Sure seems that way. If it isn’t, then give rational reasons for your opposition and not generic meaningless statements like “but it’s socialism!”

Oh, I dunno. How about inaccurate hyperbole like “government seizure of the entire banking system”? How about getting up in arms over deficit spending that didn’t seem to be such a bother to Republicans when Reagan and Bushes wee in the White House? Or complaining about “constant lying” while utterly ignoring the numerous documented lies told by the Bush administration?

And that’s just you. It doesn’t begin to get into the many voices insisting Palin was the best the party had to offer? Or the many who jumped to believe and push her out right lie that there would be death panels?

And that’s just regarding Palin and doesn’t begin to get into comments by other prominent Republican and conservative leaders.

So it isn’t just that you disagree with Obama just to disagree with Obama. It’s that your leaders say stupid, hypocritical things which you take to be gospel.

The government seizure of private industry, the government seizure of the entire banking system, the $9 trillion debt that our great-grandchildren won’t be able to pay off, the constant lying, the railroading of overwhelmingly unpopular bills to law, and the socialization of a country and society that is constitutionally-guaranteed anti-socialist have absolutely nothing to do with our concern…

it’s ‘cuz’n we wannta keep da nigra out da white house.

That’s called DOUBLE STANDARD

On November 14, 1988, President Reagan addressed and took questions from students from four area middle schools in the Old Executive Office Building. The speech was broadcast live and rebroadcast by C-Span, and Instructional Television Network fed the program “to schools nationwide on three different days.”
In his speech to students and the question and answer session following Reagan

1. stressed the importance of low taxes and free trade.
2. stressed the importance of religion in our nation.
3 touted the economic achievements of his administration ,
4.put in a plug for the line item veto,
5. told the students that lowering taxes increases revenue
6. boasted of his administrations aid to Negro colleges
7. and told students that if guns were banned, burglars would be “celebrating forevermore”

http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/111488c.htm

Two years before that Reagan again spoke to the children of America on nationwide TV .
He spends the bulk of his address touting the wonderful accomplishments of his administration in fixing the economy, restoring America’s military, bolstering foreign policy. (Gee, isn’t it suppose to be about the kids??)

Then he goes on to exhort the students to help make America strong by

1. studying hard (good)
2. being good citizens (wonderful)
3. staying away from drugs. (excellent)
4. and lowering the tax rates (Huh???)

Why he just couldn’t help himself slip his political agenda in there again.

http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/51386d.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YtcmmYOesk

Yes. It’s absolutely shameful that someone would suggest that, when someone starts yelling being disruptive to draw attention (cameras) to themselves that folks deny them that attention.

Or that they use similar tactics as the offender. After all, we know how much you’re against people sinking down to an immature tone established up front and engaging them on the terms they’ve chosen.

Oh, right. Never mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YtcmmYOesk

Yes. It’s absolutely shameful that someone would suggest that, when someone starts yelling being disruptive to draw attention (cameras) to themselves that folks deny them that attention.

Or that they use similar tactics as the offender. After all, we know how much you’re against people sinking down to an immature tone established up front and <a href="http://www.oliverwillis.com/2009/09/04/franken-talks-to-teabaggers/#comment-175571"engaging them on the terms they’ve chosen.

Oh, right. Never mind.

An ironic admonishment, coming from Jay.

You’re welcome…

Jay Tea with his typical response, ladies and gents. POint out something that a lot of folks on the right do that is wrong and he’ll point to one person on the left doing it. It’s the nyah-nyah kindergarten-level of debate that Jay is capable of.

As has been said/asked innumerable times buy many “lefties” here: Yes, it’s also wrong when someone on the left does it. Are you completely incapable of acknowledging it is wrong when done by someone on the right?

The answer, as Jay Tea yet again ably demonstrates is, “But look, over there!”

He has nothing else.

And, Jay? You’re welcome.

And do you have anything to say about what I said, as opposed to when I said it?

…I thought not.

