Rep. Jim DeMint crazy talk on CNN: "Freedom is the biggest tent of all"
By John Amato Tuesday Apr 28, 2009 2:07pm
CNN's Rick Sanchez played a portion of Arlen Specter's press conference to South Carolina's Jim DeMint and asked him if Republicans are weeding out the moderates from the party -- and isn't that a bad thing?
Sanchez: Republicans are making it very difficult for other Republicans because, and he said this on several times, you tell me what you think of it. You're shrinking the electorate to an extreme, to a point that a regular republican can't win. What do you make of that argument?
DeMint: Oh, that's quite the opposite. We're seeing across the country right now, the biggest tent of all is freedom and what we need to do as Republicans is convince Americans that freedom can work in all areas of their life, for all Americans, whether it's education or health care or creating jobs...
Sanchez: What the hell does that mean? The biggest tent is freedom. FREEDOM, I mean, you gotta do better than that.DeMint: No, what it means is what has worked in America, free people, free markets for years.
Conservatives always say that there problems aren't really problems at all. It's Freedom baby, Freedom is our Big Tent party! That freaked out Sanchez -- understandably, because DeMint's answer made no sense. See, Specter leaving the Republicans is a good thing because he's free to do what he wants. His defection is just an application of their Freedom principle. I'm surprised DeMint didn't paint his face blue and don a kilt for this performance.
And DeMint actually says that Club For Growth's Pat Toomey is a mainstream American. Yeah, a Grover Norquist mainliner, he means. CFG is very upset that they are being attacked. He also blames Democrats for the auto companies falling apart.
Piece. Of. Work.
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Jim DeMint's too dumb to be a beauty queen in South Carolina. Also.
His brain is too full of silly catch phrases for any thinking to go on.
He's not as stoopid as the republican that thought he taught the energy scientist a lesson by pointing out that there is oil near the north pole. When the scientist explained the tectonic plates had moved north, the republican replyed that his answer proved he was just making things up. Big confident smile - "ya sure.. the continents move.. ha Ha. you don't fool me.. college boy". He twitters that he's just put the scientist in his place. ..and this guy is still running the country.
DeCrazy in the big freedom tent eating freedom fries why the Limpbo rips a nasty smelling fart.
Freedom? Heheh. He's trying to put his lamb's suit back on but the snake is still showing. He wants the freedom to torture and trounce all over human rights.
that the Party of Pampers have ruined.
Such as "family", "values", "christian", "marriage", "patriotism", etc.
all have negative associations now.
..for nothin' left to lose" - that's today's GOP!
Don't forget "new world order". We didn't know busch #1 was reffering to a corporate dictatorship.
we should wear that one with pride.
Etc. etc. Reminds me of: "Orwellian".
something?
LOL that's awesome.
I'll take Inane Talking Points for $200, Alex.
His big party tent of "freedom" doesn't want women to have the freedom of choice. His big party tent of "freedom" doesn't want gays to have the freedom of marriage. The only thing that's free in his big party tent of "freedom" is bullshit and hot air.
let's not forget this other freedom over looked by brethren democrats. i have never felt better, or more relieved for having campaigned for this great new president of ours. but freedom extends much further than the majority of our party's members beliefs. true liberals know what i'm saying.
Obviously DeMint and his marginalized cabal are trying to paint Democrats as the enemies of freedom. And therefor the enemies of America.
This type of reasoning appeals to their base and riles the violent militia mentalities among them.
I don't think the Repubs will be happy until Obama is assassinated.
More and more people can see their scam - their systematic hyprocrisy.
The republican arm waving is about to go postal.
The republicans are a virus, a political swine flu. They will kill you if you let them. They will kill america if we let them, simply to survive.
If we put all the Republicans out on a deserted island, who would survive?
Answer:
WE would!
Demint thinks greed is the biggest tent of all. He calls greed freedom, and he thinks everyone is like him.
The freedom to exploit, and have infinite greed. That's what freedom really means to these wrongwing pigs.
That really is the primary objective of conservatives. To help multinational corporations and the wealthy make as much money as possible while they keep as many of the working poor living in poverty. Conservatives, capitalism , deregulation, and tax cuts for the corporations and the wealthy do real harm to those who work full time jobs just so they can barely survive. As long as exploitation of the working poor, and greed are allowed to continue to exist, then I see no reason to feel anything positive about America.
The GOP IS a big tent....I mean it's where all the clowns perform, right?
Pretty soon all the Americans who call themselves Republicans can fit into a clown car.
and then we can drown it/them in Grover's bath tub.
is where all the ELEPHANT DUNG gathers.
