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Hatch Despises the ‘Radical Libertarians’ Who Oppose Him

By W. James Antle, III on 4.13.12 @ 3:00PM

Orrin Hatch is spitting mad about conservatives working against his renomination to the U.S. Senate. The six-term Republican incumbent from Utah denounced them in an interview with NPR. (Hat tip: Daily Caller.)

“These people are not conservatives. They’re not Republicans,” Hatch said. “They’re radical libertarians and I’m doggone offended by it.” So doggone offended, in fact, he’s almost ready to come to blows: “I despise these people, and I’m not the guy you come in and dump on without getting punched in the mouth.”

At the moment, the odds favor Hatch avoiding Robert Bennett’s fate of being tossed out at the state convention, but he may not be able to avoid a primary. The convention will vote on April 21.

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Drek| 4.13.12 @ 4:04PM

He's spitting mad?

And we've been pissed with him for a good decade or more.

Who can forget his chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee when the nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg came before him, a woman who was lead counsel for the ACLU!

That woman should never have left committee!

Jack in Wi.| 4.14.12 @ 7:00PM

When you are an 80 year old incompetent, old fool who has been a sellout for decades it is time you got shown the door. Hopefully it will be in a huge landslide.

Drek| 4.13.12 @ 4:09PM

And where was he when that idiot Bush was pushing amnesty?

Where's he been for decades while Democrats avail themselves of voter fraud?

Where's he been while the Democrats have taken immigration policy and so warped it that it just now serves as a pipeline for additional voters for their party?

He's pissed?

Him, Lugar, Voinovich, ---- poster children for what's been wrong with the party for the last 20 years!

Teflon93| 4.13.12 @ 4:20PM

Okay, Drek, now remember: this was my point about how ludicrous it is to think these guys would "rein in" Romney.

Drek| 4.13.12 @ 4:53PM

A generational yielding is at hand.

Bennett went.

Voinovich went.

Jeb couldn't get into the race this year because his surname has become toxic with the rank and file.

Specter went.

And now Hatch is about to go, and he's clutching at the door of the Senate Chambers, clutching the door jam trying desperately to stay inside for another six years.

There is a trend, not as strong as we would desire to be sure, but a trend, a movement, and it's all for driving these men and their like out.

The threat of primary challenges is bluff no more.

Ask Bennett, who has been replaced by a younger and more vigorous Mike Lee.

Think of Mike Castle in Delaware who thought he was a shoe-in for the nomination, only to be upended by conservatives in Delaware who had enough of him and his crap.

Not all is gloom out on the horizon.

Teflon93| 4.13.12 @ 9:21PM

Dick Lugar too.

I'm not gloomy----I'm looking forward to the end of the GOP and the rise of the Tea Party.

It will be nice to be part of a party that believes in something again.

Dec| 4.14.12 @ 3:22AM

"... Think of Mike Castle in Delaware who thought he was a shoe-in for the nomination, only to be upended by conservatives in Delaware who had enough of him and his crap."

Yeah that, along with Sharon Angle in Nevada worked out great for conservatives didn't it? Chris Coons and Harry Reid thank you for your support.

"A Tea Party favorite, and with strong financial support from the Tea Party movement, she defeated nine-term U.S. Representative and former governor Michael Castle in Delaware's September 2010 Republican primary for the U.S. Senate.She lost the November 2010 U.S. Senate election in Delaware, to Democrat Chris Coons by a margin of 57% to 40%."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_O'Donnell

Drek| 4.14.12 @ 2:10PM

With your attitude, we would never have had Rubio, now would we, and we would all be saddled with a Crist in the Senate, now wouldn't we?

Teflon93| 4.15.12 @ 11:55AM

How's Arlen Specter working out for you RINOs?

And when's Mitt switching? Post-election, I'd bet.

Oldefarte| 4.13.12 @ 11:01PM

Rein in Romney who isn't even POTUS? Do you have any clue who is ruining/destrying this country within the last three years? Do you understand that this country has at best three years left before it turns into Cuba North? G-d what a DA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Teflon93| 4.13.12 @ 4:19PM

The RINO Establishment is doing everything they can to encourage conservatives to send the GOP the way of the Whigs.

We should accommodate them.

Oldefarte| 4.13.12 @ 10:55PM

You rightwing nutjobs are possibly more of a threat to this country than are the socialist now in charge. There's no difference between a rightwing and a leftwing nut.......they're still selfish nuts that don't give an excrement about thier country and only want to destroy it for their own selfish political purposes. Get the hell out of the Republican Party and go form your own nutjob party if you can do so financially!!!!

