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Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Primary Colorless Edition

 

Good morning, gentle people - the double iso chamber is still set up, and may remain so until after the election, or until there's nobody left on FR except Jim Rob and his immediate family.

This edition of Obsession is going to be a bit of a grab bag, as the RINOs and No True Conservatives pile up like cars in a Florida chain-reaction car wreck. Let's get started!

Before we get to the evisceration of WND, Ann Coulter, John Bolton, Komen, et. al -

I present - Pissed off!

2 U.S. marines in urinating video ID'd by corps
ap ^ | 1/12/12 | staff

Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2012 8:35:31 PM by Nachum

An official says the U.S. Marine Corps has identified at least two of the four marines in an internet video that purports to depict them urinating on Taliban corpses in Afghanistan. A marine official said Thursday that the four were members of the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, which returned to its home base in North Carolina last fall after a tour in Afghanistan. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because a criminal investigation is underway. The official said that at least some of the four marines are no longer in that battalion. He provided no other details. (Snip) Panetta

1 posted on Thursday, January 12, 2012 8:35:35 PM by Nachum

Of course, you'd expect the brunt of the Freeper vitriol to be directed against the Lying Em Ess Em for spreading such scurrilous lying crap against our angels in MARPAT, wouldn't you?

Sadly, non !

To: ColdOne

Where’s the snitch that videoed it?
Surely the ones who did it weren’t foolish enough to HAVE it recorded?!

17 posted on Thursday, January 12, 2012 9:04:49 PM by Tucker39

"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught."

To: Nachum

Can no one keep their mouth shut?

22 posted on Thursday, January 12, 2012 9:42:31 PM by pacpam (action=consequence and applies in all cases - friend of victory

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“Where’s the snitch that videoed it?
Surely the ones who did it weren’t foolish enough to HAVE it recorded?!”

That is where these guys made their mistake. It’s one thing to what they did but they absolutely knew this guy was filming and went through with it. He told them twice that he was filming it.

War is hell and stuff like this happens. But it happens in battle. To do it for fun on camera and to show off, bad move. These guys are going to pay for their stupidity.

32 posted on Friday, January 13, 2012 6:53:10 AM by Snark

For fun.

For fun.

To: Nachum

An official says the U.S. Marine Corps has identified at least two of the four marines in an internet video that purports to depict them urinating on Taliban corpses in Afghanistan.

So what? My response to the Marine Corp. would be....Nick Berg. Daniel Pearl.

And they're worried about some pee on a corpse?

3 posted on Thursday, January 12, 2012 8:41:46 PM by Bloody Sam Roberts 

I'm sorry - which branch of the military did Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl serve in, again?

And exactly how close to a terrorist cell's actions do the actions of our armed forces have to be, anyway?

Should they practice beheading before cameras, or just pissing on corpses?

If pissing on corpses is the new way, the proper procedure's gonna have to be included in the ITS and MCSS somewhere.

To: tet68

piss on them...all of them!

5 posted on Thursday, January 12, 2012 8:45:42 PM by ldish (Looking forward to Independence Day)

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To: Nachum

Let me see if I have this straight.

I doubt that you've ever had anything straight in your entire wasted life.

During war it is okay to shot and kill an enemy combatant.

But you can never ever piss on their dead bodies ?

Geneva Convention II of 1949

Art 18. After each engagement, Parties to the conflict shall, without delay, take all possible measures to search for and collect the shipwrecked, wounded and sick, to protect them against pillage and ill-treatment, to ensure their adequate care, and to search for the dead and prevent their being despoiled.

There is something wrong with that mentality.

There is something wrong with you, mentally.

The dead seem to have more rights then the living.

24 posted on Thursday, January 12, 2012 9:49:47 PM by justa-hairyape

Go fuck yourself.

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As if that wasn't enough, a gruesome grab bag of gooniness awaits below the End Of All Thngs.

Malaka Of The Week: Steve Holland

I'm trying to get my malaka of the week rhythm back. It shouldn't be hard since there's so much malakatude out there. This week's "honoree" is a Mississippi State Rep who thinks the Magnolia state can rename an international body of water.

I cannot top Gambitman Alex Woodward's vitriol so I'm gonna quote him:

Riding upon a chariot of Hummers driven by bald eagles, Mississippi Rep. Steve Holland filed a guns blazing cowboy steak of a bill, proudly waving our nation's red, white and God-fearing blue to protect our American coastal waters. This week, Holland introduced H.B. 150 to Mississippi's House of Representatives Marine Resources Committee — a bill that, in summary, would "for all official purposes" rename the Gulf of Mexico (or "body of water south of Mississippi") the "Gulf of America."

For all official purposes within the State of Mississippi, the body of water that is located directly south of Hancock, Harrison and Jackson Counties shall be known as the "Gulf of America." ... This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2012.

And just in time for the Fourth of July weekend.

What tickles me about this exercise in malakatudinous futility is this douchebag's last name: Holland. Sounds suspiciously foreign (pronounced furrin) to me so I think Rep. Holland ought to change his moniker. As it stands, he sounds like a dope smoking, red light district legalizing, Socialist furriner.

Maybe Malaka Holland should put down his hash pipe and change his last name to something manly and American before he presumes to change the name of the Gulf. Any ideas, gentle readers? This bozo hasn't got a clue and that's why he's malaka of the week.

Odds & Sods: Sweater Vest Sweep Edition

Sweater Vest Sweep: Former Senator Man Dog Sex kicked some ass Tuesday. He didn't win a lot of delegates because of the goofy way the GOP allots them but Mitt has got Santorum sized shoe prints on his forehead.

I don't think it's that ex-Senator Sweater Vest is suddenly popular, it's that nobody likes Mitt and the more they see the less they like him. Hell, he lost 2 states that he won in 2008 and Colorado has a substantial LDS population. Plus, he had Tpaw's support and finished third in Minnesota, which is not something that should happen to an "inevitable nominee" at this stage of the campaign. Time for Mitt to open his wallet again and rain money on some state so he can win one.

Finally, whassup with sweater vests? I've never worn one and never wanted to. A sweater vest coulda made Steve McQueen look dorky and Rick Santorum is no Steve McQueen. Hell, he's barely even J Danforth Quayle...

Fuck yeah, 9th Circuit: They threw out California's loathsome Prop-8 on narrow grounds BUT with language that could lead to gay marriage bans being, uh, banned. The opinion was aimed smack dab at Justice Anthony Kennedy who wrote the last big gay rights case to come before the Supremes: Lawrence v. Texas. He's been trending to the right the last few years but this case could have him list leftward if, that is, the Supremes grant cert. For a more informed view, read Dahlia Lithwick at Slate.

Occupy PAN: Finally, a bit of NOLA Carnival chatter. The satirical bad asses of Carnival, Krewe du Vieux, rolled last weekend. But my sub-krewe, PAN, did not parade for reasons too lengthy and absurd to go into in any detail. It boiled down to most of us wishing to elect new leadership and the current leader's refusal to call a vote, which led to our suspension. Dissident PAN members decided to set up camp on the parade route and wear costumes from past parades. Our theme was Occupy PAN. Some pictures can be seen at my facebook page but here's one of our postery, buttony things:

Our President is a Ridiculous Dork, She Says Approvingly

I just love how after the kid (a remarkably composed and mature child, as I would probably have been stuttering and tripping over myself at his age) says he shoots marshmallows from the air cannon, Obama looks around like, "and I don't have one with the presidential seal on it WHY, now?" 

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Prove Me Wrong

On to the next campaign event.

As we've all seen, Mitt Romney has a problem--he's terrible at running for office. It occurred to me the other day why this is. 

You see, if you were to take our society's worst image of a politician and worst image of a rich person, throw them into the Large Hadron Collider, and smash them together at about 95% of the speed of light, Mitt Romney would emerge. The rich part: He's an incredibly, unbelievably wealthy man who inherited a fortune, never labored a day in his life, and is the sort of person who brags about firing half of his workers so he can afford another mansion and yacht. As for the politician, he has the unshakable aura of a greasy huckster who has all the convictions and charisma of a sea snake.

And this is the man who, in the fragile recovery from the worst economic shock since the Great Depression, is going to be the Republican nominee for President. I can't imagine why the old money that runs the part think this is a good idea; then again, I'm not tripping over stacks of hundred dollar bills on my way to the gold-plated bidet in the morning, either.

To know him is to loathe him

A new poll finds that the more people learn about the Mittbot, the less they like him. Talk about not wearing well: it's 9 months til election day.

In other Mitt Haircut related stuff, there's a fine piece at Salon about how Mitt's Mormonism makes him what he is today: a bland and arrogant stuffed shirt.

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Florida Primary Edition

OK, people - iisten up.

I'm going to crack open the Folrida Primary Live thread at Free Republic, but Ive had to institute some special precautions - a BSL-3 containment lab inside the existing iso chamber. The nasty stuff in the exploding heads of the Freeperati must be contained at all costs lest it leak into the environment - one single drop of this stuff could turn the entire population of the Dallas Metroplex into rabid suckerfish.

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OK - here we go!

FL Primary -- LIVE THREAD
FreeRepublic | Waterloo Tuesday | FReepers

Posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:01:12 PM by tomkat

Have at it y'all !

 Hey Florida -- let's show the Nation and all the RINO slugs some TeaPower today !

 This one oughta be good for a couple thousand !

1 posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:01:13 PM by tomkat

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To: tomkat

Exit Poll - Newt has early lead in Florida

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2840570/posts?

4 posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:03:04 PM by deport (..............God Bless Texas............)

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To: tomkat

Thanks for the thread

Hopefully we will be YEEEEEEE HARing here later tonight

5 posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:04:11 PM by Tennessee Nana (Romney a Massachusetts moderate which is a liberal by Republican standards)

"Oh yeah "Ooooh, aaaah", that's how it always starts. But then there's running, and screaming."

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To: goseminoles

Newt wins in a shocker!!!
Late deciders were fed up with Romney trying to buy nomination and revolted!!!

Whatever happens in FLA, the Newtonian Revolution will go on. Big Ideas must beat Big Money or we are just a bunch of sheep caving into the establishment. Wake Up America!!! If you want to shock the system - you have to be willing to rock the system. Go Newt!!!

65 posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:59:00 PM by larryleo (We all need to get Newtered!)

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To: livius

Newt is out to win and we need to get the vote out so WE can win. You take your chances when you run for office. Let’s win this for Newt, ourselves and the United States of America.

140 posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:30:13 PM by itssme

They're so cute when they're full of unwarranted optimism, aren't they? Like little baby piranha.

Let's jump forward a bit, shall we?

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To: Kaosinla

CNN calling it for Mitt

523 posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 7:13:13 PM by Kaosinla (The More the Plans Fail. The More the Planners Plan.)

Oh my.  Everyone double-check your helmet seals.

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To: tomkat

Romney wins, a blowout win, we lose

527 posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 7:14:02 PM by jpsb

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To: MissMagnolia

Sometimes things are so rotten to the core, you have to abandon or tear them down and start over. I’m at that point with the GOP-e. Not salvageable if Romney prevails.

My sentiments exactly. Shall I light the match and fire up the bulldozer? The GOP is dead to me!

525 posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 7:13:25 PM by RobertClark ("Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed")

Actually, it's the other way around.

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You guys just demonstrated that you are a small and noisy minority, and not a voting base.

This means that teabaggers are dead to the GOP.

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You did get some of your nitwits elected last cycle, but they've all been acting like - well - nitwits, and have painted the entire GOP as out-of-touch extremists (thanks for that, BTW).

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Heven't you noticed the precipitous drop in the number of times/day the term "Tea Party" is used by GOPers?

Oh don't get me wrong - they'll take your money, should you continue to be so foolish as to send it, but you see - your liabilities now outweigh your assets.

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To: gswilder

If you don’t vote for the republican nominee, you are voting for Obama. And if you are voting for Obama, you are not a conservative. Any of the 4 republicans are more conservative than Obama. Don’t let your emotions cloud your senses.

That's not going to work on me anymore. If Romney is the nominee, I write-in.

My vote is MY vote, and it won't go to someone who is opposite of what I hold dear.

536 posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 7:15:01 PM by Shelayne (NO ROMNEY--NOT NOW--NOT EVER!)

