Thinking of voting Republican?


Vote Republican, shoot yourself in the foot

The artist shows the voter aiming much lower than the real damage, even to the opposite end of the body.

Tip of the old scrub brush to Jonathan Conrad, on Facebook.

This entry was posted on Saturday, May 14th, 2011 at 12:33 am and is filed under Citizenship, Humor, Republican Party. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

7 Responses to Thinking of voting Republican?

  1. Ruins the Shoes, Too « Obalesque says:
    May 15, 2011 at 10:36 am

    […] It has become increasingly clear to me over the years that even if I wanted to be a Republican, I couldn’t afford it.  The artist makes the same point.  Via. […]

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  2. Jim's avatar Jim says:
    May 14, 2011 at 7:37 pm

    Hi Joe Snow!

    Welcome to the forum and thanks for chiming in.

    I have noticed the same thing. Today’s Democrats may be called liberals, leftists, socialists or progressives. But they are, with a couple of exceptions, anything but. Today’s Democrats are last year’s moderate Republicans. And they are the conservative Republicans of the 1950’s and 60’s.

    The conservative movement is masterful at a number of things when it comes to messaging, not least being the moving of goal posts.

    Some of you may remember when President Eisenhower was billed as a sensible conservative with an occasional centrist streak. He was. But the bankers and the CEO’s and the war machinists and the obscenely wealthy just can’t abide that sort. Time to move the goalposts.

    Kudos to old Tailgunner Joe and his army of mindless drones. Maybe they lost the battle in the short-term, but sufficient seeds were planted to convince the Republican masses that good old Ike might not be quite so “true blue” after all. What’s history if we can’t engage in a little revisionism, after all?

    The next big, politically successful “conservative” on the scene is Nixon. He wins in ’68 and then wins BIG in ’72. Corruption and Cambodia aside, this guy is today considered a flaming leftist. The EPA, the Clean Air Act, The Clean Water Act, OSHA, expansion of Medicaid, lowering the voting age, price controls…

    At the time, Republicans stood by their man more or less. But by the 1980’s, such notions were deemed to have been hatched deep in the heart of the Kremlin.

    And you know the funny thing? The fellow whose name is still whispered with hushed reverence as though he were a god descended to earth will soon come into question on the right. In fact, some of his positions already HAVE BEEN called socialistic. Who knew? Ronald Reagan was a closet commie.

    He supported the EITC, which was one of those dreaded, socialisticky “targeted” tax cuts. He talked to enemies across a conference table — even though he had actual proof (you know — as opposed to the imaginary kind) that those enemies possessed WMDs. (WMDs, by the way, that were aimed at our cities.) Had we been attacked by one of those enemies, even we Democrats can see him, at the very least, invading the right country and not getting sidetracked.

    We’ve now come ’round to where Reagan might not be sufficiently conservative. After all, he got along famously with Tip O’Neill and Teddy Bear. They might’ve slipped some secret pinko potion in his drink.

    No. Today, the sufficiently conservative standard is carried by the likes of Oklahama Senator Tom Coburn…who calls for the execution of those involved in performing an abortion. The torch has passed to Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, who sponsored a bill back in his State Senate days that forbade gay people from holding jobs in schools (presumably because he thinks gay = pedophile but perhaps because he thinks it’s just contagious). The standard is borne now by Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann. You know her. She’s the one who spread the lie that President Obama had plans to round up conservative Christian teenagers and place them in reeducation camps.

    And all that, Phil, to come ’round to your original point. Today’s Democrats are now yesterday’s conservatives. Why? Because Republicans keep moving the goalposts.

    The question I have is — “Why do we let them? And why don’t we move some goal posts of our own?”

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  3. Porlock Junior's avatar Porlock Junior says:
    May 14, 2011 at 6:57 pm

    A comment from England from way back before Tony B took them into the noble Dubya Crusade:

    ‘Please’ they say ‘If you are thinking of jumping off this enormously high bridge, phone us first.’ That plants the idea. As I am looking over the railings at the river, the distant lights of Bristol and the cliff on the other side, it keeps working itself back into my head: ‘I could jump off. It would be easy to jump off. Maybe I’ll jump off.’

    Similarly, last night, two days before the Election, I caught myself thinking ‘I could vote Conservative. It would be easy to vote Conservative. Maybe I will vote Conservative.’

    http://www.rilstone.talktalk.net/bridges.htm

    Speaking of England: I don’t know if this has made it across the Pond yet, but remember that “dossier” from ’02 which proved that Sadam had uber-weapons he could turn loose in 30 minutes and other things that required going to war? And the solemn insistence, then and later in the formal inquiry into charges that it was a phony case for war and now again in the second inquiry, that it was NOT just a put-up job to make a case for going to war?

