The Southern Avenger has a point, and his point would be valid if McCain had not renounced his former position of “qualified abortions”.  Since he has, it then becomes starkly obvious that the only man to vote for this election is McCain.  This is an issue more critical than the economy or foreign policy or immigration, because if no one cares for the right to life of the unborn baby, then all the rest is just hot air.  It is possible, also, since none of us know the future in any absolute sense, that this change in McCain may result in return to true conservatism with regard to the economy, foreign policy and immigration.  I would rather vote for a man who defends life than for a man who abets murder and murderers.

Dumb?  They’re complete cretins.  And there’s plenty of them.

I can understand why someone would be a Republicans in the 80s.  And I can also understand why someone would be a Repub in the 90s.  But in this day of sellout conservatism (neocons) I can’t understand why anyone would want to be associated with them.

For revolution,
BANA

Ha! Good shot of Justin. That, and the recent revelation that Taki still smokes, almost makes me want to take it up, but the taxes on tobacco make me cough. I guess I’ll stick to the tax-free kind.

The accusation is made that some (Republicans) “are just plain dumb has increasingly become harder to refute,” was quickly demonstrated here, with the first post here as Exhibit A.  “Sertorious” states, referring to abortion: “This is an issue more critical than the economy or foreign policy or immigration, because if no one cares for the right to life of the unborn baby, then all the rest is just hot air.”
With all respect, this position, and the Republican position on the abortion issue, defines “hot air,” and is the perfect example of political infantilism.  Time and time again Republicans roll this issue out to disguise their actual covetousness, in favor of a few, and their incompetence.  The economic meltdown pulls together the entire Republican agenda of the last 8 years, to which the current nominee, and his witch-doctor believing running mate, only says, Amen. 
In a previous post about Republican attempts at dictatorship, with their unitary executive theory, and demonstrated again in the Bush-Paulsen Plan where, with now standard Republican statutory boilerplate denying any judicial review, I wrote the following. 
“I once argued to a group of “conservative” Catholics that we should not be trading our “birthright,” i.e., habeas corpus, for the pottage of a mere promise that sometime in the future, in the fullness of time, Roe v. Wade “might be reversed, and thereby return the abortion issue to the states. They quickly rejected the argument for the defense of habeas corpus and, to a man, enthusiastically indicated they thought giving up habeas corpus for a mere promise was a good trade. Ironically, three days later, South Dakota voted to keep abortion in that state. Curiously, it is not incredible to believe that some of the victims of the loss of habeas corpus would be anti-abortion protestors under some future administration. I guess that’s why “conservatives” came to be known as the “stupid party,” not just ideological bias.
. . . History has seldom shown such a combination of hubris, power mongering, and pure stupidity as currently resides in the Republican party.  Stalingrad and Napoleon’s march on Moscow stand as its symbols.”
On every front, the United States has failed with these policies.  We transferred hegemony over Iraq to Iranian-allied Shiites that we placed in power.  We have destabilized every region of the world important to us.  With the economic meltdown showing the fraud perpetrated on us and all of the death brought to, among others, mideastern Christians, the failure of Republican policies from a Christian perspective is complete.
Didn’t C.S. Lewis suggest that Satan would disguise his true nature in promoting sin?

Gee...did ya ever think that maybe instead of being dumb, all these poor ignorant “right wing” voters expect their representatives to be stand up people like themselves instead of wanabee hacks?

Did you ever think that these poor stupid voters come from a culture and civilization where a man’s word is his bond.

Why do you so-called intellectuals wallow in your own self importance as arbiters of western civilization while mocking those people who actually uphold the standards of that civilization?

The west was built NOT upon philosophers but upon doers.

All the snarky editorials on the planet will never feed a starving child.

A million philosophers will never build a rocket ship, nor discover an energy source.

But, those of us who know how to build or erect the infrastructure that all of you geniuses need to survive upon are a constant repository of stock gags that help convince you do-nothing parasites of your own superiority.

The right wing cognitive elite are no better than the left wing cognitive elite.

Unfortunately, all of us simple rubes actually practice all of those western values you people keep harping on.

You are just butt-kissing smarmy sell-outs to leftist pigs.

But....

we will take you back into the fold.

Digging ditches, sweeping floors…

etc......etc......etc......

“Unfortunately, all of us simple rubes actually practice all of those western values you people keep harping on.”

So you vote for the neocons and the Wall Street Bankers because every 4 years they say they’re against abortion or for “Main street.”

Could Mr. Erpelding be Karl Rove?

Amen! Great column!

@ Erpelding,

Where do you start with this guy?

“Did you ever think that these poor stupid voters come from a culture and civilization where a man’s word is his bond.”

If only it were still so.

“The west was built NOT upon philosophers but upon doers.”

Well why are you writing this review?  Go on, there’s things to be done!  But while you’re sitting there you could do a search and see that Western culture was founded in Greece with a philosopher culture.

“But....

we will take you back into the fold.

Digging ditches, sweeping floors…”

Fancy yourself a Stalin or Hitler, eh?  I’ll pass.

Jack, once again, timely and relevant commentary.  The powers that be in both parties are merely two sides of the same coin, and the dime’s worth of difference is down to about three cents with the continued debauching of our currency.  The differences are not substantive, but merely stylistic.
Indeed, both these men are possessed of a surpassing arrogance that gives little credence to reason.  If only McCain were as transparent as Ernesto “Che” Obama.
And like their predecessor, either of these clowns would make merchandise of our sovereignty in a New York minute.  The House of Representatives is the last bastion of our government where you will find some Republicans who actually possess a measure of fidelity.
There is only a straw left to grasp for those who feel they have no other choice.

Any chance that there is a text editor who might point out the difference between “dumb” and “stupid”?

Among men the quality of being dumb - holding your tongue - is considered a virtue.

“Gee...did ya ever think that maybe instead of being dumb, all these poor ignorant “right wing” voters expect their representatives to be stand up people like themselves instead of wanabee hacks?”

Well yeah, maybe once or twice. But how many times does the GOP base have to get screwed before these morons FINALLY read the handwriting on the wall?

I wouldnt say dumb but raised in bamboozle.

And its very hard to un-bamboozle ones self.

Turn off the TeeVee.

is it not anyone else’s impression that the act of banning abortions in a prison state is inherently supporting the idea that the unborn have the rights and privileges of existing in such a state?

it has not come to pass just yet, but is this not the ends with which the fundamentalist neochristians stack thier priorities? unborn cells are more important than individual freedom of those who exist in a decrepit state?

I say, “NO SHIT” when that dude said, “we’re not philosophers’ and “NO SHIT’ when the other says “we’re all just simple rubes”.

Jaysus, HAS IT COME TO THIS MADNESS???????

Hitlers’ best supporters in Nazi Germany were the intelligentsia.

Not the workers , who’s votes he split with the communists, nor the industrialists, who’s votes he split with the Social Democrats.

The Nazi’s most powerful allies were in the Universities.

History will repeat itself soon.

Courtesy of self important intellectual wannabees.