It's hilarious how just a few short years ago "conservatives" were falling all over each other to see who could be the most over-the-top and unconditionally supportive of the TSA's bizarre (and completely ineffective, from a security standpoint) gestapo tactics
All it took was getting a black dude in the whitehouse, and all of a sudden, they're pulling their hair out shrieking about invasions of privacy and government tyranny
Just you wait. 2 years from now, some old white GOP lobbyist will get elected Pres, and all of a sudden the TSA will be heroes again and "conservatives" will be writing columns about how the government needs to stop worrying themsleves over imaginary issues like privacy and liberty and "crack down" until the public screams for mercy instead
You can bet your bottom dollar on it. Your average American has the attention spans of a goldfish with advanced Alzheimer's disease.
Nothing to do with race, or with the issues of national security, privacy or liberty, which are the other red herring here.
Remember how conservatives were up in arms after Clinton want after Al Queda in that bombing?
Nothing to do with race on the one hand of love of country on the other - they wanted to cripple Clinton because he was a Dem, national security be damned.
Libs don't get just how primal this partisanship is for the GOP, they innocently assume Republicans political operatives really are going to be thinking of country first, party second.
But that's not how folks on the right think, for them the flag is more of a prop than anything else and because of this well meaning Dems get caught flat footed and are blinded everytime.
Here's another example, repubs block renewal of the SMART treaty in the Senate
On the con side, now we run the risk of permanently killing somethng vital to Nat security that cuts down on the odds of loose nukes rolling around in the Ukraine to be picked up and resold to the highest bidder by the Russian mafia
But on the plus side, they were able to deny Obama a win - go team!!!
And I'm now to accept your version of "the long term interests of the country" like you expected me to accept your cynical, inhuman view of how "folks on the right think"?
I already know that you dont likely agree on what the long term interests of the country would be. It doesn't mean you don't prioritize them, it just means that you have a different conception, ie, politically wounding the commander in chief is more important to you (because he is a Dem) than helping protect your fellow Americans from terrorism.
I don't think this is cynical at all, you probably do genuinely believe what you say and think this is an acceptable trade-off.
It's hilarious how just a few short years ago "conservatives" were falling all over each other to see who could be the most over-the-top and unconditionally supportive of the TSA's bizarre (and completely ineffective, from a security standpoint) gestapo tactics
ReplyDeleteAll it took was getting a black dude in the whitehouse, and all of a sudden, they're pulling their hair out shrieking about invasions of privacy and government tyranny
Just you wait. 2 years from now, some old white GOP lobbyist will get elected Pres, and all of a sudden the TSA will be heroes again and "conservatives" will be writing columns about how the government needs to stop worrying themsleves over imaginary issues like privacy and liberty and "crack down" until the public screams for mercy instead
You can bet your bottom dollar on it. Your average American has the attention spans of a goldfish with advanced Alzheimer's disease.
Nothing to do with race, or with the issues of national security, privacy or liberty, which are the other red herring here.
ReplyDeleteRemember how conservatives were up in arms after Clinton want after Al Queda in that bombing?
Nothing to do with race on the one hand of love of country on the other - they wanted to cripple Clinton because he was a Dem, national security be damned.
Libs don't get just how primal this partisanship is for the GOP, they innocently assume Republicans political operatives really are going to be thinking of country first, party second.
But that's not how folks on the right think, for them the flag is more of a prop than anything else and because of this well meaning Dems get caught flat footed and are blinded everytime.
Yea, I can already tell that YOU understand how "folks on the right think".
ReplyDeleteAnd what did you expect conservatives to want to do to Clinton? What do you think Democrats have shown they'd do to conservatives? ("We won"?)
You're just upset because we're going to finish the job this time.
Here's another example, repubs block renewal of the SMART treaty in the Senate
ReplyDeleteOn the con side, now we run the risk of permanently killing somethng vital to Nat security that cuts down on the odds of loose nukes rolling around in the Ukraine to be picked up and resold to the highest bidder by the Russian mafia
But on the plus side, they were able to deny Obama a win - go team!!!
"And what did you expect conservatives to want to do to Clinton?"
ReplyDeleteI would expect them to act Like adults and put the long term interests of the country ahead of petty personal grudges
And I'm now to accept your version of "the long term interests of the country" like you expected me to accept your cynical, inhuman view of how "folks on the right think"?
ReplyDeleteDude, you sunk your battleship.
I already know that you dont likely agree on what the long term interests of the country would be. It doesn't mean you don't prioritize them, it just means that you have a different conception, ie, politically wounding the commander in chief is more important to you (because he is a Dem) than helping protect your fellow Americans from terrorism.
ReplyDeleteI don't think this is cynical at all, you probably do genuinely believe what you say and think this is an acceptable trade-off.