It is a sad day when our own side depends on half truths, innuendo, distortions, personal biases, and out of context quotes to smear someone who doesn’t deserve this kind of smear.
I am a Dan Greenfield fan, but this is just so over the top it’s heartreaking.
In order to understand Rand Paul’s vote for hagel, you have to know what went before when his ‘betters’ in the party deserted him when he tried to STOP cloture. But I suppose some people have the new hillary mindset. You know. What difference does it make.
Or when he tried to stop delivery of F-16s to the brotherhood. Or his vote AGAINST brennan. Or his entire trip to Israel. Or...
But I digress.
Rand Paul is no more the senator from al qaeda than the man in the moon, and this is a remarkably innaccurate portrait by a man, just a fallible man, who believes that Rand Paul is an anti-semite and anti-Israel. Whatever you hear about Rand Paul from Dan Greenfield comes through that lens and it’s a shame because it simply is not true.
SoConPubbie:
Thanks for your reply, and compliment. Visit me at “In Forum” anytime, to chuckle at this old graewoulf.
#:o)
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ALL:
What follows is a long-winded background on why I think that:
1.) it is nearly impossible for a Republican Politician to win a Presidential Election when the Liberal Agenda Media chooses to oppose all good done and promote ANY bad done by that same Republican Politician;
2.) We Conservatives unwittingly tend to mimic the attack style of the Liberal Agenda Media.
I have watched the Liberals deflect the facts of an assertion, and it goes something like this:
Anchor: “RINO A made the statement yesterday that Democrat A supports more Federal Spending on Program Party-Time. What is your opinion, Democrat A, on spending more taxpayer dollars when so many Americans are without jobs?”
[ Note: The low information voter will only pick out topics that he/she is interested in, and ignore the rest as “just politics as usual.” ]
[ Note: Democrats know that the average human can only focus on 3 topics, and thus tries to add at least 3 variables to each topic, plus add at least 3 more new topics. Thus, with each facetime answer the opportunity is to keep on adding variables, anecdotes, and new topics. The over riding rule is to repeat the MAIN LIES as convincingly and as often as possible before the commercial break. ]
(Back to the studio): Democrat A: “ Well, I want to thank my good BIPARTISAN friend Republican A for choosing to raise this important issue to the attention of THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
“This INVESTMENT in the goodwill and happiness of the HARDWORKING Federal WORKERS in these HARD TIMES who have devoted their lives to living a continuous life of Party Time are providing a unique service our GREAT NATION’S TEACHERS, STUDENTS, and especially to those what have been thrown out of work by the RECKLESS POLICIES of the PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION.
“Of course, there will always be a few that will say that it was not BUSH’S FAULT, but most REASONABLE people will AGREE that people who say that it was not BUSH’S FAULT are known to be on the EXTREME end of a dying Conservative culture of FAILURE, after FAILURE, after FAILURE.
“One has only to look at the recent Presidential elections to determine THE AMERICAN PEOPLE know that this worst economy since THE GREAT DEPRESSION was ALL BUSH’S FAULT.”
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Etc, etc, etc. You can count the new variables and new topics for yourself, but the point is that when the low information voter surfs to the next channel at the commercial break, he/she is only thinking about how much he/she hates Bush, how they agree with the American People, and who does RINO A, a good bipartisan friend of smiling Democrat A, think he is to deny spending somebody else’s tax dollars on Federal Program Party Time!
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Compare the above to ANY RINO who scares the “h e double toothpicks” out of a Liberal “Bipartisan” Federal Politician, and get your hip boots on because the offending RINO’s blood will be spilled very quickly.
Dan Greenfield did it with his false assumption article.
Ultra Left-Wing GOP Elite Pig McCain did it on the Senate floor as did fellow Left Wing GOP Elite Pig Graham.
The Liberal Agenda Media will play endless clips of Rand saying and voting for things that show Rand in a bad light.
All of this will be repeated until the chatter is no longer about the Filibuster, or what the Filibuster achieved, but what THE AMERICAN PEOPLE found to be the most shameful, repulsive and distasteful about anything that Rand has ever said or done.
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This is an old pattern for the Liberal Agenda Media, (LAM).
Back in the day, GWH Bush’s Veep was given a slip of paper with the word potato on it in the question that the school wanted him to ask. The Veep asked the question, and then corrected the student to the spelling on his slip of paper. [ Note: both spellings were correct.]
In a matter of weeks, when the LAM was through with the Veep Quayle, his future political career was over.
In contrast, Indonesian Citizen, Communist, Tyrant, financially incompetent, Benghazi-Coward B. Hussein Obama slept peacefully while his Libyan Federal Personnel were being butchered for 7 hours: with nary a peep out of the Liberal Agenda Media.