Posted on 04/06/2005 11:00:01 AM PDT by paine76
GOP Pounces on Byrd Link to Liberal Group Republicans say they plan to make MoveOn's fundraising for the veteran Democratic senator an issue in his reelection effort. By Ronald Brownstein Times Staff Writer April 6, 2005 WASHINGTON — "Sen. Byrd would be the prize for Republicans in 2006 that Tom Daschle was in 2004," said Tom Matzzie, MoveOn's Washington director, referring to the former Senate minority leader from South Dakota who lost his reelection bid in November. Byrd, Matzzie said, "is just such a gigantic figure for progressives that we felt like we had to be supportive." But the torrent of MoveOn money drew quick fire from Republicans, who signaled that they intended to make the group's support an issue not only in West Virginia but also in other states.MoveOn, founded in 1998 to oppose President Clinton's impeachment, has become the first mass Internet-based political organization of the 21st century; it claims more than 3.1 million names on its e-mail list. Yet Byrd has become a favorite for the group with his opposition to the war in Iraq and Senate Republican threats to eliminate the filibuster for judicial nominations.
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You don't even know what a fascist is, moron.
Farewell.
And I am old enough to remember Robert Byrd (KKK-West Virginia) used the n-word in a videotaped interview within the last five years. What's your point? Not, incidentally, that you have ANY concept of what fascism actually was when you mouth your hyphenated Kool-Aid talking points you're assigned every month.
....destroy our system of government which was designed to insure the separation of church and state....
You need to ask your cliche-masters for your very own pocket-sized copy of the Constitution. Please circle the one about the "separation of church and state." Shut up until you find it. And if you insist on going down that road anyway, 'splain to me the eight years of mandatory penis-worship in the X-42 administration. Kneepads aren't used in the Oval Office in this administration.
And regarding money and politics, please look at the Forbes list of the most wealthy people in the world. Seems like a great majority of them are democrats. Makes any Bush activities look like bakesales by comparison. Oh, I know, you're jumping up and down and shouting HALLIBURTON right now. I knew you were. </mr.rogers> You all mindlessly follow your assignments, after all.
Snore...
Fiddlstix, Here's my addition as a sort of "PPS" to the original flame. I can't claim total originality because it incorporates some of the best sayings of recent FReepers:
PPS
Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. Climb back into your Petri dish, you little sputum culture. In the immortal words of Dean Wormer, “Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son”.
You are the lowest of the bottom feeders. If you are for it, it's got to be wrong. The only really interesting thing is that you really believe the crap you are trying to sell.
Did I say screwball? How can I close without telling you that; well you are. Furthermore, you are a cockroach on the kitchen floor of life, whale dung on the bottom of the ocean. You slimy, sycophantic, oily pond scum. You toady, you empty suit, you insignificant shill. In the words of Mr. Potter, “You’ve been a boil on our backsides long enough”! Have you ever had an original, reasoned thought in your pitiable little existence or did you have to ask someone’s permission to post that deconstructive, plagiarizing pabulum to Jimrob's website? Did your mother ever have any children that lived? When you were born you’re your mother threw you out and kept the afterbirth. Your deepest problems could be solved with a coffee enema.
U.S. leftists are mandated to engage in ad hominem warfare.
"Liberals"/Democrats indiscriminately spew accusations of "nazi" at its opposition and it's the leftists who emulate nazi stormtroopers and nazi propagandists. It seems that most Americans under the age of 50 years do not have an accurate perspective on world history and who the nazis were. Re: leftists calling conservatives "nazis":
Excerpt from article: http://www.geocities.com/jonjayray/leftrace.html
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This is however utter nonsense. Take this description of a political programme: A "declaration of war against the order of things which exist, against the state of things which exist, in a word, against the structure of the world which presently exists". You could hardly get a more change-oriented or revolutionary programme than that. So whose programme was it? Marx? Lenin? Stalin? Trotsky? Mao? No. It was how Hitler described his programme towards the end of "Mein Kampf". And the Left pretend that Hitler was some sort of conservative!
Perhaps it not labouring the point also to ask who it was that described his movement as having a 'revolutionary creative will' which had 'no fixed aim, _ no permanency, only eternal change'. It could very easily have been Trotsky or Mao but it was in fact Hitler (O'Sullivan, 1983. p. 138). Clearly, Nazism was nothing more nor less than a racist form of Leftism (rather extreme Leftism at that) and to label it as "Rightist" or anything else is to deny reality.
