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So, a right-wing fascist Canadian president, huh? I wonder how the Tea Party will accept this foreign president when they couldn’t accept one they only imagine was born in another country.
OK, OK, I’m obviously joking, this new guy’s white.
As opposed to a left-wing fascist?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_fascism
Ted Cruz is the ONLY candidate who can beat HillaryVinceFosterkillingghazi. Republicans lose elections because their candidates are not conservative enough. When an independent voter is forced to choose between a Democrat and a moderate Republican, they ALWAYS VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRAT TO PUNISH THE REPUBLICANS FOR NOT BEING CONSERVATIVE enough. It’s how elections work, libruls. It’s how elections work.
I learned some things from the Canadian today, that LIBERTY ™ means being able to deny a wedding cake to freedom-hating equality-lovers, fracking, and stockpiling ammo, lots and lots and lots of ammo, because Jesus loves boxes of rounds and large capacity clips nearly the best almost as much as he hates health care.
Isn’t that how the hymn goes?
“Jesus hates you. This I know.
For the Bible tells us so”
Rino: I’ll let the liberals on this site also reply to your position that Republican candidates are not conservative enough. I tracked the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections closely and noticed that the most conservative Republicans appealed to a narrow, and slowly shrinking, base of mostly older white guys.
The country elected an inexperienced, one term, US Senator in 2008 and we all know how that turned out. Yes, I understand that liberals on this site may politely disagree. But, moving forward, why would the country want to repeat that error in 2016 by electing another inexperienced, one term US Senator (Cruz, Rubio, Paul) as President?
Also for your info, Ted Cruz isn’t really a conservative. I consider him as a CINO (conservative in name only). He may have some ideas about fiscal conservatism. But he’s hardly a real conservative on social issues. The country does not need a president who looks to impose religious ideology; of the type pushed by the religious right; on the entire country. That’s not conservative.
Regards,
Conservative Head Banger ( AC/DC Rules !! )
I think RinoP must be a self created parody.
How about checking the latest federal deficit projections banger to see how things turned out?
While you are at it, check to see how the graphs on rising medical costs has been trending since the enactment of the Affordable Health Care law.
You could check employment figures for the last 60 months (hint: longest consecutive string of months with private employment gains in the history of the US).
The difference between the one term senator who turned this country around and showed uncommon grace in the face of some of the most insulting and dishonest attacks on his person and this one term clown is a belief that good government is possible and is tethered to reality so that he understands the grave peril of a warming and over populated planet.
Who in their right mind banger is going to vote for a climate denying planet killer who is a thousand times more interested in control vaginas than he is helping the poor and the environment?
Obama should get credit for cutting the deficit and saving the economy. Of course, to his credit, George W. Bush finally figured out that drastic action was needed to save the world economy and initiated steps that Obama continued. Overall, Obama had to grow into the job, at least from a domestic perspective. He still has yet to figure out foreign policy, not that some of his Republican critics are any better.
“Who in their right mind will vote for a climate denying planet killer who is a thousand times more interests in control of vaginas………” “Planet killer?” I’m a believer in climate change, but you’re being just a bit dramatic.
Will I vote for Ted Cruz in the Colorado primary? Even if he was the only Republican candidate, I’d sit out before voting for him. Your comment about “controlling vaginas” is a reason why I consider Mr. Cruz to be a CINO.
I think you meant “Obama shouldn’t get any credit . . .”
I don’t remember Bush submitting the stimulus package to Congress. I remember his conservative ideology ruined our economy and his ignorance of the Middle East created ISIS and the deaths of hundreds of thousands.
If you think “Planet Killers” is too dramatic, you should look at the data on the California or Australian droughts.
Here are some time lapse sequences of the Sierra Nevada.
http://www.sacbee.com/site-services/databases/article15386540.html
We’re fucked big guy and all the other life forms on this planet.
+ infinity.
Republicans should be self-reporting to all available mental institutions as soon as possible.
Obamacare is covering mental illness now, and Republicanism is a known mental disease – there was a recent article about some kind of Republican virus… no kidding… something about interfering with the brain…
CINO? Canadian In Name Only
If things don’t work out for him in the GOP presidential primaries in this country, maybe he could challenge Stephen Harper for leadership of the Conservative Party in Canada. He may want to hang on that dual citizenship.
Bless your flat little Republican head, C.H.B. I’d say pointy, but everyone knows it’s “pointy-headed liberals”, right?