The American Hitman| 4.14.12 @ 11:11PM

I smell RINO. Itake it you're Orrin's brother in law?

Teflon93| 4.15.12 @ 11:56AM

HAHAHAHA. You RINO pansies make up less than 1/5th of the GOP.

We go, you go the way of the Whigs.

Which is where you country clubbing little sissies must go.

Will Not Vote For Rmoney| 4.16.12 @ 7:46AM

This old fart needs psychiatric help. Seriously.

Oldefarte| 4.13.12 @ 10:58PM

OMG, the Democrats have their looney toon radicals and so does the Republicans, and this country is dying from the intersection of the two extremes. Its hard to tell the Paulistas from the Pilosistas!!!!!!!!

Clint| 4.14.12 @ 12:03AM

We Tea Party Patriots Will Take Over The "Democrat Lite " RINO-CINO GOP From Within & Without.

Let's See Ya Try To Stop Us, RINO-CINO Bloviator, Fart.

Oldefarte| 4.14.12 @ 12:46PM

No Clunt, instead WE REPUBLICANS will run you MEDIA MATTERS DISGUISED [AS PAULISTAS] DEMOCRAT SUBVERSIVES out of the WH and out of the blogs. Game on!!!!!!!!

Clint| 4.14.12 @ 1:59PM

You RINO-CINO Faction Republicans Are Specterite/McCainiac/RomneyBot Faux Conservative Flunkie Stooges For The RINO-CINO Ruling Elites.

We Are Being Set Up By The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges For The Ruling Elites' Frontman Mittens Romney.

These Are The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges Who Gave Us The Serial Traitor To Conservatism, John McCain Of McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy,McCain-Lieberman,Gang Of 14, Opposing Bush Tax Cuts Of 2001 & 2003,TARP.

Now They Are Trying To Give Us RomneyCare,TARP, Cynical Flip-Flops On Abortion, Gays, Refuses to Sign Pro-Life Pledge, Illegal Immigrants, "Little Chain Saw Al" At Bain, Crony Capitalism Campaign Money Trail.....

Like I Said, We Tea Party Patriots Will Take Over The "Democrat Lite " RINO-CINO GOP From Within & Without.

Let's See Ya Try To Stop Us, RINO-CINO Bloviator, Fart.

Oldefarte| 4.14.12 @ 3:40PM

We'll stop you slimeballs on 11/4/12, and you and your Media Matters subversives can return to your community organizing street hustling ways!!!!

Teflon93| 4.15.12 @ 11:56AM

Somebody get me an inhaler---Oldefarte sounds like the town elders in "Footloose"!

albert constantine jr.| 4.13.12 @ 4:28PM

" I'm doggone offended by it."

I simultaneously admire and am amused at Orrin Hatch's discomfort with the profane. I recall his confusion during the Clarence Thomas hearings in 1991, confusing the character from the porn videos with Long John Silver of Treasure Island.

ejp| 4.13.12 @ 4:59PM

In fairness, Hatch said the name correctly during the hearings. It was Howell Heflin, the Alabama buffoon who kept using the Treasure Island character name.

MLP| 4.13.12 @ 4:37PM

i don't know the situation, but to be fair libertarians can suck it as far as i'm concerned. no homo.

Clint| 4.13.12 @ 4:49PM

Uh Oh !

Is Orin The Turd In The Punch ?

Ronald Reagan.
" If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.

Now, I can’t say that I will agree with all the things that the present group who call themselves Libertarians in the sense of a party say, because I think that like in any political movement there are shades, and there are libertarians who are almost over at the point of wanting no government at all or anarchy. I believe there are legitimate government functions. There is a legitimate need in an orderly society for some government to maintain freedom or we will have tyranny by individuals. The strongest man on the block will run the neighborhood. We have government to insure that we don’t each one of us have to carry a club to defend ourselves. But again, I stand on my statement that I think that libertarianism and conservatism are traveling the same path."

Oldefarte| 4.14.12 @ 12:48PM

Ronald Reagan could not stand rightwing nutjobs in his days and the rest of us can't either today. Take off your disguise and go back to your basement cubbiehole @ 1600!!!!!!!

