Half-baked Republican Presidential Fruitcakes (and fellow confections)

jank wrote: »

Ah the ultimate get out of jail card. He likes some things the tea party does so hey lets lump him in with all the rest and paint massive broad stokes and begin the daily circle jerk. Perhaps we can call Obama a terrorist because of the links with Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

Of course this is not to mention the mental comparisons to the Taliban you made.

Also telling that you constantly use the word 'teabagger' with its sexual connotations to describe a political faction. The term is banned in the politics forum as some kids got their kicks out of the term. One would think a mod would show some leadership but hey this is A+A.

jank wrote: »

So why do you knowingly use a derogatory term to use a political faction. Would it be OK to call a LGBT group the 'dyke group' or the 'fag party'. No it wouldn't so why lower yourself to 'teabagger'?

Repubtard
A retarded Republican, which in itself is a double negative, due to the fact that Republicans are already retarded.

Repubtard's favorite channel is FOX (Forgotten Old Xenophobes - previously referred to as Freaks On Xanax) News.

They are responsible for outsourcing and offshoring cause they save some money to donate to other Repubtard candidates in upcoming presidential elections. Repubtards also favor toddlers carrying semi-automatic's, a supposedly advanced nation without healthcare, war-mongering, tea bagging, and tax breaks for the rich (which they embellish by stating that trickle-down economics works, which of course it doesn't, but greed-at-top economics is what they practice.)

They also believe that $7 million dollars isn't "wealthy enough". Additionally they are in favor of cutting education, social security, stem cell research, social programs, and sending American manufacturing overseas for cheap labor and higher revenue, etc. pretty much everything that makes an advanced industrial country...well...an advanced industrial country.

nagirrac wrote: »

While I disagree with the Tea Party movement on their political ideology and tactics, I also have to accept the majority of the vitriol directed at them is from people who are just as extreme as them in terms of ideology. Unlike most on this site I would imagine, I personally know and have spoken to / debated with many who identify with the Tea Party movement and they are absolutely nothing like how they are stereotypically portrayed. Of course they have some high profile and low profile clowns within their ranks but so do all political groups.

The basic argument of the Tea Party is that it is highly unethical for a state to keep borrowing at the rate the US is borrowing and pass the burden of repaying that debt onto our children and their children, simply to maintain the standard of living of the current generation and to maintain a bloated government that is vastly larger than necessary. It is a very valid ethical and political argument and one that deserves a bit more rational analysis than ridiculing some members of the group. Where both they and those on the opposite extreme in the Democratic party fall down is the failure to understand that the 2 party system in the US only works when you have elected officials willing to compromise their ideology for the greater good. Sadly, there appear fewer and fewer politicians in that category.

Leaving aside all the noise about religious beliefs and race, the great majority of Tea Party members care passionately about the future of their country, something that cannot be said about the majority of those in politics.

jank wrote: »

Penn Jillette (who has a quite a following here) defends the tea party from the usual ad-hominons that the tea party are [insert admonion attack].
This led to accusations from the leftm (see vanity fair interview) that he was a member but he isn't. He can just see through the bull$hit and hypocrites on both sides.

Glenn Beck to Penn Jillette: “We just need libertarians.” Jillette: “I’ll take a Christian over a Socialist.”

jank wrote: »

Penn Jillette (who has a quite a following here) defends the tea party from the usual ad-hominons that the tea party are [insert adhominon attack].
This led to accusations from the left (see vanity fair interview) that he was a member but he isn't. He can just see through the bull$hit and hypocrites on both sides.

Eric: Just don’t mention the part about telling the truth to Hitler’s talent bookers, and I’m pretty sure you’ll get a guest slot.

Penn: Oh, I won’t say a word. But you know what I mean, right? It does have an effect. I go on Glenn Beck as an atheist and talk about atheism. And I have people come up to me and say, “You know, until I saw you on Glenn Beck, speaking so passionately about atheism, I’d never considered that as a moral decision.” That’s incredibly powerful. These are people watching a hardcore Christian show and being exposed to an atheist point of view.

Eric: Your intentions seem genuine, but I can’t help myself, Penn. Every time I hear you’ve been on Glenn Beck, it makes me a little sick.

Penn: It makes me sick too! When people come up to me and say they love the show, I feel sick. Because I do disagree with a lot of what he says. But I also feel a little sick whenever people say they saw me on Keith Olbermann.

Eric: And yet you continue to do it. You know, there’s an easy way to stop making yourself sick.

Penn: But I think it’s important. I may be the only person who goes on Keith Olbermann and Glenn Beck and says the exact same ****. I am so much more socially liberal than Olbermann will ever be. You can’t believe how pro gay and pro freedom of speech I am. I’m way out beyond anyone on the Left. And as for fiscal conservatism and small government, I’m so much further to the right than Glenn Beck. Nobody is further left and further right than me. As I’m fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it’s straight ahead.