Sensible Erection | My fathers Republican party

Friday, 24 August 2012

quote [ The Surprisingly Progressive Republican Party Platform…Of 1956 ]

My father was a life long Republican. I doubt he would even recognize the Republicans of today.

Republican Party Platform…Of 1956

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25838

Republican Party Platform…Of 2012 will be a stark contrast with the 56 one. It will be interesting to see just how far right wing it will be. It will also be interesting if team Romney tries at all to control it or let the right have their way.

My guess is he has more than enough on his plate and won't put up a fight about platform language. I think his tax returns and the NEW push about them will be problem number #1.

Documents Show Details on Romney Family Trusts

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/us/politics/documents-show-details-on-romney-family-trusts.html?_r=1

The Bain Files: Inside Mitt Romney’s Tax-Dodging Cayman Schemes

http://gawker.com/5936394/

Leaked Documents Connect Candidate To Adelson, Casinos, Cigarettes

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/23/mitt-romney-bain-capital-leaked-documents_n_1825466.html?ir=Politics&ref=topbar

[politics] [by bbqkink@8:10pmGMT] [+5 Insightful]

Comments

lilmookieesquire said @ 8:20pm GMT on 24th Aug
Reagan was a hippie.

cb361 said @ 8:24pm GMT on 24th Aug

lilmookieesquire said @ 8:35pm GMT on 24th Aug
I'm tempted to give a -1 for the libertarian porn.

cb361 said @ 8:45pm GMT on 24th Aug [Score:1 Insightful]
You think? I was thinking more V for Vendetta, but yeah, you're probably right. Way to spoil an awesome cartoon for me, mookie.

lilmookieesquire said @ 8:59pm GMT on 24th Aug [Score:1 Underrated]
:(

cb361 said @ 9:11pm GMT on 24th Aug [Score:1 Interesting]
Oh. I feel bad now. I just liked the ending. There's something I find very human-nature affirming about the thought of oh-so-fragile human beings pulling down monsters with nothing more than our expendable, replaceable mortality.

I would pay to see see a horror movie which ended with Freddy Kreugar or Jason Voorhees surrounded by teenagers, and realising what's going to happen and knowing fear a moment before the crowd closes in and literally tears him to pieces.

cb361 said @ 9:50pm GMT on 24th Aug [Score:1 Good]
...the crowd closed in. Human hands, weak, white human hands were laid on Rawhead's body. Fists beat on his spine, nails raked his skin. ... overpowering him by sheer weight of numbers. He snapped off a finger here, a face there, but they would not be stopped now. Their hatred was old; in their bones, did they but know it.

He thrashed under their assaults for as long as he could, but he knew death was certain. There would be no resurrection this time, no waiting in the earth for an age until their descendants forgot him. He'd be snuffed out absolutely, and there would be nothingness...

GordonGuano said @ 2:18am GMT on 25th Aug
Well, OK. But RawHesd Rex still isn't worth paying to see.

cb361 said @ 10:34am GMT on 25th Aug
I've heard it has cult appeal, but I haven't seen it. The film is based on a short story by Clive Barker, and dissatisfaction with the film was one of the reasons he waned to direct Hellraiser himself.

Transfer said @ 4:58am GMT on 26th Aug
It's pretty terrible.

mechanical contrivance said @ 11:31pm GMT on 26th Aug
I recommend it if you're really into 80s horror movies. otherwise, yea it's terrible

foobar said @ 10:13pm GMT on 24th Aug [Score:1 Informative]
I don't think so. It criticizes both governmental and corporate power; libertarians only object to the former and fetishize the latter.

cb361 said @ 11:14pm GMT on 24th Aug
Now that it's been mentioned, I'm uncomfortable about the bit where the crowd storms the UN. That's a libertarian wet dream. But the video doesn't make it clear if there's a New World Order conspiracy thing going on, or the governments of the world have simply lost control.

foobar said @ 11:42pm GMT on 24th Aug
It looks like they're distracted by the UN, while the fat cat laughs off to the side.

tbt10f said @ 5:47am GMT on 25th Aug [Score:1 Informative]
I'm a Libertarian and hate corporate power just as much/more as government power. Corporations only exist as a function of government.

theolypse said @ 12:11am GMT on 26th Aug
This is an extremely unpopular view among the LP members in the USA.

monday said @ 8:46pm GMT on 24th Aug [Score:1 WTF]

cb361 said @ 9:13pm GMT on 24th Aug
Awww. I was just getting into it.