I honestly can’t tell if RINOPreserve is a parody or not, but I’d like to address one thing you mentioned…
The country elected an inexperienced, one term, US Senator in 2008 and we all know how that turned out. Yes, I understand that liberals on this site may politely disagree. But, moving forward, why would the country want to repeat that error in 2016 by electing another inexperienced, one term US Senator (Cruz, Rubio, Paul) as President?
Lincoln had a grand total of two years in the House as his experience in National politics. His immediate predecessor, James Buchanan, had been a Senator for two terms, Ambassador to Great Britain and Russia, and U.S. Secretary of State. Lincoln is considered one of the best Presidents in history, Buchanan one of the worse (if not the worst).
Jimmy Carter was a one term governor before being elected President. He lost re-election and is panned as one of the worst Presidents. FDR was also a one term Governor (I’m not counting Assistant Sec. of the Navy as relevant experience) and went on to be elected four times while leading the country through the Great Depression and World War II.
When looking at Presidents, they run the gamut of “levels of experience” as well as the range of best to worst. Presidents don’t run on experience – they run on a vision for America and a plan to make it happen. If experience was all that mattered, we’d currently have President McCain and Senator Obama, not the other way around.
Point taken however I’ve got to say Obama is no Lincoln (who is?) and Carter isn’t a great example to cite for skill or success.And of course he was an experience governor, a different model entirely than presidents who come from Congress. Outside of his great historic significance, I see Obama as a good enough tough not particularly outstanding president. In fact, I’ve been disappointed in his lack of skill on the job in several areas and instances. Just sayin’.
One particular example comes to mind on the international front. As my mom, still sharper and more tuned in to current events than most people ever were on their best day, pointed out, you never draw a line in the sand, as Obama did with Syria, unless you are fully prepared to make it stick. Otherwise you’re just like those parents who give their precious brats until the count of 10 to knock off whatever obnoxious thing they’re doing and when the kid doesn’t knock it off after 10 nothing happens. We’ve all suffered through being in the same room with that kind of parent and their little bundles of joy.
According to this Internet citation, Syria allowed for the destruction of their chemical weapons if you believe the UN weapsons inspectors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Syria%27s_chemical_weapons
Actually the Lincoln analogy might work if you give Obama credit for holding the union together during the early days when the white racists in the Republican Party were threatening secession and armed resistance. I don’t see his attempts at working with Republicans as a failure.
Compare where we are today with where we were in 2008 and you tell me if the guy didn’t do his job in leading this country through perilous times? Is he a perfect person? Of course not but his policies and calmness in the face of blatant hostility and racism should earn him some kudos from those who benefit from a strong currency and sustainable economic policies.
I agree. I do not see Obama’s inability to work with the GOP in Congress as a failure. It was simply an impossibility.
First, the leadership does not speak for the members. Remember the kissy noises Boner was making last month at his press conference? And hoe many times has Boner had to turn to Nancy Pelosi for help in going around the Hastert Rule. And Yertle certainly cannot corral Cruz, Lee and Paul the way Lyndon Johnson was able to corral Russell, Stennis, and Humphrey).
Second, to the extent that the inmates are running the asylum (i.e., Goemert, Yoho, the Reindeer Farmer from Michigan, and closer to home, Lamborn and Buck), communicating and attempting compromise is irrelevant and futile. If Obama tried to have a conversation with these people, it would be like talking to a piece of furniture. Aint gonna get real far.
He’s done what he could with a really crap hand of cards dealt to him.
That wasn’t the line. The line was evidence that Assad had used chemical weapons against his own people. He did. I’m sorry but I don’t think Obama has been an exceptionally skilled leader. I know he’s had the the all Obama hatred all the time Republicans to deal with but he hasn’t been much more skilled at dealing with the Dems in Congress from day one when Dems held both houses either. He held on to stubbornly trying to get mythical moderate Rs to hold hands and sing with him until his party lost the last election of his presidency. We could have used some of this guns blazing spunk a long time ago and certainly could have used it going into the last election.
I stand by my assessment that he has been a good but not particularly outstanding President. I doubt HRC will rise above that level or be any less center right than Obama essentially is either. That’s where the Clintons were and still seem to be. But good presidents are certainly to be preferred over catastrophically bad ones like GW and all the GOTP choices that have been on offer ever since. Center right is certainly to be preferred over extreme bat shit crazy right. So I’m not exactly sleeping with the enemy. But feel free to drum me out of the fan club. I’m not the type that’s ever been comfortable in any fan club anyway so I won’t be the least offended or dismayed.
