I just love the smell of desperation in the afternoon…
With the strong possibility of forty years of dominance coming to an end, the Grand Old Party is tossing out everything but the kitchen sink in the hopes of stopping the bleeding.
Except they haven’t… at all. In fact, to some degree they have likely achieved nothing except dig their grave even deeper. It gives me great pleasure to present some of the zany shit members of the GOP have said in the last two days alone… I hope you have some popcorn nearby.
“When you take a lurch to the left you end up in a totalitarian dictatorship,” King said. “There is no freedom to the left. It’s always to our side of the aisle.”
House Representative (of Iowa) Steve King during an appearance with Sarah Palin
You got that liberals? No freedom. You can’t fool that guy with all of your equal pay (for women), equal rights (for homosexuals for instance), ‘pro-choice’ bullshit.
Q: Florida Senator Mel Martinez talked about Barack Obama’s “spread the wealth” policies and he described them as “communism.” Is that fair?
MCCAIN: Hmmm, I don’t know what label you put on it but clearly its not the way to economic prosperity.
During an interview with a local CBS affiliate in Miami
But the speaker who introduced you, your running mate and many of your supporters have said that’s the case Senator… clearly it must be true right?
McCAIN: Now, of course we have an obligation to take care of citizens in our society who can’t care for themselves. That’s why we have those programs, those Safety Net Programs. But you know, the Safety Net Program, a lot of Americans pay in to Social Security, they pay in to a number of those programs. So the point is, yes, a society and government takes care of citizens who need our help. That’s what America is all about.
During an interview with Sean Hannity where he claimed it was a, “far-left liberal view that you need to take money from one group of Americans and give it to another.”
We have an obligation to take care of those citizens who can’t take care of themselves Senator? Really? But we shouldn’t take money from one group of Americans and give it to another cause that’s what zany liberals do right? So do you think I could get my money back on those Social Security taxes I pay since I’m about 40 years away from being the beneficiary of those tax dollars? Cause as you, your surrogates and your supporters have suggested “spreading the wealth” is a terrible, terrible, terrible thing. I’ll be expecting a check in the mail if you become President.
Equality, which is the primary value of the left, is a European value, not an American value. Let me tell you that right now. I know this sounds offensive to half of my fellow Americans, because they have been Europeanized in their values. The French Revolution is not the American Revolution. The French Revolution said Liberty, Fraternity, Equality. The American Revolution said Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. We have lost touch with what our distinctive American values are. We have distinctive American values. … We have a better value system, and this is being protected by one of the two parties: the Republican party.
Right wing radio host Dennis Prager
Damn those Europeans for coming over here and founding this great nation. They fucked half of us up by thinking equality was an American ideal. I mean shit… they even did stuff like put it in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution to really screw with us. Those tricky Europeans… you really have to keep an eye on them.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
What the hell were those guys thinking?
BOUNDS: No, in Alaska its a unique state because all the residents there have a unique share of the natural resources, that the oil companies come in and use, so therefore they share the revenues of the resources. … Its absurd to equate sharing the oil resources that all of these Alaskans have an ownership stake in, and trying to negotiate a deal with the oil companies that use those resources that —
McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds valiantly attempting to explain how Alaska isn’t the ’socialist’ capital of America
I have great respect for anyone who works as hard as this guy has to earn a check. The amount of humiliation he’s put himself through is unbelievable.
Except Palin used to brag about Alaska being a ’socialist state’ and her residents just loved those $1,200 rebate checks they received from the state government (hell, I’d vote for the lady too). How could the state government be so generous you ask? Simply by taxing the windfall profits of the oil companies of course. That’s totally not the “redistribution of wealth” though… not at all. Totally different thing.
“People are not poor in America because they lack money. They’re poor because they lack values, morals and ethics.”
Far right talker Bill Cunningham
Thanks for clearing that up for me sir. So the next time I see a homeless person and they ask me for money I’ll tell them they’ve got it all wrong… what they really need isn’t food, shelter (or let’s be honest… crack) all they need is values, morals and ethics. Then they won’t be poor anymore!
Just this past week, we saw what Barack Obama said about judges. He said, ‘I’m tired of these judges who want to follow what the Founding Fathers said and the Constitution. I want judges who have a heart, have an empathy for the teenage mom, the minority, the gay, the disabled.’ … He thinks this country should be a government—not a government of laws, but a government of compassion and empathy, not of laws.
Senator Kit Bond (R-Missouri) during introductory remarks of Sarah Palin
We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. … I am absolutely convinced that Culture Wars are just so ’90s. Their days are growing dark.
What Barack Obama actually said
What’s so hilarious about Senator Bond’s statement is that if he took his head out of his Bible ass he would realize the Founding Fathers and the Constitution agree with the Dark Knight. He would understand the reason why they wrote that document in the first place was so there would always be a standard to fall back on when ideological jackasses (like him) tried to fuck up the party for people they don’t like.
By the way Senator, I think Mrs. Palin would appreciate having judges who were ‘empathetic’ to teenage moms too… just saying.
L. KING: Concerning spreading the wealth, isn’t the graduated income tax spreading the wealth?
MCCAIN: The graduated income tax…
L. KING: If you and I paid more so that Jimmy can get some for him or pay for a welfare recipient, that’s spreading the wealth.
MCCAIN: Well, that’s spreading the wealth in the respect that we do have a graduated income tax. That’s a far cry from taking from one group of Americans and giving to another. I mean, that’s dramatically different.
During his recent interview with Larry King
Now maybe I’m a bit slow Senator but how is that dramatically different again? The purpose of a graduated income tax is to take from people to give to other people. Like the example I used earlier, the government takes from my 23 year old ass to give people who are 40 years my senior. I see nothing wrong with this but that’s “spreading the wealth.” There’s really no way around that Senator… we’ve been “spreading the wealth” since your hero Teddy Roosevelt suggested it practically a hundred years ago. Seriously McCain… stop it. You’re making yourself look like an idiot who doesn’t understand simple economics.
And finally for my favorite Greatest Hits moment of the last few days:
KING: You don’t believe Barack Obama is a socialist, do you?
MCCAIN: No. But, I do believe — I do believe that he’s been in the far left of American politics. He has stated time after time that he believes in “spreading the wealth around.” He’s talked about courts that would redistribute the wealth.
As my partner would say… oy vey.
