tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35333449.post4221133019719443004..comments2023-12-04T08:00:08.414-05:00Comments on Last Refuge of a Scoundrel: Much AdoLarryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11308171394825291900noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35333449.post-71768288760773813642009-03-18T17:47:00.000-04:002009-03-18T17:47:00.000-04:00Hammer!!!!! Good to see you!Hammer!!!!! Good to see you!Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11308171394825291900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35333449.post-49406288057577891302009-03-18T15:30:00.000-04:002009-03-18T15:30:00.000-04:00Rush has em running scared and I love it.Rush has em running scared and I love it.nonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07550167783969561280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35333449.post-58057243550027030142009-03-17T07:12:00.000-04:002009-03-17T07:12:00.000-04:00It is pathetic, but it seems to be par for the cou...It is pathetic, but it seems to be par for the course.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11308171394825291900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35333449.post-61044478187530739182009-03-17T03:39:00.000-04:002009-03-17T03:39:00.000-04:00"There is no "but if the policies are enacted he h..."There is no "but if the policies are enacted he hopes that..." because if they do get passed it won't make a flying fornication at a rolling pastry what who hopes afterwards."<BR/><BR/>Haha! It's funny because it's true :D<BR/><BR/>Gotta love that billboard - did they get some really really clever conservative mole in there to make it up for them? Because there is no other excuse for that. Bad design, bad execution, ambiguous slogan...and that was with the entire intertubes COMPETING to make the best one they could? ZOMG that is horribly, horribly pathetic.Anniee451https://www.blogger.com/profile/03066640571157938093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35333449.post-75880809238172361982009-03-11T03:14:00.000-04:002009-03-11T03:14:00.000-04:00Like the Texas blacksmith, when the Englishman ask...Like the Texas blacksmith, when the Englishman asked who his master was:<BR/><BR/>That sumbitch ain't been born!Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11308171394825291900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35333449.post-39834194141754562062009-03-11T00:47:00.000-04:002009-03-11T00:47:00.000-04:00No, you've put your finger on something I've been ...No, you've put your finger on something I've been wanting to say - all the liberals' talk (and it is talk) about Rush being the "de facto leader" misses a key point...that we are individualists by nature, as you point out. We don't want to be led around by the nose; we don't want to be RULED - remember the infamous question in the debate between McCain and Obi-wan - "how will you RULE?" and half of us were screaming at our TVs and saying "If Obama agrees to RULE then CALL him on it; we don't WANT to be RULED; we want to be FREE to live our lives within the reasonable constraints of common law and free trade!<BR/><BR/>I don't dispute that we may need a galvanizing force, but it's not going to be an easy thing to come up with when the left is bent on the personal destruction of anyone who embodies anything like that for the conservatives and libertarians. And will stop at nothing to do that.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for not yet lumping me in with the barking wingnuts, but there are times when I get hopping mad and need to do a bit of barking, considering the things that are being done.Anniee451https://www.blogger.com/profile/03066640571157938093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35333449.post-49636043801526686052009-03-11T00:33:00.000-04:002009-03-11T00:33:00.000-04:00I don't have a problem with pointing out their con...I don't have a problem with pointing out their conspiracies, as long as you have the facts to back it up. But you can report without going off the deep end.<BR/>For eight years we have pointed and laughed at the barking mad frothing moonbats, and rightly so. I just don't want us to become the barking mad frothing wingnuts.<BR/>Your "Helter Skelter" piece puts it nicely, they aren't even hiding it. The real problem, as I see it, is that the conservatives are in such disarray. That's the problem that we on the right side of the spectrum must deal with, and we aren't going to deal with it effectively by screeching and howling like a bunch of feces flinging monkeys. We have to keep our heads about us.<BR/>Something else that works against us is that we are individualists by nature and have a hard time becoming a collective. It's easier when we have someone to rally around, and that is what the Republican party so desperately needs, and is so sadly lacking...a leader.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11308171394825291900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35333449.post-43217232859308281172009-03-10T20:07:00.000-04:002009-03-10T20:07:00.000-04:00It's getting harder not to sound nutty when we're ...It's getting harder not to sound nutty when we're in the midst of such insanity, Larry. It's getting harder not to sound like a conspiracy theorist when they are so up-front about their, well, conspiracies. It's not even Orwellian; it's like these people can't resist rubbing our noses in the fact that they're purposely shitting on us, purposely destroying the economy (Cloward-Piven) and laughing at us all the while. I just...I'm stymied, Larry and <A HREF="http://purelypolitics.blogspot.com/2009/03/helter-skelter.html" REL="nofollow">honest to blog</A>, I'm not trying to come off nutty, but it gets harder with each passing day. