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The GOP: divorced from reality
Los Angeles Times ^ | April 24, 2009 | Bill Maher

Posted on 04/24/2009 8:43:22 AM PDT by Zakeet

The Republican base is behaving like a guy who just got dumped by his wife.

If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments.

It's been a week now, and I still don't know what those "tea bag" protests were about. I saw signs protesting abortion, illegal immigrants, the bank bailout and that gay guy who's going to win "American Idol." But it wasn't tax day that made them crazy; it was election day. Because that's when Republicans became what they fear most: a minority.

The conservative base is absolutely apoplectic because, because ... well, nobody knows. They're mad as hell, and they're not going to take it anymore. Even though they're not quite sure what "it" is. But they know they're fed up with "it," and that "it" has got to stop.

Here are the big issues for normal people: the war, the economy, the environment, mending fences with our enemies and allies, and the rule of law.

And here's the list of Republican obsessions since President Obama took office: that his birth certificate is supposedly fake, he uses a teleprompter too much, he bowed to a Saudi guy, Europeans like him, he gives inappropriate gifts, his wife shamelessly flaunts her upper arms, and he shook hands with Hugo Chavez and slipped him the nuclear launch codes.

Do these sound like the concerns of a healthy, vibrant political party?

It's sad what's happened to the Republicans. They used to be the party of the big tent; now they're the party of the sideshow attraction, a socially awkward group of mostly white people who speak a language only they understand. Like Trekkies, but paranoid.

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To: Zakeet
Hey Bill, I got something for ya:

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21 posted on 04/24/2009 8:56:10 AM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: Zakeet

‘It’s been a week now, and I still don’t know what those “tea bag” protests were about.’

First off, Billy boy, they were “tea party” protests. I know you have a fixation with “teabagging” but it’s not shared by everyone.

Second, they were about many things, but the main theme was unsustainable government spending. If you’d taken all of five seconds to look into it you’d have known that. There is also plenty of concern about other anti-freedom, anti-defense, and pro-socialism (or worse) initiatives being pursued by 0bama and his corrupt cronies.

I just hope for your sake you’re prepared for the results in 2010 and 2012!


22 posted on 04/24/2009 8:56:26 AM PDT by PreciousLiberty
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To: Sybeck1
There's clearly a media drive underway to push the GOP to the left, particularly on social and cultural issues. The far left knows that once they win the culture war, America is history and freedom will be a thing of the past. This is why we're seeing so much of Meghan McCain in the media. And people like her are crawling out of the woodwork on conservative message boards, lecturing us about how “real conservatives” are pro-same sex “marriage”, support open borders, etc.
23 posted on 04/24/2009 8:56:30 AM PDT by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (REALLY & TRULY updated!).)
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To: Zakeet

A whole week and this dope still can’t figure the tea parties out.

The man is a really stupid moron.


24 posted on 04/24/2009 8:57:14 AM PDT by dforest
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To: Sybeck1
Love it when they tell us what we must do to win.

Exactly right!!! They don't want us to ever win again, NEVER EVER. So we should be doing the exact opposite of what their advice is.
25 posted on 04/24/2009 8:57:17 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barack Hussein 0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Zakeet
And here's the list of Republican obsessions since President Obama took office: that his birth certificate is supposedly fake, he uses a teleprompter too much, he bowed to a Saudi guy, Europeans like him, he gives inappropriate gifts, his wife shamelessly flaunts her upper arms, and he shook hands with Hugo Chavez and slipped him the nuclear launch codes.

Do these sound like the concerns of a healthy, vibrant political party?


Since the media doesn't cover conservative philosophy in-depth, we sometimes have to settle for symbols and sound bites.

If Maher wrote this column in 1993, he might have listed "deducting used underwear on taxes, dismissing travel office staff, the first lady's unlikely good luck in cattle futures investing, and various bimbo eruptions." In 1994 the Republicans won both houses of Congress.

The things Maher lists are a short-hand for deep, important problems. He did leave out mortgaging our children's future for green government buildings. But substitute spending $800,000 to avoid showing his birth certificate while claiming transparency, inability to not make a gaffe when NOT using the teleprompter, hiring a staff that does not instruct him on protocol, and we have hints of what else might be happening that we don't see.
26 posted on 04/24/2009 8:57:29 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Zakeet
And here's the list of Republican obsessions since President Obama took office: that his birth certificate is supposedly fake, he uses a teleprompter too much, he bowed to a Saudi guy, Europeans like him, he gives inappropriate gifts, his wife shamelessly flaunts her upper arms, and he shook hands with Hugo Chavez and slipped him the nuclear launch codes.

Do these sound like the concerns of a healthy, vibrant political party?