Oldefarte| 4.14.12 @ 1:17PM

'...... Would Ronald Reagan Be Conservative Enough by Today’s Standards?February 07, 2011 04:45 PM EST On February 6th, Ronald Reagan, the 40th president, would have been 100 years old. President Reagan is considered one of the greatest presidents of our time and a father of the conservative movement. Reagan is referenced many times when it comes to the values of the conservative movement. But today’s Republican Party, including the Tea Party, is steadily moving to the right and it begs the question: Would Ronald Reagan be conservative enough? This is the second article in the series. The first article can be found here.Upholding the Constitutional right to keep and bear armsWhile governor of California, Ronald Reagan signed into law the Mulford Act. Its purpose was “prohibiting the carrying of firearms on one's person or in a vehicle, in any public place or on any public street.” In 1991 he gave a speech and said he supported the Brady Bill and urged Congress to act immediately. Ronald Reagan was not against the right for people to have guns but he clearly thought there was a need for gun control.We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrantsOver the last couple of years the Republicans have been making a lot of noise about illegal immigration. Conservatives are such fierce opponents that John McCain changed his stance on the issue when he was running for re-election. This issue of illegal immigration became an issue when the economy suffered. Prior to that, no one wanted to address the issue because work that average Americans did not want was being done.
During a 1977 radio address, Ronald Reagan said, “It makes one wonder about the illegal alien fuss. Are great numbers of our unemployed really victims of the illegal alien invasion or are those illegal tourists actually doing work our own people won't do? One thing is certain in this hungry world; no regulation or law should be allowed if it results in crops rotting in the fields for lack of harvesters.”Ronald Reagan was like every other president elected to the position in the United States. He struggled in a job where every move was scrutinized and he did the best he could. He believed in his ideals but he was willing to work across the aisle when the need arose. He led a minority that was more concerned with getting things done than holding press conferences to tell everyone why the other side is up to no good.
Perhaps our current leaders will take note of the true Ronald Reagan and his abilities and not the caricature that has been created over the last 20 years. Based on what the current Republican Party stands for, Ronald Reagan would have never been allowed in the front door.....'

Clint| 4.14.12 @ 2:01PM

You RINO-CINO Faction Republicans Are Specterite/McCainiac/RomneyBot Faux Conservative Flunkie Stooges For The RINO-CINO Ruling Elites.

We Are Being Set Up By The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges For The Ruling Elites' Frontman Mittens Romney.

Like I Said, We Tea Party Patriots Will Take Over The "Democrat Lite " RINO-CINO GOP From Within & Without.

Let's See Ya Try To Stop Us, RINO-CINO Deliverance Banjo Pickin' Inbred Gender Confused Bloviator, Fart.

Oldefarte| 4.14.12 @ 3:42PM

Clunt, you ain't tea party, but instead Media Matters.....take off your disguise and expose yourself truthfully!!!!!!!!

Teflon93| 4.15.12 @ 11:57AM

Dirty Oldefarte---have you been exposing yourself AGAIN?

Crassus| 4.15.12 @ 1:19PM

Teflon, your posts actually make quite a bit of sense at times. I just wish you'd quit agreeing with Clint, who makes no sense whatsoever at any time.

ejp| 4.13.12 @ 4:57PM

Orrin, just think of how doggone tired so many of us were of hearing for decades about what good friends you were with Teddy Kennedy and how you basically treated him with kid gloves in the name of your friendship every time Teddy went out of his way to do something despicable like what he did to Robert Bork. A principled conservative would never have given Teddy Kennedy the time of day in ANY social setting after that.

Oldefarte| 4.13.12 @ 5:03PM

I don;t know of anyone that would shed a tear at his defeat, BUT TO BURN DOWN THE BARN TO GET RID OF RATS WOULD BE ACTING STUPIDLY. If a Republican conservative can ru n against him, the curtial point is that if same beats Hatch, that he also correspondingly be able to beat the Democratic nominee in the general election as well. If not, then Hatch should be retained until such time as a conservative Republican can successfully replace him!!!!!!!

The American Hitman| 4.14.12 @ 11:13PM

Burning down the GOPe barn is a great idea. Go the way of the Whigs.

Reaganaut| 4.13.12 @ 5:05PM

Hatch is correct. He has a very conservative record. Remember Christine O'Donnell (I do, I live in Delaware!).

C Bowen | 4.13.12 @ 9:29PM

Only by the most cynical definition of conservatism.

The stooge vote for No Child Left Behind, Medicare Part D, and voted to support the United Nations war in Iraq.

He voted to raise the debt ceiling year after year, and vote for budgets to fund Planned Parenthood year after year.

