Comments on: Michigan Republicans are Morons http://election2008.teambio.org/2008/01/16/michigan-republicans-are-morons/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:10:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Liberal Jarhead http://election2008.teambio.org/2008/01/16/michigan-republicans-are-morons/#comment-1260 Liberal Jarhead Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:41:43 +0000 http://election2008.teambio.org/2008/01/16/michigan-republicans-are-morons/#comment-1260 And now the Nevada Republicans, too. They may not have an auto industry, but they do have a lot to gain from a more realistic policy focused on renewable energy, as part of the Sun Belt where a lot of jobs could end up. And now the Nevada Republicans, too. They may not have an auto industry, but they do have a lot to gain from a more realistic policy focused on renewable energy, as part of the Sun Belt where a lot of jobs could end up.

]]> By: Jersey McJones http://election2008.teambio.org/2008/01/16/michigan-republicans-are-morons/#comment-1252 Jersey McJones Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:35:36 +0000 http://election2008.teambio.org/2008/01/16/michigan-republicans-are-morons/#comment-1252 "Corpistan" "And not that it has anything to do with anything, but am I the only one who thinks Mitt Romney bears a strong resemblance to a slightly thinner John Gotti?" LOL!!! Oh man, that was good! And what really gets me is that Romney is spewing the same old standard GOP rhetoric that has so terribly failed the people of Michigan, and yet these f'n morons bought it! Amazing! JMJ “Corpistan” “And not that it has anything to do with anything, but am I the only one who thinks Mitt Romney bears a strong resemblance to a slightly thinner John Gotti?”

LOL!!! Oh man, that was good!

And what really gets me is that Romney is spewing the same old standard GOP rhetoric that has so terribly failed the people of Michigan, and yet these f’n morons bought it! Amazing!

JMJ

]]> By: Liberal Jarhead http://election2008.teambio.org/2008/01/16/michigan-republicans-are-morons/#comment-1244 Liberal Jarhead Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:28:54 +0000 http://election2008.teambio.org/2008/01/16/michigan-republicans-are-morons/#comment-1244 Reminds me of the old cartoon - I think it was one of Gary Larsen's from The Far Side; one guy is standing in front of a blackboard entirely covered with a complex diagram/equation - some other people are looking at it and one is telling him, "This part needs some work," pointing to a spot in the middle of the board where a bubble is labeled "A miracle takes place here." The main thing Romney is proving with this campaign is that he is willing to say absolutely anything, voice any position no matter how dumb or opposite to what he's said in the past, if he thinks it will get votes. As for the Michigan Republicans buying it, we have to remember that as early as 2002 one of this party's neocons (a Bush aide) said to journalists, “That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to study what we do.” Well, as you noted, we can only stand in humble awe when we look at how well that's been working. I'm not a McCain fan, but what he had to say in the quote you provided made a hell of a lot more sense, both for the specific Michigan blue-collar demographic and for the whole country and world, than anything I've heard from the rest of the Republicans. How many factories could be built in Michigan and elsewhere to make solar and wind power system components? An administration that wanted to help them economically would be more effective by scrapping NAFTA, CAFTA, and all similar agreements and using tax incentives to encourage corporations to build their factories here. But that would hurt the feelings of the multinational corporate power system (we should start calling it a nation in and of itself; Corporatica? Corpistan?) If my mother was stil around, she would be watching Romney and making King Canute jokes right now - she always compared this kind of thinking to the ancient king who supposedly got so entranced with his own power that he decided to go to the beach and command the sea, ordering the tide not to come in. His feet got wet. And not that it has anything to do with anything, but am I the only one who thinks Mitt Romney bears a strong resemblance to a slightly thinner John Gotti? Reminds me of the old cartoon - I think it was one of Gary Larsen’s from The Far Side; one guy is standing in front of a blackboard entirely covered with a complex diagram/equation - some other people are looking at it and one is telling him, “This part needs some work,” pointing to a spot in the middle of the board where a bubble is labeled “A miracle takes place here.”

The main thing Romney is proving with this campaign is that he is willing to say absolutely anything, voice any position no matter how dumb or opposite to what he’s said in the past, if he thinks it will get votes.

As for the Michigan Republicans buying it, we have to remember that as early as 2002 one of this party’s neocons (a Bush aide) said to journalists, “That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to study what we do.” Well, as you noted, we can only stand in humble awe when we look at how well that’s been working.

I’m not a McCain fan, but what he had to say in the quote you provided made a hell of a lot more sense, both for the specific Michigan blue-collar demographic and for the whole country and world, than anything I’ve heard from the rest of the Republicans. How many factories could be built in Michigan and elsewhere to make solar and wind power system components? An administration that wanted to help them economically would be more effective by scrapping NAFTA, CAFTA, and all similar agreements and using tax incentives to encourage corporations to build their factories here. But that would hurt the feelings of the multinational corporate power system (we should start calling it a nation in and of itself; Corporatica? Corpistan?)

If my mother was stil around, she would be watching Romney and making King Canute jokes right now - she always compared this kind of thinking to the ancient king who supposedly got so entranced with his own power that he decided to go to the beach and command the sea, ordering the tide not to come in. His feet got wet.

And not that it has anything to do with anything, but am I the only one who thinks Mitt Romney bears a strong resemblance to a slightly thinner John Gotti?

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