The American Spectator

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 9.24.10 @ 7:06AM

Liberalism is just a new age euphemism for collectivism. Collectivism always leads to the seizure of your wealth and property and mind numbingly large bureaucracies.

Collectivism also always leads to racism and other forms of inequalities. While many states are banning affirmative action, the new financial regulations bill requires more gender and race discrimination by banks who must hire applicants based on those traits.

Collectivism is all about social action on your dime. Many of these individuals are unbelievable cheapskates. Hillary Clinton's recent donation of $10 to the Pakistan Flood Relief while her and her husband have over 100 million dollars is par for the course.

Then there is the proliferation of laws under collectivism. The federal government has over 65,000 laws and 400,000 regulations with criminal penalties. As Mark Levin is fond of saying, "You could be a criminal and not know it."

And on that note, ponder this quote from Ayn Rand, who saw the freight train of collectivism in all it's shame:

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand

YOYO M| 9.24.10 @ 8:19AM

Global Climate Disruption?

Sounds reasonable to me, for an avanche of evidence from all over the world indicates we are in the midst of one.

Conservatives have more fun?

Well you certainly wouldn't know it by reading the threads of comments on AmSpec. The readership appears to me to be bitter to the bone. The malicious minds behind some of these posts is frightening.

As for liberals thinking Tea Partiers are racist?

Well, there was a Tea Party event caught on camera where members screamed the words "nigger" and "faggot" at members of congress.

Looks to me like "racist" is a term that would apply to the Tea Partiers, and I think any reasonable person would agree. And the ones I know personally most certainly are racists.

And just a little advice to you angry conservatives:
Try to put a little more love in your life; if you don't, those cancer cells may begin to mutate.

S. Ruger| 9.24.10 @ 8:34AM

YOYO M, you do seem to present the kind of view that the far left and the mainstream media tries to sell, but, as with them, lacking any credible evidence. Please quote some comments from Am Spectator that show how angry conservatives are. Please explain why no one ever claimed the $100K award for an audio or video recording of racial epithets thrown during the Washington D.C. health-care-bill victory march. Please explain how putting the US Constitution above all laws and political and cultural whims is being "bitter to the bone."

It actually feels really, really good, like we are returning to genuine foundations laid down by our forefathers.

Please join us!

coal carrier| 9.24.10 @ 8:39AM

Earth to YOYO, earth to YOYO.

Get your facts straight YOYO. There is a reward of $100,000.00 for that video and it hasn’t shown up yet. Maybe one of your leftist friends in Hollywood can make one up in their special effects studio.

How about this racist remark; why is the democratically controlled congress not going to vote on the repeal of the Bush tax cuts until after the November elections? Any clue YOYO?

Not bitter YOYO, just tired of all of the lies.

YouTube Enthusiast| 9.24.10 @ 9:27PM

Go to YouTube and type the following in the search box:

TEA PARTY PROTESTERS YELL NIGGER TO BLACK CONGRESSMEN

I have seen the video, and now, so can you.

So glad I can help you see the that YoYo is telling the truth.

99 and one half| 9.24.10 @ 9:28PM

I've seen the video also. Pretty ugly.

Truth detector| 9.24.10 @ 9:51PM

Watched the video and several others on youtube, not a single video of anyone yelling anything like that . just the one you reference showing a kid holding a questionably inappropriate sign with a audio overdub of a wiman narrating what she claims to have heard, yet no tape evidence other than her words. same for the others. so you are a liar and so is yoyo

wodiej| 9.24.10 @ 9:55PM

Oh really....where is the link to the youtube? Hmm...conveniently left that out.

TR| 9.25.10 @ 1:04AM

Just type in the wording she quotes, and you'll get several videos, one being the specific one she references. There are several others that are "claiming" to be of tea partier racism.

Each of them is nothing more than a talking head liberal saying they "heard" the comments, or in the case of her "proof" video it is a video narrated by a female shaming people and claiming as fact that she knows people used the word nigger. In her video, she has a static shot of what appears to be a teenage boy holding a sign that could be called somewhat offensive. A crowd of tens of thousands, and they find one possibly nutty sign and no others. Pretty good considering the absolutely hateful and threatening vile you see at most all lefty protests. So these posters show themselves to be liars and deceivers. Shame on them. I pray that these dangerous liars are put out of office in Nov.

Fredrick Ward| 9.25.10 @ 12:04PM

Funny that there really isn't any video of anyone yelling anything. Only a video of some woman talking while showing a picture of a young man holding a sign. This proves that Tea Party members are racist how?

Secondly, I would like to point out that all political parties have a racist element. Therefore, to single out the Tea Party is quite hypocritical by the Liberals, and Democrats. I need only mention one single name to prove my point: Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the mentor of our current 'beloved' President.

Oolong| 9.26.10 @ 7:20PM

Go to YouTube and look at the signs carried by Tea Partiers. If you cannot read, of if you are incapable of making an inference, then you will not see racist messages.

If you have the intelligence to read or infer, then you will most certainly see evidence of RACISM.

And there is something I want to say to all of you who deny, deny, deny: JUST SHUT UP YOUR LYING MOUTHS!

greghawk| 9.27.10 @ 5:26AM

Mr/Ms OOLOOOONNNNGGGG works for the current administration. From Chicago. Nice try.

DebateRight| 9.27.10 @ 10:34PM

Yet another racism claim relying on the need to "infer" the racist message. Sorry Oolong, I have a masters degree and teach debate, so I think I can both read and infer. You seem to lack the ability to back up your claims with any evidence or warrants at all, much less credible ones.

Jay Pitsby| 9.28.10 @ 1:39PM

"JUST SHUT UP...!" Wow! Pierced again by that rapier wit. [Folks, DO NOT FEED THE F**CKING TROLLS.]

mzk1| 9.24.10 @ 8:43AM

Really? Do you know Andrew Breitbart will give you $100,000 if you can prove this? Where is the clip?

mzk1| 9.24.10 @ 8:46AM

Tell you what? Expalin why a merderous, racist, anti-semite name Al Sharpton has not been excommunicated by the Democrats, the way David Duke was by the Republicans.

Until then, you have no right to even mention "racism".

Robert | 9.25.10 @ 1:55PM

RESTORING HONOR

You make an excellent point: that Al Sharpton and the unspeakable President Bill Clinton have been entirely rehabilitated is a leftist obscenity.

But here are some facts about Al Sharpton whose defense continues to be that he still believes Teressa Brawley was raped by several white men as she still claims.

In November of 1987, a grand jury witness Joyce Lloray saw a young black female climb into a “…big green plastic garbage bag and then lay still on the cold, muddy ground. Later, this child would claim that several white men, including one who was wearing a badge, dragged her into the woods and for several days repeatedly raped her. She was found with racial epithets written on her body. She was smeared with excrement. She was taken to a hospital where she gave a statement to police officers in which she was curiously unable to describe her assailants to the police except to say that they were white. An FBI rape-kit was administered and sent under seal to an FBI lab.

A grand jury, after hearing testimony from a hundred witnesses determined that the 15-year-old’s claim was false this based on the following undisputed evidence:

1. She had been overheard telling others that in fact she had not been raped.

2. There was no evidence whatever of exposure to cold weather although she claimed to have been stranded in the woods for several days at a time when the evening temperature dropped below freezing.

3. While she claimed that she had been repeatedly raped, her physical examination and the rape kit confirmed that there was no evidence whatever that any sexual intercourse—much less serial rape at the hands of several white men—had occurred. There was no evidence whatever of semen or of the physical abuse of the vagina so typical of gang rape. None!

4. The alleged victims was seen entering her apartment a day or two after she was supposed to have been abducted.

5. Finally, tests made on the excrement with which she was found smeared and on the excrement of her neighbor’s dog indicated unequivocally they were one and the same.

Al Sharpton, and company, taking Tawana Brawley under his wing, accused the local police, a local prosecutor and then Governor Mario Cuomo of a cover-up. Indeed, he accused the prosecutor of complicity in Ms. Brawley’s abduction. Years later the prosecutor would recover a judgment for defamation of character against Mr. Sharpton in the sum of $365,000.

Mr. Sharpton, even now, whenever questioned about how he could have engaged in such vicious, and racist behavior and why he has repeatedly refused to apologize to those whose reputations he has savaged, still implies that there is good reason to believe that Ms. Brawley’s story is true.

He defends first by ignoring the undisputed facts, and finally, by a most arrogant duplicity. In fact, Al Sharpton displays the wretched mind and heart of a man who is willing to destroy reputations with ugly falsehoods and abuse a 15-year-old child so long as by doing so, he may promote his own self-aggrandizement.

