[sickoflibs]

RE :”Ben Stein is a traitorous slut”

Yep, he's a reason I don't watch Cavuto’s Saturday show.

He has a long history of liberal positions.
I remember him calling for congress to pass a stimulus in 2009.

He's a lib.

[Impy]

That he got his start under Dick Nixon tells you all you need to know about his conservative bonafides. He should leave pundrity behind and become spokesman for "Trayvon Hemorrhoid Cream"

[BillyBoy]

>> He has a long history of liberal positions. I remember him calling for congress to pass a stimulus in 2009. <<

I don't remember Ben Stein going off the reservation prior to 2008, but he definitely went to the dark side that year. The Al Franken endorsement (which he backed up with lots of $$$ for Franken-Stein) gets a lot of attention because its inexcusable. But he also publicly praised Obama, and helped the left spread their "Palin is incompetent" meme. Until he apologizes and make amends for it, he's dead to me.

Ironically, the creationist wing of the GOP loves him because he also released his "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" documentary around the same time. Very strange priorities for a social conservative -- Teach evolution in public schools? Nope. Elect pro-abortion Marxists in Washington? Hell yes!

>> In my political daydream the senator is Ted Cruz. He delivers an hour long anti-17th speech laced with quips from The Federalist, the afternoon The Hildebeast announces her candidacy. <<

Good thing this daydream isn't reality, or the Texas state legislature would then promptly replace Cruz with GOP establishment suckup David Dewhurst after a round of applause for Cruz giving them the power to do so.

>> he encourages state legislatures to grasp the power they once had. <<

My crooked state legislature has already done so without his encouragement, and what's more, they grasp all kinds of power they DON'T have, and the federal government does nothing when they blatantly defy federal laws and pass their own unconstitutional state laws. The anti-17thers encourage us to "MOVE!" if we don't like our state government, so I don't know why they don't MOVE! to my state if they want powerful state legislatures that "stand up to the feds". My state legislature sticks their nose in every facet of our lives and doesn't give a crap what federal law says. Illinois has more units of state government than any other state. They should love it here if they're big fans of enpowering government at the state level.

[Fledermaus]

And his father was a freakin’ Keynesian economist under Nixon who RUINED the dollar and the economy with leaving the gold standard (Stein’s idea I’m sure) and the dumbest of all - wage and price “controls”.