How come there’s no articles on the Dumbocrat debate in Spanish? Doesn’t Truthdig want it’s loyal readers to know about Kucinich’s plan to make Spanish a “second national language”? Or how the rest of this crowd feels about things like the 1st Amendment or the Constitution in general? Elections? Plebiscites? What the hell are they? I can see that my presidential vote in 2008 will be a write in for Moe the Bartender.

Compare the ideology of this bunch of republicans with that of the Nazi ideology and you get new-nazis.
They want full powers over the globe.
They intend to get it at any price.
What this bunch have in mind makes the Holocaust seem less relevant.
Their own holocaust is taking place in New Orleans, Sudan and Darfur, Iraq and Lebanon and they have visions of Syria and Iran being the next victims of our almighty power. Sanctioned by the Corporations of the world.

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The Republican mantra around lowering taxes is in direct opposition to their mantra as the party ‘good’ at war and willing to wage one, at the drop of a hat, to protect us. Income taxes, in fact most taxes throughout history have been imposed on a populace to pay for wars.

Hopefully, Republicans will get back to what seems to resonate positively with their followers, lowering taxes, and Democrats, hopefully, will challenge them on how they intend to fund the wars which they’re so ‘good’ at, and so willing to wage in the name of protecting us.  The money’s got to come from somewhere, and the American people deserve to know from where if not from taxes.

To be a republican in this proto-fasc..er, proto-authortarian (I dare not say the ‘F’ word) state means that one supports or rationalizes evil:

Secret Detentions
Torture
Extrodinary Rendition
Dissent equals Treason
Unitary Executive
Curtailment of haebeus-corpus
Illegal war
Domestic spying
Media control

It’s amazing that these people can get a good nights sleep… When politics crosses into acts of immorality a duty is imposed on each citizen to make the correct moral choice.
Much like those after the liberation of Paris who had collaborated with the Vichy regime.
Thus EJ Dionne has got it wrong: Republicans need not argue what conservatism is, they need to confront that evil which they continue to support.

I noticed the article failed to mention Ron Paul, who by Fox’s own polls won the debate.

Dr. Paul is likely the only Republican candidate whom the mainstream democrats and independents will vote for, if he wins the Republican nomination and Kucinich does not win the Democratic nomination.

I guess the RNC knows this so they enlisted a familiar face, the lazy old senator from Tennessee in an attempt to get those armchair republican voters who believe that everything they see on TV is true.

More than ever before Republican has come to characterize all of the negatives of the Bush administration and the neo-conservatives. Rightly or wrongly, it has the connotation of mean-spiritedness, owned by big business, spokesman for the military-industrial complex, chicken-hawks, big military spenders, burden on our children, tax cuts for the rich, total lack of empathy for the people.

To me Fred represents all these features and then some.

To the ordinary republican, conservatism is, “how can we plunder the treasury and make the working poor think they’re getting a good deal?”

So there was big bear Thompson on FauxNews last night saying absolutely nothing to an adoring Sean Hannity.

Hannity:  What are your issues, Mr. Thompson.

Thompson:  Well, this country better wake up and realize that there are people in this country right now who want to hurt us and we have to fight back.  We have to get control of this situation.  We have to be strong and not speak with a divided voice.  They are here right now, planning to take all of us out.  The Democrats are taking us the wrong way. They want to put health care in the hands of the government and raise taxes and leave Iraq, which means, you know, that Iran will blow us up when it develops is bomb, which is imminent.  We can’t abide that, this is serious. 

Hannity:  Thank you, Mr Thompson.  It is so refreshing to hear someone defend the U.S. these days instead of tearing it and our soldiers apart.

Thompson:  Well, thank you, son.  We just got to get back to a TRUE AMERICA, and that’s what I intend to do.

I find it odd that all Republican’s want less taxes, yet none have a word to say about the fraud and waste that permeates Washington.
How any politician, in the face of constantly rising prices of everything can demand that Government be able to get by on less money is unreal.
Yet many ‘conservatives’ seem to think that is possible, while expecting to be paid more each year.
The call for a flat tax rate or a National Sales Tax fall on deaf ears.
The current Tax Code is so full of loopholes and special exemptions placed there by special interest groups that it all but defies understanding.

No longer do I look on in disbelief and amazement when Republicans select some monstrocity so clearly out of touch with reality, whose clear vision of moral values dates from the 19th century.

Because this seems to be exactly what the right in this country wants as leadership.

Thompson is a dinosaur and has no grasp of the economic malaise the country is in. He is harping the line of the Texas Turd No taxes and we can still pay the bills, little government, with an infrastructure disintegrating, and nothing about Medicare or social security. Big Fred is a big bag of wind. In a slug fest this guy is a cream pie. Never let bluster overshadow complete ignorance.

The Fact that Thompson ranks 2 or 3rd depending on the polls before he entered the race refuted much of what the author has to say. Republicans what to return to policies proclaimed in the 1994 campaign.
If given a choice of a candidate who is conservative in economic matters and one who is conservative in both economic policy and social issues , republicans will choose the latter.
Also some if not most of Rudy supporters , support him because they feel he has the best chance of defeating Hillery Clinton , more than they support his positions.