Is the radical right dumbing down the GOP?

HoverBoarder

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You have people like Paul Ryan proposing to kill Medicare, while at the same time intensely rallying against actual cost saving measures to Medicare like those in the Health Care law.

You have GOP economic plans that propose to reduce the GDP.

You have full nutjobs like Ron Paul claiming that Israel has every right to bomb Iran (which in turn means Iran has every right to bomb Israel).

You have crazed groups like the Tea Party screaming and ranting to enact policies that would hurt them financially just so that the owners of the group like the Koch Bros can get more money.

You have the new GOP fad of instead of addressing the worker training economic problems of education, of attacking teachers to give money to rich people.

And now you have Michelle Bachman tied with Mitt Romney.


The new GOP slogan for success is "SCREW REAGAN!!"
 
HoverBoarder said:
You have people like Paul Ryan proposing to kill Medicare, while at the same time intensely rallying against actual cost saving measures to Medicare like those in the Health Care law.

You have GOP economic plans that propose to reduce the GDP.

You have full nutjobs like Ron Paul claiming that Israel has every right to bomb Iran (which in turn means Iran has every right to bomb Israel).

You have crazed groups like the Tea Party screaming and ranting to enact policies that would hurt them financially just so that the owners of the group like the Koch Bros can get more money.

You have the new GOP fad of instead of addressing the worker training economic problems of education, of attacking teachers to give money to rich people.

And now you have Michelle Bachman tied with Mitt Romney.

The new GOP slogan for success is "SCREW REAGAN!!"
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I refuse to believe the GOP would ever choose Bachman over Romney.
 
HoverBoarder said:
The new GOP slogan for success is "SCREW REAGAN!!"
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Are you suggesting that these policies somehow betray Reagan's legacy? Reagan who filled his head with the same Birchite propaganda as the Tea Party, Reagan the opponent of Medicare, Reagan the military-industrial frontman, Reagan the union-slayer and supply-sider?
 
Gazpacho said:
Are you suggesting that these policies somehow betray Reagan's legacy? Reagan who filled his head with the same Birchite propaganda as the Tea Party, Reagan the opponent of Medicare, Reagan the military-industrial frontman, Reagan the union-slayer and supply-sider?
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None of that matters in today's world. Reagan raised taxes.

If he wasn't worshipped as a cult hero, he would be toast.
 
WildCat said:
Link?
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WildCat said:
Link?
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Is this a serious request? I want to know before I go to all the trouble of explaining the Ryan voucher plan and compare it to the Medicare single payer system.

Are you really curious about Ryan's plan or are we going to have an extended semantic argument about what it means to "destroy" Medicare?

If you're legitimately curious about Ryan, I'm happy to provide citation. If we're just going to hear explanations about how a voucher system called "Medicare" is the same thing as Medicare as it exists now, I'd rather just skip it.
 
That they think that idiot boy Ryan is really trying to save the program is proof that the GOP is following their idol into senility.
 
WildCat said:
Yes, please link to "Paul Ryan proposing to kill Medicare". I seem to have missed that in the news.
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WildCat said:
I heard of his voucher plan, however I missed the part where he "kills Medicare".

Can you link to it?
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TraneWreck said:
Are you really curious about Ryan's plan or are we going to have an extended semantic argument about what it means to "destroy" Medicare?
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Well, that answers that question...
 
WildCat said:
Yes, please link to "Paul Ryan proposing to kill Medicare". I seem to have missed that in the news.
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So glib it is. I'm shocked.

The semantics are boring. If you're of the opinion that anything named Medicare that has some involvement with health insurance and retired people is "Medicare," then obviously nothing can be said that will change your opinion.

When retired people now seek reimbursement through the program, Medicare will shoot them a nickle and a little not that say, "Good luck." Hey, it's called Medicare, that means it ain't dead.
 
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Travis said:
I refuse to believe the GOP would ever choose Bachman over Romney.
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In addition to HoverBoarder's post, Taibbi plots just such a scenario here:

Even other Republicans, it seems, are making the mistake of laughing at Bachmann. But consider this possibility: She wins Iowa, then swallows the Tea Party and Christian vote whole for the next 30 or 40 primaries while Romney and Pawlenty battle fiercely over who is the more "viable" boring-white-guy candidate. Then Wall Street blows up again — and it's Barack Obama and a soaring unemployment rate versus a white, God-fearing mother of 28 from the heartland.

It could happen. Michele Bachmann has found the flaw in the American Death Star. She is a television camera's dream, a threat to do or say something insane at any time, the ultimate reality-show protagonist. She has brilliantly piloted a media system that is incapable of averting its eyes from a story, riding that attention to an easy conquest of an overeducated cultural elite from both parties that is far too full of itself to understand the price of its contemptuous laughter. All of those people out there aren't voting for Michele Bachmann. They're voting against us. And to them, it turns out, we suck enough to make anyone a contender.
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