Comments on: Much Love From the Republican Right

By: andrew191

andrew191 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:56:08 +0000

“nitwit, currupt members of the Democrat party”? With this I can’t argue. I just consider them as a constant in voting calculations.

By: TexasBuckeye

TexasBuckeye — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:39:44 +0000

Ann Coulter made this comment in her article dated February 26th in answer to Helen Thomas’ snide comment on February 25th, the day before.

This insinuation that Ann Coulter was intentionally making a racial slur against Bobby Jindal is absurd in its premise.

By: ScottVA

ScottVA — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:53:23 +0000

I am not racist at all but if the Republicans are looking to Jindal as a Republican Obama match up then they’re barking up the wrong tree! Jindal is no Republican party leader. I’m still wondering why everyone is looking to minorities now as some saving grace for a political party… The guy who can save the Republicans next go around is going to be Mitt Romney…

By: Serf Nation

Serf Nation — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:27:27 +0000

It was the nitwit, corrupt members of the Democrat party that was behind Obama getting elected. It started with all the deal making before the primary began. Politicians behind Obama promised to keep IA first in the nation among other things (ethanol support, etc) in exchange for tilting the scale by pushing hard for Obama within the state and looking the other way when the busloads of ACORN thugs came across the border to “caucus” for Obama, ensuring his win in IA.

With an IA caucus loss and the NH primary loss Obama would have been toast. There is no way that IA residents would have chosen Obama over Clinton and Edwards with his empty “Yes we can” speeches and his inability, especially back then, to answer basic political questions. Iowans are invaded every four years and know when a candidate is an inexperienced, slick, empty suit.

It was a Democratic year – the issue isn’t who won between the Repub and Dem. The issue is: Who was behind the corruption that ensured Obama got to be the Dem’s nominee?

By: Beal

Beal — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:47:47 +0000

I saw Brown’s speech in Europe a couple days ago when he said he was going to be telling the US that it needed to stand up and lead the charge for the global economy recovery. Of course, that means providing the $$$$$$$$$$$$. I am shocked, but I actually am glad Obama was not all lovey to Brown. Imagine if Obama decided to go along with Brown – the US giving up control of our economic and monetary policies by joining a global club while footing most of the bill, just like the UN.

By: andrew191

andrew191 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:43:40 +0000

Yes, that does stretch credulity.

By: cynic

cynic — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:40:41 +0000

Interesting how she had a prepared speech handy.

By: Diana

Diana — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:30:13 +0000

I’ll just say the same thing I did in the other thread. I don’t find this funny coming from either side. However, I find it disgusting that so many Democrats think they have free pass to use these type of comments because they’re supposed to be progressive. We all witnessed just how progressive they are in their treatment of Hillary. Which is why many of us are only supporting candidates from here on out and not a party.

By: heather

heather — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:09:24 +0000

There’s a lot of folks looking for it. Suspiciously absent. Odd?

As I type, I hear Ken Cockrel is going to veto the Cobo decision, and Monica says she’ll take it to court. Monica was on the radio this morning defending what she said. She says she not racist, she just saw that the folks setting up for the auto show weren’t black. Hmmmmm. I’m not buying what she’s selling, but then again she doesn’t care. I don’t live in the city and I’m white (embarassingly so) anyway.

Anyway, she doesn’t get the economics of hosting a show like the Auto Show or any of the other programs that could be hosted there. No one who goes to the Auto show frequents businesses owned by or who employs African-Americans? Not the restaurants, or the hotels, or the transportation system (such as it is), or anything? Wow. To say nothing of trying to convince people that it’s really safe to go down there.

The only people I see really investing in the city day in and day out are the Ilitch family, and Karmanos (both, oddly, white). I dunno, maybe I missed the Jesse Jackson enterprises popping up?

By: andrew191

andrew191 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:18:35 +0000

It’s also inaccurate to claim that the no-show conservatives would have made any difference, I have a strong suspicion that the vast majority of no-show conservatives live in hard core blue states (Cal, NY, Mass, Wash, etc.) where their vote would have had no effect. Knowing that, they stayed home.

By: American Girl in Italy

American Girl in Italy — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:59:15 +0000

oh, agreed! it was unbelievable! i was reacting to the videos i saw of her other meetings. but this one was terrible. i wish i could find the video.

By: andrew191

andrew191 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:55:27 +0000

However rude Obama was to Brown, I don’t believe that Obama treated him differently than he would anyone else. If Obama is on stage, he is incapable of sharing the spotlight with anyone, he has a pathological need to hog all of the attention. When I watched Joe Biden giving his VP nomination speech I remember thinking that Obama must have really been squirming at the thought that Biden was the man of the hour. Biden’s hour of glory was cut quite short though, at the moment he was joined by his wife and children on stage to receive his ovation, out popped Obama like a jack-in-the-box to shift all the attention onto himself, robbing poor Joe and his family of their moment of fame.

He is also very careful to avoid any unscripted situations, he doesn’t want to risk another Joe the plumber moment. He mustn’t let slip his true beliefs, that would only enrage people that are currently bewildered, but manageable.

By: hm

hm — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:47:51 +0000

I think you’re right. She is not insulting Jindal (she is much too smart for that). She is mocking the liberal left. It is her way of saying this is what they see in him, a slumdog who made good.

By: andrew191

andrew191 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:23:58 +0000

Yes, there was some of that, but since McCain is a centrist himself, it’s somewhat understandable that a few conservatives were not very motivated to vote. They were wrong to do so, it’s equal to throwing your vote away on a third party out of protest. Nevertheless, if two thirds of the self described independant swing voters had voted for McCain, we would have a different President today.

By: OxyCon

OxyCon — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:11:08 +0000

Coulter plays this game all the time. She either says or writes something scandalous that a liberal has said prior, then when she gets called out and attacked on it, she points out that those weren’t her words, they were “liberal X’s” words (in this case, Helen Thomas).
She does this for two reasons. First because the offending statement by a liberal usually goes without any outrage from the media, so Coulter draws attention to it. Second, to point out liberal hypocrisy.