Posted on 09/13/2009 7:45:58 AM PDT by Maelstorm
The Democratic Party struggled at the national level throughout the 1970s and ’80s — all but shut out of the White House — because it was defined by its most extreme elements: war protestors, loony peaceniks, angry black activists, crime apologists, etc. It took years of concerted effort by the Democratic Leadership Council, Bill Clinton and others to reclaim the Democrats’ reputation as reasonable and pragmatic.
The Republican Party of today is stuck in the same place, defined by Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, birthers, tea partiers and Joe Wilson. John McCain fell into the trap of being defined by the extremists when he chose former Gov. Palin to run on his ticket. She energized the base, but she scared off moderates and intellectually honest Republicans . Today’s big rally in Washington holds the potential for aggravating that reputation. Because TV cameras always focus on the loonies, it won’t take many handheld signs denouncing Obama as a Socialist/Muslim/Nazi or questioning his citizenship to exacerbate the GOP’s reputation as, to quote Politico, the “party of cranks.”
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Where are the media fly by shots? During Jackson’s death watch they panned the crowd with fly overs and everything.
Cynthia Tucker, on MSNBC, claimed that 45% - 65% of the Townhall protestors are racists. She is not a credible source.
No she isn’t she is a far left nut.
The helicopters were flying so I know that they have the aerial shots.
I don't know how long it takes to get a copy of the photo released.
They’re scared, they are very scared...and they should be. This isn’t going to go away, and the GOP better be shaking in their boots as much as the dims.
The dims have become the party of radicals and they want to rule the world by regulation.
I notice that in this piece. This leftist racist gas bag usually is not so terse. They are indeed afraid.
Didn’t hear Tucker saying the Dems were extremists in the 80’s.
And is she now positing that there are no extremists in the DEms?
Yep that Granny flanked by two young ladys really looks like a radical to me. /s
They still are extremists. They are defined by the most extreme of their number. Nancy Pelosi is there Speaker, Obama is their President and they are two of the most extreme left individuals to ever hold those offices in the history of this nation.
To a Communist, Americans have always been considered extremeists.
Cynthia Tucker is on the editorial board of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and she’s one of the most liberal people I’ve ever heard, why would anyone care what she says?
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No she isn’t she is a far left nut.
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Which puts her firmly on the right of the current democrat party.
This is wishful thinking because I see the real story as a revolution involving people who vote in elections.
The hippies and young radicals of the past were sometimes too young to vote. The early part of their protests saw a 21 year old voting age and by the 70’s when 18 year olds voted, few did.
We who are Tea Partiers, 912’ers etc. are older, more mature and ready to vote. The younger Obama supporters are not as motivated.
Maelstorm, you KNOW that private aircraft can’t get anywhere near the Capitol OR the White House and never could.
Since 9/11/01, airspace around DC for some distance (maybe 30 miles?) is absolutely off limits to private aircraft without special permission. One poor pilot took his small private plane within that perimeter and was greeted by F-16s, escorting him out of the area.
What is interesting is the media never show the worst of the left. Never ever cover obscenity in the streets during san fran sicko parades. Have to be forced to cover flag burnings and the burnings of our soldiers in effigy. They can keep up the extremist spin, they will find out the meaning of the word.
How can a hard working accomplished mother scare "intellectually honest Republicans", but a former ACORN worker that touted close ties to domestic terrorists, the Nation of Islam, a communist American hating pastor of twenty years, and criminal power brokers not "scare" them?
Pretty amazing.
Where are these extremists?
Last time I checked, simply wanting spending under control and taxes reasonable didn’t define an extremist.
Gosh, I see Americans who love their Country. To those who Hate America in the Establishment, that is extreme and won’t be tolerated.
Pray for America and the Tea Party Movement
Um...ever heard of ACORN? Or Van Jones? Or Cass Sunstein? Or Barack Obama? In 2009?
Methinks not much has changed...
Total, unadulterated bovine fecal goo! Those "left wing, extremist nuts" now control not only the Democrat party, but also the Congress and the White House. They're now considered the "mainstream" by those who control the traditional media—because they also control the traditional media!
Conservatives haven't changed in the last thirty years. They only appear "extreme" to those who've moved so far to the left of what used to be the center, they've fallen off the edge of rationality.
They just don't get it, never will.
This is the point where the left loses the argument.
It’s like when two people argue, and the one losing just starts screaming and ranting incoherently because they know they’ve lost, but don’t want to give up.
NO, the dims are defined and controlled RIGHT NOW by their hard left extremists!
Note that the Dem Talking Point papers are out on the Tea Party and Republicans as a whole.
