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The Col: Political leanings doesn't make me far right. I'm a fiscal conservative. So are those on the far right. So are the moderates. I'm libertarian on some social issues. On matters of immigration policy I actually favor Regan's amnesty plan. However, liberals never have been serious about curbing the actual flow of illegals. Still, I don't hold to the radical idea of sending illegals back to Mexico etc. Especially if they have families here in the US. And I'm not alone. Many conservatives recognize that we have to do something to stop illegals from crossing our borders unchecked while still dealing with the illegals that we allowed (through our lax policies) to work and live in the US. That's hardly a far right position.
I am totally against abortion except for the life of the mother. That is a far right position but I have better arguments for my position than anyone on the left. Moderates who make exceptions for rape and incest are hypocrites. I do not make those exceptions.
I believe in small government. This is a far right position as it is a moderate view as well. Libertarians also want smaller government.
I want to see a decrease in spending across the board. I want unnecessary government departments closed for good. The EPA is a good place to start. I'd let each state take care of their own environmental concerns. I'd repeal healthcare because it's too costly and none of the Federal Govt business.
Even moderates want to see spending cuts. For that matter, so do some center leaning liberals. Most Americans agree with me that the healthcare bill needs to go. It was shoved down our throats with ZERO Republican support.
When you look at all my views, only an uninformed idiot could conclude I fit into the far right camp.
Subjekt: Re:And there also are more people who have decided class envy and raising taxes on the rich does nothing to free up money for growth and investment.
Iamon lyme: I'll have to try that. Maybe I'll change my view about the lemon if they add the lime. I knew that you could put the lime in the coconut and drink them both up. Once I put the lime in the coconut, and called my doctor, woke him up and askd, " 'Doctor, ain't there nothing I can take, I say, Doctor, to relieve this belly ache? I say, Doctor, doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take, I say, Doctor, dooooctor, to relieve this belly ache?' Put the lime in the coconut, drink them both together, Put the lime in the coconut, then you feel better, Put the lime in the coconut, drink them both up,"
He told me to, "Put the lime in the coconut, and call me in the morning"
Under Obamacare he'd tell me to call him in a month.
Subjekt: Re:And there also are more people who have decided class envy and raising taxes on the rich does nothing to free up money for growth and investment.
Iamon lyme: Hmmmm, V doesn't know that it's not actually tasteless to say "drink the koolaid." Koolaid comes in many flavors and it's anything but tasteless. Unless it's the lemon koolaid. That stuff is crap.
Změněno uživatelem Papa Zoom (9. listopadu 2012, 02:18:26)
Iamon lyme: The Gov called me and said he likes my views. He said that he views my views as easily viewable. At least that was the view he shared of his view of my views.
BTW, - my dogs just ate their poop. They are liberals. They always want a handout. And even if it's crap, but free, they want it.
The Col: actually you're wrong. You're just so far left that I look far right. When I take the tests to determine my overall political leanings, I end up moderate conservative to libertarian.
The stock market reacted by tanking. Here comes a rise in the debt ceiling, more borrowing, another stimulus, more government jobs, more printing of money, rising energy prices, more regulations, and for many who opposed Obama, big time paybacks. For those that supported him, rewards.
Iamon lyme: and what's even more surprising is that I got myself to the polling place my first time to vote-all by myself! I mean, I was even poor back then! I defied the odds. I was poor, white, a liberal, but knew how to take care of myself!
rod03801: Well, you're not black or poor or both. You see, black people have trouble getting ID's (except for those blacks that know how to make fake IDs - but real ones, not so much). And the poor can't possibly get IDs (except if they drink, then they can get IDs easily cuz they love to use their government checks to drink).
Now most white people, even if they are poor, know how to get IDs (unless they are from heavily populated Democratic areas. Then those whites are as stupid as the liberal blacks.
Oddly enough, those blacks who are conservatives have absolutely NO problem getting an ID. But that's because they are conservatives. If they were liberal blacks, they wouldn't understand how to get a TOTALLY FREE government issued ID.
