(For every Linc Chafee in the GOP there are a number of Ben Nelsons, Max Baucuses and Mark Pryors.) I notice he left Lieberman off his list... |
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GOP Senators who disagree with the Bush Cult over detainees are accused of aiding the terrorists, as being unpatriotic, as being traitors to the United States, and yet it is left leaning Dems who are being intolerant.
Think about it: John McCain - the leading GOP Presidential candidate in 2008 and a former POW - is accused of being a traitor to the United States of America by leading voices in the GOP. not just anti-Republican, but treasonous. But rather than pointing out this rather glaring instance of fraticide, you instead pick up on some small inside-baseball dust up.
Tell you what, when the DLC is accused of being in league with Al Qaeda, get back to us. |
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GOP Senators who disagree with the Bush Cult over detainees are accused of aiding the terrorists, as being unpatriotic, as being traitors to the United States, and yet it is left leaning Dems who are being intolerant. Ah the old "they do it too!" defense. How original.
Hint: Bush isn’t running for office in ’08 so all of that is a waste of pixels.
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the leading GOP Presidential candidate in 2008 That would be too bad for the GOP. |
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GOP Senators who disagree with the Bush Cult over detainees are accused of aiding the terrorists, as being unpatriotic, as being traitors to the United States, and yet it is left leaning Dems who are being intolerant. By whom? Got quotes, or is this direct from your imagination?Think about it: John McCain - the leading GOP Presidential candidate in 2008 and a former POW - is accused of being a traitor to the United States of America by leading voices in the GOP. That should be an easy bunch of quotes to find, huh? |
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But rather than pointing out this rather glaring instance of fraticide, you instead pick up on some small inside-baseball dust up. I love how you avoid mentioning Lieberman....just like the article above. What, have you made him a Stalin-era type non-person so soon?
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is accused of being a traitor to the United States of America by leading voices in the GOP Yeah, I’m interested in those quotes as well. Let’s see them.Of course, MK will not show up in this thread again. |
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is accused of being a traitor to the United States of America by leading voices in the GOP Yeah, I’m interested in those quotes as well. Let’s see them.
Of course, MK will not show up in this thread again. Allow me to help him out, incidentally:
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/015276.phpDon’t miss Andrew McCarthy’s excellent dissection of the objections raised by Republican Sen. John McCain and "his entourage" of terrorist rights advocates against President Bush’s proposed terrorist trial procedures. As McCarthy notes, Sen. McCain’s unwillingness or inability to see past his experiences as a prisioner of war in very different times under very different circumstances raises this question: Can the nation afford a President John McCain? (One might also ask whether, given his power and influence with respect these issues, the nation can afford a Senator McCain). Now, I wasn’t the one who said, "leading voices in the GOP", but this is not an example of a leading voice in the Democratic party calling out Al From, either.
The right wing of the Republican party absolutely wants to purge its party of anything resembling a moderate. They’ve been doing it for a decade. The ideological conformity they’ve induced has been bad for the country, but it has been good for their attainment of power.
It’s your blog, McQ, so you can highlight Democratic fratricide on a weekly basis and completely ignore Republican fratricide, like the Club For Growth’s multi-million-dollar attempt to oust Lincoln Chaffee with Steve Laffey, complete with hysterical rhetoric on all sides - but hopefully, someone will call out your target selection as painting less than a full picture.
Of course the DLC has always attempted to move the party more to the center because they believe that is where elections are won.
Or, alternatively, where the Democratic party is permanently annihilated by abandonment of separate and competing principles of government, to be replaced by a mush-filled echo of Republican principles, with stammering ifs, ands, and buts tacked on.
Which is what Republicans want.
Which is why the give Democrats so much "advice" about ditching their left wing.
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It’s your blog, McQ, so you can highlight Democratic fratricide on a weekly basis and completely ignore Republican fratricide, like the Club For Growth’s multi-million-dollar attempt to oust Lincoln Chaffee with Steve Laffey, complete with hysterical rhetoric on all sides - but hopefully, someone will call out your target selection as painting less than a full picture. It is indeed my decision, glasnost, but here’s the point, the Republican party is in power. So their ’fratricide’ is much less interesting than that of the party seeking power.