Mr. Langosta said @ 10:52pm GMT on 24th Aug

swiggy said @ 6:44am GMT on 25th Aug

erich wiess said @ 1:57pm GMT on 25th Aug

Transfer said @ 4:55am GMT on 26th Aug

ithaqua10 said @ 1:02pm GMT on 25th Aug
and disturbed proves again to be available to highest bidder. after selling song rights for years to the gov. to promote the military, now they promote revolution against it to jump on the 99% trend

radioelectric said @ 3:51pm GMT on 25th Aug
Got to say Katzenjammer did it better (and are gorgeous):

cb361 said @ 4:31pm GMT on 25th Aug
Sounds like this.

bbqkink said @ 8:41pm GMT on 24th Aug [Score:5 WTF]
Well after going full on birther today..little question about him objecting to the right wing.

foobar said @ 10:06pm GMT on 24th Aug [Score:2 Insightful]
... because I'm white.

incpenners said @ 1:47am GMT on 25th Aug [Score:-2 Troll]
Of course.

Anyone who questions The Messiah (or his murky past) is a racist.

swiggy said @ 1:51am GMT on 25th Aug [Score:1 Insightful]
THE RACE CARD CARD IS ALSO A CARD.

But then again, I guess the race card card card is also a card.

theolypse said @ 12:10am GMT on 26th Aug
You're a card.

EPT said @ 3:18am GMT on 25th Aug [Score:1 Insightful]
I prefer your trolls when you put a bit more effort into them.

bbqkink said @ 1:03pm GMT on 25th Aug
Anyone who lets Joe Arpaio and the Donald speak at their convention deserves what they get.

ComposerNate said @ 8:11am GMT on 28th Aug [Score:-2]
If you're to pretend an exaggerated political stance for on-site drama, how about coming in from a different angle to reestablish a middle ground? That might be actually productive, rather than just ginning up emotion.

todde said @ 9:34pm GMT on 24th Aug [Score:2 Insightful]
In today's America the Democrats are Republicans, and the Republicans are Fascists.

erich wiess said @ 9:47pm GMT on 24th Aug [Score:-3 Overrated]

bbqkink said @ 9:56pm GMT on 24th Aug [Score:2 Insightful]
More like.... Hope/can't add and subtract

dangerm00se said @ 11:56pm GMT on 24th Aug [Score:2]
Paul Ryan's plan is mathematically impossible

spazm said @ 12:10am GMT on 25th Aug [Score:1]
I think there's a typo in there, that should be really 'meth' right there.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 1:58am GMT on 25th Aug
As an avid mathie I am insulted at being associated with, uh, whomever that guy on the right is.

lilmookieesquire said @ 8:10am GMT on 25th Aug [Score:-1]
I really do not understand this poster.
Like I'm not sure what their concept is.

bbqkink said @ 7:03pm GMT on 25th Aug
The Crackpot Caucus
By TIMOTHY EGAN

Take a look around key committees of the House and you’ll find a governing body stocked with crackpots whose views on major issues are as removed from reality as Missouri’s Representative Todd Akin’s take on the sperm-killing powers of a woman who’s been raped.

On matters of basic science and peer-reviewed knowledge, from evolution to climate change to elementary fiscal math, many Republicans in power cling to a level of ignorance that would get their ears boxed even in a medieval classroom. Congress incubates and insulates these knuckle-draggers.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/the-crackpot-caucus/?nl=opinion&emc=edit_ty_20120824

bbqkink said @ 8:23pm GMT on 25th Aug [Score:-1 Underrated]
“The Race That Really Matters: Comparing U.S., Chinese and Indian Investments in the Next Generation Workforce.” The findings were breathtaking:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/25/opinion/blow-starving-the-future.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&adxnnl=1&emc=edit_th_20120825&adxnnlx=1345925011-37xqD/oBxVXPb9xWGntluw

bbqkink said @ 11:09pm GMT on 24th Aug
The Only Big Idea Coming Out of the Romney-Ryan Camp Is the Big Lie
by Michael Tomasky Aug 21, 2012 4:45 AM EDT

The addition of Paul Ryan was supposed to infuse the Romney campaign with big ideas that would be argued in big debates with the Democrats, but so far, Michael Tomasky writes, all the GOP campaign has done is grossly distort the truth.

