Well, we knew the National Tea Party Convention this week was going to be a real festival of outrageous wingnuttery, but Tom Tancredo's speech to kick things off will already be hard to top:
Tancredo: Every year, the liberal Dems and the RINO Republicans turned up the temperature ever so slightly. It seemed after awhile that we'd all be boiled to death in a cauldron of the nanny state.
And then something really odd happened -- mostly because we do not have a civics literacy test before people can vote in this country.
[Applause]
People who cannot even spell the word "vote," or say it in English -- [applause] -- put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. Name is Barack Hussein Obama.
It's hard to say which was more disturbing: Tancredo's apparent call for reinstituting laws that, as John Byrne at Raw Story points out, were a fundamental component of Jim Crow in the post-Reconstruction South, or the massive round of applause he received for saying it. (The New York Daily News has more on the literacy tests.)
Yes, these people really are nuts. Witness, for instance, the applause Tancredo got for saying he was glad McCain lost -- because, after all, McCain was for "amnesty" too:
If McCain had been elected, the neocons would be writing flattering editorials in the Weekly Standard and the Wall Street Journal. Congressman Gutierrez and President McCain would have been posing in the Rose Garden with big smiles as they received accolades from La Raza for having finally passed an amnesty.
Of course, most of the speech was just Tancredo channeling Glenn Beck. (The boiled frog metaphor was the giveaway, along with the "committed socialist ideologue" bit. As well as lines like this:
So the race for America is on, right now. The President and his left-wing allies in Congress are going to look at every opportunity to destroy the Constitution before we have a chance to save it.
But as always with Tancredo -- as with his audience -- the real motivation comes down to defending white culture:
Some things we can deal with in just a political way -- which is, you know, by the votes we cast. Other things will require a commitment to passing on our culture -- and we really do have one, you know, it is based on Judeo-Christian principles whether people like it or they don't!
[Applause]
That's who we are! That is who we are! And if you don't like it, don't come here! And if you're here and you don't like it, go home! Go someplace else!
As the editors at Imagine 2050 observed:
It is obvious that Beck and Tancredo are trying to push the issue of immigration to the forefront of the tea party movement, something that was explicitly clear during Tancredo’s speech. The acts that followed paled in comparison to Tancredo, who definitely stole the first night spotlight of the three day event.
Indeed. If you thought the Tea Partiers went nuts at those town-hall forums on health care, wait till immigration reform is the issue. It's going to be very ugly.
Tom Tancredo, of course, will be leading the way, pitchfork in hand.
Didn't know there was going to be a quiz, did you?
"Trust no one, Mr. Mulder." - Well-Manicured Man
A socialist is a word that scares crazy people even though they haven't a clue what it means. Beck said it was bad so they just run with it from there. Tom's a little behind though, the new scary word is "progressive". I mean there is a big bad progressive hiding behind every tree, or so Glenda Beck says.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
"Socialist" is the new "liberal"?
"Trust no one, Mr. Mulder." - Well-Manicured Man
I think socialist was the new liberal in the fall and winter collection. Now as spring and summer approach I believe they have made progressive the new socialist which would make it the old liberal.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
It used to be fashinoable to attack "Li-burr-uhls" because many felt a sense of retraint and decency about suggesting their fellow Americans were afflicted with diseased ideology chocked filled with "Ists." But with all this pig flu running around, you gotta wash your hands and not worry about watching your tongue.
It is either that or they worry about using the "n" word in public.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Does that mean I can be a liberal again? I really like it better than progressive.
It probably means you were never going to be counted as a REAL progressive anyway.
Just don't go wearing your Alan Colmes T-shirt around in public.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Far Left Wing Secular Progressive Nazi Liberal Socialist Radical Agitators working in cahoots with Islamo Fascist America Hating Radical Terrorist Anti Israeli Carpet Bombers.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
for those of you what failed yer civics literacy test is
"in cahoots with." People who engage in bee hivers which require cahoots wants to take your guns.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
have no clue what socialism actually is, but whatever they think it is, they're terrified of it! *sigh*
I've never seen change without a fire
I'm a socialist.