Yet, however warped is his character, Mr. Sharpton has nevertheless “rehabilitated” himself in the eyes of the O’Bama administration and as well, among his leftist peers who, of course, are themselves traitors to the truth.

It is this same Al Sharpton, who , while preaching at Dunbar High School, condemned Glen Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally at the Lincoln Memorial. In a master piece of double-speak, Al Sharpton and others claimed that Glen Beck preaches the language of exclusion, that in his insistence on state’s rights he is in fact seeking to deny African-Americans the protections of a federal government—or shall we tell it like it is, that Beck and his audience are racists, all 500,000 or more of them.

Racist defamation and libel are now subtler than ever it used to be—used to be you had to be a racist; but no more.

It is shameful that Al Sharpton was permitted to deliver his rant at Dunbar High School. At Dunbar, a once exclusively black high school African/American students in the forties and fifties particularly were simply excelling in scholarship. Long before the Civil Rights Act, they showed that they had what it takes—that the African American mind and heart and will were all they needed to excel. Black students studied Greek and Latin languages, the classics of Greece and Rome, Britain’s Shakespeare, geometry, mathematics, American and European history, philosophy and literature, composition, logic and rhetoric.

These blacks went on to do well. Indeed, Retired General Collin Powell graduated from Dunbar High School.

Al Sharpton most certainly did not.

Dagny Taggert| 9.24.10 @ 9:03AM

YoYo: An appropriate moniker BTW--kinda like "moonbat"--flighty, all over the place--just perfect.
The more obvious point to the AGW observers with an open mind: The scare was "warming", and when that argument started taking on water it changed to "change" and now "disruption."
Each iteration of the problem more obtuse, yet the "solution" always the same.
Show the "racist" evidence you fraud. Go ahead-- you have the whole internet to work with. And what about the Black Tea Party members? Are they racist too?
The reality is that you lefties all bit at the empty platitudes of the tele-prompter empty suit, and now that the evidence is clear that the only way he can even come close to a decision is by committee, and that every solution is best served by throwing government money at it--despite evidence to the contrary that large government service bureaucracies are rarely effective.
So thank you for helping prove Mr. Ross's point--can't even have a discussion about policy--gotta jump straight to a lame attempt to discredit the opponent with an extremely tired "racist" tag.
Dope.

Steve A| 9.24.10 @ 9:32AM

Hey YOYO, The Earth is getting warmer, we need to raise taxes, the Earth is cooling, we need to raise taxes, the Earth is experiencing "disruption," we need to raise taxes... The only cells mutating are the ones inside your skull if you buy this garbage. Sit back, apply a bit of common sense, & re-evaluate your blind devotion to all things liberal.

ANY| 9.24.10 @ 9:19PM

Aren't taxes like credit card payments..?? The more the debt, the larger the payments NEED to be to pay the interest and to amortize the debt .. ?? We are spending trillions we don't have by borrowing and adding zeros onto the gov accounts. Should we continue to go deeper into debt, or should we attempt to control spending? Or maybe the answer is to end taxes and let the government print all the money to pay for everything like was done in Zimbabwe....

Bruce Berger| 9.24.10 @ 9:39AM

YOYO,

Where are you? People here have asked you to provide some back-up to your assertions. Your lack of response indicates that you are either busy trying to find some such evidence or more likely have run away knowing that your statements had no merit.

Tim*| 9.24.10 @ 9:42AM

Obamatron YoYo Plays The Race Card .

JOBS NOT TAXES !

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates .

Rise Up !

Ned the Red| 9.24.10 @ 10:11AM

"And just a little advice to you angry conservatives:
Try to put a little more love in your life; if you don't, those cancer cells may begin to mutate."

I love to win. In November there will be more love. I especially love to watch the network news shows (the only time I do) when the Republicans win.
This love will stop the mutating cancer cells in our body politic commonly referred to as liberals; cells that do not form or function correctly and survive by leaching off of healthy systems resulting in death of the host.

wodiej| 9.24.10 @ 10:01PM

omg...LMAO...GOOD ONE

RichTex| 9.24.10 @ 10:14AM

YOYO M is right (well, just sorta right) in one sense. You have to remember that the modern day definition of “racist” is “a conservative winning an argument with a liberal”. Since conservatives routinely win arguments with liberals, we all fit under that new definition. That may be the reason liberals have simply quit engaging in policy discussions. They know they can’t win those, so they are reduced to making ad hominem attacks.

PolishKnight| 9.25.10 @ 4:53PM

RichTex, it's rather funny that in a leftist online forum, I was winning a debate showing that the leftist's racist positions against white male were losing them votes and then... they quickly wanted to change the subject (after griping that it was the right obsesses with race. Can you believe that?)

Indeed, one of the secret fears of the left is that they have so embraced an anti-white male racist and sexist agenda to buy votes that they have... lost white males AND many of the women they are married to. How are they going to make the USA into another Sweden with that position?

Most leftists live in white suburban communities or sections of leftist cities that are mostly white and they know it. The race card for them was a way to buy votes and not an end to a means.

That leads us to... feminism. Just as leftists are obsessed with gay rights it's perhaps because "hets" as they like to call us aren't exactly working out with the equality for women model. Actually, this is a problem for many conservatives too who are so much in love with the grape, so to speak, they can't curse the vine. Women's equality in the workplace has led to women dissatisfied with men who don't treat them like "ladies" and protect and "share" goodies with them after the lady has demanded that she get her "half" in advance. What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine!

RDN in Houston| 9.24.10 @ 10:20AM

YOYO M, you make Ross's point even before his ink dries. Leftists will never tell you where they are coming from. You obfuscate, lie, distort, smear, scream, etc. when you are cornered. Go back to Moveon.org, troll.

Fredrick Ward| 9.25.10 @ 12:12PM

You know, Moveon.org is a great name for them. They should just follow the name and keep moving on right past our borders.

Mark| 9.24.10 @ 10:21AM

Liberals are inherently pessimistic, with little belief in anything or anyone but the elites. Lacking a crisis, they'll seek to create one. Suppose that it could be conclusively proven that the earth is not warming as a result of man's activities, or that if it is, the benefits outweigh the costs associated with such warming. A rational person who currently believes in global warming would be relieved. Would a liberal? I think not.

Anthony| 9.24.10 @ 10:37AM

Yoyo, Speaking of cells, the only global disruption I can detect is that between the neurons in your pea brain, and those of your fellow leftists.
Funny, the phrase Global Climate Disruption has just been introduced into the lexicon of leftism this week, and yet you can claim an avalanche of evidence to support same, how's exactly is that?
You don't even know what the hell "climate disruption" pretends to allude to, you just accept it as fact.
In the words of the great Kingfish of "Amos & Andy" fame, (look it up) " You have your neurons, your protons and your morons".

David W| 9.24.10 @ 10:48AM

I double-dog dare you to provide a link to the clip. surely it is on YouTube or someplace else you can point us to. Or are you falling for the typical unsubstantiated lies from the normal news media (sorry, propaganda media). Or you spreading them because you know there is no other way to fight the truth than to promulgate lies?

Tom| 9.24.10 @ 10:56AM

"Sounds reasonable to me, for an avanche of evidence from all over the world indicates we are in the midst of one. "
Really? Can you cite actualy statistics saying so? Because everything I have read has pointed to the fact that there has been no real change in severe climate events. What there has been is an increase in the impact of such events. And the reason is simple: More people.

"Well, there was a Tea Party event caught on camera where members screamed the words "nigger" and "faggot" at members of congress. "

What event was that? Please specify. Beyond that, whether some idiots at a tea party event yelled racist and homophobic insults at congressmen it hardly means the movement itself is racist. What about the agenda of the tea party do you find racist?

"Looks to me like "racist" is a term that would apply to the Tea Partiers, and I think any reasonable person would agree. And the ones I know personally most certainly are racists."

You seem to know a lot of racists. A reasonable person would wonder what your views on race were.

"And just a little advice to you angry conservatives:
Try to put a little more love in your life; if you don't, those cancer cells may begin to mutate."

Conservatives are already happier than liberals. This is something there is empirical evidence of. Pew, among others, does polling on this every year. And every year conservatives are happier than liberals. Across every socio-economic and demographic strata.

NavyBrat| 9.24.10 @ 11:03AM

"Well, there was a Tea Party event caught on camera where members screamed the words "nigger" and "faggot" at members of congress."

Really? You have proof? There's still 100k out there if you can supply actual video or audio evidence of this. Otherwise, shut your schlongsucker & get some new talking points.

Ghastlyone| 9.24.10 @ 11:15AM

"Well, there was a Tea Party event caught on camera where members screamed the words "nigger" and "faggot" at members of congress."

