tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24419291248919813852024-03-19T04:34:48.226-06:00Adoring CrowdGeneral Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.comBlogger522125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-4648972728087637202013-03-05T12:55:00.001-07:002013-03-05T12:57:48.215-07:00ACORN, Undead<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
To the wingnuts <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/05/acorn-gop-budget-bill_n_2810345.html">ACORN</a> was and continues to be a symbol of what is <br />happening to them in THEIR country. Not enough wingnut babies and future<br /> voters being born to keep them in power. So they indulged in deep <br />fantasy, that if they could kill the vote reg monster ACORN, then they <br />could sleep at night and all would continue peaches and cream, in the <br />land profit.<br />
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It was a fantasy, as ACORN was not their problem, their problem was a<br /> country marching to its own destiny as a matter of math, and the <br />promise of the founders realized as a truly melting pot country. “Your <br />tired hungry masses” and all that kind of thing. <br />
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So even with the corporeal ACORN as historical worm food, it’s ghost <br />is all they have to project their fear and dread onto, over something <br />which they have no real control. Demographics, being a force unto <br />itself, that can only be stopped by killing the democracy of the country<br /> it lives in. They haven’t quite made the decision to go all in with <br />that last resort, as we are not quite into the end game for loss of <br />white majority in America. yet.</div>
General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-24553721551615924052013-03-04T19:38:00.001-07:002013-03-04T19:38:29.338-07:00<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>Taxation and the moral compass of America, is what this shit has been<br /> about all along. It really is existential stuff for two very disparate <br />world views that have always existed in this country. But now the <br />republicans are so bereft of sane leadership, they are putting guns to <br />the head of the country and world, and Obama has now responded the only <br />way he could as a viable president. </p><br /><p>It is cold warfare, fought by proxy with economics, and people are <br />going to get hurt and some may die. There is no other honorable or <br />presidential way for Obama to respond to this kind of shit. One side of <br />the country has set the rules of engagement to the lowest denominator <br />and you either match them at that, or throw in the towel. </p><br /><p>Both sides don’t do it, but democrats won’t roll over either, <br />hopefully, and that is willfully confused with equal culpability for the<br /> sake of continuing drama. This is a republican caused crisis, and our <br />press is too busy rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic for the <br />next clown show we call the news cycle, to notice the GOP steering us <br />all toward the nearest ice berg.<br /></p></div>General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-61804166229126081522012-12-27T15:39:00.000-07:002012-12-27T15:39:02.535-07:00Some People Can't Win For LosingMitt Romney was seen on Mars during a recent business trip.<br />
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<br />General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-78827750140413069422012-12-22T21:52:00.001-07:002012-12-22T21:52:42.220-07:00Barber, Samuel - Agnus Dei (Adagio for Strings), Choir of Tr<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5Ikd5pjucB8" width="459"></iframe>General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-69964688907220049842012-11-02T18:33:00.001-06:002012-11-02T18:33:54.615-06:00Allman Brothers "Sweet Melissa" - acoustic/unplugged 1990 - Greg Allman ...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2uFD7JqkOR4?fs=1" width="459"></iframe>General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-32671555350176722222012-10-31T19:02:00.001-06:002012-10-31T19:05:40.986-06:00Dr Stuck's Au Naturale Pre Election Nerve Tonic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Baby Screech Owl<br />
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via<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/animals?p=2&z=34QVJU&r=1"> Buzzfeed</a>General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-86324915474576446522012-10-13T20:25:00.001-06:002012-10-13T20:28:14.603-06:00Mitt Romney For President<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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via <a href="http://www.thedemocraticstrategist.org/">The Democratic Strategist</a><br />
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Click to embiggen General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-45066004634245986772012-10-11T16:35:00.002-06:002012-10-11T19:25:21.668-06:00Thoughts On Our Presidential Election<div class="post-message publisher-anchor-color " data-role="message">
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are parameters peculiar to this country that polling cannot really
capture, without some very provocative questions by pollsters. We are
still in unexplored waters, since experiencing the first black president
of the US. And now we are for the first time experiencing reelection of
our first black president.. Which, in many ways is very different than
the initial campaign in 08.<br />
While Obama voters like BO, they no doubt have felt uncomfortable
with having the issue of race so front and center on an almost daily
basis, for so long a period. I am actually heartened by the steady
support PBO has had from the core dem base. You can see it in Gallup's
monthly polling on the president and approval from his party. But there
is a small contingent that is, imo, looking for any reason to go with
Romney this time. Some are conservative dems, others are dem leaning
indies.<br />
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And whatever votes O got from moderate republicans, has pretty
much vanished in the 4 years every POTUS experiences successes and
failures. Even though, in my lifetime, I can't think of another
president that has faithfully made the effort to keep his promises in a
campaign, of 08/ And when was the last time a dem presnit passed
sweeping health care insurance reform.? Or, passed the largest
discretionary spending bill in history, largely for long term
progressive causes like alternative energy R and D? It is why the GOP
thinks he is reincarnated Lenin, that has beat them time and again,
despite scorched earth unloyal opposition.<br />
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Simply put, Obama had to be much better than any white first term
president. Every day, all day, to keep the racially anxious on board.