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To: gswilder

Too bad for you this is an ANTI-ROMNEY website. We will continue to bash Romney just as much as we bash ZERO.

That is a fact. Romney supporters will continue to be banned. Don’t look for any support for Romney EVER on Free Republic. As it should be.

539 posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 7:15:17 PM by show

Touchy little bastard, isn't he?

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To: The Citizen Soldier

I have been a very good Republican soldier. I’ve voted for Bush, Dole, Bush, Bush, McCain.

I do not have a romney vote in me.

547 posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 7:16:22 PM by Right_in_Virginia

Sure he does. This guy will expel the Romney vote he has in him, on the elevator - and then look innocent when the stench spreads.

To: gswilder

Oh take a hike...

I dont vote for evil pieces of dung like the liberal Willie Mitty...

I love my country...

I serve4d my country in the US military

Those gooks and slopes aren't gonna kill themselves, you know.

the TWO TIME draft dodger coward Williard Romney doesnt deserve my vote

As opposed to two-time draft dodger Newt Gingrich..

As an American citizen the most precious thing I own is my right to vote

Its like a rare and expensive diamond...

ans so I treat it as such...

I dont give it away to any old broken down stinking wino hobo that comes begging for it...

580 posted on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 7:21:47 PM by Tennessee Nana (Has Romney stolen the primary in Florida from the man the people really want and need ???)

Looks like.

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Now, it's time to assign some blame.

Blamethrowers and more after the extended entry....

Newt Gingrich meets Brad Pitt

Newt wants Brad to play him on the big screen. Guess the film's title will be Newt's Delusion.

In an interview with a Florida radio station, just before his defeat by Romney in the primary, Gingrich confessed that, if a movie was ever made about his life, he saw Brad Pitt in the role.

Speaking to the Rich Stevens Radio Show on Ft Lauderdale, Florida station 850 WFTL, Gingrich admitted there might be one or two minor problems – "he's thinner, he's better looking, he's younger" – but that would be no artistic obstacle. "If you're going to go for it, you gotta relax and let your imagination soar."

In fact, Gingrich, 68, is two decades older than the 48-year-old Pitt, and the two appear to have almost nothing in common. Pennsylvania-born Gingrich has been a career politician since running for Congress in 1974 as a Republican; Pitt, born in Oklahoma but raised in Missouri, has regularly topped world's sexiest man polls and is a noted Hollywood liberal.

I'm surprised Newt didn't say Denzel in order to pander to the black Goopers who convene in a phone booth at CPAC...

Caption This: Guys who like firing people edition

Malaka Of The Week: Susan G. Komen Foundation

Dissing the Susan G Komen Foundation would have once seemed like shitting all over motherhood, the flag and apple pie. This week, however, the Foundation has cut off funding to Planned Parentohood for MAMMOGRAMS. This is as egregious a case of institutional malakatude and cowardice as I've ever seen. Women could die as a result of this "policy shift.'

The best thing I've read on this subject was by the fabulous Mary Elizabeth Williams who is herself fighting a virulent form of cancer:

Along the way, Komen has become the McDonald’s of cancer — an easy-to-remember brand with a logo that demands little thought or effort from the consumer. Write a check, buy a ribbon, voila! You get to feel like you’re curing cancer.

It’s not that Komen is some questionable, Wyclef Jean-esque mess. It gets high marks from both the Better Business Bureau and Charity Navigator. Yet this is an organization that has repeatedly come under fire for its extravagant promotion of itself as an organization dedicated to a “cure,” when only a small portion of its expenses go to, you know, curing cancer. Komen itself cops to portioning just 24 percent of its funds to research – and 20 percent to fundraising and administration. For an organization with reported revenues of nearly $350 million, that’s still a lot of money for research. It’s an awful lot for itself, too.

This is a problem I often have with establishment charities: only a small slice of their bounteous funds are spent on research. How expensive can all those pink ribbons be? A mere 20% for research is obscene.  What they should do is spend some money on a backbone and refuse to cave into political pressure from  crazy people who value the "unborn" more than the born. The Komen Foundation can fold one of their pink ribbons five ways and stick it where the moon don't shine...

I'll let Mary Elizabeth have the last word about the Foundation's malakatude:

Women’s healthcare is not about lace-trimmed scarves and bottles of perfume. It’s sure as hell not about some feel-good, lip-service version of what my colleague Rebecca Traister calls “infantilizing Pepto-ed advocacy.” It’s not even — for anyone still stupid enough to think Planned Parenthood is some giant fetus-killing complex — about abortion. It’s about screening. It’s about treatment. It’s just that simple. The further away an organization gets from that mission, the more women suffer. It’s just that simple too. And you don’t make good on a “promise” to your dead sister by selling out women who need you most. 

Mitt Hispanic?

Is the whitest man in American public life suddenly Hispanic? No but Fox News Latino is toeing the Murdochian line and asking whether Romney is the "First Gringo-Latin President." This is, of course, poppycock, piffle and other p words that I can't think of. In his eagerness to pander (another p word)  Mitt keeps mentioning his family's "emigrating from Mexico."

Here are the basic facts as I understand them: one of Romney's ancestors went to Mexico because he was polygamous and Mexican officials were even more corrupt than the Americans so they didn't enforce their own laws against plural marriage. In 1912, young George Romney and his family fled the Mexican revolution because they feared getting their rich white heads cut off. So much for Latinness or Hispanicosity. It's all part of the Mittster's pretense that he's a man of the people.

Past inherited rich guy Presidents such as FDR and JFK made fun of their own backgrounds but, of course, their policies benefited poor people. Imagine FDR saying "I'm not concerned about the very poor." I'm grateful that Romney has still got his gaffe machine mojo working...

Finally, a word to the MSM: the term Hispanic is meaningless. The main Latino groups in the US and A have nothing in common politically. Since the MSM excels at oversimplification, I'm going to do likewise: Cuban and Central American voters lean GOP and tend to be conservative.  Mexican and Puerto Rican voters lean Democratic and tend to be liberal. Try asking a rich Cubano in Miami if he has anything in common with a Mexican grape picker in California. If you do I hope they aren't drinking a beverage, spit takes can be very messy...

Okay it's time to bid y'all adios for now, so I'll let the Texas Tornados have the last word:

 

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Freepers For Newtie Edition

Well, gentle people, Jim Rob has come firmly down on the side of Newtie as the Anti-Romney, and as I predicted, the purges have begun.

Iso suits on, everybody, there's no time to waste! (My, what a nice shiny new one Kibitzer has!)

The following thread was pulled (I've started copying them in toto and emailing them to myself rather than just bookmarking them), raising the question:  Are we eating our own, now?

Gingrich Was No Coward, Just Corrupt
Commentary Magazine ^ | 1-20-12 | Jonathon Toobin

Posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 5:13:45 PM by afraidfortherepublic

One of the interesting sidebars of last night’s debate was the fiery exchange between Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich over the latter’s “grandiose” ideas and unstable leadership style. During the course of this rhetorical dustup during which Gingrich took Santorum’s bait and took credit for the Reagan presidency, the defeat of the Soviet Union and the 1994 Republican Congressional victory. While the first two claims are the stuff of self-satire, Gingrich is surely entitled to puff his chest at the memory of his role in the GOP’s taking back the House for the first time in 40 years.

Alexander Burns of Politico recals that in 1992 the New York Times reported about Gingrich’s involvement in the banking scandal. Apparently, Gingrich was kiting checks along with the worst Democratic scofflaws. His 22 overdrafts including a $9,463 check to the IRS was a major issue in his re-election campaign that year and nearly cost him his seat which the then House Republican Minority held by a razor-thin margin of 982 votes that fall.

Santorum was wrong to imply that the Georgian didn’t get involved in exposing the House Bank scandal because he lacked the moxie to mix up with the Democratic poobahs. In fact, as Gingrich pointed out, he had already played the lead role in taking down former House Speaker Jim Wright. The real reason for Gingrich’s silence was far worse: conflict of interest.

Gingrich said nothing about the bank while Santorum stuck his neck out because he was as guilty as any of the Democrats who were caught bouncing checks at the bank at the taxpayers’ expense.
That information leaves us wondering why, if Santorum was going to bring up the scandal in the course of an attack on Gingrich, he pulled his punch. Wouldn’t it have been far more devastating to rightly accuse Gingrich of complicity in the scandal instead of wrongly accusing him of cowardice?

1 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 5:13:49 PM by afraidfortherepublic

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To: afraidfortherepublic

Wow. I had forgotten all about that scandal. Gingrich may be our candidate but I’m holding my nose all the way.

3 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 5:26:29 PM by ExtremeUnction

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To: ExtremeUnction

global warmist, freddie mac, fidelity, Dede Scozzafava....
under no circumstances will I vote for him.

4 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 5:31:07 PM by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)

To: GeronL

Ooh! Aren’t you just so special. Clearly you are an Obama supporter . . . or a Romney supporter.

9 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 5:37:11 PM by Sudetenland (Anybody but Obama!!!!)

There are a lot of "In before the Zot" posts, but "afraidforfreerepublic" still seems to have an account, even though the URL for the thread now directs to this:

This thread has been pulled.

Pulled on 01/21/2012 1:21:12 AM PST by Jim Robinson, reason:

 taking out the trash

Of course, at this point in time, the "trash" is still piling up:

To: GeronL

“under no circumstances will I vote for him.”
Yeh as a registered Demorat I guess not.

14 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 5:41:54 PM by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)

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To: Georgia Girl 2

I am as conservative as anyone on this forum. I do not belong to any political party and never will.

16 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 5:44:23 PM by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)

Purity test! Purity test!

To: GeronL

I guess you think everyone on FR who supports Gingrich is an idiot.

Gingrich IS a "conservative, sport."

21 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 5:49:05 PM by Sudetenland (Anybody but Obama!!!!)

There's a spurious comma in your last sentence.

"Sport" is what they called people in Fitzgerald novels who couldn't keep their pants zipped.

To: GeronL

I’m still gettin that demorat feelin.

Too bad you weren't gettin that "learning how to spell" feelin.

25 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 5:54:02 PM by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)

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To: Georgia Girl 2

Are you a Noob or something? I have been on FR for a very very long time. People know where I stand.

26 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 5:56:51 PM by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)

To: GeronL; Sudetenland

I guess you think everyone on FR who supports Gingrich is an idiot. I would be very, very careful in answering that question.
JimRob doesn't share your disdain for Newt
And neither do I.

31 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 6:01:54 PM by Yankee (ANNOY THE RNC AND THE MEDIA: NOMINATE NEWT GINGRICH!)

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To: ventanax5

Last time I checked, King David was also an adulterer.

35 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 6:09:03 PM by conservativebuckeye

Family.

Values.

To: narses; GeronL

Why are you posting that to GeronL? There is nothing in his posting past here to try and paint him as a “MittBot”. Are we eating our own now?

46 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 6:22:12 PM by Azzurri

Why, yes - you are. And you're yum yum yummy,

More catching up after the thingy.

To the moon, Newt

Newt Gingrich seems to be channeling either Jackie Gleason or Ray Bradbury right now. Personally, I think a lunar base would be awesome in a sci-fi, Trekkie kinda way but the Apollo program, uh, took off when the economy was purring like a cat with a Harley implant. I wouldn't, however, object if we sent Newt to the moon: he could be the Lunar Kaiser instead of a mere candidate pandering to Florida's Space Coast.

 

Happy Kerry Story

My boyfriend is a fucking badass who busted up his face playing hockey at the age of 462. 

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Caption This: Laundromat Edition

We've been captioning Newt a lot lately so it's time to take on Mr. 13/9%:

SOTU Van

Posts in the van belong to their posters. The state of the union: SCREWED. Any questions? 

Update: Van closed! Thanks to all for stopping by for President Obama and some pasty dude who talked about how mean the president was.

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Caption This: Thurmondville Primary Edition

I don't know about you but I feel Newtastic:

 

South Carolina

Republican nominee Newt Gingrich might just be the best thing ever. 

Imagine the debates. Just imagine them. THERE'S NOT ENOUGH LIQUOR IN THE WORLD. 

I'm on the road for work this weekend, so no van. but please, post links to crazy shit in the comments. 

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Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - New Hampster Primary Edition

Good morning, boys and girls!

As Mitt cruises along taking a victory lap, the Freeperati are losing what little shit they had left. Let's jump right in:

First up - Destruction Of Tea Party - Complete!