As evil and as deceitful as Bill Maher is, he may have a partial point here.

27 posted on 04/24/2009 8:57:34 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Chains you can believe in.)
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To: Zakeet
Bill Maher...7.62mm ..head shot.

Have a bad day Bill.

28 posted on 04/24/2009 8:58:12 AM PDT by gitmogrunt (OXI...)
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To: Zakeet

29 posted on 04/24/2009 8:58:21 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (I hear the words of Jefferson louder and louder as each day passes)
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To: Zakeet
Bill Maher is mentally ill. There can be no doubt.

I have seen few people who exhibit so much hatred to their fellow Americans.

Nam Vet

30 posted on 04/24/2009 8:58:51 AM PDT by Nam Vet ("Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it." .... Henry David Thoreau)
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To: FormerACLUmember

There is only one that is not true...the nuclear codes...


31 posted on 04/24/2009 8:58:59 AM PDT by Moby Grape (Formerly Impeach the Boy...name change necessary after the Marxist won)
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To: Zakeet

He’s like dissolving into some gray mass of paste. He must have a degenerative disease or something.


32 posted on 04/24/2009 8:59:04 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: Zakeet

and the LA times probably wonders why nobody buys their rag.

I would rather listen to chipmunks speak on existentialism that wade through attack ads from supposed (half mad)comics. Too bad the LA Times could not pair this with a opinion piece from Keith Olbermann.


33 posted on 04/24/2009 8:59:45 AM PDT by rod1
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To: Zakeet
Bill,

You must have me confused with John McCain.

34 posted on 04/24/2009 8:59:55 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (It's obvious from Nancy Pelosi's appearance that she tortures people every day.)
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To: JaguarXKE

You know how you can just glance at some people, and before they even open their mouths, you can tell that they’re self-satisfied, self-promoting, tasteless pricks who are full of themselves? Bill Maher is that kind of guy. That was my impression of him when I saw him for the first time. Just knew that he was going to spout garbage, just by looking at him.

Oh, anybody who shows up to a Halloween party dressed as Steve Irwin with a fake stingray piercing his chest (just about 6 weeks after Irwin’s death), deserves NO respect from anyone. Period.


35 posted on 04/24/2009 9:00:54 AM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: Zakeet
Somehow, a mentally deranged, ego-maniacal, narcissist Marxist believes that his "advice" to conservatives would "help" the GOP "regain respectability."

That's been the major problem with the RNC and "elites" within the party -- that's the formula for election losses not electoral landslides!

36 posted on 04/24/2009 9:01:55 AM PDT by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: Chi-townChief
Jay Nordlinger has a great comment on the tea parties over at NRO:
I’ve seen many, many pictures of the tea parties around the country. But my favorite was sent to me by a friend this morning. A woman is holding a sign that says, “If Obama Screws Up Health Care, Where Will the Canadians Go?” Perfect, in so many ways. There was also the young woman who held up a sign saying, “Help Me, Mr. Obama — They Want Me to Work and Stuff!”

And I would like to echo a point that Jonah has made: One of the most touching things about these tea parties is the homemadeness of them — the unorganizedness of them. These are just Americans, saying what they have to say: freely and rambunctiously. The signs are all homemade, and all different. Some are clever, and some are dumb. But they’re all individual.

These tea parties are so, so different from the robotized rallies we see from the Left all the time — with their seas of identical, professionally produced signs. It’s no wonder that Anderson Cooper and the like hate them so: hate the tea parties. They go sharply against the modern grain, thank goodness. They are not . . . well, controlled, and official, and approved.

You ever seen a SEIU demonstration? The term Orwellian is too loosely used, but . . .


37 posted on 04/24/2009 9:02:25 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Zakeet
The conservative base is absolutely apoplectic because, because ... well, nobody knows. They're mad as hell, and they're not going to take it anymore. Even though they're not quite sure what "it" is.

A socialist pretending to be a cool, youthful hipster used lies, trickery, vote fraud, and a bought-and-paid for media to steal the 2008 election. This socialist has since embarked on a major effort to destroy the economic engine of the United States of America in order to increase the political power of himself and his party in perpetuity.

That, Mr. Maher, is "it". Pretty simple, really.

38 posted on 04/24/2009 9:02:35 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("If you cannot pick it up and run with it, you don't really own it." -- Robert Heinlein)
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To: Zakeet
It's been a week now, and I still don't know what those "tea bag" protests were about.

Bill, Bill, Bill... you ignorant slut.

You never will get what they were about. You don't have two functioning brain cells to rub together.

39 posted on 04/24/2009 9:05:59 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Zakeet

Bill sounds even more imbalanced than is common to his frail mind. He may need to change meds.


40 posted on 04/24/2009 9:06:40 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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