The conservative movement is nearly finished

[Xipe Totec]

going through the bowels of the Republican party.

It was a painfully slow movement that started with Reagan.

it was accompanied by the sonorous thunder of Buchanan, Limbaugh and Coulter,

and it will end appropriately with a perfect asswipe, George W. Bush.




A repeat, but worth repeating.

[skooooo]

1. is McCain the final turd?

sorry, it just struck me as funny....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

Just a dingleberry.

[Xipe Totec]

5. More like lethal constipation n/t

[AntiFascist]

7. A Klingon!

:rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

11. Set phasers to stink!

:rofl:

[liberal N proud]

14. Just a kitty cookie

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

2. But it will be back-----the cycles of politics,like the phoenix.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Like a burning bag of dog shit on our doorsteps?

That kind of phoenix, I can do without.

[sampsonblk]

30. Not if we make clear how fucked up it was

WE haveto use education to protect ourselves from the return of this poisonous ignorance.

[baby_mouse]

32. Then it's time to call on that which hatches from the other egg. NT

[Fovea]

4. Fortunately the eco-system has efficient scavengers

like the DLC.
They eat anything the Rethugs feed them.

[Xipe Totec]

6. Political dung beetles n/t

[Generic Brad]

21. It is reminiscent of a bowel movement

[sheelz]

25. Yes

Hannity

[angrycarpenter]

8. They are not done yet

They will go back to hating the government and stockpiling weapons in bunkers. The first time Homeland security goes after them, BOOM! Waco II and we are back in 1997 with domestic terrorism a real and ever present threat.

[Xipe Totec]

9. You're breaking the metaphor

can you restate please, in scatological terms?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. It's a matter of recycling.

Sort of like how your dog eats the poo out of the cat's litter box.

[Xipe Totec]

13. Purrfect! n/t

[angrycarpenter]

22. The shit will hit the fan

conservatives will, when expelled by a voter prescribed laxative, crawl into their underground septic tanks and start backing up the plumbing for us all. They will then erupt from the sewer to spread sickness and death.

I suck at metaphor. how's that.

[Xipe Totec]

29. The important thing is that you tried

:rofl:

[AlCzervik]

10. just a colonic away from the end.

[Cleita]

15. It seems to me they've been constipated since 1980.

But I don't see the Democrats giving them the laxative needed to flush them down the loo for good.

[Xipe Totec]

16. The enema of my enema... n/t

[Doctor_J]

17. That's what everyone thought in 1945

don't be fooled

[ruiner4u]

18. Yeeeee-haw!

Those poor Duke boys dont know what they are in for...

[ashling]

19. I hate to say it, but that's a little shortsighted

to paraphrase the words attributed to J.C., the selfish will always be with us.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith

[Xipe Totec]

20. The tide has crested

leaving those turds high and dry.

The selfish will always be with us.

But they have no party now.

The pugs are in disarray; they don't know whether to shit, puke, or just smile.

[ashling]

23. I remember when all the news

was that the Democratic party was finished. . . .and it had a real ring of truth behind it.

I'm not trying to be pessimistic, but I've walked through too many cow pastures: if you think all the cow patties are old and dry, you'll end up stepping in a warm fresh one.
:rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

24. They're not done; just done with the Republican party

They are, as you aptly put it, out on the pasture waiting for somebody else to step on it.

[Ishoutandscream2]

45. Love that quote from JKG

It fits, doesn't it?

[Marr]

26. It'll never go away.

It may change it's name-- maybe even some of it's marketing techniques. But authoritarianism and greed always has it's champions, and they always have money.

[sheelz]

27. Rec one here

[BooScout]

28. Sadly I have to disagree....

Politics is cyclical. Yes we are seeing a swing to the left now.......and I firmly believe a Democrat will be in the WH come 2009. BUT........nothing is forever.

America swings left for a few years and then it swings right. I think the best we can hope for is that we can keep a Democrat in the WH for the next 8 years at least and possibly 12 years at best.

[mitchum]

31. Sadly, you are wrong; as long as there are assholes...

that shit will always be around

[LWolf]

33. I don't see how you can say that

when the Democratic Party gets more conservative every year.

[Xipe Totec]

39. Read carefully, and try again

:hi:

[LWolf]

49. I did read it.

Are you saying that the conservative republican "movement" is over, and the conservative Democratic "movement" is just beginning?

[Xipe Totec]

51. It's simple, but let me spell it out

The "conservative movement" is almost finished going through the "Republican Party".

The "conservative movement" is independent of the "Republican party". This became obvious when Limbaugh attacked McCain because he is not conservative enough. Limbaugh is loyal to the "conservative movement", not the "Republican party"

Republican and Democratic are political parties, not movements.

Hope this helps.

[LWolf]

53. That was er...clear, lol, but I still say

that the conservative movement isn't over. Perhaps they've "been through" the republicans, but they are not yet done with the democrats.