J.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YtcmmYOesk

You’re welcome…

J.

I’ve often wondered if the “leaders” and loud voices from the right actually believe what they are saying, or are just cynics who are playing to the masses, calculatedly lying and distorting to achieve some goal.

I no longer see how the latter is even possible.

And a particularly regrettable consequence of their behavior is that more and more folks will believe that this IS the way to conduct political discourse. That this IS the way to run a country.

Rationally and calmly discuss differences? Find common ground and work slowly out from there? Make a case for your view and work to convince others that your view is right?

Huh? What the hell are you talking about? Everyone knows that you shout down your opponent, make up anything you can that will smear them and claim their un-American if they try to disagree with you.

ATWATER, Calif. — Violent and racist e-mail jokes alluding to the assassination of President Barack Obama, the killing of Latinos and violence against black people were forwarded by Atwater City Councilman Gary Frago during the last six months, according to more than 200 new e-mails obtained by the Sun-Star from the city of Atwater. [...]

One of the most troubling of the new Frago e-mails, forwarded in January, joked that Nokia had designed a new cell phone for “nervous white people” who want to make calls in a series of cities known for their large black populations, such as Oakland and New Orleans. The phone was a gun. [...]

Another e-mail forwarded by Frago on Dec. 9, 2008, was in the form of a fictitious letter sent by Sen. John McCain to John Hinckley Jr., a man obsessed with actress Jodie Foster, who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981. The letter said that Hinckley would be released soon and he should know that Obama was sleeping with Foster now. [...]

A third e-mail joked about killing illegal immigrants and Obama delegates. The joke is about a man applying for a position with a police department. As a test, the chief tells the applicant: “Take this gun with 13 bullets and go out and shoot six illegal immigrants, six Obama delegates and a rabbit.” The man asks: “why the rabbit?”

“Fantastic attitude,” says the chief. “When can you start?”

More conservative response to Obama.

Sure, Fucktard. Here’s a pharma abuser sitting next to one of the biggest narco-facilitators.

Wheee! bonus!

Maybe the Republican spokesperson could come on and tell the kids why it’s a horrible idea to stay in school, because school is just going to teach them commie values!

Maybe they could teach the kids it’s a horrible idea to set goals and excel academically, because the commies are just going to kick down their doors at 2am and haul them off to FEMA camps anyway!

Yeah. Now there’s a school address the GOP can get behind.

The Republicans are throwing one of their typical public hissy fits that they’re flooding their airwaves with, as is typical of their childish and ignorant value system. 1I have to say that I am highly disappointed in the behavior we’ve seen from the Republican community, here, which is reflective of, I have to say, a highly warped, anti-education value system which lacks any sense of self-control. Jay Tea, unfortunately, reflects nothing more than the behavior of a man acting out with such a hissy fit simply because his Republican culture has told him that such behavior is “cool,” leaving him incapable of moral reasoning. Whenever I see such behavior, I am sad for the lost generation of those taking their cues from the Drudge Report and John Boehner to tell them what to think and what to say and when to throw an irrational tantrum. Republican culture is a sadly corrupting influence.

Sowell said that? How about “Limbaugh more than Krauthammer”? He’s a doc, even! Can’t use Jonah Goldberg (screwball nepotistic chickenhawk), or Buchanan (racist paranoid), not Chuck Baldwin (too much like Buchanan), uh… David Horowitz? No… debates like a drunken little girl and used to be a commmie. And whathehell kind of person jumps from far left to far right? Jindal’s out. Buckley’s out. Rumsfeld’s out. Kristol’s always wrong. David Brooks is often wrong. Cheney’s a just a dick. Bolton – a madman. Wolfowitz and Natsios – incompetent. Frum – a Canadian, doesn’t count. Rove, Delay, Gingrich – corrupt. Zbigniew Brzezinski? What’s wrong with Zbigniew Brzezinski except that he worked for Carter and called Bush global leadership a failure?

Limbaugh more than Zbigniew Brzezinski.