By way of Political Carnival, Sam Stein of the Huffington Post and TRMS producer Tina Cone, here's what looks like video from the Minnesota family values event where a protester dumped glitter on Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. The video is posted on the YouTube account for "Robert Erikson" -- likely really Nick Espinosa, who's built something of a resume punking the right.
He writes:
At a book signing in Minneapolis, recently declared the hippest and gayest city in America, I greeted 2012 GOP presidential contender and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with a shower of rainbow glitter.
"Feel the Rainbow!" I shouted. Gingrich was conducting the book signing as part of The Minnesota Family Council & Institute Annual Dinner 2011 celebration. The MFC has been an instrumental mover of a marriage inequality amendment that would enshrine discrimination in Minnesota's state constitution.
More about that Minnesota anti-gay amendment here. It's worth watching this clip all the way through to the moment the elevator doors draw closed.
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Ooooo-kaaay. That guy at the end was just plain disturbing. So I guess that answers his question. And if a dusting of glitter is the worst that happens to their "event" in response to their bigotry and self-righteous blasphemy, then they can consider themselves as having got off lightly.
That should be the new Newt slogan:
Feel the Rainbow Newt!!
In discussing the issue of politicians imploding, Rachel Maddow made positive mention of Bill Clinton, who has certainly been elevated by wealthy progressives in recent years. It should be noted that Bill "Kill the New Deal" Clinton is not regarded so highly among America's millions of poor/working class people. Also, it is understood by the non-rich just how Clinton's policies set the stage for attacks on Social Security/Medicare. Between NAFTA and welfare "reform," Clinton built the launching pad for the (miserable) economy that America enjoys today. I think that because Clinton was a Dem, and because we are (more than most countries) a class-based society, the things Clinton set into place to significantly increase poverty and desperation have been ignored by progressive media. I was sure that we would at least be discussing the impact that a bottom-wage workfare replacement workforce has on crushing unionizing efforts and pulling down wages for all of the working class. The bottom line is that compared to Bill Clinton, the staunchly conservative Richard Nixon was a Socialist radical when it came to socio-economic issues. It might be interesting if the staff of the Rachel Maddow Show took some time to explore US poverty as it really is today.
Clinton sold out the working people three ways-
1. Global trade that cost American jobs
2. Balanced budget at the expense of working class benefits
3. Welfare reform that comforted the comfortable and afflicted the afflicted.
Clinton didn't just signed off on NAFTA as NAFTA was already agreed upon before Clinton took office.
Le sighs this is another example of "because Rachel didn't say it tonight it therefore means she's never said it." Rachel has publicly attacked Clinton to the point that he wrote an op-ed in NY Times complaining about her attacks on him. Oy vey
I would really, really like to know how YOU know just how Clinton "is thought of" by the 'millions' of poor/working class people.... it's really funny, but I've never heard any poor/working class people say anything bad about his work. We must know 'millions' of different poor/working class people. Or your head's stuck up somewhere....
Yeah, I have been very against NAFTA from the start also, but that you even think there is a progressive media already outs you. I also believe that we have been pandering to middle class, when this nation's poor should be our priority - it's the biggest shortcoming of today's centrist politics. After all, you are only as strong as your weakest link. But you start off with a comment that has nothing to do with the topic at hand, and then make this weird inference that a Democratic president (yes, that is the word, not Dem) in a class based society (which I buy that we are one) makes him immune to media scrutiny (OK I'm lost). What are you saying? That Democrats are in one economic class, because I assure you I am as poor as a church-mouse, whatever that means. I scrapped my last car three years ago, and for the last two years, I haven't been able to buy the one I'm driving off my boyfriend for 1000 dollars. I have been out of work for more than a year, and I'm well educated. I would have been on the streets ages ago if I didn't have a tight-knit family, as I have never made more than 30K a year - and unemployment is crushing. Yet, I am staunchly progressive. So, what exactly are you saying?
And if you want to harken back to the beginning of the end, there are lots of places in the twentieth century to begin, for example, Reaganomics and Reagan's union busting.
