1 You know, if they'd just erect platforms over top that damn fountain... a lot of people would be able to get a much better view of the stage.

2 They care more,so each of the participants counts for like eleventy.

3 I think Charles Johnson's gonna sue somebody! /ChakaLutherKing

4
I thought the Tea Party would be the tail that dog wags; but it turns out, the Tea Party is the dog, and the GOP merely the tail.

Can you give a couple of "for instances" so I can nod in agreement, please?

5 What the Left will do, in an Orwellian style, is switch the photos and claim that the one taken of the Tea Party rally is actually the union assembly and vice versa.  Isn't that right out of Stalin's bag of tricks?

6 I have been saying this for a long time now. This election is not like any other since 1861. Joe Sixpack has taken to the streets.

When Mom and Pop are out marching carrying signs we have a new paradigm. Old Cris Wallace tries to make out like this is "anti-incumbent" because some Republicans were primaried out but if you look at the ones that were they were all liberal aisle crossers who helped the Dems.

If the Republicans don't "get it" this time they will cease to be a meaningful Party in ten years.

7 Compare pictures is OK. Don't give me crowd size in numbers.

8

Okay what's the population of DC? You're telling me they couldn't at least get some of those folks out? They probably went for Obama, what, 90-95%?

Add in the unions that paid for travel arrangments/food and they couldn't even  produce a quarter of what Beck drew (and that's probably being generous).

They really are in for a world of hurt come 11/3. Good. Fuck 'em. I watched a good portion of that Hate America pep rally yesterday. It was disgusting. These shitstains aren't my American brothers and sisters. They're beggars that were paid and bought for their attendance and they left their trash behind on our national treasures.

They are my enemy and I will treat them as such.

9 How dare you point this out! They drew eleventy bazillion more than Beck and the Teabaggers combined! I have a sooper seekrit algorithim to prove so! This is all FAUX NEWS lies! And if you disagree, I'll ban you and reveal your personal information!

10
Those pictures were altered to appease the right wing extremist.

11 I think Charles Johnson's gonna sue somebody! He should start with his webmaster.

12 From the photo link: "MILTON R. WOLF, M.D. Leader of the conservative wing of the First (Extended) Family. It's true, I am President Barack Obama's cousin (second cousin actually). That makes me exactly 12% pure hope and I'd like to offer you some." Too funny, Doc.

13
"It was a great day for Communism."

-Fidel Castro

14
re: the paid transportation accommodations

You guys remember the scene in The Godfather Part II where Michael is in Cuba and he notices the rebels are willing to die for their cause? Michael recognizes the side that wants it more will probably win.

15 5: Cspan did that

16 damn! 16 was me

17 oh, and this is good as well

18 The contrast between the 8/28 Beck rally and yesterday's Gimme Gripe Fest could not be clearer in the numbers attending, their degree of commitment and their sense of personal responsibility.

19 lacey: Add in the unions that paid for travel arrangments/food and they couldn't even  produce a quarter of what Beck drew (and that's probably being generous).
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Let's hope they're no more interested in voting than they were in turning up for this rally.

20 Just 4 more weeks

21 This sudden upheaval was entirely unpredictable... except, of course, to those who predicted it, but for those of us who didn't predict it, it was entirely unpredictable, we're still catching up.

Fair enough, and something equally important to remember when dealing with folks who got duped (genuinely duped, not folks that have always been liberals) by the Obama campaign and are now wising up.

Also, if you haven't already, make sure you email links to the online coverage of Commiefest to anyone who needs a reminder to vote.  I've gotten pretty positive response from folks I emailed about it already.

22 16 5: Cspan did that

I'm not surprised.  What a crying shame.

23 Calling Barack Obama a socialist is a dirty filthy smear job, you teabaggers!  Now where's that shiny red bus with the cute Soviet logo?  I have a rally to go to!

24

Was that Miss Cleo hitting the camera lady? 

 Jamaican, asshole, loud and obtuse?

Miss Cleo should have known the dustup was coming.

25 This time, she traveled from New Jersey on what she called the "peace piss bus" ("the Communications Workers of America very graciously paid our way," she explained)

Fixed.  Couldn't help myself to the obvious.

26 Did they clean up their trash? 

27

I have been saying this for a long time now. This election is not like any other since 1861. Joe Sixpack has taken to the streets.

This.  Big time.  8/28 was 500,000 middle aged men and women, little old ladies, military, younger familys...people we all see everyday. 

Not freakish looking buffoons, hipsters, union thugs and other assorted parisites on our economy.

They came at there own expense like I did, hotels, cars, gas, food...to make a statement.

It wasn't even about Glenn Beck either.  It was a tea party event, sans signs.  People were motivated to send a message.

28
Did they clean up their trash? 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 03, 2010 05:13 PM (UOM4

All except for the used condoms, Mad Dog 20/20 bottles and Fuck America signs.

29 Weird thing is I keep seeing polls that people say they still personally like Obama even as they say they hate his policies? What is up with that? Are people still afraid of being called a racist if they admit that they think Obama is leftist trash? I don't get it. Obama hates most Americans. We should hate him back. I know I do.

To hell with that liberal fascist fucktard.

30 There were groups wearing the purple SEIU shirt, others wearing the red CWA shirt, others wearing the blue AFT shirt, and still others wearing green shirts and yellow shirts and so on. They should all just standardize on onr color. Brown, maybe?

31 It matters not what they do. Liberals are erecting sand castles to stop a tsunami.

32

You already know the answer Jane.

I think you've got blood pressure issues so don't look at the pictures! Esp at the WWII monument.

Leftist pigfilth trash.

33 Welcome back to the fight. This time I know our side will win.

34 OT but I just can't help it, sorry.

So Michael Vick is out with a rib injury?  HAHAHAHAHA  well I guess he's done.  Tie him up in a burlap sack, hit him over the head with a baseball bat and toss his sorry ass in the river.

35 What is up with that? Are people still afraid of being called a racist if they admit that they think Obama is leftist trash?

A surprisingly large majority of Americans are going to be called racists after Nov. 2.  This will not help his personal approval ratings.

36 In retrospect. It is better to be a Tea Bagger than to be a Tea Bagee.

37 On both CNN, and Geraldo last night (while interviewing The Very Reverend Al Sharpton), the phrase that was repeated, over and over, as opposed to having to give an actual crowd size was: "Over 400 different Liberal Groups". Good that Geraldo "I'm A Republican" Rivera got the Memo too.

38 _{let the record reflect I did not start the M. Vick discussion!}

39 I am not a socialist!  That's a dirty insult!  I am a progressive anti-war pro-feminist anti-capitalist activist!  But I am not a socialist!

40
O/T

Repost:  Greta bitch slaps Allred, again!

41 A surprisingly large majority of Americans are going to be called racists after Nov. 2. This will not help his personal approval ratings. Only the typical white voters. I plan to make it part of the national party platform.

42

Posted by: Delta Smelt at October 03, 2010 05:14 PM (A0VTZ)

My son and I went to 8/28, and the truth was I wanted to just be one more body to swell the crowd. I was sick of the MSM pretending we don't exist.

43 All except for the used condoms...

Barney Fwank, Bill Clinton and John Edwards were there?  Who knew!

44 In retrospect. It is better to be a Tea Bagger than to be a Tea Bagee. Better a bagger than a gagger.

45 The Conservatives need the Liberals!

46 So Michael Vick is out with a rib injury?  HAHAHAHAHA  well I guess he's done.  Tie him up in a burlap sack, hit him over the head with a baseball bat and toss his sorry ass in the river.