If the point of all this is to win, then I would assume you’d agree that fratricide, dividing the party and making the tent smaller aren’t conducive to that goal.
And to me that makes Dem fratricide much more appealing as a story than Rep fratricide. It is also an interesting study of how the left on the blogosphere is trying to define who is and isn’t a Democrat (or should be one), and frankly I’m interested in following it and seeing how that develops.
I’m not here to be ’fair’. I’m not here to be unbiased. Or balanced. I’m certainly not here to blog about what glasnost thinks I should blog about.
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glasnost, I didn’t see the word "traitor" in your quote. Or anything else that appeared to paint McCain with the "traitor" brush. |
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Glasnost, I don’t see anyone in that link calling McCain a traitor. So, you didn’t help much.
Is it okay for Republicans to disagree with McCain and not be accused of calling him a traitor?
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Glasnost, if that’s the harshest quote you can find, you’re probably better off quitting while you’re behind.The right wing of the Republican party absolutely wants to purge its party of anything resembling a moderate. They’ve been doing it for a decade. The ideological conformity they’ve induced has been bad for the country, but it has been good for their attainment of power Yeah, who knew all the help the White House and GOP Senate committee has given to non-moderates like Chaffee and Specter was all part of a plot to gain idealogical conformity! |
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The right wing of the Republican party absolutely wants to purge its party of anything resembling a moderate.
Yeah thats why both the administration and the RNC supported Chafee and Specter in their primaries and general elections. You are not very observant. |
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Ah the old "they do it too!" defense. How original. Yes MK, please confine yourself to original conspiracy laden theories as to why the Democrat party is tearing itself apart in a unique and never before seen way. It is not excusable to note that this is politics as usual. |
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Or anything else that appeared to paint McCain with the "traitor" brush. Sen. John McCain and "his entourage" of terrorist rights advocates So, advocates of terrorist rights, I assume, you’d be willing to stand up and say, are not traitors?
Good. I agree.
Others don’t.
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If the point of all this is to win, then I would assume you’d agree that fratricide, dividing the party and making the tent smaller aren’t conducive to that goal I’d say, frankly, it depends on the cirumstances. So, I wouldn’t neccesarily agree. Which was the logical part two of my first post. My part one being bitc*ing about the asynchronous attention.I’m here to blog about what interests me. Yep! And us commenters are here to provide helpful contrary perspectives and pressure to adopt them! Hoorah! An ecosystem! :-D |
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I’d say, frankly, it depends on the cirumstances. How about a record of lost national elections and no power for, oh, quite some time.So, I wouldn’t neccesarily agree. Heh ... wow, there’s a surprise.And us commenters are here to provide helpful contrary perspectives and pressure to adopt them! Hoorah! An ecosystem! It’s much more fun at the top of the blogging food chain though. |
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So, advocates of terrorist rights, I assume, you’d be willing to stand up and say, are not traitors? I would. I’ve already stood up, as have Jon and Dale and said they have the right not to be tortured. Obviously that could be construed as an advocate for terrorist rights.
But while I’ve been called everything but a child of God by some, I’ve never been called a traitor for having that stance.
All that to say your McCain quote isn’t a very good one to bolster the claim you made and I agree with shark, you’d be better off to quit while you’re behind.
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Oh and one more thing:I’d say, frankly, it depends on the cirumstances. So, I wouldn’t neccesarily agree. Which was the logical part two of my first post. My part one being bitc*ing about the asynchronous attention. I lean to the right and have never made any secret about it, so get used to the asynchronous attention.
And no, bi*ching won’t change it.
But I’m also an advocate of split government. So I actually want to see these fools win the House. For the life of me, if they’re going to try to drum out everyone who even farts crooked, they won’t even get close.
There are plenty of reasons other than selling out the Dems for which Al From could have been in that room. But Singer immediately goes to the least probable and demand the ouster not just of From but the whole DNC.