And by the way, Nixon is a Socialist what? What exactly is a Socialist radical? And where do they meet?
Alright so I just watched TRMS....what are you talking about?! Rachel never said anything about Clinton. Clinton wasn't mentioned by Rachel at all in tonight's broadcast. She made no assertions about Clinton.
Clinton balanced the budget by cutting benefits to working-class people even if working-class people are too dumb to know it.
Oh my God an assault! Those dastardly liberals...
Now let's kill a few thousand Americans for war profits or take down a president on sexual allegations while we do worse ourselves.
Us conservatives maintain decorum while we lie our faces off.
Never get Newt out of the closet with glitter...He will require hardcore sequins!
I'm just glad his degenerate,self-centered backside isn't going to sully a chair in the Oval Office!
I think the last thing I needed before going to bed is a mental image of Newt Gingrich as a drag queen. Thanks a whole bunch.
Its all about the accesories!
What did the guy at the elevator say? I couldn't understand him.
'souls(?) like you cause the rotting of our country. have you ever seen us attend one of your events? have we disturbed your events? never.' and a sarcastic 'peace be with you' plus smirk as the doors closed.
Yeah, I've never heard "Peace be with you" said with such sarcasm.
This is even better than pie in Anita Bryant's face.
This is the queer equivalent of the gentleman's white glove face tap, no?
Faerie dust for fighting the anti-gay plague. I hope its magic is powerful enough.
That was creepy aye?? "Peace be with you"????? Gave me the willies...
That was his way of saying love the sinner and hate the sin. Washing the blood off his/Family Values' hands
Is this guy pretending to be a Catholic priest? Were the guys in the elevator supposed to say "And Also With You..."?
It was the German accent that creeped me out.
Newt seems to take the glitter shower as a form of assault, when in actuality, it is a gay baptism. He will now be brought to gay heaven on May 21st, which is infinitely better decorated than the straight one. He should be a little more appreciative.
Ew! The guy at the end makes me feel like I need to wash my hands. He was icky! And I agree with the above commenter, if a little glitter shower is all Newt gets after spewing so much bigotry and promising to continue the bigotry...that's nothing to complain about!
Republicans are afraid of glitter because it turns you gay. Now that we know their weakness...
Glitter = Kryptonite
Good to know.
Why, YES, I have seen you at our events! Yelling at me, name calling and all manner of physical attacks on my person and property... MUCH WORSE than getting glitter dumped upon someone's head.
..looking for a hookup for the night because your wife is out of town...
wow, security guard is a jerk, though i guess i'd expect nothing less. glitter is harmless, buddy.
I thought he said something about Europe in there? I really couldn't hear him.
Some of that glitter could have gotten in his eyes and blinded him. Glitter is metal flakes. The next time someone decides they want to do a bone head stunt like that, you THROW it in his face, screw the sprinkling crap.
Meh I'm not down w/ the wishing Newt would go blind thing. I don't normally agree w/ these types of political stunts. I will give you that it's pretty much harmless, but I just don't understand it. Newt is an ass, but so is the sprinkles guy.
Yeah but I've always been a hateful bastard. ; )
Better to be an ass that sprinkles glitter than an ass that sprinkles intolerance.
I prefer psychic damage to physical. Just think, for many weeks if not months to come, glitter will be washing out of Newt's many blubbery folds and crevices each time he showers, reminding him of this day.
hah that's very good GR and yes Don, but we love your bastard self =P
HAHAHAHA @MM
You ALL Rock!
nah, glitter is NOT metal flakes these days, unless yer doing metal-leaf work. Lame comment, whoever you are.
Glitter is positive, happy, and magical. Maybe it will help the Newtster.
"Whoever you are"? Don is, like, part of the furniture (often probed for loose change).
You've made a grand total of five comments on the blog in the nine months since you've registered on Newsvine, bluey, and three of them are in this thread. You can't wander onto the stage in the last act and pretend to be the main character.
I still stand by my post. Throw it in his face! Even if it isn't metal flakes it still can't be good to get in your eyes. I'd heard it said that glitter is the herpes of the crafts world. It never goes away.
