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Joe Piscopo’s confessions of a disillusioned Democrat
The Washington Times ^
| Thursday, August 14, 2014
| Joe Piscopo
Posted on 08/16/2014 11:30:37 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
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To: ripley
Where was his good conscience thirty or forty years ago? Winston Churchill said it best:
"If, when you are young and you are not a liberal you have no heart. However when you are older and are not a conservative you have no brains."
CC
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posted on
08/16/2014 12:10:16 PM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
To: Clintonfatigued
The only question I have for Joe is, What took you so long to figure it out? I was a democrat when I was 20 years old and a member of the union. My outlook changed completely after working there for three years. I despised the union and democrat politicians by the time I was 23. I watched as the union big shots took millions of dollars from working people and gave it to corrupt democrats. They would always tell us how we would benefit from the money but only the union big shots ever really benefited. The entire system stunk.
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posted on
08/16/2014 12:13:37 PM PDT
by
peeps36
(Save The Tortoise And Kill The People)
To: Clintonfatigued
in other words, Joe was just a dumb bass lo info voter until now.
Way to go Joe!!!! Way to buy into all the liberal bullsh-t about what conservatives and Republicans are. Way to be intellectually 12 until now.
To: Clintonfatigued
I was a Democrat because I believed in a strong defense and opposed communism, like John F. Kennedy. And I was a Democrat because I loved the fact that Kennedy understood we needed lower marginal tax rates.... By and large, none of these values are represented in the Democratic Party today. From where Im standing, the party has largely abandoned its commitment to civil rights and instead allows race-baiters to be national power brokers. Who knew Joe was a racist...?
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posted on
08/16/2014 12:20:09 PM PDT
by
Popman
("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
To: Popman
I was a Democrat because I believed in a strong defense and opposed communismon what planet?
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posted on
08/16/2014 12:20:58 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: GeronL
on what planet?Earth, before 1968.
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posted on
08/16/2014 12:23:31 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: peeps36
I know a few Democrats who have voted Republican for years. They just cant bring themselves to change their political label. One of them is a Black pastor. Even though he sees much of the truth about Democrats, he also sees the RINOs in the Republican Party and can't bring himself to make a party switch. He thinks they are “all the same”.
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posted on
08/16/2014 12:26:39 PM PDT
by
Nevadan
To: ripley
(One wonders how many people he might have denigrated and insulted during his years as a brilliant and intellectual democrat. Better late than NEVER!
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posted on
08/16/2014 12:39:09 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Clintonfatigued
Joe Piscopo is a few years older than me. I think some of his realizations are correct, albeit long in coming.
I come from a Democratic household in Jersey City NJ. As a youngster I continually read the Jersey Journal, The Hudson Dispatch , and the NY Daily News.
My father was a captain in the JCFD. He was turned down for Deputy Chief because his views began to change.
The family retired to the Jersey Shore and I became a volunteer firefighter.
Once away from Hudson County my Dad's views began to change.
He died when I was 23. It took me till the age of 30 to see what he was beginning to see.
At the age of 34 I started the first conservative theater companies ever in the State of NJ.
To: Clintonfatigued
Dennis Miller, Victoria Jackson, Rob Schneider, and now Piscipo. Moving rightwards.
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posted on
08/16/2014 1:07:21 PM PDT
by
Vision Thing
(obama wants his suicidal worshipers to become suicidal bombers.)
To: Clintonfatigued
Joe does a good job in a 2001 version of ‘Bartleby’, with Crispin Glover in the title role. The theme music was done on a Theremin.
To: Elsie
Collectively, these “brilliant, intellectual, geniuses” have done so much damage to so many individuals that it defies any sense of forgiveness.
Let them all wallow in their regret. But, if they have any sense of justice, they should leave non-progressives alone, move to a socialist paradise, and spare everyone their self-indulgent, emotional wallowing.
IMHO
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posted on
08/16/2014 1:21:20 PM PDT
by
ripley
To: ripley
In good conscience, however, I cant continue to call myself a Democrat.
Where was his good conscience thirty or forty years ago? Where has ours been for the past twenty years?
It's especially obvious now, but the Republican party has never [in my political lifetime] been about upholding its platform planks.
The pushing of McCain and Romney woke me to it; and their behavior on things such as the border, the NSA, the IRS, the FBI/ATF/DEA/ICE operation Fast and Furious cement my conviction that they have no intention of honoring any of their platform planks.
I no longer will cast a Republican vote because the other guy's worse
— instead I will find someone I can vote for. He doesn't have to be perfect, but he has to value/understand/respect the Constitution.
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posted on
08/16/2014 1:25:15 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: Clintonfatigued
Take back Vanessa Redgrave...but maybe we’ll keep Joe Piscopo.
(Isn’t he from Joisey?)
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posted on
08/16/2014 1:31:41 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: ripley
Where was his good conscience thirty or fourty years ago? Back then, liberal Democrats thought that the Party still represented them. They could not have imagined in their wildest dreams, and would not have believed it if realists like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan had warned them, that their party had been effectively taken over by the "liberal wing" of the Party, which was and remains actually a tightly organized group-within-a-group run out of KGB Active Measures and clustered around old Stalinists like George McGovern and a tight group of moles like Sens. William Fulbright and John Kerry and, later on, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
The Democratic Party has been a Trojan horse for the Communist International for 43 years.
To: Luke21
McGovern was a decent guy with way out ideas. No. He was part of a cadre of Stalin's men who mounted the rump, breakaway Democratic convention in, um, I think it was 1948. McGovern was a delegate at that rump convention, and the presidential candidate of the same group of people in 1972. He was always their guy, and he had to know what he was doing. Nobody, but nobody, is that stupid.
To: Clintonfatigued; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; albertp; Alexander Rubin; Allosaurs_r_us; ...
In becoming an independent, I think Im maintaining the independent (dare I say, libertarian?) mindedness and patriotism that my parents endowed me with.
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posted on
08/16/2014 2:13:30 PM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: Clintonfatigued
Joe, a comedian? Who knew? I remember him on SNL, awful.
Him and “ I ‘m Al Fanken”. Bottom of the barrel.
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posted on
08/16/2014 3:17:09 PM PDT
by
Vinnie
To: Clintonfatigued
A good piece, except for Joe’s thinking that FDR cared for the people. He didn’t. He was, IMHO, the worst kind of demagogue, ultimately screwing the people with burdens like Social Security. He was the original leftist emperor, the kind of lineage our current president seeks to enjoy.
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posted on
08/16/2014 3:49:56 PM PDT
by
kpbruinfan
(Modern day warrior, today's Tom Sawyer, floated down a river on a raft with a black guy!" - Cartman)
To: lentulusgracchus
“The Democratic Party has been a Trojan horse for the Communist International for 43 yers.”
And that ever-increasing 40 percent of the electorate loves the idea of Communism and will vote for hard-core leftists until doomsday.
IMHO
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posted on
08/16/2014 4:11:15 PM PDT
by
ripley
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