Sound like a healthy party to you? |
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So, advocates of terrorist rights, I assume, you’d be willing to stand up and say, are not traitors? Depending upon the rights in question and my mood at the time, I would be content with "idiots" and perhaps "cretins". "Misguided" is probably what I would say when calmed down. Since it’s McCain we are discussing, I’ll probably stick with the first two. |
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I love how you avoid mentioning Lieberman....just like the article above. What, have you made him a Stalin-era type non-person so soon? Well, considering the fact that Bill Clinton, Hillary, Barbara Boxer, and tons of other Democrat bigwigs actually went to CT to campaign for Lieberman why would anyone include him?
I know, Rush explained it all to you, but can you seriously swallow that crap without gagging?
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My part one being bitc*ing about the asynchronous attention. Well now I’m curious. How would you implement synchronous attention? |
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Why through the liberal’s best friend: the government enforced ’fairness doctrine’ of course.
On a blog ... no such luck. |
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It’s your blog, McQ, so you can highlight Democratic fratricide on a weekly basis and completely ignore Republican fratricide, like the Club For Growth’s multi-million-dollar attempt to oust Lincoln Chaffee with Steve Laffey, complete with hysterical rhetoric on all sides - but hopefully, someone will call out your target selection as painting less than a full picture. This is not a case of "Republican Fratricide" but a conservative interest group trying to oust a liberal republican for a preferred candidate.
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/09/republicans_to_concede_ri_if_chaffey_loses_primary/
Bush came out for Chafee & ticked off Ann Coulter for it.
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Yeah, I’m interested in those quotes as well. Let’s see them.
Of course, MK will not show up in this thread again. Here is what the Speaker of the House - third in line to the presidency - had to say about Dems - and by extension those who share their position, i.e., McCain, Warner, and Graham - concenring the legislation: "You wonder whether they’re more interested in the rights of terrorists than in protecting the American people." This quote sends the clear message that those who do not agree with Bush are traitors.
Now, if you want to offer some kind of lame explanation to the contrary, go ahead. But you know what’s going on here, even if you don’t have the intellectual honesty to admit it.
Now, I expect you to dissemble, to apologize, to do whatever you can to defend Bush and the GOP. You believe that whatever Bush does must be defended. I understand why you need to do this. You are apparently hardwired to defend authority. Sad, but clearly obvious.
Ironic that you style yourself as a libertarian.
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GOP Senators who disagree with the Bush Cult over detainees are accused of aiding the terrorists, as being unpatriotic, as being traitors to the United States, and yet it is left leaning Dems who are being intolerant. You’re supporting that with this?Here is what the Speaker of the House - third in line to the presidency - had to say about Dems - and by extension those who share their position, i.e., McCain, Warner, and Graham - concenring the legislation: You shouldn’t put words like "traitor" in someone else’s mouth. This is abject nonsense. You don’t get to take one set of words and impute new meaniong into them as proof of your scatterbrained theoretical allegations.
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"You wonder whether they’re more interested in the rights of terrorists than in protecting the American people." That’s it? That’s all your "evidence"? Boehner makes a statement accusing democrats of being too soft in the WoT and you twist that into treason?even if you don’t have the intellectual honesty to admit it Does using the phrase "intellectually honest" cause you to spit up a little in your mouth? This is a joke, right? |
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MK, in case you really are this unintelligent, let me offer you a legitimate explanation as to why Boehner’s statement has nothing to do with treason. Let’s reword his statement a bit: You wonder whether they’re more interested in the rights of [criminals] than in protecting the American people. Would the above statement mean the speaker is accusing people of supporting criminal actions against citizens, or would it mean the speaker thinks some people have the wrong priorities?Even you should understand the difference which means you are the one being intellectually dishonest. |
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Ironic that you style yourself as a libertarian. Not as ironic as you spending all that time to come up with those lame quotes which say absolutely nothing close to what you claimed.
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"You wonder whether they’re more interested in the rights of terrorists than in protecting the American people." This quote sends the clear message that those who do not agree with Bush are traitors.
No. It says the Democrats are at best patriotic idiots with no good judgement as to how best to handle the situation.
Most people agree with that assessment.
Yours, TDP, ml, msl, & pfpp |
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