Winston Churchill was so unpopular at the end of his career that he was defeated in the 1950 elections and had to finish it as the leader of the opposition. History sometimes is a better judge of history than people or polls. Churchill served his country with distinction and honor and was both cheered and jeered for his positions, achievements and failures.
Barack Obama is a barrier breaker who faced enormous consequences for his actions or non-actions. There are a lot of liberals like you tabby who are convinced that he failed because he sought accommodation with Republicans who pledged implacable and undying hatred towards him. Time will tell if it was a mistake or if the bigger issue was holding the union together in the face of racial fear and violent impulses. I think history with show a thoughtful man who loved his kids, loved his countrymen and got up and went to work every day trying to make a difference for the better. I still like him a lot and think he is way way better than Palin or Romney. We dodged a bullet with those two.
OFA was the fan club. I still get emails from them, but am not enough of an uncritical follower to be a fellow or organizer anymore. The organization is not the true grassroots powered engine it was in 2008.
However, Bluecat, I would gladly apply to be in your fan club, specially if I could get a cool baseball cap or other swag. Your fan, mamajama.
I would like to think that there is a difference between being an uncritical follower and being realistic about what was and is possible and being able to appreciate the fights that were fought and the ones that were won. We would be having a much different conversation had McCain or Romney won and Palin had the center stage of national politics for four-eight years. Maybe Obama didn’t live up to your lofty expectations but maybe your expectations for a liberal Savior were a bit unrealistic to begin with or maybe it was a bit of both.
The perfect is often times the enemy of the good and sometimes good is good enough.
All I hoped for from Obama was to turn the economy around and get people back to work. And, BC, he done did that.
My main concern is that the Dems spend 8 years building up the country, c.f. Bill Clinton, then the Repubs steal all the built up wealth and give it to their friends (and themselves, of course).
This cycle is repeated over and over, abetted by libs who are saddened that their heroes aren’t perfect. Good is better than evil, c.f. Dick (using the term with all its connotations) Cheney, and even better than stoopid, c.f. Bush II.
I liked ‘saddened’ ex. Really nice word used in context.
In the final analysis it doesn’t matter whether there is a consensus on the question of whether Obama has served his country with honor and distinction. The real question to answer is: What are you doing today to make the world a better place and to live well in your brief journey across earth? Are you volunteering to help at a community food bank or contact an old friend that has health issues? Are you appreciating the sunsets or softly falling snow? Do you feel the magnificence of the universe when you look at the stars? What are you doing today to express the eternal human attributes of hope, honor and courage?
Agree about the economy. But the fact that Rs can still sell their load of horse shit about what a failure it is and how it needs rescuing by them and people buy it speaks to my criticisms.
If the cycle is repeated over and over, don’t place all the blame on Rs. There is no law of physics that says they have to be better at getting their message out than Dems, that they have to be tougher and prouder than Dems.
During the Obama era Dems have had plenty of money to compete and their idea of competing has been to beg to be seen as almost like Republicans while the President’s idea of a winning message has been…. there are extremists on both sides (never mind that Dems in Congress are almost exclusively centrist, and 99% of the extremists are Rs) and that’s where the public should place the blame, not with obstructionist Rs. We’d hate for you to think we’re lefties who don’t completely respect Rs and their .1% overlords. Oh no. Heaven forbid.
I blame Dem pols and their leader in the WH as much as anyone for the rinse repeat cycle that so saddens you. It won’t change until Dems grow pair. Do Rs ask to please not be seen as too conservative? Has R leadership during the Obama years bemoaned (to the public) extremists on both sides? Of course not. They project nothing but confidence in every piece of bull shit they sell. Dems can’t manage to project anywhere near that level of confidence in the truth and facts that are on their side. Rinse repeat
You hit the nail right on the head about expectations “being a little bit unrealistic to begin with.”
I never bought into that from the start. It’s my nature to be cynical. (I think it has something to do with coming of age during Watergate.) But I did think Obama would be a competent president. Perhaps even an outstanding president.
Although I originally supported HRC during the primaries (again, probably because of cynical nature; I knew the Clintons could be ruthless and would not blow the general election), I had no problem transferring my allegiance to Obama during the general election campaign.
All things are relative and GG’s got it right. Can you imagine the world had one of Obama’s opponents won either election?
Lofty expectations? I’ve never been one for those. I’ve always maintained that those who chose to believe, contrary to everything Obama actually said, that he was a liberal champion were deluding themselves. He ran as a centrist. I knew that was what we were getting when I supported and voted for him.