As for being dissed by bluesheep, I'm not worried. Welcome to the family blue. Every poster with liberal leanings is welcome here. Had you been a right-winger, this post would have been very different. Some advice, friendly and I honestly mean it. We are a sarcastic snarky and mocking bunch. You will hear things here that will shock and astound and no doubt piss you off. Familiarize yourself with what the poster's actual positions are before responding. Namely by watching for their previous heart felt opinions, or by clicking on their name and checking the tone of past posts on Newsvine. Sometimes those of us who've been posting here for years...and some of us have...still fall victim to the dreaded sarcasm FAIL. Of course part of the problem is that there is no argument that is so outrageous or bone headed that there isn't some right winger who doesn't take it as an absolute article of faith. Stick around and you will see that too. Welcome to the club!
MM: Wow, thanks for being so welcoming! I don't know what your point is in your 2nd paragraph, but it sounds just chock-full-o-judgment to me! ...hardly a progressive value, methinks. Last sentence is ... wow ... stage? main character? ... really doesn't say anything about me. I ain't pretending. Or looking for a stage. So no worries; let's just restart.
DQ: Thanks for the welcome! and my intent was most certainly not to diss you, but rather to say they are not metal flakes; I apologize for saying ''lame;'' I'm a 'materials' person, & made a wrong assumption about what others know about that. Anyway, your welcome, and advice, are much appreciated - thanks for taking the time to write it. Kinda elder-statesman-like! ;-) Re: there is no argument that is so outrageous or bone headed that there isn't some right winger who doesn't take it as an absolute article of faith: yeah, really. Look at my name; why do you think I chose it? ...not because I'm happy about it.
Makes me wish I was gay
Have you thought about converting? There's a lovely ceremony, and cake and ice cream after.
(OK, bad joke. Sorry.)
Gene Pitney's tune Town Without Pity, his generation's Tainted Love, makes homosexuality sound really sexy is a lost despairing kind of way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va5lliDnSj0&feature=related
that dude outside the elevator was such a ganglion of conflict ... the truth dawned on him in a nanosecond that he was caught in a moment fraught and packed with past, present and future ridicule and damnation from which he would not escape .... so to save face, he decided to top it by saying 'peace be with you'......that's the best he had to offer? unfortunately, that's the best right wing conservatism will ever have to offer: pretentious self-serving platitudes that fall flatter than a pancake ....every.single.time.
I believe he said it after he realized how he might look un-Christ-like to his savior, so to cover his a55, he said peace be with you, the Pontius Pilate hand washing.
Excessive use of glitter, but... probably well-deserved. And, yeah, I bet a LOT of Newt's 'people' show up at Gay events....
On the whole Amendment thing -- we've had same-sex marriage in Canada since 2005 and we haven't collapsed into hellfire and anarchy. To each his/her own.
Well the argument a social-conservative would make is that you're still Canada. Sorry couldn't resist ;-)
Ah, Mickey, you know you love us! :-)
Cool place. Can't wait to visit. Not irony--totally sincere!
Although I certainly support the sentiment, I do worry that this kind of stunt does more to undermine the credibility of a cause than to promote it. However, I've always said that if I ever meet George W. Bush, I'm going to smack him upside the head... so maybe I'm not the best advisor. :-)
OMG! That self righteous elevator bigot is so passive aggressive. He feels entitled to lecture, and forcibly create tension by standing in the elevator door, then smiles at the camera with a pseudo-friendly goodbye.
Dear sweet Raptor Jesus! that guy at the end was creepy!
Peace be with you.
Is there nothing scarier than the WASP-y way they can justify any behavior, any philosophy, any agenda with a smile and a few phony nice words.
No wonder Sarah Palin is so popular among these crowds. They'd vote for Dolores Umbridge if they could.
We don't come to your events and act this way. We just try to defund health services for women and the poor, and repeatedly try to cut unemployment insurance.
We just encourage the persecution of people based on which gender they want to marry, (and in some parts of the south, still to this day, which race they want to marry.)
