homersapien 11,347 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 http://www.thedailyb...-of-stupid.html (And be sure to check out the Roof "timeline" report after it.) The GOP: Still the Party of Stupid That Scott Walker speech was great? It was shallow, tedious, and wrong. In other words, it struck the perfect chord for today’s GOP voters. .........."They sound like they’re running for RNC chairman at best, or more likely leader of the Tea Party caucus. So despite all this spin from conservatives about what a strong field this is, as usual the opposite is the truth. It’s an astonishingly weak field, unified not only in their opposition to Barack Obama and the federal government but also in their hostility to actual ideas that might stand a chance of addressing the country’s actual problems."..... .........."It’s not so much that they come up short in terms of personal resumes. God knows, the current incumbent had a short one. Being a sitting or former governor, or a sitting senator—those are qualification enough. And I don’t doubt that they’re intelligent people But the problem in the first instance isn’t them. Let me put it this way. The greatest cardiologist in the world could move to town. But if everybody wants to eat chili-cheese fries all day and nobody wants to have bypass surgery, there’s still going to be a lot of heart disease. You follow me? There could be a man in this presidential field who is the political equivalent of that cardiologist—Lincoln and TR and Reagan all rolled into one, with a little bit of Thatcher on the side and what the hell, a tiny dash of Clinton, just for crossover appeal. And it wouldn’t matter. He wouldn’t be able to demonstrate the breadth of his vision, because that isn’t what the GOP base of today wants."..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proud Tiger 4,261 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Walker could give a very stupid speech but he can never win the trophy. Obama owns it and Hillary is second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AURaptor 1,121 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Name calling and declarative comments about how a political speech was " wrong " only proves one thing. The GOP are winning. t’s an astonishingly weak field, unified not only in their opposition to Barack Obama and the federal government but also in their hostility to actual ideas that might stand a chance of addressing the country’s actual problems."..... Nothing could be further from the absolute truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,347 Posted June 21, 2015 Author Share Posted June 21, 2015 Walker could give a very stupid speech but he can never win the trophy. Obama owns it and Hillary is second. That's ironic. Obama's speechifying is one of his strengths. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooltigger21 0 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Walker could give a very stupid speech but he can never win the trophy. Obama owns it and Hillary is second. That's ironic. Obama's speechifying is one of his strengths. Oh he gives great sounding speeches but they lack anything of any substance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,347 Posted June 21, 2015 Author Share Posted June 21, 2015 Name calling and declarative comments about how a political speech was " wrong " only proves one thing. The GOP are winning. t’s an astonishingly weak field, unified not only in their opposition to Barack Obama and the federal government but also in their hostility to actual ideas that might stand a chance of addressing the country’s actual problems."..... Nothing could be further from the absolute truth. The "absolute" truth? That's very telling, if not surprising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,347 Posted June 21, 2015 Author Share Posted June 21, 2015 Walker could give a very stupid speech but he can never win the trophy. Obama owns it and Hillary is second. That's ironic. Obama's speechifying is one of his strengths. Oh he gives great sounding speeches but they lack anything of any substance. Says you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
japantiger 4,051 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 This article reminds me of those tomes in the Atlantic that the left loves to post here...only thank goodness it was about 9,000 words less. As usual, it's all about how someone feels...and his single issue seems to be wage stagnation; which is funny because the current wage stagnation is an outcome of the lefts dream policies of the last 6 years of high taxes, excessive regulation, high debt, mis-spent stimulus, no stimulus or commerce initiative vision, massive welfare spending, and a focus on just about everything but jobs and wages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AURaptor 1,121 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Name calling and declarative comments about how a political speech was " wrong " only proves one thing. The GOP are winning. t’s an astonishingly weak field, unified not only in their opposition to Barack Obama and the federal government but also in their hostility to actual ideas that might stand a chance of addressing the country’s actual problems."