I want common ownership of the means of production. essentially ownership of factories realigned along the lines of mondragon or zanon.
I want a state run public health insurance system. Guaranteed housing and income programs. How does this describe Obama
.....no, correction, how does this describe ANY elected democrat.
I live in the 6th Colorado District and his replacement (Rep. Mike Coffman) isn't much better. He's new so he hasn't gone off the deep-end just yet. Pretty much content to mouth his master’s playbook. I sent him an e-mail asking where he stood on the Republican plan to balance the budget by 2050. So far no response on cutting Social Security, turning it over to Wall Street and privatizing Medicare.
Bigot red meat for bigoted bottom feeders. Nothing to see here. Hotels are allowed to make money and they can book whoever they want.
I hope the local arena and restaurants applied good business synergies by booking a tractor pull and having all you can eat barbecue buffets during the convention dates. Perhaps the local retailers decided to run a "white sale" that week".
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
"Bigot red meat for bigoted bottom feeders. Nothing to see here."
Not in the least! That's why I just can't figure out what this wad of wingnut crap is doing on the front page of a so-called "liberal" site.
... for the first time when they're burning a cross on your front lawn? Or doing a little round of 'scare the immigrant' by way of home invasion?
if you pronounce nuclear as "nucular" your vote doesn't count either.
you be allowed to be president.
that Jimmy Carter mispronounced it, too. And HE was even educated! (Whether he should have been allowed to be President is debatable. I always considered him to be the right man for the wrong job. A good man, Jimmy Carter.)
"Trust no one, Mr. Mulder." - Well-Manicured Man
New-cue-lar summarines, too.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
my brother pronounced it nukuler and when I asked why the switch, he proudly said it was the proper pronunciation, because the brush clearing chimp said it that way and he was president.
If he been 8, it would have been kinda cute. but he was in his 50s...
:(
me-oww!
I took a civics class in school and I can spell "vote", so Tom is lying. Next?
Seriously, these people frighten me. There's so many of them, they are so crazy, and they get way too much air time on teevee. I think CNN is giving it more attention that fox is, at least as of now.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I couldn't agree more. CNN is giving the tour dates of these clowns like MTV does for the latest concert phenom.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
I remember when mtv started years ago. A friend's young daughter called MTV 'MINDLESS TELEVISION'. How right she was. I never have watched it and don't miss it.
It's quite frightening to me too patricia. The panic level is always at 11 for them, no matter what the issue. It's perpetual doom unless we let the self righteous zealots save us.
I'm convinced the vast majority of these people don't even realize the purpose of the discussion is to solve problems in a way that is inclusive. They have no thought of solving the problem. They think they are suppose to "win", like it is some kind of sport. Truly frightening.
there was a time when i supported parts of what tancredo stood for, as his argument against illegals was about attacking corporatist power
but i guess that was all a cover for his racist leanings
btw...why are these people applauding brown?
he is everything they hate
a fiscal conservative....but a cultural lib....the guy supports abortion rights and gay marriage
um, he's not a fiscal conservative.
he's deep in the pockets of wall street and the banks.
there is actually no such thing as a fiscal conservative, it's a myth perpetrated by the GOPers and eaten whole by an apathetic public who can't be bothered to actually check voting records.
he still isnt a "pure" wingnut
therefore, he would not be accepted by this crowd
um... one other thing... where did you come up with this strange idea that he supports gay marriage?
1. He is against gay marriage.
2. He is also against a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.
3. However, please see point #1.
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=32084
and his pro-choice views are rather mushy at best.
ok...so he confuses the shit out of me
the definition of 'fiscal conservative' is one who does wall st's bidding, and one who destroys economies and budgets in the process.
i think it is high time that the term 'fiscal conservative' was called out for its corporatist leanings and its failure to produce a healthy economy.
the rise of the 'fiscal conservatives' was about the same time (80s) that the american economy began to turn for the worse (rich people not included)
Brown may have been a fiscal conservative and a cultural lib when he was running in Mass, but now that he's in Washington, I'd bet dollars to donuts that he is no longer a lib of any kind.
and on tape as saying that abortion should be between a woman and her doctor
That means nothing in an environment where rethugs oppose the same bills they co-wrote because the President recommended them.
