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By: appletree » Blog Archive » The Republican Party Begins Eating Itself

appletree » Blog Archive » The Republican Party Begins Eating Itself — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:45:12 +0000

[...] Maha doubts that leaders like James Dobson and Tony Perkins will get behind a third party candidate. I think that’s wrong, and I think it’s irrelevant in any case. [...]

By: trvolk

trvolk — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:35:23 +0000

“as long as fundies can deliver enough votes to swing close elections”

Giuliani doesn’t need ‘em if he can capture the middle and the independents. Ron Paul has shown time after time that he can work minority audiences with his libertarian values. Pair Rudy and Ron as running mates and the Republicans won’t need the fundies.

If the fundies continue along this path, I will soon be volunteering for the Giuliani campaign.

By: erinyes

erinyes — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:30:20 +0000

Rumor has it that a certain senior senator from Kentucky and another from South Carolina will soon get kicked out of the closet, more red state hijinks.That should get some fundie panties in a twist.

Debpet (awesome pen name!), have you ever been below the Mason-Dixon? Hagee, Dobson, and Robertson have lots of friends down here.Friends in high places.

By: Carl Gordon

Carl Gordon — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:03:54 +0000

This is a common result of GOP conservative martyr syndrome, or as we learned in the 3rd grade, not getting your way all the time. It’s usually acompanied by embarassing physical ailments, not unlike goat polio, as well as pointedly stupid debates about nothing (see Ann Coulter) and a ludicrous absence of common sense.

Unlike Goat Polio, spillage and pissing is more common in adult conservatives than in kids. It is entirely possible to introduce this silly behavior into a previously uninfected herd by feeding silage, sudden changes in kind of feed, parasitism, dramatic weather changes, and advanced stages of pregnancy, or shit-kicking defenseless dead people by pinhead pundits.

Symptoms include depression of common sense, decreased appetite for obvious onion dips, beaver fever, leaning or stumbling or moving in one direction only while lollygagging, head pulled to flank with rigid neck during oral sex, facial paralysis on one side due to oral sex, slack jaw mouth breathing, and drooling during Republican primaries. Diarrhea is present when conservative principles or so-called “family values” are instigated while lacking any discernable point or value. Embracing GOP talking points can be mistaken for rabies. Immediate treatment is critical – Recovery is more “iffy” than with Goat Polio.

The exact manner in which both republican ideology and Goat Polio affect the average pinhead is not well understood at this time. Treatment involves administration of high doses of boot leather to the dumb ass of the victim every six minutes for three to five days, then daily for an additional seven days. Forty-thousand IU per kg of body weight of common sense is needed to cross the blood brain barrier and put sufficient amounts of grey matter into the tissue of the dope’s central nervous system. Remember that one kilogram (kg) equals 2.2 pounds.

By: donato

donato — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:36:15 +0000

It’s sad that you can only become president if you profess some mystical belief in the occult. Safeguards were placed within our constitution to protect us from those that believe in the supernatural, not those that don’t.

By: Lynne

Lynne — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:19:35 +0000

By: maha

maha — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:15:07 +0000

debpet — you’re new here, aren’t you?

By: debpet

debpet — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:43:34 +0000

I get very frustrated when I see the term “religion” applied as though it meant only the most extreme fundamentalist politically conservative branch of Christianity. There are a great many people who have a strong and genuine faith without the dogmatic streak. People who believe in a creative power that brought forth and sustains everything that exists, but who do not believe that every detail of the creation narrative in Genesis must be taken literally. People who believe in the teachings of Christ that we should treat each other as brothers and sisters, help those in need and live righteously in all areas of our lives, but who do not think that meens using the power of government to impose a particular understanding of faith on everyone in the society, no matter what their beliefs. In fact the strict fundamentalists are a MINORITY of those who identify themselves as Christian. The fact that they receive such disproportionate attention and wield such disproportionate influence creates a distorted picture of what faith actually is, and the effect on our society is deplorable.

By: Swami

Swami — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:34:16 +0000

For his part, Rudy will have to engage in prodigious ass kissing to bring Dobson around, but I know he’s got it in him.

AMEN !

Never does a politician stand so tall as when he stoops to kiss some ass.

Move over Lon Chaney..Rudy is now the man of one thousand faces. Rudy has become like the army recruiting slogan…“be all you can be”