I’m talking about skill sets. I was not impressed from day one when his idea of negotiating health care reform involved not even giving single payer a seat at the table for bargaining purposes (bargaining 101. You always ask for more than what you know you can get. So does the other side), immediately disowning the public option (not even attempting to bargain with it) that figured so prominently in his campaign speeches and pretty much offering 90% of what the righties wanted as a staring position. That’s, I’m sorry, simply lousy negotiating technique.
Since that time, instead of rallying his own Dem troops via wheeling and dealing, stroking and threatening on numerous issues, he spent the better part of his first term ignoring and disdaining them as part of the “extremists on both sides” equation, never mind all meaningful attempts at compromise have always come from Dems and been shot down by Rs. As a consequence he’s added Dem opposition to R opposition. Worse, Dem pols have not been willing to go out on any limbs for him because he’s never given them any reason to, leading to silly losing campaigns that treated him like nuclear waste instead of touting his, and therefore their own as Dems, accomplishments, of which there have been many. See the Udall campaign for just one example.
You may completely disagree with my take but that it doesn’t come from a place of disappointed hero worship would easily be demonstrated by any perusal of my posts as far back as 2008. His on the job skills have not proved outstanding in m IMHO. No hard feelings, on my part anyway, over this disagreement.
Well you aren’t the only one tabby who blames Obama for not being a better person/parent/president although I don’t know if that’s the company I’d want to keep.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/23/1372907/-F-k-You-George-Zimmerman-Murderer-Blames-Obama
I said nothing about him as a person or parent. I think he’s a very good person and and it certainly appears, judging from the results, an excellent parent. No need to inject that straw man dig. Taking lessons from modster and AC?
If anyone is blinded by hero worship here it isn’t me. Once again, my evaluation is only of his skills on the job. I don’t find them outstanding. Horrors!
Who but a hero worshiper would be so hostile to the very idea that their hero might not, in all things, be any less than outstanding? Your disagreement is perfectly reasonable but your imputing to me of opinions and states of mind I’ve never expressed is pretty silly.
Those dastardly, hero worshiping Borg.
I blame Obama for the whole problem and my low self esteem.
Feel better soon GG. All the best.
Thanks BC.
Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of my date of diagnosis. I also end my 2nd clinical trial tomorrow which is one of those odd ironies. I definitely know more about the effects of Parkinson’s on the body than I did last year albeit through direct experience..
Still hanging in there with a UPDRS score of 10 which is what I scored last summer after my first clinical so I’m still considered early stage. I was initially weirded out at being eligible for drug trials on humans but it is cutting edge medical technology and the CU neurologists are tops. I’ve entered in that period of my life that will be known as my lab rat phase.
Many people do very well and this disease can progress very slowly. Hope the trials open up a wonderful new successful treatment path for everyone and especially for you. So all the very, very best. Stubborn cusses probably do the best!
Thanks mama. Consider it mutual even though we don’t always agree. I appreciate that, when we disagree, we both manage to do so without impugning each other’s motives, connections or putting words into one another’s mouths for straw man purposes. Here’s to civil and well thought out disagreement. It’s what most distinguishes us from the Borg.
Bare in mind, I’m not comparing Obama to Lincoln, just making some points that experience isn’t the be all, end all when we pick Presidents, or what pre-determines their effectiveness.
The historian in me knows Obama will be looked at as a good President. Hell, even Bush will be looked at as middle of the pack. You have to really fuck up to be among the bads, and you have to do truly remarkable things to be considered among the great.
As I’ve said, completely agree. Good not great president. Why some have interpreted that to mean more than exactly what it says, to the point of admonishing me to avoid keeping company with George Zimmerman, is more than a bit puzzling to me but …. whatever. I can take a lickin’ and keep on tickin’.
OrangeFree, the fact that you think Constitutional principals are parodies just shows how much liberalism is a MENTAL disorder. I weep for our country every day. Why do you think Senator Cruz’s logo has a teardrop on it? BECAUSE he weeps and bleeds for true conservative principles, not your godless Marxism.
“because he weeps and bleeds for true conservative principles……….” RINO: if you really feel that way, then also feel free to vote for Mr. Cruz. If Mr. Cruz was truly a conservative, then why does he continue to attack 1st Amendment rights regarding freedom of religion? Cruz has been very vocal in saying that he doesn’t know anyone who wants to ban contraceptives, but he conveniently overlooks his support of personhood legislation.