We just call our President derogatory names and pursue fiscal policy that would collapse the American Economy and environmental policy that would enable large corporations to get away with thousands upon thousands of negligent homicides.
But, you know... we don't throw Glitter!!!
I can't agree with you more Vox! Those dumb WASPs - they just built this country from nothing (I know it's not lectured like that in schools..) so what do they know!
Essential health services (as killing defenseless unborn) are paramount. And we need to increase food stamps and unemployment services from current 35% to at least to 75% of the population to stimulate growth of this country!
You also have point that that resistance amongst blacks in South against inter-racial marriage is horrible - so is the honor killings of Muslim women when they dare to venture out of Muslim faith,, It must stop!
Lastly, I too remember how horrific it was to call our President Hitler and stupid in time of national crises. We need to renew respect for the office!
But I think due to wise policies by DNC and under leadership of our Nobel Peace prize winner amazing President - we are on a new path of saving the environment! $10 a gallon will bring prosperity, $50 LED light bulbs, dry toilets, windmill on every house, and small smart cars with pedals well take America to galloping to new heights and will save lives and our children!
And remember - no water-boarding! That is inhumane! Just shoot the bastards in between eyes!
my history books say...
the germans came and built great homesteds. the irish came and built great buildings. the chinese came and built great railways. the african americans came and got the cotton to cloth everyone...the water to quench everyone...the food to feed everyone...and when someone refused to do something, they sent in the african american to do what no one would ever do.
my history tells me our ancestors built this country wave after wave of immigrants....who had more heart and more longing for that freedom then anyone around.
Let's start at the Top shall we, I have nothing else to do tonight, it's troll-whopping time!
WASP's didn't build this country, they used slaves. They worked these people for centuries and when they finally gave their descendants the rights they deserved as human beings, they got all sulky about it, and whined. No-one can whine like a WASP, "Those people we made work all those years in slavery, they're so lazy, and they're always complaining and protesting, why can't they just be nice, like we are. We've reluctantly acknowledged their humanity, isn't that enough to make up for years of toil and torment." Waaah.
"Waah, all liberals want to kill unborn children, and God is against that, unless, their Amalekites or Egyptians, in that case, they should be slaughtered in his name." God cares so much for infants, that he punishes them for the sins of their forebears. You want to have an affair and murder the ladie's husband, go ahead! we'll just punish you. Oh I mean punish your son by making him die a slow painful death for your sins."
"Waah, you're not listening to our insane economic theories. Unemployment insurance doesn't put money into the free market. Tax-cuts do. Don't come at me with your facts and data, your economic jibber-jabber about supply and demand. If you would only cut taxes again for millionaires, maybe the money will trickle down. Surely if you stuff their pockets full enough they will overspill. And Millionaires and Billionaires are the best at knowing where to direct money for investment.....What, they're investing in foreign countries and outsourcing American Jobs. Oh well, We'll just eliminate the minimum wage and repeal child labor laws, and then they'll want to employ America's cheap labor again... Hey why not just reinstate slavery. There's no labor cheaper than that right!
"Waaahh, Liberals only pick on Christians, they never attack Muslims. I'll just ignore when they do say that all Gods are equally unprovable and all Abrahamic faiths are psychotic systems for the oppression of women's rights and the repression of humanity. In fact, why don't I just ignore everything Athiests have to say, cause hey, it's not like this country was established with a clearly written secular philosophy. I'm not going to pay attention to anything the founding fathers wrote, I have my 'This nation was founded on Judeo-Christian' mantra. First Amendment? What's that?"
"Waah, those hippie liberals are trying to save the environment, with lightbulbs and new energy technology. I like paying unstable foreign governments all of my money for energy. I want a President like Ronald Reagan, who ripped out the solar panels that Carter had installed on the whitehouse. Don't you dare tell me that the environment could be negatively affected by Man. Our loving God wouldn't let that happen. What's that? Why yes, this is the same God that flooded the earth, inflicted horrible plagues upon egypt and promises to come back and burn the earth and turn the rivers and seas to blood, why do you ask?"