And finally, it helps to be dead. It seems that blacks and poor folk can't get easily attainable IDs but dead people manage to vote in each election. And many of these dead people were/are black! or poor! or both!
But what do I know? I'm just a white guy with an ID (since I was 16). And here I thought I was stupid back then!
One of the most knowledgeable people in the United States on all-things political is predicting Gov. Mitt Romney will win the 2012 Presidential Election on Tuesday “handily.” Michael Barone believes Romney will win between 285-315 Electoral Votes.
WASHINGTON EXAMINER – Michael Barone: Fundamentals usually prevail in American elections. That’s bad news for Barack Obama. True, Americans want to think well of their presidents and many think it would be bad if Americans were perceived as rejecting the first black president.
But it’s also true that most voters oppose Obama’s major policies and consider unsatisfactory the very sluggish economic recovery — Friday’s jobs report showed an unemployment uptick.
Also, both national and target state polls show that independents, voters who don’t identify themselves as Democrats or Republicans, break for Romney.
That might not matter if Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 39 to 32 percent, as they did in the 2008 exit poll. But just about every indicator suggests that Republicans are more enthusiastic about voting — and about their candidate — than they were in 2008, and Democrats are less so.
That’s been apparent in early or absentee voting, in which Democrats trail their 2008 numbers in target states Virginia, Ohio, Iowa and Nevada. . . .
. . . . Bottom line: Romney 315, Obama 223. That sounds high for Romney. But he could drop Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and still win the election. Fundamentals. . . .Read More
Subjekt: Re: IF you're a gay conservative, be prepared for some serious gay bashing from your friends on the LEFT. Liberals only like gays who conform.
Silvery Moon: Well he likes to wake up in the morning to a post or two of mine that he can debunk.
Subjekt: Re: IF you're a gay conservative, be prepared for some serious gay bashing from your friends on the LEFT. Liberals only like gays who conform.
Iamon lyme: lol it's only an irrelevant distraction because he can't find examples where those on the Right behave in the same hateful, violent, bigoted ways as those on the Left!
Subjekt: Re: No but it does seem like you are making excuses for the bad behavior of those on the Left.
(V): Well what I am doing is pointing out the VERY BAD behavior of the Left that is being IGNORED by the MSM because they are in the Left's pockets. AND since there is no one pointing out any CURRENT happenings by the Right that parallel the vile acts of the Left, I guess we're ONLY talking about the Left. If you want to drag the Right into this, let's see some hard CURRENT evidence.
Subjekt: Re: IF you're a gay conservative, be prepared for some serious gay bashing from your friends on the LEFT. Liberals only like gays who conform.
(V): show me where there is such wide spread abuses from the Right.
Then there is the polling place in North Carolina that was logging Romney votes for Obama (and I was under the impression they calibrtated these before voting started...):
We also have some New York residents, with Florida addresses, that attempted to vote twice. Considering the political makeup of most of those people, it's a pretty safe bet they were Democrats:
There were, of course, the two media instances of Democratic stations calling the election for Obama, "accidentally", that have already been discussed here:
Finally, there is the very biased film being released on NatGeo right before the election, that even the national Geographic people refused to accept certain editing for:
I guess when you have done all you can to destroy the economy, tossed our diplomats to the wolves, and can't debate on anything more important than Big Bird, binders, and bayonets (and someone please inform the clown that the Marines have those as standard issue...), you have to cheat.
Subjekt: Re: IF you're a gay conservative, be prepared for some serious gay bashing from your friends on the LEFT. Liberals only like gays who conform.
(V): But the Left pretends to champion gay causes but in reality there is a catch.
CNN’s Don Lemon Questions Erick Erickson About ‘Swatting’ Attacks On Conservative Bloggers Video by Alex Alvarez | 4:28 pm, June 8th, 2012 » 189 comments
On Friday, CNN’s Don Lemon spoke with conservative blogger Erick Erickson about “swatting,” or making it appear as if another, targeted person is making fraudulent 911 calls. And, as Lemon warned viewers, the results could be fatal.
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Erickson told Lemon he is targeted all the time, but this marks the first time his wife and child are included in someone’s attack. “It’s surreal to hear someone calmly pretend to be me saying they’ve shot my wife and they’re going to shoot someone else,” he shared. Lemon agreed, adding that the call upset him, too.