Posted by: NC Ref at October 03, 2010 05:17 PM (j3vhd)

*evil grin, laughing maniacally*

47 Lacey, I actually am fortunate to not have "real" blood pressure issues (unlike D'oh).  I stayed away from the news this weekend and we spent a fabulous fall day yesterday in Beaufort, SC at the Shrimp Festival.  Met with some volunteers from the Marine's Semper Fi Fund and donated money, and bought two cool Lt. Dan Weekend in Beaufort tees to send D'oh Boy and his best bud.  Money goes to wounded vets.

Disappointed we didn't get to see Gary Sinese Friday night, but spent the entire evening waiting for lib sis to show up and say "goodbye" as she moves to the ATL.

48 39 <sub>let the record reflect I did not start the M. Vick discussion!

LOL oops my bad</sub>

49
Having a small child hold the Socialist banner should be cruel and unusual punishment and the adult should be subject to a good old fashioned ass whipping.

50 "If the Republicans don't "get it" this time they will cease to be a meaningful Party in two years"

FIFY.

51 Yesterday was a disgusting negative hate filled nasty people event.

Not one normal person could watch both and not see the huge difference.

52 The photo yesterday was timed by right wing extremists to coincide with the unions' contractually-mandated smoke break.  It also happened to be at the time La Raza headed for the steps of the Smithsonian for their afternoon siesta.  Just to make it seem even worse someone (probably a teabagger) had just shouted, "Here come the narcs!" and all the lefty student groups vanished at world record speed. 

<Snap>  Photo showing far fewer commies than actually attended the rally.

53 Yeah, I don't get how Obama is supposedly personally likeable (likable?). He's an arrogant, condescending, stuttering prick. At this stage I can't even stand the sound of his voice. I watch FNC's Krauthammer-time (or whatever they call the last 20 minute panel of the 6 pm hour with the Lego hair guy). I just mute it whenever I hear the sound of President Fuckwit's voice and unmute it once the Kraut brings down the hammer.

54

 The Conservatives need the Liberals!

 

Nope.  When cons have freedom and liberty, liberals aren't even a brain fart.

55 Something that is difficult to estimate, I think, is the number of people like me that have never attended a Tea Party event but have long felt that taxes should be lower and government smaller AND have voted in every election since being eligible. There must be lots of us, and we're motivated to vote this time like never before.

56

My son and I went to 8/28, and the truth was I wanted to just be one more body to swell the crowd. I was sick of the MSM pretending we don't exist.

Posted by: madamex at October 03, 2010 05:22 PM (KuXes)

Yeah I hear that.  Was basically why I went.  The curiosity factor as well.  I'm hardly a take to the streets type.  To be a part of something that big though was pretty cool.

Glenn Beck was an afterthought, not knocking him or anything, but I think most people went to send a message and considered it a tea party.  I know I did.  Sat around some great folks too. Funny enough, 2 people from the Springs who were in the military.  The husband served in Iraq.

57 Is the "Republican Party" even still meanful now? I mean, I turned 18 in 1980 and immediately registered Republican to cast my first ever vote...for Ronald Reagan. I have stood faithfully but I've been getting madder and madder as they try to keep foisting McCains on us instead of Palins, DeMints and Pences. Now most people on the right I know are like me, we identify as conservative, not neccessarily Republican.

58 O/T- From Nate Silver- no Senate candidate with a lead of more than 5.5 points in the polling average, with 30 days to go in the race, has lost since 1998: these candidates are 68-0. If this rule actually holds true this cycle, it guarantees a GOP pickup minimum now of 6- AR,ND,IN,PA,WI,CO. It also "guarantees' that NY-B,DE,and CA are now out of reach for Republicans, but that NV,CT,WV,IL,WA are all in play for a shot at 10-11 This rule only goes back to 1998, so the caveat in a wave cycle is that may not be enough to save Boxer, Gillibrand, or even Coons. But going off the RULE, anyone predicting less than +6 in the Senate is using emotions or silliness or brainless eeyoring instead of cold facts.

59 Did they clean up their trash? 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 03, 2010 05:13 PM (UOM4

All except for the used condoms, Mad Dog 20/20 bottles and Fuck America signs.

Posted by: Fish at October 03, 2010 05:15 PM (v1gw3)

You forgot to mention the used hypodermics and other assorted drug paraphernalia.

60 45: LOL, even commiepalooza would have been too crowded for me --I was born and raised in ND badlands. Beck's rally raised money for project warrior iirc. -not sure of name. I bet the commies just demanded the country (taxpayers) should give their groups more money.

61 the Tea Party is the dog, and the GOP merely the tail.
Tails aren't the same as assholes. (And I'll keep the dirty sock from last night on as it's appropriate.)

62 Disappointed we didn't get to see Gary Sinese Friday night, but spent the entire evening waiting for lib sis to show up and say "goodbye" as she moves to the ATL.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 03, 2010 05:24 PM (UOM4

Well I'm glad to see you didn't go either.  I would have been disappointed not to have met you.

Like Marsha Brady, something suddenly came up.  I looked for you Friday morning but didn't see you on.

63 I hope Ed Shultzs head explodes on election night.

64

Posted by: Delta Smelt at October 03, 2010 05:27 PM (A0VTZ)

They were the nicest, kindest people. I have never been in such a lovely crowd.

PS My boy is 15 and the payback was I had to take him to see, Roger Waters performing, "The Wall," which was Friday night. Waters is a lefttard, but the show was great. Also, the crowd was so funny, so many geriatric air guitarests. :-)

65 9

Okay what's the population of DC? You're telling me they couldn't at least get some of those folks out? They probably went for Obama, what, 90-95%?

Add in the unions that paid for travel arrangments/food and they couldn't even  produce a quarter of what Beck drew (and that's probably being generous).

They really are in for a world of hurt come 11/3. Good. Fuck 'em. I watched a good portion of that Hate America pep rally yesterday. It was disgusting. These shitstains aren't my American brothers and sisters. They're beggars that were paid and bought for their attendance and they left their trash behind on our national treasures.

They are my enemy and I will treat them as such.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at October 03, 2010 05:03 PM (69e1/)

EXCELLENT, JUST EXCELLENT!

66 Just out of curiosity Frank, were those Teamsters driving the Teamsters to the rally?

67 51   27 Did they clean up their trash?

No, Barry wasn't there.  He was on vacation, again.

68 Unfortunately, the bottom picture may demostrate that all the moderates, independent and liberals were home with their families. And families love to do thing together, including get-out-the-vote efforts and early voting. As a conservative, I certainly know my wife and two daughters would all certainly vote together, if I were married and had such children. I would love to vote this year, but it looks like the polls will be too crowded with all the people who weren't at yesterday's rally.

69 -I was born and raised in ND badlands.

Wow, that's some place to grow up.  We used to drive through there once a year and spend time while on our way to Montana for vaction.  The Badlands are something every American should make time to see.  Truly beautiful place.

70 I thought the Tea Party would influence the GOP. I did not think that the GOP would wind up influencing the Tea Party.

I blame the Jooos.

71

all the pics that all saw made me sad that we have people, no matter what side they are on.......that would go there and trash it like that............  makes me proud to be on our side...........

vick, go home and ask your dog to kiss your ribs and make them better......... dickhead.

