Ping to the resurrection of the Daily Dumbest Thread. If I forgot you or if you want to join the list, please FReepmail me.
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!
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'd like to help, but my HMO doesn't cover trips to DU.
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