I post this here because I believe it important to make it clear to Republicans who are pushing it as our duty to back Mitt Romney, should they succeed in garnering him the nomination, that what they are asking us to do is give our one vote to a man who fundamentally disagrees with foundational tenets of free market capitalism, backing instead a kind of government-guided command and control, corporatist / liberal fascist economy.
A Republican is. And many of our conservative opinion leaders are telling us to get in line behind him.
Meaning, either “conservatism” has — like “liberalism” before it — evolved in meaning to embrace its erstwhile opposite; or else we’re being told to back a Republican candidate who both accepts, and plans to govern within, an economic framework as defined by the Left — meaning we’ve conceded that in order to win elections, we have to surrender our foundational principles and agree to manage an overreaching, unconstitutional federal Leviathan from within the confines of a progressive, Marxist economic framework.
I choose no thank you.
I choose no thank you.
As unhelpful Hobbits go, at least you’re polite.
Alright, I was on the Sweet Meteor of Death bandwagon for a while, and briefly heard the siren song of Medically Induced Coma. A new contender: the Moldering Corpse of Milton Friedman.
GRAMSCI LIVES!
Empiricist.
Zombie Friedman/Zombie Jefferson 2012!
I mean, if we’re reanimating old favorites, why not go back to the beginning?
one-term presidents are often referred to as having had “failed presidencies”
Go Newt. Might as well jump
I’m warming to Newt. It’s ‘cuz I think the game could use a joker in the deck. I think he’s been pretty well excluded from any establishment ties…
James K. Polk did alright, I guess. Messing with the Olive Garden menu not among his achievements, though.
Plus, Mr. Thompson and Mrs. Palin endorsed him. Those are in my top five endorsers.
La Palin has not actually endorsed, at least not that I have heard anyway.
The Fred went on record right after South Carolina. Jumped right in, he did. No acting coy like some are wont to do.
I imagine there’s an argument that could let me vote for Newt because there’s some weird feeling in my gut that way.
Not feeling it up in my brain parts though.
I like Newt but I like the Newt we started with more better than the unfocused one we have now
Aspirational Newt is a better Newt.
oh my
Gingrich: Why should I call to congratulate some punk whose campaign says it’s trying to destroy me?
Fiesty Newt!
At about 1:35 in that video the interviewer is shown giving a dead-pan response for about 10 seconds. That is what an elite Brit looks like when they are panicking wildly.
mittens and paulbots sitting in a tree
Romney, Ron Paul Forging Unlikely Alliance
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any weirder…
Another for the “Why it Matters” File:
How does that saying about the enemy and rules of engagement go again?
fiesty newt
I’m Not A Newt Fan, But This Ad Should Give You Pause
I suppose it is time to look into the Romney machine with more understanding. There is hell no way I would not vote for him if he is the candidate. If he is horrible, Obama seems to be 1,000 times worse.
It seems to me, that my entire voting life has never presented me with any candidate that I really cared for. Too many fucking lawyer types. What the fuck do they know other than history and writing laws? I mean we basically trust the worlds largest economy to a bunch of lawyers?
It’s so weird and sad.
Fiesty Newt, indeed! That is one fine ad.
i’ll vote for mittens only because he might be able to cash out gingsberg for a souter. go rinos.
8 years of Obama is ten percent of people’s lives if they’re lucky, more if they’re average. 8 years knowing that your country’s economy was being raped silly. 8 years when entrepreneurs and risk-takings were discouraged. 8 years of the National Soros Media telling you that a real unemployment rate of above 10% was the new normal.
That’s an abuse i will not afflict on people.
go
abuse
yourself.
Unless the candidate is a right-wing religious chick without an Ivy League credential. In which case, rape away!
Obama leads from behind because that’s where the anus, which he so loves to penetrate, is located.
Yeah?
Something besides handwaving, please? They look pretty much of a muchness to me. Of course, I’m concerned with liberty, not with GOP power plays. Your mileage may vary.
