Liberman.

Joe Lieberman comes out for McCain. What is a good Freeper to do when a Dem agrees with them?

Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?) tries to reassure a rather irate toddlintown (On Obama's moral compass, "N" doesn't stand for "North.")

No difference between Lieberman and a RINO, and yet everytime his name's brought up on FR, it's like he's a messiah.

Now I have to hear the "Draft Condi" people too. I could puke.

Are there any real conservatives left on FR?

One here.

Well, that's a load off toddlintown's mind.

j_k_l tries to split the difference, and reveals that he knows how to have a good time:

Lieberman seems like a good guy that I would love to have a beer with. That being said, I find his big government politics dangerous and I do not want him in power.

kevinm13 (The Main Stream Media is dead! Fox News Channel, FreeRepublic and pookie18 Rocks!) would like to point out that Zell Miller is also cool.

Lieberman is right that the Democrat party has been hijacked by the far left (I put a lot of this on George Soros and his heavily funded moveon.org and the various groups he has set up to fund left wing campaign ads). He and Zell Miller are similar in that they believe in America first and party second. Most of the rest of the Dims believe in whatever it takes to make the party first at the expense of the country.

Big government sucks.

Hmmm, if it's changed so much, how come Freepers hit them with the whole "party of segregation" bit?

Jim Noble (I've got a home in Glory Land that outshines the sun) has the right focus:

Lieberman's STILL a big government socialist, even though he has the right point of view on US sovereignty.

Even though?

That's the only issue that matters.

If our people decide to pursue socialism, because they believe it's in their best interest, they can change their minds later.

If they allow the country to cease to exist, they can't change that later.

Because them Muslims are at the gates, and America may soon be taken over! EVERYBODY PANIC AND VOTE FOR LIEBERMAN!

Saturday Pix

I'm back (I think...)

See, it's not racist to say all blacks think all whites are racist.

There is no racism in the Republican party. It's all on the other side.

From "government is the problem" to "government is the pimp." Whoa, some people have a kind of screwed up way to see the government.

Free Republic: Where everyone we disagree with is lumped together.

Here's what they have on Obama, I guess. Good luck convincing America he hates America...

Back in a week or so

I'm sick, and starting a new job tomorrow, so I'm taking a brief haitus. I'll be back to daily blogging before ya know it!

And Now This Word From Outer Space

Kill the Berkley Hippies edition:

It’s times like this when I wish we would model our police on the Chinese and deal with this and get a permanent solution.

Maybe we could conduct an officer exchange program.

Crazy supplied by Niuhuru (Don't burn a bra, burn a feminist!).

Obama's Church, again.

Well, the story about Obama's pastor has made it to the NY Times, and there's some nice audio clips too. NewMax claims Obama was there on the day of a fiery sermon, which Obama denies. Seems Obama was giving a speech that day. What are the Freepers to do?

Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .) wants the reality based community to suck it:

Since when did Newsmax have credibility?

I will be supporting that Muslim a-hole Baaarack when hell freezes over.

Goddamn people looking for the truth! If you don't belive lies about your opponents, then you support them. Like that Obama's a Muslim.

Vision ("If God so clothes the grass of the field...will He not much more clothe you...?" -Matthew 6:30) hates everyone, so Obama being in Miami isn't a problem.

Barack spoke that Sunday to a La Raza rally in Miami

LOL. Obama was not listening to black racists that Sunday in Chicago. He was speaking to Hispanic supremacists in Miami.

But there is more than hate in this Obama thread. There is also...hope.

Lizavetta:

The "I was not there for that sermon" sounds very much like "I didn't inhale".

In other words, pathetic.

Yeah! What loser said that? Certainly not a president.

threeleftsmakearight is thankfull America is still racist.

Obama, if he is not already toast, will be toast in the general election.
He has about 0% chance of winning. The country is not going to go from electing people with names like Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Nixon, Clinton and Bush and turn around and elect “Barack Obama”. Most of your blue-collar union Democrats will run to vote for her, but will not vote for Obama. Same with white women, they’ll run to vote for the queen but will resent the racist undertones of Obama’s campaign and not vote for him.

"Racist udertones?" Pot, kettle, etc.

And Now This Word From Outer Space

MLK Conspiracy Edition:

I think the commies assasinated MLK for that purpose. He has been martyred ad nauseum. Although he preached a good sermon and made some positive contributions, he was in fact, a communist agitator.

