The right wing is losing it

[billvon 3,064]

Y'know, people are generally OK with change, and the democrats have not been doing a very good job of governing over the past few years. It should be pretty easy to pick up a bunch of seats as long as the republicans demonstrate that they are a good alternative.

But if they continue to present themselves as batshit crazy, people might think that the incompetent party is better than the psychotic one.

Recent Harris poll of Republicans:

67% think he's a socialist
45% think he was not born in the US
38% think he is doing "many things Hitler did"
24% think Obama may literally be the Antichrist

Maybe more intelligent debate and less crazy might sell a little better.

[Andy9o8 2]

Shhh! I say, encourage them.

[rushmc 23]

Yep they are
And I hope you just don't pay any attention to the nuts (so called) until Nov

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[billvon 3,064]

>And I hope you just don't pay any attention to the nuts (so called) until Nov

Will the asteroid hit before then? Or will Armageddon happen first?

[sundevil777 102]

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67% think he's a socialist

I'm surprised that number isn't higher.

He is socialist. His previous statements have made that quite clear. He advocates for achieving economic justice by redistribution of wealth. What would you call that?

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45% think he was not born in the US

I do not think that is true, but I think the pres intentionally does not do everything he can to prove it false. I think he figures that he benefits from there being groups that continue to make that claim, so he enables them in a way.

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38% think he is doing "many things Hitler did"

Not a surprise, just as so many thought that of Bush, but I don't figure you would have agreed that it meant Dems were "losing it".

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24% think Obama may literally be the Antichrist

Again, those Dems that believed in the bible had plenty that thought the same about Bush. Nothing new or distinctive there. Even those libs that didn't believe in God thought Bush was the equivalent of the antichrist.

Geez, I thought you were going to cite something remarkable in this thread. Instead, just making a big deal of the normal stuff that has happened from both sides, actually, I think it happens much more from the libs.

People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

[rushmc 23]

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>And I hope you just don't pay any attention to the nuts (so called) until Nov

Will the asteroid hit before then? Or will Armageddon happen first?

Boy, talk about being pathologically paranoid

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[billvon 3,064]

>Boy, talk about being pathologically paranoid . . .

Yep, which was the point of the original post.

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GOP Compares Health Care Bill To Armageddon; Massive “Debt Asteroid”

When Rep. John Boehner said that the passing of the health care bill would be Armageddon, we thought he was speaking in hyperbole. Turns out, he was speaking in movie metaphors: at least that’s how the rest of the GOP is unconsciously internalizing it. How else can you explain the simile used by Republican Senator Judd Gregg today when talking about the added cost of Medicaid to our national debt, saying “…and so this will all end up rolling up into a giant ball, like a huge massive asteroid headed for earth.”
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Who's going to vote for someone that pathological?

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Even those libs that didn't believe in God thought Bush was the equivalent of the antichrist.

Uh . . . no. Evil maybe, but if a person doesn't believe in God, then they don't believe in the anti-son-of-God.

GWB was delusional about his communications with God, his role in the "end times" and an extraordinarily dangerous man to have in control of the most power weapons on the planet.

That doesn't make him the "antichrist" -- just stupid.

quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[rushmc 23]

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>Boy, talk about being pathologically paranoid . . .

Yep, which was the point of the original post.

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GOP Compares Health Care Bill To Armageddon; Massive “Debt Asteroid”

When Rep. John Boehner said that the passing of the health care bill would be Armageddon, we thought he was speaking in hyperbole. Turns out, he was speaking in movie metaphors: at least that’s how the rest of the GOP is unconsciously internalizing it. How else can you explain the simile used by Republican Senator Judd Gregg today when talking about the added cost of Medicaid to our national debt, saying “…and so this will all end up rolling up into a giant ball, like a huge massive asteroid headed for earth.”
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Who's going to vote for someone that pathological?

One way of putting it


I dont think it will survive the constitutional test in the end anyway
And since they were in such a hurry to pass this crap they (the Dems) didnt split it up so, if one part fails the whole thing dies

Will not hold my breath but I can hope

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[rushmc 23]

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Even those libs that didn't believe in God thought Bush was the equivalent of the antichrist.

Uh . . . no. Evil maybe, but if a person doesn't believe in God, then they don't believe in the anti-son-of-God.

GWB was delusional about his communications with God, his role in the "end times" and an extraordinarily dangerous man to have in control of the most power weapons on the planet.

That doesn't make him the "antichrist" -- just stupid.

Bush was bad so Obama is ok yet again?

Talk about a desperation

But please
Dont stop

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[billvon 3,064]

>He is socialist.

Did you think Bush was a fascist?

>I do not think that is true, but I think the pres intentionally does not do
>everything he can to prove it false.

?? He released his birth certificate. He did what any US citizen has to do to prove his country of birth. End of story.

>Again, those Dems that believed in the bible had plenty that thought the
>same about Bush. Nothing new or distinctive there. Even those libs that
>didn't believe in God thought Bush was the equivalent of the antichrist.

I have no doubt that some extremists did indeed think that, and posted it on their blogs. But this poll reveals that a QUARTER of republicans honestly think there's a good chance that he is an evil supernatural being here to wage war with Jesus Christ. One out of every four don't think he is really human. If that doesn't scare you, it should. These people vote.

[rushmc 23]

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>He is socialist.

Did you think Bush was a fascist?

>I do not think that is true, but I think the pres intentionally does not do
>everything he can to prove it false.

?? He released his birth certificate. He did what any US citizen has to do to prove his country of birth. End of story.

>Again, those Dems that believed in the bible had plenty that thought the
>same about Bush. Nothing new or distinctive there. Even those libs that
>didn't believe in God thought Bush was the equivalent of the antichrist.

