Oh the Double Standards!

[RaisdCath]

Democracts are fuming over the recent charge from Karl Rove that Hillary may not be up to the task of being president because of a "...serious health episode,”...

Clinton, then the secretary of state, fell and suffered a concussion in December 2012 and was later diagnosed with a blood clot. Her injury postponed her testimony before Congress about the 2012 Benghazi attacks

So, it's okay for the dems to question Ronald Reagan's health when he ran against Mondale, and it was okay for the dems to question McCain's health when he ran against Barack? But it's not okay for the Republicans to question Hillary health? Leftwing double standards as usual.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/05/...in-damage/

I do hope this doesn't surprise you....

This had been a tactic of the political left since the publication in 1971 of Mr. Alinsky's book "Rules for Radicals". In this case, Rule 12 seems to apply, tho others could be used also.
Quote: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

What amazes me is that the right wing of the American political scene has learned nothing over the last 45 - 55 years about how the other side fights. If ever there was an institution/group/community that a) can't get out of its own way and b) has the unique, repeating habit of snatching defeat out of the very jaws of victory....it is the American right.

If the vaunted American military were as "successful" as the American right.....we'd all be speaking either German or Japanese.

[A Theist]

Screw your dumbass partisan politics. You need to wake the hell up.

This gem after regaling us with your partisan political views. And you squeal about hypocrisy.

Unlike you on the left, I never pretended not to be to some extent. You guys on the left however, are just too naive and too blind in your worldview to realize how partisan and intolerant you actually are. No one is more partisan and such flat out looney tunes activists as those on the left. You're the ones pretending to uphold tolerance and scream about social justice while being the worse of Totalitarians.

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Democracts are fuming over the recent charge from Karl Rove that Hillary may not be up to the task of being president because of a "...serious health episode,”...


So, it's okay for the dems to question Ronald Reagan's health when he ran against Mondale, and it was okay for the dems to question McCain's health when he ran against Barack? But it's not okay for the Republicans to question Hillary health? Leftwing double standards as usual.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/05/...in-damage/

I do hope this doesn't surprise you....

This had been a tactic of the political left since the publication in 1971 of Mr. Alinsky's book "Rules for Radicals". In this case, Rule 12 seems to apply, tho others could be used also.
Quote: "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”

Nope. It doesn't surprise me. Alinsky drafted the blue print for the radical left.
I like Alinsky's rule #4: Make the other side live up to their own book of rules. The radical left can't do that.

[Cato]

Unlike you on the left, I never pretended not to be to some extent. You guys on the left however, are just too naive and too blind in your worldview to realize how partisan and intolerant you actually are. No one is more partisan and such flat out looney tunes activists as those on the left. You're the ones pretending to uphold tolerance and scream about social justice while being the worse of Totalitarians.

I am certainly left of you as most people must be, but I could hardly be classified as part of 'the left'. Although my voter registration doesn't affiliate me with any party, I consider myself libertarian and will lean any number of way depending on the topic. For instance, I embrace capitalism; however, have no problem with regulating industries (think Canadian banking system) and think that deregulation of utilities is stupid. I embrace a meritocracy and the inherent inequality that results from competition, but only on a level playing field and after everyone's basic needs are satisfied.

My problem with this entire thread is the underlying idea that there is any significant difference between Republicans and Democrats in the manner by which they retain power and continue to do nothing to improve our collective circumstance.

[Lemonvariable72]

Personally I find it funny that you Americans even consider Democrats left wing. Compared to other countries the Republicans and Democrats and both right swingers just the dems try to appeal to a more moderate crowd. Left wing is the Canadian ndp or European green party.

[Ryantology]

No. Tu Quoque is just a defense you naive leftists love to hide behind everytime your hypocrisy gets called out.

Uh, guy? This thread is tu quoque and you started it.

[Faith No More]

No. Tu Quoque is just a defense you naive leftists love to hide behind everytime your hypocrisy gets called out. Condemning the other side for something when your side is just as, if not, more guilty of the same thing adds no credibility to your position. That's what a hypocrite does.

Screw your dumbass partisan politics. You need to wake the hell up.

I'm only forced into partisan politics because one side is so pathetically detached from reality. Fuck the Democrats and their corporate money, but fuck the Republicans even more for being so terrifyingly moronic that I feel compelled to vote for corporate shills I don't actually care for to keep them out of office.

If bile didn't rise to my throat at the thought of Republican candidates and their delusions taking over, I would never consider voting Democrat.

[Crossless2.0]

I'm only forced into partisan politics because one side is so pathetically detached from reality. Fuck the Democrats and their corporate money, but fuck the Republicans even more for being so terrifyingly moronic that I feel compelled to vote for corporate shills I don't actually care for to keep them out of office.

If bile didn't rise to my throat at the thought of Republican candidates and their delusions taking over, I would never consider voting Democrat.

This.

I've mentioned many times on this forum that my true political alignment would be with moderate Republicans of the sort that could have been found in the '60s, but they have been hunted nearly to extinction within their own party. I would no more vote for a typical contemporary Republican than I would for a candidate from the Constitution Party. Fuck Nixon and his Southern Strategy and double-fuck Reagan for bringing it to fruition. As far as I'm concerned, the GOP seriously went off the rails when it courted the fundie vote. It's been all downhill ever since.

[CapnAwesome]

Democrats have selective memories that aren't very long. They have all the same tactics, but nobody can whine quite like a liberal.

[Ryantology]

There really aren't very many complaints from the right that aren't crass examples of people of extreme privilege whining about losing it.

[Isun]

Just to point out, reagan's own son noticed that Reagan was suffering from memory loss and some level of dementia in 1984. In other words there were some strong indication that there was a problem


http://voices.washingtonpost.com/politic..._from.html


The difference here, is that there was a reason to be concerned with Reagan's health. There wasn't and isn't one for Clinton's health.

As to John, again no concerns about his health. the concerns was that anyone that was stupid enough to select Sarah Palin as a running mate was a threat to this country.