All it took was a single bad night of debating, to cause the surreal
shitstorm that has ensued. Race by no means is the only factor in play
for the freakout of freakouts. But it is an important one in a country
that has been divided ideologically at around 50 50, dem and gop for a
couple of decades now., Not to mention the race effect motivating
formerly slacker wingnuts that have snapped to, with an Obama in their
WH. Maybe these deeper motivations are some behind the flux in polling
over one event, that was not a loss on substance, but of style, for an
incumbent the public has watched daily for 4 years now. And by most
accounts, seemed tired and listless, but still spot on for what he has
supported policy wise. Romney is still a dubious snake oil salesman, and
it is hard for me to see him getting elected.</div>
General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-35353807960769663882012-08-29T20:49:00.000-06:002012-08-29T20:49:46.629-06:00Creepiest Photo of the Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Via/CBSGeneral Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-12586408743261913522012-08-19T21:28:00.001-06:002012-08-19T21:28:49.740-06:00SANTANA: ABRAXAS - Full Album Remastered -<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qfQK4eihCIs?fs=1" width="480"></iframe>General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-35593157729553855612012-08-07T15:52:00.001-06:002012-08-07T15:52:20.652-06:00Show You My Love - Natalie Riccio<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/o_DRLaq_Xp4?fs=1" width="480"></iframe>General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-61610545252600270942012-07-05T16:33:00.001-06:002012-07-05T18:12:59.615-06:00Denis Leary - Kiss My A$$<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/C0V8dlPFPyA?fs=1" width="480"></iframe>General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-74307115833704911862012-06-29T06:12:00.004-06:002012-06-29T06:12:55.072-06:00Aftermath of the Health Care DecisionI am reading all sort of sour grapes parsing and pissing on how this
will hurt dems and Obama into the future. I do call bullshit. There is
nothing better than winning on the dems signature issue. Yes, the
wingnuts and msm are going to harp on OH noes!! Taxes. But that is
bullshit for a law already passed and being implemented. There is
nothing short of the wingnuts sabotaging or repealing the <span class="caps">ACA</span>,
which is highly unlikely, for this law to march on to full effect in
2014, and those with policies see for themselves that they have more
rights now, than before, and if trends continue, rates either won’t go
up much, or start coming down. And that the mandate will only affect
those, mostly young, who skip out on buying health insurance because
they are young and seeming healthy, and will have to now dip a little
into the beer fund. Winning is not the best thing, it is the only thing.
And the last big hurdle has been leaped. Romney and nutters will attack
the court, Obama, liberals, and likely Kermit the Frog in flailing
attempts to mislead, but Romney has the onus of many faults, <span class="caps">MANY</span> faults to overcome to beat Obama, the least of which is that he passed an <span class="caps">ACA</span>
as a governor of a state. And won’t be able to parse that very far
under some kind of federalist meme. And besides, after a few weeks or
even days on the news cycle we will be back to what this election is
mostly about, and that is the economy. And now, a huge industry has had
the fog cleared up by white wingnut hope, John Roberts, of all peeps.
