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For Obama, this likely makes sense; after all, as a black man, he has always been able to blame “whitey” for all of his failures. But unfortunately, he’s already three-quarters of the way to Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and by 2012, it’s not likely that the vast majority of the American electorate will take well to screaming tirades of “racist” and how they’re personally responsible for Obama’s failures.

That’s the record every Republican who stands for national office will have to defend, especially in 2012.

I’ll let the personal broadsides go in consideration of the source: Victims of Stockholm Syndrome who are desperate to belong to a straight white males’ club where not only will they never be welcomed, they are loathed.

Unfortunately, in the real world, normal Americans remember how that worked out last time.

Normal Americans remember how we had 52 consecutive months of jobs added and the highest income of treasury revenues ever. At least until the liberals took over the purse strings and their flaming shit bag of home loans for all exploded in our faces.

In the laboratory of the states, the states that are ruled under the jackboot of so-called conservatism are among the poorest: Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina and Idaho.

Interestingly, we saw the colossal failure of liberalism in Louisiana exposed by hurricane Katrina. Florida, Texas, Alabama and Mississippi all rolled up their sleeves and got to work rebuilding their states after hurricanes. The “leaders” of Louisiana blamed Bush and wallowed in the mud wailing for Uncle Sugar to save them. This was, of course, after they had secured their own housing.

Perhaps you can explain how liberalism is panning out in the failed state of Michigan.

And Americans are voting with their feet. People and businesses are fleeing the high taxation and regulation of liberal areas, running as fast as they can from blue states and fleeing TO red states. California, New York, the northeast, west, are ALL losing population, and the midwest and south are gaining. Only illegal immigrants are increasing their numbers in liberal areas, which is precisely why the criminals currently running the country specifically prohibited census workers from asking if people are legal citizens.

Last I looked, those states were managing quite nicely to balance their budgets.

Not so for the “rich” states like California and New York, both under the literal jackboots of liberals and both staring at tens of BILLIONS of dollars in debt.

Wonder why openly attacking businesses, imposing massive tax increases on “the rich”, and so forth produce such rotten results?

Probably because businesses and corporations are the lifeblood of the country’s economy, and trying to drive them out and suppress them in favor of the welfare state is a recipe for complete economic collapse and disaster.

You have tried to destroy corporations already, Cahuenga, and California and New York are basket-case examples of why it’s a dumb idea.

We know the GOP plan: cut taxes

Yay! Only a fascist Democrat could say that like allowing people to keep more of their own money is a bad thing.

drive up spending

NOPE! Wrong. sorry. Republicans did drive up spending briefly after 9/11 (Democrats wanted to spend MORE on everything by the way), but they had been DECREASING spending since 2003, and according to the CBO, were on track to have the deficit completely ELIMINATED by 2010.

It wasnt until DEMOCRATS got into power that spending exploded.

deregulate our corporate masters

I dont have ANY corporate master, I dont know what youre talking about. No corporation has ANY power over me or you or anyone else. Only government can force you to do things against your will, not corporations, and YOU are the one who wants government to have more power over people, not us.

war War WAR.

Check your history books dummy, Democrats have gotten the United States into FAR more war than Republicans ever have.

Why do you hate the truth so much? What did it ever do to you?

Gods, can you compress more talking points into one packet?

Wonder what’s behind your prejudice against conservatives and your hatred of Republicans. You do harbor a lot of animosity. And ignorance.

Hope your venting here makes you feel better; it certainly does provide amusement to this blogger as he babysits his 1-year-old nephew who does seem to have greater control over his bowel movements than you do over your bile.

Unfortunately, in the real world, normal Americans remember how that worked out last time. Yes, Americans have short memories but, come on, the Great Bush Recession started just 14 months ago.

Apparently, they don’t show the plenitude of racist posters depicting the president from the rallies on Fox.

Legitimate movements usually coalesce around a single issue: war, abortion, civil rights. The visuals from Tea Bag events present a cacophony of issues — generally whatever anti-Obama preconceived narrative Fox is dishing out that week. The messaging is so wildly inconsistent — the protesters are angry about so many things — that the visuals from the rallies presented to the casual viewer read like racism: Mobs of angry rednecks castigating the black president.

And it wasn’t us who showed up at tea bag events with tea bags stapled to our heads. If the frat boys at Freedomworks who cooked up all this fakery didn’t see a problem with the tea bag as an icon for their astroturf movement, Tea Baggers shouldn’t blame their betters for teasing them unmercifully. It is richly deserved.

In any case, the Republican establishment is going to vaporize the Tea Baggers before 2012. They have to stop it in order to survive. Otherwise, the Tea Baggers will form an independent party, which will split the dwindling, aging conservative movement and kill the GOP.

May it rest in peace.

In my heart of hearts, I still want Hillary to be the first woman president. And she is a moderate/conservative, no matter how she’s been painted. I hope she and Palin do lunch sometime, the way they’ve mentioned.