Opposition to abortion and its twin; opposition to use of contraception; are strongly held religious views for some citizens. If Cruz becomes president, it is reasonable to expect that he will do what he can to undermine constitutional protections against establishment of religion. Cruz is on record as being anti-abortion, anti-contraception, anti-gay, and he follows other views of the religious right.
You need to educate yourself on our history. This is a CHRISTIAN nation, like David Barton (who is an actual historian instead of the progressive libruls in universities) says.
This is a christian nation? That’s a crock of shit. Thomas Jefferson was pretty much an atheist as were some of his fellow founders. In fact the non-establishment clause was drafted precisely to prevent this from becoming such a nation.
And let’s assume just for the sake of argument that this is a christian nation. Whose version of christianity rules?
http://www.addictinginfo.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/republican-jesus.jpg
I love this newbie. Welcome to the big literary tent RINO. Your weeping and gnashing of teeth is so touching. Thank God you have us Godless libruls to hate. It’s such a Christian thing to do to hate your enemies and do evil to them. You’re a perfect spokesman for the brand of Christianity practiced by Republican politicians.
GG, Frank, I sense the “parody troll” is strong in that one. I don’t think he/she is serious. May be wrong of course, but I don’t think so.
In fact, he/she may be someone we already “know,” with a new account/handle.
I was just thinking the same thing, DP. AC? Moddy? Is that you?
Those two have been AWOL for the past couple of days. On a different thread, I asked Moddy to compile a list of all those frivolous discrimination lawsuits a few days ago but haven’t seen a response yet. The list must be quite long.
RINO Preserve is a parody poster, aka a “mole” whose mission is to say outrageous things we would expect to hear from theother party.
Perhaps RP is an answer to our poll question about wanting more Republicans to post here.
RP is quite entertaining, although from the name I would expect him/her to be promoting moderate Republican 1990s style, i.e.raging liberal 2015.
Oh come on mama. We can hope that we’ve got another Beej in our midst. That was some fun those election cycles.
“although from the name I would expect him/her to be promoting moderate Republican 1990s style”Right, when Republicans picked YET ANOTHER PROGRESSIVE RINO Bob Dole and lost the election, all because he was not conservative enough and voters punished Republicans for it. We are rapidly approaching an electorate that can choose between Socialist Party A and Socialist Party B. The answer is Cruz Control, and the cure is Dr. BEN CARSON. Checkmait, “Reverend” AL.
There is no other group more persecuted in this country than born-again, Bible-BELIEVING Christians. The gay steamroller agenda, in homosex “wedlock” with the Obummer administration, is determined to stamp out Christianity. History repeats itself.
That’s some Grade-A potato you got going there. Bravo. I look forward to your future spirals into pure, unmitigated derp.
If you had t-shirts, I’d buy two. You are awesome.
“Why do you think Senator Cruz’s logo has a teardrop on it?”
Because of all the pain and sorrow he intends to inflict upon the American people if he should ever become president.
I put the horror of a “President Cruz” right up there with a “President Cheney”….
It is terrifying to contemplate….
Wow, that’s a whole lotta racist stupid in that freakish photo.
The most intelligent, enlightened creates in it are the murdered (for “sport”) birds, hanging on the wall.
I’d call it (from left to right) Curly, Larry. Moe. (Cory “Shemp” Gardner was likely off somewhere sucking the Koch brothers toes at the time, and was unable to appear to show how macho he is by killing God’s creatures for manly “fun.”.)
“I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to re-ignite the promise of America.”
To quote another failed presidential candidate: “That’s not enough, madam, we need a majority!”
This is WONDERFUL news. The first clown entry to suck the oxygen out of JEB’s campaign. Go, Ted, go.
Good……I love watching these but nut jobs, especially when they start to devouring their own young.
Has Orley Taitz weighed in yet on Ted Cruz’ citizenship status? Does the Donald want to see the genuine, long-form Canadian citizenship denunication certificate?
Cruz the Canuck is ready to argue the definition of “natural-born citizen.”
Want some fun? Go to
http://www.tedcruz.com.
This isn’t going to be like Googling “Santorum,” is it?
Nope. But Teddy wasn’t smart enough to grab up TedCruz.com, so some smart alec did. Highlarious.
All I found was a black screen with a message about immigration….nothing else.
So the man who would be leader of the free world can’t manage to hire staff competent enough to buy domain for his own name. I wonder what the Cruz cabinet would look like.
Bob and Doug McKenzie, Jimmy Swaggart, and Rambo . . .
. . . would be my guess . . .
Phil of the longhair and the duck calls Robertson, of course, would be his chief of staff.