72 #68 Likely IF, and I mean IF, we see a continuing trend in Connecticut and a Uturn in california polling. The Whitman smear I think backfires hard on brown, and Fiorinas ads are just now hitting the airwaves. There is a compounded effect from an R-leaning race at the top upon down ballot races- the Midwest is all the more bloody BECAUSE of the bloodshed at the top, not in conjunction with it. Colorado's shift to the right in polling bodes well, as does the confirmation that Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Indiana are becoming the event-horizon for Democrats in those states.

73 I think Jon Stewarts rally thing will probably be huge.

Yesterdays was the dumbest thing I have ever seen.

74 Ace - I welcome those who were nine months behind.  Particularly when they admit it so graciously.

75

Did you see the fricken SEIU debris left defacing our WWII Memorial? They have no respect for anything.

http://tiny.cc/g4vb6

76 This election is not like any other since 1861. Joe Sixpack has taken to the streets. When Mom and Pop are out marching carrying signs we have a new paradigm. [ ... ] If the Republicans don't "get it" this time they will cease to be a meaningful Party in ten years. Posted by: Vic at October 03, 2010 05:02 PM American electorate to Democrats, RINOs and DIABLOs in NOV 2010 and NOV 2012: "I'm gonna pull the whole thing down. I'm gonna bring the whole fuckin' diseased, corrupt temple down on your head. It's gonna be biblical."

77  Just out of curiosity Frank, were those Teamsters driving the Teamsters to the rally?

Posted by: JIMMY HOFFA at October 03, 2010 05:32 PM (bfJxj)

 

Nope.  It was bad ideas and free t-shirts that drove the unions to this rally. 

78  The Badlands are something every American should make time to see.  Truly beautiful place.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 03, 2010 05:34 PM (M6enm) ...........

thats one of the places that i have never been and have always wanted to.

79 I think that something some people like Reynolds overlook is that not all the Tea Party are alike. They are not the Borg...for instance when people say that the GOP should not return to their old ways..what exactly does that mean? I don't think it means the same thing to everyone in the Tea Party. Some people think it means you get rid of medicare and medicaid and other people think it means reform or scaling back programs..some people think it means no earmarks at all some people just think it means balancing the budget without actually hurting anyone.

For instance, I hear some people complain about the Democrats and their death panels...while at the same time other people are still complaining about medicare part D. BTW, Part D came in 43% under budget, amazingly enough. I mention this because I think it emblematic of the problems facing the movement..you can not have it both ways. That will be the real challenge.

People can make cracks about the GOP all they want, but when the Democrats took power in 2006 the deficit was $161 billion for the budget year, unemployment was 4.5% and gas was just over $2 a gallon. Far from perfect, but a lot better than what we are looking at right now.

80

The union presence was so ubiquitous and so organized that it made for a kind of color coding in the crowd.

They do this so they know who to follow to find their bus, you know, like kindergarden.

81 I was gleefully watching yesterday hoping that Lincoln would come to life in his giant staute from and terrorize the crowd.

82
Glenn Beck will comment about the Communist gathering on the National Mall, but he will remain a gentleman and not chastise the pukes for their unending attempt to overthrow our government.

Congress needs to return to conservative roots, and reinstate the  House Un-America Activities Committee with the power of subpoena and the ability to refer to the DOJ, assuming Eric Holder is our of office or in jail.

83

  The Badlands are something every American should make time to see.  Truly beautiful place.

 

In the summertime.

84

Okay what's the population of DC? You're telling me they couldn't at least get some of those folks out? They probably went for Obama, what, 90-95%?

 

People from DC all yawn at the political protests regardless of the party. You would think that all the Obamalovers would have slithered down there to side with the commies, I guess no one offered to pay them, give them lunch, and provide "metro/bus money. I can hear it now, "I ain't goin' all the way down to the mall...nobody's paying me like those other workers." That entire rally was union paid. All of it. With maybe a couple of hippie commie oldsters in it for the bong hit.

85

They do this so they know who to follow to find their bus, you know, like kindergarden.

Posted by: madamex at October 03, 2010 05:39 PM (KuXes).

i think you are right. never thought about it that way....... good point.

86 I'm gonna fucking kill a bitch.

I have an infection in my 'puter.  Redirects webpages to shopping shit.  Malware software can't find it.  Any help?

The name, address, description, and an outline of the daily habits of the mother fucker who wrote the code will do.

87 There are some turds on sites like reason who are extoling the "diversity" of the crowd. Explain to me again why pigeonholing everyone into a color category is a good thing? So a crowd that is more black than white or more hispanic is good and a crowd that is more white is bad? Reasoning? Besides, to representative of american, the crowd has to be majority white for a little while yet.

88 Shit.  It's google.  Never mind

89 You know what's truly sad, pathetic, and ironic?  How many libtards claim to be "greenies" and they leave this crap.  Liberals are truly the laziest, sorriest, human scum on the planet.

Bastards.

90 91 I had that. Boot up in safemode with networking and download free version of malwarebytes. Follow directions.

91
You just know that Joe Biden was in the Vice Presidents Naval Observatory residence watching on C-SPAN,  and spanking his monkey will glee as the Communist flags and banners were displayed.

92

You would think that all the Obamalovers would have slithered down there to side with the commies

Good point.  On the day healthscare passed, 50k TP types showed up, and a few hundred.........yeah, SEIU stooges.

93

Did you see the fricken SEIU debris left defacing our WWII Memorial? They have no respect for anything.

http://tiny.cc/g4vb6

 

I shall not write what is in my heart right now.  I like posting on AoS too much.

94

HERR MORGANHOLTZ

 

Unless you know how to clean up your own registry by hand, then the only other option is to do a system restore or hire a local high school hacker.

95 download free version of malwarebytes

Malwarebytes ain't finding it.  Unless I've had a reinstall of this turd in the last 24 hours.

96

 Besides, to representative of american, the crowd has to be majority white for a little while yet. Posted by: dagny at October 03, 2010 05:45 PM (TJ/aI)

Christiana Amanpuke had a panel discussion about the mosque today. The audience was 75/25 pro-mosque. To be representative of the country it should have been the other way around. Also, sickening, was the references, to bad, ill advised, and other manevolent words to describe the anti-mosque side. They is how they grab the narravite, call you bad, and then all you can do is defend yourself. I hate them.

97 the only other option is to do a system restore or hire a local high school hacker hooker.

Word.

98 Delta Smelt, did you guys make it to Beaufort?  The band that played yesterday was awesome!  Beach music, and oldies from the 70s and 80s.  The band was East Coast Party Band out of Mount Pleasant.  It was standing room only around the stage the whole time we were there.

99  would love to vote this year, but it looks like the polls will be too crowded with all the people who weren't at yesterday's rally.

Posted by: Average Joe at October 03, 2010 05:33 PM (l+v1S)

My favorite troll impersonator strikes again!  Keep it up.

100 I don't think Jon "Stewart's" rally will be huge. There will be the usual douchebags that go for the star power but that's it. The weather will be a huge factor. (Saturday was beautiful and comfortable, 8-28 was hot as hell) so if the star gazers are going to get wet or cold, not so many. Teenagers mostly. I really doubt people are going to pack up and drive and park and pay for hotels to see a comedy central figure.

101 Shake me up, Judy!

102 Eh.  I'll fuck with it.  At present it seems to only effect links from google, which I use more than I do vaseline and socks.

103 I have an infection in my 'puter.  Redirects webpages to shopping shit.  Malware software can't find it.  Any help?

I hear the Jews have been creating viruses lately.