..... Nothing could be further from the absolute truth. The "absolute" truth? That's very telling, if not surprising. Typical of you to key on one word, while ignoring the point being made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,347 Posted June 21, 2015 Author Share Posted June 21, 2015 Name calling and declarative comments about how a political speech was " wrong " only proves one thing. The GOP are winning. t’s an astonishingly weak field, unified not only in their opposition to Barack Obama and the federal government but also in their hostility to actual ideas that might stand a chance of addressing the country’s actual problems."..... Nothing could be further from the absolute truth. The "absolute" truth? That's very telling, if not surprising. Typical of you to key on one word, while ignoring the point being made. That was the word that was "telling" regarding your mental process - if you can call it that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icanthearyou 4,462 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Name calling and declarative comments about how a political speech was " wrong " only proves one thing. The GOP are winning. t’s an astonishingly weak field, unified not only in their opposition to Barack Obama and the federal government but also in their hostility to actual ideas that might stand a chance of addressing the country’s actual problems."..... Nothing could be further from the absolute truth. The "absolute" truth? That's very telling, if not surprising. Typical of you to key on one word, while ignoring the point being made. That was the word that was "telling" regarding your mental process - if you can call it that. "mental process" LOL! Raptor provided a lucid, valid, detailed response. And you, you just nitpicked the wording. Why don't you argue any of his specific points? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,347 Posted June 21, 2015 Author Share Posted June 21, 2015 Name calling and declarative comments about how a political speech was " wrong " only proves one thing. The GOP are winning. t’s an astonishingly weak field, unified not only in their opposition to Barack Obama and the federal government but also in their hostility to actual ideas that might stand a chance of addressing the country’s actual problems."..... Nothing could be further from the absolute truth. The "absolute" truth? That's very telling, if not surprising. Typical of you to key on one word, while ignoring the point being made. That was the word that was "telling" regarding your mental process - if you can call it that. "mental process" LOL! Raptor provided a lucid, valid, detailed response. And you, you just nitpicked the wording. Why don't you argue any of his specific points? Because I can't match his wits. Literally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weegle777 78 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Another GOP bash thread. Yawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,347 Posted June 21, 2015 Author Share Posted June 21, 2015 Another GOP bash thread. Yawn. Well, thanks for you comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AURaptor 1,121 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Name calling and declarative comments about how a political speech was " wrong " only proves one thing. The GOP are winning. t’s an astonishingly weak field, unified not only in their opposition to Barack Obama and the federal government but also in their hostility to actual ideas that might stand a chance of addressing the country’s actual problems."..... Nothing could be further from the absolute truth. The "absolute" truth? That's very telling, if not surprising. Typical of you to key on one word, while ignoring the point being made. That was the word that was "telling" regarding your mental process - if you can call it that. The GOP offer specific solutions and goals, while Hillary name calls , bashes and divides the country. I think the " mental process " on display is yours, my friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weegle777 78 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Another GOP bash thread. Yawn. Well, thanks for you comment. You guys bash WarTim and Proud Tiger for posting threads about liberal stupidity and you do the same thing. Hypocrisy much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AURaptor 1,121 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 777 - it's how the Left roll. If they can initiate a conversation or slant a story where the focus is " Hey everybody, look ! The GOP are acting stupid again ! " , it doesn't matter what in the hell the issue. Dr Carson could have discovered a way to cure brain cancer, and the Dems would still effort a way to make it anti-something. They literally are the party of divide, distort and demoralize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,347 Posted June 22, 2015 Author Share Posted June 22, 2015 Another GOP bash thread. Yawn. Well, thanks for you comment. You guys bash WarTim and Proud Tiger for posting threads about liberal stupidity and you do the same thing. Hypocrisy much? Did you read the full article? