What are your fave rightwingnut mantras that make no sense whatsoever?

[LynnTheDem]

Mine:

1. They hate us for our freedoms.

Anyone with a smidgen of common sense could sit all day long typing out why that statement is incredibly ridiculous.

For starters, we are not the free-est country in the world, so why would we be attacked before so many other nations?

So why is bush taking away our freedoms? Is he a "they"?

So did "they" just all wake up one morning and say "Gee, I hate freedoms...I think I'll go attack America."?

So "they" don't actually mind us bombing their kids? Overthrowing their elected governments? Bossing them around? Using extortion? Plundering their resources? Publicly announcing our intent to kill their leaders?

2. We need to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here.

That truly is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. I really doubt there is one single rightwignnut in this country who can actually say WTF that is supposed to mean.

"They" can't attack us here because we've illegally invaded & occupied a country over there?

Because we're "over there", another handful of Saudis with $1.99 boxcutters can't do another 911-type attack?

Do "they" know this???

How about the al Qaeda cells already in the USA? Do "they" know that because we're (illegally) occupying a country "over there" that "they" can't attack us "here"?

The Iraqis had nothing to do with 911, and had no ties to al Qaeda or other international terrorist organizations; so if the Iraqis are the "they", how about all the actual terrorists in al Qaeda and other international terrorist organizations? They're not in Iraq. But because we are in Iraq (illegally), fighting Iraqis, this means al Qaeda & other int. terrorists can't fight us here?

Advice for the rightwingnuts; don't ever pick a fight with anyone. Coz if this is really your "reasoning" process, you're already in very deep doo-doo.

[onager]

1. "Vote for me. I hate the government and want to dismantle it."

Anyone using that line shouldn't be allowed anywhere near elected office.

[Maddy McCall]

2. I'm going to the execution tonight, after I'm through at the prolife rally

:shrug:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. Bwahahahahaha

[Maddy McCall]

13. Hey, NSMA!

:hi:

[SheepyMcSheepster]

3. "The Liberal Media"

[tk2kewl]

4. i keep hearing that ...

what a president does doenst show its effect in the economy for 10 yrs. used to excuse bush and blame clinton

[txaslftist]

44. It was 'about 7 years' before...

when they were trying to blame an economic downturn on Carter. This is typical Republican horse-manure. It's easy, just count the years back to the last democrat, and that's your figure.

[alittlelark]

6. "It's all in God's hands"

Mom says it, as do a # of others I know.

Predestination anyone....????

[tk2kewl]

7. Only criminals need to worry about protecting their civil liberties

[The Great Escape]

8. "I'm a SELF-MADE MAN!

[punpirate]

9. Torture is just...

... "blowing off steam, fraternity pranks."

As for the one about "we're fighting them over there so we won't have to fight them here," that one's getting to be positively ancient. Remember the "Nicaraguan tanks are only two days from the Texas border" remarks a couple of decades ago?

[PassingFair]

10. Vote Freedom First

What the **** does that mean?

Then there's this one:
I saw a bumper sticker on a van the other night that read


"Legalize Freedom"

It was tastefully and plainly designed in a white serif typeface on a black background.
My initial reaction was "Yeah!".

Then I realized that it made NO SENSE WHATSOEVER!Since it make absolutely no sense, I am betting its a Freeper message of some kind.

I'm still scratching my head over it.

[maveric]

21. "Freedom isnt Free"

An asshole freeper neighbor of mine has that bumpersticker.

[peekaloo]

43. That one pisses me off. I once asked a goofball, whose car was

sportin' that sticker, what did it mean exactly? I swear his response was "you must be a Democrat. Maybe you should read up on them Kennedys." :wtf: He laughed at my perplexed look and said, very slowly....."eternal vigilantes".

:dunce:

[LynnTheDem]

56. Oh. My. God! He didn't REALLY say that! Did he???

ROTFLMAO!!!

I will pass that one around; that is TOO hilarious!!!

[peekaloo]

61. I am crappin' you negative.

The yahoo said it. Smirked and walked off. He also had a bumper sticker that proclaimed his self :silly: "licensed to hunt terrorists".

[LynnTheDem]

62. He should maybe wanna hunt himself down a piece of mind while he's at it

Coz the boy don't have none. LOL!!!

Geeez that's so funny!

[Mika]

11. "Castro's Cuba"

As if 13,000,000 other Cubans don't exist.


Although, it should be noted, plenty of Dems use this also.

[Yupster]

14. I was born in January, 1959

The same month Castro took over Cuba. I'm not a young guy anymore.

I don't like this President For Life crap. No one should lead a country for more than half his lifetime. Okay, well Franz Josef had cool sideburns, but aside from him.