That would be .....Scott Brown USED to support such things,like right to choose and gay marrige
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
Good grief. The only thing lacking is this insane Christian rightard goose-stepping back and forth. What a frothing loon.
This whole convention is going to be a bunch of screwed up people doing a clumsy circle jerk. They will cheer on each others hate and get all fired up to do something. Then they'll run in every direction screaming and ranting until hopefully they fall down in excitement.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
The problem is...they'll come out of that hall frothing at the mouth and some innocent kid will be walking down the street and wind up in the hospital.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
I'm hoping in their frenzy they'll run into one another and knock each other out. Maybe while they're out, they'll come to their senses. It would be kinda cool if they each knocked some sense into one another. Group therapy!
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
"That's who we are! That is who we are! And if you don't like it, don't come here! And if you're here and you don't like it, go home! Go someplace else!"
"If McCain had been elected, the neocons would be writing flattering editorials in the Weekly Standard and the Wall Street Journal. Congressman Gutierrez and President McCain would have been posing in the Rose Garden with big smiles as they received accolades from La Raza for having finally passed an amnesty.
Right. So, no Obama for president. No McCain for president. Um, I believe the president doesn't get a lifetime free pass just because he's the guy you supported (something Tancredo obviously doesn't believe since he was in Congrses when Bush was in the White House and never uttered a peep), but doesn't SOMEONE have to be elected president? Or is Tancredo suggesting that people should've just pouted?
Oh, right. They should have written in Tom Tancredo.
So I guess you think America is a two-party dictatorship? There's nothing else worthy of your support?
... that Wanton Boy Bush and Caribou Barbie Palin ARE literate.
Have I mentioned today how much I despise these people?
BID
So, is Trazedonecredo now pushing for civics classes, which his party did their best to do away with?
Nope, he's just being racist, in that monotone way of his.
Tancredo should stop pontificating on subjects he knows nothing about and start pontificating on things he does know...like dodging the draft.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
hahahahah
caused Tom Tancredo to get a zero on that state's Presidential primary test.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
I thought the country's main concern was jobs (to the third power) but I guess these folks are all employed so all they have to be concerned about are socialist, people who are of another skin color than their own and that fella in the white house.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
When Tommy the Patriot got his draft notice back in the 60's he got out of military service by being declared mentally unsound. He was classified "1Y" because of depression. And this crazy fucker wanted to be president and have his loony finger on "The Button." Some things never change. He's still mentally unsound.
caused Tommy Tancredo to score a "5" on that state's 2008 Presidential primary test. That is 5 votes, not percent.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
5 votes?
That's absurd.You could formally announce you are NOT running and win more votes than that.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
You won the Civics Literacy Prize. He actually got more votes than that in a couple of primaries where his named remained on the ballot after he announced his withdrawal.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
make no mistake it is the capitalists that these very wing nuts worship at the altar of capitalism than has allowed open borders for decades for cheap labor to enhance profits.
bet most of these religious folks dont have a clue they fail to understand we are all souls on a journey.
their savior knew no boundries when it came to helping the poor and needy.
there is religion and there is compassion and the two dont apppear to mix in america.
look close at their agenda and you will find one word that pops out selfisheness over and over and over.
they are for lack of a better word bottom feeders.
they will have a bake sale and raise 400 hundred dollars for person losing their home over medical costs and then vote against a universal health care system. then pride themselves for months and think of themselves as good christians for raising that 400 dollars.
selfishness to the core as most religious are.
the capitalists are smart very smart to keep these wing nuts in fear of socialism. it used to be communism. fear works on these folks just as selfishness works.
and it is my generation that is the worst. most old folks are racists and selfish. we are a sorry lot in our old age.
capitalism, with oversight is a fine system
it is the corporatists that want unbridled captialism
"the capitalists are smart very smart to keep these wing nuts in fear of socialism. it used to be communism. fear works on these folks just as selfishness works."