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,347 Posted June 22, 2015 Author Share Posted June 22, 2015 777 - it's how the Left roll. If they can initiate a conversation or slant a story where the focus is " Hey everybody, look ! The GOP are acting stupid again ! " , it doesn't matter what in the hell the issue. Dr Carson could have discovered a way to cure brain cancer, and the Dems would still effort a way to make it anti-something. They literally are the party of divide, distort and demoralize. And did you read the full article? Tell the truth now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,347 Posted June 22, 2015 Author Share Posted June 22, 2015 http://www.huffingto..._n_7632030.html Mike Huckabee joined the growing pack of 2016 presidential candidates skeptical about climate science on Sunday. "I know that when I was in college I was being taught that if we didn't act very quickly, that we were going to be entering a global freezing," he told "Meet The Press." "Go back and look at the covers of Time and Newsweek from the early '70s. And we were told that if we didn't do something by 1980, we'd be popsicles. Now we're told that we're all burning up. Science is not as settled on that as it is on some things.” His comments were a far right turn from remarks he made : "One thing that all of us have a responsibility to do is recognize that climate change is here, it's real," he said then. "That what we have to do is quit pointing fingers as to who's at fault and recognize that it's all our fault and it's all our responsibility to fix it." Huckabee first brought up the global cooling myth in 2013. He also made headlines in January for joking that ISIS is a bigger threat to America than climate change. "A beheading is a far greater threat to an American than a sunburn," he told an audience at Iowa Freedom Summit. Climate science actually is pretty settled. According to NASA, 97 percent of scientists agree that climate change is real and it's caused by humans. Other 2016 candidates who have denied that climate change is man-made: Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum, Ted Cruz... and basically every other Republican besides Chris Christie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,347 Posted June 22, 2015 Author Share Posted June 22, 2015 http://www.thedailyb...-of-stupid.html .......I finally sat myself down and watched from last week that everyone is raving about. If this was the standout speech, I sure made the right decision in not subjecting myself to the rest of them. It was little more than a series of red-meat appetizers and entrees: Wisconsin defunded Planned Parenthood, said no to Obamacare, passed some kind of law against “frivolous” lawsuits, and moved to crack down on voter “fraud””—all of that besides, of course, his big move, busting the public-employee unions. There wasn’t a single concrete idea about addressing any of the major problems the country faces.Walker’s blandishments toward the base were bland enough to get under the skin even of James Pethokoukis, the conservative economics writer who laid into the Wisconsin Governor for one particular bit of surreality: Opportunity is equal? The data, unfortunately, do not seem to support Walker’s optimistic claim. First, there are other countries, such as Sweden and Canada, where the chances of escaping the bottom are just as good as in the United States. Second, American mobility rates have been stagnant over the past 40 years. Third, mobility rates vary greatly by race with 74 percent of white sons making it out of the bottom fifth versus 49 percent of African-American sons. Fourth, even the smartest kids have only a 1-in-4 chance of making it from the bottom fifth to the top fifth. That’s a conservative writer, remember. And he’s right, obviously. But try to imagine Walker or any GOP candidate acknowledging these complications. That opportunity is not equal in America! That Sweden and Canada are our equals! That it’s harder on black people! That candidate would be hooted out of Republican Party faster than you can say Charles Murray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homersapien 11,347 Posted June 22, 2015 Author Share Posted June 22, 2015 http://www.thedailyb...-of-stupid.html .....Walker, I see, has surged in a new Iowa poll, while the only one who at least looks like president, John Ellis Bush, has taken a tumble and is viewed more negatively by potential caucus-goers than he once was (46 favorable, 43 unfavorable). We can’t say for sure why Bush has fallen, but it seems clear that Walker has gained on the strength, so to speak, of his empty-calorie bromides. He’s gained because those items— kicking Planned Parenthood, denying your own citizens subsidized health-care coverage, pretending that voter fraud is a thing—are what pass for ideas in today’s GOP. Walker is even more vacuous on foreign policy, as Martha Raddatz revealed yesterday, twisting him around like a pretzel with a couple of mildly tough questions on Syria. The Democratic Party has its problems, but at least Democrats are talking about middle-class wage stagnation, which is the country’s core economic quandary. Rick Santorum is, in fairness, but a) his solutions are the same ones conservatives have been advertising for years (lower taxes, less regulation, more two-parent families) and he’s not going anywhere in the polls so far, undoubtedly precisely because he’s trying to drop the homosexuality-is-bestiality shtick and talk about actual economic problems. But you can’t really discuss economic problems as a Republican presidential candidate, because in the pond of voters