This is why I’ve lost any hope that the crash can be avoided and just don’t care anymore.

Comment by V the K — June 18, 2013 @ 2:33 pm

I think you care very much, but like myself and so many others, what you don’t care about is the fraud and charade of the solutions that the establishment, the leftists, the center, the RINOs and the morons proffer every time a shitstorm hits, all of which amount to ‘Chinese fire drills’ ** (also known as the status quo).

** – If anyone is so fragile as to be offended by this old chestnut……tough.

The new conventional wisdom is that the hispanics are the key to winning the White House.

Comment by heliotrope — June 18, 2013 @ 7:40 am

This bit of ‘conventional wisdom’ is wrong.

It’s a long way down to the bottom…

But any action sufficient to avert catastrophe … you know, like reducing spending to a level that can be supported by the economy… is derided as “extreme,” and anyone who doesn’t promise free contraception and Obamaphones is unelectable. This is why I’ve lost any hope that the crash can be avoided and just don’t care anymore.

So, let’s just stay on the center-left course…

Comment by V the K — June 18, 2013 @ 12:43 pm

Hard left is more like it.
We’re riding along the edge of the cliff, and I’ve felt the rear wheels slip off a couple of times.
It’s a long way down to the bottom…

Rubio was the conservative hispanic darling until he spent his newbie points on amnesty. This guy is skewered on the meat hook where he is either aging prime or rotting.

That “American workers can’t cut it” remark is an albatross around his neck. Of course, all of them think that, but his aides made the mistake of saying it out loud to a reporter.

When people who just want the Government brought down to a sustainable and affordable size are attacked as “extreme,” there is no hope. So, let’s just stay on the center-left course, rack up debt and entitlements, strangle the economy in regulations and taxes, and see how that model works out for us.

I have no idea who John B. and Folks are. Ergo, I can’t respond.

Who makes Paul, Cruz, Rubio stars — the GOP or the media who want Republicans to be seen as conservative and thus out-of-touch as possible?

Hmmm. I watch FOXNews so I have no concept of how the MSM is treating Paul, Cruz and Rubio.

What I do know is that the GOP “standard bearers” for the MSM, such as McCain, Grahmnesty, and other tired professional hacks have decided that Paul and Cruz are Whacko Birds and beyond the fringe nut cases.

Therefore, it is hardly making Paul, Cruz and Rubio stars. But then, are Paul, Cruz and Rubio stars? Show me the evidence.

Conservative talk radio and conservative blogs are becoming less and less suspicious of Paul and Cruz and are beginning to express a tentative confidence in believing rather than hoping that they are principled small government people who will stick to their guns.

Rubio was the conservative hispanic darling until he spent his newbie points on amnesty. This guy is skewered on the meat hook where he is either aging prime or rotting.

Sarah Palin talked about getting the party of Ted Cruz control and she drew huge applause.

The “socially moderate center” is a pure fantasy. Moderate anything is wishy-washy. Why would wishy-washy run to the opposite radical view when they are “offended” by the other radical view? How does that “logic” make any sense?

Could we have a disclosure of what constitutes the issues of the “dwindling old-guard of reactionary theocrats” ? If you can label the villains, you can certainly itemize their villainy. I’ll start it off for you:

1. Leave God out of it.

2. Support gay marriage.

3. Shut up on abortion.

4. Don’t talk about right and wrong.

5. “Evil” is judgmental. Shut up on that.

6. Learn to adore diversity.

7. Shut up on immigrants you insist on calling “illegal.”

……. please fill in the rest. However, you will notice that the list is censorship fiat created by those who choose to take the middle of the road in order to avoid having a belief system.

Or, do you who call yourselves “social moderates” lack the principles and testosterone to identify your agenda?

In my opinion, you social moderates are all crying and whining while having no convictions and nothing more in your arsenal than Rodney King’s “can’t we all just get along?” bumper sticker.

Please take note of Ted Cruz and have the temerity to present a brief on how out of touch he is with reality and why he and the TEA Partiers like him need to be squashed.

Until such time as the RINO’s set out their game plan, I and many others will consider them to be Democrat-lite who don’t have the testicles to own up and party up with the hope and change crowd.

I would also disagree that she wasn’t portrayed as a Nazi – the portion of her speech in that clip was very much Nazi like.

