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Posted on 03/11/2006 4:08:48 PM PST by quidnunc
Ever since George W. Bush won the presidency by preventing Al Gore's hanging-chad attempt to steal it, liberal Democrats have become progressively infected with BDS Bush Derangement Syndrome.
Here's how I think that the contagion of BDS is now infecting a number of conservative Republicans.
If you're a guy, perhaps you have endured this unpleasant and bewildering experience. You're in a relationship and you and the lady have had some disagreements but nothing major. From your perspective things are pretty ok. Then one day you and she disagree on some minor trivial issue and suddenly, inexplicably, it escalates as she unloads on you.
It seems like the love of your life has had a personality transplant, you're facing a virago disgorging a torrent of anger, and all you can think is, "Where did this come from?"
If you're a guy, you're nodding your head in understanding. If you're a gal, you're muttering, "Men are so clueless. We give them all these hints for so long that things are bugging us, they never get the message, then when we finally can't take it any more and snap, they're mystified."
I think you get the analogy.
A relationship that suffers this trauma can survive only if both parties calm down afterwards, focus on their mutual interests and commitment, and work together to solve their grievances.
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But it's another thing entirely when Duncan Hunter (R-CA), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, goes around the bend and offers a bill to make all foreign ownership or leasing of any cargo terminal in any US port illegal. Duncan, my buddy whom I've gone quail hunting with, how could he get so nuts?
There are some 3,200 terminals in US ports. 80% of them are foreign owned or leased. Unions and government regulations have made it impossible for US shipping companies to stay in business, making them bit players in the international shipping business. (See this story in the New York Times, US Companies Weighed Anchor on Ports Long Ago.)
Duncan's bill would cause astronomical damage to the US economy, but he doesn't care because he's on a BDS rant.
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Now you've resorted to out and out lies?
To: sauropod
Are you suppose to be an example of what a "real conservative" is?
120 posted on 03/11/2006 11:26:45 PM EST by Howlin
Ugly Moderate.
I've been her almost as long as you have and since the day I got here, people like you have been telling the rest of us we're not good enough because we don't agree with you.
Ugly moderate? Fine. I'd sooner be that than a sanctimonious "real conservative" like you.
Kinda puts the lie to their claims, doesn't it?
Normally, I ignore this crap. Tonight they just pissed me off...
Yeah, I'm POed too.
It's getting pretty bad when our own leadership and the hacks in our own party start sounding like La Raza and Jesse Jackson.
They really needed this slapdown, and considering the fact that it looks like they haven't learned a thing (they still can't shut up), it would seem they are still going to have to be slapped down hard again.
Amnesty is the most likely candidate for that sequence of events, though they may create some other debacle first, who knows...
They're so out of touch with the electorate, and even their own base, just about anything could happen.
You: Now you've resorted to out and out lies?
Let's review Post # 124 shall we (especially BEFORE we start calling anybody a LIAR!!!)
To: sauropod
Well, the posts you're made on this thread sure are Exhibit A for the Ugly Conservatives everybody's always talking about.
124 posted on 03/11/2006 11:28:13 PM EST by Howlin ("Quick, he's bleeding! Is there a doctor reporter in the house?")
Sure looks like you started out namecalling to me, Howlin. Be careful next time before you start calling anybody a LIAR! You'll just get facts shoved down your throat just like tonight.
You can on this thread LONG before I said a word to you, blasting everybody.
Try not to be such a damn victim.
We're Republicans; get over it.
It's not like that. I run the Mid- East division for my firm. I just got back from Dubai aqnd Abu-Dabi 2 weeks ago.
I spend my days talking to Arabs on the phone.
The average Muslem in Dubai likes America more than any leftist here.
Sure thing, n00b. Sell out your principles. Go ahead.
And then you called him a idiot. I did not see any personal insults in Ohio's posts. You even insulted a poster that's not even here.
Is calling people 'Bots' your idea of friendliness??
Is saying that a large group of people on this forum sicken you, your idea of reasoned discussion?
You must have a really bad case of BDS (worse than PMS)
Only "real, true" conservatives have "principles," doncha know?
Only to you and your clan could "real, true conservatives" be an insult.
Whining is so metrosexual. Fits you, though.
Cute.
From your post, it appears that you have more experience than I in that field. Thanks for sharing that information.
GOOD to know!
Thank you for that information.
ZING! Spot on!
You mean those stay at home or vote third party "REAL" conservatives. If that is our base I wonder how we keep winning.
Every single time you post, I think of a lonely bitter old Nellie Olson having to live with the results of her years of treating people terribly.
"The bad attitude displayed by Bush loyalists on this thread and others is killing the party, my friend. "
Seriously.
Well done!
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