. Looks to me like their "liberal" policies seem to be working quite fine for them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_t ... - mediablitz, on 04/27/2009, -0/+2"illegal immigration is all about rule of law, specifically you have 10 million people who ignored the law when they came here illegally)."
Except you conveniently ignore the real law breakers here. If there weren't companies hiring the illegal aliens, they wouldn't be coming here. Funny how people like you (obsessed beyond any rational thought) always overlook that.
Well, just read your last sentence, and realized I am trying to converse with someone completely devoid of reason. You actually think Hawaii isn't part of the United States! - Raiderkid6, on 04/27/2009, -0/+2Im a Republican, and this is an excellent piece. We need to start changing a lot of things, and the only person I see attempting that is Megan McCain. Hopefully the younger generation republicans (me included, im 19) will follow suite. A new kind of Republican needs to emerge, the progressive republican? I hope so.
- ProLick, on 04/26/2009, -0/+2It's been well over 100 years, and the second coming of Lincoln wouldn't be coming back as a Republican.
- Kelto1, on 04/25/2009, -0/+2Is there a point to that statement? It's a joke, and you're looking way too deeply into it.
- Discola, on 04/25/2009, -5/+7 I think a large part of the anger comes from a lack of representation. I believe that most Republicans that went to the polls wanted a party for smaller government, less taxes and a sensible foreign policy. Unfortunately those promises were never kept and now who can they vote for?
- Kelto1, on 04/25/2009, -0/+2"But it's been almost 100 days, and your country is not coming back to you. She's found somebody new. And it's a black guy."
I Lol'd hard.
Edit: *****, someone got there before me... - mrsteveman1, on 04/25/2009, -1/+3Not really, i've heard both of them talk at length. Maher is wrong sometimes, but makes reasoned arguments.
Rush is a ranting, hypocritical nutcase. - thesonofdarwin, on 04/25/2009, -0/+2It's not that he doesn't understand what messages they attempted to raise and he explains this, it's that the teabaggers were not able to campaign on a unified issue. The parties ended up being grounds to hate the president on anything and everything from color, birth certificate, gay marriage(why?!?), etc. That's why they were a joke. In addition to being the exact opposite in meaning of the original tea parties they were supposed to represent. When you just gather to bitch about everything it ends up being just another day at a bar in the rural South and you certainly don't convey any worthy message. We completely understand the lack of control the teabaggers have, but that's causing the majority of their problems currently. They might want to fix that first so they can be taken seriously. With all the hate the teabaggers have of activists one would think they'd better understand how it's done.
- scottc, on 04/25/2009, -0/+1Yeah, I dugg it for the last two paragraphs.
- Kelto1, on 04/25/2009, -1/+2This is true, but on the internet information is...flexible. Errors occur, hackers come and go, and info is just as easily manipulated. I like your line of thinking, but with all the people who don't know how to work their computers (or just don't like the things) they'll be unrepresented. Give it more time.
- papashawn, on 04/25/2009, -1/+2I was going to post that exact same excerpt. definitely the money quote of the article.
- offrdbandit, on 04/25/2009, -3/+4Oh you mean a President's term is longer than 100 days? How insightful.
- ProLick, on 04/26/2009, -0/+1The Democratic party, which believes in your privacy, your right to freely speak, your right not to be tortured, and your right not to have the government in your bedroom or school. As to taxes, the simple reality is that the Democrats are taxing 95% of the people less than Republicans.
This really isn't that hard to figure out for those who aren't still divorced from reality. - USArugula, on 04/25/2009, -0/+1SirTraumaPony:
Actually, I think it has more to do with digg's protection against gaming, but I'm still not quite sure how they set it up. It's almost like a single, random digg from a non-freind is worth more than a single shout-driven digg from a freind. - rpgmakr, on 04/25/2009, -2/+2I, for one, welcome our new 12 y/o overlords...
- IKORKYI, on 04/25/2009, -1/+1i dunno memes do well on digg, semi-lolcat effect
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