[apocalypsehow]

34. To the extent that that's true, good.

[Jennicut]

35. They will always be here but I think neo conservatism might be dead

Or at least on life support. The idea that we can take Democracy and transfer it to the rest of the world turned out to be a crock. Yeah, the surge is "supposedly" working but only because we decided to let some of the most extreme leaders in Iraq take over certain areas. Its not bloody civil war but it is oppression on both sides (Shiite and Sunni). Certainly not the shiny beacon of democracy in action in a foreign world. It simply was not and will never be possible. They never learned from Vietnam. Neoconservatives failed. Are Iraqis really all that better with their new "democracy" then they were under a burned out and increasingly crazy dictator like Saddam? I'm surprised McCain does not understand this as he was never a neoconservative. Conservatives like Bob Dole and the like will always be here. They want lower taxes and smaller government. Enough people in the U.S. will continue to support that idea. But big spending/ big government Rethugs are gone and dead. It never fit with their party anyways. McCain has taken up the failed neoconservative cause and I think he will loose in the GE because of that.

[Martin Eden]

36. Something I read in a bathroom stall:

Referring to Babs giving birth:

Here I sit, cheeks-a-flexin'
Just gave birth to another Texan.

[Xipe Totec]

40. The putz in boots is from Connecticut n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

37. Capitalists and sadists are behind Reagan, Limbaugh and Bush.

(I know little about Coulter, and let's just leave it that way.)

They've merely used a convenient political party to turn their desires into laws. Which can, in the worst possible case, be used as the basis of force. Well, we may have seen that already in the process of how they managed to invade Iraq, to further their domination and greed. If they continue regarding the elimination of our personal rights, using their great lever, terrorism, this will certainly happen here as well.

Things can get a whole lot worse than they already are. Especially if these problems are not dealt with now. Please demand your Democratic candidate to support immediate impeachment and prosecution, renouncing of corporate person hood laws, and the immediate ending of the Iraq treasure bath. Election reform and bringing the MSM into public control as well. THEN we can begin to create health care, infrastructure, etc.

[Orsino]

38. Not in the least.

They're simply taking a few years off to rebrand their bullshit, letting the field lie fallow, if you will, until the day that America can afford their mad spending sprees again.

Big Money still rules us, and the conservatives are almost always better at sucking up to it. Until we dethrone the money, the conservatives will always be reinstalled. In the meantime, enjoy an Administration or two of somewhat less-blatant corporatism, and tell yourself that things really have changed.

[Xipe Totec]

42. You have to read the whole post, not just the title n/t

[Orsino]

44. You see conservatives on the run.

I see a different bunch of conservatives being rotated in.

[Xipe Totec]

52. You have it backwards; I see Republicans on the run

away from the conservative movement, and the conservatives are pissed.

[Orsino]

59. Ah. We should distinguish between the rank-and-file conservatives...

...and the uber-capitalists in charge. The former may certainly be pissed, but that won't mean much; they'll find or invent replacements for their idols. The latter are already busy buying off our Democrats, and little, if anything, will be allowed to change.

The conservative movement doesn't depend on the Republicans running the show, after all--that just made things easier. Conservatism will march on, secure in near-total control of the media and all three branches of government.

[immoderate]

41. Irrelevant, they've won.

In effect, they've killed the golden goose. Nothing we want can be accomplished now.

--IMM

[Xipe Totec]

43. Dang!

Guess I'll just go hide in the corner and...

[immoderate]

48. Not hiding. I'll play until the final whistle...

I have enough curiosity left to see it play out, and to strike some just blows, but the forces of destruction have the advantage. Electing kinder gentler fascists doesn't seem like a solution to me.

--IMM

[Xipe Totec]

54. Do not surrender

Do not surrender even when defeated,
and do not be a slave even in bondage,
trembling with fear advance bravely,
and attack with fury, though badly wounded.

Be as stubborn as a rusting nail,
that refuses to yield though old and ruined,
and do not envy the peacock's plumage,
that drops in fear at the first noise.

Be as a god that never cries,
or as a devil that never prays,
or as the oak whose mighty canopy,
needs of water but does not beg it.

Even when it rolls to the dust,
let your head scowl and bite,
and scream for vengeance.

- Pedro Palacios Almafuerte
Argentinian poet 1854-1917

Believe it or not, this is my mother's favorite poem.
She is my guiding light.
God bless her and keep her.

[immoderate]

60. Good poem. I'm with that.

--IMM

[windoe]

46. We will make compost

out of their sh*t and survive~just to spite 'em!

[fascisthunter]

47. DLC is Still Here

now to push the Democratic Party further to the right.

[Perry Logan]

50. With the Supreme Court like a little bit left on our shoe.

[Rex]

55. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Won't be missing them. Eva.

[Xipe Totec]

56. That's the spirit!

:thumbsup:

[originalpckelly]

57. Someone flush the toilet, I can smell the conservative movement all the way in here!

[Xipe Totec]

58. Cough! Cough! The miasma is bad on my asthma

[B Calm]

61. The ERA of Cheap Labor Conservatism is almost over, HIP, HIP, Hooray!