104 I don't think Jon "Stewart's" rally will be huge. There will be the usual douchebags that go for the star power but that's it. The weather will be a huge factor. (Saturday was beautiful and comfortable, 8-28 was hot as hell) so if the star gazers are going to get wet or cold, not so many. Teenagers mostly. I really doubt people are going to pack up and drive and park and pay for hotels to see a comedy central figure.

Posted by: dagny at October 03, 2010 05:50 PM (TJ/aI)

I hope its a flop but I see lots of libtards all gung ho for it.

105 Delta Smelt, did you guys make it to Beaufort?  The band that played yesterday was awesome!  Beach music, and oldies from the 70s and 80s.  The band was East Coast Party Band out of Mount Pleasant.  It was standing room only around the stage the whole time we were there.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 03, 2010 05:50 PM (UOM4

See #67

And Delta Smelt is sans ball and chain.  Heh.

One of these days we need to have a SE Moron Meatspace meetup.  Let me know though if you get up here and have some  free time.  The drink offer stands.  I'll be getting down your way one of these days.  I love Savannah.

106 Who's Jon Stewart?

107 People can make cracks about the GOP all they want, but when the Democrats took power in 2006 the deficit was $161 billion for the budget year, unemployment was 4.5% and gas was just over $2 a gallon. Far from perfect, but a lot better than what we are looking at right now. Posted by: Terrye at October 03, 2010 05:38 PM This is a very important point. I would argue that fiscal conservative GOP-voters who lacked perspective and were too critical of the GOP and Bush prior to the 2006 mid-terms were part of the reason why the Democrats took power in 2006. Fiscal conservatives 'made the perfect the enemy of the good' and ended up giving credence to the Democrats' accusations that Bush's and the GOP's economy was a disaster and American needed to give Democrats the control in order to 'fix' things. Well, they sure did 'fix' the $161 Billion deficit (which had been decreasing the last 3 years under Bush and the GOP), the 4.5% unemployment, the $2 gasoline and the record highs on Wall Street. Fiscal conservatives were upset that they were not getting conservative spending and government from the GOP. That's a valid criticism. However, the economy was basically comparable to the Clinton economy. Yet, the fiscal conservative GOP-voters' criticisms ended up just adding fuel to the fire of the lies of the Democrats and MF-ing media who were calling Bush's and the GOP's economy "the worst economy since Hoover!!!11ty!!" We ended up with Bush and the GOP getting attacked from both sides: lies from the Democrats that the economy was horrible and valid criticisms from fiscal conservatives that government was growing too large and spending was too high. Meanwhile, put in proper perspective, the economy was actually quite good. But, because both sides were ridiculous in their criticisms, people failed to see things in proper perspective. Ironically, many were saying that the reason the GOP lost power in 2006 was because of social conservatives. But, I think it was actually due to fiscal conservatives 'making the perfect the enemy of the good'. Were Bush and the GOP 100% fiscal conservatives? No. But their economy was no worse than we had it under Clinton, which most people - Democrats and Republicans -- point to as a good economy.

108 Ace - I welcome those who were nine months behind.  Particularly when they admit it so graciously.

Posted by: kathysayso at October 03, 2010 05:36 PM (7nu1g)

Same here although I've been trying to emphasize that we were on the same side all along.  Now it's time to really kick some ass.

109

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at October 03, 2010 05:45 PM (I30wK) ......

i know everyone has a free thing they use to stop that shit aound here........... but i have Always had good luck with Webroot... its about 40 bucks a year but will fix anything and stop them all if you update every month or so.......... and doesnt mess with other programs or slow your puter down.

110

_{Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at October 03, 2010 05:51 PM (I30wK)}

Advanced Registry Optimizer got my shit working fine.

111
It will take a lot of 'Tards to equate with the Glenn Beck rally.  Assume they believe 500K will attend?

200K lied to appease their friends, another 100K will wake up drunk or so stoned they're unable to travel, and another 100K will sleep to noon which is their normal practice.  100K could show up for the event, but a more likely number is much less.

112 Anyone see the latest Time magazine cover?

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20101011,00.html

Can you believe this shit?

113 Soona, I'm with ya.  This weekend the Lt. Dan Weekend in SC hosted 50 wounded warriors and their families.

This will break your heart:  "When we attend events like this, we're surrounded by others who are going through the same thing," Rosie Babin said.  "There's no explanation needed; everyone gets it.  Everyone kind of looks out for each other while we're here.  It's like a big family."

Her son was a combat medic with the 82nd Airborne when he was shot in the stomach in 2003 in Iraq.  He lost his spleen, most of his intestines and 90 percent of his stomach.  A stroke during his recovery left him needing a wheelchair and around-the-clock care.

"It takes days of preparation to travel with someone in a wheelchair...and someone who is paraplegic," she said.  "It's like having a 170-pound newborn, but it's so important that Alan have these relationships and have these goals."

Cannot imagine our only son coming home like that.  Yet, we'd devote what's left of our lives to him.

114 http://tinyurl.com/24qqa2r

 

Check out these communists et al from the rally. I'm confused by the socialists carrying signs of socialists carrying signs. Guess that's all they do.

115 62 Is the "Republican Party" even still meanful now? I mean, I turned 18 in 1980 and immediately registered Republican to cast my first ever vote...for Ronald Reagan. I have stood faithfully but I've been getting madder and madder as they try to keep foisting McCains on us instead of Palins, DeMints and Pences. Now most people on the right I know are like me, we identify as conservative, not neccessarily Republican.

Posted by: redstatedeb at October 03, 2010 05:28 PM (CluUg)

Dittos Deb

In West Michigan back in the day it was waaay Gerald Ford territory. Despite My father and grandfather knowing Ford  (Dad's an old school democrat) My brother and I were Reaganites to the core. Reagan was my first and favorite presidential vote.

They're pulling the same crap here as across the US. The Tea Party candidate Justin Amash won the primary over the establishments hand picked successor to fill Vern Ehlers vacated rep. seat. So a bunch of old republican party hacks endorsed the democrat, including Ehlers daughters.

This is your last chance Republican party !

116 The libs just did a side by side comparison of the photos and said "Uh oh"

You know everyone's been bitching about how much of a mess the union/leftist/thugs left the mall and memorials. They're missing the point. They were just making sure their union buddies in the Department of Sanitation and Parks Departments could rack up some overtime.They were being thoughtful and compassionate.

117 I've been watching the polls for weeks and still have to wonder just how much of this enthusiasm gap is being reflected in them. At least a couple hundred thousand people coming in from all over on their own dime vs. a couple tens of thousands putting on T-shirts, picking up mass-produced signs, and getting there and back for free (or on payroll) is a good start, but these polls just inching our way over the past month, or a Democratic senate candidate here or there picking up a few points all of a sudden, it's just getting kind of nerve-wracking not knowing if these crowd comparisons are going to turn up on 11/2 with a big wave that pushes to and beyond what the polls are currently saying, or if they're already baked into the calculations and likely voter models.

Basically, I've still got people over here saying they look forward to seeing the Tea Party movement get proven to be the small minority fringe that they absolutely, thoroughly believe them to be. They won't even look at the comparison photos, they just dismiss anything that doesn't confirm their preconceptions (that it's all just a kook fringe of yahoos) as lies or propaganda. And I'm standing next to them not saying anything, but needing an electoral blowout to shove in their faces, and shove it in hard. 60+ House seats and 11-12 Senate seats, or better. I want them having as few avenues of "Well at least we didn't lose _______, we still rock!" self-delusion as possible.