Well, they did have the freedom to send soldiers into a country that posed no harm to the US and as a result more soldiers have been killed there than the number of people who were killed on 9-11.
remember watching anything that felt so rewarding as seeing this group of homophobic, racist, xenophobic, self-loathing, bloodthirsty, chicken-hawk, closet case rednecks implode. They earned every aspect of permanent minority status. Go away, you serve no useful purpose anymore.
You know it Jim. Everyone from the NE is moving to the deep South because there is such better quality of life down there. You make so much sense!
And yeah, it's cuz the car manu's are really communists, that's why they are falling apart. Oh and Wall Street is doing so well right now because of limited govt and deregulation. And keep pithcing that huge Republican tent to women (how's you vote Jim on the fair pay law?) and the LGBT community. Keep pitching that tent to hispanics too, by throwing them in jail for working hard and paying taxes. You're pitching that freedom tent so high I can see it up top of dem dere hills of South Carolina Jimmy!
Let freedom ring Jimmy boy, let Freedom ring!!
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Libruls are hawt! woohoo!
Love love love
The big O-round!
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the jackass who wants to ban unmarried pregnant women and gays from teaching in our schools. Yeah, that's freedom alright.
Looks to me like he's been huffing spray cans of mosquito repellent inside his big tent.
btw, I'm really starting to like Rick Sanchez.
Freedom would mean you stop spying on Americans!!!
that everytime a repug pos uses the term "democrat party" they should be corrected?
and demint in now a leader of the clueless party
forced unionization??? what the fuck??
I would like to man-kiss Rick Sanchez.
I hope that doesn't make anyone uncomfortable.
cuz you got freedom
It's Rick you'll be a-smoochin'! What's a little manffection between two willing adults, eh?
I would like to woman-kiss Rick Sanchez for his takedown of Dimwit DeMint.
crush on Rick Sanchez. It makes me feel dirty sometimes, but there it is.
but I had no idea he'd drunk of the Kool Aid. I asked him what he thought about Specter leaving the party. His response? "Good. He's too liberal. The Republican party needs to get rid of every single moderate! They've ruined the party." Now, I say good. Let the damn party implode and be done with it!
dumb
nice one.
That was excellent, Mick!
Love is all you need. . She loves you yeah yeah yeah
DeNut couldn't even keep a straight face to his talking point lunacy and is one of the reasons Reslugs are dying out.
Oh, I hope so, but I feel you will never get rid of all the nuts - so we need to be aware and prevent them from taking over another party.
Exactly. They will infiltrate any party. The psyco-conservatives are equal opportunity.
Best possible response to an idiotic talking point.Nice one,Rick.
Hey John, thanks for the link to the CFG, I sent them an e-mail telling them what I thought. I imagine it's a waste of time because they either can't or won't read it, but it made me feel better!
"DeMint: No, what it means is what has worked in America, free people, free markets for years."
It's worked just fucking great alright, if by people you mean the richest among us. And if by free markets you mean an unregulated Las Vegas style economic model wherein the losers get reimbursed by the taxpayer than I would have to admit that you are not just another stupid, delusional and desperate sack of shit. But you are
the above after all, aren't you Mr. DeMint?
What a moran[sic].
Republicans...[sigh]...just stop, ok? Regroup, go back to school, cut way back on the gin and come back to the dialogue with something useful and sane.
When a Republican uses the word "freedom" they mean the "freedom" to make profits.
When you understand this important semantical point, you can start to understand what the heck they are arguing. It is still nonsense, but it's at least a bit more understandable.
Ya, and they really mean freedom to make unlimited profits.
is serious in what he believes. American want to have freedom from employment. They want freedom from health care. They demand freedom from education. In fact that last one will be key in restoring the GOP to power.
Is This the party of treason?
I have come to the conclusion that these ass wipes on the right have collectively lost their friggin minds .
It's DemocratIC Party, you juvenile, O2-wasting putz. Grow up.
I swear to god I think there truly is something wrong with the republicans. I swear they are going off the cliff like a bunch of lemmens. What in the hell is in there drinking water for them to say some of the dummest things on earth. Really I can't believe that there was once a party that was made up of reasonable people. I don't blame liberal or moderate republicans for leaving their party. All is left are the religious wingnuts and the bigots. The republican higher ups years ago let the dixiecrats and bigot, religious nuts take over their party. They are going to have a hell of a way back.
They will have to re-sole his shoes.
"When you work for Darth Vader, if you disobey orders he will use the dark side of the force to choke you do death."
Darth could just shoot you in the face with his little pistol!
Memo to self: Always remember to publicly apologize to Darth after such an unfortunate occurrence.
Will this guy be a decent Democrat or would we be better off having a better Democrat challenge him in the primary?
