Why Palin won't be back in four years

[BatShitKrazy]

I fucked her.

 

[The_Trouvere]

Think about that.

Not the Palin part, but the GOP part. Would the country be better off with a single-party system? Setting aside political snarkishness for the moment, envision a Congress with no Republicans in it at all. Is that a good thing? Would it continue to be good in the future?

I want the Republican Party to go the way of the Federalists and the Whigs. When they disappeared, another party came along. I would like for the political center in the United States to shift to the left, and for the Democrats to compete with the Greens.

 

[The_Trouvere]

WHAT? They aren't a national embarrassment now?

I am glad that there are so many wingnuts here who pretend that they are not Republicans. The wingnuts are generally without shame. Nevertheless, even they blush when they think of the party of George W. Bush and John McCain.

 

[KingOrfeo]

I'm surprised at you. Did you really think that through?

Yes. It is a subject into which I have put a great deal of thought indeed; see post #19. I repeat and to sum:

1. A multiparty system is better than a two-party system.

2. If America is to have a two-party system, it is better that its center of gravity should be way, way to the left of where it is now: Socialists (or Greens) and Democrats being the two main parties, all others marginal.

 

[unregistered]

 

[garbage can]

She hits the wall. After that, what else has she got?

She shoots wolves, which imperil the distintion of our carribou.

 

[off2bed]

I want the Republican Party to go the way of the Federalists and the Whigs. When they disappeared, another party came along. I would like for the political center in the United States to shift to the left, and for the Democrats to compete with the Greens.

Why this country? Why don't you move to Cuba or Venezuela if that's what you want?

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Ashley Judd would like her to be shot at from the air.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFdijgMytUA

 

[KRCummings]

Ashley Judd would like her to be shot at from the air.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFdijgMytUA

I don't know which I dislike more, Alaskan Governors or celebrities that won't shut the fuck up.

 

[off2bed]

I watched that video but didn't see where she called for Palin to be shot at.

Ashly Judd is still pretty hot, though.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

I don't know which I dislike more, Alaskan Governors or celebrities that won't shut the fuck up.

Give me the wolves everytime.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

I watched that video but didn't see where she called for Palin to be shot at.

Ashly Judd is still pretty hot, though.

She didn't - I was projecting..............

....so was The Prisoner - hot.

 

[KRCummings]

She didn't - I was projecting..............

....so was The Prisoner - hot.

You'll have to forgive Miles. He lost his sense of humor in the war.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

You'll have to forgive Miles. He lost his sense of humor in the war.

I or II?

 

[KRCummings]

I or II?

I. It was a tragic mustard gas accident.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Wrong Element]

Times when one party is in control usually show that it's a bad idea. They tend to run wild.

It's a self-correcting system. The Republicans have gone around the bend, and judging from their recent behavior, still need to absorb a few more ass-kickings before they get the message. Eventually they will moderate themselves (pissing off their bigot wing by naming a black party chairman is a start) and be taken seriously again. The flipside of that is that the longer the Democrats stay in power, the more likely it is that they will make the mistakes associated with unchallenged power.

But we've been through 28 years where there was a Republican president for 20 and a Democrat who catered to Republicans for the other 8. The pendulum has just begun to reverse itself.

 

[Karen Kraft]

Yes. It is a subject into which I have put a great deal of thought indeed; see post #19. I repeat and to sum:

1. A multiparty system is better than a two-party system.

2. If America is to have a two-party system, it is better that its center of gravity should be way, way to the left of where it is now: Socialists (or Greens) and Democrats being the two main parties, all others marginal.

Unfortunately, the politics of a multi-party system (coalitions, etc.) are better for a less powerful nation, and a nation with less diversity. The two-party system works very well in the United States. People's mood shifts from left to right and back again over a 40-year cycle and it's good to have a party that reflects the moods and can take action based on voters' political, social, and economic preferences. From a security point of view, the U.S. is too powerful to have anything but a strong executive branch. The checks and balances inherent to our current system would falter, I believe, within a multi-party model.

It's a mistake to read too much into the Democrat victory in 2008. This was not a referendum on social values, but the result of a driving desire to see substantive change from the Bush years. That does not mean that Pelosi is right in her judgment as to Americans' social preferences -- it simply means that people thought that the Democrats would fix the economy. If they do so, they may enjoy several additional administrations; if they fail to do so, the Republicans will have another crack at it.

 

[Sean]

An explanation of American politics for our British readers:
The Republican Party is like our Conservative Party.
The Democratic Party is like our Conservative Party.

 

[pointless]

An explanation of American politics for our British readers:
The Republican Party is like our Conservative Party.
The Democratic Party is like our Conservative Party.

i find it kind of funny that both of our parties are technically liberal parties and yet it's still a slur in our country to be called a liberal. sometimes we can be so fucking stupid.

 

[Karen Kraft]

Ashley Judd would like her to be shot at from the air.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFdijgMytUA

LOL

eye on palin dot org?

What a joke. It's like the ad couldn't decide if it wanted to get married or buy a broom (an old expression).

First, an ad that is designed to protect the animals the organization wants protected ought not to look like a negative campaign ad (no high-contrast photos of the people you don't like with their mouths open or half-way through a blink. That cheapens the message.

Second, a good ad should encourage ALL people to support a cause. If one limits the target audience to Palin-haters, money spent on the ad is wasted. It's just so much preaching to the choir.

Third, notwithstanding the fact that every governor in the U.S. (or close to every governor) has programs to thin populations of wild animals: horses, sheep, a variety of canines and felines that interfere with agriculture, etc. The idea that a governor is engaging in the wholesale slaughter of animals just to be mean, loses the non-zealous ad observer.

One cannot effectively blend hatred and compassion in an ad.

 

[Karen Kraft]

I watched that video but didn't see where she called for Palin to be shot at.

Ashly Judd is still pretty hot, though.

The ad would have been more effective if Judd were naked and there was no sound.

 

[Karen Kraft]

It's a self-correcting system. The Republicans have gone around the bend, and judging from their recent behavior, still need to absorb a few more ass-kickings before they get the message. Eventually they will moderate themselves (pissing off their bigot wing by naming a black party chairman is a start) and be taken seriously again. The flipside of that is that the longer the Democrats stay in power, the more likely it is that they will make the mistakes associated with unchallenged power.

But we've been through 28 years where there was a Republican president for 20 and a Democrat who catered to Republicans for the other 8. The pendulum has just begun to reverse itself.

Yes and no. McCain's failure was nothing more than his failing to be Republican enough. He supported the Bush big-government and spending agenda, etc. The country has not shifted to the left in that sense. The Republicans simply lost control of their brand. Look for a new "contract for America" type conservatism to appear over the next few cycles.

 

[Sean]

i find it kind of funny that both of our parties are technically liberal parties and yet it's still a slur in our country to be called a liberal. sometimes we can be so fucking stupid.

Not as funny as when I see the wingnuts on here calling the Dems Marxists.

 

[Karen Kraft]

An explanation of American politics for our British readers:
The Republican Party is like our Conservative Party.
The Democratic Party is like our Conservative Party.

LOL