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Head Strong: Sorry, but for me, the party is over
Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 2/21/2010 | Michael Smerconish

Posted on 02/21/2010 12:51:59 AM PST by americanophile

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To: Nextrush

Didn’t this jerk endorse Obama?


41 posted on 02/21/2010 3:19:46 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: americanophile
"The national GOP is a party...dominated on social issues by the religious right,..."

I left the Republican Party, because it has been pandering to people who tell that kind of lie for a long time. The Party is seeking money from those who have it: government employees and their libertine, anti-family relatives who receive business funding and/or other preferences from the various levels of government. Meanwhile, the rest of us are fed heaps of hysterical distraction propaganda about the perverted rich, famous and irrelevant.

How Dramatically Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?

JOHN R. LOTT Jr.
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) (download links for whole document at bottom of page)

September 1998

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 60
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, Number 6, Part 1, pp. 1163-1198, December 1999

Abstract:
This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
 Hysteria \Hys*te"ri*a\, n. [NL.: cf. F. hyst['e]rie. See
Hysteric.] (Med.)
A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women,
in which the emotional and reflex excitability is
exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished,
so that the patient loses control over the emotions, becomes
the victim of imaginary sensations, and often falls into
paroxism or fits.
[1913 Webster]

Note: The chief symptoms are convulsive, tossing movements of
the limbs and head, uncontrollable crying and laughing,
and a choking sensation as if a ball were lodged in the
throat. The affection presents the most varied
symptoms, often simulating those of the gravest
diseases, but generally curable by mental treatment
alone. Hysteric





42 posted on 02/21/2010 3:26:26 AM PST by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-' 96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote.)
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To: jospehm20
Didn’t this jerk endorse Obama?

Enthusiastically.

43 posted on 02/21/2010 3:37:10 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
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To: americanophile
Anyone that ever listened to this goob recently knows that he left the GOP because he's turned into a whiny pseudo lib.

This guy is a total dweeb.

44 posted on 02/21/2010 3:40:23 AM PST by raybbr
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To: jospehm20

“Didn’t this jerk endorse Obama?”

I think so. This schlub used to sit in for O’Reilly on the radio and that’s where I first heard of him. The last time I heard him he was busy fitting the knee-pads to Lewinsky oBama!
He probably wants to pickup where Err America left off.

Tater


45 posted on 02/21/2010 3:45:34 AM PST by tater ("I don't call myself subject to much at all.")
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To: tater
Didn’t this jerk endorse Obama?

Looks like it to me

46 posted on 02/21/2010 4:09:21 AM PST by Zakeet (Patches Kennedy isn't running for Congress again for medical reasons -- voters are sick of him)
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To: Cindy

Another quasi-libertarian liberal leaves the party.


47 posted on 02/21/2010 4:14:29 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: tater

I first heard about this bald-headed stooge when he sat in for Glenn Beck when Beck was still on HLN.


48 posted on 02/21/2010 4:18:06 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
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To: AppyPappy

How can you call a Specter supporter a libertarian?


49 posted on 02/21/2010 4:23:06 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Constitutional money isn't just backed by gold and silver- it IS gold and silver.)
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To: americanophile

I am not all that committed to belonging to a particular party.

If the party doesnt represent me I can still belong and vote for someone they do not hold as their candidate.

Right now I do not like what the GOP is doing with their RINO leadership. If they do not give me a candidate I can stand behind, I will vote against tham. It’s that simple.

If you complain of partisanship in the Congress and then vote for whatever the GOP places before you no matter what then you are a part of the problem.

I expect Conservative candidates, and by damn I will get them or the party can KMA.


50 posted on 02/21/2010 4:50:16 AM PST by Venturer
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To: Cindy

Good rittance Jackass,dont let the door hit you in the ass on the way out .
To restrictive ? Its called being an American.Im sick and tired of all these Jackasses telling me because I believe in the Constitution or Family Values that I AM AN EXTREMIST!
Answer me this,when the next Presidential Campaign Begins and the Candidates apply to be on the Ballot in all the States and the Boards who control who gets on the Ballot ask for That Persons Birth Certificate are they Right wing Extremists?


51 posted on 02/21/2010 4:55:16 AM PST by ballplayer
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To: americanophile

I believe I speak for the majority of humankind when I say,

“I give not a single flying f*ck about the party affiliation of this self aggrandizing radio putz.”


52 posted on 02/21/2010 5:00:07 AM PST by crescen7 (game on)
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To: crescen7
I believe I speak for the majority of humankind when I say, “I give not a single flying f*ck about the party affiliation of this self aggrandizing radio putz.”

You're right. And thank you for speaking for me. I'm a little tired this morning.


53 posted on 02/21/2010 5:05:06 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: tater

He recently interviewed him on his radio show


54 posted on 02/21/2010 5:09:27 AM PST by jersey117
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To: ovrtaxt

Some people calling themselves “libertarians” are actually liberals. They are the ones that put dope and prostitution before smaller, leaner government.


55 posted on 02/21/2010 5:14:22 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: AppyPappy

You’re saying dope and prostitution is a result of larger government?


56 posted on 02/21/2010 5:17:35 AM PST by ovrtaxt (Constitutional money isn't just backed by gold and silver- it IS gold and silver.)
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To: Cindy

ya know, the libertarians have far more in common with conservatives than libs......it is the social issues that I have a problem with libertarians...and only one of h
those issues...and with the isolationism inherent in the party.....


57 posted on 02/21/2010 5:18:04 AM PST by joe fonebone (A third party does need the majority to control the house...they only need 10%)
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To: ari-freedom

CPAC....Commies Playing At Convervatism


58 posted on 02/21/2010 5:19:15 AM PST by joe fonebone (CPAC.....Commies Playing At Conservatism)
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To: ovrtaxt

I’m saying that too many libertarians put dope and whores ahead of smaller government.

Hence the phrase “We should legalize dope and tax it”. Are Libertarians in favor of more taxes? Are we not taxed enough?


59 posted on 02/21/2010 5:20:34 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: max americana

Smerconish is worse than a drama queen. He is a complete suck-up to those in power. He would have former Philly DA Lynn Abraham on his radio show and gush praise for her, knowing FULL WELL that she abused the power of her office to prosecute Don Adams for assaulting the fists of Teamsters with his face, in a blatant attempt to get Adams to not go after those who actually assaulted him. The trial was basically laughed out of the courtroom by the judge, but Abraham suffered no consequences when she should have been removed from office for malicious prosecution. And Smerconish just ignores that malfeasance. Tells you all you need to know about him - he has no core principles, and is only in it to promote himself.


60 posted on 02/21/2010 5:22:00 AM PST by dirtboy
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