I've got a kind of morbid appreciation for their guile. They appeal to selfishness to get their minions, the teabeggers, do do their bidding. And the poor dittohead, tea-partying slobs never realize -- until it's too late, if ever -- that they hurt themselves for the benefit of the rich and powerful.
Remember "The Usual Suspects"? The gang of crooks recruited to win a share of a huge heist, only to go willingly to their own doom. Believing to the end that a great fortune awaited.
So I guess no one should stand up to Wall St and corporate dictatorship huh?
Were you intending to respond to a different comment?
Oddly enough, Tom Tancredo, illiterate people are still capable of reason and thought, and despite their compromised reading/writing skills, are still able to talk, listen, and convey ideas. And of course are thankfully able to not vote for corrupted little bottom-feeding shitbags who say stupid things like “we should have literacy tests before people are allowed to vote”.
A 'civics literacy test' ... which people like Palin and even Tancredo himself would FLUNK. (Remember, he tried to raise a stink about Rep. Keith Ellison being sworn in using the Koran, when NO HOLY TEXT IS USED AT ALL ... only in photo ops after the fact.)
Is he glad Palin lost, too, then? What a dumb bitch, just like Palin.
Who exactly was supposed to have won the presidency then? DUH! Rebate.
Ra Ra Ra were Americans. Amazing that people still soak that shit up with a sponge. Stupid sheeple.
That is how many voted for Tom Tancredo in that state's Republican Presidential primary.
I bet there are more illegal aliens changing bed linens at the Gaylord Opryland than Tom Tancredo got votes in Tennessee.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Tancredo and almost all of the people listening to him would fail such a civics test.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
this more than likely true. It makes me nuts.
running for office. Then we wouldn't have people as stupid a tancredo fucking up everything they come into contact with! But better maybe we should scvreen them for signs of mental illness before we let them run for office!
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!
The racist bastard hates his own mother.
we know she did not vote for him for President. Nobody did.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
how are ya, Tancredo? Might want to brush up on your political typing definitions while you're at it, moron.
Jesus. These people never cease to amaze me. Stupidity and ignorance pimps. If they were normal, they'd be ashamed.
me-oww!
Is he pushing for literacy tests to vote? Cuz I don't think a lot of the tea-partyiers would be able to pass. Have you seen their signs and heard their arguments?
contains so many levels of stupid, it's hard to know where to start.
Does his podium say "Gaylord Opryland"?
more illegal aliens than Tom Tancredo won as delegates to the Republican convention when he ran for President.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
IMO, Tom Tancredo doesn't have a leg to stand on regarding immigration because both sets of his grandparents were born in Italy. Typical RW bullshit, I got mine!
According to the 1920 census, there was only one Tancredo family living in the US. Tom's dad, Gerald, is not listed as a member of that family, and they were in Kings County, NY.
If you truly wanted to be honest about it, all American are mutts.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
Tommy wants to bring back the good old days when American politics, culture, etc. were solidly controlled by WASPs. People knew their place and didn't upset the white, Judeo-Christian culture that prevailed. He longs to keep out and send away those who would dilute our white culture with their funny names.
One may wonder if those "good old days" ever really existed except in the childhood memories of Tancredo and his friends Beck, Hannity and O'Reilly. But what is true, is at least three of those four guys wouldn't have been allowed to buy a house in my parents' neighborhood. And we're just talking 40 years ago. It was quite an event when the first family with a name ending in a vowel moved in, not to mention the first Irish.
But they've got theirs now. No need to dwell on the past. Time to "conserve" their own and make sure no one else gets a piece of the pie.
