On Apr 9, 2010, at 4:40 PM, brad bauerly wrote:
>> Ok, go recruit some Tea Partiers and let us know how it goes.
>
>> Doug
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> Why the fuck would you suggest that I do that?
Aren't you the one who's suggested there are rich pickings there?
> What does that have to
> do with your attempt to personalize the political and talk about how
> stupid some person or another is?
You think that's all I do? Really, where'd you get that idea?
> Or do you agree with shag that
> TPers are all "ratfucker haters" and that it is not a social phenomena
> but individual personalities that is the real issue? That makes it all
> so simple, huh. They are just stupid and we are so smart.
I'm not sure who "we" and "they" are in your world, but yes, Sarah Palin is a fucking idiot. There are a lot of people who support her who think Obama is a socialist. That's fucking insane. That's not the sum total of "our" problems, but those things are a problem. That quote was kinda funny, I thought, if you have a dark sense of humor. But like I just said, the Democratic Party right now is a bigger problem than the GOP, as far as I'm concerned. Like I've said, Palin and the TPers have made it too easy for liberals and Democrats. All they need do is invoke the fascist threat, and the checks come pouring into Morris Dees' PO box. Instead of "holding Obama's feet to the fire" as The Nation etc promised in 2008 - with whose arms?, I always wondered - they've got Melissa Harris-Lacewell practically calling for the prosecution of TPers for sedition. I've said that sort of thing here and elsewhere a bunch of times. Did you go to the Chris Cutrone school of quotation?
> Only
> problem is that they are the ones running everything
They're running Congress and the White House? That's news to me.
> Sometimes I wonder if the whole point of this list isn't to make sure
> that a strong left doesn't emerge.
Do tell how it should emerge.
Doug