Funny things Republicans say:
“Since when is initiating class warfare a conservative campaign tactic?”
Rick Moran, Right Wing Nuthouse.
I wonder what kind of counter-tops Mike Huckabee has?
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Infrastructure week. at last.
Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.
When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.
Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?
“But what about the lurkers?”
If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!
🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵
Republicans in disarray!
Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.
They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.
Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)
I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.
The revolution will be supervised.
I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.
The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.
Battle won, war still ongoing.
Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.
The words do not have to be perfect.
Let’s finish the job.
Consistently wrong since 2002
This fight is for everything.
Their freedom requires your slavery.
It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.
cleek
fixed
myiq2xu
It’s only class warfare when the rich are being criticized.
Otherwise it’s speaking truth to power(less.)
Jen
Since when did Republicans stop screaming “class warfare” at any mention of anyone’s economic difficulties?
Oh, never. My bad.
Grand Moff Texan
Moran is right. For Republicans, class warfare is supposed to go on under the radar, while they distract the yokels with bullshit like abortion and gay marriage.
Ignorant fucking bone-in-the-nose freaks, they deserve to get taken. Unfortunately, they take us all down with them, or at least they did before 2006.
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merciless
Moron is right, it isn’t usually a conservative campaign tactic. It’s a conservative governing principle.
Philip the Equal Opportunity Cynic
For Republicans, class warfare is supposed to go on under the radar, while they distract the yokels with bullshit like abortion and gay marriage.
Exxxxxxxxactly! With a lot of snide innuendos about Kerry’s windsurfing and the price of Edwards’ haircuts and a million other ways of saying, “They’re just a bunch of pansy Ivy League intellectuals.”
There’s some merit to painting the political class, across the spectrum, as well-off and with little idea how the working class lives. (Yes, I realize there are exceptions of politicians from working-class families, but even then many seem to drift away from their roots.) I can even understand why paternalistic do-goodism from the Left inspires contempt.
The preposterous part is the idea that one can show those effete Massachusetts liberal intellectuals a thing or two by voting for an equally effete, equally rich, equally Ivy League, but not equally intelligent son of privilege who thinks that being one with the common people means clearing branches on his West Texas ranch.
wasabi gasp
Last night on the tube I saw my first local Mike Huckabee ad. I think Nipsey Russel must be his copywriter ‘cuz that cat was bustin’ the wicked rhymes.
myiq2xu
Don’t most trailers have Formica(c) counters?
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
When did Rick Moranis drop the last two letters from his name?
/got nothin’
Hubris
It’s a mystery.
PaulW
Probably as far back as 1843 with the formation of the American Republican Party, also known as the Know-Nothings, who were horrified by the wave of Irish Catholic immigrants arriving to our shores.
And to think, I missed the Elvis question on the online Jeopardy Participation Quiz last night… :(
Zifnab
But he found Jesus. So it’s all good.
Dennis - SGMM
What a bunch of liberal Sissy-Mary’s. This is still a country where a person can hit town with a few million in their pocket and a head full of dreams and make something of themselves. It’s a proud land of give and take between the rich and the poor. The poor give and the rich take and that’s the way God wants it.
You’re lucky I don’t call out the guards and then charge you for the beating you’ll get.
jrg
When the limousine liberals decided to bring their “San Francisco values” to hard-working blue America?
“What’s the Matter with Kansas” describes in great detail the lengths to which “conservatives” have gone to exploit the Red State/Blue State “divide”.
Now that voters are lining up to ride the unity pony, Moran is pretending that divisive class warfare is not a core Republican strategy?
The more desperate these “conservatives” get, the more transparent their bullsh-t becomes. See you in November, Moran.
Grand Moff Texan
When the limousine liberals decided to bring their “San Francisco values” to hard-working blue America?
“Sodomy for everyone!”
[crowd boos]
“OK … sodomy for no one!”
[crowd hesitates, then boos louder]
“Hmmm. All right: sodomy for some, little American flags for everyone!”
[crowd cheers]
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rawshark
Just another variation on the same theme, ‘since when have we ever done any of the things we do’.
When you have a base of supporters who care less about agreeing with you than they do about not agreeing with your opposition, you can get away with a lot.