And hey, while we're at it, let's convince a bunch of undereducated and under-insured folks that the what they really need is a civic literacy test in order to vote and that decent affordable health care will be their ruination. The cognitive dissonance, it hurts so bad. Ignorance is strength!
my g-g-g. grandfather Lorenzo Trevino was born in the San Antonio area about 1827. My absolute latest ancestor to come from Mexico was my abuelito's father who came before WWI (I know because I found his draft card, evidently he was drafted). In general my Mexican ancestors are tracable to what's now the US/Mex border back to the 1520's. My British Isles ancestors were all here by 1750, and of course, my Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Apache ancestors were here for thousands of years.
When Tanestupido opens his mouth about immigrants all I can do is wonder when he will shut his newbie mouth.
I've never seen change without a fire
Your projection is showing, really in a crowd of teabaggers how can anyone accuse others of not being able to spell.
I agree,these fools are trying to make the word 'progressive' as villified as they made the word liberal, just what do these dittiots hope to really acomplish? They want to save the Constitution.....so that Dick Cheney can finish shreading it himself, they have a whole "destroy the village to save it" thing going on and they're to stupid to realize it.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
... tearing up the Constitution sure makes it easier to pass a damn civics literacy test.
It's probably the only way these fools could win on their own merits.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
Klancredo is okay-Wolf Blitzer has him on all the time.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
So does Tweety.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
tickets to be holding up signs saying "I need a miracle". Jerry Garcia must be turning in his grave...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
"I nede a miracul"
me-oww!
Ha! oh that's good.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
LOL...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
JERRY!
Hey tancredo...."Ain't no time to hate, barely time to wait!"
Cue the Kabuki....
Here's the kicker. Tourettes Tancredo is only the warm up act.
Let the lunacy begin!
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Funny. I loged in , saw this story, read it, and came here to post and was and still am going to say...
We think alike.
Who's the keynote? John Wilkes Booth?
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
If you signed up early to attend the event you received free...a sterling silver replica of a slave chain.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
and break a leg.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
They better be careful what they wish for. Most wingnuts I have met don't know their ass from a hole in the ground!
They are so misinformed and ignorant - actually down-right stupid most of them, that I am amazed they can walk upright.
All the republican criminal fascist psycho's have to do is trot out the old shiny object that is racism; and these stupid, fat assed, doughy pant-load boomers run to take their place in the circular firing squad, that is republican economics for the 95% of us on the bottom!
Isn't it astonishing that just a few short years ago, every branch of our governmet was run and operated by nutbags like Tancredo? No mystery to me why things are so f**ked up!
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
I don't need to add a thing , you said it all for me .
Just some insight and a suggestion. Most of the serving and kitchen staff at these venues are minorities. I think it best if these folks eat a hearty breakfast before attending the luncheon.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
to the one port-a-potty set-up for the serving staff...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
in a room full of these guys: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/area_man...
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Reading is not fundamentalist.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
Then you at least have to be able to read the X your customer puts on the order form.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
I think they were writing about my brother, they just used an alias.
Condolences accepted.
me-oww!
is fabulous.It's like The daily Show-one of the few places you can find the unfiltered,albeit hilarious truth.
"The Constitution...the best framework for governance "since the Ten Commandments."
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
With this kind of crazy these guys are going to remain the 20%ers....
.
.
.Hopefully.
In fact it was never in the "point twenties." His high was in California at 0.13%
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
While we are testing people let's give the tea baggers a spelling test and ask them to spell "moron". The seem to have a problem spelling that word.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
I had the American "civics" course in public high school in 1968. It was required to graduate. I understand conservatives removed "civics" and "physical education" from public high school, sometime in the late 1980's. I can't find the actual information, but Tancredo is part of the generation who would allow removal from public education. Now he complains?
Conservatives, today, want to rewrite the Bible also...it's too liberal. Who is letting these people do this?
community college a few years later.
I've never seen change without a fire
ran for President? The lead off speaker?