I’ll take Romney over Obama for sure here in Los Angeles where unemployment is so ungodly high and the state government is so very very grecian I really fear for people if the rapist is reelected
I’ll take Romney over Obama for sure here in Los Angeles where unemployment is so ungodly high and the state government is so very very grecian I really fear for people if the rapist is reelected
Seriously. feets? Even if we had President Marco Rubio taking office in January 2013, do you really think anything is going to change in this idiotic, godforsaken state? As long as the brain-dead residents of CA keep reelecting senile, union-beholden leftists like Jerry “I Want The Fast Choo-Choos!” Brown for leadership, the only variable in the equation is how long it takes the state to collapse.
Buckle up, you trendy LA-livin’ electric hamster… you’ve got a front row seat for the apocalypse!
well yeah that’s my point it would be nicer if we post-poned the collapsey part for a bit longer, mostly on account of the terrible suffering what will ensue
*postponed* I mean
I’m kinda anticipating that the terrible sufferings will be expensive for me personally
The collapse and accompanying suffering is gonna happen regardless, feets. The longer it takes to happen, the more painful it’s going to be. Think about the underlying differences between an industrial strength enema and the end stages of Ebola.
However, I suspect the CA economy will collapse before the National one does. Maybe some good will come of it. Perhaps in this way.
nice poster
I’ll feel much more better once i have a plan I think… i’d feel better if I bought a house for so I could shelter the afflicted but you don’t buy a house in anticipation of a collapse
that would be retarded
so I think when the collapse happens I’ll be largely winging it
my job is secure and I have lots of places to go but some of my loved ones here are in much more precarious situations
I’m kinda anticipating that the terrible sufferings will be expensive for me personally
Gonna be expensive and painful for all us CA residents. All that time and expense I put into laying sod last year, and before long I’m just gonna have to dig it up to install gasoline and water tanks, emplace the minefield and add trenches. Thank God we’re already on a septic tank/drain field system, at least.
oh that’s awful me I bought arts from local artists and hung it
I hope I get to appreciate it for awhile
Back to the main point, feets, if you’re trying to convince us that in order to avoid four more years of Ted Bundy, we have to elect John Wayne Gacy (who did kill fewer people, after all), I confess I’m failing to understand the expected benefit. We’ll only be “mostly dead”?
I think we can do several valuable things by replacing Obama with Mr. Governor Romney.
One is we can deliver a stinging rebuke to socialist rapists everywhere.
Secondly we can reassert that there is some minimal level of experience a president should have.
Thirdly, we’ll have an R in our little white house that the R congresswhores can run to the right of. This may lead to fun and surprising happenings.
I too had thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered
but we can’t stay here with every single hope we had shattered
One is we can deliver a stinging rebuke to socialist rapists everywhere.
Personally, after having Obama’s fast-stroking cock up this country’s ass for the last four years, I’m really looking forward to having Romney’s slightly slower and smaller one there for the next four. Shivering in antici……..pation, I am.
Take THAT, socialist rapists everywhere!
Secondly we can reassert that there is some minimal level of experience a president should have.
You mean like being the successful Governor of a large state, and demonstrating conservative principals even if it means standing up to your own corrupt political Party ? Does that meet the “minimum level of experience” threshold?
Thirdly, we’ll have an R in our little white house that the R congresswhores can run to the right of. This may lead to fun and surprising happenings.
Great, so Boehnerfag and McConnellwhore will be a half an inch further to the right than they are today. That helps us exactly how?
Obama hasn’t been a magical and wondrous catalyst for conservatism Mr. Dave
he should’ve been
but he hasn’t been
so the revolution is gonna have to gestate some mores while the teadoodles plot their plots and scheme their schemes
patience my young jedi
Obama hasn’t been a magical and wondrous catalyst for conservatism Mr. Dave
Neither has Romney. And nor will he be, based on past performance. So I fail to see how he is somehow a better alternative than Obama. The only difference between the two I can see is the R next to Romney’s name, and frankly, that’s just not blowing air up my skirt.
When (not if) the economy plunges into its inevitable free fall, I think it’s better that a progressive hand be at the helm rather than a faux-conservative one.
Of course I’d much prefer a true or even semi-true conservative hand to start pulling us out of the nose dive we’re in, but unfortunately, the GOP had other ideas.
maybe the campaign will help clarify some differences