    Well, they seem to be having a major Dog Bites Man moment just now, with the Major General who was in charge of producing that report saying that by George, it really was all about making any possible case for war, and this was clear from the orders he was getting, and the “can’t you find more?” inquiries, many of them in writing.

    At least the British press doesn’t operate under any rules about pretending to be fair and balanced or needing to produce he-said/she-said treatments.

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  4. Joe Snow's avatar Joe Snow says:
    May 14, 2011 at 10:16 am

    The only thing worse then a Republican right now is a Democrat dressed as one. Republicans have become Fascists, & Democrats (most) have become Republicans.

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  5. Ed Darrell's avatar Ed Darrell says:
    May 14, 2011 at 10:13 am

    P.S. — Could you do us, and yourself, the favor of learning what an “ad hominem argument” really is?

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  6. Ed Darrell's avatar Ed Darrell says:
    May 14, 2011 at 10:11 am

    The Democrat Party is out to destroy the real middle class.

    No, that’s the Republic Party that is out to destroy the middle class.

    Meanwhile, the rest of us are worried about the Democratic Party, which is the party of the President and the Majority in the Senate and the Minority in the House, and the Republican Party, which has been suckered too much by the Republic and Tea Parties to do their bidding, destroying the middle class.

    It’s a poster, Hattip. It’s not an argument. It is to laugh, and perhaps, to get a spark of thought or inspiration, an epiphany. How dull must be that life of yours with only darkness and shadow, and no spark of humor or insight to brighten your way.

    A picture may be worth a thousand words, but you misread it. Not that thousand words, a different thousand.

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  7. hattip's avatar hattip says:
    May 14, 2011 at 4:59 am

    Typical of you to put forward ad hominen propaganda rather than facts or reasoned arguments, and to proffer particularly juvenile propaganda at that. Really now, a picture of someone shooting themselves in the foot? Did I say juvenile? infantile s more like it.

    You put forward not one shred of supporting evidence for your claim. Nothing reasonable at all,

    The Democrat Party is out to destroy the real middle class. They do this because a strong middle class is a major obstacle to their goal of a totalitarian socialist or communist state. Almost all of the actions of the Obama administration and the Democrat caucus in Congress are to one degree or another aimed toward this goal.

    The GOP is the party of the middle class (and no it is not the party of “the rich”, “the rich” overwhelming vote Democrat). The GOP is, at least ostensibly, for prosperity based on free markets and individual initiative, small and accountable government, federalism, low and prudent spending, personal right guaranteed by the Constitution and personal responsibility. These values are cogent with middle class values and are indeed the basis for the creation of the middle class in American history, its evolutions and development, and its continuing successes. How could s possibly be otherwise? How could you be against liberty, freedom and and capitalism and be for the middle class?

    It is perfectly obvious which of the two parties have the interests of the “middle class” to heart. It is truely bizarre to hold otherwise. This is, both famously and objectively, the major political conflict of the last 40 to 50 years. You appear to not understand this at all.

    What a confused and artificial mental world you live inn–one completely divorced from reality. You do not even appear to understand just who constitutes the middle class in the first place Hint: they do not belong to labor unions or work for the government. They are not academics. They are not media personalities. They own their own SME businesses in the main or at least used too, or, to a lesser extent, are in the professions in small or medium sized practices. True, some have been degraded to (mostly middle) management in larger scale enterprises, but this more reflects the ongoing destruction of the middle class these last 50 years, a destruction, BTW, cause by the statist policies of the establishment Left. This last case s merely the execution that proves the rule. That is what middle class means. Typical democrat, you confuse working class with middle class and thus define them right out of you arguments. This is profoundly intellectually dishonest of you.

    The so-called “Middle Class” does not live in such a fake world, they cannot do so and remain middle class. Nor can they remain so by voting Democrat. They well know this? So do you.

    Socialism and communism cannot by their very nature tolerate a middle class. Collectivists have been the sworn enemy of the middle class throughout history, particularly since Marx came on the scene. Ths s the dread “Bourgeoisie”. Whatever to you think Marx was talking about?

    You really need to stop confusing your “enthusiasms” with fact or rational thought. Perhaps you should find some employ that is actually economically productive. You them might understand what the middle class is and what it requires to flourish. You might even join it.

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