The GOP: The party of bailouts & cronyism. Destruction of Tea Party complete.

Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:34:33 AM by Minus_The_Bear

The GOP has chosen. The destruction of the TEA Party is almost complete.

"Almost"?

The Weekly Standard, National Review, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, & all the establishment Republicans have driven the TEA Party out of the picture.

Now we are told that taking Federal bailouts = capitalism & that anybody who disagrees should just shut up. Why did they TEA Party start in the first place?

Because some blubbering hysterical wealthy stock trader whined about attempts by President Obama to keep millions more homes from going into flreclosure?

Without ethics capitalism is doomed to corruption.

I expect every Romney voter would support Solyndra or GE... because "it's just capitalism"

1 posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:34:37 AM by Minus_The_Bear

Commie.

To: Minus_The_Bear

I think you have it backward. The Republican Party’s destruction will be complete. They are about to join the Whigs on the ash heap of history.

6 posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:46:02 AM by KamperKen

And you helped.

To: Minus_The_Bear

You are 100% right!
We are screwed. The Tea Party did not take over the Republican Party....they destroyed us. Now we will have every RINO candidate shoved down our throats. The Dems and the Rebubs are one and the same. They took away every real Conservative from us. Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Michelle Bachman, and now they will destroy Newt and Santorum! I do not know if America will ever be free again, or have truw free elections. We have no real choices, because they are made for us. ALL of the media are now paid operatives for the elites. All hope is gone....

11 posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:50:01 AM by astratt7 (obama,muslim,politics)

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To: upsdriver

The closest thing to a TEA Party candidate in this race is Ron Paul and he’s labeled as a kook.

13 posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:51:14 AM by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)

Kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it?

To: Minus_The_Bear

I thought the objective is beating Klownie the Kenyan? Quit your whining.

I read the same post back on the night when Dumbo won the election and the best posts was when Freepers who owned business wanted to fire every Obama voter in their company. That’s the Freeper I want to read about

You do??

KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A salesman says he was fired for voting for Barack Obama, after his boss sent an email to all employees warning that he would fire them if they dared to do that.
     He claims Matthew Brandt, the owner of KK Office Solutions, sent the email threat to "All Employees" on Oct. 29, 2008 warning them "to rethink your vote on November 4th."
     Elliot Snell sued KK Office Solutions in Wyandotte County Court. The email warned that if Obama were elected, all salespeople will have to pool their sales commissions to give underachieving salespeople a "fair shake;" that hourly employees will pool their wages, including overtime, to help those who are "too busy to for overtime;" that top management was to be referred to as "the government," and would be exempt from pooling because the law doesn't apply to it; and that the last few people hired "should clean out their desks."
     The email, included in the complaint, continued: "Don't feel bad though, because President Obama will give you free healthcare, free handouts, free oil for heating your home, free food stamps, and he'll let you stay in hour home for as long as you want even if you can't pay your mortgage. If you appeal directly to our democratic congress [sic], you might even get a free flat screen TV and a coupon for free haircuts ..." It concludes: "If for any reason you are not happy with the new policies, you many want to rethink your vote on November 4th," followed by Brandt's signature and title.
     Snell says he openly supported Obama, and was fired on Nov. 20, 2008, despite acquiring more than $300,000 in accounts during his 6 months with KK Office Solutions.
     He seeks reinstatement, lost pay and damages of $1.2 million. He is represented by Lawrence Williamson.

...not this sob story.

14 posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:51:14 AM by max americana (Obama is a POS)

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To: Minus_The_Bear

The Tea Party has been co-opted by the GOP. The economy is no longer an issue for those who have co-opted the Tea Party. They talk of everything else other than the economy - national security, abortion, religion and winnability. These issues induce fear into the sheep and they are willing to forget the economy and fall in line behind the GOP establishment. The candidates in the primaries are establishment candidates who are seasoned politicians.

16 posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:53:52 AM by JimWayne

To: max americana

Sadly firing folks in this economy is not populist.

22 posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 12:59:32 AM by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)

Captain Obvious to the white courtesy phone, please....

To: Minus_The_Bear

I always listen to Rush. Today I wanted to crawl through the line and strangle him. He doesn’t get the fact we know that there are times where capitalism exceeds it’s limit and becomes socialism for the few.

34 posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:07:46 AM by TwoSwords

There's enough cognitative dissonance here to actually make his scalp move a little.

To: TwoSwords

“I always listen to Rush. Today I wanted to crawl through the line and strangle him. He doesn’t get the fact we know that there are times where capitalism exceeds it’s limit and becomes socialism for the few.”

He really was an imbecile on stilts today, and perhaps a whore - don’t know his real motivation so not sure on the latter.

Today Rush, Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan came out against Gingrich. Early for the Ides of March, but there it is.

78 posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:48:15 AM by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)

Rush Limbaugh - RINO whore!!!

More after the "Continue reading" hyperspace link.

Pets With Newt?

Following up on yesterday's question is this site, Pets With Newt.

I only hope Newt doesn't have rabies. We know he bites.

Leapin' Lemurs, call the ASPCA, y'all.

Sunday Morning Video: The Romneys of Mexico

I don't usually post news related vids on Sunday BUT this is a helluva interesting story by NBC's  Mike Taibbi about Mitt Haircut's Mexican roots; one of many things he doesn't like talking about.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

 

 

The Crown Prince

I'm not surprised that Ron Paul has done well thus far this primary season. The voters are cranky and who better to, uh, crank them up than a crank like Ron Paul. I am, however, surprised at how many people think he'll bolt the GOP and run as a 3rd, 4th or even 5th party candidate. (Just had to prove that I can count that high.) Why? His son, Senator Rand Paul.

Unless Dr. Ron is the world's worst father, it's hard to see him ruining his son's chances in the GOP. Rand could be Ron's ultimate revenge on the GOP establishment. He's young, vigorous and holds views every bit as nutty as Papa Paul. It's easy to foresee the artist formerly known as Aqua Buddha making a creditable run for the GOP nomination. He's a hardcore Paultard but has learned to smooth over his father's rough edges to sound more like a conventional wingnut. 

Dr. Ron's ideologically crazed followers may not like it (and neither do I as someone who wished the GOP ill) but if he runs as a third party candidate I will eat my least favorite veggie: Cauliflower. I suspect he won't endorse Romney to retain his purity even though he does like vulture capitalism. But he likes the Crown Prince more.

Ooh, a Cockfight!

I haven't forgiven LGF for the 2004 election, but watching them beat the crap out of James O'Keefe is a good time had by all. 

What an utterly stupid stunt. All this does is hurt the poll workers, and in the case of my own precinct we're talking about retired people who are approximately 900 years old and are there basically just to help. We've pretty much gotten to the point where everybody involved in any way in democracy is a liberal, and unless you believe in the outright rule by the Wise Old Rich White Men of Washington without any input from those pesky voters you're some kind of screaming commie. 

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Caption This: New Hampshire Primary Edition

MATT ROURKE/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Iowa Caucasians Caucus Edition

What a fun week it's been, gentle people - drums of Freeper toxic waste (triple redundancy score!) have been piling up faster than I can catalogue them, much less open and decontaminate them.

Needless to say, the whole of Freeperville is awash in Santorum, so this one's going to be more icky than normal.

Suits ON! Blowers ON! Airlock door OPEN! Let's GO!

First one up - Romney takes Iowa - Jim Rob takes nitroglycerin!

Iowa GOP: Romney wins caucuses [Romney 30,015, Santorum 30,007]
CNN ^ | 1/4/12

Posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2012 2:09:20 AM by Slings and Arrows

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney beat former Sen. Rick Santorum by a margin of just 8 votes in the Iowa GOP caucuses, the chairman of the Iowa Republican Party announced early Wednesday.

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Gee, what a surprise.

1 posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2012 2:09:25 AM by Slings and Arrows

Not really, no. If you expected anything else, you're a nutcase, or Michelle Bachmann (but I repeat myself).

To: Slings and Arrows

Tokyo Rove had a box of Romney ballots ready just in case.

New MSM headline: “Landslide Mitt gets mandate from Iowa!”

3 posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2012 2:12:13 AM by PAConservative1

"Tokyo Rove"?

Funny.  I remember not so long ago, when you buttmunches were kissng his ass like it was the first time you'd ever gotten to first base.

Allow me to remind you, by posting a pic I took from the very forum you're currently posting in, during the second term of the Dubya Administration, when you imbeciles thought "Tokyo Rove" was all that and a bag of chips :

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Ring any bells?

To: Slings and Arrows

I find it very odd that Tokyo Rove was the FIRST person to know Willard “won” Iowa.

I guess not.

I would think the people counting the votes and the media would know first. And there were also reports of random precincts not counting right, but they refuse to do a recount.

No question about it: Romney and the establishment STOLE the Iowa caucuses!

29 posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2012 2:29:35 AM by PAConservative1

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To: Slings and Arrows

This whole Iowa Caucus stinks to high heaven! The Fox people said that the votes were lost so Romney and Rick agreed to pre-agranged vote totals?? This whole thing is Fishy.....The 2012 race is looking like a Dog and Pony show to hand Romney the Nomination and get in his Admin’s good graces....I’m calling shenanigans!!!!

10 posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2012 2:17:08 AM by jakerobins

You do that, chum.  I'm sure the caucus Captains have been going over Freeperville with a fine tooth comb waiting to see if they should stop the polling because one or more of you dipshits didn't like the outcome.

To: Slings and Arrows

Whole ROTTEN MESS was rigged!

Santorum is in the lead .. until greazy @$$ Rove starts ‘orchestrating’ HOW the last two

(Four Hour Late) precincts MUST have counted wrong and .. wouldn’t you know it .. Smarmy RNC chair comes on and announces how ALL the votes had now been ‘found’ and GUESS WHAT? .. MITTENS WINS .. by the exact same amount that he had been losing by! SURPRISE!!

GARBAGE ROVE “AND FOX” are THROUGH .. as far as I am concerned!

Ki$$ My @$$ FOX NEWS!!

30 posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2012 2:30:39 AM by sillipuddi ("Thieves get rich, Saints get murdered")

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To: goldstategop

Santorum’s a weak candidate and his momentum won’t translate nationally. Why people are even rallying behind this duplicitous goofball, is beyond me.

31 posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2012 2:31:30 AM by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State | Gingrich 2012)

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To: Free Vulcan

You’re wrong! If we don’t like the outcome, it must be corrupt. Can’t be that the Romney vote tally is close to the 2008 numbers, that he ran a smart campaign (something we shouldn’t pay attention to), and that a caucus process is fairly decentralized and difficult to fix. It’s corrupt! Corrupt!

Freepers can like Mitt or not (I’ve been trying to stomach him till the McCain endorsement raised my level of bile again) - but I do wish people would be a bit more sane.

54 posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2012 3:35:12 AM by sick1 (Don't fear the freeper)

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You wish people would be more sane? More sane?

Do you freaking realize where you ARE?

It's like saying (in the midst of a scrum) that you wish hockey players weren't so damned pushy.

To: Country Patriot

Because ROVE is the Male counterpart of Nancy Pelosi!

He's the Representative of the California 8th Congressional district and former Speaker of the House?

I have got to start keeping up with this stuff.

He is every bit as slimy and dis-honest as any DemonRat and the fix is in for ‘his’ candidate Romney!

Rove gave us Obama .. through Bush

What's the matter, Bunky? Dontcha lurvs your Commander Codpiece no more? You guys used to kiss his ass like it was the Pope's ring and you were taking your last breath.

and BY GOD .. He is going to SHOVE Romney down our throats whether we like it or not!

Well, it's still better than having Santorum shoved up your ass.

The B@$$-TURD doesn’t really give a D@MN if Romney or Obama wins because for him .. “It’s All Good”!

He’s an Elitists and part of the “Livin Large” crowd that has Long Ago, taken power and YOU? .. You’re one of “Those” little people!

Otherwise known as "The 99%".

Shut Up and take what they give you!

(There will never be any other way to dis-lodge people like Rove .. short of a Revolution!)

B@SS-TURDS ALL!

60 posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2012 4:09:59 AM by sillipuddi ("Thieves get rich, Saints get murdered")

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To: sillipuddi

Grow up sillipuddi

61 posted on Wednesday, January 04, 2012 4:11:05 AM by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)

I love it.