[Solly Mack]

12. "If children go hungry it's their parents fault and not my responsibility"

coupled with their "Support Life"

[jdj]

17. the welfare mother/stay at home Mom paradox.

you're one if you're poor

the other if you are middle class or rich.

one BAD
the other GOOD

[TrustingDog]

18. mothers should pay more for babysitters...

than they get for a wage 'working' outside the home.

that one always gets me.

[Solly Mack]

19. That one too! Yes!

maddening

[Southpaw Bookworm]

64. Ms. magazine

Had a great editorial cartoon to that effect several years ago.

[LoZoccolo]

15. "Love it or leave it."

It doesn't apply when Clinton is president, I guess.

[Crunchy Frog]

16. "A culture of life"

I remember Shrubby using that line alot during the campaign.:puke:

I like all the other ones people have come up with.

[FizzFuzz]

22. oh ya beat me to it

"We are the party that values life" UGH!! what bullshit.

[TheKingfish]

20. The terrorists are getting desperate !!

[The_Casual_Observer]

23. We need to "finish the job" in Iraq

Seems to mean drop an atomic bomb on the bastards, kill them all and be done with it. Oh, and let freedom reign.

[Undercover Owl]

24. #1 most asinine

"they hate us for our freedom"

[muse]

25. "You may not like what he says, but you know where he stands"

They said this about Reagan and they say this about Bush - and about conservatives in general. It's supposed to be admirable not to see shades of gray or to have a nuanced opinon of an issue. Also, you are supposed to admire someone because they never waver from their viewpoint even if its wrong??? That's what I could never understand about all of the people who just loved Reagan sooo much for being that way.

[LynnTheDem]

28. That one's hilarious on 2 scores:

1. The majority of republicans who voted for bush DO NOT KNOW where bush stands. And they proved that themselves;

"In particular, majorities of Bush supporters incorrectly assumed he supports multilateral approaches to various international issues, including the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) (69 percent), the land mine treaty (72 percent), and the Kyoto Protocol to curb greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming (51 percent).

In all of these cases, majorities of Bush supporters said they favoured the positions that they imputed, incorrectly, to the president.

http://globalsecurity.com/world_politics/mass_delusion.htm

2. bush is THE BIGGEST FLIP-FLOPPER known to mankind.

A partial list:

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=118263

[HughBeaumont]

45. Love that logic.

People also knew where Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin "stood". Doesn't make their actions right.

[LynnTheDem]

57. Well but at least those people DID actually KNOW where Hitler et al stood!

bush supporters don't know that about bush! LOL!

[messyca]

26. "homosexuals are the biggest threat facing America"

"They threaten the sanctity of marriage, they are going to turn our children gay, they are going to destroy the human race because they don't breed...etc..."

I simply don't understand why we can't live and let live. It was never a choice I made. I have never questioned my sexuality. I've always been attracted to the opposite sex, and I have always accepted my gay friends.

They honestly think that by allowing gay marriage, or simply minding our own business about others' sexuality, will tempt children to become gay!

So those of us that are straight, are so, because gays haven't been allowed to marry? Because being gay hasn't been accepted in our society? Because "Queer Eye" wasn't a television show when we grew up? If you are straight because of any of those reasons...your not straight!!!! Gay or straight, we are who we are.

Further more, how does the act of two consenting adults having sex, or deciding to get married, affect me and my choice to have sex or get married to another consenting adult? How does Jill and Jane's wedding, disrupt the sanctity of my marriage?! It doesn't, and all this paranoia is nothing more than homophobia, guilt, and hate.

I'm so thankful that I am a liberal, because it would sure suck to be such a paranoid coward.

[txaslftist]

46. Hey, only 10% of gays were born that way...

The rest were just sucked into it...

Supposed to be a joke from a Republican friend of mine.

asshole.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

27. "This is the greatest country in the world"

Usually said by people who have never left their home county.

[bling bling]

33. I think I live in the greatest country in the world.

I really do. And I've left the country before.

But, I don't mean it in a condescending way or anything. And I don't think that just because "I" think it's the greatest country in the world that everyone else should feel that way, or that other countries should be like us. I also think I have the greatest family in the world, the greatest cats in the world, the greatest job in the world, etc. :-)

Probably wherever I lived if I grew up there I would think it's the greatest country in the world. Well, with a few exceptions.

On the other hand, I think our Government ranks up there with the worst of them in terms of corruption. I really don't think we're governed "by the people" considering the majority of this country is not comprised of super-rich selfish power-hungry assholes. In fact, the leaders of this country make me want to throw-up with disgust most of the time.

[noonwitch]

42. Me, too. I don't want to live anywhere else.

No country is perfect, and even when I don't like the current leaders, this is still my country. We have so many good things in this country and we should always be working to make it even better, to include more and more people in the american dream, to ensure the equality and justice promised in our constitution is a reality, to improve our schools and to always be vigilant for abuses of power.