118 88: LOL, very true, I don't make my norse ancestors very proud either, I tended to spend a lot of time inside in the winter, and I was down in the sw corner of the state where winter is relatively mild compared to Williston or the Red River Valley.

119

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at October 03, 2010 05:45 PM (I30wK) .

hoping you have cleaned your cookies, cash, and history to fix it first tho????????

120 Today versus 9/28/10 One tenth the attendance One million times the refuse

121 Delta Smelt, we'll definitely plan to get together.  I need an e-mail I can post that's not my actual name. 

122 then reboot.

123 I don't think Jon "Stewart's" rally will be huge. There will be the usual douchebags that go for the star power but that's it.

Is there going to be some trendy rock band playing to draw out the hipsters & hippies and pad the crowd size like at Obama's Berlin appearance?

124 117 If they keep that up, they may not be so secret. The non-communists are starting to look up from making a living and noticing that the cold war isn't so over. The communists scare me and the potential violent reaction scares me.

125  Ace - I welcome those who were nine months behind.  Particularly when they admit it so graciously.

Posted by: kathysayso at October 03, 2010 05:36 PM (7nu1g)

Same here although I've been trying to emphasize that we were on the same side all along.  Now it's time to really kick some ass.

 

Agree.  Although, I have to say, I'm going to miss some of the impromptu "flaming skull" primaries threads.

126
And I'm standing next to them not saying anything, but needing an electoral blowout to shove in their faces up their squeakholes.

Posted by: Charvanek at October 03, 2010 05:59 PM (BFm2s)

Thank you.

127 hoping you have cleaned your cookies, cash, and history to fix it first tho????????

I erase my history daily.  My wife uses this too.

As for cookies and cash: tossed and laundered.

128 Delta Smelt, we'll definitely plan to get together.  I need an e-mail I can post that's not my actual name. 

Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 03, 2010 06:00 PM (UOM4

Are you on the yahoo group page?  If not, make up a junk email addy and sign up.

My address is my AOS name with an underslash.

 

129 O/T -- Uggh!  Just saw a tease for the CBS evening news where they described the Paul/Conway Kentucky Sen. race as a "dead heat".  RCP avg. = Paul +6.7.
Total example of  "wishcasting".  I wish there way we could pile on these jokers every time they make these minor yet obnoxious slants.  Like a flash-mob of their email/phone lines.

130

Herr

Its a registry problem. So either hack it crack it or wack it

131 It's amazing, they want communism and amnesty. I want to stay in the US as an illegal because I want to live in a communist country. Nobody climbs over the wall to get into a communist country. Very weird, so obviously a product of non-mexican communists trying to incite rebellion.

132 Same here although I've been trying to emphasize that we were on the same side all along. Now it's time to really kick some ass. Agree. Although, I have to say, I'm going to miss some of the impromptu "flaming skull" primaries threads. Posted by: Soona at October 03, 2010 06:02 PM That's true in terms of "ends", but it as not true in terms of "means". Recall all the "purity" vs "pragmatism" dustups. Also, I believe it was on this blog where many people attending town halls were accused of "just wanting to get their YouTube moments" and that their anger and comments to their Representatives were not sincere. That pissed off a lot of people too, especially when the criticism was coming from people who weren't even attending any Tea Parties nor any town hall meetings to get an idea for the very real and sincere anger and frustration of the average American. 9 months later though, better late than never.

133 I agreed with Reynolds back then, and still do with one caveat: I don't think the Tea Party will have to go third party.  Why go to all that time and trouble when there's a perfectly good party lying around that nobody is using?

134 Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at October 03, 2010 05:45 PM (I30wK)

If it was that make "scan required" worm if you didn't stop it before it started "scanning" it is likely too late. You can try Malwarebytes to see if it will remove it but most likely you will have to reformat the hard drive and reload from scratch.

135

These are not real communist they are tit sucking babies and the only audiance for the MSM.

136 I'm gonna fucking kill a bitch.

I have an infection in my 'puter.  Redirects webpages to shopping shit.  Malware software can't find it.  Any help?

The name, address, description, and an outline of the daily habits of the mother fucker who wrote the code will do.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at October 03, 2010 05:45 PM (I30wK)

Morgenholz, I had the same problem and downloaded Spyhunter 4 for free and it fixed it.

137 The sun is really getting slanty now.  Had to turn on some lights.  It's only 5PM.

138

Is it just me or is there a Bachman is Beatable ad at the top of this thread and if so why are they wasting money here?

Isnt that like running a Mcdonalds commercial on a PETA website?

139 Yup, the Repubs had best get with the program of lower taxes, less regulation, promoting business and more cheap energy or they'll find themselves out of power real quick. The bullshit going on in Washington right now is despicable and unworthy of a nation such as ours.

140
Try Smitfraudfix.

141 BTW Herr, since the last time I got hit I have been using Fire Fox with no script and no flash player loaded.

That has been the targeting mechanism for most of these viruses and worms.

142 Wow.  It's gorgeous here today (Savannah).  We've had the air off since Friday, the windows open, and it's heaven.  I woke up last night chilly for the first time since the Winter from Hell. 

Got the Weber going, and we're going to each have one brat (for October) and the last of the fresh corn, grilled, and sprinkled with chili powder and some fresh lime squeezed over.

143 I at least got Raese ads when I was in WV for parents weekend yesterday. Now, I'm getting Ken Buck who is half a continent away.

144 140 Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at October 03, 2010 05:45 PM (I30wK)

If it was that make "scan required" worm if you didn't stop it before it started "scanning" it is likely too late. You can try Malwarebytes to see if it will remove it but most likely you will have to reformat the hard drive and reload from scratch.

Posted by: Vic at October 03, 2010 06:10 PM (/jbAw) ..............

you are right about that......... if it says scan reguired........... the best thing todo is hold the power button down for 5 seconds and let it shut off.......... DONT CLICK NOTHING.

145

Actually, I'm amending my previous statements. None of this may actually matter.

We are truly seeing the end of days.

146 I'm not sure of anyone mentioned this, but it has to do with the rally.

Also, I think Beck made if very clear that he wanted no signs and that everyone was to remain peaceful.   He also made it clear that there would be lots and lots of security, some of whom you wouldn't realize were security.  People felt they could attend.

I'm not so sure you wanted to attend this rally as you knew who was going to be there and you were fearful of trouble.  At least this is the excuse being given by the BO supporters who didn't go or get on the free buses.

Also, people don't want to attend the Stewart/Colbert rallies as they think there will be all kinds of problems there as the purpose of said rallies has not been clearly identified.

Was surprised to see on drudge that the prez opted out of the rally too and went to camp david.

147 Ono isn't dead yet? Somebody put her in the pool.

148 #151  Jeebus, Lacey.  Did Gaga have her weiner tucked in?  And Yoko looks "special".

149 Ono isn't dead yet? Somebody put her in the pool.

Posted by: dagny at October 03, 2010 06:22 PM (TJ/aI)

When you get her in the pool, I volunteer to hold her under.

150

Ace, the Tea Party will prove to be beyond phenomenal. Things are happening behind the scenes at a constancy in terms of its grass roots essence that would make even Van Jones' head spin.

The Tea Party is the personification of the country's grit; in sum, it's heart and soul.

151 I've been making home made chicken soup all day.  Everyone seems to be sick but not sick enough not to go out or go to work.  So I figured everyone would appreciate a bowl of chicken soup..