Someone on a forum where the go-to words are "DemonRATS", "Obamination", "Kenyan", and worse , telling someone else on that forum to "grow up".

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Jim Rob delivers a post-Iowa jeremiad, gratutious mooslime-baiting, and Pee Party insanity after the fold-e-rol.

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Deep GOP Candidates Thought

Sorry I've been absent so much. Teacher gave me an excuse so I'm covered.

I don't know about you but I'm glad we've got the True Newt back. His Mr. Nice Guy pose was preposterous. Besides, Mitt Landslide deserves to be called a liar even if he *is* a smooth one.

Finally, since Senator Man Dog Sex is against *all* forms of contraception, I have a new moniker for him: Rick (No Rubbers) Santorum. He acts like he's running for Pope or something...

'Newtlear'

They're melting down at RedState: 

As you wake up this morning, the tea party has failed because it has surrendered itself into the hands of Romney, Santorum, or Gingrich — all of whom would use government to suit allegedly conservative ends, which is not conservative in and of itself. But by God Mitt Romney may now get the political beating everyone has been expecting him to get. Newt Gingrich has nothing left to lose. He can go Newtlear against the guy he sees as having destroyed him. Newt Gingrich can unleash unmitigated hell against MItt Romney and just like the attacks on Newt were true, they’ll all be true about MItt Romney too.

Which will leave you with WHAT, pal? I don't know who else you think is out there waiting to save the party. You have a guy who's not crazy, Huntsman, who has no money and cannot muster a single ounce of give-a-shit from your backwards-ass redneck voters, and all your governors who can find a sentence with both hands and a flashlight are looking at their chances this year even WITH this economy and saying OH HAYELL NAW. 

Save us, Rick Perry! It's not that people looked at you and and went GOD NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN, it's that your deputy communications intern sucked!

If I were Perry, I’d wake up tomorrow, say I refuse to surrender the Republican Party into the hands of big government conservatives after all the gains the tea party has made, and then announce I’m firing all my political staffers and communications staffers and ask South Carolina to help me reboot to victory. Make it an Alamo stand and, if like at the Alamo Perry goes down, perhaps there’ll at least be a rallying cry for small government conservatism left over.

That’s just me. Perry’s policy people have been phenomenal. The comms staff and political staff so badly bungled this that Rick Perry just suffered the first political loss of his career.

FWIW, I actually am irritated at the weakness of this GOP field, and not just because putting Obama in a fight might actually rouse him a little bit. I think it might be nice to have a serious debate that once and for all puts a stake in the heart of the idea that we can cut our way to OMGPROFIT, but with this bunch of assclowns anything people actually are saying by the turnout and the lack of cohesion and the endless whining among Republicans about their own field is drowned out by the carousel music and the dancing animals. 

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Iowa Caucus Crack Van

I don't know who I want to win because I want them all to lose. Behave yourselves in the van. Posts in here belong to their posters, not to the ferrets. Share the HAMS. 

Van closed. Well, thank God we had that marathon discussion of what white evangelical male voters wanted, because that's a subject entirely uncovered in our national media. And as the astute van commenters pointed out, Iowa evangelicals made themselves a choice between someone they believe is a member of a cult but who stands the best chance of beating Obama, and someone who spouts all the right nonsense for them but who would be like Bambi going up against the Truckasaurus.

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Tomorrow: Crack Van

We will have a crack van for the Iowa caucus results, starting from probably about 7 CST or so. I can promise I'll put up with two hours of Tweety, but probably not much more than that. 

Steve on what everybody's going to say anyway: 

If Mitt Romney wins, he doesn't really win because that's what was expected. So the second-place finisher wins. Unless that's Ron Paul. Ron Paul never wins. Even if he wins.

If Rick Santorum wins, he doesn't really win because he'll be next in line for media scrutiny and opponents' attack ads that will see him sink faster than Newt, Herman and Michelle. So Santorum is better off finishing second - or even a strong third.

If Michelle Bachmann wins, she doesn't really win because no one will take it seriously. Finishing third would seem like less of a fluke.

Jon Huntsman either wins by not competing in Iowa or loses by not competing in Iowa. But you don't really win if you don't compete in Iowa.

If Newt Gingrich wins, he doesn't really win because he's been so damaged. And if Newt Gingrich doesn't win, he also loses because he's so damaged.

If Rick Perry wins, he doesn't really win because nobody takes him seriously anymore. He's really vying for the Santorum-Bachmann second- or third-place finish.

 

Be here or wish you had been! 

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We Have Officially Solved Everything Else

That's the only explanation I can find for an actual grown-ass lawmaker using up valuable oxygen for something like this.

A. 

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - "You're the last one, Mr. Gingrinch" edition

Good morning, sleepyheads - let me get all the party favours and confetti swept out of the airlock, and we'll get to the more recent stuff.

First up - Jim Rob is still throwing a hissy fit about Romney.

Me?  I can't wait for the day Romney gets the nomination. We'll have to all work double shifts to clean the exploding head detritus off the iso chamber walls.

The day the tea party embraces Mitt Romney is the day the tea party accepts defeat
Vanity | Dec 17, 2012 | Jim Robinson

Posted on Saturday, December 17, 2011 2:08:08 PM by Jim Robinson

First there was the Reagan Revolution, then Newt's Republican Revolution, and now the Tea Party Revolution.

Then the Palin Phenomenon, then the Perry Phenomenon, then the Cain Trainwreck, then the Bachmann-Turner Overreach.  How is this trend looking to ya so far, Jimbo?

In each successive revolution, the lovers of liberty threw off a bit more of the yoke of the oppressive ruling class to reestablish some vital part of our God given liberty and freedom.

But enough about Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos

Pro-life, small government, big defense Ronald Reagan set and accomplished the goal of bringing down the socialist Soviet Union as a threat to the world and reestablished free America as the dominate superpower. He rescued America from the hapless Jimmy Carter who had dragged the nation down into to the depths of despair.

And all this time I was thinking that Reagan was president in 1982.

Reagan taught us that our best years were indeed yet to come. He reinvigorated our economy by reducing government regulations and taxes and created a free market environment ripe for capitalism to flourish.

Um - the corporate giveaways and capital gains tax cuts occurred in 1981.

A lover of life and freedom, he fought off the socialists and merchants of doom and death at every turn

Nah - that was just him confusing movies he was in with reality.

and sparked the beginning of the decades long Reagan Economy. He was a champion of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness and he delivered us from evil.

While sleeping at Cabinet meetings and ony waking to spin multiple plates on sticks while singing the Catalina Magdelina Hoopensteiner Wallendiner song, yes, yes, we get it.

Pro-life, small government, big defense Reaganite, Newt Gingrich, set and accomplished the major goal of wresting the congressional majority away from the socialist Democrats who had held it for forty years. His conservative Republican Revolution cut the taxes, cut the spending, cut the deficit, cut unemployment, blocked President Clinton's progressive agenda, blocked HillaryCare, reformed welfare, defended life, and balanced the budget four years running, ensuring that the Reagan Economy flourished and stretched throughout his term and beyond.

Mitt Romney set goals of protecting and sustaining abortion as safe and legal in America. He sought to be more radical than Ted Kennedy in respects to "gay rights." He swore to defend Massachusetts' strict gun-control laws that "kept us safe" and promised not to chip away at them. He set and accomplished the goal of bringing big government healthcare solutions to his state and mandating that all formerly free citizens must purchase a government approved product or suffer a tax penalty. He loves mandates against the people.

He stated that he was an independent during Reagan-Bush and he was not returning to Reagan-Bush. And he didn't. Instead, he delivered taxpayer funded abortion, gay marriage, gun-control, socialized healthcare, busted budgets, ruined economy, liberal activist judges and a destroyed Republican label.

It's funny as fuck, you bunch of losers complaining about somebody else destroying the "Republican Label".

Nice of you to admit that it's just another product with a shitty ad campaign, though.

Romney was and is demonstrably per record an anti-Reagan, pro-big government, pro-abortion, pro-gay agenda, pro-gun-control, anti-liberty, pro-socialist healthcare, mandate-loving, liberal judge appointing, budget busting progressive.

He is without a doubt the exact opposite of Reagan, Gingrich, the Reagan Revolution, the Republican Revolution and the Tea Party Revolution.

If the Tea Party now embraces Romney, it will have accepted defeat and surrendered to the ruling class.

There is a reason why the elite establishment GOPers are pushing the anti-Reagan Romney and rejecting the pro-life, Reaganite Newt Gingrich. And I guarantee you, it's not in the best interest of the Tea Party or the Liberty we seek.

Not on my watch!! No Romney, no way!!

(Dec 29) But the Rasmussen Reports survey contained additional positive data for Romney. The poll showed 75 percent of those who identified themselves with the tea party movement supported Romney over Obama.

Why does the Tea Party hate America?

Rebellion is brewing!!

1 posted on Saturday, December 17, 2011 2:08:13 PM by Jim Robinson

That's just a hole in your colostomy bag.

To: Jim Robinson

If the Tea Party now embraces Romney, it will have accepted defeat and surrendered to the ruling class.

What if Romney eventually becomes the GOP nominee, and in Nov. '12 it's either him or another 4 years of America's Chickens Coming Home to Roost?

Should the Tea Party very begrudgingly mumble some kind of wet napkin support for Romney, or write off the White House and focus on Conservative House/Senate candidates to thwart the Executive Branch?

Just askin'

24 posted on Saturday, December 17, 2011 2:26:57 PM by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)

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To: montyspython

What don’t you understand regarding the term ZOT?

If people get ZOT'd merely for expressing a different opinion, you don't have to ZOT me. I'm outta here.

(Proud to be FReeper since Dec 3, 1997)

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Send treats to the troops...
Great because you did it.
www.AnySoldier.com
(An entirely free service)

28 posted on Saturday, December 17, 2011 2:30:15 PM by JCG

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To: JCG

bye

33 posted on Saturday, December 17, 2011 2:31:50 PM by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)

Heh.

To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

> What the Tea Party needs is to pack the Congress with like minded conservatives.

Excellent point and one that bears repeating.

I’m not spending anything on the Presidential race. The field ranges from iffy to horrible. I’m saving my bucks to spend on Congressional races where we have a chance to turn the tide.

I suggest we all do the same. Congress is where we can override Zer0 or a capitulating RINO.

50 posted on Saturday, December 17, 2011 2:40:29 PM by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender! REMEMBER NEDA)

I see you guys haven't figured it out yet. The more bugfuck crazy you are, the less people will vote for you.

And whereas in most professions these would be considerable drawbacks, in chartered accountancy Tea Prty politics, they are a positive boon.

To: JCG

I remember a time not too long ago when Ann Coulter was welcomed at FR; there are still pictures of her with FR members somewhere back in the archives. But here she is, solidly in bed with Romney and the other northeastern RINO’s/liberals.

Whether its her love of Chris Cristie (She likes an obese person? Add their two weights together and divide by two and you have that of a normal person) or what, I don’t know. But she has abandoned conservative principles and now joins those who shun Newt and other Tea Party conservatives. Besides the above linked article, she appeared on O’Reilly’s show last night to hammer home her conversion. Even Rudy (whose fate on here we know) has defended Newt which shows how far out in the Boston tide flats Romney has walked.

52 posted on Saturday, December 17, 2011 2:41:41 PM by CedarDave

There you have it.

Ann Coulter - RINO!!!

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More Mittens-bashing and much more after the hump.

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Quote of the day

It comes from actor Daniel Craig who clearly spent some time around Tony Blair:

“Politicians are shitheads. That’s how they become politicians, even the good ones. We’re actors, we’re artists, we’re very nice to each other. They’ll turn around and stab you in the fucking back.”

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Son of the Revenge of the Putrid Potpourri edition

Good morning, gentle people - last clean-up edtion of Obsession starts right now - Let's upwrap our last presents, shall we?

First up, from November 14th - Freepers notice that President Obama's poll numbers have changed course and are rising.

"Pollsters can't be trusted", sez the Freeperati! "I'll wait to see what Rasmussen has to say!"

Um - this is Rasmussen.

Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll (WTH? Hussein rising?)
Rasmussen Reports ^ | 14 November 2011 | Scott Rasmussen

Posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 8:56:26 AM by ScottinVA

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Thirty-eight percent (38%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15 (see trends).

