"Don't Shut Up"

Most conservatives can probably remember the first time they were called a Fascist by a tolerant, open-minded liberal. For me, it was Election Day 1980. I was in senior English class at Brookline High School, Brookline Massachusetts. At the end of the period, our teacher asked for a show of hands as to which candidate we would all support if we could vote. Out of a group of 20-plus students, most voted for John Anderson; the second biggest group opted for Jimmuh Carter and 3 of us, including me, preferred Ronald Reagan. (Of the other 2 Reaganites, one was a recent Jewish refugee from the Soviet Union and the other was the son of Lithuanian immigrants.) The bell rang and the fascist epithet was hissed at me as I made my way out the door. ....

Andrew Klavan explains on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWHgUE9AD4s

Scrappleface Predicts Specter

Five weeks ago, Scott Ott at Scrappleface wrote a piece that proves how difficult it is to satirize the behavior of liberals...like Arlen Specter....who are walking exemplars of self-parody.


http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/scottott/Arlen-Specter-to-cross-aisle-for-2010-Senate-run--41598382.html
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Olympia Snowe-Blithering Idiot

Good Lord, it is true. Olympia Snowe is blaming the GOP electorate's alleged hostility to "moderates" for Specter's defection. If that hostility actually existed, Snowe, Collins and Specter would not have been in the Senate for the past few decades.  

In the New York Times,  Snowe defends her thesis with this quote: 

"It is for this reason that we should heed the words of President Ronald Reagan, who urged, "We should emphasize the things that unite us and make these the only 'litmus test' of what constitutes a Republican: our belief in restraining government spending, pro-growth policies, tax reduction, sound national defense, and maximum individual liberty." He continued, "As to the other issues that draw on the deep springs of morality and emotion, let us decide that we can disagree among ourselves as Republicans and tolerate the disagreement."

 

WHAAAT??!!? Specter's and Snowe's votes for Obama's porkulus bill and other liberal agenda items over the years further the expansion of gov't spending, increases in taxes, a decimation of the national defense and lessened individual liberty. Is this woman a blithering idiot or is she so blinded by her single-issue abortion fixation that she is incapable of logic? Snowe, Specter and Collins clearly FAIL Reagan's litmus-test. They have been propped up by the despised (by them)conservative voters for decades on the supposition that a fiscal conservative/social liberal Republican is preferable to a lib/lib Democrat. Now that the actions of Snowe et al have proven that there is no difference, ALL Republicans are exercising their own right to choose by opposing them.

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