"[H]ow fucking hilarious would it be if [Johnson died and] the Democrats lost ... the Senate?"

[Ian_rd]

This is what you're missing if you never read right-wing blogs:

He Be Strokin’

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe God does want a Republican majority in the Senate.

MSNBC is currently reporting that Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) has suffered a stroke ... There is no word, currently, on the Senator’s condition.

While anyone suffering a stroke is a tragic event, how fucking hilarious would it be if the Democrats lost control of the Senate right before they were to assume power? I’d laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh…

Update: His staff is now saying no stroke. Stay tuned to see if this is really nothing or if the Democrat politburo is pulling a Fidel Castro.

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[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Not nearly as hilarious as CrashCart going down, eh?

[malaise]

2. Sick fuggs n/t

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

4. Ten...nine...eight ...

Let's see how long this thread stays unlocked

:)

[cboy4]

3. Yet another example of why the Freeptards desperately need

psychological assistance.

Someone is on record as saying they'd "laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh" if Johnson passes away.

Scary. :puke:

[Delightful-08]

21. Senator Johnson

Won't happen. He will recover!!!!

[warrens]

5. This is why I take enjoyment every time a Repuke gets arrested

And wish them pain and misery in their new, smaller homes with new, more hostile neighbors.

[enid602]

6. impeach

Comments like that make immediate impeachment procedings indispensible.

[WI_DEM]

7. The God I believe in wouldn't love a guy who would "laugh and laugh" if Johnson

died or was so incapacitated he couldn't serve. That is the problem with these so-called Christians on the hard right. They are haters--they hate everybody except those who believe in their narrow minded view of life. Jesus was not a hater.

[StrictlyRockers]

8. Sick. Twisted. Mentally deranged thinking.

[GreenTea]

9. At least they are being more creative....I guess another small plane crash would be a bit too

obvious?

[HereSince1628]

10. It's funny that for a long time we banned certain news sources from DU

but we've always accepted this sort of thing, whose value is in extremis.

I wonder what that really says about "us" rather than "them?

[slackmaster]

11. Ian, you went swimming in a sewer and found some turds floating around

No big surprise.

[MonkeyFunk]

12. Why bother bringing it here?

You'll find stupidity, vitriol, idiocy and general asshattery all over the internet - on BOTH sides of the political spectrum.

Do you bring home dogshit when you find it on the sidewalk?

[pnb]

17. Very true

There are some here even who didn't care about the families of Reagan, Santorum, etc. any more than the repubs seem to care about anyone here.

[IWantAChange]

13. attention - GOD is NOT spelled GOP

get back in your pick-em-up truck, stop at the 7Eleven for your six pack and get on home to Betty Sue and listen to some Billo - gosh my fellow citizens make me proud to be an American.

[feduppuke]

14. How Horrible

I can't imagine how his family must feel with vulture-like comments being posted rooting for the man's death.

I just can't get over the fact that he's barely 60yo.

[AX10]

15. Righties are spasming over the possibility.

[Ganja Ninja]

16. The longer the GOP remains in power even partially in power ...

the more people will turn against them. If the Democrats don't hold on to power in the Senate it will only make it worse for them in 2008. They don't seem to grasp the simple fact that W is dragging them down. Their unwavering loyalty to the Der Fuhrer is their downfall. So laugh it up out their in bizaro America, we'll have the last laugh in 08.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

18. Follow the link to the back-peddling.

This guy resembles a push-me-pull-you toy.

[Ganja Ninja]

19. Can we be sure that these laws apply to federal offices?

This might all be referring to the state legislature.

[Mad_Dem_X]

20. What a bunch of a$$holes!

If the tables were turned, I know the majority of DUers would not be gleefully wishing for a Senator to die!

These people have no fucking scruples whatsoever. :grr:

[Cheap_Trick]

22. buncha pussies

The only way they could get a majority again is by a death, NOT because they actually WON. What a bunch of douchebags losers.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

23. What In The World Kind Of Obscure Site Is That? How Long Did You Actually Have To Search To Finally

find a post from a right-wing site that contained distasteful enough rhetoric on this subject to make a thread on?

Now of course, the poster was extremely distasteful and probably 12. But to my surprise I've actually found most RW'ers to have been extremely civil and respectful on this issue. Not that I enjoy or seek out giving them praise, but what I really don't ever like is when shit is cherry picked just for sake of denigrating an entire group, no matter who the group is.

And lord knows they do it to us, I know. But using some one-off comment from some jerkoff found on some obscure rw site no one has heard of, in order to start a thread saying "see how horrible they are?" is quite disingenuous and disappointing to me.

And don't mistake this for me defending the RW or RW sites. They can do that themselves and I could give a rat's fat ass about them when it comes down to it. But I just can't stand when something is cherry picked purposely for sake of creating a point that doesn't exist, or doesn't exist to nearly the degree it had been portrayed. I hate that cherry picking for any reason, by any group, for any cause, political or not. (Maybe I'm sensitive to it, since as an analyst who works with tons of data, I've seen how others have cherry picked shit to make points that weren't real, or manipulated findings just to skew results to their liking. That's why I'm so damn good at my job. I'm able to be objective and let the facts of the data speak for themselves, sometimes to the point where the conclusion completely surprises me. It's about integrity and honesty. Cherry picking is neither.)

[renate]

24. I've read here that the right-wingers have actually been pretty nice

so I agree with you.

Plus, a few offensive statements are to be expected, given that half the general population has a below-average level of decency--hence the term below-average.

I'm really encouraged by the restraint that most people from the other side of the aisle have shown so far. The inane statements of a few shouldn't be extrapolated to the assumed beliefs of the many.

The offensive statements are, well, offensive--but I know I'd be offended if some of the statements on DU were assumed to be representative of the views of everybody here.

[Ian_rd]

25. You're right. I should not have posted it.

I am endlessly fascinated with the techniques of public manipulation practiced by corporate advertising and political machines, most particularly the constant campaign of the right-wing elite to keep millions of Americans in line against their own interest. And one of the techniques frequently used by the Right is to find the most ridiculous things said and written by people who could be considered "on the left" and display them for all to see as frequently as possible as a means to convince their audience that it is a typical representation of the liberal point of view.

It's impossible not to remember the treasure trove Fox News and the rest of the right-wing machine found in Ward Churchill, who famously implied that the victims of the 9-11 attacks were not completely innocent as they were part of an evil machine of oppression. The Right brought Churchill from obscurity to a household name overnight with the message, "This is a liberal, you don't want to be like him, do you?"

This is just a little post on a discussion forum, but with it I'm guilty of the same thing. Sorry 'bout that.

[Bucky]

26. "Pulling a Fidel Castro"? Actually, it's known as "pulling a Strom Thurmond".

Well, it's one of several things that could be called "pulling a Strom Thurmond."

[originalpckelly]

27. Also known as a Bush...oh wait, that's just brain dead.(nt)

[E.R. Strooley]

28. What a jerk.

Clearly I'm not missing anything worthwhile by not frequenting those right-wing blogs.

So glad to be here instead!