Romney and McCain call each other liberals.
Not too much is being made in the media over the out and out slug-fest between Romney and McCain:
Mitt Romney and John McCain accused each other Monday of being liberals, a charge tantamount to blasphemy in the caustic campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
One day before the crucial Florida primary, Romney lambasted the Arizona senator for a host of "liberal answers" to the country's problems.
He added, "The truth is, Mitt Romney was a liberal governor of Massachusetts who raised taxes, imposed with Ted Kennedy a big government mandate health care plan that is now a quarter of a billion dollars in the red, and managed his state's economy incompetently, leaving Massachusetts with less job growth than 46 other states."
McCain told a Jacksonville audience that Romney has been "entirely consistent," then quipped: "He's consistently taken at least two sides of every issue, sometimes more than two."
I wonder where our media is over their epic and nasty fight to win Florida? I guess they don't feel the need to report all that much on the Republican primary knife fight it would appear.
Not fascist liberals?
All this name calling. Wondering who is more masculine, conservative, black...whatever. None of these people are talking about real issues, only false dichotomies so that we will pick the red or blue team. I'd be very refreshed to hear them speak of current legislation in real terms.
Well, now that we know McCain is a terrorist, he's a Christofascist.
Momma, make it stop...!!
Mitt Romney and John McCain accused each other Monday of being liberals, a charge tantamount to blasphemy in the caustic campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
Too bad for the GOP neither of them are "liberals", then maybe one of them would have a shot in hell of winning in November.
With the massive military build up and multiple wars these two clowns want to carry out they kind of look like Hitler arguing with Mussolini over who is the most Communist while Francisco Franco (Guiliani) looks on.
WHAT AN INSULT TO LIBERALS.
Joe O. @ 6:
UMMM.....FYI......HITLER WASN'T A COMMUNIST...HE WAS A TOTALITARIAN FASCIST.
They cover what they're told to cover. They're told to cover the dems and smear absolutely everything they do. Turn the smallest most pointless comment or action into a terrorist threat to 'merka. They're told to make the reslugs look good and make their obvious lack of mental acuity go away. So while mittens and crazy grampa are tearing at each others throats the media will be remarking on the lovely color of their ties and how 'manly' they smell. If Barak and Hillary look at each other across the room... well ... they're probably working on some secret back room plan to force everyone under the age of 18 to have an abortion.
Tv is for entertainment purposes only.
Oh snap!
Then McCain said, "I know you are, but what am I?"
To which Rommney replied, "Senilesaywhat?"
They are SO gay.
Mitt: "You LIBERAL !"
McCain: " I know you are, but what am I ?"
Mitt: "I'm rubber and you're glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to YOU !"
Joe O. @ 6:
Didn't Jonah Goldberg write a book about that argument? According to most of the right wing, Fascism, Communism, and the Nazis are all the same.
Gods below, but this is so much FUN. ::sets up the air popper, sans squirrel:: As a Pants-Down Republican, I have repeatedly deplored the collection of rejects from the Bum of the Month Club that pass as candidates this time around. Not a good one in the bunch (although I just pulled the lever for McCain at my polling place).
What pleases me the most is the possibility that the feud twixt the Romneybot and The Political Bisexual will split the Party, creating a Romney/Paul splinter group and a mainstream McCain/Whoever ticket that will lose in a massive landslide to Obama come November.
Anyone for popcorn? And mind the blood spatter as these two shank each other....
Hopefully, they'll just knife each other in an alley in Miami and we'll be done with these fools.
the rubber meets the road.
this is going to be highly entertaining.
MargeAggedon @ 7:
What's to report? They are both white men and they are republican.
They better be careful. In the current political climate, accusations of liberalism might be seen as a positive.
The problem on the Republican side has long been.
1) the base is fractured thanks to George W.
2) each of the candidates is fatally flawed
2 is in part due to 1, each candidate is going after different parts of the old coalition
waaaaaaaaaah mommy that man called me a liberal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RayC @ 12:
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
-Adolf Hitler
Like Beavis and Butt-Head calling each other smart!!
Considering that Conservatives are the idiots that after 200 years of marginalizing and ostracizing every biological and subcultural difference they could find, they are up in arms about fighting these Islamic terrorists who are, in reality, another group of violent conservatives that hoard guns like there is no tomorrow, abhor women's rights, and are driven by the tenets of an irrational and invalid monotheistic religion, I would say that being labeled a "liberal" right now would not be the worst of all things.
And yet, American Conservatives apparently want a medal for finding and fighting a distilled version of themselves.
What an insult to the millions and millions of fine Americans who call themselves "liberal".
The healthcare here in MA isn't in the red in the way they say--that's deceptive. Part of it relies on federal reimbursement which lags behind the spending. By the end of the fiscal year it's always in balance.
Jack Lewis @ 20:
Got that right....
It's still up to who is counting the votes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHL_YMBolRs
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Hey, maybe the up side of this tossing back and forth of the word "liberal" is that it's going to catch on with the youth counter culture as a way to distinguish yourself from your "conservative" peers. A good thumb in the eye of the man who wants to hold you down. Maybe kids'll start dressing "liberal" and hanging out at the mall in little groups to scare the older shopper.
This liberal thing, I don't think it means what they think it means.
While the Republican primaries are amusing they are also pointless.
Is America so jaded that we would elect for President anyone who is openly advocating another war? Are we so afraid of the world we need to double the size of Gittmo?
The Republican Party is circling the toilet with Bush's hand on the lever. In the past when the party was disgraced, NIXON, they took the criminal to task. Now they just look the other way. None of them are going to appeal to more then the 31% of the base.
Stick a fork in 'em, their done.