As it turns out, Erickson continued, one of the officers who arrived at the scene that night recognized him from CNN, and inquired about an “accidental shooting.” Another officer kept his distance, holding his hand over his gun while Erickson’s three-year-old stood nearby. Other officers had the house surrounded.
Swatting is an attempt to trick an emergency service (such as a 9-1-1 dispatcher) into dispatching an emergency response team. The name is derived from SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics), one type of such team. Such actions are criminal actions.
The Left LOVES to use intimidation tactics to silence those on the Right.
Someone keyed the word “Obama” into two cars and slashed seats in another outside a residence that had Mitt Romney campaign signs.
CBS2 and KCAL9 reporter Rob Schmitt spoke to Ken Slown, owner of one of the keyed vehicles.
Before you feel too outraged by this immature, stupid political hate crime, it gets better:
Slown actually supports President Obama!
He explained to Schmitt that he and his wife — both currently unemployed — are staying with her parents and it’s her parents who support Romney.
Lol! Now, I'm not suggesting the Slowns, both Obama supporters, deserve to have their vehicle vandalized. They don't. But as one who enjoys ironic humor, it is priceless that pro-Obama vandals would damage two vehicles in an anti-Romney attack and both happen to belong to Obama supporters!
Another delicious irony - the only two Obama supporters at the residence happen to be unemployed and living with their mother. So, I guess that "Hope & Change" isn't working out so well for them. One has to wonder why they would continue to support Obama, given their circumstances.
Look out. For the left has ZERO tolerance for blacks who side with conservative causes. A visit to a black conservative's twitter feed is so very revealing.
These examples of intolerance aren't isolated examples but the Left provides plenty of examples of their bigotry and hate.
All the while blaming others for their own faults.
And Dan Savage, you know, the darling of the Left who is on an anti-bullying campaign, can't resist calling gays names IF they side with conservative causes.
IF you're a gay conservative, be prepared for some serious gay bashing from your friends on the LEFT. Liberals only like gays who conform.
Where's The Outrage?
From The Daily Caller via Breitbart:
“I was getting ready for work and there was a knock at the door,” Wood emailed The Daily Caller late Wednesday. “I opened it, and a guy wrapped a ligature around my neck, slammed my head into the doorway, and smashed my face into a mirror, telling me ‘You should have kept your [f*******] mouth shut.’”
“He then kidney-punched me, while at the same time saying I was ‘warned,’ and continued to beat me,” he added.
Wood told The Daily Caller that vandalism preceding the assault, along with his attacker’s statements during the incident, suggested his sexual orientation and his politics each played a role.
Wood said his attacker’s reference to a warning likely pointed to graffiti he found painted on his car last week. The vandalism included the phrases “house trained republican faggot,” “traitor,” and “ur like a jew 4 hitler.”
It seems a hate crime is only a hate crime if perpetrated by a conservative against a liberal. The hypocrisy of the left is astounding.
Subjekt: Because Obama has succeeded in vilifying the Right and dividing
Will the MSM focus on this? No. They are too busy looking for ghosts.
Via Mount Pleasant Patch:
The Tea Party faithful gathered Saturday for a loud and enthusiastic rally aimed at to getting out the vote on Nov. 6 and putting Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan in the White House.
A crowd of around 1,000 grew to about 2,500 at the rally, which took place inside the old Sam's Club on Regency West Drive[...]
Before the event could get under way, though, organizers say a truck affixed with "Obama" stickers drove through the parking lot and dumped quantities of nails.
"We went outside and picked up what we could," said Lou D'Abbraccio, holding a cup filled with nails. "But this was just wrong."
Lora Halberstadt, a Tea party member, said the group did call the Racine Police Department to file a report.
rod03801: the guy is a minister so it didn't surprise me the he included the sinner part. But maybe he did that after getting a sense of her receptiveness. But I actually agree with you. I have argued with other Christians and told them moral arguments can stand on their own without mention of God. Proof of this is the site atheists for life.