"Pinhead'" Patriots: The New Conservative

[goofticket]

The Pinhead Conservative

The conservative bloggers are out there.
While not as prolific, or organized, or literate as their liberal counterparts, they are trying, in a very desperate attempt to trump us some tabloid shock in the election.
So what are the really big, most popular and important issues the conservative blogger is sharing?

For one...the lapel pin.
According to these fringe thinkers, the legal requirements to be a US President is not being a natural born citizen or being 35 years of age. It's a lapel pin.
Let's call these people what they really are...'pinheads'.

Patriotism is what's worn on the collar.
Make sure the troops know this.
After all, the type of lapel pin will win the war on terror.

The Chinese-made cheap metal and probably, lead-paint filled flags, show up on many politician's business suits, but rarely do we see such attention to insignificant details. Only an act of complete desperation would generate such a focus.

It is a slow news week, when this very stupid point gets media attention.

A true act of desperation.
An embarrassment; that further identifies the conservatives, as a foolish and insulting fringe group in America's electorate.
Let's see where those pins were made. Is Mitch McConnell wearing a US made or did it come from China? Is it solid gold, or one of the cheap Chinese ones offered on the GOP website?
The liberal blogger could come back with something equally as irrelevant and insulting. McCain's legal citizenship.
He was born in the Panama Canal...something the US never owned, just administered when he was born. Is this a real issue? No.
Will it find it's way to the media? Probably.
Will it influence a vote? There might actually be someone, so stupid and so delusional, as to actually vote as a 'pinhead'.
It's sad, for sure. But I suspect at least one voter will decide that as their issue.

The idea that any candidate is somehow not patriotic, just because they are not dressed according to some bizarre 'political fashion police' concept is insulting.
Every Presidential candidate has spent a lifetime, in public service; probably having donated more volunteer time before they turned 21, in one day...than many of the 'pinheads' have volunteered in a lifetime!

Americans understand this kind of sick and insulting desperation.
Patriotism is not worn on one's sleeve, fragile emotions are.
We watched with shame and embarrassment as Nixon's last days ran down until his resignation. We felt sorry for him, in his refusal to apologize for his disgusting breech of our trust.
Nixon always wore a lapel pin.
This was a guy who lost his right to be called a patriot, when he insulted our trust, for his own political gain.

The 'pinheads' are in that same classless sewer.

Using the term patriot is such a juvenile manner, and trying to associate a person's qualifications, based on such a thing, is the ultimate insult to what America stands for.
Our troops do not sacrifice for a lapel pin, yet conservatives gladly make that claim.

These people are not patriots. They are 'pinheads".

[Turbineguy]

1. "Pinhead Patriots"

kind of rolls off the tongue doesn't it?

[gaspee]

2. Sorry

While you'll find that most people here on DU (me included) agree with you, you're not going to win that argument.

There are people (my dad included) who genuinely are patriotic and cry at stupid shit like the national anthem.

It's a losing argument and I hope no Dem tries to make it an official position because it's a stupid one.

Listen, I'm sure there are atheists in congress. Only two are out. Do you think more of them should make the argument that religious people are stupid? Hell I'm an atheist who believes that (one of the evil ones, that's me!) and I wouldn't make *that* loser of an argument.

Spin all you want, running on anti-patriotism is just plain D.U.M.B. - dumb!

[angrycarpenter]

3. I consider myself a patriot

And the American flag is a potent symbol of our country.

Taking any position that ridicules anything regarding the display of the flag is not viewed with favor anywhere.

Compulsory patriotism is everywhere. The pledge, the nation anthem, supporting troops. To most they are meaningful, heartfelt expressions of Americanism. Our national identity.

While I understand your point, Patriotic displays are very important to a great many people. Criticize the corruption rather than the flag it is wrapped in. You are using a symbol to attack a group of people in the same way that they are using the lack of one to attack our side.

Turn-about may be fair play but it is not always wise.

[alarimer]

4. Compulsory patriotism IS fascism

It will also get you killed. No thanks. No flag-waving, rah-rah bullshit for me.

[angrycarpenter]

5. My point

Ridiculing people for their tokens of patriotism only adds fuel to the fire. We are only acting the way that they see us, namely anti-american, anti-flag, anti-troops.

I agree with you on the compulsory patriotism but to many it is very important and sacred.

I say ignore them and their made-up divisive issues. Throwing it back in their faces only confirms their paranoia and gives the impression that liberals are exactly what Rush says they are.

[alarimer]

7. Well yes, it is a made-up issue for sure.

And we would do better to ignore it than to engage is some contest of who's more patriotic. But the right engages in the kind of blind patriotism "my country right or wrong" that frightens me. I guess the point is that maybe our candidates need to point out that wanting to fix the flaws and mistakes made by this country is patriotic too.

[Ezlivin]

6. Give 'em something to talk about...

[GoneOffShore]

8. I applaud you!

I don't know what it is about Americans and our seemingly inexhaustible ability to make mountains out of molehills.

Why must vast numbers of folks paste flags on their vehicles, homes and clothing? I think it really boils down to a feeling of insecurity. Most say that they are proud Americans, that it's patriotic, that it 'shows the colors'. Why? What has rampant nationalism gotten us except xenophobia and a particularly ugly sort of cultural imperialism.

I'm now 60 years old, brought up on the Pledge, the Flag, "God Bless America" (a really crap song), "The Star Spangled Banner" and other forms of nationalistic nonsense. I'm done with it. I stopped being proud of this country a long time ago. I want to fix it, but I'm not proud of it.

[cliffordu]

9. Perhaps WE need to create a way to respond immediately

and move in an overwhelming and coordinated way to quash these scumbag attempts at character assassination. Although WE know the truth, reetards like my redneck brother still thinks Obama went to school in a Madrassa....

The other night on Bill Maher some drone of a repub senator told the tale of Obama not saluting the flag in that photo -the one that Snopes debunked. Maher looked absolutely shocked, and didn't refute it. I don't think Maher KNEW it was a non-issue.


I tried to write Maher, but cannot locate an email address to him anywhere on the HBO website..

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I thing it might be time to take it to them directly, by the thousands.

[eShirl]

10. k&r!

if you're not a professional writer, you should be

[margotb822]

11. Patriotism is action, not fashion!

How's that for a slogan?

Pinheads will always focus on the GOP bullshit because they can't think for themselves. How else does the GOP manage to convince people to vote against their own best interest? With crap like the "lapel pin" non-issue.

[stevedeshazer]

12. Okay, but it's not patriotism. It's nationalism.

That's what you're describing here.

Plus, 'pinhead' is Bill O'Reilly's favorite epithet.

But I agree with your sentiment.

on edit: fixed typo

[trthnd4jstc]

13. Fascinating World, Excessive Jingoism!

I place my hand over my heart,for both the Pledge of Allegiance, and the National Anthem, yet I would never consider it a matter of anothers' Loyalty to our Nation, if someone else did not. Further, Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. The Flag is a piece of cloth, and the Constitution is a piece of paper, but the ideas represented by both, is what I am fighting for. This comes to the point that some of our fellow citizens truly are nearly two-dimensional creatures, but I would not want to call them pinheads. I cannot see devolving to the point of considering our fellow citizens will be helpful to the Democratic Party. We must work to educate and elevate our fellow citizens. This is not easy work.
Peace.