I've noticed that Republicans haven't had one issue I can remember that was a disagreement with environmentatlists, a disagreement with other Christians.
Every disagreement they have I can remember pretty much was with straw men whose names begin with 'extremist', 'radical', 'anti-American', 'communist', and similar.
No matter what the environental issue is, Republicans are guaranteed to say that anyone who disagrees with them isn't 'less conservative', or an 'environmentalist. Funny, but somehow Republicans seem to get to have all the positions from 'radical anti-environmentalist' to 'very environmentalist', leaving only the crazy 'radical environmentalists' that they disagree with.
Why is that? Well, a majority of American citizens like the environment, so they don't want to be against 'environmentalists', even though they are. They have to demonize them.
And Republican voters are fooled by this simple, dishonest rhetoric.
Similarly not one religious issue has been with any reasonable people with different views. Every person who has disagreed with Republicans on any issue is 'at war with religion'.
On economics, they say not one Democrat has had any positions other than 'communist' or 'socialist'. To the disappointment of socialists, that's a lie, but Republicans fall for it.
It's sad that voters are so gullible as to fall for the rhetoric. Sarah Palin did and still does like to say 'Barack Obama likes to pal around with terrorists'.
Now that's a nice way to get around discussing the issues; just make a radical lie to demonize Obama instead. And voters fall for it.
When you watch the Republican campaigns, the rule now is to simply make a straw man and name him Obama, attacking him because the actual Obama is not as easy.
There was a clip tonight of Rick Santorum saying 'Obama has shifted from talking about freedom of religion to freedom of worship, because he wants to reduce the religious freedom in the constitution.' Nevermind the clip played right after of Obama talking about how he 'cherishes the right of religious freedom in the constitution' - gullible voters eat the lies up.
Sometimes, the Democrats do this also, for example saying Rush Limbaugh 'wants America to fail', when he said he wants Obama to fail to implement some policies.
But it's pervasive on the right - the norm.
Enough people only listen to the right's messaging and fall for it that they accept the lies, and it's harmful to our democracy.
People can correct them all day, and not get to talk to many, many voters on the right.
I don't think many Republicans go to mediamatters.ord and read the corrections.
I invite Republicans who want to debate this to point me to a link of any speech talking about Obama by any candidate this year, and I'll look for examples of this.
I'll do it for the first link, maybe more. Can you find one not doing these straw men?
It's a very cheap lie to demonize Democrats this way, instead of discuss the issues.
I was also just listening to Santorum attack Obama for 'opposing the pipeline there is no reason to oppose', saying the reason is Obama siding with 'radical environmetalists'. No metion of how Republicans politicized this not by discussing the issue, but by forcing Obama to make an approval decision right now, and Obama said 'some changes are needed', so that Repbulicans could make this phone attack.
In fact, is there one major issue being reasonably discussed in the campaign of any of these candidates (except Ron Paul, I don't want another tedious Ron Paul thread).
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Every disagreement they have I can remember pretty much was with straw men whose names begin with 'extremist', 'radical', 'anti-American', 'communist', and similar.
No matter what the environental issue is, Republicans are guaranteed to say that anyone who disagrees with them isn't 'less conservative', or an 'environmentalist. Funny, but somehow Republicans seem to get to have all the positions from 'radical anti-environmentalist' to 'very environmentalist', leaving only the crazy 'radical environmentalists' that they disagree with.
Why is that? Well, a majority of American citizens like the environment, so they don't want to be against 'environmentalists', even though they are. They have to demonize them.
And Republican voters are fooled by this simple, dishonest rhetoric.
Similarly not one religious issue has been with any reasonable people with different views. Every person who has disagreed with Republicans on any issue is 'at war with religion'.
On economics, they say not one Democrat has had any positions other than 'communist' or 'socialist'. To the disappointment of socialists, that's a lie, but Republicans fall for it.
It's sad that voters are so gullible as to fall for the rhetoric. Sarah Palin did and still does like to say 'Barack Obama likes to pal around with terrorists'.
Now that's a nice way to get around discussing the issues; just make a radical lie to demonize Obama instead. And voters fall for it.
When you watch the Republican campaigns, the rule now is to simply make a straw man and name him Obama, attacking him because the actual Obama is not as easy.
There was a clip tonight of Rick Santorum saying 'Obama has shifted from talking about freedom of religion to freedom of worship, because he wants to reduce the religious freedom in the constitution.' Nevermind the clip played right after of Obama talking about how he 'cherishes the right of religious freedom in the constitution' - gullible voters eat the lies up.
Sometimes, the Democrats do this also, for example saying Rush Limbaugh 'wants America to fail', when he said he wants Obama to fail to implement some policies.
But it's pervasive on the right - the norm.
Enough people only listen to the right's messaging and fall for it that they accept the lies, and it's harmful to our democracy.
People can correct them all day, and not get to talk to many, many voters on the right.
I don't think many Republicans go to mediamatters.ord and read the corrections.
I invite Republicans who want to debate this to point me to a link of any speech talking about Obama by any candidate this year, and I'll look for examples of this.
I'll do it for the first link, maybe more. Can you find one not doing these straw men?
It's a very cheap lie to demonize Democrats this way, instead of discuss the issues.
I was also just listening to Santorum attack Obama for 'opposing the pipeline there is no reason to oppose', saying the reason is Obama siding with 'radical environmetalists'. No metion of how Republicans politicized this not by discussing the issue, but by forcing Obama to make an approval decision right now, and Obama said 'some changes are needed', so that Repbulicans could make this phone attack.
In fact, is there one major issue being reasonably discussed in the campaign of any of these candidates (except Ron Paul, I don't want another tedious Ron Paul thread).
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