How to distinguish Liberty from Tryanny:
| Liberty | "Soft" Tyranny | |
| 1 | Rights are inherent in, and unalienable from, individuals | Rights are granted/rescinded by the majority through the government |
| 2 | Fundamental rights are life, liberty, and property (absence of coercion) | Fundamental rights are food, housing, and healthcare (absence of necessity) |
| 3 | Property is owned by individuals who make decisions as to its use, improvement, and transfer | Property is owned by 'the public' with government officials making decisions as to its use, improvement, and transfer |
| 4 | Government exists to protect the rights of individuals | Government exists to plan and direct the resources of society |
| 5 | Government authority is decentralized in a federal system with limited and enumerated powers | Government authority is centralized in a national system with broad and necessarily intrusive powers |
| 6 | Government action is prescribed by rules fixed and announced beforehand | Government action is arbitrary and at the descretion of "czars" and planning boards |
| 7 | Economic activity is driven by a large number of small entities interacting according to simple rules | Economic activity is driven by a small number of large entities operating within the constraints of complex regulations |
| 8 | Effective innovation results from contrarian thinking, individual initiative, and the voluntary exchange of property | Efficient implementation of government planning requires conformity of opinion, collective action, and the coerced transfer of property |
| 9 | Standards of living for the many increase permanently as they utilize improved products and services conceived by the few | Standards of living for the many increase temporarily as they utilize property redistributed from the few |
| 10 | Altruism is using one's own resources in concrete acts to help specific individuals | Altruism is obligating the resources of others for broad-brush programs to help mankind in the abstract |
Rights exists solely as a way to fairly decide whose will shall prevail in cases where two or more people disagree. They do not exist for the purpose of enslaving one person for the benefit of another (e.g., the "right" to free medical care.)
Liberty is the right to do whatever does not infringe the rights of others. Rights empower you to help yourself, free from interference by others.
Tyranny makes you a serf to be used by the elite to further their own power. Once upon a time, the nobility used religion to convince the serfs they had to serve the nobility. Modernly, the elite use good people's feelings of altruism to convince them to enslave both themselves and their neighbors. It's basically the same con game, just using a more sophisticated hook.
As well as a hypocrite. Read her bio and see where she’s bounced from AA job to AA job. Then had to travel to Africa to “find herself”.
Realizing “she’d had enough” with the bros and sisters in the motherland, she high tails it back to be with Southern whites in yet another AA job.
She’s just a lazy, spoiled brat who’s been given everything because of what she looks like.
Average Americans, who are repulsing the communist and despotic overthrow of America and defending freedom and liberty, are tagged “extremist kooks.”
Right.
Yessir, Cynthia:
Sure does look like a vicious mob, all right.
Your head is totally up your backside, Cyn-the-ah.
Just beautiful!
It worked for the Dems. The 70’s extremists are now in control.
Yeah I know that but I figured that ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX could arrange something. They always seem to manage under other circumstances. Thanks Ed for pointing that out.
Love the pictures - I sure don’t see any extremist in those pictures - or any of the other ones posted the last few days. I suspect CNN’s going to have a harder time showing conservatives as “fringe” after so many people watched the march...
I assume that you are assuming that we know that anything by Cythia Tucker does not really need the barf alert.
Yeah and they aren’t one bit outraged by the denizens of Pelosi’s district.
Yeah I was assuming. She is a well known nut us squirrels should know a rotten leftist nut when we read one.
When you see Cynthia Tucker on PMSNBC, if you look carefully you can almost see where the DNC’s arm is shoved up her ass and working her vocal chords.
This puerile waste of bandwidth is no different.
Some ‘Extremist’ beliefs according to MSM:
1) Pro-life
2) Capitalism
3) Christian
4) Limited Government
5) Pro-military
6) Pro 2nd amendment
7) Self Reliance
8) Private Property rights
9) anti-collectivism
10)FOX news watcher
All that is left for the Left is racist demagoguery, to stir up hate against people with white skin, even have a crack pot theory for it “white skin privilege.” First professional conservative to use the word demagogue against the hate filled left will realize a huge bonanaza, calling Glen Beck.
Why is this libmedia/DNC drone telling us what the GOP is and isn’t? We’ve all heard the talking points before.
I meet 9 of those 10 so I guess I’m an ‘extremist’ to them.
Because their mole McCain also failed miserably...
John McCain fell into the trap of being defined by the extremists when he chose former Gov. Palin to run on his ticket. She energized the base, but she scared off moderates and intellectually honest Republicans .
I believe McCain and his campaign staff lost the election. Were it not for Palin, many more conservatives would have stayed home and Obama would have completely trounced McCain. If the Republicans pull another dinosaur out of congress for 2012(like Dole and McCain), I believe a third party will arise rapidly and the Republican party will wither away. The RNC better wake up, gird their loins, and prepare to battle for this country or they will die along with our freedoms.
Cindy is an Ashley Dupree Democrat Whore
Maelstorm you have a point. The alphabets probably could have gotten a waiver from Secy of Homeland Defense Napolitano since they would have been surveilling all those home-grown terrorists ;)
An article about how reprehensible extremism is ... written by an extremist.
They would have if Obama was given a health care speech. I have noticed Obama is out on the campaign trail is seems to be becoming irrelevant. He is preaching to smaller crowds. Could it be that he has already became a lame duck?
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