"Republicans insane; want to establish theocracy"
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Re: "Republicans insane; want to establish theocracy"
Just finished listening to a news item on the BBC world service (digital radio and highly recommended btw) about the current pack of Repulblican rep candidates, which concluded a couple of things - both scary.
1. That despite their many and obvious failings in the agenda department (lack of any level of sophistication r.e. foreign policy for example) people would vote for them because of their 'proximity' to their own values.
2. That they wanted someone who , unlike the previous Bush post holders, were genuinely right wing!
Can someone recommend another planet to move to please?
On the plus side Obama, my own personal vote if I had one, but rather unpopular given the economy one reads, might stay in by default.
Let us pray....
1. That despite their many and obvious failings in the agenda department (lack of any level of sophistication r.e. foreign policy for example) people would vote for them because of their 'proximity' to their own values.
2. That they wanted someone who , unlike the previous Bush post holders, were genuinely right wing!
Can someone recommend another planet to move to please?
On the plus side Obama, my own personal vote if I had one, but rather unpopular given the economy one reads, might stay in by default.
Let us pray....
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Sorry, no livng democrat has that much balls, they have to cut off all they have beyond Alan Alda sensitive good for nothing.Gawdzilla wrote:Where we goin' get a Roosevelt these days?
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Valid point - indeed wasn't Bush Junior not, in his day, a "bugger for the bottle"?Clinton Huxley wrote:I read something in the paper at the weekend that made me snort.
"The current crop of Republican candidates make George Bush look like Aristotle"


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He was a dry drunk in the White House.Horwood Beer-Master wrote:Valid point - indeed wasn't Bush Junior not, in his day, a "bugger for the bottle"?Clinton Huxley wrote:I read something in the paper at the weekend that made me snort.
"The current crop of Republican candidates make George Bush look like Aristotle"
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That was why he stopped looking like Aristotle.Gawdzilla wrote:He was a dry drunk in the White House.Horwood Beer-Master wrote:Valid point - indeed wasn't Bush Junior not, in his day, a "bugger for the bottle"?Clinton Huxley wrote:I read something in the paper at the weekend that made me snort.
"The current crop of Republican candidates make George Bush look like Aristotle"![]()

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The Texans on The Atheist Experience said when Perry became governor after GWB moved on, the locals began to refer to Perry as "the dumb one".
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Good move. <-not sarcasm.andrewclunn wrote:I had a quick conversation on Google+ about this. I think I'll post that here:
Huntsman's too sane to get elected by the folks who are the target of the flacks. Johnson I know nothing of but if he's mentioned with Huntsman he's probably too sane too.andrewclunn wrote:Not Ron Paul, Jon Huntsman, or Gary Johnson.
Yeah, I noticed that Ron Paul was again the lone dissenting voice at this farce. Huntsman and Johnson are too much real Republicans to be voted in by whatever the GOP has turned into. In a sane world, the current poll numbers would be reversed.
I don't listen to them but I'll take your word they haven't.andrewclunn wrote:Yeah, my issue is with the assertion that somehow people like Santorum are more legitimate Republicans than the ones I mentioned. Of course this is coming from the horribly bias French Rag known as Slate, so it's not exactly surprising.To be fair, has any conservative commentator (besides David Frum) made any attempt to distinguish between the whackos and serious conservatives?
I can trace the thread of what I dislike in the Republican Party back to Hoover. The next President (well, next backward) I'm aware of is Wilson, and my grandfather received Joe Hill's ashes for Washington State so you can probably figure that one out. I would never advocate all Democrats; we weren't a very responsible party between the Civil War and the Depression. FDR changed our fortunes forever.andrewclunn wrote:It's a chicken and egg problem. If the label of 'conservative' applies only to a certain subset of those that generally vote Republican, than no. However the Republican party is about more than simply the modern conservative movement. It's very much a party in conflict right now. And I understand why left-leaning media outlets want to legitimize the craziest on the GOP side as being the "true" Republicans, but they do so at their own expense. They are not forcing themselves to be the only electable party by doing so, merely moving their opposition further and further right.I don't know, it's kind of off-putting to read some of the things these Republican candidates really believe and I don't think you need the liberal media to show that. Personally over the past few years, I have felt the Republican party moving away from me, rather than me becoming more liberal.
The two things I fear with Huntsman:andrewclunn wrote:Have one of them win the nomination
Holding out hope for Huntsman with a surprise win.
1. He's lying about his positions to get elected (non-maliciously, he thinks he believes it until it's about his salary) and will turn out to be listening to the loonies.
Bush and Cheney lied on television about "nation building" and I screamed they were lying and everyone voted for them anyway. "Teh algore is gonna get us'ns into WAGTHEDOGwhistlefnord." Iraq DUH.
2. Same but maliciously.
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If Herman Cain thinks that Christians haven't been fighting back, I'd like to see his definition of not fighting. The Christian right has infiltrated our school boards, our city councils, and our politics and winning elections. How in hell is that being passive?
If anything, the rationalists in this country have been too passive. We need to marginalize this insanity and bring the country to the 21st century. We are dealing with people who want to turn the clock back before the enlightenment.
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Subject: US Science To Be Decimated Next Year?rab wrote:If Herman Cain thinks that Christians haven't been fighting back, I'd like to see his definition of not fighting. The Christian right has infiltrated our school boards, our city councils, and our politics and winning elections. How in hell is that being passive?
If anything, the rationalists in this country have been too passive. We need to marginalize this insanity and bring the country to the 21st century. We are dealing with people who want to turn the clock back before the enlightenment.
maiforpeace wrote:When it comes to science in the US, this is what scares me:
Religious Lobbying Groups Have Dramatically Increased In Washington: Study
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Theocracy, rule by Beaver? I vote for that!

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Wow, the secular lobbying is at a whole 2 %!! Woo Woo! Watch out Herman Cain, we're coming for ya!maiforpeace wrote:When it comes to science in the US, this is what scares me:rab wrote:If Herman Cain thinks that Christians haven't been fighting back, I'd like to see his definition of not fighting. The Christian right has infiltrated our school boards, our city councils, and our politics and winning elections. How in hell is that being passive?
If anything, the rationalists in this country have been too passive. We need to marginalize this insanity and bring the country to the 21st century. We are dealing with people who want to turn the clock back before the enlightenment.
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Turkeys voting for christmasmaiforpeace wrote:Indeed, some of them are atheists.Gawdzilla wrote: If one of these Republican clowns get elected, it will be only with the complicity of the religious "moderates" we're supposed to coddle. Remember that not everyone supporting these people is a fundamentalist or Biblical literalist.
Outside the ordered universe is that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.
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"The Lord is my shepherd.Azathoth wrote:Turkeys voting for christmasmaiforpeace wrote:Indeed, some of them are atheists.Gawdzilla wrote: If one of these Republican clowns get elected, it will be only with the complicity of the religious "moderates" we're supposed to coddle. Remember that not everyone supporting these people is a fundamentalist or Biblical literalist.
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