Debate? How can there be a debate when the facts are so clearly on my side? I see, you don't mean debate, you mean your obfuscation, prevarication, hyperbole, hypocrisy and lies.

Hahahahahahahaha....now is that called obfuscation or prevarication?

I see the meaning of my example when whizzing over your head...oh my, I don't know why I even try...

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All Things Cynthia McKinney | The Courage to Lead

If these were ordinary times, it is likely that my focus for the behavior of political figures would fasten upon their honesty. After all, it's become a hoary cliche that you can't trust politicians as far as you can throw them. Staunch Republican Richard Milhous Nixon probably did as much as any single figure to ingrain that notion into the national consciousness. May I remind you that he was the only president in history to resign his office as a result of criminal wrongdoing: The Watergate scandal. "I am not a crook," he declared. Yeah, right. And denial is a river in Egypt. Did I mention that he was a Republican?

Ah, but these times in which we live are far from ordinary! Our government, supposedly "of the people, by the people and for the people" has been summarily hijacked by wild-eyed reactionary Republican howler monkeys who've polluted the discourse with their incessant harping on puritanical moralism and sexual fascism. It is they who have coarsened the culture and not the other way around as they continually proclaim. Pick out ANY spot on the AM radio dial and listen for about ten minutes. if you can. These are not objective observers, ladies and gentlemen, they's the latter day scolds who have carved multi-million dollar careers out of hate speech and extremism, targeting homosexuals because they see them as a group that is safe to persecute, a virtually invisible minority disinclined to defend themselves. And I scarcely need remind you how many of the GOP are gay...

I've been getting a lot of hot gas from the cheap-labor conservative contingent on this board claiming I have engaged in blatant partisan mud-slinging (not in so many words, of course, they're a notoriously inarticulate riffraff) by pointing out their politicians' shortcomings on this thread. My critics need to keep two things firmly in mind: 1) I wasn't the one who made a conscious decision to put sex front and center in the political debate and 2) I did not force these libertines into unspeakable acts of perversion; that was all their own idea! In short, my detractors don't like hearing the truth about their leaders' depraved proclivities so they attack me for exposing them...whaic apparently makes perfect sense if you think George W. Bush is a genius.

Now, there's a splendid working definition of Republican hypocrisy for you...as if you needed one more.

A prime example of this double-standard rightwad idiocy is "Sick" Rick Santorum. This ex-Senator from Pennsylvania was so thoroughly obsessed with sex that what I am about to tell you may sound like satire...but I assure you that it is not. In a piece he wrote for a religious website called Catholic Online, he blamed the city of Boston for the pedophile priest scandal, where it was first reported. He claimed in his book, It Takes a Family, that your right to privacy is not really a right at all. Last, but not least, this loony tune has equated gay rights with "man on dog" sex. Beastiality, Rick? C'mon! This is a family show!

He was center-stage at the Terri Schiavo circus, calling for the scalps of "activist judges" and that poor, blind vegetable's husband. Santorum is a rightwing whackmobile if one ever drew breath. When his wife delivered prematurely and the baby survived only two hours, he took the tiny corpse to the home of his wife's parents where he and his children, ages 6, 4, and 1 1/2, spent hours singing lullabyes, saying mass and taking photographs. I couldn't even make up anything as hideously grotesque as that. To complete his unctuous duplicity, our hero admitted in the New York Times Sunday Magazine dated 5/22/05, "I have never read the Bible cover to cover; maybe I should have."

I would dearly love to be able to end this Santorum de-construction with a newsflash that's he's been recently apprehended in flagrante delicto after-hours in a funeral parlor, performing unnatural acts with cadavers...but alas. However, it's utterly delightful to be able to report that this high-profile mental defective lost his third term bid for re-election, getting beaten soundly by Democrat Bob Casey.

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I am not certain to whom you are referring here. If it is I, then I don't really mind your characterizing me as "notoriously inarticulate" or as "riffraff"; you may think whatever you wish in this regard. But I would object strongly to the modifier "cheap-labor" in front of "conservative." In fact, I have compained several times, in the section entitled "Immigration," of the unholy alliance between the cheap-labor right and the open-borders left, both of which are to blame for the current invasion of the Southwest by hordes of illegals. And I have called for stiff employer sanctions, both of the monetary variety (sufficient even to hurt a very large company) and of the shut-'em-down-permanently variety.

But you are the one who is busily attempting to convey the silly message that all Republican officeholders, from the town sherrif up, are sexual perverts and hypocrites. Admit it.

This is typical of the venom in which you appear to take such pride. One would prefer to have a reasoned (and at least somewhat dispassionate) discussion of the issues with those of different viewpoints. But you appear quite uncertain as to how any such concept might work.

First there is nothing to admit I believe that Angel Of Mercy never made such a claim. Second, even with Craig, the republicans continued to embrace him after he did his toe tapping performance in public toilets.

If your argument is that there are some republicans who aren't hypocrites then let me point out that no one, I repeat, no one is stopping you from presenting them here...

So far the best anyone has done is Ron Paul who is in fact more of a libertarian then a republican. But don't you think that's a pretty weak showing, one example out of the thousands of republicans in office?

It seems that you're determined to "assume" there are a modest amount of republicans who are not hypocrites or corrupt. Assume away, meanwhile I'll take great pleasure in reading the extensive lists of republicans who are both hypocrites and corrupt.

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She made the claim that all are bad(she did not use the word bad but a few select adjectives that can be summed up as bad), including non-office holders.

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into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and
trying to lift himself up by the handle."-Winston Churchill

Here is what she said: "(For every Democrat they try to put up here, trying to prove that both parties are equal, I'll put up TEN Republicans. Just you watch.)"

Since her record is better than 100 to 1, I don't see the problem.

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You're entitled to complain as long and as loudly as you want. It's a free country. (For now.)

Fair enough?

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Thank you for the vote of confidence, Affrayer!

No, I not only never "made the claim that all [Republicans] are bad." In point of fact, I went out of my way to clarify myself at least twice...but Joey seems to have missed that part. Furthermore, he even has to ADMIT that I "did not use the word bad but a few select adjectives that can be summed up as bad..." which is a judgement call and I'd judge that the fellow's skin is a trifle on the thin side; I spoke the truth as I know it. And gave all my sources to PROVE it.

So what's he whining about?

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Liberate the world one mind at a time.

Fry cooks of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your crabby boss!

The fact that he's a rich libertarian is bad enough for me.

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Let me tell you bout a girl I know, she like hip-hop and rock n' roll,
She walk slow down the avenue, I ain't met her but I get her when I do
Let me tell you bout a girl I know, she stay home cause she hate the club
I ain't met her but I get her when I do...

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