There is nothing to mourn here, for liberals, beyond the fact that we
live in a totally fucked up country in many ways, and there is
absolutely no good reason to cry in our crawlers over that. There is
only plodding on, day by day, to unfuck things. What else we gonna doGeneral Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-22603418823329684162012-06-15T15:41:00.002-06:002012-06-15T20:38:37.049-06:00All We Need Is Better Liberal MessagingI used to think like this concerning voters, and how so many of them vote against their economic interest, and just need some good ole liberal religion and dem party platfoming as the party that cares about the working man or woman. I don't think this so much anymore, at least to a large degree outside the margins.<br />
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They are busy, certainly, but they are most of them, at least versed in the meta of the big issues in this country. I think they get as much minutia as they want, and have fairly well thought out, at least in terms as knowing want they like and don't like about the parties and their positions on issues. <br />
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People are tribal, above all else, and in this country that usually boils down to race and religion. Economics only plays a larger role in times of economic deprivation, and is reciprocal to the level of that deprivation.<br />
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We have more white people, so we have more white people voting for that tribe they belong to, all else being equal. And they are not only the majority of citizens in this country, they are also more religious, in a fundamentally religious country. And that usually carries specific strains of protestant thinking that is also enmeshed in the political world, and democracy, as they practice it.<br />
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Most white people are not stone racists, but they fear the different to varying degrees. And that is not just the purview of white people. It is human nature, and primal. These are the reasons they vote for republicans, that tell them what they need to hear for comfort, outside of the realities of basic economic needs. That can and has trumped this id fueled mindset, but not to a degree, yet, in the mostly wealthy and plentiful nation on earth, for the reasons for basic survival. There is some of that going on now, and a general feeling of things going south. But it hasn't made most of them hungry enough, nor deprived enough of the other basics of comfortable existence.<br />
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And what I believe now, is that will be the only time they become teachable beyond the cultural signposts of their tribe. That doesn't mean liberals and democrats should not continue loudly to educate them. Just that expecting positive results from this teaching, is likely to lead to disappointment, and thinking we just have to do more of it, and they will get it. Persons of color in this country know deprivation quite well, and the pain of rejection and repression. There is no real reason why most white people should understand this, having never experienced it. At least in most of our lifetimes. It's a hard school breaking down primal fear, and kinship with the familiar, and letting go of all the wasted energy to remain king of the American Hill. Though demographic changes may well fix that.<br />
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So what do we do. We keep trying to elect people who get it, and keep trying to pass laws that will change peoples lives for the better. One foot in front of the other. The logic of reality will do the rest. If we are lucky, and it's not too late.General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-6501005589127049222012-05-02T18:34:00.000-06:002012-05-02T18:34:00.763-06:00Why Conservative?My experience in life around all sorts of people with all sorts of personality traits, has taught me there is a minority subset of persons I believe to be fundamentally wired to be conservative, and wingnutty as well. If I had to put a percent around it, that could be the number 27. I don’t have any scientific data to back that observation up, but am convinced of it.<br />
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I don’t know if there is a corresponding congenital liberal, likely cause I am one of some stripe. So that muddles the mind a bit for the sake of objectivity.<br />
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But most republicans, I think, are not predisposed or destined to be wingnuts by their genetic wiring. Whatever else may lead these kinds of conservatives to act like they do, seems to have a common thread of lack of empathy, or concern for their fellow humans. They may care about family deeply, and even others for their own reasons. BUT, they have the option of simply not giving a shit about people in general, and by coalescing around a political gathering point, like a pol party, provides all the reinforcement needed to not give a shit, if they so desire. There is safety in groups no matter what the issue, but the GOP lends a fig leaf for those who choose to be assholes, if they so desire.<br />
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I see the GOP, above all else, as the lazy party full of morally lazy people, because it takes effort and pain to give a shit about your fellow man. And is easy to throw up all sorts of meaningless placards of this or that philosophy or belief, to justify going thru life a self absorbed dickweed. Things like the GOP mantra of ‘personal responsibility”, to not lend a hand to the hungry or the sick, in a manner that makes a difference.<br />
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Of course, until they, the wingnuts, gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar. Then it is somebody elses fault, probably a liberal to blame for their failures, some how, some way.General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-5425721224935579142012-04-17T07:47:00.001-06:002012-04-17T07:47:51.750-06:00A Good Word For Our GovernmentI am not afraid of my government. I suppose that is because having worked in it for more than a few years, I have an idea how it functions. The right wing is the worst demonizing and fear mongering about men in black doing this or that evil thing to them, on a whim. And while there is certainly concern about too much power currently given policing agencies throughout the state and fed government, that is mostly a function of a right wing court for several decades, and too many citizens favoring tough policing, and that excesses won’t happen to them. But there are those on the left who feed this paranoia outsized to reality.<br />