That’s the president’s best Approval Index rating in three months. Still, most voters continue to favor repeal of his primary legislative accomplishment, the health care law.

The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who Strongly Disapprove from the number who Strongly Approve. It is updated daily at 9:30 a.m. Eastern (sign up for free daily e-mail update). Updates are also available on Twitter and Facebook

Overall, 50% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's job performance. That’s the first time since June that the president has reached the 50% mark. Forty-nine percent (49%) at least somewhat disapprove.

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Monday morning facepalm as Americans appear to be going brain-dead again.

1 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 8:56:32 AM by ScottinVA

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To: ScottinVA

BHO is going to win reelection. When that happens it’s not going to be pretty.

3 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 9:01:45 AM by svcw (God's Grace - thank you!)

Pretty fucking hilarious is what it's gonna be.

The post-election edition of Obsession may have to be a two-parter.

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To: Tulane

The Kenyan’s poll numbers are rising. Not good.

Tax the rich, blame do nothing congress, blame Wall St, OWS mau maus, 2nd quarter GDP growth, Libya? What could it be?

10 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 9:06:16 AM by y6162

All of the above, plus a gaggle of GOP condidates better suited for piling out of a tiny car than for debating?

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To: throwback

He’s betting on the stupidity of the American people. It’s a pretty good bet.

I completely agree. He's still the "shiny new bling," I guess.

18 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 9:11:39 AM by ScottinVA (Hurrah me boys, for FREEDOM! `Tis the risin` o` the moon!)

Fo shizzle.

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To: ScottinVA

ALL POLLS, that is without exception all public released polls are for profit marketing tools to shape public opinion. They only work as long as gullible people pay attention to them. Best poll is to ask people you know and what you see from people you learned to trust.

23 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 9:13:37 AM by Mechanicos (Why does the DOE have a SWAT Team?)

Yeah, that makes sense. Ignore national polls and only poll people who share your views.

Stupidity personified.

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To: Mechanicos

Best poll is to ask people you know and what you see from people you learned to trust

I can't speak for others, but the people I know and trust tend conservative. It won't be a good representation of the public at large. That's why I take all those anectotes of "everyone I talk to says he's toast" with a pound of salt.

26 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 9:16:58 AM by ScottinVA (Hurrah me boys, for FREEDOM! `Tis the risin` o` the moon!)

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To: Mechanicos

Ramussen is by far the most accurate right-leaning pollster...it is a mistake to simply dismiss his polls when they don’t tell you what you want to hear.

35 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 9:22:28 AM by Moby Grape (Formerly Impeach the Boy...name change necessary after the Marxist won)

FIFY.

Oh - and you're banned.

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To: Longbow1969

The simple reason is that several GOP candidates’ cults, have been using Alinsky tactics against other Republicans.

Instead of against the left.

Ignoring Reagan’s 11th Commandment.

Reagan was right.

39 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 9:24:07 AM by Cringing Negativism Network (Evict the unsanitary, violent occupiers. Now.)

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To: Tulane

Well I think we’re all greatly underestimating something. For the first time in my life that I can ever remember the “tax the rich” “screw them for their success” is not a just a fringe element of people anymore. What I mean by this is I don’t believe it’s just the OWS people. I think there are people you would not expect in your neighborhoods, daily lives, who secretly are angry at the rich and want them punished.

Maybe because they're underwater on their mortgages and/or are out of work, or because the banksters played roulette with their 401Ks, and the rich aren't missing any house payments?

I think there is an undercurrent out there in the country where people who have either stayed stagnant in their salaries or have had financial difficulties are blaming the wealthy for it.

In other breaking news - people who have been mugged are blaming criminals for it. Film at 11.

I’ve never seen anything like that before in America, and its awful. Point is, I think it’d be unwise for the GOP candidates, and the right overall to dismiss the class warfare angle as a singular radical left wing OWS idea. I think it has gained traction, and I think people who don’t identify with the left or the radicalism of it are actually starting to agree with. Which is terrifying.

62 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 10:16:54 AM by hitchwolf

Be afraid.  Be very afraid.

Simple fact is - allowing the financial sector to police itself is like allowing rapists to practice abstinence.

To: ScottinVA

Good Grief! Would some of you folks get a grip...PLEASE!

I cannot believe some of you people lap up these daily tracking polls the way you do. If Obama and his administration thought they were in such great shape, they wouldn't be asking Clinton for guidance; they wouldn't be going full throttle against Cain...yada....yada.

It's a daily tracking poll for crying out loud. Way too many variables for me to have a conniption fit over.

I swear, the Left must laugh their A$$es off at us.

69 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 10:26:55 AM by Artcore

Yes, I do laugh my ass off at you.

Don't like it? Don't be so fucking risible.

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To: ScottinVA

Predictably, the hand-wringers and doom-and-gloomers here on FR are WAY, WAY overreacting to an job approval poll that is clearly an OUTLIER from every other approval poll currently out there. And of course the majority here is already throwing up their hands, waving the white flag of surrender, and more-or-less declaring Obama the victor one full year prior to an election. YOU PEOPLE SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES.

Folks, think about it... Has there been ANY positive news for the country in the past week? NO! Unemployment is still at an alarmingly high 9%, there are still 14 million people out of work, the national debt has increased by $5 TRILLION over the past three years, we’re on the verge of a nuclear Iran, Obama continues to be mired in scandals, etc. etc. Obama’s approval numbers have consistently remained around 44% on every other poll. So did you ever stop to think that perhaps Rasmussen has taken a BAD SAMPLE of popular opinion over the past several days???

Hindsight's a bitch, innit?

Thursday, December 22, 2011 (4days ago)

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14 (see trends).

That’s the president’s best Approval Index rating since August.

But no, too many of you want to panic, give up, and declare Obama unbeatable. It quite frankly MAKES ME SICK and makes me not want to post on Free Republic any longer because I don’t need all this extra negativity in my life.

Go piss up a rope.

If there is ever a time to start building a backbone of steel, it’s NOW!!! And QUIT READING AND LISTENING TO THE STATE RUN MEDIA FOR CRYING OUT!!

Somehow the right-leaning Rasmussen has morphed into the "State Run Media".

Nobody tells me anything.

The media is purposefully going to try to depress you.

They're hiding behind your couch and just waiting to jump out and kill your self esteem with snarky comments about how you dress and what TV shows you watch.

They’re going to try to convince you that the economy is improving when it’s NOT, that Obama’s poll numbers are improving when they AREN’T (Heck, let’s not forget that Jimmy frickin’ Carter had a 54% approval rating in Gallup just 10 months before the 1980 election!), and that the GOP candidates are terrible when they AREN’T!

The American people all KNOW things are bad right now. Poll after poll is showing 80% of them think the country is going in the wrong direction and even more think the economy STINKS, for crying out loud!

I’m officially making my prediction right now that OBAMA IS TOAST IN 2012 AND WILL LOSE HIS RE-ELECTION BID IN A LANDSLIDE. That’s right... MARK IT DOWN AND BOOK IT.

Done and done.

I also predict that Rasmussen will have Obama’s job approval numbers back around 45% within the next week and may even drop below 40% with the next year.

You're definitely batting .000 so far.

Thursday, December 22, 2011 (4days ago)

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Thirty-seven percent (37%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14 (see trends).

That’s the president’s best Approval Index rating since August.

A LOT can and will happen between now and the November 2012 election. We’re gearing up for yet another deficit reduction battle in Congress with the super-committee over the next couple of weeks, which will almost certainly be a drain on Obama like it was this past summer.

WSJ Rips GOP Over Payroll Tax

Wall Street Journal: The GOP leaders have somehow managed the remarkable feat of being blamed for opposing a one-year extension of a tax holiday that they are surely going to pass. This is no easy double play. Republicans have also achieved the small miracle of letting [President] Obama position himself as an election-year tax cutter, although he's spent most of his Presidency promoting tax increases and he would hit the economy with one of the largest tax increases ever in 2013. ... At this stage, Republicans would do best to cut their losses and find a way to extend the payroll holiday quickly.

ObamaCare has a very good chance of being struck down and he will be rightly portrayed as a overreaching president who’s signature piece of legislation was ruled unconstitutional. Greece and Italy is almost certain to default at some point, which will send the U.S. stock markets into a tail spin.

And these muon-brained twatwaffles accuse the Left of "hating America"?

The U.S. has a 50-50 chance of lapsing back into another recession during the next year. Would ANY of this make Obama more re-electable??? HELL NO!!

So get a damn grip, people, and START CAMPAIGNING AGAINST OBAMA BY TALKING TO YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND CO-WORKERS RIGHT NOW!!

85 posted on Monday, November 14, 2011 11:16:48 AM by DestroyLiberalism

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More pig-ignorant Freepertronics after the rift.

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Newt Gingrich meets Raylan Givens

Newt Gingrich has said a lot of stupidly outrageous things over the years but his "round up activist judges" rant is a new low. So much for separation of powers. It's only aimed at librull judges but could apply to several wingnut Supremes: come on down, Justices Scalia. Thomas and Alito.

If the Gingrich plan is ever implemented, there's a US Marshall who would be perfect other than the fact that he's fictional, sort of like Newt's whole idiotic scheme. That would be, of course, Raylan Givens of teevee's Justfied. The only flaw with *my* plan is that Raylan is apt to shoot first and ask questions later.

 

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Revenge of the Putrid Potpourri edition

OK, you lot - pile into the Wayback machine, and travel back in time and space (insert obligatory ELO backwards masking here).

It was a plainer time - a simpler time - a dumber time.

Well, lookee here - it's Die Harder!

Are we ready to draft Sarah Palin, yet?

Posted on Friday, November 04, 2011 12:20:20 AM by TwoSwords

My first and probably last vanity.

Picture a crowd of people gathered for a political rally. The speaker gives out the old bromide "Why are we here?" The crowd replies in a frenzy. "We want change!" Is this Occupy or a college campus? No, it's Free Republic. Let's face it, we all admire our favorite candidates in the Republican field. They all have their strengths and weaknesses, don't we all. The real problem is that they're unable to differentiate themselves from each other, in a defining manner. Considering the trampling of rights, unemployment, regulation, immigration, crime, education (lack of and cost of), corruption, lack of leadership, zero (he has to come last, because he's earned it), why is one of these candidates not really able to capture our desperate imagination? Some will say Cain has done this very thing. Would the majority of them have said the same thing 2-3 months ago? I think not. I think he's a better man, than I. And I truly mean that. But I don't sense the killer instinct that is needed right now. Cain is passionate, he's just not desperate. Desperation is where too many of us living(sic).

Desperation is all right-wingers have.  Everything's a fucking crisis with you yobboes. I've been listening to this crap about how fill-in-the-blank is the most horribleist thing EVAR and will immediately cause America to go up like a piece of flash paper - for decades. Know what? Hasn't happened yet, and isn't going to happen.

But do you thimble-witted planarians remember and learn? No. You just keep bouncing from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis, because that's all you have.

We're debating between Cain, Perry, Romney, Bachmann, Santorum, Gingrigh, Paul. It's great that we have such a diverse field to choose from and we still haven't made a decision. The right's version of diversity is reality. The left's is checking a box on a form. It will take a person willing to make unlikely political decisions.The left has torn this country usunder(sic) for many a year and many a way and it has to stop. The right has to show it's(sic) teeth, and if necessary use them. We need to draft Palin. I see no other option where we win back our country from the abject corruption we see daily reported on FR. There are many on this board who consider her a fraud. I never saw that side of her. My favorite study through my life has been military history. I've read of the most narcissitic(sic) people in the world over and over, generals and politicians. Ruthless, to the max. Of all the times I've seen her on TV I've never once sensed a need for political revenge. This, to me, is standard operating procedure for a politician. Never seen it from her. I can't think of anyone whom I'm not related to that I believe in their goodness and good intentions. No person can be all things to all people (cept Jesus) and maybe she rubbed people the wrong way. Isn't that normal? I, for one, believe she was put her for a reason, to be President of the United States. I want to re-institute the draft. Just for POTUS.

Paragraphs are your friends.

1 posted on Friday, November 04, 2011 12:20:21 AM by TwoSwords

Did I mention you mollusc-brained porkmuffins' tendency to spew spittle-flecked venom in one long screed until you run out of breath and fall over?