If that is conservative, then you have some radically different definition of the term.

albert constantine jr.| 4.13.12 @ 9:40PM

I vote at Delcastle each general and primary election. I walked the developments off of Route 41 north of the Kirkwood Highway delivering the Republican Party literature in 2004 (Castagno, Castle, Bush, etc).

I remember almost everything about Castle, O'Donnell and most other campaigns in this area since 1964.

Where do you vote, if I might be so bold to ask?

albert constantine jr.| 4.13.12 @ 9:41PM

Sorry, if there's any confusion, C Bowen, my above is for Reaganaut.

ejp| 4.13.12 @ 5:22PM

I remember O'Donnell. And I remember the GOP establishment throwing one of their patented temper tantrums when they don't get their way and going out of their way to get the Democrats elected, which is SOP for them. Yet these same Establishment hacks then expect GOP conservatives to be party loyalists every time they get nominated. I've had it with that game.

Drek| 4.13.12 @ 5:27PM

I remember O'Donnell, and I remember her doing yeoman's work removing from our sight that jerk Castle!

That she couldn't go on to seal the deal shouldn't blind us to the good that she did, which was remove from our sight that jerk Castle!

Teflon93| 4.13.12 @ 9:22PM

Yup. If that's all she ever does for conservatives, it's a lot more than Mittens and Hatch have ever done.

Oldefarte| 4.13.12 @ 10:50PM

The essential concern is this country's survival, not conservatism. Reagan was right obviously about right winged nut cases that he had to deal with!!!!!!!!!

Clint| 4.14.12 @ 12:06AM

Oldefarte| 4.14.12 @ 1:19PM

'.....Would Ronald Reagan Be Conservative Enough by Today’s Standards?
February 07, 2011 04:45 PM EST On February 6th, Ronald Reagan, the 40th president, would have been 100 years old. President Reagan is considered one of the greatest presidents of our time and a father of the conservative movement. Reagan is referenced many times when it comes to the values of the conservative movement. But today’s Republican Party, including the Tea Party, is steadily moving to the right and it begs the question: Would Ronald Reagan be conservative enough? This is the second article in the series. The first article can be found here.Upholding the Constitutional right to keep and bear armsWhile governor of California, Ronald Reagan signed into law the Mulford Act. Its purpose was “prohibiting the carrying of firearms on one's person or in a vehicle, in any public place or on any public street.” In 1991 he gave a speech and said he supported the Brady Bill and urged Congress to act immediately. Ronald Reagan was not against the right for people to have guns but he clearly thought there was a need for gun control.We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrantsOver the last couple of years the Republicans have been making a lot of noise about illegal immigration. Conservatives are such fierce opponents that John McCain changed his stance on the issue when he was running for re-election. This issue of illegal immigration became an issue when the economy suffered. Prior to that, no one wanted to address the issue because work that average Americans did not want was being done.
During a 1977 radio address, Ronald Reagan said, “It makes one wonder about the illegal alien fuss. Are great numbers of our unemployed really victims of the illegal alien invasion or are those illegal tourists actually doing work our own people won't do? One thing is certain in this hungry world; no regulation or law should be allowed if it results in crops rotting in the fields for lack of harvesters.”Ronald Reagan was like every other president elected to the position in the United States. He struggled in a job where every move was scrutinized and he did the best he could. He believed in his ideals but he was willing to work across the aisle when the need arose. He led a minority that was more concerned with getting things done than holding press conferences to tell everyone why the other side is up to no good.
Perhaps our current leaders will take note of the true Ronald Reagan and his abilities and not the caricature that has been created over the last 20 years. Based on what the current Republican Party stands for, Ronald Reagan would have never been allowed in the front door......'

Teflon93| 4.15.12 @ 11:58AM

The country won't survive unless government is strongly limited by a restored Constitution, pal. Your socialism-lite is as bad as their socialism-hard.

Now go rub Karl Rove's shoulders. He wants to watch gladiator movies again.

Marco2| 4.13.12 @ 11:46PM

Let's see now, Romney endorsed O'Donnell in 2010, and O'Donnell endorsed Romney earlier this year. Plainly, a pair of commie degenerates as well as rino squishes!

Clint| 4.14.12 @ 12:09AM

Obama Is A Tarpster, Where Romney Is A Tarpster.

Obama Orchestrated Obamacare, And Romney Orchestrated Romneycare.

Oldefarte| 4.14.12 @ 1:20PM

And you are a MEDIA MATTERS BOYTOY taking blogging orders from 1600!!!!