"Waah, the liberals are Hippocrates, I remember when Bush was in office, they kept calling Bush names. Oh yeah, and I remember when he was forced to prove his citizenship by a reality talk show host."
"Waah, the liberals are horrible on national defense, that's why a Democrat killed the most wanted terrorist in the world. And they're terrible on the economy, not like us fiscally conservative republicans who took a record surplus and turned it into a record deficit, and deregulated the markets so that we would have a recession. If there's one thing you can trust a republican with it's money."
"Waah, the liberals don't want to torture our enemies, they keep talking about things like human rights and the Honor of America and showing a Moral example and other liberal bologna like that. But if they don't torture people, how are they going to get the faulty intelligence to take us into a war in a completely different country than the one that is attacking us?"
"Waaah, I hate the future, and I hate the present, I'm going to listen to talk radio and get filled up on crazy conspiracy theories and limbic self-gratification, then I'm going to go on one of those liberal websites and create a profile just so I can whine about how horrible the intellectuals are and how great it was back in the past where women had no reproductive rights and the blacks couldn't talk back, especially cause then if I was getting a point by point sarcastic refutation of my entire political philosophy, I could just get a bunch of my ignorant coward friends together and lynch him behind a Denny's."
i like you.
You clearly sound like the sandal-wearing NY Times-reading pot-smoking Volvo-driving typical white-guilt libtards brainwashed by the former-hippie-now-university profs shoving this garbage down your little lesbo or fruitcake pie holes . . . God - what site is this? Ohh . .
"People who disagree with me must be gay, and if they're gay, well then, they're not really worth listening to."
"People who disagree with me must have been indoctrinated, because any one who actually thought about the issues would agree with me and the opinions that I came up with all by myself while I was listening to Fox Radio on my way home from church where my pastor gave a sermon on how all moral values are slipping in America, and how all we would need to truly be an ethically society is to embrace the ten commandments which lay out a complete moral foundation for law except for the part where they mention nothing at all about rape or slavery. "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wife, but go ahead and conquer a neighboring land and slaughter it's inhabitants, taking the male children as slaves and taking the female children as sex slaves. Truly that's the core of morality."
"People who disagree with me have white-guilt....What? they're not white? Since when did we start allowing your people to read and write? Good lord is there no end?
"People who disagree with me only get their news from one news source, and it's biased. It's that Lame-Stream Media (heh-heh rhymes are clever), With all of their "Fact-Checking" and "Political Correctness." You know why they always insist on political correctness don't you? It's because they're weak and oversensitive and can't stand any criticism however slight....hey! Hey! How dare you say anything about Christians! How dare you say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas! You're engaged in a WAR on Christmas."
"People who disagree with me are on drugs! They smoke pot. I know my pundits never abuse drugs. They're all upstanding citizens, like Rush Limbaugh."
"I is against those Elitists peoples who's thinks they're better than everyone. That's the worst, imagine if us conservatives spent all our time talking about how we were morally superior, more patriotic, stronger, tougher, how we were the real Americans and how everyone else should just get out of our country if they don't want to embrace our values and philosophies."
Maybe that's what you were saying, I couldn't be sure, because frankly all I really heard was: Waaahhh.
Vox, I think bpepik just called you Jesus.
-I eat pie holes.
Vox, you're officially on my people-I've-never-met-but-LOVE list!
Vox i am like 80sgirl that was a great comment. I could not have said it any better ^5.
Yeah, I'm bromance-crushing alittle bit on him myself.
You know bpeprik, I really can't see you hanging with a man who said that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven, to render unto caesar what is caesar's( translation, pay your taxes,) who knocked over the tables of respectable businessmen like moneychangers, who said that you could serve God or serve wealth but not both, who said to not judge and to love your neighbor and your enemy.
Who had also said this:
I don't see how in the hell you'be be caught dead hanging with such a squishy sandle wearing Commie. In fact if they were to crucify him, you'd be fighting to knock in the nails yourself. And if he came back from the dead, you would problably blow his brains out because that is what you are supposed to do with socialist zombies. Go for the gusto while you can, cause I wouldn't want to be you after you croak.