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Our fed government is, and has been, and should be considered one of the good things about this country, and is actually very resistant to much tampering by politicos from any ideological stripe and ill intent. It is like the immovable object and irresistible force all at once. And has been built over the centuries to resist change and manipulation for broader pol purposes.<br />
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If you have worked for any federal agency, you would know that everything, and I mean everything, is under this or that regulation, that almost always chugs along as a force unto itself, toward whatever purpose it was created by congress, in the first place.<br />
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This mindset is reinforced by many layers of oversight, both internal and external to any one agency or department. It is a matrix set in near concrete, and only changes slowly, or by direct congressional mandate.<br />
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That does not mean what congress directs the government bureaucracy to do should be taken as something that should be done, but it does mean, it can within human imperfections, be expected to do what it is ordered to do by the congress and the president and the courts.<br />
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This bullshit about blown up fear from right or left that the government is a big boogyman out to get your ass, is simply, by and large bullshit. And most of the time, when folks in positions of responsibility go off the reservation, they get caught at it. It is very difficult to get away with misbehavior for very long, even at the top levels, without people finding out.<br />
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So, by all means, keep an eye out for shit like the Patriot ACT to remain temporary, and restrained, and other borderline shit, and agitate like hell to curb excess police powers the courts and congress have created, but fuckers like Chuck Norris, the right wing in general, and some on the left. Give it a rest, trying to make citizens terrified of their government through exaggerated accusations, without any or much evidence, to back up such claims.<br />
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We really do, with all our many other problems, have a solid federal government, that moves like a mindless robot doing what the regulations say it should do.General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-17608966124823213542012-04-17T07:47:00.000-06:002012-04-17T07:47:05.527-06:00Building A Better WingnutWingnuts are all about control, and they don’t want government doing good things for people that need it, because they lose control of those people for their own political designs.<br />
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And that control is greatest when counting possible votes in the future, due to the lizard brane knowing it is lizard, and therefore predatory, for wealth and concentration of wealth by whatever means necessary that is stealthy enough to slip by the rubes what they are really up to.<br />
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The reason they are against a government safety net, besides not personally caring about those in need, is that without that gov help, the hungry and desperate would turn to their allies in the wingnut churches. Where loyalty and survival are traded for the mind, spirit, and a loaf of bread, to ultimately keep the jeevus party in power with the political and religious strings attached to anything they provide for the needy.General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-11195982331557256162012-04-09T15:10:00.001-06:002012-04-09T15:10:33.896-06:00Amarillo Brew Crew's Girls jumping on trampolines<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6CRkNKB2Gsw?fs=1" width="459"></iframe>General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-64755584737566692922012-04-07T20:33:00.001-06:002012-04-07T20:33:31.727-06:00Mitt Romney versus Reality<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dM9DVC7kd7s?fs=1" width="480"></iframe>General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-34708781543515922482012-04-06T19:16:00.001-06:002012-04-06T19:16:05.077-06:00girls on trampoline<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kgZpXOiDF-g?fs=1" width="459"></iframe>General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-60815240901655362452012-04-05T16:06:00.001-06:002012-04-05T16:06:17.626-06:00Modern Day Roller Derby Bomber Real Girl Fight<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/O1uAgwdC4JI?fs=1" width="459"></iframe>General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-25079843518306664592012-04-03T09:16:00.006-06:002012-04-03T09:22:22.553-06:00Today In Dumb and DesperateThe GOP has cast aside what little shred of factoid they may have thrown up in the past, to full on fecal slinging for whatever might stick with the dumbest of the dumb.<br />
<a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/04/gop-failing-to-find-dem-cover-for-privatizing-medicare.php?ref=fpb"><br />
Another case in point </a>of seeking bipartisan cover for their kill medicare with The Granny Dumpster Diving Act To Reform Medicare, AKA, the Ryan Budget.<br />
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<blockquote>Now, Republicans are pushing to box in Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, as a former supporter of the “premium support” concept.<br />
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Republican staffers on the powerful Ways & Means Committee noted that Israel voted for the concept in 2003, in a later-jettisoned House version of the prescription drug benefit that included provisions requiring Medicare to compete with private plans, albeit not on the scale of the Ryan plan.</blockquote><br />
Got That?. They are traveling back in time to 2003, for a vote on a jettisoned bill by a single democrat under the primary auspice of prescription drug coverage for medicare, whereby Rep Israel voted no on the current Ryan "let's kill medicare budget" bill. There aren't clown shoes big enough for those clown feets.General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-24365838073831785802012-03-17T11:16:00.003-06:002012-03-17T20:46:06.019-06:00The Republican Presidential CandidatesNo one can stomach Santorum other than the home schooled evolution deniers, and even then, some of those won’t as well. Santorum is a true believing extremist, well beyond any norm for religious candidates for <span class="caps">POTUS</span>. And with overtones of fascist theism.<br />
