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Carnival of the RINO’s

by John Cole|  June 27, 20056:13 pm| 35 Comments

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RINO Sightings, aka the “Carnival of the Rino’s,” is up. The motto- “Republican, without all the crazy.”

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  1. 1.

    mr stupid head

    June 27, 2005 at 6:28 pm

    Let me just say that, as a librul, I’ve started frequenting this blog (and a number of those on the provided link), because it keeps me sane reading non-crazy Republican opinions – even those I disagree with (which are most of them.)

    IOW, nice to not have folks freely suggesting stuff like internment camps for liberals here. Too bad the crazies tend to be the ones with the loudest voices.

  2. 2.

    Darrell

    June 27, 2005 at 7:06 pm

    IOW, nice to not have folks freely suggesting stuff like internment camps for liberals here

    Poor, poor put upon libs. The little Eichmann digital-brownshirt fascist Republicans have said mean things? say it ain’t so. Off the Karl Rove moonbat re-education camp for you (*goose steps around in circles*)

  3. 3.

    Stormy70

    June 27, 2005 at 7:12 pm

    We only mention liberal internment camps on Friday, after we serve the fish in our Theocracy cafeteria.

  4. 4.

    mr stupid head

    June 27, 2005 at 7:13 pm

    See earlier comment about the crazies being the loudest ones.

  5. 5.

    mr stupid head

    June 27, 2005 at 7:16 pm

    Previous comment directed at Darrell.

  6. 6.

    Rick

    June 27, 2005 at 7:24 pm

    Oh, wait awhile. Some of the chest-thumpers from your side of the aisle will materialize.

    Cordially…

  7. 7.

    Jimmy Jazz

    June 27, 2005 at 9:37 pm

    Serious question for the libertarians and/or paleocons: how do you feel about the influence of fundamentalist Christians on your party (assuming you’re Republicans)? You know, the ones who reject science and want to put huge granite religious monuments in courtrooms?

    I feel far more threatened by these folks than I do by Islamic fundamentalists, and frankly their craziness seems separated only by degrees.

  8. 8.

    John Cole

    June 27, 2005 at 9:44 pm

    Are you asking me?

  9. 9.

    Jimmy Jazz

    June 27, 2005 at 9:58 pm

    Are you asking me?

    Directed at anyone, but I’d like to hear your take as a new visitor to your site.

  10. 10.

    John Cole

    June 27, 2005 at 10:27 pm

    Heh. Umm.. Stick around for a few days, it will be clear. Or you could check out these archival searches of Dobson, Terry, and Falwell.

    An impartial observer might fairly conclude that I become a touch unhinged at just the mention of the lunatic wing of the religious right.

  11. 11.

    Darrell

    June 27, 2005 at 10:33 pm

    You *know* you’re a f*cking kook when you start saying things like this:

    Serious question for the libertarians and/or paleocons: how do you feel about the influence of fundamentalist Christians on your party…. I feel far more threatened by these folks than I do by Islamic fundamentalists

    Because fundamentalist Christians have such a long history of flying airplanes into tall buildings, wanting to kill nonbelievers/infidels, etc, right? Yet you leftists claim that you are rational and “reality based”. Jeezus so many of you leftists are f*cking whacked. Do you kooks ever read your own words?

  12. 12.

    Sojourner

    June 27, 2005 at 10:39 pm

    The reality is that the religious right, through their influence on the legislation and the courts, the schools, and how science is conducted in this country are far more likely to have an impact on our lives than do the terrorists. For those of us who value personal freedoms, the right to make our own choices, and the pursuit of greater health through legitimate science, the religious right most definitely is a far greater threat.

  13. 13.

    Jimmy Jazz

    June 27, 2005 at 10:59 pm

    Thanks for beating me to the punch, Sojourner. Laws restricting freedom are far more dangerous to this democracy than a bunch of freaks with boxcutters. We’re the only ones with the power to destroy our liberty. Osama can’t do that. And I say that as somebody whose office overlooks LAX, so I know the physical threat from the Islamics is real and I take it seriously.