Clint| 4.14.12 @ 2:05PM

I'll Match My Conservative Republican Voting Record Against Yours Any Day Banjo Pickin' Inbred Gender Confused RomneyBot.

You RINO-CINO Faction Republicans Are Specterite/McCainiac/RomneyBot Faux Conservative Flunkie Stooges For The RINO-CINO Ruling Elites.

We Are Being Set Up By The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges For The Ruling Elites' Frontman Mittens Romney.

Like I Said, We Tea Party Patriots Will Take Over The "Democrat Lite " RINO-CINO GOP From Within & Without.

Let's See Ya Try To Stop Us, RINO-CINO Bloviator, Fart.

Oldefarte| 4.14.12 @ 3:43PM

Wait, Barry [your slave-master] is calling. Quick, run see what he wants!!!!!!!!!

Teflon93| 4.15.12 @ 11:59AM

He wants you at the Chicago bathhouse---usual time, Oldefarte.

And shower first.

Antitarian| 4.13.12 @ 6:41PM

Reagan was talking about libertarianism in a limited economic sense. he certainly would have nothing in common culturally with the Reasonoids today.

C Bowen | 4.13.12 @ 9:32PM

Sure he did--Reagan voted for liberal abortion and divorce laws as Governor in California. Frankly, he was a leader for the cause.

Things are more complicated then you think.

Clint| 4.13.12 @ 10:43PM

Ronald Reagan Was Talking About The Libertarian Stance Against Big Government Statism And For True Constitutional Conservatism.

Ronald Reagan Endorsed Dr.Ron Paul & Dr.Ron Paul Was One Of Four Republican Congressmen, Who Endorsed Ronald Reagan Against Gerald Ford

Oldefarte| 4.14.12 @ 1:22PM

See above concerning Reagan and today's rightwing radical un-conservatives, you disguised MEDIA MATTERS BOYTOY!!!!!!

Clint| 4.14.12 @ 2:23PM

Read This Specterite-McCainiac RINO-CINO Ruling Elite Flunkie Stooge, Fart.

Ronald Reagan,
" Perhaps we didn't appreciate fully enough the depth of the hatred and the complexity of the problems that made the Middle East such a jungle. Perhaps the idea of a suicide car bomber committing mass murder to gain instant entry to Paradise was so foreign to our own values and consciousness that it did not create in us the concern for the marines' safety that it should have.

In the weeks immediately after the bombing, I believed the last thing that we should do was turn tail and leave. Yet the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics forced us to rethink our policy there. If there would be some rethinking of policy before our men die, we would be a lot better off. If that policy had changed towards more of a neutral position and neutrality, those 241 marines would be alive today."

Ronald Reagan Versus The Roughy Puff Chickenhawk, Mittens Romney

Oldefarte| 4.14.12 @ 3:45PM

Romney and other Republicans will trash and defeat your Media Matters handlers on 11/4/12.....be prepared to return to community organizing, fool!!!!!!!!

Teflon93| 4.15.12 @ 12:00PM

Romney will be winetasting again in the Loire Valley come Thanksgiving.

Just like he did when real men were fighting the Cong.

RJ| 4.13.12 @ 7:27PM

Hatch is the poster child for term limits. 36 years in the Senate is enough for anyone. It is time for someone else. Hatch has been converted into a creature of the Beltway. He should go back home to Utah.

albert constantine jr.| 4.13.12 @ 9:52PM

In the “Peanuts” comic strip, every time Charlie Brown came out to kick the football, Lucy would pull it away.

In 2010, as Lucy (Mike Castle) teed up the ball, the little red headed girl (O’Donnell) teed up one as well. For the first time, the conservative voters in Delaware had a chance to actually connect with the football existed. We shanked it to the right, and still didn’t score the points, but Lucy doesn’t have that smirk on her face any more.

albert constantine jr.| 4.13.12 @ 10:02PM

"first time, the conservative voters in Delaware had a chance to actually connect with the football existed. "

Sorry, should be "first time, the conservative voters had an opportuniy to actually connect with the football.""

albert constantine jr.| 4.13.12 @ 10:52PM

though I usually employ a t in opportunity

John2| 4.14.12 @ 3:29AM

Mr. Hatch threatens to punch someone in the mouth? This is one odd picture, given that the honorable senator knows how to give way in everything.

I don't remember him winning any contested issue. I think the speed bag would rebound and knock him out.

Teflon93| 4.15.12 @ 12:01PM

Oh, stick around. We'll have Oldefarte doing the same. Psychiatrists call it "raging against impotence."

