Posted on 11/05/2004 5:55:20 AM PST by presidio9
I said it, you said it, pretty much anyone with a brain larger than a grape or a soul more nimble than a rock said it maybe a thousand times over. And you probably weren't even all that drunk when you said it and maybe you were even a little more than half serious and maybe you said it just like this: If Bush somehow snags another election, if the unthinkable comes to pass and the Dubya neocon nightmare refuses to end, well, that's it. I'm outta here.
Done. Over. Gone. Moving away. To Canada. Or France. Latvia. Uranus. Anywhere, really, that doesn't have Bush as leader and that doesn't make me openly ashamed to be a citizen and that doesn't make me feel like a sickened disillusioned ulcerated outcast in my own happily divisive country every damn day including Sunday.
You want a place, you say, that doesn't right this minute seem to be working heroically to make homophobia and born-again fundamentalism and pre-emptive isolationist warmongering and environmental ignorance a national religion. A place where SUVs aren't considered minor deities and where gay people aren't loathed for wanting to slice a wedding cake and where brazen heavily narcotized denial in the face of a veritable mountain of presidential lies isn't the national pastime.
Tempting, isn't it? To just move away to a sunnier, clothing-optional utopia and wait for it all to be over, for the dark days to pass and the Shrub era to sink into the tar pits of history and the fog to finally lift?
After all, most all of us on the progressive Left feel we truly faced the dragon this election, and we put up a valiant fight and marshaled as potent an army of dissenters and intellectuals and moderates and liberal crusaders and feminists
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A very common opening line in San Francisco.
Every election a certain portion the left claims that they are going to pack it in and leave if the opposition wins, yet we wake up afterwards and they are still here. Still complaining. They act as if this country wouldn't be able to make it without them.
All I say to them is, please give us conservatives the opportunity to prove you right. If all of you would leave, you could sit there in Canada or Cuba or on Mars and say "told ya so" as we sink into desolation. So please, prove to us that your way is the better way by leaving and letting us destroy ourselves. You can then ride back in and save us, showing us that yes, in fact, your way is better. It's a win/win for you! You don't have to live under the opression of the totalitarian Republicans, and if you're right the Republicans will simply self destruct from their horrible policies. So go! Go now! Before it's too late.
Geeesh. If the left ever wonder why they are not taken seriously it's because they are so full of hyperbol it becomes impossible to take them seriously after a while.
So, fess up. Which one of you wrote this? It's brilliant...LOL!
Morfo, your head is already in Uranus.
Me too - I love a good party!
San Francisco and Uranus? Whoa, way too obvious a joke in there.
I wish Leftist bedwetters like this would just shut up and actually move somewhere else instead of just whining about things.
Hey, Lefty! YOU LOST. DEAL WITH IT.
Fine by me that they persist in misunderestimating us. President Bush has a higher IQ than John Forbes Kerry, and you could look it up.
I've got news for these people. They are NOT in the country. They are isolated in a few "socialist cesspools" that pander to corrupt unions and welfare systems that bleed the economic lifeblood out of working American's pockets.
They will never leave! Where else could they enjoy the freedom to criticize the very people they sponge off of?
They all keep threatening to leave. I wish they'd just do it so I don't have to keep hearing them whine!
The only countries that count in Morford's book are the ones that have legalized gay marriage.
Thanks for the ping - you've helped me keep my schadenfreude buzz going strong on its third day!
True. It is the parking garage for many in Baghdad by the Bay.
...because it would get stuck there.
LOL! Hey, Morford, quit yer whinin', just pack your sh!t and go. Oh - I see you've already packed. Well, Delta is ready when you are.
I lost it at the part about the karmic vibrator.
"After all, most all of us on the progressive Left feel we truly faced the dragon this election, and we put up a valiant fight and marshaled as potent an army of dissenters and intellectuals and moderates and liberal crusaders and feminists..."
...and misfits and kooks and deviants and traitors and illegal aliens and crack-heads and communists and terrorists and foreign tyrannts and nazis and African potentate despots and criminals and cross-dressing fist-waving fisters and Soviet moles and cheese-eating surrender monkeys and countless dead people and amoral monsters and...and...and...
>a soul more nimble than a rock<
W.C. Fields was on his death bed, reading the Bible.
Given that this was out of character for him, a friend inquired, "What are you doing?".
As W.C. continued to thumb through the pages he replied,
"Looking for exceptions".
Like the 95-year-old man defending himself from a paternity suit, I didn't commit the crime, but I'd be proud to plead guilty.
...and bathhouse-frequenting gay leftist columnists who mistake their alimentary canals for a party room.
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