Really ^

You actually expect all of us to believe this shit? Wouldn't you think if there was a video of a Tea Party event where members were screaming "Nigger" and "Faggot", it would have been played non stop on Kieth Olbermann, Mathews, Oprah, etc? I've yet to see any video, and I usually watch these shows every night (for as long as I can stomach them.)

It's funny you didn't give us all a link to said video?

So shut the fuck up and take that FUD elsewhere. Anytime a leftist opens their mouth, that's all that falls out...is FUD.

Patrick | 9.24.10 @ 11:21AM

there was no evidence of a Tea Party event caught on camera where members screamed the words nigger and faggot. It didnt happen, there's no video, and it wasnt even a Tea Party event. You don't even know what you are talking about.

Troll Hunter| 9.24.10 @ 11:22AM

Please don't feed the trolls. It only encourages them. And makes them uglier and more hateful.

Doctor Right| 9.24.10 @ 11:41AM

We are angry.

And we've had enough crap from morons such as yourself.

Be on notice...We're not tolerating anymore.

TR| 9.24.10 @ 11:47AM

Yoyo is a typical liberal LIAR. No video tape exists of any such behavior. We know this because the liberals would have played it on all of their water-carrying TV networks. So YOU are a LIAR Yoyo.

You are the racist. You liberals hate blacks, you try to keep them down with your policies.

I have been to Tea Party events and the only hatred and violence that occurred was from liberals. They shouted and threw eggs at Sarah Palin's bus. THAT was caught on video and played for the world to see.

You display the complete vacuuous arguments from almost all marxist liberals. You have no proof to back up your charges, so you yell them louder. You are a complete idiot and display it for the world to see.

Oh, and by the way, the weather CHANGES. That is simple fact. What is the perfect and correct weather that would satisfy you? What is normal? You are such a simpleton it is laughable.

loulou| 9.24.10 @ 11:52AM

If the posts here are so frightening to you then get off this site, you little sissy.

Anita| 9.24.10 @ 12:31PM

Racist is a term so loosely applied of late. I would bet quite a bit that the so called t-partiers that were yelling were liberal plants. They did say they would do it and they probably have.

Love, there are many kinds, for your children, for your parents, for your country.

If you want truth I suggest to the angry liberals to trace back our roots and see the hatred, contempt, violence that was directed at our revolutionists and how we survived to become the greatest country on earth.

Love, yes, and God Bless America. And keep it center right. Please.

Kenneth E. MacAlister Jr.| 9.24.10 @ 1:44PM

YOYO M, Global Climate Disruption is called weather & it is controlled by The Almighty GOD who created the universe & everything in it. Stop pushing phony theories meant to rape & pillage the electorate through gross taxation to "save the planet" & get to know The Almighty GOD, our Creator. Take care & GOD bless!

Slyder308| 9.26.10 @ 3:47PM

We thought disease was controlled by Almighty God until we figured out how it really worked. That is why Almighty God gave us a brain.

scotchieguy| 9.24.10 @ 8:15PM

Nice try, you fraud. You are nothing but a fake, mother-f cker. Glad you think conservatives are racist. BTW, there is a $100.000 reward for any evidence of racism at the tea party. Nice try, numb-nuts. " The malicious minds...frightening." Typical lib word: "frightening, sadly, scary, shudder." Get lost, punk!

Impeach Don't Wait| 9.24.10 @ 10:54PM

"The readership appears to me to be bitter to the bone. The malicious minds behind some of these posts is frightening."

Well, speaking for myself: Bitter, no. Resentful, yes! Resentful of politicians who don't value our right to freedom from excessive governmental control, who, overstepping the Constitution, create an ever-growing, ever-controlling government that will ultimately dictate what we can say, teach, drive, and eat. And that we CAN'T HIRE OUR OWN DOCTORS IF WE WANT TO!

Resentful, why? Because Democrats are just suckin' it all up and have the gall to call CONSERVATIVES authoritarians!

Don't mistake for bitterness the growing angry opposition to enslavement of a formerly free people. Really study the founding of this nation and maybe you'll understand.

Spyder308| 9.26.10 @ 3:51PM

You idiots wasted $65M of my our tax money trying to impeach the last Democratic President. Now you want to make that mistake again.
The height of lunacy is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. You might be a lunatic.
In a little over two years you get to vote again. Maybe your guy will win this time. That is how the game works.

ObamaSux BigTime| 9.24.10 @ 11:25PM

There is no "Avanche" [sic] of evidence. All that BULLTRAP (rhymes with) was discredited when it was found that the University in the UK who supplied MOST of that "evidence" you cite, was staffed by glass-holes ( rhymes with) who stated in e-mails later discovered that they needed to "suppress" the parts of their data which didn't suit their agenda. Translation: Lying, liberal, tree-hugging SCUM.

Mike Rogers| 9.25.10 @ 8:39AM

Another day, another Troll!
YoYo - Conservatives have more fun! We don't even hate you, although we strongly dislike your policies.
Rush says that liberals will tell you who they fear - the amount of trolls on AmSpec's comment pages tells us that AmSpec has been elevated to must-read status amongst liberals.
First the drive-by media, now drive-by trolls - fling mud and run!

cats1cowboy| 9.25.10 @ 9:15AM

Please provide a link to that event. I cannot find it.

Spyder308| 9.26.10 @ 4:20PM

Twenty years ago these same folks were denying that cigarettes cause cancer. They did that for two reasons, either they were addicted to cigarettes or they wanted to keep selling cigarettes.
Thousands of scientists all around the world will tell you that global warming is a fact. A dozen of so will tell you it is not. The dozen or so are in the employ of the fossil fuel industry. Back in the 70s and 80s there were a dozen or so scientists who denied cigarettes were a health hazard, and they were in the employ of the tobacco industry. We have been conned this way before, and some of us are so foolish as to get conned again.
We only have this one plant to live on. We shouldn't take the chance of screwing it up.

GavInTucson| 9.26.10 @ 8:22PM

What planet do you live on? On this one, there have been warning labels on cigarettes for more than 40 years.

Spyder308| 9.27.10 @ 8:36PM

True, but we did nothing about that threat until the Clinton administration and President Clinton's crusading Surgeon General.

Mark James| 9.27.10 @ 3:05PM

You are right, we have been "conned" this way before. About the supposed population explosion, about running out of food by the year 2,000, about the world entering an ice age caused by man made pollution. Those cons were bogus political ideology wrapped in a faux global crisis to gain support from idiots, and so is the latest Global warming nonsense.

It was created and marketed by that great scientific institution the United Nations. Bwahahahahahah!!

Spyder308| 9.27.10 @ 8:38PM

If you lived in Africa you would see the effects of the population explosion today.

CJohnson| 9.27.10 @ 2:25PM

Bitter is incorrect. We the Informed do not desire a sugar coated report; we get our sugar from our candy dish.
Racist acts were never observed at a tea party; screaming is a term reserved for vocalizing terror or pain and implies incoherent human sound.
An avalanche of information does not equal supporting evidence, nor is it classified as data. We know that climate changes over time, ergo 'disruptive' is redundant.
Do you consider 'change' to be disruptive? There may be 'hope' for you if you say yes.

Mark James| 9.27.10 @ 3:01PM

Yoyo, my that's an interesting name. You drinking lime or cherry Kool-aid? Contrary to whatever your local propagandist is telling you there is no "avalanche of evidence" that indicates any "disruption" to the climate. On the contrary much of the unscientific anecdotal evidence one claimed to support man made climate change has now been shown to be due to other causes.

Anthropogenic Global Warming is a BS hoax, created by Global collectivists. For that assertion there are tons of supportable data.

Ken (Old Texican)| 9.24.10 @ 8:43AM

Here we go folks.

Below is another helpful lesson to remind us that we just can't fix stupid.

Yoyo has stolen ALL of the leftover kool-aid. Heh.

Alan Brooks| 9.24.10 @ 9:08AM

"Liberalism in its various manifestations -- Democrats, global warmists, organized labor, for example -- are hemorrhaging support and influence."

But the GOP is on the wane, and has been since 1989. Either a truly conservative (WFB conservatism, not Pat Buchananite Rightwing ideology) 3rd party is constructed or American conservatism will founder.
If Gingrich couldn't pump up the GOP, how can the Tea Party? you win the battle of the midterms, but you lose the war.
The Gingrich Revolution fizzled out; so will the Tea Party-- as the Tea Party doesn't represent the conservatism of WFB, it represents the Rightwing demagoguery of Palin..

Tim*| 9.24.10 @ 9:51AM

Brooks stops by to annoy the AS Readers , before he heads off to the park to feed the pigeons .

loulou| 9.24.10 @ 11:53AM

Ignore the troll.

Steve A| 9.24.10 @ 9:53AM

Alan, The only popular passions of Palin & the Tea Party's "demagoguery" are a rejection of massive government & over taxation. Things have drastically changed since 1994 in terms of media & information. The tea Party push aint goin away pal.