But you’re seeing it without context. She’s using that speech because the American public will only respond to such rhetoric. She was telling the public what they want to hear. It’s not much unlike the way that Obama got elected in the 2008 election.

Yes, the movie does take pot shots directly at Conservative, it’s not kind to the Palin character, and that may turn you off to it. But it pulls no punches for Liberal either. It’s got some great “blaxsploitation” bits too. It’s the way good satire should be. Screw everyone. That is what makes South Park so funny much of the time.

And no, it’s not the quality of Dr Strangelove or even close to it… But then… What is?

At what point will the party’s political “stars” realize that alienating the socially moderate center to placate a dwindling old-guard of reactionary theocrats is a perpetually losing strategy?

And at what point will the party’s political hacks realize that alienating the socially conservative right to placate a dwindling old guard of progressive career politicians is a perpetually losing strategy (McCain, Romney)? Better question: At what point will the GOP realize that one or the other faction of the party is going to have to swallow hard and vote against the Democrat rather than for the Republican in every election.

Who makes Paul, Cruz, Rubio stars — the GOP or the media who want Republicans to be seen as conservative and thus out-of-touch as possible? (I don’t classify Paul as conservative in the same sense as Cruz and Rubio but that won’t stop the media and the DNC from trying.)

Why do you think John B. And Folk were secretly smiling and relatively quiet with the IRS story and the T Party

The other day, Palin wisely noted that it is time to let “Allah” sort out the mess among the various players in Syria who are divided and slaughtering largely on differences of theology. Not Assad, of course. He and his daddy were the tyrannical force that kept the streets safe from the religious zealots, manics, fanatics, and cultists who are now each crusading in blood battle to wrench and wrest control and install their brand of misery.

Supposedly, John McCain, John F’n Kerry, Obama, and maybe Whoppi Goldberg have a plan. That, of course, makes Palin look dumb.

The new conventional wisdom is that the hispanics are the key to winning the White House. Forget breaking up the black Democrat plantation. It is all about the hispanics.

Which is why it is doomed to fail. The very idea of “We need our own plantation” is disgusting.

The GOP has had a serious image problem for years and for years has done little or nothing about it.

Yes. Indeed.

The Demonizingrats are seasoned bullies and political correctness harpies who stay focused on being offensive about being offended by the Renumblicans.

The Renumblicans react and cry and run away and huddle up and get defensive and talk among themselves.

Then Sarah Palin comes along and stands on the national stage and gives better than she gets and pastes a black eye on the Demonizingrats and the Renumblicans cower and whisper about how she shouldn’t be talking like that.

Ronald Reagan was Sarah Palin with an “aw shucks” schtick, but he did the same thing and he earned the title of “amiable dunce” and the Renumbincans whispered about how he was light weight and slow.

Now we have Jeb Bush, straight from the Renumblicans, who is embarrassed by the party base and ready to follow the route of John McCain and Mitt Romney and play by the Renumblican Marquess of Queensberry Rules in which you let the Demonizingrats define you and you rise above it and lose.

The new conventional wisdom is that the hispanics are the key to winning the White House. Forget breaking up the black Democrat plantation. It is all about the hispanics. Meanwhile, the vast unemployed and underemployed and struggling middle class is supposedly too content waiting for “amnesty” and the hope and change train to arrive in their neck of the woods to be worth courting. Or something.

The Renumblicans need to stop being programmed by the focus group nerds and start using them for helping to get their principles and ideas across.

Jimmy Carter rose from the unknown. However, he did have a past and was, in fact, known. Obama rose from the unknown and is still unknown to this day. Those are two anomalies. Neither party can pull that trick off by plan.

2016 is the last frontier for principled conservatism to get things back on track in our republic.

The old metaphor of turning an aircraft carrier around applies to fundamentally changing America. Obama has sharpened the turn toward statism and greater socialism. We still have time to turn the direction and begin to correct the course. But Renumblicans can’t do it. They are so owned by their campaign financiers that they dare not be bold.

The Renumblican Party has a two front war: holding onto the power they have and fighting the TEA Party. For them, the TEA Party is an even bigger threat than the Demonizingrats.

Pathetic, really. But true. When Orrin Hatch hugs Ted Cruz, things may be on the brink of change.

I have a very intelligent liberal friend who cringes at the mention of a Republican and I am getting to the point that I agree with her.