The Other Steve
Obama might pick up California on February 5th, he’s 3 points away in the polls and Kennedy is campaigning with him out there particularly with latinos.
Someone put myiq on a suicide watch, stat.
Cain
Spoofing Simpsons aren’t you?
cain
Darkness
Oh, man, can we get a difficult one? I feel like a challenge today.
1972. Reagan. Campaign for the presidential nomination. Introduced the term “welfare queen” and used it repeatedly to long-running success.
Well, unless that’s not class warfare but, um, economic viability warfare. In which case, the republican war on all of us, seems to have succeeded brilliantly, given the economic numbers coming out this month. Uncle! Uncle! We surrender!
Grand Moff Texan
Spoofing Simpsons aren’t you?
cain
No, just trying to get laid.
You?
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Davis X. Machina
The first rule of Class Warfare is that there is no Class Warfare.
myiq2xu
heh
libarbarian
Actually, demonising poor people would be just as demonizing rich people – if you could do it. The thing is that you can’t really demonise poor people because they really are a bunch of lazy good-for-nothing slobs who mooch off their betters when they aren’t smoking crack and robbing their betters.
For instance, look at the sub-prime housing crisis. All these innocent lenders decided, out of the goodness of their own pure hearts, to simply trust the loan applicants to tell the truth regarding their income and ability to pay. Sure, they could have asked for documentation, like a pay-stub or something to actually verify the ability of the applicant to make payments, but they were just trying to be nice and respect the privacy of the poor applicants. How did the poor people repay them for their generosity? By lying, cheating, and stealing from the poor defenseless rich people.
Its such a shame. Class warfare is so unfair.
/snark.
Philip the Equal Opportunity Cynic
Well, good thing!
Conversely, neither Jonathan Swift (the original one, oh, hell, the blogging one neither) nor Mark Twain put snark tags or winking smilies in their alleged satire, so I’m pretty sure they were serious.
Phoenix Woman
John, John, John. It’s only class warfare if the poor people fight back. Otherwise it’s business as usual.
ThymeZone
Wow, Rick the Moran’s blog is as dead as a doornail.
Almost as dead as the idea base from which he operates.
I love these guys who talk wistfully about “conservatism.”
The whole thing was smoke and mirrors from the get-go. There never has been a conservative movement, unless doughy pantloads count.
Darkness
Speaking of shame… It’s a tragic day in blogland when you have to qualify comments such as yours as tongue in cheek. Eeh gads.
I give the sub-prime mess good marks for being an across the board f–k-up with a proper morass of fingerpointing. Some are trying to make the case you make here, but it isn’t sticking so well because even the reddest redstater cogitates that banks are traditionally paranoid with their money and if they weren’t in this case then something fishy is goin’ on.
The welfare queen scenario I found utter egregious. Especially since that mantra carried them through the S&L debacle when Reagan’s buddies and Bush’s sons made out like bandits with a public bailout while blaming the truly powerless for the financial mess the country was in. It was pure spiteful irresponsibility. The second place award for spiteful irresponsibility was Gingrich standing up and blaming welfare for murderous domestic violence. What a f–khead that guy is. Where is that guy, anyway? He was supposed to get his hypocritical, lying arse handed to him along with Giuliani. Dang.
Zifnab
The conservative movement = something soft and brown = liberal minorities = islamofascism. Ergo, the conservative movement is actually islamofascism. QED.
Zifnab
Wow. Just… fucking… wow.
cmoreNC
Gingrich has just as enormous an ego and is just as enormously filled with hypocracy as Giuliani – but Gingrich is smart and self-aware enough to have absorbed the lesson from it that smart folks whose grasp for power is fueled with hubris usually wind up shitting humble pie. He was sorely tempted to throw his name in the Presidential ring this time around, despite his denials, but he had enough insight to realize that he’d end up with his own unique variation of the kind of humiliation Giuliani got in the end. By not running, his status as a think-tank level pundit and wise elder of the republican party stayed intact, and he remained free to do what he really likes best (remember, he was once a college professor) – analyize and pontificate (and even get paid for it).
