Holy Shit, GOP tries to make itself even more conservative

[dmcowen674]

This is funnier than Letterman's Top 10 by far.

(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill;
(2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run health care;
(3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;
(4) We support workers’ right to secret ballot by opposing card check;
(5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;
(6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges;
(7) We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat;
(8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act;
(9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing and denial of health care and government funding of abortion; and
(10) We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership.
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[Robor]

With their new-found fiscal conservatism does this mean the Decepti-Cons are going to pay for their 2001 & 2003 tax cuts, pay for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, pay for Medicare Part D, pay for NCLM and reimburse US taxpayers $6+ trillion for their VooDoo Economics?

Nope... Clearly all of those are the fault of Obama and his 'socialist agenda'.

 

[Ausm]

I think the most hilarious thing is that God aka Ronnie Raygun would have flunked this litmus test hands down :biggrin:

 

[Jhhnn]

I think the most hilarious thing is that God aka Ronnie Raygun would have flunked this litmus test hands down :biggrin:

Pretty much defines the need for denial... w/o it, their world would implode...

 

[Pens1566]

I think the most hilarious thing is that God aka Ronnie Raygun would have flunked this litmus test hands down :biggrin:

Well, he did raise taxes.

 

[Siddhartha]

Sounds like a good move. The reason Republicans have lost support has been because they are out of touch with their base. This is a very good idea to get people energized again and make republicans accountable.

Pushing out the moderates and independents thus alienating the majority of the voter pool sounds like a good way to lose elections.

The last I saw the GOP base represents less than 20% of the US voters.

Good luck with that.

 

[jonks]

You know what? God, prayer and ID/creationism aren't on it (DOMA/abortion are not strictly religious). Huzzah for progress.

 

[Carmen813]

Did DOMA outlaw divorce?

 

[HomerJS]

This is funnier than Letterman's Top 10 by far.

(1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill;
(2) We support market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run health care;
(3) We support market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;
(4) We support workers’ right to secret ballot by opposing card check;
(5) We support legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;
(6) We support victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges;
(7) We support containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat;
(8) We support retention of the Defense of Marriage Act;
(9) We support protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing and denial of health care and government funding of abortion; and
(10) We support the right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership.
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Funny thing about this list its modeled after the saintly Ronald Reagan but he couldn't even pass this test.

#1 Govt and the deficit grew under Reagan - Fail
#5 Reagan supported amnesty - Fail
#6 Reagan went against generals when told to get out of Beruit result, massacre of troops - Fail
#10 After James Brady was shot Reagan supported gun control - Fail

 

[Jhhnn]

Well, he did raise taxes.

Yeeh, but less than he cut 'em in the first place... particularly at the top. And then there's the whole song and dance about saving SS by raising contributions, borrowing from the trust fund, but that's not really a tax, Right? Not regressive, either- Huh-uhh! Couldn't be...

 

[CallMeJoe]

(Ronald Reagan) Yeeh, but less than he cut 'em in the first place... particularly at the top. And then there's the whole song and dance about saving SS by raising contributions, borrowing from the trust fund, but that's not really a tax, Right? Not regressive, either- Huh-uhh! Couldn't be...

I'm still amazed at how many people missed the Great Hidden Tax Shift of the Reagan Era; Saint Ronnie gave us a Trickle-Down Economy and Regressive Taxation.

Of course, Senator Moynihan is the only Democrat I remember making an issue of the Social Security Tax Grab...

 

[Jhhnn]

I'm still amazed at how many people missed the Great Hidden Tax Shift of the Reagan Era; Saint Ronnie gave us a Trickle-Down Economy and Regressive Taxation.

Of course, Senator Moynihan is the only Democrat I remember making an issue of the Social Security Tax Grab...

You're right, to a point. At the time, Ronnie also promised to balance the budget, remember? In that context, the whole SS hike wasn't a bad idea. The only federal debt would have been to the SS trust. That's not what happened of course. Those new revenues and enormous deficits masked the true meaning of top tier taxcuts and trickle down economics effectively for decades- a truly masterful illusion cast by the Rightwing leadership of the Republican Party.