-I eat pie holes
OK wtf when did GR get a sense of humor? I like this version. Did you upgrade? Keep this app!
I always have a sense of humor. I sensed that this was funny. Not everything is funny.
Just because one has a sense of smell doesn't mean everything will smell good. Same with humor.
Yeah and there you just downgraded your app, 'eh? Well just so you know for the rest of us it was fun while it lasted. Still will be thinkin' of that GR in the future....
Zoos don't have signs that say this, but they should: Don't noodge the animals.
No, I didn't downgrade my app. I'd have downgrade to find your @!$%# funny.
I don't mean to be mean, I'm just being "sarcastic."
FTR not everyone was stupid enough to forget that the other night your whole problem was me getting higher ratings than you. You seriously are f'd in the head. Maybe you should get counceling instead of blogging; just a thought.
See? I can be a passive-aggressive @!$%# too. Go @!$%# yourself
ok. we get it. i now see it's not about issues - but clearly personal.
i hate watching this - so i'm just going to turn off my tracking on this blog.
http://www.newsvine.com/_nv/cms/info/codeOfHonor
Hey Newsvine,
Ladies, please! Come on, play nice. You are upsetting the children [babies crying in the background.] You are both my friend. Please, don't either of you get banned. Save you ire for the conservatives, I beg you.
Don you should know better than to get involved when two women are fighting ;-)
Hey lock- re-read GR's post and then talk to me about who violated the COH. Oy vey.
I know I know. Its healthier to break up a fight a between half a dozen tom cats with rabies than get between two women who are tangling. Great way to lose an eye and gain two or three new a**holes. I know. Still I beg both of you.
i agree don. i happen to like both women. i don't want to get in between, but just wanted to say i don't like seeing them both hurt each other.
i enjoy both of their presence here. i might not always agree with them - which isn't always a bad thing.
I hate it when they fight. *sniff*
Me too, it gives me knots in my tummy.
LOL, I seriously do not care about ratings. I'm sure some people were smart enough to have gotten my point. I do not know who this "everyone" is, but it's probably like 2 or 3 people.
Go back and re-read your own post, Mickey. I'm not so stupid as to not know that the intent of sarcasm is to ridicule. It's not for lack of a sense of humor. It's just not funny when the shoe's on the other foot.
It's only ridicule if you've got something sho-....oh nevermind. This is such a pointless conversation. Have your little gloat fest. Just leave me the bleep alone. I don't get why if you hate me so much you just don't put me on ignore and be done w/ it. Grow up.
Good lord @GR. There is mean, petty, and pointless, and then there is mean, petty and pointless on a never ending scale/wait a few months/or days I'll swipe at you again/etc, level. As someone who has previously watched on the sidelines as well as a couple few times been on the recieving end of your 'special' brand of 'mean spirited subtrafuse' I get exactly your point. Also not lost on me is your intent. If you think Mickey is ridiculing you (which is more than apparent she has not done when everyday engaging with you if you would take your filter off - hell, she has gone out of her way to make repeated positive/affirming comments towards you even after getting 'slammed' by you.....go figure) may I offer a private message is in order to confirm/allay such ideas you may be having....or does she not deserve such - for real?....I guess not. Cut away then I guess. For whatever faults you want to prescribe, the one thing that is more than obvious is a complete lack of mean or vicious in her (Mickey's) posts - something I would offer is more a projection......last, I will say this; get called out much in life as someone who "doesn't play well with others"? I think that answer is obvious...
Probably like Mickey, I enjoy much of what you have to share here on the blog, and find it ensightful/helpful often, even if I may not be 100% on board. However. There is a point of 'no more' for me too. Seriously, drop the mean spirited-ness. I does not become you.
Seconded. I've gotten sideways with other posters before and given them the same treatment that I reserve for rightwing trolls only to discover that we are actually on the same side, most recently with Covah. My apologies Covah, it has been a pleasure savaging eap1 with you. it is possible, even easy to blow a crack in opinion between you two into the size of the grand Canyon, but you both have more in common than not. Please focus on than commonalities rather than the differeces and for the sake of the rest of us, please try to reconcile your grievances. Both of you are valuable to all of us...except the trolls of course, they problably tickled t***y pink at every cross word that passes between you too. Peace, and I mean that.