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To: TwoSwords

She said no. Leave it at that.

3 posted on Friday, November 04, 2011 12:22:08 AM by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)

This FR version of "ECOMCON" is threatening "Seven Daisies In May".

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To: TwoSwords

Eisenhower said 'no' over and over, until he was finally drafted at the nominating convention. He then said 'yes'.

And didn't you just shit yourself when he warned us about the military-industrial complex?

If you pasty-witted sockwads had someone with half the integrity of Eisenhower, this election would already be over.

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But what do you have? Perry and the pirates.

Don't count Palin out. She said recently that she could be persuaded to reconsider her decision if she saw an "earthquake" develop. Many of her supporters heard her say that, and immediately responded with a flood of postcards and letters, begging her to reconsider her decision.

Now, even her brother Chuck is trying to get her to change her mind.

Visit Sarah Palin's Earthquake Movement on Facebook, if you'd like to join those who are trying to persuade her to change her mind.

17 posted on Friday, November 04, 2011 12:43:22 AM by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)

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To: fight_truth_decay

The media has to be dealt with. And I’ve finally figured out a way.

Have you, now?

Quid Pro Quo.

There's no need for that kind of language.

At any press conference the interogatee gets to ask the reporter a question

That sounds ripping!

Let's give it a try, shall we?

 

and if they don’t like/agree w the answer they move onto the next reporter. If the reporter is able to answer the question responsibly they can ask a question.

30 posted on Friday, November 04, 2011 1:12:13 AM by TwoSwords (Has anyone seen my suspension of disbelief pills?)

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To: starlifter

“Draft her for what?”

I understand your cynicism. Still let me clarify: draft her for the presidential nomination.

If it becomes apparent that Romney could be the GOP nominee then drafting Palin could become a reality, as the only way to save us all.

34 posted on Friday, November 04, 2011 1:17:09 AM by SarahPalinForPresident2012 (Time to Reload)

Time to change your handle and sig file. 

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To: TwoSwords

Are we ready to draft Sarah Palin, yet?

I sure am.

Her buoyancy is contagious.

35 posted on Friday, November 04, 2011 1:18:11 AM by b9

You leave her flotation devices out of this.

To: Darkwolf377

Exactly. This is why I was so frustrated by the cries of “You’re a hater!” whenever anyone raised any question about Palin here.

Cor blimey, I got so sick of that.

I stopped expressing any support or otherwise for Sarah Palin a few months ago because I didn't want to be associated with some of those people in any way whatsoever.

They were (and still are, just for a different candidate now) embarrassing.

45 posted on Friday, November 04, 2011 1:37:59 AM by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)

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To: TwoSwords

Glad to see those sacred of Sarah are still here attacking someone else......

Run Sarah Run.....I’m with you...she is the only one.......

Just be prepared to be endlessly attacked here....they don’t want to take any chance that she might change her mind, so they get vicious at every mention of Sarah running

It’s called “Occupy FreeRepublic”

52 posted on Friday, November 04, 2011 4:25:03 AM by The Wizard (Madam President is my President now, and in the future)

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More retro fun after the jim-jam-jumpin' jive!

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Quote of the day: I am not a witch edition

It comes from Christine O'Donnell who recently endorsed Mitt Haircut:

“That’s one of the things that I like about him — because he’s been consistent since he changed his mind.”

So, he's consistent in his inconstancy or something like that? Jeez, I've really missed Christine...

Deep Cheese Thought

Last week, Rick Santorum compared himself to one of my favorite foods:

What they’ll find, he said, is exactly what voters here are hungry for.

“I’m confident that when they do, they’ll find one person who — maybe I’m not the flashiest person, I may be a little boring when it comes to, because I’m consistent,” he said. “My record isn’t swiss cheese. I mean it’s solid, it’s a solid block of cheese.

This is an insult to cheese lovers everywhere. It could inspire someone to throw a block of cheese at his Iowa HQ windows. What kind of cheese? Brick...

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - Putrid Potpourri edition

OK guys - I've put Mr. Peabody's Wayback machine inside the iso chamber, so we can fly back to a better time - a simpler time - a time when there were still "Our Sarah For President" signs.

Here we go! First up - Are you ready for some FUBO???

ESPN pulls Hank Williams Jr. after he compares Obama to Hitler
sports.yahoo.com ^ | 10-3-11 | Chris Chase

Posted on Monday, October 03, 2011 8:51:51 PM by Justaham

Hank Williams Jr., the singer whose various videos for the hit song "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Monday Night" has served as the intro to "Monday Night Football" for 23 seasons, compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler during a Monday morning appearance on "Fox and Friends." The statement led to ESPN pulling his popular intro segment, best known to fans for its "Are you ready for some football?" ending, for Monday night's game between the Indianapolis Colts and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

During a discussion on the 2012 presidential race, Williams began discussing Obama's golf outing with Speaker of the House John Boehner. He said it was a political mistake, on par with "Hitler playing golf with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu."

1 posted on Monday, October 03, 2011 8:51:55 PM by Justaham

He then said:

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"Well you may not know it but this man is a spy.
He's a undercover agent for the FBI
And he's been sent down here to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan!"

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I said "Would you believe this man has gone as far
As tearing Wallace stickers off the bumpers of cars
And he voted for George McGovern for President."

"Well he's a friend of them long haired, hippy-type, pinko fags!
I betchya he's even got a commie flag
Tacked up on the wall inside of his garage."

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Further respondent sayeth not.

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To: Justaham

I heard about Bush being ‘hitler’ for years. Someone says it from the other angle? Fired. NFL expect repercussions.

2 posted on Monday, October 03, 2011 8:55:20 PM by allmost

I'm sure they're absolutely terrified.

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To: Justaham

Hank shouldn’t be working for those light in the loafers fairies at ESPN anyway. He’s better off.

7 posted on Monday, October 03, 2011 8:58:42 PM by FlingWingFlyer (If you always tell the truth, you won't have to remember what you said.)

"Light in the loafers"?  They'll fuck you up, son.

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To: Justaham

Actually he never compared Obama to Hitler. What he said was Boehner and Obama Golfing was like Hitler and Netanyahu golfing. In other words, you could not find two more diametrically opposed people to play golf. He was no more likening Obama to Hitler than he was calling Boehner Netanyahu, ( which wouldnt even make sense as Boehner on his best day couldn’t even polish Bibi’s shoes.)

Well, "Bibi" has your spittle to do that with, doesn't he?

Stupid Gretchen Carlson and Stupid Stupid ESPN. Oh well two less things that I don’t watch that I will now avoid even more.

9 posted on Monday, October 03, 2011 8:59:21 PM by 1malumprohibitum

How do you not watch something even more than you're already not watching it? 

Expect repercussions.

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To: Justaham

Could sports be more racist?

It's all gone downhill since they started letting the coloreds in.

It’s sickening. It was Gretchen or someone who made something out of that question. I knew the minute she emphasized it that he was out.

Bocephus is gay?

He went on the show to publicize some newly discovered music by his father that’s out now on TV but they had to delve into politics.

Maybe you could tell him to shut up and sing?

I think this is kinda sad.

20 posted on Monday, October 03, 2011 9:05:49 PM by altura ( Palin/Ryan---or Palin/Perry or Palin/Rubio

Based on your sig line, I foresee a lifetime of "kinda sad", bitter disppointment, and hearbreak ahead of you, due to your inability to distinguish your fantasies from reality.

You will then blame your hearbreak and wasted life on hippies and "commonists". 

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To: PrkChps

We’ve decided to BOYCOTT MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL for the rest of the season! Support Hank Williams Jr and BOYCOTT MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL!!

35 posted on Monday, October 03, 2011 9:39:47 PM by goron (communism)

So how did that work out for ya, Freepers?

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'Monday Night Football Wins the Night for ESPN'

Written By Robert Seidman

November 30th, 2011

Monday night’s ESPN Monday Night Football telecast – a 49-24 New Orleans Saints victory over the New York Giants – helped ESPN win the night among all networks – broadcast or cable – in households, viewers, and all key male and adult demos. The telecast averaged:

• 10.7 household coverage rating (9.3 U.S. rating)
• 10,624,000 households
• 14,423,000 viewers

 

Notes:

• ESPN won the night among all networks in households, viewers and all key male and adult demos;
• MNF led all programs Monday night in the delivery of households, viewers and all key male and adult demos
• The game ranks as the seventh most-viewed telecast of the year on cable among households (ninth among viewers).

Wow - looks like you morons continue to have the same effect on the outside world that you always have.

None.

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More time-travelling after the Tebow-approved jump.

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Celebrity Disgrace is Not an Actual, You Know, Thing

Steve on the sympathy for former Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich: 

Add Richard Roeper to the list of sympathizers.

"Look at Rod Blagojevich's life right now," Roeper writes. "He's been stripped of his law license. He was impeached and removed from office by a vote of 114-1. He's broke. His house is for sale. His daughters have seen their father become a disgrace and punch line. His obituary will lead with his criminal convictions. In the court of public opinion, he's already been sentenced to a lifetime of disgrace.

"Yes, Blagojevich did all that to himself, and has no one to blame but himself. But given the price he's already paid and the fact he was arrested before he could execute one of his wacky plans to sell the Senate seat, I have no great desire to see the guy serve 15-20 years in prison."

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Perhaps some media folks sympathize because Blago is "like us," not "them."

"[S]hould he really do more time than hundreds if not thousands of violent criminals?" Roeper asks. "[I] a country where Dr. Conrad Murray gets four years and will serve much less than that for contributing to Michael Jackson's death, seems out of whack for Blago to serve a dozen years or more."

Fittingly, Roeper's best analogy is a celebrity doctor in a celebrity death.

Okay. Once and for all, people making jokes about you on TV is not actual punishment. It may seem so, for those whose livelihood is invested in the importance of celebrity, but it's not actual punishment, not the way going to prison is. 

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All freak show, all the time

Above is a classic sideshow banner by Fred G. Johnson but it also describes the current state of the GOP race. We've had the Bachmann wingnut overdrive surge, the Gov Package Check surge, the Cain surge and subsequent Gingery wreck. Now it's Newt-mentum. Newt Fucking Gingrich: are you fucking kidding me? The same guy who once suggested that the children of welfare recipients be sent to orphanages? Same asshole. The Obama campaign people must be pinching themselves over their luck right now. Newt Fucking Gingrich?

I've never seen anything like this: every campaign shifts into freak show mode from time to time but this is never ending. The latest freak show twist is reality teevee show host Donald Trump moderating a debate. Donald Fucking Trump? Really: the no truth telling, net worth lying motherfucker Donald Trump? I've gotta give Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman props for telling this bad hair shitbird that they're not playing in his sandbox. The rest will likely go along because it's all freak show, all the time.

Where does it end? Just imagine the reality teevee themed debate possibilities:

Sing for Simon Cowell. Super Freak would be a good numbah for these bozos.

Eat bugs for Jeff Probst. Who among us wouldn't get a kick out of seeing Mitt Haircut spend 30 days without shaving or hair gel?

Cook with gummi bears and warthog for Chopped's Ted Allen.

Strut the runway in drag for Mad Fashion's Chris March and the Project Runway judges. I bet Michael Kors would have a few good zingers for the candidates. I'd pay good money to see Newt in stiletto heels...

The variations are infinite. Any suggestions, y'all?

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - "The Cain Mutiny" edition

OK folks - looks like the Putrid Potpourri Edition is gonna have to be put off one more time,

Let's suit up, enter the airlock, and see what's been happening on the Cain Trainwreck.

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Cain Denies New Allegations, as Woman Claims They Had 13-Year Affair
FOX News ^ | 11-28-11 | FOX News

Posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:16:15 PM by Lazlo in PA

ATLANTA -- Herman Cain on Monday pre-emptively denied a forthcoming accusation by a woman who is expected to say she had a 13-year affair with the Republican presidential candidate.

In an apparent effort to get ahead of the story, Cain appeared in a cable news interview to say the woman is "someone who I know, who is an acquaintance, who I thought was a friend."

MyFoxAtlanta.com released some details of the story, which is scheduled to air Monday night, shortly after Cain appeared on CNN -- identifying the accuser as an Atlanta businesswoman named Ginger White.

"It was pretty simple," White told the station. "It wasn't complicated. I was aware that he was married. And I was also aware I was involved in a very inappropriate situation, relationship."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...

