With all the good stuff happening at CPAC, you have to wonder how THIS happened:
Conservative activists on Saturday named former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney the winner of a poll for best 2012 GOP presidential candidate
I'm sure that Romney is a personable guy and would make a great next-door neighbor.
But Romney is "conservative" like George W. Bush is "conservative."
That is to say, not in the least.
Your right, I was thinking the same thing. The republican party is still wandering in a desert.
ReplyDeleteKeep up your great work.
I had the same thought. I saw his name come up and screamed,"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"
ReplyDeleteBad news, fellas. They're both conservative. No matter how much you throw them under the bus, they're still yours.
ReplyDeleteYeah....no. RINOs.
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean you're PUMAs?
ReplyDeletePUMA's?
ReplyDeleteParty Unity My A$$
ReplyDeleteCute. But no, we recognize a system that isn't working wheen we see it. Squishes don't sell. OTOH, the country has been propagandized for so long, I don't think they know what they believe anymore. It just sounds good, so it must be. Get more money from Uncle Sugar. The public is so stupid, they think money from the government is from the government. They think tax policy has no consequences. We are doomed to be in this crappy economy forever.
ReplyDeleteActually, the only time I've seen anyone call the stimulus package "free money", it's been a conservative.
ReplyDeleteWe know what we're in for, and we know how we got here. The right seem to have selective amnesia, forgetting everything that happened before 1/20/09. And even if they do remember, they never accept responsibility.
The stimulus package is a load of crap. We got here with the bipartisan approval of the government and our own stupidity and greed. Nothing else. To say the Right has selective amnesia is BS. The Right recognizes the problem and knows that spending well into the trillions of dollars on government jobs, projects and programs isn't going to stimulate anything other than the wet dreams of a bunch of Socialists.
ReplyDeleteIt's socialistic to want to put people back to work? Thanks for clarifying that.
ReplyDeleteThis gigantic porkulus steaming pile does nothing other than to further your Socialist dreams. The only people it helps are those already on the dole and government workers.
ReplyDeleteGod, your eyes are brown.
"It's socialistic to want to put people back to work?"
ReplyDeleteAnd it's capitalists that actually do.
Actually, they're clear blue.
ReplyDeleteYeah, all governments just have the people and equipment laying around to do all the road repairs, the infrastructure work, and whatnot.
They just like contracting those services out to private agencies for the hell of it.
You're just angry because the party for the plutarchy is ending, and the middle class is being reinstated.
Sure. Because the middle class generates so many jobs.
ReplyDeleteThis will only make everyone equally poor. and miserable. But you're so vested in your Hope and Change that you can't see it for what it is.
But that's no surprise to me.
You could look at it that way.
ReplyDeleteThe healthier approach is that it could lift everyone up. Why are the right always so concerned about keeping others down, and not letting them up.
Is it bad self-esteem, or a deep-seated hatred of sharing?
why is it necessary for the Left to steal, at the point of a gun I might add, from the productive to give to the unproductive? A system that has been an abject failure for 50 years, is demonstrably the cause of the breakdown of the Black family and has done little to end poverty.
ReplyDeleteBlame Bush or Reagan, I suppose?
Oh...and raising taxes during a recession.....there's a good idea.
Last, conservatives are demonstrably more generous with their own money. Leftys like to give away others' money. Nice theft.
Stay on subject here.
Wow. Now it's all the black's fault? You stay classy, Deekster.
ReplyDeleteBut if you want to talk about stealing at the point of the gun, let's look at the real thieves.
Petro products went up exponentially. This year, my heating costs jumped by 50% and is now more than twice than what I pay in property taxes. But you need heat, so we are being victimized.
Gas jumping to $4.5o a gallon, when supply was up and demand was down, but we need the gas, so we are again victimized.
Then there is the housing bubble and the greedy bastards that took advantage of people to sell them mortgages they knew were bound to fail. And these were way beyond what was required by law.
