(April 24, 2011 at 6:40 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: I got halfway through the video before switching it off. The guy lost all credibility with two bogus claims:
1. The Republican party has moved "so far to the left" that he can't imagine how they could go any further. HUH? Has this guy been living in an alternate reality? The GOP keeps moving to the right each year so now GWB is a centrist by comparison.
You've never heard of a joke?
Are you unaware that Bush went Big Government? He massively increased government, as has every republican for the last 30 year - That was the point of the joke. To say your GOP move more to the right is absurd, Bush expanded medicaid/medicare, doubled the Department of Education and Department of Energy, set up more regulations, got more involved in the markets, set up the department of homeland security and engaged in stimulus spending - all of that is a departure from the Right.
Quote:2. The democrats rely on social issues to energize their base. Actually, its the economic issues that are getting democrats fired up these days.
Except they have no fucking clue how to deal with them, they're making things worse, making your Rich richer and wiping out the purchasing power of the working class with monetary policy is looser than a french whore.
Quote:If the Libertarians have been trying to influence the GOP, which they seem to have considering how they get sucked into voting for them every year, the efforts have been a catastrophic failure. Each election year, Republicans replay the tape of Reagan saying "government IS the problem" and then proceed to grow the government every time they win.
You know there are more libertarian leaning representatives than ever? That Ron Paul is one of the GOP frontrunners? That's about as far from a "catastrophic failure" as you can get...
Quote:Last election, it was all about small government and cutting spending. Upon entry into office, it's "abortion, abortion, abortion". Oh, and let's appoint a dictator to your local town, throwing out all the elected officials. How's that small government thingy goin for ya?
Much better than your "Change we can believe in", where the "change" is making clanging noises in the pockets of the multinational banks.
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