  14. 14.

    Darrell

    June 27, 2005 at 11:04 pm

    Regarding the comment that Islamic fundamentalists who have flown planes into our building and who are attacking our troops are less of a threat than Christian fundamentalists like Pat Robertson, I see you dishonest morons are incapable of anything other than DNC approved talking points:

    The reality is that the religious right, through their influence on the legislation and the courts, the schools, and how science is conducted in this country are far more likely to have an impact on our lives than do the terrorists

    blah, blah. Oh good Christ, can you people on the left for once in your pathetic lives think for yourselves without reciting leftist talking points?

    Christians did not kill 3,000 americans on 9/11. Christians are not sworn to kill all infidels. Christians are not blowing up buses and pizza parlors of innocente women and children. Can you stop with your f*cked up hairbrained comparisons of our troops to Pol Pot, and comparisons of Christians to the Islamfascists who have declared war on America? No? Because if you can’t, it’s because you really and truly hate America. Because you *really are* scum of the earth. Doubt me? Let me tell you, if you can’t make distinctions between US troops and the most genocidal regimes in history, or if you can’t make a distinction between Christians who love their country, and Islamofascists who want to kill you and destroy our country, then you deserve whatever sh*t comes your way.. you really do. You’re lowlifes. Know what you are

  15. 15.

    JWeidner

    June 27, 2005 at 11:17 pm

    Ahh Darrell,
    Always nice to see you take the high road in a disagreement.

    Frankly, your posts are becoming readable only for their laughter quotient. You should relax a bit and try to engage someone you disagree with instead of just going off the handle. Both parties to the conversation may come out ahead.

    Regards,
    JWeidner

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    Darrell

    June 27, 2005 at 11:23 pm

    Ahh Darrell,
    Always nice to see you take the high road in a disagreement.

    “Always nice”?? JWeiedner since you use the word “always”, are you a regular poster who has changed his name? Or are you just leaving a few of your droppings as a drive-by? Because your use of the word ‘always’ indicates a familiarity of which is not associated with your name.

  17. 17.

    Sojourner

    June 27, 2005 at 11:27 pm

    Take a valium, Darrell.

    Once again you display an incredibly narrow view of what this country is all about. For you, it’s a matter of geography and dominance. For me, it’s about the values on which this country was founded. If we lose those values, we lose our country. It’s people like you who dishonor our country by supporting those who want to replace those values with intolerance, conformity, and selfishness.

    Why do you hate America?

  18. 18.

    John Cole

    June 27, 2005 at 11:31 pm

    For the love of everything holy, will all you people take a damned hockey uck sized valium?

    I am the only shrill one allowed.

  19. 19.

    Darrell

    June 27, 2005 at 11:34 pm

    Soj, was that you masquerading as ‘JWeidner’?

    For me, it’s about the values on which this country was founded.

    Let’s examine your ‘values’ Sojourner:

    For those of us who value personal freedoms, the right to make our own choices, and the pursuit of greater health through legitimate science, the religious right most definitely is a far greater threat [than Islamic terrorists]

    Islamic terrorists killing thousands of Americans on 9/11, killing our troops, chopping off heads of civilians.. let’s be clear with whom you are making these comparisons. No, you’re not having an honest disagreement with me. You *really are* a scumbag.

  20. 20.

    Sojourner

    June 27, 2005 at 11:38 pm

    Whatever, Darrell. I think you’ve gone over the deep end. When I talk about people who support this administration because they are terrified, you certainly exemplify what I’m talking about.

  21. 21.

    John Cole

    June 27, 2005 at 11:42 pm

    Darrell. Step back from the keyboard. Breathe.

    Sojourner- stop egging him on.

    The rest of you- play nice.

  22. 22.

    Sojourner

    June 27, 2005 at 11:47 pm

    Dear Mr. Cole:

    My sincere apologies.