I have no doubt that some extremists did indeed think that, and posted it on their blogs. But this poll reveals that a QUARTER of republicans honestly think there's a good chance that he is an evil supernatural being here to wage war with Jesus Christ. One out of every four don't think he is really human. If that doesn't scare you, it should. These people vote.

and the nutty shit the other side believes would be no different
And we have proof of how many of them are kooks
We need only look at who is in the office.....

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[billvon 3,064]

>and the nutty shit the other side believes would be no different
>And we have proof of how many of them are kooks
>We need only look at who is in the office.....

I rest my case.

[sundevil777 102]

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>Boy, talk about being pathologically paranoid . . .

Yep, which was the point of the original post.

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GOP Compares Health Care Bill To Armageddon; Massive “Debt Asteroid”

When Rep. John Boehner said that the passing of the health care bill would be Armageddon, we thought he was speaking in hyperbole. Turns out, he was speaking in movie metaphors: at least that’s how the rest of the GOP is unconsciously internalizing it. How else can you explain the simile used by Republican Senator Judd Gregg today when talking about the added cost of Medicaid to our national debt, saying “…and so this will all end up rolling up into a giant ball, like a huge massive asteroid headed for earth.”
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Who's going to vote for someone that pathological?

You'd think that the use of dramatic language by politicians was remarkable. The only thing remarkable you've shown in this thread is your ability to view the ordinary as evidence of people "losing it". Seems to me that you're the one "losing it".

You assert Bush was a facist as indisputable, but aren't many of the things that got Bush that label being continued by Obama? Are you losing it?

People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

[kallend 2,106]

Present tense?

The right wing lost it when it got G.W. Bush nominated for president.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[airdvr 210]

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Present tense?

The right wing lost it when it got G.W. Bush nominated for president.

It's like a pendelum you know...

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

[rushmc 23]

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>and the nutty shit the other side believes would be no different
>And we have proof of how many of them are kooks
>We need only look at who is in the office.....

I rest my case.

What
You cant handle a post as ridicules as your own???

Go figure

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[kelpdiver 2]

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Recent Harris poll of Republicans:

67% think he's a socialist
45% think he was not born in the US
38% think he is doing "many things Hitler did"
24% think Obama may literally be the Antichrist

Maybe more intelligent debate and less crazy might sell a little better.

I think I'd like to see how the last two questions were phrased. Somehow I think those two were a bit leading, like just about any Fox poll.

'So ya heard he's like Hitler, right?'

The first two - yeah, I have little doubt that self reporting republicans (which are generally the right 2/3rds of that party's voting block) believe the first two in large numbers. Nothing about those questions had to be fuzzy to get that result.

[sundevil777 102]

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Recent Harris poll of Republicans:

67% think he's a socialist
45% think he was not born in the US
38% think he is doing "many things Hitler did"
24% think Obama may literally be the Antichrist

Maybe more intelligent debate and less crazy might sell a little better.

I think I'd like to see how the last two questions were phrased. Somehow I think those two were a bit leading, like just about any Fox poll.

'So ya heard he's like Hitler, right?'

The first two - yeah, I have little doubt that self reporting republicans (which are generally the right 2/3rds of that party's voting block) believe the first two in large numbers. Nothing about those questions had to be fuzzy to get that result.

Quite right about the phrasing of the questions. I think it should be mandatory to show the exact question when reporting the result.

People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

[billvon 3,064]

> The only thing remarkable you've shown in this thread is your ability to
>view the ordinary as evidence of people "losing it". Seems to me that
>you're the one "losing it".

That would be the famous "I know you are but what am I" gambit!

>You assert Bush was a facist . . .

No, I don't. Why do you think that?

[billvon 3,064]

>I think I'd like to see how the last two questions were phrased.


"On another subject, here are some things people have said about President Obama. Please indicate for each whether you
believe it is true or false."

"He is a socialist
He was not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president
He is doing many of the things that Hitler did
He may be the Anti-Christ"

Another interesting result:

"These replies are also strongly correlated with education. The less education people have had the more likely they are to believe all of these statements."

One reason, perhaps, that some republicans are anti-education; it costs them votes.

[sundevil777 102]

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> The only thing remarkable you've shown in this thread is your ability to
>view the ordinary as evidence of people "losing it". Seems to me that
>you're the one "losing it".

That would be the famous "I know you are but what am I" gambit!

>You assert Bush was a facist . . .

No, I don't. Why do you think that?

It certainly is fortunate for you that you're not guilty of "gambits"

Yes, you didn't say he was a facist. Anyway, you said that you rest your case. That should mean you don't post anymore! At the most, you just get a closing statement and that's it.

People are sick and tired of being told that ordinary and decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am

[billvon 3,064]

>Anyway, you said that you rest your case. That should mean you don't
>post anymore! At the most, you just get a closing statement and that's it.

In that case, QED, ipso facto and quod erat demonstrandum.

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If that doesn't scare you, it should. These people vote.

So do the one's waiting for their free Obama money that came from debts he forgave.

There are dumbasses on both sides. The fact you think the right is losing it because of some crazies actually puts you in one of those categories on the other side.

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[billvon 3,064]

>There are dumbasses on both sides.

That there are.

>The fact you think the right is losing it because of some crazies
>actually puts you in one of those categories on the other side.

Oh, I don't think the entire right wing is losing it. But at least a quarter of them definitely are (as you've acknowledged above.) And that's a pretty significant number. If you meet four right wingers tomorrow, odds are that one of them believes that our president is an evil supernatural being here to wage an apocalyptic war with Jesus Christ.