152 Holy Shit! They're a perfect "your brain on drugs..." ad!

153 I'm gonna fucking kill a bitch.

I have an infection in my 'puter.  Redirects webpages to shopping shit.  Malware software can't find it.  Any help?

The name, address, description, and an outline of the daily habits of the mother fucker who wrote the code will do.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at October 03, 2010 05:45 PM (I30wK)

Dude, edit your Hosts file Usually found in

C:windows\system32\drivers\etc\

Malware will overwrite that file, cleaning it out should solve the redirects.

154

If I've said it once, I've said it bazillion times -- we need civics test before any registered voter can exercise their privilege to vote.

According to that Pew poll it would have knocked out nearly four in ten young voters.

155 The lack of Americans attending was extraordinary.

156 The president didn't go because they were critisizing him TOO. They were bitching about the war, they were bitching about j-o-b-s, they were calling him the imperial president. He didn't want the photo op with the hammer and sickle either. If he had gone there would have been much more coverage and he would have been linked (which he is by virtue of their being his supporters and his organizingforamerica) to them in a clearer way--clearer to the barely conscious american or independents as they call themselves.

157

The Tea Party is the personification of the country's grit; in sum, it's heart and soul.

Posted by: journolist at October 03, 2010 06:24 PM (O/NP5)

I have never been to a rally.. or a tea party meet up.  I get the emails though.

It really is normal everyday people.  They all have jobs.. this is something they do on the side.. nobody gets paid for what they do.

Its an amazing thing in American history.

158 What's ugly, can't sing and broke up the Beatles?

159
new post raisin bran

160
deb, you finally know what that means, or do I need to draw you a diagram?

161

Ace, I understand your scepticism about the Tea Party in the beginning, but not getting it after 9/12 last year is no excuse.   Have you ever seen that many non-leftists in a march, ever?    That should have made everyone sit up & take notice.   To think those people would take the time to do that and then, what?   Go home, sit down & shut up?   Not very bloody likely.

I know what I feel about what I've been seeing in the country, and after that march last year, I realized I wasn't alone.   That, in and of itself, is part of what is motivating me to crawl to the polls, if I have to.   

Millions of people are awake, disgusted, and motivated like I've never seen.   And, I'm not a young 'un.   That feeling has not subsided one bit in the last yr & a half.   It has only grown stronger.   Most of us understand that this election will not be the last time we have to stand up.   As soon as we kick ass on 11/2, we have to begin the quest for control of the WH n '12.

We refuse the let this commie/socialist crap continue to breed.

 

162 160 Oooo, oooo, oooo!!! Can I write the civics test?

163 I hope everyone including Reynolds understands that this is first and foremost going to be a two to three election dealio. It will take till 2012 to finally kill Obamacare assuming the Rep candidate wins. And we dump as many RINOs as possible as well as more Dims. Unless we take 2/3 of both the House and The Senate. Then the Preznit's veto means nothing. Don't believe that will happen though. How the Republicans can show good faith is 1) to defund/delay/repeal/eliminate any and all of the Obama's crapola. No compromises. Just kill the programs as dead as humanly possible. 2) Eliminate any agencies or laws standing in the way of nuclear, clean coal, natural gas, hydroelectric power. For us to have good jobs, good lives, and be competitive globally we've got to have cheap, plentiful power. And we've got to have it now. 3) go tong and hammer after voter fraud with jail terms. We've got to break the criminal power structure that makes a mockery of our elections in so many parts of the country. Hello Illinois!!! The R's do that. I'm a happy guy until 2012.

164 In my HS AP Government was an elective.  And the teacher was not too swift as half the class failed. 

Otherwise they expect you to get your idea of how the government works in the half a class they devote to it in AP US History.

Only those interested in a career in politics take the AP Gov.  You'd rather be in AP chem or physics or bio in that time so that you can get into a better college.

165

Posted by: laceyunderalls at October 03, 2010 06:20 PM (mQ75 .....

i dont have words to say ....... except these..... that was fucked up....... someone must have paid the band alot todo that. i guess the gaga guy......

166 Posted by: naturalfake at October 03, 2010 06:33 PM Seconded.

167

Only those interested in a career in politics take the AP Gov.  You'd rather be in AP chem or physics or bio in that time so that you can get into a better college.

I would have rather been getting laid at a keg party.

168 I'm going to put Orca in my dead pool.  Not for this year, but soon.  Sheesh.  I thought she'd have lost a ton of weight over the summer, but she looks like hell.  I predict she'll die in bed with all of her dogs, or Gayle, or both.

169 Got it.

Thanks to the Moron who suggested SmitFraudFix.  Quick and dirty and effective.

Thanks all.

170 168 160 Oooo, oooo, oooo!!! Can I write the civics test?

Posted by: dagny at October 03, 2010 06:29 PM (TJ/aI)

I'll take the test!

171

173 You can do both. Why couldn't you take AP Gov and an ap science? They aren't mutually exclusive. The more selective schools (I won't say better, because I don't believe that) like multiple AP classes with multiple AP exams.

 

172 It's too bad that Beck or somebody didn't throw a protest rally at a high school at the same time. Yeah, I know... our side is too classy to do it. But it would have been funny to watch it dwarf this one.

My favorite parts ('favorite', as it "making me scream at the TV):

 - The media spin about the "diversity of the crowd" and how it was a "picture of America". Really? So minorities are now the majority? America is made up entirely of color coded minions that are dependent on someone else to tell them what to do, where to go, what to wear, and pay for a ride, meals, and hotel accommodations for it? Blatant Communist groups now speak for a significant percentage of the population? It's good form to leave places looking like a garbage dump after standing on your soapbox about protecting the environment? Huh... if that's really a "picture of America", I want to move.

- The "We'd been planning this since WAAAAY before Beck's rally. This rally has nothing to do with being a response to his." meme. Uh huh. Funny how Ed Schulz only seemed to find out immediately after Beck's rally and no one heard of it before then.

173 Posted by: Soona at October 03, 2010 06:38 PM (aB+U1)

in HS?

174

Dude, edit your Hosts file Usually found in

C:windows\system32\drivers\etc\

Malware will overwrite that file, cleaning it out should solve the redirects.

Thats where it was.

175 176 Ok. I will only ask questions that I know my 15 year old son can answer to make it fair. Give me a minute.

176
smitfraud worked? good

and you're welcome

177 Posted by: dagny at October 03, 2010 06:42 PM (TJ/aI)

oh i took a lot of AP classes and then was told that my 4's and 5's couldn't be used for credit.

But, they would not schedule the AP government at a time convenient to most students and not within the time frame of other AP classes that carried more weight on the transcript.  I always felt they did that on purpose.

178

Seconded.

And Thirded. This is just the beginning.

In the past, most leftards matured past their infatuation with revolution, hell if the band Chicago can do it, anyone can. However, there seem to be quite a few '60's retreads who never grew up, as most of the idiots in the movement now were members of the Weather Underground and other assorted groups. We must have thought that they were like us and that they did the same thing we did, namely outgrew our rebellion.

Obviously, some did not.

179 So. Where does our contingent of brown shirted marchers assemble?

180 Weird thing is I keep seeing polls that people say they still personally like Obama even as they say they hate his policies? What is up with that?

I think 10-20% of Obama's "support" comes from people who are afraid of being called racist by the cool kids if they make their true feelings known.

