Radical comments.

[MrMasterMind]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

If she does care, she has a terrible way of showing it and her advisors should be fired.

Unless her goal is to be hired by Fox News. :-)

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

My argument is that too many people on the right are trying to dodge the blame on this topic-- instead of admitting there is a serious problem, even if part of that problem is simply perception based. Conservatives have an obligation to admit and fix.

So does the left-- but I don't mince words when I state that the right is more guilty. I am a Republican and I can see it-- what's wrong with the rest of AFF?

My argument is that too many people on the right are the targets of those on the left all the while those on the left are whining loudly that it's really just those on the right.

Palin is a prime example. She did nothing wrong and this shooter was not politically motivated. Yet now she is getting death threads after the media and that irresponsible sheriff pointed their liberal fingers at them

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

If she does care, she has a terrible way of showing it and her advisors should be fired.

Can you give an example of that?

I can look back to that one interview she flubbed. She was not prepared and her mistake or foolishness was to go on there and not expect to be grilled. Does that make her an idiot? No I bet most Americans didn't know what issues John McCain was a Maverick on.

Does that mean she is a genius? No not at all nor do we necessarily need someone with a high intellect running the country. Intellect does not translate into leadership skills or a solid moral compass. Rush Limbaugh is a member of Mensa and Im sure even many Republicans would not want him as president.

There are so many more issues than intellectualism to being in a high office.
Basically the intellectuals join think tanks and give leaders ideas.

That is why it's easy for Media to exploit little things about a person's intellect or image to make them look stupid.

For example Bush. I don't think Bush is an idiot. I do think the man has dyslexia and is unconventional in the way he speaks..does that make him a genius? No but by no means an mental moron either

I don't personally think Palin has the qualities of running for the highest office in the land but those qualifications have nothing to do with being smart or stupid.

[Jermyn Davidson]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Can you give an example of that?

Whoever advised her to do a reality show should be fired.

Hopefully, the person who advised her to do the interview while a live turkey was being butchered in the background has already been fired.

These are the two that come to the top of my head right away-- without even googling her.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

Whoever advised her to do a reality show should be fired.

Hopefully, the person who advised her to do the interview while a live turkey was being butchered in the background has already been fired.

These are the two that come to the top of my head right away-- without even googling her.

Why? I can understand the reality show, but that is because I take a dim view of reality shows to begin with. The turkey? You know they gotta be butchered in order to eat it, right?

[Jermyn Davidson]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Why? I can understand the reality show, but that is because I take a dim view of reality shows to begin with. The turkey? You know they gotta be butchered in order to eat it, right?

Ok Prax.

[Praxeas]

lol

[Cindy]

For those of you that don't know much about Alaska. Unless they live in a city there's not always a grocery store nearby. You can be fined or arrested if you kill certain animals and don't eat them. Fish/seafood and wild animals are what most live on.

[rawooddell]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

Over the last 20 years, there has been more violence towards other people coming from the right-winged extremists than the left.

Still, my fellow Republicans won't admit it and they won't admit that the nasty rhetoric some people on the right spew have any effect on the likes of Loughner and other angry white people.

Yep, I bring race into this because race has a part in this discussion.


There were jokes a few years back about the "angry white male".

People weren't laughing after Oklohoma City.

They're not laughing after Tuscon.

I find it interesting that you attribute the Tuscon shooting to Republicans. And in the same sentence you attribute it to white people. Tell me sir, do you attribute black on black crime to Democrats and black people?

[rawooddell]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

If you are right, the venom spewed by the left is not of the type that encourages people to prepare for the "coming armageddon".

It's the word choice of some of the talking heads on the right that encourages violence. The left and the right spew vomit on their airwaves, but over the last 20 years, the right-winged extemists are the one who have taken up arms and occasionally have used violence against innocent people to make their points. It is my point that some Republican talking heads are partially responsible because of their langauge.


Many elected Republican officlals and their talking heads do not want civilized discourse. Anything less than their way 100% is compromise and compromise is unacceptable to the nutjobs that eat their vitriol for every meal.

It was a sign of a bad moon rising when that elected official yelled out while the President was still speaking, "LIAR!" Of course that guy was never dealt with publicly, in a way that let America know that decent Republicans find that kind of disrespect for any elected official not respectable and not proper.

The GOP's silence on that was just as silent as many American Muslims when it comes to the words and actions of Muslim extremists.

That kind of unprofessionalism should be left to the "Code Pink" whackos, not Congressmen.


If your elected oficials feel justified to be that nasty publicly towards someone that does not think like him, if that is the standard for proper discourse, then it stands to say that your fringe followers will be much more uncivilized in their words and actions when dealing with others who do not think like them.

Let's talk about unprofessional behavior for a minute. The President decided to be unprofessional when he decided he had the authority to tell Congress what to do, and then decided to verbally whip the Supreme Court for their decisions which he disagreed with. And let's not forget that he forces his will upon us the People through the agencies and departments he employee's. All of which are on equal lawful authority with him. So let's spread the blame for a minute in terms of unprofessional behavior.