Fun to watch.

aware| 4.14.12 @ 7:52AM

Those who care about liberty despise Hatch, and a whole lot of others too.

The American Hitman| 4.14.12 @ 11:15PM

Well, if he loses the primary, he can switch parties like his cryin partner Arlen Specter, or run as an Indie like Lisa Snortcokeski. Two other GOP stars.

Osamas Pajamas| 4.15.12 @ 2:14AM

Hatch is joking, of course. America was founded by radical libertarians.

Osamas Pajamas| 4.15.12 @ 2:25AM

Looking at the email trail here I see what looks like a lot of Democrats trying to divide the Republican party with internecine warfare.

I favored Ryan / Rubio 2012 --- but that ain't gonna happen --- they're not libertarians but they'd have been a huge improvement, nonetheless.

So I'll vote for Romney --- because he's the only gun I'm armed with now. Ron Paul has some great domestic policy ideas and some insane foreign policy ideas, so he has a snowball's chance of winning --- but possibly can throw a monkey wrench in the works and give us another four years of that lying fascist axxhole who now "occupies" the White House.

These three-some years under the OhBummer dictatorship have greatly improved my axx-kicking skills --- so that if Romney gets elected, I wouldn't want to be wearing his pants if he decides to go astray.

Cheer-up lads, and lasses --- let's go whip OhBummer's sorry axx!

Osamas Pajamas| 4.15.12 @ 2:35AM

ROUNDS COOKING OFF

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 “Terrorist!” and you can be a “Dictator” and you can be a “Hostage-taker!” and you can “Wear a tinfoil hat!” 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 “Wacko!” and you can be a “Hick!” and you can be a “Rube!” and you can be “Uneducated” and you can be an “Extremist!” You can be a “Right-wing-nut!” and you can be “Mentally Ill” and you can be “Deranged!” and you can be a “Flake!” and you can be a “Warmonger!” and you can be "Unenlightened!" and you can be a “FatCat!” and you can be a “Greedy!” member of the productive class, and you can be a “Nazi!” and you can be a “Fascist!” --- although no one more closely approaches the precise description of “Nazi!” or “Fascist!” than the usual Democrat propagandist --- either official, or self-appointed.

Lies, after all, are the heart and soul and the sword and shield of the Democrat party.

So all you have to do to occupy multiple epithets on the Democrats’ 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, pill-popping, coke-snorting, sticky-fingered, bloodsxcking, tax-eating, gun-stealing, predatory humanitarian hoodlums, thugs and gangsters --- by the Democrat party, in other words. No political party in the history of America more profoundly deserves absolute and outright destruction.

Osamas Pajamas| 4.15.12 @ 2:36AM

THE AGE OF OHBUMMER, KING OF THE REPUBLIC OF LIES

OhBummer is a b00b and a fool for attacking the American Tea Partiers. Heck, he thought that he had all of us hoodwinked, hornswoggled, and bamboozled. He’s annoyed that the Tea Partiers are 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 until his “papers” have been lab-tested for age and chemicals, etc --- the community organizer of the OhBummer Wrecking Crew, the Fleabagger-in-Chief, the King of The Republic of Lies --- and America’s first and last Arab president. Now count your fingers.

http://wwwdotyoutubedotcom/wat.....SWSzY#t=28

Osamas Pajamas| 4.15.12 @ 2:37AM

SPARKS FROM WYATT’S TORCH

Conservatives and libertarians should stop calling Democrats "liberals" ---- because they are helping the Democrats with this label --- not hurting them.

While many Democrats and other leftists agitate in favor of socialism or communism [distinctions without a difference], the majority of them prefer the Nazi / fascist economic model --- which works out in practical terms to the "crony capitalist progressivism" now practiced by Barak Hushpuppy OhBummer, the OhBummer Wrecking Crew, the Democrat party at-large, and the “establishment” / "RINO" [Republican-In-Name-Only] Republicans.

Keep in mind here that Hitler and Mussolini launched their political careers as Marxist communists and later they adopted political disguise for their agenda of moral cannibalism and “eating the rich.”

Does this sound familiar, given who now controls the White House and the US Senate?

Note that progressivism, socialism, Nazism [“national socialism”], fascism and communism are all joined-at-the-hip in their common contempt, enmity, and disdain for human rights. More on this, later.