181

1. Name the 9 supreme court justices and indicate which one is the chief justice.

2. What are the 3 branches of the US govt and what are their functions?

3. Explain the phrase "checks and balances".

4, Who wrote the Declaration of Independence and why was he selected? What were the signers effectively doing if they did not win the rebellion?

5. Name 3 events that led to the american revolution.

6. Who designed and began the committees of correspondence and what was their significance.

7. Who wrote the constitution? Why was it written? How was it ratified? What was a major compromise between the northern and southern states?

7. What is the Bill of Rights and why was it added to the constitution?

8. The beginning of the declaration of independence says that we are endowed with inalienable rights, by whom and what does this mean?

9. All rights not innumerated in the constitution are reserved to what entity?

10 What made our constitution different from all other goverments proceeding it in history?

11. What does a representative democracy mean?

I have many more. I think it should be about 20 questions.

 

 

182 183 Why didn't you get credit? I got a full year of credit. Not getting credit would have really pissed me off.

183

 I'm gonna fucking kill a bitch.

I have an infection in my 'puter.  Redirects webpages to shopping shit.  Malware software can't find it.  Any help?

The name, address, description, and an outline of the daily habits of the mother fucker who wrote the code will do.

 

You need a root-kit. ComboFix should take care of it.

184

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185
Turns out, Socialists not only steal your income - they are also slobs.  And they expect YOU to clean up after them.

186 I say this in interests of promoting peace. We're not enemies; some of us are just nine months behind the news, you know?

Nine months eh Ace?

Welcome to your rebirth mate.

187 Ace, Thanks for the link. Can you imagine if a Tea Party rally had been endorsed by the Klan? The press would have gone bonkers. Yet the One Nation rally was endorse by the frackkin CPUSA, plus about another dozen hard left groups. First, clean up government. Then the press, then the schools.

188 It will take till 2012 to finally kill Obamacare assuming the Rep candidate wins. And we dump as many RINOs as possible as well as more Dims.

Unless we take 2/3 of both the House and The Senate. Then the Preznit's veto means nothing. Don't believe that will happen though.

Mebbe.  Mebbe not.  PBHO is already radioactive.  Some of the Dems out there are running on how they opposed all this guff.  Do you really suppose that a veto or two on something as obnoxious as Obamacare is going to improve that?  Some of those Democrats are gonna be getting really nervous about what is going down.

The nice thing about hack politicians is that at some point, self-preservation trumps party discipline.

189 120 Howdy Neighbor!  That is why an Amash yard sign will be decorating our front yard.  Miles is running scared (and is going to lose and lose big!) I wish Snyder would make Vern Bernero have a public hissy fit. 

190 @195 Could be. We can only hope.

191 Posted by: buzzion at October 03, 2010 07:07 PM (oVQFe)

If some stranger came up to me and asked me if I liked the president or put a mike in my face and asked that question, I would venture to guess that the vast majority of Americans would say "of course" and I would include myself in that group.

No one is going to say no, no one.  It's impolite to say no.  It's like when you have the crazy black sheep in the family and everyone whispers about them but when one of the neighbors gets in your dads face about them your dad defends them because "damn it, he/she may be a black sheep but he's our black sheep and so and so isn't going to say something about them to me and get away with it"....

I think that's the principle at work.

192 No matter which photo you look at, all are proof positive that the tea party are fringe extremists who were placed strategically on the Mall for a photo op so they could demonize a rally featuring true americans organized by true americn grass roots "for the worker" organizations like the SEIU and NAACP.  Plus teabaggers are all lazy so they spread out on lawn chairs so they look like alot more of them then there really are.

Plus, we had legitimate paper mache heads.  Do tea baggers have paper mache heads teabagging each other? No?  Well we do.  So pfft.

193

i miss my old little white dog Lilly, and my old brown dog Spike....

and thats why i hate Vick......  fuck him......   glad   to see him gone from Atlanta........... and for all my black friends round Atlanta....... i hate to tell you i told you so....... i dont care if he is green from Mar's................... fuck him. and may old Lilly and Spike look down on him and piss on his ribs from heaven.

that said............. i think i'll have another beer......... and a pork tenderloin plate with gravey and taters............

194  ...and you folks were behind the curve on the 'hijacked religion of peace' thing...and people who question Obama's eligibility are still what you call "Birthers," a term coined and promoted by left-wing progressive 'Journo-Lists'. But you always claim to despise those left wing journalists, while lapping up their memes like good booze. ..and you were behind the curve on Haditha and Hamdania ('those Marines and soldiers musta done something wrong, or they wouldn't be under arrest') and 'the massive corruption among contractors in Iraq wasn't really so bad as all that'...and the list goes on and on and on. From 'there's no problem with America's economy' to 'American exceptionalism would prevent the economic collapse' and blah, blah, blah. \Schiff's a fool, Celente's a nutcase and Geller's a bitch. Yeah. We get it, Ace. Like many Americans, you hate non apology - apologies...until you get caught and start using them.

 Big government is bad, unless it's something you want. Welfare is evil but Social Security is good. Cutting spending on entitlements is good, but cutting military spending is evil. The government shouldn't run deficits, but personal debt is good...blah, blah, blah...

 ...and may your god have mercy on anyone who ever disagrees with your so well-reasoned conclusions.

 There's a trend here, Ace... You folks onna right might wanna get a handle on it. Denial is more than a river in Egypt.

 Those hobos you keep hunting have a better clue than you do...although some of you are finally waking up and rubbing the sleep out of your eyes.

 So, wake up, smell the coffee...er... T.E.A. (plus, you're more like three years behind the curve, at best.)

 The truth is out there...but it isn't the truth you've been hoping for.

 You want peace? Bring peace. You want forgiveness? Stop stepping on your dick and blaming in on someone else. Stop using the same Alinsky tactics against those who are on your team....the same tactics that are now bringing down your political opposition.

 I gave up on the left after Jimmah. I *finally* gave up on the right after Haditha.

 

195

Herr,

Not sure if anyone addressed your problem other than running the usual fixes, but it sounds like you've got a nasty rootkit virus that just does not go away very easily at all.  Malwarebytes gets it sometimes, but you'll probably have to reformat. I got this one one of my laptops and had to reformat after trying everything.

196
  Comparing the two rallies simply points out the difference between citizens who love their country and citizens who merely live here.

197 And whoever suggested a SE moron meetup, count me in.  I'm just outside of Jacksonville and would love to get back to Savannah (since someone mentioned it) or wherever.

198 "...but it turns out, the Tea Party is the dog, and the GOP merely the tail." Ace, this is why I think the "Pledge" is a bit of a mistake. Voters are not in the mood to hear from politicians, they want politicians to hear from them in November. I also don't think they particularly want the GOP saying "here is what we're going to do." They want to give the politicians their marching orders, thankyouverymuch. I don't think it is a major mistake, but I think the GOP needs to step back a little and let this wave happen (while encouraging it where they can and supporting the hell out of the lumberjack and other candidates). But the bottom line is that people are pissed at both parties. That is why GOP goals and Tea Party goals don't have complete overlap (i.e. Castle). The Dems are going to face a wipe-out, but the GOP are getting their pee-pees slapped a bit too. It is interesting because we have seen this before on a smaller scale with Clinton. Clinton tried to do some of the things Obama did, and there was a backlash which swept Republicans into Congress and the Governor's mansions. I think the most important part of 1994 was the governors, who balanced a lot of stage budgets. The congress locked things up and Clinton ran back to the middle. The economy picked up, Clinton chased porky interns and governed by polls. The weird thing here is it doesn't seem likely Obama will pivot and move toward the center. And it is unlikely the "TeaOP" can fix all his damage in two years, but he'll take credit for whatever they can do. Will it be enough for him in 2012? He seems like the most vulnerable incumbent I can remember, but the GOP might still come up with a terrible nominee.