Crazy supplied by lone star annie

Sweet Jesus I hate Dr. Laura

When I lived in California, I would at times catch snatches of Dr. Laura. In fact, I used it as an alarm, because if my clock radio played her, sheer hatred would propel me out of bed to turn it off.
So no, I wasn't to surprised when she said that wives are to blame when husbands cheat.

I did, however, get myself over to Free Republic to see what they thought. While the agreement wasn't universal, the thread was pretty sexist.

Keith Brown (Among the other evils being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised Machiavelli.) is raising the next generation of strong women:

Sounds like Dr Laura is being reasonable on this one....

I told my daughters that men who have slobby, short hair, un womanly women, have girlfriends who are sharp, womanly and sexy...because it's a fact.

And by strong women I meant women who are anorexic by the time they're 20.

longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov) seems to speak from experience:

she has a point.

We hear about it constantly, who wants to go home to a nag and a schrew? nobody.

Do the same people who condemn adultery also condemn the person who get a divorce to get away from the above stated smelly schrew? yes. can’t have both.

Women who are cheated on are all nags and shrews. And smelly! I think there's likley a story there, but I don't think I want to know it.

Maigrey (Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus --- Hogwarts Motto) takes thing for a bit of a sinister turn:

The ones who ask for a more-varied menu end up getting shotgunned in their own bed while they are asleep. (see Mary Winkler in TN)

Then have the nerve to say that the husband was "abusing" her by making her wear high heels....

Sheesh!

Yes, nowadays it's men vs. women with the prize: a "varied menu" (secret conservative buttsex?)

But not all agree with Dr. Laura. bjs1779 says

After seeing her in her youth, I always think of her name as Dr. Laura Slutinger.

Dr. Slutinger! Hilarious! See, it's funny cause someone once photographed her naked.

Keith Brown (Among the other evils being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised Machiavelli.) returns fire, however:

“Dr. Laura is a slut.”

So what?

Sluts are great gals!

Who do you think is doing all the heavy lifting while the “good” girls are making up their minds?

I am never such a hypocrite to be snotty to someone like that....

Nope. No double standard there. I do wonder how many Freepers like the 19th Amendment.

Gloom and Doom

Hastert out? Good riddance, say the Freepers. But a Dem replacing him? Uh oh...

acapesket (never had a vote count in all my years here) starts the gloomfest off:

Get used to it Gang..
we're screwed.
My husband had on an alphabet channel national News network tonight, I recognized Lester Holt. Hubby had been watching golf. I wanted to take a shower when it was over, and I was making dinner in the kitchen at the time of the broadcast and couldn't hear it all.. Thank God!
Do Not Watch TV and encourage your more mentally negligble fellow travelers to turn it off.
Propaganda, pure and simple.

Goddamn news, always reporting facts!

Tailback thought this was a Ralph Nader forum:

Big deal...
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Corrupt, inept, and will spend like a drunken sailor.

ChiMark explains why:

The American people are buying into socialism.
Foster promises free health care for everyone.
I would have thought Cook county tax increse would scare
voters away from the democrats but it seems as though the people in Dupage and Kane county want high taxes too.
Apparently, Americans believe that government
is the suckling pig of prosperity.

Does this could foreshadow a huge republican loss in
November?

"government is the suckling pig of prosperity." Awesome.

But wait! This is Free Republic, the land of Conservative mythos. The good guys don't lose, God won't let them!

Migraine, unironically (I think)

Wow! This thread is needlessly pessimistic. Hastert’s demise, and that of his former district, does not a November make!@$&$%^#@%^#*&^ I am here to interject HOPE. I tell ya, people criticize me for interjecting HOPE; but HOPE is nothing more, nothing less, that knowing that our country is still the best place in the entire world, and that our country will do the right thing in the end. I also am jazzed that the demodogs are presently in the midst of slaughtering themselves.

So. Please don’t melt down yet. You’ll see. The country is not ready to elect America-haters, nor communists, just yet. And, once the November campaign is stated in those terms, McCain could, ironically, have some enormous coattails. OK, flame away.

Bonus Pix

I had these saved and forgot to post them...

Nice wooden stake. I thought it was a turd or some kind of phallic object for a long time.

Pssst! Everyone! Barak stands near black people! I think he may even be related to some!

So Barak is the hero in this little drama? Though I must say, well chosen unflattering picture of Hillary.

And Now This Word From Outer Space

Racist Projection Edition:

The Clintons will NEVER let a BLACK GUY BEAT THEM!!! NEVER!

