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acptulsa
01-27-2008, 02:42 PM
You know, if you liberals out there are half as compassionate as you claim to be, you’ll have pity on us poor Republicans this year. After all, we’re in an awful fix.

We’ve got a rich pretty boy shamelessly pandering to us, which usually perks us right up. Unfortunately, he’s a flip-flopper, about as funny as a crutch, and running on his record. That last part doesn’t sound so bad—until you actually look at it. Seems he started out a corporate raider laying Americans off, and wound up the governor who oversaw the costly, leaky, downright deadly Boston Big Dig.

We’ve got a preacher, too—and he has a sense of humor. That made us happy for a while. He’s dumb as a post, but that’s o.k. But then he went around hinting that he’d turn the Constitution over to the Southern Baptist Convention for some tweaking, and every protestant from the Presbyterians all the way to the Pentacostals know exactly what that means. You know they’ve got a special compound in heaven just for the Southern Baptists? Its because they think they’re the only ones up there.

We’ve got a fearmonger to keep us up at night, too. He’s great! He’s better than a horror movie—in fact, he looks like he ought to be in a horror movie. If Hollywood had gotten him to play Jason, they wouldn’t’ve needed that dumb hockey mask! The catch there is he can’t keep his manhood in his pants, he’s been divorced almost as often as Johnny Carson, and (worst of all) he’s from New York City.

Then there’s the guy a lot of people say is a war hero. We’ve been waiting all these years for him to get old enough to know better, but damn if he doesn’t still have foot-in-mouth disease. First he said he’d keep us fighting in Iraq even after all the oil’s long gone, which makes no sense at all. Then he tried to kick out the Chancellor of Germany and put the old head of the K.G.B. in her place, which makes even less sense. We just don’t think that’s why Reagan had them tear down that old wall. And now he went off claiming to know something about economics—but when he got asked a question about it, he came off making Miss Teen South Carolina look downright smart! Lord have mercy.

Then there’s that other guy. He’s so smart he’s actually figured out how to keep the old folks on Social Security. He not only likes the Second Amendment, he likes the other nine parts of the Bill of Rights, too. He’s so law-and-order he thinks even the politicians and the rich people ought to behave themselves. He’s so pro-family he’s delivered thousands of babies and he’s been married fifty-one years—to the same woman! He’s been in the House voting against tax hikes for two decades, and he’s turned down so many bribes that the lobbyists all call him Dr. No. No wonder all the others think he’s a kook. Why, he’s the most radical Republican since Abraham Lincoln himself!

He looks pretty damned good, but the press keeps saying he can’t win the nomination. Now, as often as we cuss about the media, you’d think we’d tell them to stick it and elect him just to shut them the hell up. But if we were brave enough to do things like that, they couldn’t call us “Ditto-Heads”.

To add insult to injury, there’s an establishment candidate in the race—trying to set up a dynasty, in fact—mouthing all the old cliches. We can’t vote for her, though—she’s the one thing we hated most about Bill Clinton!

So take a Republican couple to lunch. Feel our pain. Go the extra mile and buy us a nice autographed photo of Barry Goldwater off of ebay.

But whatever you do, don’t tell us that Barry Goldwater, Jr. is supporting Ron Paul. We might just nominate the good doctor—and beat you in the general election!




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freedom-maniac
01-27-2008, 02:49 PM
Be kind to Republicans

Nein.

leglock
01-27-2008, 02:51 PM
Nein.

So you're not looking for the GOP nomination?

freedom-maniac
01-27-2008, 02:54 PM
So you're not looking for the GOP nomination?

I'm not. Dr. Paul is, but I'm not. I'd actually hope he'd run as a Third Party guy again. I loathe, the two party system, especially the GOP which has gotten us into the war, and allowed the oil companies to run our nation. Plus they want to torture people and spy on me. Sick f---s.

me3
01-27-2008, 02:55 PM
No, he's just incapable of distinguishing between good and bad Republicans.

Goldwater was pretty good. Reagan should have been good. Gary Johnson was great. Mark Sanford has been really good. Ron Paul has been amazing.

But small minded idiots will throw the baby out with the bathwater. They think it is easier to start a new party, than to change an existing one. :rolleyes:

freedom-maniac
01-27-2008, 02:57 PM
No, he's just incapable of distinguishing between good and bad Republicans.

Goldwater was pretty good. Reagan should have been good. Gary Johnson was great. Mark Sanford has been really good. Ron Paul has been amazing.

But small minded idiots will throw the baby out with the bathwater. They think it is easier to start a new party, than to change an existing one. :rolleyes:

Only eight house Republicans voted against the war. It's not so much as a baby in the bathwater, as an embryo.

Of course the Dems aren't much better. At least they had the mental capacity to stop supporting the war when the people did.

pcosmar
01-27-2008, 03:05 PM
No, he's just incapable of distinguishing between good and bad Republicans.

Goldwater was pretty good. Reagan should have been good. Gary Johnson was great. Mark Sanford has been really good. Ron Paul has been amazing.

But small minded idiots will throw the baby out with the bathwater. They think it is easier to start a new party, than to change an existing one.

If the house is termite infested, you might be better off to tear it down and build a new house.
The rot in this party is so bad it may not be repairable.

angrydragon
01-27-2008, 03:09 PM
The dems help start the war, in fact they were the ones that started long before President Bush did. They were voted in to stop the war, but failed to do that. Heck even Clinton and Obama waited until the last minute for the funding bill for the Iraq War to pass to vote NO on the bill.

Mystile
01-27-2008, 03:11 PM
we should push the Goldwater endorsement more IMO.

ChickenHawk
01-27-2008, 03:26 PM
The Democrats are far worse on the war. They claim to be against it but keep voting for it. What kind of moral bankruptcy is that? At least when the Republicans vote to fund the war they do so because they support it.

FreeTraveler
01-27-2008, 03:34 PM
If the house is termite infested, you might be better off to tear it down and build a new house.
The rot in this party is so bad it may not be repairable.

Parties don't exist, only the people running the party do. Replace the people and the party will be renewed.

Kilrain
01-27-2008, 03:38 PM
Only eight house Republicans voted against the war. It's not so much as a baby in the bathwater, as an embryo.

Of course the Dems aren't much better. At least they had the mental capacity to stop supporting the war when the people did.


Nit-pick, but it's six, not eight. Right?

Ron Paul of Texas; Connie Morella of Maryland; Jim Leach of Iowa; Amo Houghton of New York; John Hostettler of Indiana; and John Duncan of Tennessee.