There have been rumors that the Regime had something else up their sleeves to slam Cain again. This may be it.

1 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:16:20 PM by Lazlo in PA

Denial:

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To: Lazlo in PA

She is bufugly and looking for money.

2 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:19:09 PM by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death!)

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.So if she were gorgeous she's be believable? And he was already giving her money.

To: coon2000

I just saw her on Special Report. She is a hard looking broad and they said she was unemployed. She looks like a perfect candidate for chicanery by this Regime. She had absolutely nothing in the way of proof of any affair and was also very vague.

8 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:23:38 PM by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)

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To: Lazlo in PA

This is ridiculous. Where do they does he find these women?

13 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:25:06 PM by RockinRight (If you're waiting to drink until you find pure water, you're going to die of dehydration.)

FIFY..

To: Lazlo in PA

Someone needs to “James O’Keefe” these MSM bastards who are setting up Cain,

What? Dress them up like 80's movie pimps?

they need to tape phone calls of the DNC offereing money to get people to tell lies about Cain and blow it all up in the faces.....

16 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:26:14 PM by GraceG

Anger:

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To: Lazlo in PA

Cain may deny it, but his attorney did anything but:

Rather, this appears to be an accusation of private, alleged consensual conduct between adults – a subject matter which is not a proper subject of inquiry by the media or the public. No individual, whether a private citizen, a candidate for public office or a public official, should be questioned about his or her private sexual life

If Cain did not do it, he should fire his lawyer.

30 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:31:35 PM by PghBaldy (War Powers Res: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/warpower.asp)

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To: Lazlo in PA

She’s a cocktail waitress at an off airport lounge for crying out loud.

The eyeliner, black dress and pearls provided by the designer Accusa Trottier

57 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:42:28 PM by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.

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To: marty60

It takes a staggering amount of narcissism and arrogance for someone to run for president of the United States with this much baggage. He must think he is too big to fail.

60 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:44:11 PM by varina davis (We grow too soon old and too late smart -- Pennsylvania Dutch adage)

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To: marty60

How about you provide some actual evidence before just spouting off?

62 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:44:41 PM by Apollo5600 (Cain 2012)

Bargaining:

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To: Apollo5600

I guess suitable proof for me would be a saucy voice mail. For some reason Herman Cain doesn’t strike me as they type to send raunchy texts. Maybe a Valentine’s day card saying “I love you with all my heart”??

67 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:47:11 PM by ReveBM

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To: umgud

Sadly, the drive-by hits will continue until Cain is nominated.

This is not going to affect my support one iota.

Hollyweird mentality pizzes me to no end.

70 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:48:47 PM by OhioBuckeye ("Here sir, the people govern." - Alexander Hamilton)

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To: Lazlo in PA

It’s the typical slimy DNC Cr*p, any kind of dirty, filthy, no good trick is OK if the end result is what the filthy SOB’s want. They are all hypocrites and liars, I hate commies and socialists with every fiber in my body. A pox on them all, may they all die screaming of rectal cancer every single last one of them!!!

80 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:51:36 PM by mongo141

 

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Whups - seems like we've veered back into Anger.

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Depression and Acceptance below the thin blew line...

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Free speech at $50 an hour

Gov. Deadeyes is apparently trying to find a way to keep those dirty hippies from showing up for all these annoying protests at the state Capitol.

His solution? Charge them for it. (Check out the policy)

According to the MJS, Scott Walker’s administration has decided that it will hold protestors liable for any costs associated with their free speech.

Yes, that’s irony.

Or stupidity.

Or a Constitutional violation.

Or maybe a shithead trifecta.

In any case, the policy took effect Thursday and will have a “learning period” through the middle of December. The goal, the administration notes, was to clearly identify current rules and establish ways to provide “equal and continuous access for all Wisconsinites to their state buildings in a way that is reasonable and safe.”

This is what the administration considers “reasonable” as per the policy itself:

Groups of four or more people must obtain permits for all activity and displays in state buildings and apply for those permits at least 72 hours in advance. The policy requires permits for 100 or more people outside the Capitol. The policy does provide some leeway for spontaneous gatherings triggered by unforeseen events.

 

I know we’re the Dairy State, but let’s not print our laws and edicts on Swiss cheese. Look at what this is saying:

- Four people (or 1/5 of the Duggar family) acting in concert are at risk of violating this rule if they show up in the Capitol and do ANYTHING without a permit that was sought at least 72 hours in advance. The policy explains that the state police receive hundreds of permit requests per year and that the processing of the event permit can take upwards of a month. While state officials note that there will be no enforcement of this based on the political position taken by the speech, I’d bet that if the Scott Walker Fan Club showed up unannounced to rally for the governor, they wouldn’t be fined or forced to apply for a permit.

Of course that’s probably because there’s only three people in that club at this point and one of them works in the building…

 - The policy is nebulous in about 812 areas, not the least of which is this variable known as the “spontaneous event” clause:

Permits are required for any event occurring in any area inside or outside of a state building unless the event is a bona fide spontaneous event. This paragraph does not apply to events occurring on the State Capitol Grounds.

How, pray tell, does one determine to what degree this is a “spontaneous event?” And who gets to make that determination? Is a flash mob a “spontaneous event?” Theoretically, it should be as the underlying purpose of a flash mob is for random people to show up and do something “Glee” like in front of others and then disappear. That said, if you look at the wording of this notice, you could clearly make the argument that it’s not spontaneous, as someone has planned it, promoted it and people have engaged in it. Basically the things that the policy outlines as being fineable.

- The rule extends beyond the steps of the state buildings and appears to be able to levy costs against people who are in anyway involved in anything that might end up possibly being a protest:

 

Individuals or organizations that organize (note: love the redundancy), sponsor, promote or participate in an event may be held jointly and severely liable for law enforcement expenses arising out of the event.

 

So, it’s not just the big dirty hippie with the bull horn they want to fine but pretty much anyone who helps get people to show up, anyone how tells other people about the event or even shows up at the event. An even more insidious reading of that rule indicates that if you were to pass along emails about a protest, communicate about a protest or in any way get near this thing, you could be liable. Who gets to determine what levels these people are liable for costs? How exactly are you going to bill them?

Obviously, lawyers are going to enjoy smacking the administration around on the issue of free speech, which if has to be government approved and then you have to pay to do it isn’t really free. However, this also violates a second tenet of the First Amendment: the right to peaceably assemble. While the courts have held time, place and manner restrictions can be applied to the Amendment, this fails to fit any of those limitations as the policy is overarching in terms of its requirements and should fail to pass the laugh test.

And of course, forcing people to pay for police presence that they don’t want anyway will likely lead to less-than-peaceable assembly. Which of course is what the state wants, so we can have pictures of no-gooders punching "real citizens" on the news (this time without the palm trees in the background) and the “taxpayers” can cluck their tongues at these protestors and wonder what’s wrong with this country.

Deep Hoaxidate Thought

It's official: the GOP nomination race is about Herman Cain's penis. Is it just me or does Ginger White sound like a porn star name? She looks more like one of the Real Housewives of Atlanta, which could be her next move.

I think the GOP race should be about Newt's ego and Mitt's hair but that's just me...

We'll miss you, Barney

One of my favorite members of Congress, Barney Frank, will be retiring after 16 terms. Barney is known for his quick wit and barbed tongue. He was also the first openly gay member of Congress, which made him a frequent target of the biblethumpers and wingnut wackadoodles.

Here's my favorite Barney Frank moment wherein he smacks down a "deather" during a town hall meeting in his district:

 

UPDATE: Here's a link to TPM's coverage of Frank's presser.

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - "It's so good to be home for the Halalidays" edition

Yeah - I know this was supposed to be a "Putrid Potpourri" edition, but there's been alarming real-time developments in Freeperville.

You know how every so often a little reality creeps into the eternal ragefest, when they catch themselves during the rage ramp-up and realize they're being played? This was one of those times. However, the True Believers quickly regroup and counterattack. Suit up, gentle people, because the first offering is - Satanic Butterballs!

Happy Halal Thanksgiving (Boycott Butterball)
American Thinker ^ | November 21, 2011 | Pamela Geller

Posted on Monday, November 21, 2011 8:47:27 PM by Mount Athos

Did you know that the turkey you're going to enjoy on Thanksgiving Day this Thursday is probably halal? If it's a Butterball turkey, then it certainly is.

I discovered that only two plants in the U.S. that perform halal slaughter keep the halal meat separated from the non-halal meat. At other meat-packing plants, animals are slaughtered following halal requirements, but then only a small bit of the meat is actually labeled halal.

Wendy Howze, a Butterball Consumer Response Representative, responded: "Our whole turkeys are certified halal."

Halal slaughter involves cutting the trachea, the esophagus, and the jugular vein, and letting the blood drain out while saying "Bismillah allahu akbar" -- in the name of Allah the greatest. Many people refuse to eat it on religious grounds.

Others object because of the cruelty to animals that halal slaughter necessitates.

Still others refuse to do so on principle: why should we be forced to conform to Islamic norms? It's Islamic supremacism on the march, yet again.

Non-Muslims in America and Europe don't deserve to have halal turkey forced upon them in this way, without their knowledge or consent.

The same Islamic law that mandates that animals be cruelly slaughtered according to halal requirements also teaches hatred of and warfare against unbelievers, the oppression of women, the extinguishing of free speech, and much more that is inimical to our freedom. Don't support it on this celebration of freedom. Join our Facebook group, 'Boycott Butterball'.

Don't buy a Butterball turkey for Thanksgiving.

1 posted on Monday, November 21, 2011 8:47:29 PM by Mount Athos

Cue the Freepers who are not convinced that this is ragegasm material:

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To: Mount Athos

Too late. Can I make up for it by passing gas in the direction of Mecca?

2 posted on Monday, November 21, 2011 8:50:10 PM by Ingtar

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To: Mount Athos

Gee, great idea to demand a Butterball Boycott when most people have already bought their birds. That’s like the TV News showing the wild drinking, drugs and sex binges of Spring break 2 weeks after break has taken place. Boycotts seldom work. And most people won’t care much of a drat where the throat was cut, just as long as the bird isn’t still flapping when being stuffed into the oven.

5 posted on Monday, November 21, 2011 8:53:33 PM by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)

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To: theDentist

If I boycotted every company that ticked me off I’d be living a subsistence life in a tiny little hut in Montana.

7 posted on Monday, November 21, 2011 8:56:07 PM by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)

You mean you're not?

What about the always-imminent SHTF? Are the weapons buried? The gold stacked? The dry provisions catalogued (anyone besides myself ever wonder where the potable water to rehydrate their dried crap is gonna come from once the taps stop running?)?

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To: Mount Athos

If you don’t believe in Allah, what difference does it make? Buy Butterball and don’t give away your power. By boycotting you admit it makes a difference.

9 posted on Monday, November 21, 2011 8:57:23 PM by turbocat

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To: Mount Athos

Good grief! Why shouldn’t companies provide food that ethnic customers are willing to purchase? Makes for increased sales and a better bottom line. Why punish a company simply because you don’t like the customer base to which it’s trying to expand?

12 posted on Monday, November 21, 2011 9:01:02 PM by SuziQ

Ah - but the True Believers are mounting a counterattack!

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To: SuziQ

This I don't like.

while saying "Bismillah allahu akbar" -- in the name of Allah the greatest.

This makes me lose my appetite.

18 posted on Monday, November 21, 2011 9:06:59 PM by DManA

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To: DManA

It has been an ancient custom to pray for the animal that's been sacrificed for your meal. This is not at all peculiar to Moslems. Christian Arabs would traditionally use terminology very similar to that.

So, prayer makes you lose your appetite, or Arabic, or the self-identity of the guy making the prayer?

28 posted on Monday, November 21, 2011 9:15:43 PM by muawiyah

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To: muawiyah

Prayer to a demon does.

29 posted on Monday, November 21, 2011 9:17:54 PM by DManA

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To: DManA

Isn’t that the same Mohammedan chant used when they behead Infidels?

51 posted on Monday, November 21, 2011 9:46:48 PM by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)

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To: Mount Athos

Another tidbit on Halal. All and I repeat all of Costco’s lamb is now halal and their Coleman organic chicken. So since we loved the lamb and the organic chicken this is our last year with Costco. We are looking into Sam’s or BJ’s.