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America is a religious country when pollsters call citizens and ask if they are religious, and many will even claim they believe in the Genesis version of events for creation. But that is where it ends for most, and begins at repulsion of religious imposition on their daily lives. They want their birth control because they like to fuck, and like their abortion for often the same reason, plus they have daughters.<br />
Rick is the worst kind of big government wingnut, and that is why the other wingnuts don’t like him, and are frightened by the prospect of a Santorum run. And the indies would just crush him, not to mention women folk. He would likely put a bug up lazy moderate voters and dem voters to go vote. Gingrich would do that too, but the other wingers know Newt is a follow the money corporatist above all else, and is mostly acting the part on other wingnuttery. He’s crazy, but not insane, as Santorum is.<br />
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And also too, Rick is a pure regressionist, economically. He is Ryan squared in that department, the worst kind of militant Jesus believer, picking winners over losers and discarding the rest. A Santorum campaign would get at least 40 percent, but very possibly not more than that, and would likely drive a stake through what is left of <span class="caps">GOP</span> electability for the near term, at least. Giving Obama and dems a huge win.<br />
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He is the male supremacist prototype with the certitude he is right according to a holy book he interprets, and comes with all the other white supremacist tendencies of the south, which is why he did so well there, I suspect.<br />
I think if Newt ever made it to president, he would likely be another <span class="caps">GWB</span>. Hair trigger with the military and all out corporate stooge, with some sense of the limits of right wing policies the country could accept. Then there is Romney, the Tom Ripley candidate that is impossible to foresee what he would do, other than favor the wealthy. The rest would be a day to day affair of who he thinks he needs to please mostGeneral Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-78223215845061517792012-03-08T08:54:00.002-07:002012-03-08T08:54:37.679-07:00A Current State of AffairsI think the <span class="caps">GOP</span> of today is a “built” entity, mostly for the purpose of winning elections and power. Most of the elements that include a sense of decency and country were already taken by the democratic party, so they had to build an oppo party that could cobble enough votes to win elections.<br />
And it began with the Southern Strategy and immediately before that the Red Scare Bircher types, and from there added on The Moral Majority, and later in the 90’s disparate groups like Neo Cons and the quisling libertarians. All of this glued around the existing core of conservatism, being status quo maintenance and hoarding and protecting wealth, privilege and the power that comes from that hoarded wealth.<br />
They had to win elections to maintain that core, so they put together a Frankenstein Party and invited all the whackadoos in to join up for the cause. The religionists and their sexual police are just front and center for the present, later it will be the neo con turn with Iran and bombing brown people. Then the xenophobes will have some fun with immigration reform when Harry Reid brings it up soon. And the wheel of misfortune will turn to each faction for the limelight. A horror show of id fueled mayhem and insatiable appetite for control or destruction, one or the other.<br />
But the Frankenstein Party, soon found out it also needed a uniting dear leader top down person to keep the wingnutting effect to a minimum and the crazies to all behave themselves enough to get elected and stay elected. Ronnie Reagan, then George Bush.<br />
But the inmates got restless as the excesses piled up under Bush and Cheney, massive transfers of wealth via tax cuts, military industrial complex gluttony, and a practiced end to any and all financial and business regulation that led to <span class="caps">TARP ONE</span> and the implosion of the conservative movement as it was—a cogent theory on paper, practiced with a degree of restraint and deflection to not cause the rubes to ask pesky questions as they were being robbed blind.<br />
Now the crazies all want to run the show, and there is no one to make them behave, no Reagan , no Bush, and the majority southern contingent bullied itself into the clown car drivers seat, and we are where we are.General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2441929124891981385.post-35360685504538857292012-03-04T16:42:00.002-07:002012-03-04T16:43:04.686-07:00More Republican Head ShrinkingIt is about getting and keeping power, in the end. It is the aphrodisiac for the weak minded to assemble under the banner of republican. Some of them hate women, some hate people of color, some hate everyone not white, but republicans have had the economy of a predator that usually doesn’t waste energy on what matters least to their aims.<br />
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And for right wingers, that is power. The full frontal assault on women’s health issues is not economical, and the lizard has gone mad for lack of prey. Because of forces out of its control. So it is stupid assaults on various voting blocks to please other voting blocks. But women make up 52% of the electorate, way more than the religionists that want to control sex for some bizarre allegiance to God.<br />
All of this, at least the all out nature of it, is a sideways attempt to get votes. But the ratio of alienated voters from their actions, almost certainly will far outstrip any gains they may make with other voters.<br />
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They can’t stop the numbers increasing for those who vote, and won’t vote for them, at least without fully breaching the constitution, and they can’t change who they are, at least enough or fast enough, so we get self destructive malicious attacks, lashing out to regain control of single issues, like birth control, which is surrogate for attempts at wielding religion as a weapon beyond the constitutional firewall in our system of government, another road fraught with treasonous implication.<br />
When all the spiteful fury is spent for desperate attempts at keeping power, and after they have lost those ill advised assaults, like on women’s health, I honestly don’t know what they will do. It will be a point of reckoning for us all.General Stuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845578278505269409noreply@blogger.com0