The Nazi phenomenon is however a very large topic in its own right and there is much more to show how Leftist it in fact was. It was to the Right of Communism but that is about all. Even Hitler's antisemitism and eugenics were not unusual in the Leftists of his day. For further details see here.
More magic: Fortuyn
The Leftist character of Nazism is however only a small part of the evidence of racism on the Left. Even in quite recent times the "Rightist" character of racism can be little more than a journalistic fabrication. Take the example of Pim Fortuyn -- the homosexual Dutch political leader assassinated by a Green activist in May, 2002. As Brunton and many others have pointed out, the late Pim Fortuyn advocated gay marriage, gender equality, liberalized drug laws and criticized a religion which he saw as intolerant and homophobic -- which sounds an awful lot like the Leftists of his era -- but because he also wanted to stop further immigration into his already densely populated country he became, "Hey presto!", a "Right-wing extremist"! Brunton also points out that there is much in the rhetoric of prominent French anti-immigrant politician Jean-Marie Le Pen which would get him described as a Leftist were it not for his racial views.
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"None of these neo-con Christo-fascists has ever taken a minute to look up the thoughts of Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Jefferson on the relationship between religion and government, preferring the words of the drunken rednecks at the local bar to guide their opinions. Stupidity is inadequate to describe the minds of most Republicans. AMERIKA UBER ALLES!"
The foregoing is an excellent example of hyperbolic Goebbelesque (Nazi) hate propaganda. For a rational view of why "nazi" & "fascist" & "bolschevik" are leftist revolutionaries and were NOT quasi conservative, rightist, "religious" movements, inform yourself for rebuttal:
Excerpt from article, "How Did Hitler and the Nazi Party Take Power at http://www.schoolhistory.org.uk -
Hitler's rise and acquisition of power in 1933 is an amazing feat. This section looks at the route to Hitler gaining power.
The Nazi Party started out as a small party in Bavaria called the German worker's party. They were opposed to the Treaty of Versailles and Communism. The party was borne out of the dismay at the defeat in the First World War and a horror at the severity of the terms imposed upon Germany by the Allies. It was this party that Hitler joined, initially as a spy! Hitler soon became one of the leading lights of the party, his inspiring rhetoric and enthusiasm for the cause propelling him to the leadership of the small party very quickly.
The party, soon renamed to the National and Socialist German Workers Party, adopted a 25 point program of points that formed the basis of their political manifesto. It was on the strength of their belief in these points that the Nazi's as they were now known, chose to take force in a coup d' etat in Munich. The coup was unsuccessful, despite an initial success in reaching it's objectives of seizing power. Hitler was thrown into prison and the party was, it seemed, destroyed.
In prison Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, which later became a best seller. Upon his release from prison the party was radically restructured, yet it's support remained localised and insignificant in terms of national politics. Throughout the 'Golden Years' of the Weimar Republic Hitler had little to offer the majority of Germans. the treaty of Versailles was gradually being amended and the economy was picking up. Extreme views, such as those held by the Nazi party, were not popular within this period. [...]
Re: the rather queer hystrionic leftist-squeal "...neo-con Christo-fascists...the words of the drunken rednecks at the local bar to guide their opinions. Stupidity is inadequate to describe the minds of most Republicans. AMERIKA UBER ALLES!"
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Excerpt article by Michael Phillip Wright, Copyright 1998]
Role of Homosexuality In Hitler's Rise to Power
Chapter 5 of War On Heterosexuality: The Gay Patriarchy Advances
The pink triangle, the badge which Nazis required homosexuals to wear in concentration camps, has been used as a symbol to highlight victim status and invite sympathy for those who embrace homosexuality as a visible identity. Scott Lively, writing in The Journal of Human Sexuality, objects to the pink triangle campaign and argues that the message implied by its use distorts history. While not denying that many homosexuals were persecuted by the Hitler government after he gained state power in 1933, Lively emphasizes to his readers that "the Nazi party itself had many homosexuals within its own ranks, even among its highest leadership." His central thesis is that Nazism was rooted in homosexuality.[1]
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Blessings
Mel
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