Lizzie Borden | 9.24.10 @ 10:17AM

As per usual, no actual defense of liberalism or their ideas. Now if you'll excuse me, me and Yoko Ono are going to go roll around in raw meat and call it "art" then chop up our parents before we attend the next tea party rally.

Doctor Right| 9.24.10 @ 11:43AM

Don't ya' just love it when moronic liberals (that would be you, Alan Brooks) try to lecture you on what "true Conservatism" is???

Alan...Please get a grasp of facts and history.

Doug| 9.24.10 @ 12:55PM

You missed the point. Yes, the GOP is on the wane, thank the Good Lord! The GOP is on the wane because it has not been the Conservative Party, it's been the Moderate Party.

TEA Partiers and other true conservatives have begun the battle to take over the GOP. Jim DeMint and Sarah Palin are the political tip of an enormous iceberg that is speeding toward The Establishment.

When the takeover of the GOP is complete, we'll finally start to see some real change.

Eric Cartman| 9.24.10 @ 9:58AM

For YO (And weasel beak Republicans who haven't gotten the message). Sung to the tune of "Underdog":

The Rush Limbaugh Song:

There's no need to fear! Rush Limbaugh is here!

When Liberals in this world appear
And break the things that we hold dear
And frighten all who see or hear
The cry goes up both far and near
For Rush Limbaugh! Rush Limbaugh! Rush Limbaugh! Rush Limbaugh!

Speed of lightning, voice of thunder
Fighting Liberals who rob or plunder
Rush Limbaugh! Rush Limbaugh!

When in this world the headlines read
Conservative hearts are filled with greed
And steal from those who are in need
To right this wrong with blinding speed
Goes Rush Limbaugh! Rush Limbaugh! Rush Limbaugh! Rush Limbaugh!

Speed of lightning, voice of thunder
Fighting Liberals who rob or plunder
Rush Limbaugh! Rush Limbaugh! Rush Limbaugh!

megapotamus| 9.24.10 @ 2:04PM

That is a tasty biscuit and I can't believe I'm the first to so observe.

Mimi| 9.25.10 @ 6:09PM

OBAMA : Complains of being treated like a DOG.
RUSH : Comes back from vacation and on his
program plays the SONG....How much
is that DOGGY in the window"

Fredrick Ward| 9.25.10 @ 11:52AM

"Hillary Clinton's recent donation of $10 to the Pakistan Flood Relief while her and her husband have over 100 million dollars is par for the course."

Bill, I agree with pretty much everything you're saying. However, I must interject that the Clinton family may donate as much, or as little, as they wish because it is their money after all. We need to be careful, as conservatives, not to fall into the same trap as the Liberals have; to expect others to give, or to take what should be given.

However, a hidden point in this is that while they intend to force us to 'give' of our hard earned funds they themselves remain exempt. Much like they are exempt from Obamacare.

"the new financial regulations bill requires more gender and race discrimination by banks who must hire applicants based on those traits."

If anyone wishes to review this bill it is H.R.4173. Review title 3 section 342. Bill is absolutely correct in his assessment. It is amazing that no longer is it required to be the best fit for the position, or contract. Instead you only need to be black, brown, yellow, or female to beat out the competition. In a world like this we wonder why the education system is failing? Well, with such titles like this we are, in essence, telling our children that they do not need to work hard to succeed; that is if they happen not to be white or male.

joli| 9.25.10 @ 5:29PM

Hillary couldn't be seen to do nothing for the Pakistanis, because she would have been accused of being a muslim-hater. $10 was enough to assuage her conscience and give her a "look at me" moment, without doing anything of real substance.

chuck| 9.24.10 @ 7:13AM

And our women are hotter too!

rodeoamy| 9.24.10 @ 8:09AM

;D

Steve A| 9.24.10 @ 10:01AM

Chuck, Excellent point. I'll take Palin & the Fox News Babes & they can have Hillary, Pelosi & that dude Maddows on MSNBC.

Ghastlyone| 9.24.10 @ 11:18AM

ROFL ^

Nunya| 9.24.10 @ 7:59PM

I'd add Ann Coulter to my list, as well. ;-)

MikeBee| 9.24.10 @ 12:14PM

Chuck,
You're right! Here is a link to the facebook page of Lori Levi, a candidate for State Rep in Michigan. Just her looks alone say, "Nope! I'm not connected in any way with NOW." http://www.facebook.com/pages/.....0393217878

Doctor Right| 9.24.10 @ 8:24AM

Rush excels at telling his listeners, repeatedly, that the Left will ALWAYS tell us exactly whom they fear the most on the Republican side of the aisle.

How does the Left broadcast their misgivings? RIDICULE!

Think Barry Goldwater. Think of Ronald Reagan. Think of George W. Bush in 2000.

Think of...Sarah Palin.

The left's unceasing attacks on Palin since she first appeared on the scene in late August of 2008 are directly proportional to her popularity among Conservative voters. Her folksy appeal to the people of the American hinterland (the people the Left love to hate) drives the Liberals bananas!! More maddening to them is her recent power as Conservative King/Queen-maker in the primary elections; practically everyone Palin endorses wins, and wins against establishment candidates, too.

Palin is effective...And she is deathly feared by the Left...So they do whatever it takes to destroy her.

Unfortunately for the Left (and fortunately for us), the "old ways" don't work anymore. The internet and the electronic information age have rendered the "old media's" ceaseless propagandizing for Liberals practically null-and-void. We've tuned-out their chatter. Personally speaking, I haven't watched network news in almost 20 years...And daily newspapers? Fughedaboutit!!

I'm not saying Palin IS the answer to what ails Conservatives. Hell, as much as I like her, I'm not even sure she should be our nominee in 2012. All I know is that she scares the crap out of the Liberals.

So the next time you hear some smarmy "info-babe" (as Rush loves to call them) on the radio or on MSNBC saying "PLEASE, Republicans!! PLEASE!!! Nominate Sarah Palin!!!", don't believe their sarcasm.

Listen to Rush. He IS the leader of the Conservative movement, and he knows how to defeat Liberals...

...All we need to do is watch them, and observe!

Alan Brooks| 9.24.10 @ 9:14AM

"Think Barry Goldwater. Think of Ronald Reagan. Think of George W. Bush in 2000.
Think of...Sarah Palin."

Goldwater and Reagan were much more than Palin is. If you could travel back 200 years you'd be saying 'Think Washington, think of Adams in 1800,
think of ...Dolly Madison."

Bruce Berger| 9.24.10 @ 9:35AM

I agree that SP is not in the same league as Goldwater and Reagan. However, she has served one very useful purpose. She has exposed the intolerance, mean-spiritedness and downright ugliness of the Left. For that, I will be always be her fan.

PS I do no want her to be the GOP nominee. There are much better candidates out there.

Tim*| 9.24.10 @ 9:55AM

Think JOBS NOT TAXES !

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates .

Rise Up !

RDN in Houston| 9.24.10 @ 10:29AM

Alan, since when did you give a wit about Goldwater or Reagan? Ross has a response in his column to your disingenuous, snarky remark:
"You may have noticed lately that liberal commentators can't resist offering advice to Republicans. Such advice is not offered in good faith. They are not concerned about the well-being of the Republican Party. Whenever liberals give advice and sympathy, do the opposite. They do not wish us well."

Go crawl back in your sewer.

jomo2009| 9.24.10 @ 3:45PM

Alan, please, for the love of God, just THINK!!!

Anthony| 9.24.10 @ 9:57AM

DR, All of what you say is true. The woman in the conservative movement have had the guts, determination, and the verbal skills to take on the Left. They have reminded us that leadership flows from bravery; when Palin, O'Donnell and others, willingly take the arrows slung by the Left and fire back twice as hard and twice as accurate, that is a testament to real courage and a commitment to things other than their own political ambitions. Our men in Washington would do well to learn from these woman.
As far as Rush is concerned, Rush was and still is the leader of conservative media. Rush however, in my humble opinion, needs to get off his self centered obsesson. He needs also to concentrate more; I've noticed in the past few years that he spends too much time winging it, he's not as prepared or focused as he was, say 5 years ago. I hate to say it, but his show has deteriorated since his hearing loss. It has caused a loss of spontaneity, which he could overcome if he concentrated harder. A good start would be if he turned the TVs off in his studio, especially the Golf Channel, or golf tournaments on during his show, and concentrate on his job.
We need him, Levin, and others more than ever.

Siegfried X| 9.24.10 @ 8:29AM

RINO season is over. It's time to switch to 'Rat hunting.