where you’ll be fishing, “America” has no such problems. Some people—roughly 47 percent of them—have economic problems, but that’s all their fault, you see. So these candidates are about to spend a year pandering to that. That will make them weak in more ways than one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icanthearyou 4,462 Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 http://www.huffingto..._n_7632030.html Mike Huckabee joined the growing pack of 2016 presidential candidates skeptical about climate science on Sunday. "I know that when I was in college I was being taught that if we didn't act very quickly, that we were going to be entering a global freezing," he told "Meet The Press." "Go back and look at the covers of Time and Newsweek from the early '70s. And we were told that if we didn't do something by 1980, we'd be popsicles. Now we're told that we're all burning up. Science is not as settled on that as it is on some things.” His comments were a far right turn from remarks he made : "One thing that all of us have a responsibility to do is recognize that climate change is here, it's real," he said then. "That what we have to do is quit pointing fingers as to who's at fault and recognize that it's all our fault and it's all our responsibility to fix it." Huckabee first brought up the global cooling myth in 2013. He also made headlines in January for joking that ISIS is a bigger threat to America than climate change. "A beheading is a far greater threat to an American than a sunburn," he told an audience at Iowa Freedom Summit. Climate science actually is pretty settled. According to NASA, 97 percent of scientists agree that climate change is real and it's caused by humans. Other 2016 candidates who have denied that climate change is man-made: Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum, Ted Cruz... and basically every other Republican besides Chris Christie. We should all heed Gov. Huckabee's words. He knows "a thing or two" about phony science. http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/may/13/ron-fournier/mike-huckabee-and-diabetes-cure-he-endorsed-no-hea/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icanthearyou 4,462 Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 http://www.thedailyb...-of-stupid.html .....Walker, I see, has surged in a new Iowa poll, while the only one who at least looks like president, John Ellis Bush, has taken a tumble and is viewed more negatively by potential caucus-goers than he once was (46 favorable, 43 unfavorable). We can’t say for sure why Bush has fallen, but it seems clear that Walker has gained on the strength, so to speak, of his empty-calorie bromides. He’s gained because those items— kicking Planned Parenthood, denying your own citizens subsidized health-care coverage, pretending that voter fraud is a thing—are what pass for ideas in today’s GOP. Walker is even more vacuous on foreign policy, as Martha Raddatz revealed yesterday, twisting him around like a pretzel with a couple of mildly tough questions on Syria. The Democratic Party has its problems, but at least Democrats are talking about middle-class wage stagnation, which is the country’s core economic quandary. Rick Santorum is, in fairness, but a) his solutions are the same ones conservatives have been advertising for years (lower taxes, less regulation, more two-parent families) and he’s not going anywhere in the polls so far, undoubtedly precisely because he’s trying to drop the homosexuality-is-bestiality shtick and talk about actual economic problems. But you can’t really discuss economic problems as a Republican presidential candidate, because in the pond of voters where you’ll be fishing, “America” has no such problems. Some people—roughly 47 percent of them—have economic problems, but that’s all their fault, you see. So these candidates are about to spend a year pandering to that. That will make them weak in more ways than one. It is their fault. They created the derivatives and, committed the fraud that led to the financial collapse. The bottom half of society controls the economy. These people wield immense power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aubfaninga 16 Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Name calling and declarative comments about how a political speech was " wrong " only proves one thing. The GOP are winning. t’s an astonishingly weak field, unified not only in their opposition to Barack Obama and the federal government but also in their hostility to actual ideas that might stand a chance of addressing the country’s actual problems."..... Nothing could be further from the absolute truth. The "absolute" truth? :rolleyes:/> That's very telling, if not surprising. Typical of you to key on one word, while ignoring the point being made. That was the word that was "telling" regarding your mental process - if you can call it that. The GOP offer specific solutions and goals, while Hillary name calls , bashes and divides the country. I think the " mental process " on display is yours, my friend. Nevermind Hillary... Are you trying to say that the GOP candidates do not name call and divide? I have not seen a GOP candidate give a speech without naming Obama and/or Hillary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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