On every ballot in 2008 where they appear together, Tom Tancredo got beat by Alan Keyes by margins ranging from 3 to 400 to 1.
Tom Tancredo's highest vote total was one tenth of one percent.
You can't even call him the Dennis Kucinich of Republicans.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
So he was one of, if not the least, favorite of the republican candidates and the baggers invited him to speak at their party? Damn, those people are tricky. You never know what they'll do next but you can bet they will fu*k it up.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
The least. Numero Uno. Had the old cellar spot locked up.
Woulda got the first draft pick if he hadn't dodged it. The pits.
Have I made myself clear?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
So not many people liked him? That'll happen when a candidate proves daily that he is bat shit crazy.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
showing him throwing a rock in a pond. Wait, someone already did that one.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Yeah that ad had "winner" written all over it.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
attention short of indictment.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
They are pure and simple Evil, in the most banal, Third Reichian way.
There are more "delegates" who bought tickets to the Teabagger Ball
than voted for Tommy T. in eleven states where his name was on the ballot in 2008.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
George W. Bush was a committed socialist? To the best of my knowledge he's the only person ever put into the White House by illiterates. I mean I knew he should be committed but this isn't what I was thinking.
Who needs civics now that the supreme court can decide who becomes the president? Harkening back to the 2000 presidential election.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
unless Thomas is registered in Nevada. If so, we know from the results Clarence might have voted for Alan Keyes. Nobody gambled on Tommy in Nevada.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Now I understand why these folks take RV vacations.
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
would just LOVE to go back the days of Jim Crow when he could keep all those ignurant neegrows from voting....that's a rich white man's privilege, donchaknow.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Judging by the signs I've seen at teabag events half the baggers wouldn't be allowed to vote if tested.
White Ebonics?
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
ricky - I've always thought that Alan Keyes sounded like Marvin the Martian. I can't listen to him without hearing Marvin saying "I'm going to blow up the Earth with this plutonium detonator."
"beet...bada...bleet..badaaa...Happy Birthday you thing from another world you!"
LOL. I love that one!
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
by a Black man who sounds like a cartoon alien in the race to avoid the cellar of Republican Presidential Standings. His voice may not be funny, but it must be heard.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
... to lecture someone on not understanding civics while demonstrating in the same breath that you have no idea what the word "socialist" means?
Answer: Yes.
Cognitive Dissonance - Is there any blaring irony you can't gloss over?
They need to check back and look at all the signs from this fall. The stupid people he was talking to doing the Applause could not spell on most of their sings. Guess he was addressing the audience, and they missed it.
the desserts so they were clapping for the Applesauce.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
Is Beck going to be at this thing? Somehow the movie "Idiocracy" keeps popping into my head. Don't know why.
and watching "Ow my balls" for programming ideas.
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
I haven't heard him say anything about it. I think he's busy learning his keynote speech he will give at the CPAC meeting.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Seems the Twilight Zone television series has become real life in America .
... was oddly prescient, wasn't it?
if there was a "Civics literacy test" a lot more tea baggers would fail than liberals
When I was little and saw something in a movie that scared me, my mom would always say, don' worry it's not real. I wish someone could tell me that now about the tea baggers.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
How many of the Gatlinburg gomers do you think migrated to the roadways
leading up to the Gaylord Opryland to sell Sharah Palin dishes and towels? And what do you bet that the ghost of Elvis has left the state for the weekend?
"I mean Romney is the most conservative on illegal immigration and I don't think Ronald Reagan could get elected in California today."
Ann "Clipped" Coulter
on his way to the convention for speeding. The teabagger did not have a driver's license.
Officer: Got any ID?
Teabagger: 'Bout what?
I've seen some stuff, man. And some thangs...
ROTFLMAO.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Honest to God I saw some footage last night on CNN that blew my mind. Some idiot had a hand made sign that had "Sarah Help" scrawled on it. I laughed like hell. These people are truly fucking fools.
