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Old 09-07-2011, 06:45 AM
 
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Very good article. Pretty much sums up people like this guy ^.
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Old 09-07-2011, 06:51 AM
 
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Very good article. Pretty much sums up people like this guy ^.
How so?
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Old 09-07-2011, 11:22 AM
 
Location: Center of the universe
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Default The Lunacy of the GOP - From an Insider

This says all that needs to be said.


Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult | Truthout
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Old 09-07-2011, 11:26 AM
 
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Great link, but duplicate thread.

Goodby to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative who left the Cult

Rep to you anyway.
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Old 09-07-2011, 11:35 AM
 
Location: Gone
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The libs are already getting the anger machine geared up after the loss of the white house and senate in 2012.

Libs are alot happier when they have something to complain about. So it will be a win-win situation, in which the nation gets some direction toward fiscal responsibility and the libs can be happy again while protesting and complaining.
Counting chickens before they hatch is foolish, but considering the source I would say it is par for the course. As for whining, the righties have shown they can take it to a entirely new level, more can be expected from them after 2012.
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Old 09-07-2011, 11:39 AM
 
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History of the Libertarian Party - YouTube
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Old 09-07-2011, 11:42 AM
 
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There is the new slogan for the Democratic Party (based on this article): Vote Democrat! We may suck, but at least we don't suck as bad as The Republicans!
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Old 09-07-2011, 11:50 AM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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There is the new slogan for the Democratic Party (based on this article): Vote Democrat! We may suck, but at least we don't suck as bad as The Republicans!
that's why they usually get my vote.
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Old 09-07-2011, 11:50 AM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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I have printed that for distribution to my local Democratic Comittee.
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Old 09-07-2011, 11:54 AM
 
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That's nice.

He has formed an opinion.

How wonderful.


After eight years of Clintonian double-speak, you'll excuse me for losing interest in this one early on.

What sort of illiterate retard fails to see the end of the statement contradicts the beginning in such a way that one assertion nullifies another?


"But both parties are not rotten in quite the same way. The Democrats have their share of machine politicians, careerists, corporate bagmen, egomaniacs and kooks. Nothing, however, quite matches the modern GOP."


"Way" or degree?

The first sentence says "same way", but the obvious meaning is degree. In fact, nothing in the context of this paragraph indicates a different type of corruption, as was promised by "not rotten in quite the same way".


But both parties are not rotten in quite the same way.

Nothing, however, quite matches the modern GOP


If both parties, as the author asserts, are "not rotten in quite the same way", why would we expect Democrat's "machine politicians, careerists, corporate bagmen, egomaniacs and kooks" to match "the modern GOP"?

Either the author is an extremely poor writer, or he is deliberately attempting to mix meanings such that the lazy reader is carried away by tag lines and buzz words to a place where tone takes the place of fact.
What exactly is your point? He probably meant both way and degree... Since you will find each possible way among at least one member of each party, theoretically it is all about degree. However, since some ways are more dominant (i.e. higher degree) with one party than the other, the various degrees of all the individual ways give the general picture of different ways.
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