Rank and file Righties are so well indoctrinated, so steeped in Faith, so sure they're *right* that they can't even begin to appreciate the truth in that. Now that the economic reckoning for their own foolishness gives them the old butthurt, they just *know* it couldn't have been uncle Ronnie, Uncle George and cousin Georgie junior doing the deed... not the beloved and fabled Capitalists leading them down the primrose path- It's teh ebil terrarist coddlin' Libruhls! Has to Be!

Ever notice how Righties just kinda wander away from any thread that gets uncomfortably close to the truth, to a place where they might have to question their own belief structure?

Funny, that...

 

[HomerJS]

queue up the crickets!!

 

[spidey07]

queue up the crickets!!

Only on this highly leftist board. All the other boards I visit where liberty reigns are applauding this. Taking back the country we are.

 

[Carmen813]

Only on this highly leftist board. All the other boards I visit where liberty reigns are applauding this. Taking back the country we are.

404 country not found.

GOP != country.

 

[DestinyKnight]

wow. they've gone from simply being childish to actually writing contracts to ensure childishness.

i think they should all be impeached for corruption- they are no longer representatives of the people, just little petty self-serving whiners.

Both parties should be impeached for corruption. You're living a fantasy if you think the Dems are any less corrupt or unrepresentative of the people then the GOP is.

 

[Steeplerot]

Only on this highly leftist board. All the other boards I visit where liberty reigns are applauding this. Taking back the country we are.

It's not like they have much else to celebrate over at Stormfront.

 

[Ausm]

Only on this highly leftist board. All the other boards I visit where liberty reigns are applauding this. Taking back the country we are.

Who the fuck is taking away your rightwing talking point of Liberty?

 

[brblx]

Who the fuck is taking away your rightwing talking point of Liberty?

you have to look at it from a child's POV.

everything that exists for a purpose other than explicitly benefiting them is infringing on their 'liberty.'

not to even mention the things that would actually benefit them, but they wouldn't know because they can't comprehend data and statistics or read actual research rather than op-ed pieces from uneducated nutjobs.

 

[HomerJS]

Only on this highly leftist board. All the other boards I visit where liberty reigns are applauding this. Taking back the country we are.

So if this is a good thing you know Ronald Reagan would be rated a bad GOPer, denied party funds and endorsements?

Since Reagan is held up as the gold standard by Republicans maybe its time to admit this test is an idiotic idea.

Just sayin'

 

[Jhhnn]

Only on this highly leftist board. All the other boards I visit where liberty reigns are applauding this. Taking back the country we are.

Stunning retort, confirming what I offered earlier in ways you can't even begin to comprehend.

Current efforts by the usual rightwing demagogues are specifically designed to keep their followers in complete denial, to discourage even the most cursory examination of followers' own belief systems. It's pure emotional appeal, wrapped in an ontological blanket of pseudo-reason. They believe what they believe because they believe it, and that's all they want to know, all they want to hear.

The deep reverence for the myth and legend of Ronnie Reagan is testament to that. Not for the man himself, not for his actual deeds, but for the mythological construct around the persona. That subject, and many others, are simply avoided, denied, made unapproachable by the indoctrination they've accepted as truth, by virtue of believing ontology is reason...

Label and dismiss- "Leftist!" That way, they never have to look at themselves.

 

[spidey07]

So if this is a good thing you know Ronald Reagan would be rated a bad GOPer, denied party funds and endorsements?

Since Reagan is held up as the gold standard by Republicans maybe its time to admit this test is an idiotic idea.

Just sayin'

Times change and the enemies of freedom have changed as well. That means the tools to defeat the liberal horde have changed.

But the core concept remains the same - "Government is the cause of, not the solution to our problems"

We WILL take back this country.

 

[TruePaige]

Times change and the enemies of freedom have changed as well. That means the tools to defeat the liberal horde have changed.

But the core concept remains the same - "Government is the cause of, not the solution to our problems"

We WILL take back this country.

I hope we get UHC someday so you can get the mental health services you so desperately need.

 

[dmcowen674]

Both parties should be impeached for corruption. You're living a fantasy if you think the Dems are any less corrupt or unrepresentative of the people then the GOP is.

True to a point

Democrats are not set out to destroy America like Republicans though.

 

[Robor]

Times change and the enemies of freedom have changed as well. That means the tools to defeat the liberal horde have changed.

But the core concept remains the same - "Government is the cause of, not the solution to our problems"

We WILL take back this country.

Quoted for outright freaking lunacy.