Now, the Democrat [and other leftist] technique for character assassination is what it has always been --- a barrage of outright lies, half-truths, misrepresentations, innuendos, misinformation, disinformation, and poisonous propaganda --- all of that directed at anyone who obstructs their access to our wallets and our other property --- and especially any public figure who rises to fight them with any prospect of beating them and liberating the American people from the Democrats' kleptocracy.

In the past thirty years or so, from Ronald Reagan going forward, the technique has been to try and destroy anyone before they rose within striking distance of the Supreme Court, the Congress, or the White House.

These Democrat propagandists could and can count on the corrupt, complicit, and compliant sycophants in the Democrat-captured media to help keep their propaganda afloat and their dictatorship fastened on the backs of the American people.

Listen up, if you are a privately-employed, non-government taxpayer--- and thus a member of America’s # 1 class of victims.

We are ruled by armed force and by fraud by lying, thieving, arrogant, bloodsucking, greedy-for-the-unearned, tax-eating government hoodlums, gangsters, and thugs, by spies, spooks, and snoops, and by their sticky-fingered constituents and assorted limpets, lampreys, barnacles, parasites, and other hangers-on.

And they are our “protectors!” Just ask them and this predatory humanitarian Mafia will tell you so.

Who protects us from our protectors? The outspoken American citizen under the First Amendment --- and the armed citizen under the Second Amendment to the US Constitution.

Little wonder, then, that the Democrats seek to destroy the First Amendment --- in order to silence their critics by prohibiting “hate speech” --- and that they seek to misinterpret and destroy the Second Amendment in order to disarm their intended victims --- those whom they intend to silence and to plunder. Freedom of speech works best when millions of guns in private hands are aimed at our rulers.

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Now, are you ready for this?

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."

Strip them naked of their “liberal” camouflage and behold their ugliness.

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, progressivism, and welfare statism ---- these last two are mixtures 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.

What "human rights?"

I speak of the unalienable and perfectly-natural and universally-valid human rights of life, liberty, private property, and the pursuit of personal happiness.

A slave is owned by someone other than himself --- but a free man owns himself.

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, socialists, progressives, 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.

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 2012! Destroy them!

Oldefarte| 4.15.12 @ 12:34PM

TAH.....learn how to spell [it's one R, not two] DUMMIE!!!!!!!

Teflon...if given the chance, those 'panties' will be STUFFED DOWN YOUR THROAT AND OUT SOMEONE'S AH!!!!!!!

Oldefarte| 4.15.12 @ 12:39PM

Teflon: Not 'footloose', wrong movie.....try Dirty Harry's "feelin' lucky, punk?" ; or maybe Gessup's "you can't handle the truth"!!!!!

Oldefarte| 4.15.12 @ 12:42PM

[MEDIA MATTERS BOYTOY CLINT = TEFLON93!!!!!!!!!!!

Crassus| 4.15.12 @ 1:26PM

That's not right. Agree or disagre with him, Tefllon can actually put together a coherent sentence or two. All Clint knows how to do is cut and paste the same thing over and over again.

Oldefarte| 4.15.12 @ 1:29PM

[Teflon93| 4.15.12 @ 10:58AMThe country won't survive unless government is strongly limited by a restored Constitution, pal. Your socialism-lite is as bad as their socialism-hard.Now go rub Karl Rove's shoulders. He wants to watch gladiator movies again]

First, I AIN'T YOUR '''''PAL''''', turdhole! Second, you 'stupidly' [to use your Media Matters' handler's termonology] don't know the meaning of SOCIALISM. Third, I'll take Rove anyday over the white-trailer-trash-filth and stupidty [with $2 in your piggy bank] that you represent. Your moniker fits you to a tee....."a non-stick coating for cookware", since you and your ilk don't STICK to the Republican Party [and are traitors to same]. Hell, the only party you belong to is Soros'/Obama's Media Matters Party, since you kiss up to these foreigners with your DON'T GO TO WAR bullexcrement aka chickenhawkisms [you're chickens alright.......chickenexcrements]. Teflon----Clint, go stick your TEFLON WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE AND MAKE IT STICK THERE!!!!!!!

Oldefarte| 4.15.12 @ 1:41PM

'....Teflon93| 4.15.12 @ 11:01AM
Oh, stick around. We'll have Oldefarte doing the same. Psychiatrists call it "raging against impotence.".........'