Crazy supplied by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)

Ten Minutes of Hate

Muslims celebrate after the killing of some Israeli students. There are pictures. And the Freepers...well, lets just say their reaction is less than substantive.

The PC crowd will not accept that we Christians have been at war with the Muzzies for about 800 years now. This will not end till one eliminates the other.

catfish1957 (Hey McLame, you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you a'int fooling any FReepers) you don't sounds at all like a southern guy talking about "Negroes" at all.

Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.), always the problem solver:

These cretins would look exceptionally good bathed in napalm

Some, like Freedom'sWorthIt, pray to Jay-sus:

Dear Lord God - may not one more inch of the Holy Land be given to these vile evildoers who rejoice at the death of Jews. And may new leadership come to Israel which will RECLAIM that which has already been surrendered to these murderous destroyers.

JSteff ( This election is about the 4 or 5 Supreme Court Justices who will retire . Vote Accordingly!) brings some analysis of the "Muslim mindset" to the table:

They, like all muslims respect power and authority. The Respect being dominated.

Much like a wild dog. The options are not good, and limited, for dealing with them.

Treat them like wild dogs, and maybe one day they'll act like humans. Makes sense.

Hildabeast Thursdays

Today's fear: a fusion ticket! Horrors!

Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†) echoes a number of sentiments with his pithy statement:

Lord have mercy on us if this is true.

goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever) is the first of many, many, many Freepers to mention Hillary killing Obama to become president.

Yeah, right. If Obama agrees to Hillary as his Veep, he may not even be his own man in an Obama Administration. He'd always have to watch his back... for any moves her Highness made against him.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

Classy signature, BTW. What does it mean when about 20% of the country belives, honestly, that a presidential candidate is capable of murder? Was this the case before secession in 1860? Sometimes I despair.

Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.) can't let go of Michelle Obama being an Angry Black Woman (scary!)

Michelle will dump him before this happens.

dinoparty offers some analysis of the ticket's prospects:

There will be a huge, drooling, sobbing, fainting, worshipful rally where they come out onto stage hand in hand, with all Dems and the MSM in heaven. Then they will set off in the “Unity Express For Change” bus tour.

The question is: will this spectacle of drooling libs, feminists and radicals turn off more voters than it attracts? We will see.

drooling libs, eh? Yes, that will define who votes - the amount of drooling.

CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II) will send us off on a conspiracy theory note:

It was a ploy they created to arouse strong feelings for either Obama or Hillary during this feigned melodramatic campaign period and based specifically on gender, race and appealing to the youth. The Dems wrung it out for every drop by pitting these two against each other. They made an issue of gender and race while pretending those things should not matter. Reverse strategy worked for them. With one as the final nominee, and the other as a VP selection, the Dems will capture what they wanted - a unified electorate, in lock-step simply because some wanted the first female, and others wanted the first black in the WH, and the youth simply wanted "change." Their votes will be based mainly on that, and not on real experience, qualifications or capabilities.

Wow, those Dems are a lot more organized than I thought! Dean is a criminal genius!

McCain's the nominee, and the natives are restless.

Free Republic is pretty split about McCain. When Bush goes off and endorses him when he won the nominating last night, Freepers get pretty shaken up.

writer33 (The U.S. Constitution defines a conservative and Rush Limbaugh knows it.) has decided this is all about personality.

Must be strange for him to have to endorse the man who has crossed him at every step of the way.

Yep. Cause you know that McCain is enjoying every minute of this. He's been stewing since South Carolina 2000, and now, according to him, G.W. can lick his boots.

farmer18th (Conservatives who vote McCain are like abused dogs who keep licking their master's hand...) thinks he's writing copy for talk radio:

The gentleman’s C endorsing the gentleman’s F. Two palace eunuchs preening for the camera.

ConservativeMind gives the strongest argument against McCain I've seen:

Obama at least wants secure borders. That’s more than McCain’s put forth.

From Obama’s website:

Create Secure Borders
Obama wants to preserve the integrity of our borders. He supports additional personnel, infrastructure and technology on the border and at our ports of entry.

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/immigration/

Obama’s more conservative than the Republican in the race when it comes to the border.

Oh, jeez. That's gonna leave a mark.

wpa_mikeb offers some choice fear mongering, though.

A big reason I am supporting John McCain happens to be the 140,000 troops we have in harm’s way.

