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Right Wing Bloggers Choose '25 Worst Figures In American History'
Gawker ^ | 8/14/10

Posted on 08/15/2010 12:08:21 AM PDT by Libloather

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To: Pylon

That’s so mean, but I laughed my a- off. It’s not a big deal now, because they’ve broken the curse. But I remember watching that game, looked good for them, and my born-in-Boston relative said, “don’t worry, they’ll blow it.” ;’D


61 posted on 08/15/2010 9:27:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: lentulusgracchus

Interesting choices! and well said.


62 posted on 08/15/2010 9:30:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: Maelstorm
I’d add Alfred Kinsey to that list and Alexander Hamilton.

You forgot George Washington, the Abraham Lincoln of his day. Sheesh.

Alexander Hamilton was THE American conservative.

63 posted on 08/15/2010 9:38:00 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Zakhor 'et 'asher-`asah lekha `Amaleq baderekh betze'tekhem miMitzrayim.)
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To: Libloather

Justice William Brennan, the driving force behind Roe V Wade.


64 posted on 08/15/2010 9:52:06 AM PDT by choirboy
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To: truthfreedom
Wilson and FDR, neck and neck for worst President.

What, in a race that has Landslide Lyndon (I think he connived at Kennedy's shooting), Mr. Federal Teats for Everybody, and Slick Willie in it?

And Obozo the Communist?

Hard to believe you like Wilson over those two.

65 posted on 08/15/2010 10:07:01 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Dayman
Timothy McVeigh ....shouldn’t be on the list. In the grand scheme of history he did very little and it didn’t have a lasting national effect.

He gave Clinton a second term. As to "lasting effect" let's wait and see what things look like after our first war with the MIRV'ed and W-88-armed Chinese. They stole the W-88 with Clinton's help during his second term, the one he purchased with their reptile money.

66 posted on 08/15/2010 10:26:27 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: highlander_UW; rustbucket
Supreme Court Justices: Warren, Black and Burger

Black and Burger? How about Felix "Positivism" Frankfurter, William O. "Penumbra" Douglas, and Billy "Awww, Come On, You Know You Like Me" Brennan? The worst log-rolling, Constitution-subverting justices in recent history?

And John Marshall started the whole thing rolling. From arguing reserved powers at the Virginia ratification convention, he went to absolutist judicial review and other implied powers on the Court, and doing things like arguing that the "general welfare" clause lets Congress claim any power it likes. He wound up being as bad as Hamilton, and even worse, because Hamilton didn't have an entire branch of the Government behind him.

67 posted on 08/15/2010 10:34:03 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus

Those are excellent additions to the list, and they caused far greater harm to the nation than Michael Moore.


68 posted on 08/15/2010 10:37:35 AM PDT by highlander_UW (Education is too important to abdicate control of it to the government)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
Alexander Hamilton was THE American conservative.

What?!

If you think "conservatism" = empire without the king.

That's what Hamilton was all about. "What's good for General Bullmoose/Is good for the U.S.A.!" could have been his slogan (hat tip to cartoonist Al Capp).

69 posted on 08/15/2010 10:43:44 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Libloather
Arlen Specter.

And the FBI should definitely take McVeigh's place...

70 posted on 08/15/2010 10:45:13 AM PDT by TXnMA (If it were not for losing the Library Of Congress and the Smithsonian...)
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To: lentulusgracchus
Alexander Hamilton was THE American conservative.

What?!

If you think "conservatism" = empire without the king.

That's what Hamilton was all about. "What's good for General Bullmoose/Is good for the U.S.A.!" could have been his slogan (hat tip to cartoonist Al Capp).

Thomas Jefferson and his party supported the French Revolution. Hamilton was horrified by it.

I'd hate to know your opinion of George Washington.

71 posted on 08/15/2010 10:47:13 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Zakhor 'et 'asher-`asah lekha `Amaleq baderekh betze'tekhem miMitzrayim.)
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To: Maelstorm
I’d add Alfred Kinsey to that list and Alexander Hamilton.

Excellent additions.

But watch out...FR would have been a Federalist group back then, loving ol' Alex.

72 posted on 08/15/2010 10:59:18 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: LeoWindhorse
Abraham Lincoln , not Booth

Watch out for the Claremont big-government crowd. As right as your answer is, it's not PC.

73 posted on 08/15/2010 11:00:44 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Total Package
Things would not have got so bad if people had to wright the check for tax every quarter.

One of GHWB's good suggestions--to eliminate withholding. Wow, how that would have ripped through America, tearing liberal spending asunder!

74 posted on 08/15/2010 11:05:20 AM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator
I'd hate to know your opinion of George Washington.

When I visited Mount Vernon, the guide pointed out a key hanging on the wall. It was originally a key to the Bastille, and was a gift to Washington from the French Revolutionary (and former adviser to Gen'l Washington) Marquis de Lafayette.

The French Revolution was a demonic horror, but that fact was not immediately obvious.

75 posted on 08/15/2010 11:16:12 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Libloather

What about Roger Brooke Taney - Chief Justice of the United States from 1836 to 1864?


76 posted on 08/15/2010 11:28:49 AM PDT by reg45
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To: Libloather
Keith Olbermann?

He has no influence!

77 posted on 08/15/2010 11:53:01 AM PDT by lonestar (Barry is furious the big spill wasn't caused by EXXON...would have nationalized it by now.)
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To: EternalVigilance
Roger Baldwin: the Genesis founder of the ACLU.

If you can find the original charter you will want to resurrect the A-HOLE numerous times so that he can be executed over and over.

78 posted on 08/15/2010 12:09:33 PM PDT by W. W. SMITH
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To: Libloather

Richard Nixon?? Worst?? Nahhhh........


79 posted on 08/15/2010 12:24:46 PM PDT by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: W. W. SMITH

Excellent nomination.


80 posted on 08/15/2010 1:10:53 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (What does the LORD require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?)
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