It's too late.  You ate the Satanic lamb chops and your family is going to Hell, you baaa-aaaad man.

Most people just think that Halal is like Kosher. It is not. Kosher slaughter is just a way of processing so all of the blood gets out of the meat. Halal is actually a sacrifice. They point that lamb/turkey in the direction of the Black Rock of Mecca and sacrifice it to Allah. We are all Muslims now.

62 posted on Monday, November 21, 2011 10:26:03 PM by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)

Waitaminnit.

COSTCO?????

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"Get thee behind be, thou evil side-dish of Satan!"

Emo Phillips

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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I absolutely agree with you.

Now that I know what they do with this meat I have a moral choice to make.

69 posted on Monday, November 21, 2011 11:39:50 PM by DManA

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To: MontaniSemperLiberi

Thank you. That means something to me. It is a matter of being a good steward of God’s gifts giblets.

68 posted on Monday, November 21, 2011 11:37:23 PM by DManA

FIFY.

So much more after the Islamic order to "Continue Reading, Infidel!"....

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Crashing By Design

The Congressional stupor committee has failed to reach a "bipartisan compromise." As far as I'm concerned, that means they've succeeded: instead of puny tax increases and punitive spending cuts, if nothing else happens, the Bush tax cuts will expire in 2013. That, in turn, means a return to the Clinton era tax rates and $14 trillion (yep, trillion with a T) in the guvmint's coffers. Sounds like a winner to me.

It turns out that President Obama outmaneuvered Congressional Republicans by placing spending cuts on the table that GOP couldn't agree to because they were tied to tax hikes. That smug prick Grover Norquist's ridiculous no tax pledge helped ensure the "failure." Nothing succeeds like failure, y'all.

The stupor committee was *designed* to fail since it had an equal number of Dems and Goopers as well as House members and Senators. Equality equals gridlock equals failure equals success all things being equal. Guess I need to adjust the equalizer right now...

Well-informed Americans should know by now that searching for a "bi-partisan compromise" is like sending some poor bastard on a snipe hunt. The nostalgia for the good old days among some people is a bit nauseating. We've gone through many periods of partisan polarization and the cross party compromises engineered by LBJ and FDR were possible because there *used* to be moderate Republicans and were done despite Conservative Southern Democrats. Now that the solid South is solidly Republican such compromises are as rare as the dodo bird.

I only hope the Obama-ites will stick to running against the "do nothing" Congress ala Harry Truman in 1948. The cool and cerebral President may be a bit miscast as a populist firebrand but Harry Truman was a poor speaker and Obama at his best is one of the best orators in our history. Now that I think of it, Mitt Romney is not a bad comp for Tom Dewey: he's dull and cautious. The difference is that Dewey was a genuine moderate with a distinguished record on Civil Rights issues. In short, Dewey was dull but he believed in something. Mitt, of course, only believes in himself and the LDS church's weirdo doctrines.

 

Booin' Rootin' Tootin' Putin

The only current European leader who is as big a douchebag as the former Prime Minister of Italy is Vladimir Putin. As you can see in the photo above, Putin and my boy Silvio are bosom buddies but Putin is more likely to discuss the size of his muscles than the size of his dick. The Russian strong man takes that moniker literally:

When Vladimir Putin stepped into the ring at Olimpisky stadium in Moscow after a martial arts fight at the weekend, he might have been expecting to bask in the glory of the Russian Fedor Emelianenko's victory over the American Jeff Monson.

Instead, the Russian prime minister appeared to be greeted by a chorus of boos in the packed stadium. As Putin – a judo black belt who revels in performing macho stunts to buoy his popularity – gave a short speech congratulating Emelianenko on his win, jeers could be heard in the background.

Here's the awesome video, which the Kremlin has tried rather feebly to explain away:

 

I guess it's boo well-known people day here at First Draft but Vladdy baby really had this coming. Even a former KGB man like him can't arrest everyone at that event. Maybe he'll bop off and slaughter some wild animals or something equally manly soon...

Finally, I'd like to thank the boo birds because I've wanted to use Rootin' Tootin' Putin in a post title for years. Spasiba, y'all.

Stay Classy, NASCAR Fans

A bit of tackiness for a Monday morning:

NASCAR fans booed Michelle Obama and Jill Biden at the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday.

Both the first lady and the vice president’s wife were there to honor military troops and their families and to call attention to companies who have made commitments to hire and train veterans and military spouses.

The Associated Press reports that drivers gave the duo a standing ovation during a pre-race meeting.

Here's the video:

 

Today on Tommy T's Obsession with the Freeperati - special "Razing Cain" edition

Good morning, gentle people - Herman Cain threads have been accumulating like cobwebs in a Freeper's PC, so let's do some catching up. We'll start out with a recent thread, then go back in time, when the Godfather of Godfather's was the anchovy in  the GOP list of ingredients.

First up, it's - Losing Dennis Miller!

Dennis Miller withdrew his endorsement of Herman Cain
Wednesday November 16, 2011

Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 8:06:25 PM by Bigtigermike

On the O'Reilly Factor tonight...Dennis Miller stated "I'm off the Cain Train." after endorsing him and helping Cain do a few fundraisers a couple of months ago.

1 posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 8:06:27 PM by Bigtigermike

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To: GeronL

I never trusted Miller.

3 posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 8:08:05 PM by Politics4US

Negro, please! You guys have been licking his spittle ever since he lost his HBO show and/or went crazy. You cacked like hens when Miller called Pelosi "Little Miss Twitchie McMagpie",  You pissed in your pants when he declared his allegiance to the teabaggers over the GOP,  Don't give me that "I never trusted Miller" shit.  I, unlike you, have a functioning memory.

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To: Politics4US

So when he endorsed Cain you posted not to trust him??

5 posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 8:09:36 PM by ontap

Heh.

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To: ontap

So strange, that a candidate doing so well would just all of a sudden implode like that.

It almost seems like some sort of set-up. Sadly, I wouldn’t doubt if it was.

6 posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 8:10:05 PM by LibsRJerks

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Let me explain it to you:

You're crazy.

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Cain's crazy

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You felt an affinity for him.

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You hang out in this sewer of crazy called Free Republic, because you don't like to hear opposing views. They make your head hurt, so you ignore the sane people and convince yourself that the majority of people in this country are just like you, when in fact, they are not only not like you, they think you're bugfuck crazy.

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And that brings us back around to Hermain Cain.

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Now, I don't want to go off on a rant here, but creepy red-meat-throwing assholes like Cain, Bachmann, Perry, and Santorum may appeal to the 8% of the 28% that make up the GOP base, but they're not going to win any national elections. Why not? Because the majority of voters in the country are not crazy!

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To: LibsRJerks

Set-up is very likely

7 posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 8:12:29 PM by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)

(sigh)

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To: LibsRJerks; GeronL

It almost seems like some sort of set-up. Sadly, I wouldn’t doubt if it was.”

“Likely”

You thinkk he set himself up? I don’t understand. Do you think it was the Bimbos, the no idea wtf he was talking about or the dawning that he REALLY was in over his head?

Seriously, not trying to be a wise guy...don’t you think it was all of the above that sank him?

24 posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 8:18:24 PM by jessduntno ("They say the world has become too complex for simple answers... they are wrong." - RR)

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To: GeronL

His reason was “He can’t win.” He said that if it weren’t for that, he’d support him in an instant.

23 posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 8:18:15 PM by Brilliant

See above.

And, of course :

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To: cripplecreek

He was a liberal.

20 posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 8:17:58 PM by Politics4US

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To: Reagan Man

Well, the way I read it, Miller was a “f’ing liberal” for withdrawing his endorsement of Cain. Whatever...

But really, any freeper that gets their opinions from a radio host needs to have their head examined. Why? because its all infotainment. The host is there to sell soap and quite frankly, if that host can no longer sell soap, then they will be replaced with a monkey playing a kazoo—as long as that monkey could push the soap!

When the monkey is no longer up to the task, then they will be replaced with a Moose banging on a cowbell!

And when the moose no longer sells the soap, well then it will be replaced with a goldfish singing tiny bubbles....as long as they sell the soap...

127 posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:00:26 PM by abigkahuna

Ban.

Him.

More of the Cain Trainwreck after the Crack in the Sky..

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Cain-ful Arrogance

Herman Cain apparently blew off a newspaper in New Hampshire after blowing up while talking to one in Milwaukee.

The New Hampshire Union Leader caught the backlash of Cain’s recent gaffe in discussing President Barack Obama’s policy on Libya with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. The paper video recorded the interview for its website and a segment of it, which showed Cain who answered the Libya question with the grace and certainty of a drunk trying to cross an icy street, went viral.

As a result, Cain told the Union Leader that he didn’t want his interview with the UL’s editorial board to be recorded. After a series of back and forth, Cain bailed on the deal when it looked like the paper wouldn’t relent.

Two things come out of this for me:

First, this reminds me of the joke about the scientist studying a frog. He yells at the frog, “Jump!” and the frog jumps. He then cuts off one of the frog’s legs and repeats his demand. “Jump!” and the frog jumps. He repeats this twice more, each time the frog jumps, but with more difficulty. When all of the frog’s legs have been cut off, the scientist yells “JUMP!” and the frog stays put. He screams “Jump! Jump! JUMP!” and the frog doesn’t move.

The scientist then notes in his research journal, “After all four of its legs are cut off, the frog goes deaf.”

For Cain, the problem isn’t that he doesn’t know crap about Libya, Obama’s approach to it or how many extra men it will take to hold that area in a game of “Risk.”

The problem is that a video camera was there.

Politicians used to like certainty that they could say something and if it sounded shitty, they could say, “The paper misquoted me” or “They misinterpreted what I said,” or something George W. Bush-ian that just confused the shit out of people. Now, with every human being carrying a video recorder of some kind, that’s not possible any more. Most news outlets have websites, which can show video, so newspapers are adding video, TV has always used video and bloggers and our grubby dirty unethical shithole sites are using video.

So Cain’s great Frog Deafness Corollary of 2011 dictates that he needs to get away from the video camera.

Can someone please remind him that he’s running for president? And maybe that on occasion our president will need to understand what the hell he’s doing? And that on similar occasions, he might have to be in front of a camera to explain what the hell he’s doing?

Saying you want to be president but don’t want to be videotaped is like saying you want to be a porn star but you’re saving your virginity for your wedding day and you’re camera-shy.

Second, and perhaps more important, Cain is likely to remain at the forefront of this thing until something truly horrific happens. I mean more horrific than the Libya thing… And the pizza song… And the sexual harassment… And the pictures of him at a pool party with Jerry Sandusky… (I only made one of those up.). You know, something like him walking down the middle of Washington, D.C. with an automatic weapon, acting like Hooper from “Chasing Amy.” Even then, I’m sure the Right Wing will support him for his staunch support of the Second Amendment and embrace his expressive nature and cultural diversity.

So why this guy?

Bill Maher hit this one right on the head, even though he wasn’t talking about Cain at the time: Republicans embrace certainty above all else.

It’s why Cain couldn’t say to the MJS guys, “Look, I’m really focusing on domestic policy at this time and I haven’t really looked into his approach to Libya.” He had to come up with a “THIS IS THE ANSWER!” answer for the board. Watch the video, he kept tuning up for his direct, absolute and forceful condemnation of Obama for something that he had no idea about. It was like watching someone try to light a solid rocket booster with a Bic lighter.

Whether it’s their faith, their family or their country, these people want the absolute certainty of hearing from their leader that he knows exactly what’s going on about whatever the hell it is and that he knows EXACTLY what to do an EXACTLY how to fix it. If you want to win the hearts and minds (what little they have of either), you need to bet that kind of absolutist. No time for learning, no time for discussion, no time for dissention. Grab the weapon and pull the trigger.

If you need any more proof of this way of thinking, look at how Cain followed up his LOL Catz Libya video:

“We need a leader, not a reader.”

Well, it would probably help to do some reading, on say Libya perhaps…

Even more, these idiots don’t get that you can’t boil complex problems down to bumper stickers, three-point plans or 8-second sound bites. The more you try to do this, the more often you fall on your keys and limp away.

This is why Rick Perry got into trouble… And Michelle Bachman… And… oh hell… I don’t even know what else is out there in Nutbag Valley.

But at least I admitted it.