It was the greed of these people that caused the crash, and now you want to defend them keeping their ill-gotten loot.
True altruism, that's the right for you. They need to help those poor CEO's so that they can afford their $6000 shower curtain and million dollar birthday parties.
Capper, it would be REALLY nice if you'd learn something about logical argumentation.
ReplyDeleteBut just for openers: this was not the REPUBLICAN political action conference--it was the CONSERVATIVE political action conference.
And Romney is NOT a "conservative."
Learn to read, and all that.
Capper, it would be REALLY nice if you'd learn something about logical argumentation.
ReplyDeleteBut just for openers: this was not the REPUBLICAN political action conference--it was the CONSERVATIVE political action conference.
And Romney is NOT a "conservative."
Learn to read, and all that.
Oh, I can read, I simply choose not to play the semantics game. A rose by any other name...
ReplyDeletedad, gotta like your consistency about Romney. No doubt about it, he was a fake conservative all along.
ReplyDeleteAs for this not being a Republican conference, how many Democrats were in attendance? Not even wild man Zell Miller was there I'd wager.
Also like the consistency down line about RINO's. Through out all the moderates. We'll take Snow, Collins and Specter, and the 63 seat majority in the Senate.
Nice job of twisting words, cap. But that's what you guys do. Classic misdirection, don't talk about the issue at hand. THAT's classy. But that's ok. We all know.
ReplyDeletekr: They vote with the Democrats anyway. They're all yours.
You got it Deekaman. Thanks to your insistence on party purity, the GOP is quickly becoming a regional southern cracker party. Any thing to hasten the demise.
ReplyDeleteAll you've got left for leadership is a 13 year old brainwashed kid, the pig man, a disgraced former member of Congress and Bobby "Kenneth the Page" Jindal.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Heh, must have touched a nerve. Reality sucks, doesn't it?
ReplyDelete"Then there is the housing bubble and the greedy bastards that took advantage of people to sell them mortgages they knew were bound to fail."
ReplyDeleteAnd who was it, Cap, that demanded those house loans go through?
I believe Nancy, Harry and co. forced the hand of Fannie/Freddie to approve loans to those who couldn't afford them.
"They vote with the Democrats anyway. They're all yours."
Just like "Jumpin" Jim Jeffords, KR, you may have them.
BS CS. Why did these programs not go kablooie when Clinton was around and had their melt down under Bush and a Republican controlled Congress?
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ReplyDeleteMethinks you have the Community Reinvestment Act a bit confused. The CRA was only directed at the banks, not the mortgage brokers like Fannie and Freddie.
It was the greed of Fannie and Freddie, and Greenspan's looking the other way, that allowed them to go hogwild in the early 00's. That would have been Bush and a Republican Congress at the time.
No, actually, Cap, Fan/Fred are NOT mortgage brokers. They purchased mortgages originated by banks and brokers--and CRA was mis-used to force banks to write bad paper.
ReplyDeleteFurther, Fan/Fred did not "go wild" until the last couple of years of the Bush regime. There's a reason for that: that was when Congress was (D).
And yes, Greenspan was a major problem throughout the Clinton and Bush regimes. Much more so than most people know. Good insight!
Sorry for the poor choice of words, Daddio.
ReplyDeleteBut the CRA had nothing to do with the Fannie/Freddie thing. The banks were making safe loans. It was the subprime usurers that made the risky loans and then the F/F groups sucked them up.
The article I saw showed the build up from 2001-4.
We agree about the subprime sharks--who were heavy (D) contributors, and whose nuclear-waste mortgages were purchased by Fan/Fred because Barney, the Mortgage Queen, insisted that Fan/Fred do so.
ReplyDeleteYou may say that banks were doing 'safe' loans--but that's not entirely true. So long as Lehmann, Bear, and Goldman were buying their nuclear waste, the Banks were making the loans. Those were CRA-compliant, but crap credits.