Mike Mid City @ 29:
I thought the same thing in 2004.
"I gotcha liberal hangin' right here."
These guys are so stupid they're both walking insults to stupid people (or Beavis and Butthead for that matter, see #20, above). If you look up the definition for "liberal", not just in a political context, and think of how we use other forms of the word, it's a good thing.
What these people really are doing is accusing each other for being good people. Not that they are, because they have it all backwards, but essentially that is what they're doing, both of 'em (or rather all of 'em repubs) really being mean-spirited, non-thinking, selfish assholes. That is why only other (their likely voters) mean-spirited, non-thinking, selfish assholes would think being "liberal" is something bad...
If they called each other worthless lying assholes I'd agree with both of them.
Ron @ 25:
This is outrageous! And should be required viewing for all Americans. Why is this not in the national media!?
Dave asks: "Who is Mitt Romney?" http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2008/01/mitt_1.html
ACTUALLY BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD IS WHAT WE SHOULD START CALLING THEM FROM NOW ON!!!
WOULDN'T THAT BE FUN!?
LET'S DECIDE MCCAIN IS BEAVIS AND ROMNEY IS BUTTHEAD AND JUST GO WITH IT, REALLY CEMENT IT IN PEOPLE'S MINDS!!!
MAKE IT TAKE OFF AND BECOME ACCEPTED...
LET THE JOKE BE ON THEM, AND LET THE REST OF THE WORLD UNDERSTAND WHAT THE TRUE AMERICAN LIBERALS THINK OF THE REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT AND THEIR LEADERS.
No, you misunderstand. The republican primary isn't caustic. You see, both of the candidates are gentlemen. They are, by definition, genteel. Its not like one of them is black or a woman...
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John McCain = 1 Shmuck
Mitt Romney = 1 Putz
1 Shmuck + 1 Putz = 2 Assholes.
Republican math made simple.
Since when do "liberals" advocate torture , mindless/senseless/endless wars , and kiss Chimpy's stupid stinky ass ?
Mike Donnelly @ 18:
Exactly right.
The base is fractured because it was inevitable. When the core of your governing policies is based on sheer and blatant hypocrisy, support will eventually tumble like a house of cards, because even the blind will figure it out sooner or later.
True Republicans are the real victims in all this. Their party was hijacked and shattered by NEO-conservatives and it will be decades before they can piece it all back together again.
The stupid canard "Liberal" as a curse word for commie or worse ONLY WORKS because the cowardly Dems have run from the word for the last 30 years.
Liberals have brought the US middle-class the only real benefits since FDR to the present, while the Conservatives have served only their Corporate Masters...
When are the F**KING DEMS going to wise up and stop running from the Liberal label and proudly embrace it?
Probably never.......SIGH!!!!
Mike Mid City @ 29:
Sadly, yes. Granted, we all know how accurate polls are, but the ones so far show McCain with a halfway-decent chance against either Clinton or Obama.
Speaking of which, considering how many people here have been calling Clinton and Obama "conservative", I think there's hardly room for self-righteousness. Also, it's even more amusing when Huckabee gets called "liberal".
The republicans campaigning in Florida should be called "Return to Bay of Pigs".
Enjoying your cuban bunghole and coffee? Here's a napkin.
Accusing someone of being a leebrul is soooo 1980's. The Republicans dinosaurs really are relics of the past aren't they?
Conservatism stands for lies, wars, record deficits, alienated allies, shredded constitution, recession, a polluted planet, global warming and threatened civil liberties.
I think I'll take my chances with leebrulism.
Actually, I'd have to disagree that there's little being heard in the media about the slugfest between these two. CNN mentions it all the time, but their commentary on the substance of their charges and counter-charges is trivial at best. For example, whether "Oven Mitt" is a "flip-flopper" who once suggested withdrawal from Iraq because he mentioned "timetables" in an interview or whether St. McCain is "a liar" who knows squat about the economy and is too much of a Washington insider. Granted, it's a giant snooze one way or other which clueless chucklehead said what about the other, but "the media" does mention there's some kind of a bitter fracas going on.
Be honest now- Both these characters are liberal.
But, they're definately not socialist which is what every Democrat is today.
True, forty years ago they would both be Democrats, but in this day and age, regretably,
we're stuck with either liberals calling themselves Republican or socialists calling themselves Democrat.
Those are your choices. Now that I've made you happy just go, go, go Ron Paul.
I think he's America's last hope.
Anyone one disagree, thought not.
Barbara
The Republican party is far more socialist than the Democrats, look at the debt they've left us.
They've socialized all the costs and risks of their war business, and none of the profits.
Even the biggest estimated national health care plans would be a drop in the bucket of socialist pork debt that Republicans have created.
No conservative who actually knows what the word means could possibly vote for any Republican other than possibly Paul.
The Democrats are objectively more conservative than the Republicans, by any measure you like, other than abortion.
Barbara @ #45:
Don't use words and terms you have no idea what they mean. I have lived in both America and a few European countries, and currently reside in Sweden.
Would you say Germany, or Great Britain, or most developed European countries are socialist countries? And if so in what way are they not functioning better that America today, giving their citizens a higher standard of living (not just wider roads, taller buildings, bigger cars, but longer and healthier life, less crime, those kind of things)?
They are not socialist countries, yet they do, in most cases, have rather large socialist parties, most of which are way way left of the American democrats. The truth is that by European standards even the American democrats are very right wing.
Yet, these European countries are by and large not socialist countries, but free economies in much better economic health than the US.
The reason for why you and your fellow repub Americans don't understand this is because you have not been around in the world, and have let your leaders fill you with right-wing propaganda, bordering on communist tactics.
So go figure, you little right-wing commie you...
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