    Sincerely,

    An Unrepetent Liberal

  23. 23.

    Jimmy Jazz

    June 27, 2005 at 11:59 pm

    Another productive discussion!

  24. 24.

    Just some guy

    June 28, 2005 at 1:14 am

    We’re the only ones with the power to destroy our liberty.

    That’s all you need to know.

  25. 25.

    Jimmy Jazz

    June 28, 2005 at 1:17 am

    Setting aside the above for the moment (and no, the physical threat isn’t the same, but the threat to what this country is and what it represents is):

    Virtually the same policy team that built up the Taliban, Al Queda, etc. in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets AND the same policy team that supported Saddam against Iran is now telling me to trust them while they clean up the messes they helped create. Can you understand, even ABSENT the current situation in Iraq, why I might be hesitant to do that?

  26. 26.

    stickler

    June 28, 2005 at 1:32 am

    For those who think that the Pharisee wing of the GOP is nothin’ to worry about, just please for a moment pick up a textbook on American history and cast a glance back at some glorious high points of the last couple centuries.

    Like, say, good God-fearing Christians who defended slavery before 1865. It’s in the Good Book, you know. New Testament as well as Old.

    Or, say, the folks who drove the good fight for Prohibition. And the blue laws. Regulations on how close you could dance with your partner. So what if Prohibition led to massive law evasion and the rise of the Mafia?

    If you’ve really steeled yourselves for some gratuitous punishment, read up on a man named Scopes. He was run up on charges for teaching evolution. He was convicted.

    This crap wasn’t just silly. It was dead serious and it got people killed. That’s why paleocons like myself side with Goldwater (Peace be upon Him) when it comes to Falwell, Terry, Dobson, and their hellbound schismatic ilk.

  27. 27.

    Aaron

    June 28, 2005 at 4:05 am

    Gee, since we all know that Christians are such a threat because the vote on their beliefs and want to enact laws based on their principles, what other groups should we be scared of?

    How about communists? Sure only about 5% of America are commies (progressives, socialists, etc.) but they are really, really scary…I mean look how many people Mao and Stalin killed. ;)

    I don’t think most of the Christian right really wants to be like the Taliban, but there is that 5% fringe – and yeah, they could be scary. But as we constantly told that we have to accept the possibility of Islamist victory at the polls in other countries, I guess we have to accept the chance that some Christian fundies might win one day. Oh well, one man one vote. Do you think they would not allow the next election?

    But serously, the point is that you are asking people in the GOP about a sub-group that we have no control over.

    Secretly I wish they would just shut up and vote straight GOP and allow any scraps from the table to satisfy them. (In fact most of those scraps would be pretty uncontroversial.) But they tend to get all vocal. I’m sure moderate dems feel the same way about the moonbats.

  28. 28.

    p.lukasiak

    June 28, 2005 at 6:04 am

    Christians did not kill 3,000 americans on 9/11.

    true. But Christians have killed somewhere between 20,000 and 100,000 innocent Iraqis over the past couple of years, and tens of thousand more have been killed by insurgents and terrorists who are opposed to all those soldiers running around Iraq on the order of their Christian leaders.

    (oh and here’s a hint — the number of people killed by Saddam for political reasons during the last years of his reign was quantified with the word “scores”. Not thousands, but “twenties”. It might have made sense for us to intervene when Saddam was slaughtering Kurds and Shia after we encouraged them to rebel in the wake of the first US-Iraq war—but things had calmed down considerably since that time.)

    And thanks to our Christian leadership, over 1700 additional Americans are now dead, and thousands upon thousands more permanently and seriously disabled.

    So yeah, I think Christians (at least the kind who are calling the shots in the USA right now — you know, the ones whose theology is completely unrelated to the life and teachings of Christ) are a bigger threat to America — because they are leading to the destruction of far more American lives than the Islamic fundamentalists, and even worse, are creating an entire generation of Muslims who see the USA as the “Great Satan” that needs to be resisted using any mean available.

