Posted on 06/09/2004 9:02:24 AM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper
Yes, I'm resurrecting the VRWC Surveillance Team/ Daily Dumbest Things said on DU Thread. This is a special edition. As we all know, the Great Communicator "slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God" Saturday. Unfortunately, the extreme kooks on DU and elsewhere are acting in a less than dignified matter regarding the news. If you want to, please go over there and retrieve the things they say about the Gipper and post them here. Remember to post the name of the poster and a link to what is said.
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Folks, they've overplayed their hand. They called us before the last raise. They are in total freak out mode and the proof is all right there in front of everybody.
On Friday, every last one of the GOP 2004 campaigns will collectively jump the shark.
The morans (sic) have invented "Gipper Fatigue". People are already sick of Reagan this morning. I live in Republican Suburbia. This morning on the train a man opened his newspaper and exclaimed loudly, "Well, it's time to see if Ronald Reagan is still dead." Everybody who heard the remark laughed out loud.
Could it be any more obvious? This entire week long Reagasm is a desperate attempt to shore up the GOP base, AND THE BASE IS AS SICK OF IT AS EVERYBODY ELSE!!!
Karl Rove is not and never has been a "political genius". Karl Rove got lucky and had enough connections from Poppy to keep the disgusting truth about Bush* secret for long enough to steal an election.
Even if James Carville were running Bush*'s campaign this year (a man who is a true political genius), Bush* would not stand a chance.
Take heart, folks. This week long Reagasm is money in the bank for the Democrats. I would not be surprised in the least if we took the White House in a landslide and both houses of Congress in an upset!
Every time I go there and read their drivel I feel like I need to take a shower. So much hate…
check back later....
Just FYI, moran is DU lingo, much like "moose, cheese, sister" or "Are you logged in" here.
They're in full-tilt glee mode over at that swinish little hovel known as DUmmy land. It puts the lie to their constant moonbat ravings about how Freepers are so consumed with "hatred" and "intolerance."
Alot of them are undoubtedly upset because they remember how Reagan cut their welfare benefits and made them finally go out and get jobs during the eighties instead of laying around watching soap operas all day.
I think you're right, though a lot of it simply has to do with the leftist nature/temperament. Most hardcore Libs--like most of them are over there--don't believe in God, and have no real moral framework that shapes their lives. Like the Nazis and the Commies, they believe that hatred is a noble instinct to indulge in against their perceived "enemies." So making light of the death of a 93 year old man--even one whom happened to be one of the greatest presidents of the United States ever to sit in the Oval Office--is Standard Operating Procedure for them. I've run into alley cats and rabid dogs with a better developed moral framework than your average poster over in DUmmy land. They are truly a sad, sick bunch, the genuine "fascists" of our time.
They are next.
I'd like to help, but my HMO doesn't cover trips to DU.
Gracious, those poor things are deluded.
hey the DUmmies noticed this thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1758626
Why, just flip on C-Span and look at the people filing through the rotunda right now to pay their respects. Clearly they're about to reach their Gipper limit.
We are doomed.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1763708
Make the invaders Americans, not Commies. Sadr's troops are fighting EXACTLY the same fight today against us, today, that the high school kids in the movie fought against their occupying enemy.
Point of the movie: occupying another country is evil and, ultimately, unworkable. Children become adults when forced by horrible situations around them.
I thought it was an excellent movie that spoke to how a conquered, occupied people would fight to the last person to regain their sovereignty. -Rowdyboy
change the story's setting from the Rockies to the Middle East. Also change the skin color of the "Wolverines" from white to brown. Wa-La! The "freedom fighters" become "terrorists". See how easy that was? -leeman67
And I couldn't help but think about all the Bubbas I know who got such a patriotic charge out of it and still do, yet they cannot see how it relates to what is going on today. They totally miss the point. The Iraqis are the Wolverines and we are the invading army.
Same thing with Braveheart - Mel and his blue faced followers were the "insurgents" fighting for freedom - just like the Iraqis.
What is odd, I am from the South, pro-confederates surround me and I have tried to impress upon them that they should try to use empathy, and to put themselves in the Iraqis place. That they should realize that the Iraqis are comparable to the confederates, fighting off an invading army that is trying to force their form of government and democracy on them. Boy have I gotten a whole heck of a lot of flack and misery from trying that line of reasoining. (Especially when I tell them that in my opinion, the confederates were very unpatriotic for seceding from the Union and fighting against the United States armies.)-merh
But I recently watched it to see if there was any relevance today.
John Milius actually did a pretty good job illustrating how war can rob even the "good guys" of their humanity. The scene where one of the Wolverines about to be executed yells, "What about the Geneva Convention?" and Patrick Swayze responds, "Never heard of it", gave me chills in this era of Gitmo/Abu Ghraib unaccountability. When Charlie Sheen tries to stop Swayze by asking, "How are we better than them?" and Swayze replies, "Because this is our home", I realized that the Wolverines of today are the Iraqi insurgents. We are the invading superpower with the superior firepower, but it is their home. -robertpaulsen
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