[Kickin_Donkey]

29. "Support the troops"

What's that supposed to mean? For Repubs, it means continuing a pointless and immorial war so the troops can get killed for no reason.

If these idiots actually supported the troops, they'd demand that they be brought home, and have the commander in thief tried for treason.

[BlueFlu]

30. Several leap to mind...

"There WERE WMDs, we just didn't find them.", which ignoring we weren't just told there were WMDs, but we knew exactly where they were and that Saddam could use them within 45 minutes of us invading Iraq.

And

"Get a life!", condemning you for taking time to post in the same thread they are taking the time to post in.

And

"I voted for morals.", while voting for the most warmongering administration in American history!

And

"The Democrats are the 'tax and spend' party.", ignoring that the GOP is the 'tax, BORROW, and spend like there is no tomorrow' party.

[giant_robot]

65. Even better: "Saddam moved the WMD to Syria." n/t

[NurseLefty]

31. "God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve."

I dunno, I've known plenty of guys named Steve. God didn't make them, then who? Satan? Aliens?
:-)

[RandomKoolzip]

32. "We're not a democracy, we're a republic."

All right, peabody, if WE'RE not a democracy, why are we so hellbent on "Bringing Democracy" to countries who don't even want us there in the first place? Why aren't we bringing them "Republicanism" and acting like it's god's gift to little brown people?

Plus, we are a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC. So we're both right. Shithead.

[KitchenWitch]

34. Big Government, Tax and Spend Liberals

[dutchdoctor]

35. "Freedom is on the march"

and any phrase that contains the word "dead-enders"

[wicket]

36. "We can't cut and run!"

[adigal]

37. Why do you hate America??? and...

my favorite from Bill O'Reilly when he is talking about liberals and people who want to destroy Christmas..."They are evil and they have to be stopped." Yeah, Bill, why don't you smack us with your loofah?????

[BiggJawn]

38. "Sanctity of Marriage".

Just 2 words. Brittany. Spears.

[suegeo]

39. Republicans handle the money better

Republicans are tough on national security (Would you care to buy a clue: 9.11 was a Republican FAILURE to protect the common person.)

[pdxmom]

40. The corollary to your #2

Said in various forms, but all meaning the same thing:

We're obviously safer since 9/11, because there hasn't been another terrorist attack.

(The seem to leave off the part about "in the US" and they just ignore the fact that terrorism is on the rise worldwide)

[JHB]

41. "This is a Republic, not a Democracy"

i.e., code for bashing "the people" while still pretending to be a populist.

[indepat]

47. Propetual war is peace and killing them gives them their freedom

[kiki]

48. Try this one:

I got in an argument with a right-winger who said:

"Maybe they have found WMDs in Iraq, but Bush isn't telling us because HE DOESN'T WANT TO SCARE PEOPLE."

It's funny on so many levels. It's genius.

[LondonReign2]

59. Hilarious!

<I got in an argument with a right-winger who said:

"Maybe they have found WMDs in Iraq, but Bush isn't telling us because HE DOESN'T WANT TO SCARE PEOPLE."

It's funny on so many levels. It's genius.>

That is brilliant.

I belive I would have responded, "Yes, and a flock of yellow canaries are going to fly out of your butt, but your doctor hasn't told you because he doesn't want to scare you."

[kiki]

49. Oh, and...

...anything that includes the phrase 'secular humanist'.

[madinmaryland]

50. "If you haven't done anything wrong,

then you have nothing to fear". Sound's like Asshcroft

Just another excuse to take away more of our rights and shred the constitution.

[LibDemAlways]

51. "It's Clinton's fault"

Because the rw has no valid arguments, they resort right back to Clinton every time. When I showed a repuke aquaintance the tape of the chimp being fed his lines on the CNN D-day report, his only reply was "Who fed Clinton his lines?" Dumbass morons.

[julialnyc]

52. "pro-life" and abstinence only education mantras

that we outsource to Africa.....where sexual education could save millions

[immoderate]

53. "This country is built on Judeo Christian principles."

I always ask them to list the principles that they are referring to. I also ask what principles the countries we broke away from were based on.

Just the idea of Judeo Christian principles is silly.

--IMM

[HippieCowgirl]

54. Makes me nuts, they does.

"Liberal Media"
Please.


"Evolution teaches our babies that humans are descended from monkeys!"
Proof positive that they never actually read the theory...

[seasat]

55. "The president doesn't have any influence on the economy."

They say that when referring to Clinton's economic boom yet credit Shrub Inc's tax cuts for any positive economic news.

[DireStrike]

58. "Bush is a strong leader!"

Of what? non-leaders?

[The White Tree]

60. How about - "activist judges" and "strict constitutionalists"

Aren't they put there for their judgement? How come when republicans agree with their judgement then the judges are "strict constitutionalists" and when they disagree with them they are "activist judges"?

[Solly Mack]

63. *bump* for the Faux Snooze crowd