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Trump supporters and the Stormy escapade (Original Post)
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Mar 2018
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Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)1. The Same 89% Believe In The Fork In The Outlet Challenge....
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(9,350 posts)2. What You Have To Believe To be a Republican
https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9432316
A few of the quotes from the link:
Ordering the plug pulled on a brain dead spouse is an Affront to the Culture of Life, unless the one ordering the plug pulled is Tom Delay's mother. That's an intensely private family decision that's none of our business.
* Ruling against the discrimination of gays is unrestrained judicial activism; the Supreme Court giving the 2000 election to a Republican who got a half million less votes is a proper use of judicial power.
* Questioning John Kerry's Purple Heart for getting shot at in Vietnam is a valid political issue. Questioning George W. Bush's attendance record in the Air National Guard is a liberal smear campaign.
* The Geneva Convention is "quaint"
* Political discourse has gone rotten in this country, and Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, and Ann Coulter are totally correct to blame it all on those filthy evil America-hating terrorist-loving Muslin communist socialist Nazi liberals.
* Bill Clinton was a draft dodger for not serving in Vietnam. But it was okay for Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Clarence Thomas, Dan Quayle, Tom Delay, Tom Tancredo, and Pat Buchanan to not go.
* Filibustering to stop civil rights legislation was a proper exercise of minority power in parliamentary procedures. Filibustering Bush's anti-civil rights judges is an affront to the democratic process.
* Similarly, taking away the filibuster to let those anti-civil rights judges through would have been proper; using "reconciliation" to give people health care reform on a straight majority vote was a tyrannical overreach of majority power.
* Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy is a hero. "Deep Throat" Mark Felt is a traitor.
* Amending the Constitution to outlaw flag burning is a good way to uphold our traditions of freedom of speech.
* Cindy Sheehan was disrespecting her son's memory by speaking out against the war that killed him, and we're sure he wouldn't have had any problem with Bush supporters calling her "Ditch Bitch" and smearing her with every dirty trick in the book.
* Waterboarding is only torture when used against American soldiers in World War 2.
* It's okay to hit on underage pages, solicit gay sex in an airport bathroom, and cheat on your wife (with or without diapers, payoffs, rentboys, or trips to Argentina) as long as you're a Good Christian(TM).
* A cable news network that parrots right wing talking points 24/7 is "fair and balanced". A cable news network that airs two or three commentators who question right wing talking points is "in the tank for the Left" even though it has a three hour morning show hosted by a former Republican congressman.
* Barack Obama is a racist for picking a Latina for the Supreme Court instead of a white man. Rush Limbaugh playing "Barack the Magic Negro", signs depicting Obama as a witch doctor, and postcards featuring the White House lawn filled with watermelons have nothing at all to do with racism, and are instead valid criticisms of the President's health care policies.
A few of the quotes from the link:
Ordering the plug pulled on a brain dead spouse is an Affront to the Culture of Life, unless the one ordering the plug pulled is Tom Delay's mother. That's an intensely private family decision that's none of our business.
* Ruling against the discrimination of gays is unrestrained judicial activism; the Supreme Court giving the 2000 election to a Republican who got a half million less votes is a proper use of judicial power.
* Questioning John Kerry's Purple Heart for getting shot at in Vietnam is a valid political issue. Questioning George W. Bush's attendance record in the Air National Guard is a liberal smear campaign.
* The Geneva Convention is "quaint"
* Political discourse has gone rotten in this country, and Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, and Ann Coulter are totally correct to blame it all on those filthy evil America-hating terrorist-loving Muslin communist socialist Nazi liberals.
* Bill Clinton was a draft dodger for not serving in Vietnam. But it was okay for Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Clarence Thomas, Dan Quayle, Tom Delay, Tom Tancredo, and Pat Buchanan to not go.
* Filibustering to stop civil rights legislation was a proper exercise of minority power in parliamentary procedures. Filibustering Bush's anti-civil rights judges is an affront to the democratic process.
* Similarly, taking away the filibuster to let those anti-civil rights judges through would have been proper; using "reconciliation" to give people health care reform on a straight majority vote was a tyrannical overreach of majority power.
* Watergate burglar G. Gordon Liddy is a hero. "Deep Throat" Mark Felt is a traitor.
* Amending the Constitution to outlaw flag burning is a good way to uphold our traditions of freedom of speech.
* Cindy Sheehan was disrespecting her son's memory by speaking out against the war that killed him, and we're sure he wouldn't have had any problem with Bush supporters calling her "Ditch Bitch" and smearing her with every dirty trick in the book.
* Waterboarding is only torture when used against American soldiers in World War 2.
* It's okay to hit on underage pages, solicit gay sex in an airport bathroom, and cheat on your wife (with or without diapers, payoffs, rentboys, or trips to Argentina) as long as you're a Good Christian(TM).
* A cable news network that parrots right wing talking points 24/7 is "fair and balanced". A cable news network that airs two or three commentators who question right wing talking points is "in the tank for the Left" even though it has a three hour morning show hosted by a former Republican congressman.
* Barack Obama is a racist for picking a Latina for the Supreme Court instead of a white man. Rush Limbaugh playing "Barack the Magic Negro", signs depicting Obama as a witch doctor, and postcards featuring the White House lawn filled with watermelons have nothing at all to do with racism, and are instead valid criticisms of the President's health care policies.