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John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
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Oct 31, 2010 - 03:00pm PT
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That is a cop out Ron. Since you copped out, I'm raising the ante. Name 3 career republicans based on your definition of career, who are currently in office and shouldn't be.
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
Transporter Room 2
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Oct 31, 2010 - 03:32pm PT
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What I want to know is Are there "T Partiers" that actually Party?
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Oct 31, 2010 - 04:25pm PT
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I stroll around alot with my side arm in plain view and I cuss alot loud enough for my "neighbors" to hear even though i dont say it in HAAABLAAAAH, they seem to understand...
--R. Anderson
Ron isn't really like that, is he? This has to be a joke.
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Oct 31, 2010 - 04:39pm PT
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Great Video
teabagger = dumbass
repukelickant = dumbass
Be sure to vote on Nov 2nd
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LED
Social climber
the great beyond
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Oct 31, 2010 - 05:14pm PT
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LED
Social climber
the great beyond
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Oct 31, 2010 - 05:26pm PT
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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Oct 31, 2010 - 06:23pm PT
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"Scared to death" is your domain Skipt.
I have no worries. I am a progressive.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 31, 2010 - 07:07pm PT
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Anything that further factionalizes the right is good for the world.
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cleo
Social climber
Berkeley, CA
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Oct 31, 2010 - 08:00pm PT
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So Ron, I take it you voted for relative newcomer Obama over CAREER politician McCain in 2008?
That would make sense since Obama worked his way UP from nothing (like a common person!), and McCain worked his way sideways from 3rd (4th?) generation career power-family (and money) connections.
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John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
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Oct 31, 2010 - 08:17pm PT
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Ron, you say this..
I still cant believe there are people thinking its the right against the left...
Then you say this..
which is another tea party concern of "having to vote the lesser evils".
I am not a dem, but I vote dem because right now the third party options are just terrible and the repubs are worse. So to me it is not right or left, it is also who is the better choice. Based on what you say that you believe in, voting for republicans just seems stupid. The dems are the only party in the last 30 years who balanced the budget and started paying off the national debt. They are also the party in which government has grown less in. You say that you are not biased towards one party or another, but you vote like you are.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Oct 31, 2010 - 08:20pm PT
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I stroll around alot with my side arm in plain view and I cuss alot loud enough for my "neighbors" to hear even though i dont say it in HAAABLAAAAH, they seem to understand...
--R. Anderson
Ron, if this is true, then you ARE a third rate ignorant ASS of an American.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 31, 2010 - 08:30pm PT
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.... and Dick Cilley told me he didn't like your guidebook, either..... ;-)
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Oct 31, 2010 - 08:43pm PT
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Ronny, I could not care less about your little fishing hole story.
Save it for someone who gives a sh#t.
Poor picked on little white boy.
Stop playing the poor me victim card and grow up.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 31, 2010 - 08:57pm PT
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I knew you'd be crushed...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 31, 2010 - 09:51pm PT
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Do "Tea-Partiers" support prop 19?
Seems like they would....
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noshoesnoshirt
climber
Arkansas, I suppose
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Oct 31, 2010 - 11:22pm PT
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Let's address this white elephant in the room.
The Tea Partiers never let out a peep about big government, overspending, erosion of constitutional rights, etc While Bush was in office.
But you get a black man in the Whitehouse, and BLAM, there it is.
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krahmes
Social climber
Stumptown
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Oct 31, 2010 - 11:23pm PT
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I’m not a tea party kinda of guy. I voted for Obama, Kerry, Gore, Clinton, Dukakis, Mondale, and Carter. I use to delight in the Daily Show and Bill Mahar; not so much these days.
The root of tea party was the embrace of Randian economic theory tied to social liberatarism. In the first instance I think GWB and Greenspan epitomized the implementation of that laissez-faire economic theory; and in the latter I believe in a country of 306 million, the unfortunate truth is any action you take is going to rub up against someone else’s self-interest. That the tea party movement has been co-opted by Beck and Palin quasi-religious morality is a bit of sad statement and the emptiness of the political landscape.
Still at the edge of the movement there seems to be something noble to me; I think I would call it Jeffersonian. The movement is rural in its roots and tied to that quintessential American notion of person’s right not to be meddled with.
The tea party in part is a reaction to 30 years of the federal government dogmatic acceptance of free trade, citizens as consumers, open borders and the vision of a one world government propped up by trans-national corporations.
And the response of the Democratic to the tea party movement? A crass branding of the dogma as the standard of a racist angry white mob. We even get media pundits referring to them in the double entendre of tea baggers. No understanding, no empathy, just dismissal. You reap what you sow and I suspect in this case it well be the whirlwind.
So as the Democrats float their boat to the shores of Nobel Prize winner Krugman’s economic orthodoxy (hey Milton Friedman won a Nobel too), apology-based foreign policy and identity politics I cast my vote mostly for Republicans this time. Though to be fair I didn’t have to vote for any tea party candidates.
Finally and off topic there was this on the thread:
McCain worked his way sideways from 3rd (4th?) generation career power-family (and money) connections.
McCain’s 5 year stint in a POW camp pretty much neutralizes the “fortunate son” charge.
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rlf
Trad climber
Josh, CA
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Oct 31, 2010 - 11:25pm PT
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I have a great idea. Let's throw the tea baggers into Boston harbor where they belong.
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Captain...or Skully
Big Wall climber
Transporter Room 2
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Oct 31, 2010 - 11:31pm PT
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Cookies are good with tea, sometimes.
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