HyperIon
yeah, he went through a phase where he shut down the comments, which must have driven some folks away. i visit occasionally because he is so often…moronic. and he cannot take any critcism. really thin-skinned. a few days ago he actually inserted his abuse into a rather mild comment i made about what he wrote on the SOTU speech. he seems to think that name-calling is a substantive argument.
JF
Republicans wage class warfare to get more money to themselves and their rich friends, but trash is still trash. I just remember stories about Duke Cunningham going to super expensive steakhouses and ordering his steaks burnt, or never changing the water in his yacht, letting it get all dirty and liking it that way. Or Rush Limbaugh going to expensive steakhouses and spending the night stuffing his face.
milo
It’s not class warfare: it’s racial warfare, gender warfare and class warfare all rolled up into one
deliciousdisgusting rightwingbon-bonpile of shit.Zifnab
Racial warfare and gender warfare are just forms of class warfare. Republicans have absolutely no problem with rich blacks and women. See: Powell, Colin; Dole, Liddy; Rice, Condelezza.
ThymeZone
It’s not? Now you tell me.
What’s next, frowning is not the same as thinking?
Jessh.
LiberalTarian
You can do that here? Wow. Your virtual world is much, much better than mine.
John Cole
Rick Moran is actually not a bad guy, and really does try to be fair. His problem is that no matter what, the Democrats are always worse to him, and it really clouds his judgement. If you go through his archives, he has genuinely been outraged over many of the same damned things that infuriated me- the right wing response to Abu Gharaib, teri schiavo, etc.
But then something happens, and some little voice in his head says “the Democrats are worse,” and you find him looking the other way or getting over the inexcusable behavior from the GOP.
LiberalTarian
It’s the dog brain I tell ya.
LiberalTarian
Then, there is this headline goodness for the aging baby-boomer GOP faithful (cuz they don’t need no stinkin’ health care)
Bush Wants $200 Billion In Medicare Cuts
Psycheout
All I can say, is that it’s Time for Mitt To Go, for the good of America and the Republican party.
McCain’s going to win the nomination unless Mittens gets out of Huckabee’s way.
rawshark
*cough*
HyperIon
rawshark, you have pegged it.
I really think Rick Moran cannot help himself.
jrg
No, proofreading snafu. s/blue/red.
ThymeZone
I think it’s demonstrable that one can be an idiot, without being a bad guy.
Let’s keep it real. The history of the last three years here has been your own history of intellectual integrity trumping ideology. I will go out on a limb and say that this is the thing that drove you away from the GOP.
Well, intellectual integrity is not rocket science. It’s really just a matter of being honest. Rick doesn’t get that. His posting history on these pages alone proved that a long time ago. He may be a good guy, whatever that means, but his approach to ideas is dysfunctional and toxic.
The notion that one can hold the belief in a 6000 year old earth, or in the imminent recovery of Terri Schiavo, or in the idea that waterboarding is okay if we think that “lives will be saved,” or whichever cockamamie and insane crock of shit those people are peddling at the moment, and be welcome in a place where intellectual integrity has any value, is just nonsense.
The Other Steve
Isn’t that what the prescription drug plan costs?
The link I saw was a $200 billion cut in the 2009 budget. And I was thinking… Isn’t that what Iraq costs?
The Other Steve
Rick Moran isn’t a bad guy.
GW Bush means well.
Darrell argues in good faith.
I think I’m sensing a pattern. :-)
ThymeZone
I’d just like to say, I think I really am a good guy. I argue in good faith, and I mean well.
I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.
Not people I know, but …. people.
Rudi
On a related note on Republican stupidity, gotta love this from Human Events.
InHumanEvents
South Carolina – Republicans – Liberal (WTF).
If a high school student wrote this slop in a current events/history class I doubt if a passing grade could be expected.
Darkness
The know-nothings… I like the part where they, the only patriotic americans suitable for the job, hijack the construction of the Washington Monument for four years. And what little they completed in that time was so substandard it had to be torn back down and rebuilt properly to withstand the planned height. Probably by a bunch of catholic-loving foreign-borns who knew how to get crap done.
Boy, is that a perfect historical symbol for the Party of Katrina or what?