Journal smittyoneeach's Journal: Like so much of the baseless crap happening in the comments 20
The New Republic article is titled, "The Unelectable Whiteness of Scott Walker," with the sub-heading, "A Journey Through the Poisonous World That Produced a Republican Star."
This is completely insane. I have followed Walker's career for a long time, and there is nothing in his record that can plausibly be given a racial tinge. What does TNR have on him? He supports voter ID legislation. That's it. Of course, every Republican politician supports voter ID, as do a lot of Democratic pols. As for voters, I believe most polls show around 70% support. All of which is to say that the New Republic's smear is pathetic, made up out of whole cloth.
I'm moving to a theory that carpet bombing with falsehood is all the Progressives have left. A good, but painful data point on the road to recovery.
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(a play on "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"?) (Score:1)
I'm moving to a theory that carpet bombing with falsehood is all the Progressives have left.
Yes and no.
No in that, they could drop all of their charades like global warming and Conservatism=racism, and just be truthful about what they actually believe, and put that forth. Because it is a coherent belief system (just highly evil).
Yes in that, if you occasionally hear of the results of national political polls in America, you come to the estimation that about one third of us is solid Left (i.e. will approve of Obama and the Democrats no matter what they do/no matter how bad things get), about one t
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just be truthful about what they actually believe, and put that forth
I think that the strategist for them was Gustav LeBon, and the tactician was Saul Alinsky. tl;dr, the former said "people are meat" and the latter said "morality is merely a stumbling block to power over that meat".
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Traditional morality, that is; e.g. the sanctity of (human) life, inalienable rights, the importance of marriage between a man and a woman/the family as a building block of healthy society, reverence for the Creator. All things the Left rejects or scorns, and replaces with their own morality; e.g. abortion/euthanasia is okay as we're just soulless animals that are a little more evolved, rights come from government, homosexual marriage and single parent child rearing is noble, and reverence for the creation
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Traditional morality, that is; e.g. the sanctity of (human) life, inalienable rights, the importance of marriage between a man and a woman/the family as a building block of healthy society, reverence for the Creator. All things the Left rejects or scorns, and replaces with their own morality; e.g. abortion/euthanasia is okay as we're just soulless animals that are a little more evolved, rights come from government, homosexual marriage and single parent child rearing is noble, and reverence for the creation.
And of course while I'm sure not all Lefties know who Saul Alinsky is, we know that at least Hillary Clinton, Chris Matthews, and the DOE do as they've mentioned the book by name, so the Leftie elites have at least ingested the Cliffs Notes version, and the rank-and-file Lefties follow the cue of the tactics of their religion's (independent of tactics to push it/force it, it's still a moral code) leaders.
You say that as if it's a bad thing.
So Leftism is becoming the dominating religion. One religion surpassing another has happened before. The religion of Jesus surpassed the religion of Zeus or Odin, and now Jesus is being replaced by the new Leftist deities.
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now Jesus is being replaced by the new Leftist deities
There is nothing new about the worship of naked power. Or its nihilistic end. The words of these fools shall pass, and the Gospel of Christ will cruise merrily along, except He return and pull the plug.
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There is nothing new about the worship of naked power.
Yup, and those who worship the power of Christ are no exception.
The words of these fools shall pass
Indeed, the Christian fools against homosexuals will pass one day, just like old Christians who used to hunt witches and thinks Rock & Roll teaches kids to kill their parents
and the Gospel of Christ will cruise merrily along,
Sure, along with the poems about Odin and Zeus.
except He return and pull the plug.
Sure, when Ragnarok comes.
racist? How dare you? (Score:2)
Requiring voter ID, then closing polling places and DMV offices in minority neighborhoods has nothing at all to do with race.
If you live in Milwaukee county, you can expect to wait up to 6 hours to vote. If you live in Waukesha, your wait will be 8 minutes. And sir, would you like a beverage while you wait?
I can't wait until the national press starts to look more closely at Scott Walker and his corrupt administration (which doesn't seem to be able to do anything to help the Wisconsin job market for some s
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Were Walker, in fact, corrupt, wouldn't they park him adjacent the Illinois wing of the Federal Pen, with Blagojevich?
I suspect you, our your sources, of Making Stuff Up, sir.
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As a whole, Illinois is more corrupt. But the Walker administration is provably more corrupt than the Quinn administration.
You don't keep up with the news, do you? There has been an ongoing, on again, off again investigation into the Walker administration and Walker personally. He'll get a friendly Wisconsin judge to o
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The four-year effort by Democratic prosecutors to criminalize political speech in Wisconsin has hit the wall of the U.S. Constitution. In a ruling that could have consequences nationwide, federal judge Rudolph Randa issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday ending the secret John Doe probe of allies of Governor Scott Walker.
We've been telling you for months about the secret Wisconsin John Doe, which operates like a grand jury and forces targets to remain silent. The targets are right-of-center groups disliked by Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm, his special prosecutor Francis Schmitz, and the left-leaning state Government Accountability Board that regulates campaign finance.
American Spectator [spectator.org]:
The judge said that the district attorneys must stop these investigations and return all property taken from the victims of this abuse of power. Actually, I'll just quote from the end of the decision. It's fairly dramatic for this sort of document. (Note: The "Defendants" are the district attorneys, the plaintiffs are the conservative activists.)
The Defendants must cease all activities related to the investigation, return all property seized in the investigation from any individual or organization, and permanently destroy all copies of information and other materials obtained through the investigation. Plaintiffs and others are hereby relieved of any and every duty under Wisconsin law to cooperate further with Defendants‘ investig ation. Any attempt to obtain compliance by any Defendant or John Doe Judge Gregory Peterson is grounds for a contempt finding by this Court.
George Will [washingtonpost.com]:
In such investigations, prosecutors can promiscuously issue subpoenas and conduct searches. The identities of the targets are kept secret, and the targets are silenced by gag orders, thereby preventing public discussion of the process. Thus John Doe investigations are effective government instruments of disruption and intimidation.
Randa correctly concluded that the John Doe investigation had no reasonable expectation of obtaining a conviction. But its aim, which had been achieved until Randa’s ruling, was utterly unrelated to law. It was abetted by selective leaks by the prosecutors and by subpoenas sent to conservative donors and organizations nationwide. The purpose of all this was to suppress conservative political advocacy by consuming the time and other resources of conservative leaders, and by making people wary of collaborating with those targeted by a secretive criminal investigation.
I can only assume that you're completely unaware of what actually was going on with this prosecutorial abuse. It blows my mind to think that any reasonable, sane person could be cheering the raw abuse of power by the prosecutors
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So that means we just just leave them alone? The voters spoke, so...
Only one Republican crony judge has alleged any "prosecutorial abuse".
The story is far from over.
You bel
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Oh, and splendid job (Score:1)