The Two Races

4:30 am EST October 16th, 2007 | News | 6 Comments

The Republicans are fighting over who’s more conservative and who used to be liberal. Monday’s edition was Thompson vs. Giuliani and McCain vs. Romney. Last week it was Giuliani vs. Romney.

The Democrats are fighting over who has the judgement to be commander-in-chief. Last week and Monday it was Clinton vs. Obama on that question (I think Obama is making the argument now he should have been making for the last 7 months).

I think the Democrats are having their discussion on planet Earth, while the Republicans are fighting in a world where the judges are Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

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6 Responses to “The Two Races”

  1. z adura says:
    October 16, 2007 at 7:58 am

    What is going to be really funny in the transition from Primary to General election is how quickly the eventual Republican winner goes from speaking in parseltongue to trying to make sense to the rest of us. How can you talk as a national candidate when you say shit like this?

    “Some think the way to beat the Democrats in November is to be more like them. I could not disagree more,” the one-time Tennessee senator says in remarks he is to deliver before the Conservative Party of New York.

    “I believe that conservatives beat liberals only when we challenge their outdated positions, not embrace them. This is not a time for philosophical flexibility, it is a time to stand up for what we believe in,” Thompson adds.

    Sounds a little like Custer or Sam Houston…

  2. Enlightened Liberal says:
    October 16, 2007 at 8:36 am

    I wish there was a Republican candidate that loved their country more than they claim to hate liberals, I might even consider voting for him.

  3. Salmo says:
    October 16, 2007 at 9:19 am

    They are still defining their own reality – and the media buys in. Of course, the important point is that they hate liberals. That is why Rude-y is so popular, any wingnut can tell that on that score at least, they are on the same page.

  4. SpiderJ says:
    October 16, 2007 at 9:44 am

    “…when we challenge their outdated positions…”

    Not that I should expect sense from Fred Thompson, but this is just loopy. I thought the whole reason that liberals were driving the country to hell is that we refused to acknowledge, support, and obey the “traditions” of America. How, then, can our positions be “outdated”?

  5. Gyuss Baaltar says:
    October 16, 2007 at 2:02 pm

    The Republicans have always been upfront about there being two races

    Race 1- evangelical white people (sometimes even including women!)

    Race 2- Everyone else

  6. megamoze says:
    October 16, 2007 at 3:46 pm

    “I believe that conservatives beat liberals only when we challenge their outdated positions, not embrace them.

    I once had a right-winger tell me that “conservative” meant forward-thinking and that “liberal” meant clinging to the old ways of doing things. If you want some sense of how backwards these people view reality, there it is. Thompson is just one more.