I mean, if he plans on opposing things like the EFCA, unions and working people then what the fuck good is he? He's still just a Republican trying to get over on both parties.
on your definition of freedom, and their definition was 8 years of idiocy. I need freedom from the missing link knuckle draggers.
Patriot Act.
Tapped telephones.
Endless wars.
I feel so freeeeeeee
Typically, the repug's retreat into their fortress of stupidity. LIMITED GOVERNMENT!!! LOWER TAXES!!! IMMIGRANTS!! GAY MARRIAGE!!!
FREEEEEEDOOOOOMM!!!!!!
Yeah, the freedom to allow the rich to continue to rape your 401(k) to continue to pump toxins into YOUR air and water and soil just so that they can continue to make a profit without having to install those expensive environmental controls. Lower taxes to ensure that the Government starves and is unable to fulfill its responsibilities.
Just remember that Smaller government for repugs and their over-monied constituancy means less oversight on the dirty tricks that they are playing on you RIGHT NOW!
Want an example? At one point ol Brownie (heck of a Job brownie) testified before congress that FEMA was nothing more than an entitlement program. Limited government is demonstrated by the FEMA response to Hurricane Katrina. Now imagine that response to EVERYTHING that the government is supposed to do. THAT's limited government.
Remember that crap us living in an OWNERSHIP society? Well it really depends on WHO owns the ship.......
left-hand corner piece on my buzzword bingo card.
Bingo.
Whenever these clowns don't have an answer, they resort to the "freedom" thing. In this country with amoral capitalism on the rampage, you're only as free as your money will allow.
From his speech, you would assume Jim DeMint is living somewhere the Democrats had been in control for the last ten years? Where the whole economics mess we're in was the fault of President Al Gore and the filibuster proof Congress and liberal Supreme Court?
Yes, I remember it now, when Joe Leiberman was going to crush the GOP under his heel by getting rid of the filibuster entirely! And Al Gore used the budget reconciliation to force taxes down on the Middle class . . .
You know what - Can I go live in that alternate history?
Jonnan
Looks like that big tent shrunk big time today when Arlen Spector told you psychotic nutjobs auf wiedersehen---get a clue pal, your whole premise and existence is a farce. Stop deluding yourself with your grossly exaggerated self importance.
No lie will stand forever. That's why you hacks are doomed to extinction.
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FREEDOM from TORTURE...
FREEDOM from RELIGION...
FREEDOM from WARRANTLESS SEARCHES...
... That's your limited Government!!!
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NAH,I'm just kidding. I really I do a little victory dance every time I see another rethuglican spew his/her rhetoric from somewhere out in LaLa Land.
But, unfortunately they are a reality we have to deal with in this country. Sad for this nation and the world. But I think the GOP is DONE.
Why is he referred to as "Rep. DeMint" in this blog post and in most of the interview?
Jim DeMencha, Linda Graham, Gov Mark it down for me, Clueless Sanford and ALL the other southern Republicans are NUT cases. Even Jingle-bell-Jindal...they say some of the dummest things...and it always comes back to bite their ass...or shows their ignorance. Frankly, I was surprised Sanchez came back at DeMin-cha like he did...he is so much like his fellow southern REPUGS.
These people are so closed minded...they can't see the truth when it smacks them in the face! Yes, these are your Southern Baptist Christian Right Republicans talking nonsense, lying, being dishonest, and on the front line of character assiassination of anyone who isn't a REPUB.
God, please protect this nation from these peoples stupidity!
Freedom? When this knucklehead used that as a rebuttal argument, I had to use two hands to pick up my dropped jaw. Lemme get this straight, DeMint, you're using FREEDOM as the reason we should vote for slugs like you? I can see why Sanchez damn near broke out laughing when he heard it. I said the same "What the hell does that mean?"
This from the party that did more to destroy actual freedom in this country.
Specter and other republicans are now running on the democrat's ticket because they know these areas are feed up with the republicans crimes / BS and as a republican they would not be elected...
Now you have the hard nose right wing republican party and the republican democrat party that claims all they are doing in moving to the center right.
This republican blue dogs groups which are growing in ?our? democrat party have nothing to do with democrat values and certainly have nothing to do for their voters..
The republicans now have a party for their extremist which is the republican party. Then they have the republican democrat party which is for republicans that would lose in an area as republicans so they run as democrats..
Rove is very proud of this policy..
Well I finally had enough and called this losers office today and told the aide to relay the comment to DeMint. I asked his what the hell were the republicans drinking and has aliens come from outer space and took over their party? I told him I live in the south and if he couldn't say anything nice then shut up because he and Bachmann are ruining the party. I told him all that is left are the nutjobs. I told him that the party needs liberals and moderate republicans or there won't be a republican party. By the way I think a 2 party system is important but if that is what is left than maybe they need to be out of office for a long time.
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