This is nothing more than a case of “sour grapes” on Tancredo’s part. Just like the fox in the Aesop fable, Tancredo is trying to suggest that the Democratic Party victory can only mean that there’s something wrong with the American voting bloc who put Obama in the White House. Let's remember that Tancredo was a GOP candidate in the 2008 presidential election -- but the nail in his presidential coffin seems to have been his refusal to participate in a GOP debate hosted by the Spanish-speaking channel Univision in December 2007, leading to his decision to withdraw from the race only a week or two later. While he deserved some credit for standing by his principles -- unlike another GOP candidate, Mitt Romney, who did participate in the debate -- the fact nevertheless remains that he probably cost himself whatever Latino votes (if any) he might have had before then with that decision and shot himself in the foot. Sounds to me like someone's bitter...
Someone needs to remind Tancredo that in a democracy, voting is a right which the citizens of that nation are entitled to have simply as human beings —- not a privilege which people must earn and prove themselves worthy to have. Unfortunately for Tancredo, one of the drawbacks of living in a free society is that the people within that society are at liberty to make decisions without consulting anyone else. This means that they’re entitled to make decisions which you don’t like. No matter how you try to slice it, requiring the American people to measure up to a certain standard in order to cast a vote —- particularly since it raises the question of exactly whose standard should be used as the benchmark! —- inevitably makes our country that little bit less free, since those who for whatever reason fail to pass the test will indisputably be at the mercy of those who succeeded and will become a de facto group of second-class citizens without power in this country.
Also, someone should tell Tancredo that judging by several tests which have been conducted on high school students around the country as well as a test which has been posted online, the fact is that a substantial majority of the American people would probably be unable to pass the kind of civics literacy test that he’s proposing! According to AmericanCivicLiteracy.org which has a test posted online, a whopping 71.4% of 2,508 Americans who initially took their test failed to answer more than 59.9% of the questions correctly. The overall average score was a positively dismal 49%, and barely over 10% of the people tested scored 70% or better. (One especially odd result from this test was the finding that elected governmental officials actually scored an average of 44% —- five points less than the average American!) If this test —- which I’ve taken myself and which really shouldn’t be this hard for people to pass — were used as the benchmark for who is eligible to vote and who’s not, we would end up with anywhere between 51% and 90% of the American population being unable to vote and at the mercy of a minority…and that could not even remotely be considered a democracy.
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
This will fix it.
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
.... Tancredo responded, "I would never join an organization that has such low standards, that it would accept me as a member."
Question: Where are Indiana, California, and Wyoming?
Answer: Pennsylvania. (There are places in PA with these names).
Question: Is Virginia farther west than Detroit, MI?
Answer: True. (Lee County, VA at its farthest point is technically farther west than Detroit).
Question: Can Russia actually be seen from a U.S. house?
Answer: Yes. There's a village on Little Diomede Island, Alaska, USA, that faces across a small strait (and the Intl Dateline) Big Diomede Island, a part of Russia.
So as a voter of Prez Obama's I'm confident, you racist eff, that i could take that test and pass it doing circles around you. if anyone is an ideologue, you disgrace, itd be you.
Sarah Palin has never been to Little Diomede Island.
"People who cannot even spell the word "vote," or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. Name is Barack Hussein Obama"
Yea...Get a brain morans!
Teddy Roosevelt was called a socialist in his day because he dared to
take on the corporate interests. In order to get the most amazing places
on earth saved from the mining industries and forest companies he had
to pass the antiquities act which allowed him to skirt congress. He was also
attacked for creating the bird sanctuaries, which prevented many species from
going extinct due to the hat industry. Barack needs to use the bully pulpit
and go directly to the people to fight off these rascals. If the tea baggers of
Teddy's day had their way many species would be extinct and the Grand Canyon
would not be protected.
This dimwit wouldn't score a pass on the test anyway.
Something tells me that we haven't seen anything yet from these right wing bigots. Wait till immigration reform comes around. We will see the ugly and abject hatred of these people.
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