@Don, I did hear you, really (you and Monk can spank me later). But now that I've backtracked to this thread...
To answer MM:
I reread through those previous posts as you suggested, and there was only one post with directed vulgarity. I see nothing wrong with voicing an opposing opinion, or trying to offer a correction. That shouldn't warrant personal attacks. MM, you make some amazing contributions, which should not be diminished because of random demerits.
From everything I've read (keep in mind I don't make time to read all posts or threads), Grrrl proves herself to be a straight shooter, and here to make a progressive contribution; no self promotion, no games.
I also know from experience that she allots initial leniency and patience with others when their understanding of the issue or good intentions seem questionable. The deliberateness of content and temperament she delivered were more than I deserved at that time, especially precluding any results or outcome.
None of us are infalible, but it is up to us to make the attempt.
With that said, I was very excited when this blog took off, and I personally prefer it to evolve in a positive direction.
anyone with a sense of humor and light-heartedness would have laughed. even a "ha ha...ya got me" ...nope...they really don't like anyone gay.
I like you too.
Vox - BRAVO !!!!!
The real problem with the future of the Republican Party, this swing attack on Gingrich for trying to test the more rational side of the right, solidifies they're in serious trouble with credibility and no longer have interest in moderate or classic conservative inclusion.
They've thrown the party to undisciplined barking dogs, and are pissing off those who still remember the party's original values.
Oops. Did I sound ticked off? =/ Back to my ice cream... and better thoughts.
the party is splitting. i have a feeling the libertarian party will rise up...or a new party will form... libertarian-republican.
it seems this is the wave of tea partiers along with the dissidents who aren't actually part of those that were out there protesting as such.
people want smaller government.
people want government out of there businesses
people want to end this war on drugs
people want to stop being taxed so much
people want to stop paying for other people
people want to fight the gay bans
and the smoking bans
they're seeing ron paul in a different light...
ron paul in my opinion will be a real running contender that we should not overlook...a libertarian/republican.
this election will change the 2 party dynamic.
the civil rights act is one of the most prized documents on the chopping block and something that this country desperately needs to keep in order to stay whole.
I agree. Party dynamics will change, (perhaps sooner than some thought,) it feels inevitable. But few have been insightful enough... or rather brave enough to say. And generally speaking, people fear change.
Let's hope we see the return of the Progressive Republicans. If there's anything that this country really needs, it's more Lincolns and Teddy Roosevelts.
we can hope....but we just might end up swallowing the progressive republican and be the democrat-republican party...again - to balance.
will's posting of the youtube video of pendulum waves do come to my mind.
Not to mention the Eisenhowers. I'd have liked Ike.
Would Jesus discriminate? No.
www.wouldjesusdiscriminate.org/
I can't agree with you more Vox! Those dumb WASPs - they just built this country from nothing (I know it's not lectured like that in schools..) so what do they know!
Essential health services (as killing defenseless unborn) are paramount. And we need to increase food stamps and unemployment services from current 35% to at least to 75% of the population to stimulate growth of this country!
You also have point that that resistance amongst blacks in South against inter-racial marriage is horrible - so is the honor killings of Muslim women when they dare to venture out of Muslim faith,, It must stop!
Lastly, I too remember how horrific it was to call our President Hitler and stupid in time of national crises. We need to renew respect for the office!
But I think due to wise policies by DNC and under leadership of our Nobel Peace prize winner amazing President - we are on a new path of saving the environment! $10 a gallon will bring prosperity, $50 LED light bulbs, dry toilets, windmill on every house, and small smart cars with pedals well take America to galloping to new heights and will save lives and our children!
And remember - no water-boarding! That is inhumane! Just shoot the bastards in between eyes!
Cheers
And eat a queer fetus for Jesus!
Grrrl? That really you? No more sugar for you. *lightweight*
Nay. It was my radical queer subroutine, PsykoDyke.