Louis Jenkins| 9.24.10 @ 8:51AM

We went from global warming to climate change, and now we're asked to use global disruption? How about not using any words at all, as it has been blasted clean out of the water.

"You may have noticed lately that liberal commentators can't resist offering advice to Republicans."

Don't even darken their doorstep. They're lying, and the truth ain't in 'em. I used to believe that one should keep his enemies close, but with these guys the further away they are the better they look.

Yes, Rush's slick commentary style nails the lid down on all of them. I don't listen to him everyday, but he does is all in three hours. The liberalists cannot admit in public that they are what they are, but when Rush gets through with them we know.

joli| 9.25.10 @ 5:34PM

"but with these guys the further away they are the better they look."

Which is why you should keep them close... so you never forget exactly how ugly they are.

BigTony| 9.24.10 @ 9:25AM

I agree with the basic tenet of Dr. Ross's article. However he needs to look a little further into the meanings of the words he uses than The Urban Dictionary's apparently politically correct definitions. The word "wussy" derives from an offensive expression and has no place in a serious political dicussion.

Siegfried X| 9.24.10 @ 9:31AM

The left-wing keeps changing their name too, but their policies are always the same.

communist --> socialist --> liberal --> progressive

Rmm| 9.24.10 @ 9:32AM

YOYO;
Another Obama-lite.
When the hopey,changey stuff has not produced, stone the messenger with scorn and ridicule.
Keep it up genius, cause that is all you've got.

SilenNoMore| 9.24.10 @ 9:46AM

Changing vocabulary is a primary tactic of the leftist/collectivist/socialist machine. By using alternate language and effectively changing words and definitions you can appear to abstain from the responsibility of your rationale, place responsibility where it may not belong, and change your position to suit the political and cultural winds. This is nothing more than an extension of moral relativity into language and communication. Control the language, and you can control the issue. Control the issue and you can control the history. Control the history and you can control the future.

While this tactic has been used by politicians of all parties throughout history, it has been a central tenent of modern liberalism/progressivism since it’s' inception. It has been utilized to separate and control populations, all while being sanctified under the guise of compassion or equality. Unfortunately, as shown in fiction and proven repeatedly in real life, a lie is a lie is a lie, and lies have no solid foundation on which to stand. When this shifting foundation crumbles, then the real horror begins.

The key, as Mr. Ross explains and Rush, Beck, Levin, Hannity, et. al. so competently demonstrate, is to shine the disinfecting sunlight of truth upon the scourge of liberal lies. Modern liberalism, and the factitious rationale that support and perpetuate its morally relativistic foundation, cannot stand against the truth, they never have. The choice is whether the people are educated on the truth and CHOOSE to uphold it, or whether the lies come crashing down when the weight of their folly becomes too great.

I hope it is the former, and we have a first step to prove it this November.

DRed| 9.24.10 @ 1:01PM

"By using alternate language and effectively changing words and definitions you can appear to abstain from the responsibility of your rationale, place responsibility where it may not belong, and change your position to suit the political and cultural winds."

Like calling a moderate democrat a radical marxist, perhaps?

Bob S| 9.24.10 @ 2:28PM

"Moderate Democrat"? Sorry, that species went extinct years ago. Guess you hadn't heard.

Oregonian| 9.24.10 @ 9:04PM

No, DRed, it's more like calling a Radical Marxist a Moderate Democrat!

TR| 9.25.10 @ 7:38PM

Sorry, but moderate democrat died in the 80s. All I have to do is refer to the Communist Manifesto and Rules for Radicals. Looks like the current democrat party to a T.

DRed| 9.26.10 @ 10:41AM

There you go again

Matt Morehouse| 9.24.10 @ 9:53AM

Y'all are wasting a lot of time playing with a Yo Yo.

Cpm| 9.27.10 @ 5:55PM

I think they are just 'walking the dog'.

Ken (Old Texican)| 9.24.10 @ 10:10AM

Folks,
I hope the link works, but if it doesn't, get on over to Rush's website and read the transcript of his speech in Philadelphia. Fabulous.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/ho.....guest.html

Turnditch| 9.24.10 @ 11:49AM

The link works. I just finished reading his entire speech. I'm an occasional listener to Rush but after reading the text, it's no wonder how this man has retained his crown for over twenty years.

I, too, had the same reaction to the car and polar bear ad!

Awesome speech, thanks for link.

Billd5| 9.24.10 @ 10:22AM

I just don't get where the average liberal comes from.
The Federal Government is way to big, it spends money it doesn't have, taxes too much, borrows too much, regulates too much, has far too much power. When are you going to realize that central planning does not work? And anyone that objects is automatically an "extremist" and must be a "racist" and every other "ist." That's when you know you are winning the argument. Wake up people!

Petronius| 9.24.10 @ 10:49AM

Our Fun is the Left's biggest target. #1 is smoking. #2 is fast food, simply because of mass consumption. Oh yeah; consumption should really be #1 since the average leftist under-achiever can't afford much. Then there are the cultural bigots who hate things like hunting, and 4 wheel drive sport utility vehicles used by hunters to go hunting or haul their boats if they also fish. The eco-nazis finally admitted this as their true motive for their war on the SUV. And there are the whiners who attack any pleasure or indulgence involving the business community. They shouldn't be allowed to have conventions and parties as the expense for same supposedly comes out of the hides of "the workers." Du-uh...
Those events are for the customers to entice them to buy products workers make. And last is the lowest of the low; the gutter dwelling goth who hates anything and everything that is above him.
We know the type. Given the choice between a suitcase containing a billion dollars or a loaded revolver to shoot George W Bush lashed to a post, he will pick up the pistol every time. This guy is the absolute worst of the lot; the perennial infantile snot, who demands total acceptance of all his demands. His only occupation is participation in the G20 rent a mobs who smash store fronts during those pointless economic summits. We'd all have a higher quality of life if the foundations and the UN who support them would just pay them to stay home in their parent's basement. These bastards should be sentenced to chain gangs and forced to work to pay for not only the damage they do, but the cost to taxpayers for law enforcement and losses to local businesses:
As if that will happen with the batteries of lawyers they have on retainer. And we pay for that too.
But if the only investments one makes is emotional, the dividends will be disappointment, failure, and misery. Right now, that is our only compensation.

Robert Pinkerton| 9.24.10 @ 2:47PM

My disagreement with you is over an omission: Sharing the pinnacle of the Left's negative-priority list with smoking, is the privately-owned handgun, the city-person's defense against interpersonal criminal aggression. However, beside that, pistol practice is simply the best fun a man can have whilst standing up with his trousers on; too, because the armed society is a polite society, a pistol range is one of the physically safest places one can find (though I shall admit the qualification: At least in my experience).

Petronius| 9.24.10 @ 7:24PM

RP
Omission was intentional. I didn't want to take up all the space on this thread. My secret Santa knows I want extended clips in my stocking this year.
Point on.

Pete| 9.24.10 @ 10:52AM

I have given this advice before, but let me give it one more time. Whenever you argue with a liberal, one who truly makes no sense and just repeats the talking points from the WH with no supporting facts or logic, ask that person what he does for a living. I have found that 60%+ of the time, the answer to that question tells you everything you need to know AND allows you to disengage and walk away with a chuckle. 60%+ of the time, the answer will show that the person is tied in one way or another to the federal teat, whether he is a government employee, or someone who depends on 'grants' from government, union, etc.... Try it, it will surprise you and give you insight as to why the country could ever elect some of the goons we have in office right now.

Tom| 9.24.10 @ 12:15PM

That works pretty good face to face but online it is too easy for someone to lie. Thus we have all those people who 'used to be conservative'. My bet is an awful lot of people would claim that they were business owners when they have never even ran a lemonade stand.

Siegfried X| 9.24.10 @ 12:38PM

An old saying:

If someone argues with a fool, there are two fools arguing.

ABNCP| 9.24.10 @ 11:13AM

Socialism is just Communism without the Gulags.
Obama doesn't need to SEND us to a Gulag, he wants to make the whole country one big Gulag.
ROLL ON NOVEMBER !!! And a message to the Republican elite - get on board or you will be gone.
.

Ghastlyone| 9.24.10 @ 11:28AM

As a Conservative, if you haven't got your leftist opponent in convulsions while foaming at the mouth...then you haven't agitated them enough yet.

DRed| 9.24.10 @ 12:22PM

Well, Rush certainly was having more fun than one is allowed (at least legally) to have. Maybe liberals just need more painkillers.

TR| 9.24.10 @ 12:55PM

An anecdotal story of typical liberals.

