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In reply to the discussion: Pic Of The Moment: After Election Drubbing, Republicans Admit What We've Known All Along [View all]6502
(256 posts)40. For the love of Mary!!! Now, let's not go having a lovefest...
... and start accepting these people!!!
Listen carefully to what they are saying:
Oh! We are the real "Conservatives"! We're the real "Republicans"!
We're not like those "Conservatives" or "Republicans"... we're not losers, like them!
We're not racist, like them!
They made us support voter suppression!
They made us support racism!
They made us support anti LGBT civil right!
They made us go against a woman's right to her own body!
They made us vote lock-step against a woman's right to equal pay!
We really didn't want to hate Mexicans!
And holding America hostage for the interests of Plutocrats and the 1%? Those other whacky "Republicans" were so crazy. We didn't want to follow them, really.
Blah! Blah! Blah!
Hey, do you think someone Jewish would accept an excuse from a Nazi like:
"It wasn't my fault that I supported the intimidation, harassment, torture and death and may more things to numerous and horrible to describe. But it wasn't my fault, they told me to do it."
Now think about it.
Yeah, keep thinking.
The answer is: NO!!!!
Any Jew --- God dammit, any American! --- Jesus of tricycle, the entire fricken United Nations would tell you what is the standard we on the planet live by:
To say simply that "I was following orders" is no excuse for your crimes. Your actions are your responsibility. You will pay for your crimes.
And we will not give them an inch.
We will not entertain the this ridiculous idea that they are somehow reasonable because they are distancing themselves from their own losers.
If you still want to go on believing like that, then you're
1. in denial
2. engaging in self deception
3. taken up with wishful thinking
4. easily influenced by suggesting
5. have some kind of psychological condition
or... your going to love this last one:
6. trying to deceive the rest of us
(Yeah, I said it. Someone has to.)
If you are somewhere in the #1-#5 set, I say:
Open your eyes and keep them open!
But, if you are a #6... well, the nicest thing that we can all agree to say is:
You should stop being a #6.
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Pic Of The Moment: After Election Drubbing, Republicans Admit What We've Known All Along [View all]
EarlG
Nov 2012
OP
Good. The Schmidt piece is a little confusing. "not a con if you won't stand up to lumbaugh"???
Scuba
Nov 2012
#1
Notice how badly he stutters and stumbles as he tries to get those words out! nt
tblue37
Nov 2012
#15
ahaahahaha I was just about to post the same thing! good example of what he's talking about
Voice for Peace
Nov 2012
#19
Frum has the right idea: first, they need to ditch their activists and their donors!
struggle4progress
Nov 2012
#6
Con jobs were never a meaningful anything but misogynist, fanatical bigots.
part man all 86
Nov 2012
#20
"It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." Mark Twain
Scuba
Nov 2012
#12
Samuel Clemons: has to be our nation's greatest thinker and foremost philosopher!
maddiemom
Nov 2012
#30