  29. 29.

    Aaron

    June 28, 2005 at 6:30 am

    Luka Siak,

    If you would like to go back in history, tit for tat, Muslim vs. Christian, I think you’ll find the initial aggression was by Muslims by definition.

    So, your argument doesn’t work in terms of “b-b-b-but we are killing Muslims now.”

    Also care to explain how our Christian pilots killed Christian serbs to protect Muslim Bosnians and Kosovars?

    BTW, how did my buddy the Atheist get into the US armed forces if they are “Christian?”

  30. 30.

    Geek, Esq.

    June 28, 2005 at 9:03 am

    Wow, Republicans I can agree with on a lot of issues! Maybe there’s hope for the Republic after all.

  31. 31.

    Jimmy Jazz

    June 28, 2005 at 9:23 am

    How about communists? Sure only about 5% of America are commies (progressives, socialists, etc.) but they are really, really scary…

    First off, progressives aren’t “commies” (and neither are socialists, but you can have that one).

    Secondly, despite what some might think I don’t think Kerry was on the phone every day with the International Workers of the World the way Rove is with Dobson and the other influential fundies. I love how you guys always deflect this argument rather than, you know, actually acknowledge the fact that your leaders have intentionally pandered to a group that is inherently undemocratic.

    Third, any leftist group that is radical enough to worry about isn’t in the Democratic Party, they’re Naderites or some other splinter party. Leftist authoritarians are pretty much too stupid to actually work in groups.

    I don’t think most of the Christian right really wants to be like the Taliban,

    I do, although of course they won’t use the word “Taliban”. How I do know they want to act like them? They state it publicly.

    but there is that 5% fringe

    The Terry Schiavo circus and the constant pandering argues for a higher number.

    Do you think they would not allow the next election?

    Do you? Once they’ve implemented “God’s law”, which is apparently different than the Constitution, they’re not going to let us godless heathens back in.

    But serously, the point is that you are asking people in the GOP about a sub-group that we have no control over.

    Other than pandering to them relentlessly and turning megachurches into Republican recruitment and funding centers, you mean?

  32. 32.

    Jimmy Jazz

    June 28, 2005 at 11:15 am

    Some sort of problem with the blockquote feature, sorry about the formatting goofiness.

  33. 33.

    Aaron

    June 28, 2005 at 11:53 am

    Jimmy,

    You missed my point that the “Christian Right” is about as monolithic as me lumping all those groups as communists.

    Kerry I’m sure took phone calls from MoveOn, Soros, etc. which are about as moonbat as any Christian freak.

    When I compare them to the Taliban, I mean it in a way that you and I would agree: a theocracy where they attempt to impose Christianity on people – not just a few policies here and there, but full scale theocracy.

    I’m guesssing the freaky theocrats would be about as many as controlled economy people.

    From there on there would be gradations of insanity to where we might have Moonbat A want socialized healthcare and Christbat B who wants Christian groups allowed to meet at school after hours.

  34. 34.

    Kimmitt

    June 28, 2005 at 1:34 pm

    Darrell —

    Alzheimer’s runs in my wife’s family. She’s far more likely to be killed by fundie resistance to stem cell research than by Islamic terrorists.

  35. 35.

    dlnevins

    June 28, 2005 at 8:57 pm

    Because fundamentalist Christians have such a long history of flying airplanes into tall buildings, wanting to kill nonbelievers/infidels, etc, right?

    Darrel –

    You might consider googling the following terms: “Know Nothings,” “nativism,” and “lynchings”.

    Certain groups of Protestent Christians in this country DO in fact have a long history of terrorizing and killing “nonbelievers/infidels” (also known in those days as Roman Catholics and Jews). I see no reason to blithely assume they will never do so again.

    Religious zealots are dangerous, period. I don’t care what brand of religion they’re zealous about.

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