Years ago when I was in college, a friend of mine was working on his Masters with plans to be a social worker. He was talking to a few classmates about his part-time job "helping" the " 'tards". I asked him what was a 'tard. He answered that it is short for retards. He and his liberal buddies laughed themselves silly. I was still in my early 20s and I was still developing my political thoughts. I knew then that liberals were an anathema to me. They put on a public face of compassion and care, but deep down they are the biggest perveyors of mind sickness and hate. I concluded after a few years of liberal professors spewing their views that I would never understand the roots of their mental sickness, just understand that there are very sick people in this world, and they vote democrat. You can see them on this site under the names vtwin, Brooks, kylie, yoyo, etc.

Oldefarte| 9.24.10 @ 1:03PM

In addition to Ron's excellent thoughts/article, I'd say that liberals DO NOT want the truth of their positions on political matters to be known. They conspiratorially disguise this TRUTH in their arguments/documents, because they know that if same is ever revealed, the public will rebel tremendously against them because of their lunacy and radicalism within their reasonings. They have to brainwash and issue obscure rationalizations, because the truth will define them for the extremists that they are. Communism, socialism, Muslim terrorism, and liberalism are all designed to mentally minipulate the population at large into doing/believing their messages. When dictators take over countries, the very first thing that they accompolish is the commandeering of the local press/media, so that they can use same to then broadcast constantly their extremist messaging. It's all by design and it's all intential. This country has been brainwashed and manipulated for most of my lifetime, and only recently [due to the emergence of the alternative media/press] has the truth began to be provided to us, and the current tea party type revolts against governmental policies are the natural result of same!!!!!!!!!!

noneofyourbusiness| 9.24.10 @ 1:56PM

The irony of all this railing against so called collectivist thought is hysterical. The lack of appreciation and self-awareness as to how oneself has been so successfully indoctrinated is a testament to the triviality of the human condition.

"You wanted a mirror. People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they're reflecting too. You know, lioke the senseless infinity you get from two mirrors facing each other across a narrow passage.Usually in the more vulgar kind of hotels. Reflections of reflectioons and echoes of echoes."

Dominique Francon to Peter Keating, Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead.

Cheers!

Tim*| 9.24.10 @ 5:58PM

The Canuck Schnook stops by to bloviate .

Suck Pucks .

noneofyourbusiness| 9.24.10 @ 11:18PM

Hiya Tim*my the Troll.

It is nice to see you have at least gained enough self awareness to understand when something applies to you.

As for me, I am proud to say I am capable of being accused of bloviating. You never have anything to say, other than posting other people's (unattributed) quotations.

Cheers!

Tim*| 9.25.10 @ 1:59PM

Never miss an opportunity to keep your mouth shut Canuck Diarrhia Mouth .

megapotamus| 9.24.10 @ 2:09PM

None, if the human condition is so trivial you might as well jump off a bridge today. Oh right, you meant OTHER humans. I see.

howard roark| 9.24.10 @ 6:00PM

As the main protagonist in the above mentioned book, I must speak in support of Ms. Francon's commentary (she is, after all, my beloved, but how I hate her!) and its applicability to this room full of mirrors. I believe that noonesbusiness is providing an accurate (if borrowed) portrayal of the genuflecting herd mentality that seems to dominate here.

If you take offense to the comments of Ms. Francon on the basis that you resemble those remarks, then stop being a sheep, finding your self-esteem in agreeing and being agreeable.

A real man, sure of himself and not requiring the adulation or agreement of others to provide a foundation for his self-esteem, would have something useful to say rather than your lame and uninspired retort that simply proves your shallow and insipid character. But then, again, you are just following the herd. It so becomes your character.

noneofyourbusiness| 9.24.10 @ 11:24PM

Of course I meant other humans. Or at least some other humans. I guess I touched a nerve with the quotation above. Sometimes it isn't so pleasing to actually confront the mirror, is it? I think Mr. Roark has captured things quite nicely (that was quite cute, sir).

Cheers!

Tim*| 9.25.10 @ 2:01PM

Me Thinks The Canuck Projects Too Much .

Steve A| 9.24.10 @ 3:12PM

How To Defeat Liberals (In 3 Easy Steps)
#1) Take Unused Stimulus $$ & build massive Ark at every major port in USA.
#2) Advertise Free Cruises paid for by confiscated funds from "rich peolpe."
#3) Cruise is actually 1 way trip to Cuba's Socialist Utopia

TR| 9.24.10 @ 4:32PM

Make sure the contract calls for open bids for construction , otherwise a forced union contract may cause massive cost overruns, work stoppages and slowdowns, and an instant adversarial relationship with the designers and managers. And if a strike occurs in West Nowhere, USA be prepared for an affiliated "brotherhood solidarity strike" that shuts you down indefinately.

Otherwise, a great idea.

Petronius| 9.24.10 @ 7:29PM

I say we let our fast attack sub skippers get in some practice turning them into shark fodder en route.

Disgusted Democrat| 9.24.10 @ 3:34PM

PSSSST! *looks over shoulder*

The way to beat some disillusioned liberals is to remind them just how "un-liberal" the democrats have been behaving. Forcing us to buy healthcare we can't afford or face jail time isn't very democratic or liberal at all!

But most importantly, and I can't stress this enough, we gay folks just took a backseat to illegals! The DADT repeal was tanked because of the Scheme Act, and it was already re-introduced while the repeal sits. The democrats care more about the illegals than the gay american citizens being oppressed. I don't care if you don't agree with DADT, but the bottom line is non partisan, Democrats favored the illegals before the gays. Gays have been taking a backseat on the Democrat agenda for far too long, they need to be reminded that Democrats aren't our friends. You probably won't convince many gays to vote republican, but you can stop them from voting democrat!

I was never here (LOL) *sneaks out the door and heads back to safer country*

TR| 9.24.10 @ 4:26PM

Yeah, we need special rights for behavioral issues. Every behavior needs its own special rights. And while we are at it, we need new federal departments to oversee these new special rights.

I did enjoy your little *s and imaginary movements. Very 1998.

I also laughed at your last few words - "sneaks out the back door" was that an intentional gay joke? Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Oldefarte| 9.25.10 @ 11:22AM

You are right about at least one thing........YOU PEOPLE are so very DISGUSTING!!!!

dw| 9.24.10 @ 5:30PM

"By nature of personality and by necessity of legislation, the liberals must control societal bahavior. The communist ideal is a framework of fallaciousness built on a foundation of fallacy and must, therefore, use coercive tactics and dictatorial influence to force their agenda.
It is a failed doctrine whose protagonist insist answers all questions regarding population management. Its ignorance to consequential variables central to the success of any governing system is a critically irresponsible denial of reality. It is an altruistic theory for altruistic personalities incapable of comprehending the importance of human psychology in their socialist model."

O. D. Harrisson

Petronius| 9.24.10 @ 7:37PM

Exactly: keep your opponent upset and confused so that he cannot make any progress against you.
"We're not holding anything. Let the Hun do that."
Patton knew that once the enemy was on the run it would be almost impossible for them to turn on him and counterattack.

cl| 9.24.10 @ 7:57PM

i have been reading these posts for the past several weeks, and have concluded that alan brooks and canuckstani enjoy being the skunks at a picnic. they were probably banned from the lefty websites because both say they are conservatives, even though the content is neither conservative or a true liberal. it is mostly lunacy and criticize everything about the usa while saying they love the usa. they know they could not say one percent of what they say if they lived in the muslim countries they both praise.

TR| 9.25.10 @ 7:43PM

And don't you just love canukistani's name? Canada reference and mooslim reference. But, Canada will more than likely follow France and England over the edge soon and be a true "istan". Happens when you allow the vocal islamic fascists to get a toehold.

emo| 9.26.10 @ 10:41PM

Canada is today, in better shape than the US in nearly every measure.

Darragh| 9.24.10 @ 8:00PM

Conservatives are just a lot more fun then liberals. Case in point: the WSJ vs. the NYT. The WSJ is often hilarious, whereas the NYT is snoozola, reflecting its ironic Humorless Puritanism About All Things.

rdman| 9.24.10 @ 8:52PM

A scary pattern is developing. It appears the establishment "good-old-boy" Rinos would rather join with the establishment Democrat Liberals to smear and attempt to block the new wave of Tea Party Conservatives from winning. They are actively attacking Joe Miller, Alaska and Christy McDonnell, Delaware behind the scenes.

Jim DeMint, a true Conservative confirmed this stating that establishment Rinos recently, behind closed doors and under a secret ballot, voted to retain Murkowski, Alaska in some kind of chairmanship she held before being defeated in the primary. Why else would she be now running as a write-in.

Beware the treachery of the McCainites and his ilk... they will betray us at the drop of a dollar to maintain their inside-the-beltway staus quo.

noneofyourbusiness| 9.24.10 @ 11:34PM

So good to see the Republicans eating their young. They will be extinct in a generation, either by the young organizing and engaging in patricide, or by a bad case of indigestion.

