In Today's Email...The Dilemna Of A Repugnican...

[KharmaTrain]

Every so often, I get spammed by this guy's email...most times it's amusing reading into the mind of the "conservative"...aka greedy, rich, white repugnican. I got his latest release the other day and had to share it with the class. There's lots here than I can recap...

http://www.investorsinsight.com/forecasts.aspx

Here are a few snippets:

While Bush initially attempted to reach out to the other side, starting with writing the education bill with Ted Kennedy, he got his teeth kicked in by the libs. Thereafter, he disappointed conservatives time after time with his positions on many key bills - steel tariffs, bloated farm bills, etc., etc. - and his paralysis in using his veto pen to stop ever-rising government spending.

The bottom line, in my opinion, is that most conservatives in government have abandoned many of their core beliefs and have gravitated toward the center, while the liberals have stood their ground or have become even more strident in their positions. No wonder that most conservative voters cannot get enamored with any of the current group of GOP presidential hopefuls.

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Many in the GOP establishment and some conservative talk show hosts (such as Rush Limbaugh) would prefer Romney over McCain. And there is plenty not to like about McCain. Old line Republicans have never forgiven the senator for the McCain-Feingold Act in 2002, which was a dismal attempt at campaign finance reform, or his vote against Bush's tax cuts. He was also a member of the "Gang of 14" that tried to influence President Bush's nominees for judicial appointments. McCain is not a true conservative by any stretch. The fact that McCain has rebounded strongly is further evidence of my theory that the definition of "conservative" has changed, as discussed above.

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When the choice is down to a liberal Democrat or a moderate Republican, then I think there is no choice. I don't like it one bit, but would I cast my vote for Hillary or Obama because I'm not enamored with McCain or one of the other candidates? No way. Likewise, would I simply not vote at all on November 4? Again, no way, since staying home is the equivalent of a vote for Hillary or Obama.

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Kinda interesting to get a look inside the GOOP head...lots of stuff to have fun with here.

[Happyhippychick]

1. Boo fucking hoo! Wah Wah Wah! I'm more conservative! No I'm more conservative!

Buh bye GOP. Don't let the door hit you in the ass.

[KharmaTrain]

2. This Stuff Warms My Heart on a Very Cold Day

After all the bellyaching around here, it's worth seeing the "soul searching" of the souless

[Happyhippychick]

4. Love that "soul searching" of the souless - will borrow.

[NewJeffCT]

3. Back in 2004

I was on a business trip to North Carolina and got stuck in the heart of Freeper country. This was maybe September or early October 2004 - not long before the election. They were so hardcore Republican that they planned their day around being able to listen to Rush Limbaugh.

I was surrounded by 7-8 guys who all agreed that Bush's big problem was that he was NOT conservative enough.

They also all agreed that the Democratic Party was way, way, way to the left of where they were back in the 1960s and 70s. Not just left - but, way, way way left. They might have even used "way" four times, I don't recall for sure.

They also agreed that we had to go into Iraq. No real reason, other than we had to.

And, of course, that Bill Clinton deserved to be impeached and that Arnold reminded them of Reagan back in the 60s.

[KharmaTrain]

6. Vacuous Doesn't Even Explain It...

You don't have to go to Freeperland to find these people...I have 'em right down the street. They think they're so smart cause they're so sure in what they've been told and since its echoed so often they believe without any concept of what they're believing in. It makes it easier to turn on a dime...accept a Mittens or look the other way to GOOP hypocrisies cause it's all about the power and the money.

The fun with these people are to wind them up and watch them walk into walls.

Cheers...

[ProgressiveFool]

5. I was hoping it would actually be a reasonable conservative, but this guy's pretty batshit crazy

I got as far as him stating that "conservatives had moved to the center, liberals had held their ground, and the liberal media was enabling the liberal agenda".

That's pretty much completely wrong - conservatives in congress, along with Bush, faked being in the center with that compassionate conservative shit, then tacked far far to the right, liberals went ignored by the Democratic party establishment in congress (Reid and Pelosi) who bend over backwards to enable Bush's lawbreaking and warmongering for whatever reason, and the "liberal media" is a fiction indicative of a mind already made up in the mold of a wrong-on-everything conservative - the media enables Republican memes and narratives, and pretty much either ignores, drowns out with celebtardt fluff or reluctantly covers progressive issues with short shrift when it can't get away with ignoring it.

[KharmaTrain]

7. Read His Stuff Pre 2006....

He drank kool-aid by the gallon. Anything boooshie did was golden, all those who weren't making money were stupid and all those who didn't believe in every right wing meme was a liberal commie.

It's interesting to see how these goons are "revising" history to cover up their own corrupt and moral bankruptcy. They're like the noisy neighbor who bitches about your bushes being too long and messing up his backyard and when you trim then he then bitches that you've ruined his privacy. They can't accept both reality and responsibility.

[gratuitous]

8. Better call the whaaaambulance

The poor dears, six years of unfettered and unchallenged power, and it's all undone in 12 short months of the most obliging Democratic control I think any of us could imagine. Hard to figure why the Republicans didn't get more done, how they lost their power, and why it all came crashing down so very, very fast. It would be hard to figure, that is, if their grandiose monument to their own greed and vanity was constructed on anything more substantial than a cracked toothpick. Because for the rest of the country, which has more than four working brain cells, the seeds of their own destruction and their own present predicament are as obvious as the disingenuousness of Mitt Romney's phony smile.