Not a single one of them had a vote on immigration.

Not a single one of them had a vote on McCain-Feingold.

They were sent there on OUR behalf by those we elected. They DESERVE our total support and there is only one person running for president supporting those troops. There is only one person running for president who wants those troops to achieve victory. Only one.

McCain2008

Vote McCain. For the troops. Cause he'll support them by keeping this war going.

And Now This Word From Outer Space

Revenge is Noble Edition:

I sure hope the Cole gets a chance to give some back this time. What goes around comes around.

Crazy supplied by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)

The Glass Teat

One thing about both progressives and Freepers (and I do not mean to equate the two - progressive applies to a much larger and less extreme philosophical subset than does Freeper) is that neither likes the status quo. Thus, neither likes television, which lulls the masses into a sense of complacency.

But when a thread comes along about television's liberal bias, you get some fireworks of crazy.

6SJ7 has done the conservative thing:

Canceled my cable TV about 3 years ago and got Netflix. Never looked back.

That's the way to keep that liberal television at bay.

Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa) offers some analysis:

The situation is just on your TV.

The next generation is currently texting, ipod-ing, and surfing the net. They care about what's on their own MySpace page, not what old geezers on 60 Minutes are showing on some ancient contraption called TV.

Those kids are also radically more conservative than Baby Boomers. For instance, kids today abhor abortion and can't imagine a video game without a gun.

Each day, TV stations/channels lose marketshare and audience. Each day, newspapers lose circulation.

Young people are conservative are they? Daily Show, anyone? Obama's campaign, anyone? Just because your kids are conservative doesn't mean...

And then it goes off the deep end lamenting the loss of the conservative movement again.
Old Sarge (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!) starts the tiresome ritual:

Conservatives are being marginalized and dismissed.

Already have been.

Has everyone, besides us, given up?

Yes.

When will the madness end?

It has only just begun.

Aand we're back at the civil war/apocolypse place where Free Republic can't help but go these days.

The only thing I see that can wake this country up is something I hope never happens. A nuclear attack on one of our cities by the Islamo-terrorists.

Liberalism and political correctness will become anachronisms. The military will become very popular again. Liberals and other fools and useful idiots of the left will no longer be tolerated. Leaking classified information in major national newspapers will no longer be tolerated. And an American city telling the USMC they are not welcome, will no longer be tolerated.

Hmmm, it doesn't sound like you actually hope that never happens, in your heart of hearts, Bobkk47. I'd call you crazy, except I know all the other freepers hope for it too.

And Now This Word From Outer Space

I blame Liberals for Everything Edition:

Am I wrong?

Is it true that EVERY bad thing that occurs can be traced to some liberal policy?

Crazy supplied by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)

South American war?

Hmmm. No one but America can make war justly, right? And then not if Dems are in charge!

livius discusses causes:

I suspect that Ahmadinejad is behind this, but I don’t think he or Chavez has the capacity quite yet to really attack us (since Colombia and Israel are perceived by Iran and VZ to be our proxies). I think it’s just going to be noise, something they’re both good at. Still, it does represent an odd shift in focus, or perhaps a new focus, which is not an encouraging sign.

Yes, that international supervillian Ahmadinejad! Of course he's behind this!

But things really get rolling when jdm (Contrary to popular belief, the search function works just fine.) asks:

What would Hillary or Obama do about this situation?

mamelukesabre (Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?):

Lick boot.

Doomonyou (Let them eat lead.)

Open the door to the U.S. for hundreds of thousands of refugee's "Displaced by the war" to be cared for at taxpayers expense.

baclava:

Obama re-instates the draft to fight his wars in Iraq, Pakistan, Kenya, and Bolivia.

All males between the ages of 18 and 35......get your bags packed.

Though Lancey Howard (When seconds count, the police are only minutes away!) has a rosier view:

It will be a “narco war”, no question about it.
South America needs a good cleansing anyway. We can give Uribe whatever extra arms we have.

If the Dem's are in office, this means a draft or horrible weakness. If the R's are in office, this would be a good war to sit out.

Saturday Pix

Yes. This is exactly how it is. No need for probable cause when they are clearly terrorists.

Airplanes could bring down America! EVERYBODY PANIC!

If I see another goddamn casto cigar cartoon metaphore, I'ma gonna punch someone. Props to this one for dresdgin up old cold-war paranoia, though.

Obama: just like Che. I know I can see like a million paralells. Wait, I mean zero. Zero paralells.