When the over 60 crowd actually finally catch on to what the "real" Republican agenda means for them, doing away with their public pensions and Medicare, what will be left of the supposed conservative base? Just try carrying it out. Republican support from the over 60 crowd will drop from 60% to 25% in a couple of election cycles.

Cheers!

Oldefarte| 9.25.10 @ 11:34AM

Hey MORON, the Republicans didn't do away with public pensions and Medicare. The liberal Democrats established/instituted public pensions for their dumbars public sector employees [who are too stupid to get a real job in private industry] and thereafter fraudently did not fund/pay for same by necessary premium payments. Talk about crooks....promising the moon while not being willing to pay for it! As to Medicare, it was BHO and his terrorist Democrats that have, due to their legislating of their own WELFARECARE, began the process of gutting Medicare in order to shift funds to pay for same. Medicare, like Social Security, has been historically gutted and its funds have been stolen by liberal Democrats to pay for their other welfaric schemes. If the SS/Medicare funds had not been thus stolen, they would now be fully funded. Seniors abondoning the Republican Party, think again.........seniors will weed out the RINOS and replace them with tea party loyal candidates. The Democratic Party will die a eventual death after November, as their extreme liberalism and radicalism has now bee exposed by BHO, Pilosi, Reid, Schumer,etc!!!!!!!!!!

Tim*| 9.25.10 @ 2:16PM

Read :Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders, by Republican Congressmen Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, and Kevin McCarthy which trumpets Privatizing Social Security And Medicare Vouchers

YoYo's therapist| 9.24.10 @ 10:05PM

Dammit, I told YoYo to keep taking those meds and he apparently stopped taking them. Sorry for his psychotic statement, we will get him back into therapy next week. The ones we extract from Huffpoop and Daily Kook are real challenges. Carry on normal, intelligent conversation and just ignore YoYo.

Reaganomics| 9.25.10 @ 2:15AM

If we listen up, liberals are telling us how they can be defeated. The challenge for conservatives is to listen closely and build our strategies accordingly.

Not to, like, have ideas of your own? I knew that was a non starter. That's all I needed to read.

Don L| 9.25.10 @ 7:42AM

" This is not what liberals want to happen. They would prefer that no one actually think about the things they say and do."

This is because liberals have attained their success by utilizing three things: deceit, emotion and sin(greed and envy). Rational analysis destroys all three. I'm still waiting for the GOP to attack the later as the evil it is.

G.K. Chesterton said way back in the early 20th Century that we are moving into an age where reason is dead and emotion is the basis for all things.

JimP| 9.25.10 @ 3:10PM

These are good ideas. The main stumbling block is and has been the GOP establishment to this approach. As we have been seeing in clear, unambiguous fashion of late is the proof that the GOP establishment are and have been for decades part of that "Ruling Elite" that do not want small government and low taxes. Get rid of the establishment GOP and then conservatives will be playing by these 'new' rules.

Angelo Zenga| 9.25.10 @ 3:11PM

The problem in American politics, is that it is a one party system: The Democrats (openly liberal) and the Republicans (who run conservative and govern liberal i.e spending). The last GOP lead congress, demonstrated that very clearly, and it was ousted for it. The "Tea Party" has given the GOP a chance to reclaim power, will the Republican party respond, and return to what Americans want, traditional American values?

dw| 9.25.10 @ 7:51PM

Yo Yo has been used as a Yo Yo too much.

Cold War Winner| 9.26.10 @ 7:44PM

It is very clear here, who is having fun.
There is nothing more satisfying, and fun ,than administering a well deserved, man on man, ass whipping.
You Tea Party guys and gals are just too smart and prepared. You have delivered a most satisfying beat down.
This has been fascinating!

JH| 9.26.10 @ 11:38PM

Good job gang-banging on one commentator guys.

Osamas Pajamas| 9.27.10 @ 1:33AM

SAM ADAMS IS MORE THAN JUST A GREAT YANKEE BEER!

TAX HATER SAMUEL ADAMS, ON A ROLL AND ARMED TO THE TEETH, AUGUST, 1776……

"You darkeners of counsel, who would make the property, lives and religion of millions depend on the evasive interpretations of musty parchments; who would send us to antiquated charters of uncertain and contradictory meaning, to prove that the present generation are not bound to be victims to cruel and unforgiving despotism, tell us whether our pious and generous ancestors bequeathed to us the miserable privilege of having the rewards of our honesty, industry, the fruits of those fields which they purchased and bled for, wrested from us at the will of men over whom we have no check.

"Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, What should be the reward of such sacrifices? Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, and supplicate the friendship, and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom – go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.

“Courage, then, my countrymen, our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. Dismissing, therefore, the justice of our cause, as incontestable, the only question is, What is best for us to pursue in our present circumstances?”

“It does not take a majority to prevail….but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.”

“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.”

“The Constitution shall never be construed… to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”

Osamas Pajamas| 9.27.10 @ 1:34AM

The Democrats have this "enemies list" --- denominated in epithets aimed at the people whose wallets they wish to hijack and take up residence inside. You can be a “Racist!” and you can be a “Homophobe!” and you can be a “Teabagger!” --- a homosexual man taking his partner’s scrotum into his mouth. You can be “Selfish!” and you can be a “Hick!” and you can be a “Rube!” You can be a “Right-wing-nut!” and you can be a “Warmonger!” and you can be "Unenlightened!" and you can be a “Fascist!” --- although no one more closely approaches the precise description of “Fascist!” than the usual Demo propagandist --- either official, or self-appointed.

So all you have to do to occupy multiple epithets on the Demos’ enemies list is to insist that they take their hands off yourself, off your wallet, off your property, off your kids, off your diet, off your healthcare, off your household appliances, off your car, off your bank account, off your weapons of self-defense, off your liberty, and off your freedom of speech. Insist on all these good things - and that qualifies you to be spat upon by nasty, mean-spirited scum --- by The Friends of All Mankind --- by a gang of lying, thieving, dope-smoking, coke-snorting, sticky-fingered, bloodsxcking, tax-eating, gun-stealing, predatory humanitarian thugs --- by the Democrat party, in other words. No political party in the history of America more profoundly deserves absolute and outright destruction.

Marblehead Light| 9.27.10 @ 1:35AM

OhBummer is a boob and a fool for attacking the American Tea Partiers. He is annoyed that they’re not grateful to him for hijacking the American healthcare system --- the greatest act of vandalism perpetrated upon the American people since a gang of jihadi frootloops and loonytoons hijacked some planes and crashed them into the World Trade Center towers, and the Pentagon, and made a failed attempt to crash into the White House and instead drilled a hole in a Pennsylvania farm thanks to some very courageous American passengers.

And --- now widely seen for what he is --- the president presents a problem for the Democrat-captured media. They pump out his propaganda for him --- and, like the opinion monitors in Ayn Rand’s novel, “Atlas Shrugged” --- they are dodging brickbats and rotten vegetables.

He’s pompous, pampered, and pretentious --- a pseudo-intellectual fop. He’s a glorified, smooth-lyin’ dandy, and slicker than Sick Willie Clinton. He’s a dictator-on-the-make, a bloodsxcking, predatory humanitarian thug, and a low-down skunk.

He’s a fraud and a swindler. He lies when he inhales and he lies when he exhales; his oxygen is the falsification of reality. He lies, placidly and laconically, as if deception were a soporific drug.

He’s a friend of the poor and the downtrodden --- indeed, you can hear the milk of human kindness sloshing around inside of him when he walks.

He declares himself the post-racial leader --- “Let me be clear!” he intones --- and he hides behind his race, daring his critics to put their reputation for fairness at risk.

He pauses to ponder the portent of his propaganda --- and it is fakery; he smiles and his mendacity comes shining through. Shake hands with Barak Hushpuppy OhBummer --- “The Mistake of ‘08” --- the illegal alien squatter in the White House --- and America’s first and last Arab president. Now count your fingers.

Alamitos Bay| 9.27.10 @ 1:35AM

What this country needs is a truly LIBERAL president and congress and judiciary! And I forgive the reader for suspecting that this must be some kind of bad joke!

But the Democrats believe in "statism" --- not "liberalism."

They benefit from the imprecise American political terminology ---- we say "the government" here in the USA ---- rather than "the state." And that's a dangerous problem. Famous brands of statism in recent centuries have been Nazism, socialism, fascism, communism, and welfare statism ---- this last is sort of a mix of fascism and socialism.

Liberalism, on the other hand, is a political philosophy of small, cheap government ---- it is a constabulary ---- and the job of a liberal government is to enforce human rights within its own jurisdiction. I speak of the unalienable and perfectly-natural and universally-valid human rights of life, liberty, private property, and the pursuit of personal happiness.