They know that the truth would crush them electorally. And so it follows that they know they must lie. They must lie about their Medicare plans. They must lie about the effects of their tax plans on average people and rich people. And they must tell a number of lies about Obama, all the better if they involve race, as the welfare lie does.

So this will be the entire point of the Romney-Ryan campaign. Lie lie lie. Muddy the waters. Turn day to night, fire to water, champagne to piss. Peddle themselves as the precise opposite of what they actually are. That is clearly the m.o.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/21/the-only-big-idea-coming-out-of-the-romney-ryan-camp-is-the-big-lie.html

incpenners said @ 1:51am GMT on 25th Aug
Is there any MSNBC video that you could post, so that we could better understand what the White House wants us to know?

_{_{Not that they aren't in bed together... Labor Department spent $500G in stimulus on green-job ad blitz on Olbermann, Maddow}}

bbqkink said @ 12:52pm GMT on 25th Aug
Man you have been hanging around Fox and the Romney folks way to much.
These aren't MSNBC videos. The main steam media has even caught on. There has even been some truth getting out on Fox these days..not a lot mind you but some.

I see a lot of political ads these days..have you seen this one?

radioelectric said @ 3:57pm GMT on 25th Aug
Didn't Bill Clinton's actions as president (with Greenspan's influence) help kick-start the financial crisis?

bbqkink said @ 4:18pm GMT on 25th Aug
Sure did. He is the one who deregulated the banks. To give him the benefit of the doubt, it would have been hard to see the out come from when he did it. But he had to know what he was doing wasn't completely kosher.

mrcucumber said @ 4:05pm GMT on 26th Aug
Yup. Most ignore the fucked up shit Clinton did. He got lucky in many respects. Lucky that the deep shit that he helped instigate happened long after he was in office. Boom and bust philosophy and american imperialism/ tilted playing fields within the guise of globalization seeding resent. He didn't start any major money sucking long term wars though, and was smarter than most.

bbqkink said @ 8:32pm GMT on 25th Aug

gunthar said @ 11:18pm GMT on 24th Aug [Score:2]

damnit said @ 11:53pm GMT on 24th Aug

damnit said @ 12:10am GMT on 25th Aug
This should have been a response post to foobar's reply to bbqkink.

tiemy said @ 12:33am GMT on 25th Aug [Score:2]
It's pretty dishonest to single out the Republicans on this. The hard shift to the right has been apparent in both parties, and if anything has been more pronounced with the Democrats. Even the left-wing of the Democratic Party (Obama) has embraced huge chunks of longstanding Republican dogma.

lilmookieesquire said @ 8:12am GMT on 25th Aug
Actually we should be singling out the left wing and asking them what the fuck happened.

I'd love to hear some theories.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 9:47am GMT on 25th Aug [Score:1 Insightful]
Reptilian takeover.

bbqkink said @ 4:43pm GMT on 26th Aug [Score:1 Interesting]
George Romney: Braver than Mitt
George Romney walked out on the 1964 convention to protest GOP radicalism. His son would never do the same

By 1970, Richard Nixon badly wanted to be rid of his Housing and Urban Development secretary, a liberal Republican and former governor of Michigan named George Romney. Romney had a strange dedication to racial integration and had been generally making a hash of the president’s “Southern Strategy” by withholding housing funds from projects that barred black families. But Nixon found it difficult to fire people himself (he preferred to have H.R. Haldeman or John Ehrlichman do it, until he had to fire them), and so he instead got Romney to agree to cease promoting integration in suburbs. The president’s strategy was to convince Romney to go away. Romney, who seemed to have gone into government out of a sincere desire to serve, stayed on.

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/26/george_romney_braver_than_mitt/

Barnabas_Truman said @ 8:24am GMT on 31st Aug
It would be hilarious if Mitt Romney walked out on the convention. I'd buy that man a cookie.