The only' impotence' that I'm aware of is that old geezer from LJ that you morons appaently adore, probably since you ride the roads together in your TOO SHORT SHORTS. The same old fool that has not won any states Republican contests to date. Oh or maybe your equally incompetent Yankee labor unionist/lobbyist disguised as a CONSERVATIVE. Oh right, he about as conservative as Limbaugh is a liberal, but hellfire, if he can convince a few dumbarses like you [Clint=Teflon93'] non-stickeys to anything, especially the Republican Party, it just proves Gump correct about STUPIDITY. Yeah, your non-conservative Yankee has now effective destroyed the Republican's favorability rating among female voters by their 8% drop after his stupidly oening his ignorant Catholic mouth about contraception [and after successfully being baited by this POTUS and his gang of community organizers]. Go form your own third party of TWO and get the hell away from the rest of us. As ya boy said, YOU TWO MAKE ME WANT TO ''''PUKE''''''!!!!!!!!!!!

Oldefarte| 4.15.12 @ 1:50PM

'...Teflon93| 4.15.12 @ 11:00AMRomney will be winetasting again in the Loire Valley come Thanksgiving.Just like he did when real men were fighting the Cong....'

Yeah, DA they were fighting the Cong at the direction of ya Democrats' boy [Lyndon Baines Johnson], the same boy's party that produced Carter, Clinton, Kennedy, Obama, Sharpton, Jackson, Durbin, Pilosi, Reid, Conyers and now, Obama [who has provided welfarecare, non-stimulus. Solyndra, non-Keystone Pipeline, $5/gallon gas, etc]. Yeah, DA keep complaining about Romney and RINOS-CINOS and you'll get your boy Barry's return for more destruction in November. You stupid piece of garbage!!!!!!

Oldefarte| 4.15.12 @ 1:54PM

'Teflon93| 4.15.12 @ 10:59AM
He wants you at the Chicago bathhouse---usual time, Oldefarte.And shower first.'

Is that your home address, white trash MM Boy? You're just like EXCREMENT, since it doesn't STICK to anything [ie political party] either!!!!

Oldefarte| 4.15.12 @ 2:01PM

"The American Hitman| 4.14.12 @ 10:13PM
Burning down the GOPe barn is a great idea. Go the way of the Whigs."

You're right Clint=Teflon93=The American Hitman, you and your LJ geezer plus your Yankee Catholic labor unionist/lobbyist have done a good job at destroying the RP, and you ALL can take a Thelma & Louise leap into the nowhere of your MM world of Barry for all we care!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oldefarte| 4.15.12 @ 2:09PM

I'll remember that next time my TAS subscription is renewable....thanks!!!!

PattyMor| 4.15.12 @ 3:40PM

Well it looks like Sen. Hatch is another RepubuRat
which is well past his sell by date. He thinks he "owns" his Senate Seat. And why not? He runs in a supposed conservative party and votes for all the Bush leftist policies and still gets reelected. But with the Tea Party in town, he has the competition biting at his heels for the first time in his political life. What you see is really not very pretty. Its privledge and no one is going to wrest it from him. Go, Orrin, its time to get off the stage.

Imissbuckley| 4.15.12 @ 6:47PM

Eh, I'll take a "radical libertarian" like Sen. Mike Lee who pushes for means-testing of social security, and a balanced budget in this decade. I'll especially take Lee over an establishment Republican prick whose been office for 36 yrs, and worked with Ted Kennedy to the detriment of American Taxpayer.

As to comparing this race to Delaware......guys give me break it's freaking Utah! That state hasn't elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since 1970. If the Deep Red Dyed Bee hive state nominates another libertarian-leaning Conservative like Mike Lee to the senate, we're likely to see the same results that we saw in 2010....victory.

WM| 4.15.12 @ 6:52PM

Hopefully he gets a good butt-chewing as a result of these inappropriate comments. The vitriol in them is really disturbing. Obviously he feels threatened by them, and not just because of this race. He feels they are winning the war of ideas, and he is right to fear.

Whether he wins or loses this race is not particularly important. Time is against his kind. He and his fellow travelers in the Party are aging or retiring (e.g., Olympia Snowe). If he wins re-election, he will have to continue toeing the far right line 24/7 or he won't get a moment's piece. The end of his life will be miserable, surrounded by constant harping and detraction, and he will look back on his life with much bitterness. It's not a good place for him to be. I suggest he chill out and either keep his nose clean or retire now.

KenK| 4.16.12 @ 1:59PM

Gotta watch out for those radical libertarians who
want to take over the government & leave everyone alone!

David C| 4.17.12 @ 2:57PM

Good point, KenK!

Simple truth is this: After 36 years in the Senate, it's time the man retired.

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