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Joe Piscopo’s confessions of a disillusioned Democrat
The Washington Times ^ | Thursday, August 14, 2014 | Joe Piscopo

Posted on 08/16/2014 11:30:37 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued

In good conscience, however, I can’t continue to call myself a Democrat.

In becoming an independent, I think I’m maintaining the independent (dare I say, libertarian?) mindedness and patriotism that my parents endowed me with. For the country’s sake and for their own, I hope the Democrats wake up.

I am also hopeful that we, the people, will wake up and strongly feel, with heart and soul, what my family always instilled in me and what is sadly absent in many of today’s political leaders: the love, the appreciation and an unapologetic pride of being an American.

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1 posted on 08/16/2014 11:30:37 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
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To: fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; LdSentinal; ExTexasRedhead; ...

Wow, Joe Piscopo from Saturday Night Live admits that he hopes Republicans win the mid-term elections this year. I wonder how many others there are out there?


2 posted on 08/16/2014 11:32:07 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Wasn't he from Fridays, the SNL rival back in the 80s?
3 posted on 08/16/2014 11:33:03 AM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: Steely Tom

Maybe you’re thinking of Michael Richards.

Fridays was Larry David’s baby.


4 posted on 08/16/2014 11:34:34 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Steely Tom

No.

A few years ago I thought he had died from cancer.


5 posted on 08/16/2014 11:34:36 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: Steely Tom
Wasn't he from Fridays, the SNL rival back in the 80s?

He was on SNL. He joined the cast at the same time as Eddie Murphy, and left around the same time.

6 posted on 08/16/2014 11:36:09 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Steely Tom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Piscopo


7 posted on 08/16/2014 11:36:21 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: ifinnegan; dfwgator

Yeah, you’re right. I should have checked first.


8 posted on 08/16/2014 11:37:36 AM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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9 posted on 08/16/2014 11:39:01 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Democrats were just as wrong 50 years ago as they are today, with a difference: they loved their country.


10 posted on 08/16/2014 11:39:07 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

“In good conscience, however, I can’t continue to call myself a Democrat.”

Where was his good conscience thirty or fourty years ago?

(One wonders how many people he might have denigrated and insulted during his years as a “brilliant and intellectual” democrat.

Just asking.


11 posted on 08/16/2014 11:40:08 AM PDT by ripley
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To: Clintonfatigued
I wonder how many others there are out there?

A lot. They're called the Reagan Democrats. The working and middle class people of the Rust Belt.

Mitt Romney will not be their standard bearer.

Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz.

But not the effete snobs of what we used to call the Rockefeller Republicans.

12 posted on 08/16/2014 11:40:09 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Steely Tom

The guy who played Kramer was on Fridays.


13 posted on 08/16/2014 11:40:19 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: Clintonfatigued

“It’s an 88 Magnum. It shoots through schools.”


14 posted on 08/16/2014 11:45:22 AM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: JimRed

They were not just as wrong, they loved their country, that’s a really big difference. Even George McGovern, for all his faults, loved the United States and flew B-24s during the Second World War.


15 posted on 08/16/2014 11:49:10 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: reg45

Scoop Jackson Democrats are ancient history and the party likes it that way. Heck I don’t even think you could find more than a handful of Dems who know who Zell Miller was.


16 posted on 08/16/2014 11:54:51 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: reg45

McGovern was a decent guy with way out ideas. His followers were and remain lunatics. They are our rulers.


17 posted on 08/16/2014 11:58:24 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: Clintonfatigued

He was even mentioned in song;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCFAzPl1QmE


18 posted on 08/16/2014 11:59:56 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

I think it’s a shame Eddie Murphy and Joe Piscopo didn’t do movies together. I thought they made a good comedy team on SNL.


19 posted on 08/16/2014 12:02:16 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Heck I don’t even think you could find more than a handful of Dems who know who Zell Miller was and they are all his relatives.
20 posted on 08/16/2014 12:02:36 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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