As to your first paragraph, you do seem dedicated to provoking my laughter. Except in the feverish minds of the most rabid anti-conservatives like Janeane Garofalo, there is no evidence of any racial tinging at the tea party protests.

And that you continue to use the sexual smear suggests you are anything but a dispassionate observer, but instead a narrow-minded partisan with strong prejudices against conservative ideas and activists. But, at least a source of amusement to this blogger.

At that point, Republicans will be forced off offense and onto defense because every problem we face today erupted into a crisis on their watch under Bush.

If you think attack politics are all the GOP has, you’ve missed the last thirty years of American political history. And have ignored the various Democratic successes (and failures) of the past decade, particularly the treatment they accorded to the woman whose name appears in the title to this post.

That you would use the term “tea bagger” to describe the tea party protests instantly discredits you. And to see them as “astroturf” misrepresents the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of Americans who took to the streets to protest big government.

GOP attack campaign? LOL, go look at the language of your comment, you’ve bought into the left-wing attack campaign on conservatives, calling our legitimate protests “astroturf” and sliming us with a sexual reference.

Oh, and um, did you follow the link I provided in comment #7, it’ll answer your point about GOP being destroyed for a generation. Here it is again. Gallup has GOP leading on generic congressional ballot, something very rare in polling history, even in years when Republicans do well at the ballot box

Since Gallup regularly began using the generic ballot to measure registered voters’ preferences for the House of Representatives in 1950, it has been rare for Republicans to have an advantage over Democrats

2. Leviticus 20:13 says that men who have sex with each other are committing abominations and that they should both put to death. Elsewhere in the Old Testament, we are also told that eating ham is an abomination, as is dining on lobster, shrimp, clams, eel, squid and octopus. Other abominations: having your fortune told, burning incense and — my personal favorite abomination — women wearing pants.

Jesus only mentions one abomination: the love of money.

As sins go, abominations are bad, but what is much much worse is adultery, which is mentioned twice in the Ten Commandments — the only Old Testament laws that weren’t rescinded by Jesus by his New Covenant (which means all the abominations, including Leviticus 20:13, have been null and void since Jesus’ death 1,978 years ago).

Adultery is specifically forbidden with its own Commandment and referenced in another Commandment that says men must not covet their neighbor’ wife. (Men are also forbidden in the same commandment from coveting their neighbors’ asses, but this is not a gay reference.)

It has become our practice these days in the United States to base our laws regarding gay civil rights on Old Testament edicts, but you’ll notice that you never hear the Bible thumpers calling for rescinding the rights of heterosexual adulterers — making it illegal for them to marry again and adopt kids, or making it legal for them to be fired or evicted for no other reason than their status as sinners.

What’s ironic about this is that adultery is the real threat to so-called “traditional” marriage. (In the Old Testament the “traditional” practice was polygamy — even Father Abraham had more than one wife.) Adultery causes broken homes and single-parent households, which are hotbeds for poverty and social disorder.

3. But Mr. Blatt, it’s conservative so-called principles that are the problem — that are the “package.” When presidents have put these principles into practice it has more often than not led to disaster — see the administrations of Coolidge, Hoover and Bush II, for example. Conversely, Nixon did not hew to conservative principles but created massive new government agencies, including the EPA, and instituted price controls. Reagan raised taxes every year of his presidency and blew an enormous hole in the debt.

In the laboratory of the states, the states that are ruled under the jackboot of so-called conservatism are among the poorest: Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina and Idaho.

It just doesn’t work. It is a Ayn Randian fantasy. The true objective of the Republican Party — based on what they have done when they have power, not on their patriotic and “power to the individuals” jingoism — is to cede control of the government to mega-corporation.

Conservative corporatism is the cancer that is destroying this country. If Tea Baggers had a lick of sense, they’d be up in arms about that, instead of the mass delusion they’ve been fed by Hannity, Beck et al that Obama is a Kenyan Muslim socialist fascist and the rest.

My point is this. Attack politics is easy, and it’s all the Republicans have right now. That’s been their campaign since January — astroturfing the Tea Baggers is a key element — to drive down the president’s poll numbers.

But at some point, a Republican leader — Pawlenty? Romney? Palin? — is going to have to stand before the American people — normal Americans, not just the right wing media echo chamber — and say with a straight face: Give Republicans control of the government because we are competent at running the economy and defense.

At that moment, the GOP attack campaign will come to an end because Republicans will abruptly find themselves on defense, forced to explain to independent voters why and how they won’t drive the country to the edge of ruin again this time.

George Bush, Dick Cheney, Mitch McConnnell and John Boehner did not just ruin the Republican brand in 2008, they destroyed it for a generation at least. There won’t be a “Republican renewal” until some GOP candidate has the cojones to stand up and repudiate what the Republicans did during their six years of absolute control of the government — because until that happens, every GOP candidate is going to be forced to defend what Bush et al did over and over during the campaign season.

Right now, there’s no one out there with the credibility, much less the gonads, to say it and be believed.