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. When I read about how Pelosi and Obama didn't have to discuss the stimulus because they both knew what had to be done, and saw the attack on Limbaugh come instantaneously from all quarters the minute Obama mentioned his name...I'm sorry, this is fucked up.Anniee451https://www.blogger.com/profile/03066640571157938093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35333449.post-80491186414644980422009-03-10T19:19:00.000-04:002009-03-10T19:19:00.000-04:00Vocal opposition, by all means, and not slipping i...Vocal opposition, by all means, and not slipping into full frontal nuttery is vitally important. Too many places are slipping from previously well thought out debate to "OMG WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!:" and it's making me crazy.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for dropping by Aaron. I'm looking forward to the space opera when you get it published.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11308171394825291900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35333449.post-90519886644759874102009-03-10T11:14:00.000-04:002009-03-10T11:14:00.000-04:00While I'm not much a fan of Rush, I gotta say I li...While I'm not much a fan of Rush, I gotta say I liked how worded it, knowing damn well how it would be taken. <BR/><BR/>If we were forced to put up with eight years of hearing about how evil/stupid/greedy/cunning/blundering * President Bush was, why are we not allowed to do the same to the current POTUS? Oh sure, by disposition we'll restrain ourselves from gratuitous personal attacks, threats, and moonbattish conspiracy theories, but vocal opposition none the less. <BR/><BR/>It all reminds me of rabid AmWay members. Yes, it's a scam. You buy into it, now your hopes and dreams are invested in it, and anyone trying to tell you you'll never get rich off it is an enemy.<BR/><BR/>Hell with them. I hope he fails too. At getting anything accomplished at all. <BR/> *(and how the hell is someone so supposedly dumb controlling the weather anyway?)Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17456992930167398092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35333449.post-1023122951362088462009-03-10T00:44:00.000-04:002009-03-10T00:44:00.000-04:00Absolutely correct on all points BoBo, with the ad...Absolutely correct on all points BoBo, with the addendum: The Left's attacks on President Bush were mostly personal in nature, with only a passing reference to this or that program they didn't agree with. Rush's "attack" was directed at Obama's programs, and was not at all personal in nature.<BR/>And when you point out that the Republican party never spoke out against it (I can't remember them ever doing so either) I have an RCOB moment. Noodle-spines, every damn one of them.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11308171394825291900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35333449.post-83560155105516216512009-03-10T00:26:00.000-04:002009-03-10T00:26:00.000-04:00Well - you know that it's always been one-sided. ...Well - you know that it's always been one-sided. For the last 8 years all we have heard from the media, congress, and the blogosphere is how much they hoped Bush would fail and especially how much they hoped the war in Iraq would fail. There was never an uproar because the media was complicit.<BR/><BR/>The only one's talking about their constant degrading of the President and the demoralization of our troops were we bloggers and conservative talk shows.<BR/><BR/>The party never once spoke out the entire time that I can remember. Now - we have one talk show host saying the same thing we heard all this time and now it's a national story? Not only that - but they took him out of context.<BR/><BR/>Criminy! Personally, I hope Obama fails too. It would be good for our country if he does.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35333449.post-76397114704382886642009-03-09T21:55:00.000-04:002009-03-09T21:55:00.000-04:00What I can't figure out is why in the world are so...What I can't figure out is why in the world are so-called "conservative" leaders still allowing the opposition to define the conversation!?!?<BR/><BR/>But then again, I've been disappointed in the Republican "leadership" for ages now. There seems to be a few up and comers that have a backbone, but most of the upper echelon are noodle-spined.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11308171394825291900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35333449.post-36197532433307908802009-03-09T19:55:00.000-04:002009-03-09T19:55:00.000-04:00All very well stated, Larry. "Let me ask you...All very well stated, Larry. <BR/><BR/>"Let me ask you a simple question, if Europe had to provide for their own defense instead of relying on the US, how successful would their socialism lite be? If the US were to withdraw all military and foreign aid, how long would they last? Their socialism exists and works only because we, the USA, has enabled it."<BR/><BR/>I have tried for some time to pound that into the heads of the left, but they just. don't. get. it. It's absolutely true, though.<BR/><BR/>It wasn't an accident that Obama failed to mention Limbaugh until after the inauguration, when he inexplicably used Limbaugh to bludgeon a bunch of senators during a legislative session. Now to most of us that sounds insane, the guy's a civilian. But it was clear what was meant, and what was meant was the all-out media assault, beginning with Rahmbo's claim that Rush is the leader of the party and continuing through the entire MSM, print & broadcast, through the blogosphere, etc. Culminating in a DNC campaign to erect a billboard (submit your slogans at the DNC website) to tell Rush what you think of him.<BR/><BR/>Rush Limbaugh does not have the power to levy a tax, to put me in prison, to sentence me to death, to shoot me, to send my son to war. But apparently he possesses the power to scare the hell out of one particular Messiah. Go figure.<BR/><BR/>Oh and by the way, there was a poll in 2006 in which people were asked if they wanted Bush to fail - 51 percent of Dims said yes. So what the hell ever. They're lying hypocrites and I have no patience whatever for their crap.Anniee451https://www.blogger.com/profile/03066640571157938093noreply@blogger.com