The first article of private property is "the self" and all other rights are derivatives of and flow from these cardinal rights. These rights ---- The Rights of Man ---- are the gift of nature or of nature's god ---- and they belong to all human beings, everywhere.

Show me a Democrat who subscribes to all of the above, without qualifications or weasel words. The words "liberal" and "liberalism" were hijacked by the Democrats and socialists and fascists long ago ---- and it was the mistake of conservatives and libertarians to let them get away with it.

It is long past time that liberalism be reclaimed, defined, and explained by its rightful owners ---- by the champions of freedom, i.e.: not by Democrats.

Well, how about "progressivism?" Whuzzat?! “Cancer” is “progressive,” too. Isn't “progressivism” just another statist cancer? It chews you up, piece by piece, in the name of Da Peepul? Eat Da Rich? Moral cannibalism, anyone?

Friends of freedom! Friends of peace-through-strength! And friends of prosperity! Declare yourselves to be "liberals," then ---- and kick over the bloody coffee tables --- and overthrow and trounce the Democrats in 2010 and 2012!

youfamissim| 9.27.10 @ 8:28AM

You can't make this stuff up - what Leftists say is what anyone does when they have lost the debate and must revert to quirks of language to reclaim their footing and, hopefully, silence or limit their opponents.

The Left's Lexicon:

Demo - abbreviated form of demolished, to destroy; ruin; bring to naught

Crat - participant in or supporter of (a specified kind of) government or ruling body
Inconsistency (lying) is only a word and words only have meaning when they are used to achieve an outcome, the greater good of the Party is involved, to sway public opinion, or redact, or rewrite history, or condemn a political opponent / ideology. Words are innocuous IF they're voiced by a party adherent. Words are important and need close scrutiny when voiced by an opponent, White Christian Males (WCM), conflict with the Party ideology, or stand to render the Party’s past actions incongruent/criminal, or in anyway impede the Party’s declared mission.

What is lying anyway? Lying is just bad interpretation on the part of the person interpreting the message given to them. They are part of the problem. If they really cared, and understood what was at stake, they certainly would re-read and re-evaluate their assessment. And if not, enlightenment would surely sway them. Losing a job or future advancement opportunity are the perfect remedies to correct bad thinking.

RACIST… this label is omnipotent. It will ruin the person and remain with him forever. It is a stigma and stigmata for all things bad. The label ends debate and places the offender in a position of scorn and unemployable.

Enlightened = knowing and respecting the penalty for disagreement with the Party and behaving accordingly.

Open minded = Willing to accept every alternative and any explanation given by the Party regardless of merit or negative consequence. Open-mindedness shall not apply to the views and opinion of the conservative/republican/White Christian Male (WCM).

Tolerant = Accepting of, and willing to obey, non-judgmentally, any alternative idea or lifestyle sanctioned by the Party. This includes a willingness to deride, attack and vilify - the views and positions of a conservative/republican/WCM.

Compassionate = Willing to endure theft of income, ignore personal and financial losses, accept indoctrination, and donate time or money as directed by the Party, and jettison any personal evaluation that conflicts with the stated mission of the Party; respecting any entity deemed: In Need, At Risk, or suffering discrimination/oppression regardless of the degree or magnitude. Party adherents are forbidden from showing compassion towards Conservatives/republican/WCM.

A Woman’s Right to Chose = The right to act, or take action, to terminate a pregnancy regardless of the time the act or action is taken or motivation behind the act or action. The Party shall undertake and apply any means necessary to preserve and fund this right.

Paying a Fair Share = A punitive, fungible portion of an person or entities’ pre-tax income, that shifts in an upwards direction predicated upon the wants, needs, and political ambition of the party – Used to directly purchase votes or implement spending programs that results in the continued dominance of Party members in the politburo/congress. This term is authorized for use to denigrate the RICH/conservatives,republicans,WCM or inflame passions against same.

Bigot = any person, who, based upon first hand exposure, experience, and/or testing compiles the consistent and observable behaviors of a studied object/group and/or the consistent and observable outcomes resulting from the behaviors within that object/group, who then incorporates the information derived from observed and tested behaviors to determine present or future actions, outcomes, or opinions. See: Conservatives, Republicans, WCMs, all Caucasians.

Stereotype = the misuse of preference or opinion, shared or singular, resulting from personal experience and/or the comparative, congruent experience of others, or derived from research and testing outcomes, that remain accurate, verifiable, and consistent over time. This mischief is used by conservatives and others to oppress and marginalize people of color as well as other sanctioned Party adherents/groups/victims.

Opinion = any thought, idea, conjecture, or preference, aggregated or drawn from experience and/or study, that represents a summary of said activity. Opinions are misused by conservatives to support their arguments, oppress and marginalize people of color and other sanctioned Party adherents/groups/victims. The Party holds that the use of opinions by conservatives, republicans, WCMs violates the First Amendment of the Constitution.

Pursuit of Happiness = A Right claimed by conservatives that the constitution authorizes - any act or action, including free association, which may be discriminatory and divisive, and, based upon the unique happiness criterion of the individual, so long as the act or action is afforded to all, and fulfills, or augments fulfillment of the happiness quotient of the individual. According to conservatives, this Right acknowledges the finite limitations of property and opportunity and therefore does not compel, or restrict, or adversely impact the happiness pursuit of the individual due to the inherent limitations of property or opportunity to ensure an equality of outcomes or access. This thinking is treasonous! It is exclusive, intolerant, divisive, bigoted, radical, insensitive, and Part of the Problem with conservatives/republicans/WCMs. It commonly used to oppress and exclude victims and sanctioned minorities. This is segregation. Segregation makes conservatives HAPPY! This works against multiculturalism and will permit conservatives to form groups where they plan their evil doings. This is yet another example and reason the constitution must be eliminated or changed to a living document.

Core American Values = The values compelled upon the citizen by the Party.

A Living Wage = An undefined, but greater than minimum wage (and greater than experience and job skills will earn in the marketplace) amount of money that will, achieve income parity between real Working Americans and the evil profit mongers of industry - The RICH. In the theory of the Party, a living wage will stop or reduce demands for more money from the Party.

Radical Right Wing Extremist = Any citizen or group of citizens who hold traditional, Judeo-Christian values as their core principles – any conservative/republican/WCM or female in particular.

Diversity = Employing the use of, or accepting of, any behavior, race, religion -(except Judeo-Christian worship) sexual preference, or personal ideology regardless of merit or acceptability in the moral statutes of the community at large. True diversity requires application of the diversity concept in a hostile environment using any means necessary to employ diversity to the detriment of the owners/occupants of said environment (conservatives). See: Enlightenment tool. (Note: some mentally troubled party members and some minorities practice religion and their worship must be treated deferentially to ensure unity within the Party.)

Institutional Racism = Any shared Stereotype or Opinion that does not conform with the Party’s mission statement with respect to race or equality. The accuracy and/or tenacity and/or volume of evidence used to develop the Stereotype or Opinion are unimportant and indicative of bigoted thought. Accrued bigoted thought is Institutional Racism.

Alternative Lifestyle = A lifestyle that conflicts with historically traditional standards and morals of conservatives and WCMs. This lifestyle is sanctioned by the Party and was adopted to satisfy a latent psychological disorder within the Party membership, particularly in positions of leadership, that offends the Radical Right Wing or Judeo-Christian WCM and other non-Party adherents.

Sensitivity = The proper emotional posture that, thru word and deed, displays a proper political cognizance and alignment within the spectrum of Party principles.

Insensitive = A pejorative term used to vilify political opponents as hateful, divisive, intolerant, mean spirited, part of the problem, and uncompassionate, regardless of the merit or truthfulness of their position.

Inclusion = The practice of locating and integrating the Bizarro world within the conservative world. This is to be done regardless of cost or inconvenience.

XXX Phobe/Phobic = A label used to denigrate the conclusions made by persons using a moral standard that conflicts with, or is unsympathetic towards, any victim group sanctioned by the Party, or Party philosophy.

Part of the Problem = Any person or group who rejects the Party’s prescription for change.

Skip Cashwell| 9.27.10 @ 10:37AM

I searched not just YouTube, but via web-crawler the phrase "TEA PARTY PROTESTERS YELL NIGGER TO BLACK CONGRESSMEN". No where is there any proof, audio, video or even photo of a "sign" in which a racial, ethnic or gender-orientation slur appears.

john liming| 6.10.11 @ 1:01PM

Sounds like sound strag-ety and planning to me. It could be very effective if properly channeled and orchestrated for 2012. I cannot help but wonder what happened to such profound strategies before---you know, when the Nation rolled out the red carpet to one of the greatest Presidents in American History? (Obama!) Where was the Right Wing intellectualism for defeating Liberals then?