199 Posted by: Clyde Shelton at October 03, 2010 05:55 PM (NITzp)

Clyde, I think there were several reasons the Republicans lost...for one thing the incessant attacks from both sides just wore everyone out. I can remember Malkin putting Spike Lee to shame when it came to blaming Bush for Katrina for Chrisake.

Now everyone blames the other guy. The paleos blame the neo cons, the fiscal cons blame the social cons..in fact when you think about Beck..he uses religion to get people fired up. That is one reason I have trouble trusting the guy. Don't get me wrong, I like to see him go after Obama, but at the same time I have to admit I have had some reservations about Beck every since he said we were better off with Obama than with McCain. We are not, by a long shot. The debt alone makes that plain.

I just think that people got tired of it all and wanted something new and different and instead they got stuck with the same tired Democrat crap...and people want to go back..they want to go back to a time when they felt comfortable in their own country. All of this hope and change is freaking them out.

However, that does not mean the whole country has turned into a bunch of libertarians. I think it would be a mistake to think it did.

200

One thing I've advised people in a bloodletting sort of mood is to bear in mind how quickly this all happened, and how enormous it is. And I say that as a way of suggesting, "Allow those who didn't quite get it a little leeway in catching up with the new normal."

No, no, no, no, no.  These folks who "didn't quite get it" are exactly the people who aided and abetted the Democrats in bringing about the current state of affairs.  For years, the working philosophy of these Republicans has been "Enforce our low-tax, small government principles by giving the Democrats one-third of whatever they ask for".  I have no doubt that, if the pressure is reduced, they will return to their philosophy of relaxed accommodation.  Enough.

201 i have rightwing ex-inlaws that live in Jacksonville that dont hate me. hell they would come to it but they are real old......  they still drink and eat bacon....

202

The "machine" in DC is going to do everything in their power to co-opt the new class of Republican freshmen.  They had better not fall into the trappings of power, from the inside of the party or the outside.  The GOP really has no idea how short of a leash the electorate is going to give them.

I can see tea parties next spring too.

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AytchMan:

You see this is where I disagree. When those old folks show up at those townhalls and start screaming "leave my medicare alone" they are not pissed that someone is giving them some entitlement..they are pissed off that someone is taking something away from them to give it to someone else who probably does not want or need it.

You can that for years the "working philosophy of these Republicans" has been to give Democrats one third of whatever they asked for...but you forget that the American people voted for those Democrats and put them in control of the White House and the Congress..No doubt they have thought better of it and want to get rid of a lot of those people, but that does not mean that they are all behind some libertarian purge of the program.

I think they would be happy with a return to a few years ago at this point. I do think the American people are more receptive to reform of the entitlement programs than they were when Bush tried to reform social security in 2005, but if Republicans go too far the other way those Independents can turn on them too.Don't think they won't.
 
Maybe people want honest competent government that does not regulate or tax them into poverty. They may not all agree on the way to get there.

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I don't think the lamestream media or the dems or the gop realises that many millions of people who are independent minded now have the internet to find out information, rediscover the founding principles of this country, the sacrifices made by 56 signers of a piece of a paper as well as thousands upons thousands who gave up their lives so that future generations may live in prosperity and peace.

and longer they don't realise they are just temporary holders of an office, they are not kings and queens, they are supposed to represent their voters, not themselves or there marxist/socialist party, the backlash is only growing, and it is not abating after the november elections.

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Those people are running as Republicans, of course they will become part of the GOP.

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and the Tea Party movement is not anti-govt, it is anti-BIG-govt.

and frankly there are mainly 2 things that bind everyone in the movement, fiscal responsibility, and adherance to the founding father's principles outlined in the US Constitution.

Anyone who doesn't adhere to this, dems or repubs, are part of the problem.

207 It dawns on me that there should be some Photoshop-savvy morons in the studio audience.  Could anyone take some of the still shots from today and, maybe, change the messages and post or link? 

I'd do it, but my Photoshoppe skills appear to be primarily spelling it correctly, sometimes...

208 Well isn't this something. Been lurking this site for years, think I actually read the original Korean store post. So many new names and so much passion. Yes on the new feeling and belief that the Tea Party MUST bring to Repub land. Yes that it must be a melding. R registered all my adult life. Yes old enough to actually know what a John B was. Yes old enough to remember LBJ and Moyer running those atom bomb ads. To all morons and moronettes out there, get over the RINO type casting. They respond to their constituents. DUH. We make their constituents change, they better. DUH. But that puts the load on us. Push the change. Nothing better than putting the "progressive" tag up their .....places. I love this site. You folks are incredible to finally get me to post. Howard the Duck

209 Terrrye is making an unprecidentend amount for this site. What happened to homeric poems on LauraW"s hump. "I was Tea Party when Tea Party wasn't cool." Went to one of the first public gatherings, when there wasn't even a name yet. 18 months, two years ago. Just normal folks, expressing themselves. Some goof signs, some on point. Living in a "blue, navy blue, I'm so blue. etc/ state/ Good luck all you out there in "it might make a difference land."

210 OKEY DOKEY My comment got stepped on by a shoe ad. Forget global warming and Bush, I glame it on Nancy Pelosi. Of course a chick from SF cares about shoes instead of starving children. IT'S ALL ABOUT THE CHILDREN !!!!!!!!!

211 Terrye #207 --

It would take an enormously long post to fully explain my position.  Suffice to say, I take a very long view with regard to American politics.  There is a disease in all advanced democracies that results in an irreversible, if erratic, drift to the left.  This process occurs over generations and has been in motion in the US since FDR at the latest.  It can be summarized as "the squeaky, activist wheel gets the grease".

Moderate Republicans have rarely attempted to reverse this trend and have never succeeded.  They win the occasional counter-attack, never the war.  Thus, I see no hope for any sort of moderate response or compromise from the fiscally-conservative Right -- an amorphous group not to be confused with the Republicans of recent decades.

At this juncture, I see the only responsible strategy as follows:  formalize our philosophy of government, fight the good fight, accept our tour in the wilderness and rescue the country when it sobers up. Then, we'll have the transformative mandate.  The main body of the Republican party will never accept this, of course, But moderation and compromise will only result in More Of The Same.

212 This is by far the best comparisson of the two events that I have seen

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I always thought the fear many had - that an official Tea Party party would form - didn't really make any sense. There's a "Conservative Party", isn't there? And a bunch of other minor parties (like the Socialist one Obama ran on back in IL, while he was also on the Dem ticket).

The question is, "Does it have staying power?" Well, I've been around a long time, and I've never seen anything like it. Further, it is a response to an unimaginably huge govt-made mess, which ain't going anywhere soon. The Tea Party is really our only hope to avoid the kind of riots they're starting to have in Europe.

Take heart! Here in NYS (New f-ing York!!) a gubenatorial candiate with no name recognition is doing remarkably well, his campaign posters exclaiming, "I'm mad, too, Carl!" People aren't going to stop being mad.

And let's remember that - not so long ago - we learned that there are actual Americans still living in Massachusetts, of all places! Who knew!?!

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215 Nice blog thanks admin

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