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2004-09-04 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tipper 2004-09-04 06:03|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Lol! VDH certainly "gets it" - and it will be a hairy ride ahead. I guess the only real question will be one of degree: How bad will the meltdown get?

For the very first time since this election season got cranked up, I feel like there are enough non-morons to defeat the forces of darkness in November. But that will only be the beginning, not the end.

We will likely look back on this moment as the last time things made much sense - until we've cleared the decks and forced the rats overboard. It really will get crazy. It will probably be bloody, too.

Posted by .com 2004-09-04 6:27:30 AM|| 2004-09-04 6:27:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Is 60 rounds enough?

Posted by badanov 2004-09-04 7:25:16 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-09-04 7:25:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 bad - Enough for what? Prolly depends on where you live, lol! In flyover country, that should do. In Boston, for example, you'll need quite a bit more, I'd guess, heh. Lotsa frags, body armor, and a reliable water supply would be good.

Posted by .com 2004-09-04 7:31:19 AM|| 2004-09-04 7:31:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 "We will likely look back on this moment as the last time things made much sense - until we've cleared the decks and forced the rats overboard. It really will get crazy. It will probably be bloody, too."

I took a stroll through the DU boards last night, very disturbing. Lots of unhinged people talking about taking the "next step", "decisive action", "buy guns" etc. etc.

The projection going on was interesting as well. They believe that the media is biased towards the right and lots of other over the top things. Basically they feel that the "Right" is guilty of all the things they've been doing.

And they are INDIGNANT in the extreme. Lock and load. Watch your six RBer's.

CiT

Posted by CiT 2004-09-04 9:01:04 AM|| 2004-09-04 9:01:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 For many of us lifelong Democrats, the very sight of Michael Moore perched next to Jimmy Carter at the convention in Boston says it all â the sorry coming together of conspiratorial anti-Americanism and self-righteous appeasement.

Having been a lifelong Republican, except for the brain-fart I had in 1992 voting for Perot, I can't imagine what it must be like for sincere, and decent Dems like Mr. Hansen, and Sen. Miller.

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-04 11:18:27 AM|| 2004-09-04 11:18:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I fully expect nationwide Rodney King style rioting after Bush wins. The closer the election, the more idiots in the street. I just pray he "steals" this election in a surprise landslide.

Posted by Crikey 2004-09-04 1:53:02 PM|| 2004-09-04 1:53:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 "while John Kerry goes windsurfing in shades and racing gloves" I've been windsurfing for more than 20 years. It is Kerry's only redeeming feature (of course some of the dumbest people I have ever met are windsurfers...duuuuuude). But the gloves and shades combo says he is a dork. Only a dork would wear that combo.

I live in Marin County, CA. I have a GWB sticker on my car. Someone asked me this morning if it had ever been vandalized. I'll bet it will be when George wins!

Posted by Remote Man 2004-09-04 1:54:34 PM|| 2004-09-04 1:54:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Now we learn that they may well turn their attention to targeted assassinations here at home

Which is essentially what the briefing I got this week covered. Nothing on whether there would be intentional/unintentional coordination by 'domestics'.

Posted by Pappy 2004-09-04 3:26:57 PM|| 2004-09-04 3:26:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 First... America's two parties are different from any others on the planet. They are not parties born of ideology rather parites born of evolution, grouping and compromise.

So...
If you where to look at parties as people (in a parent, adult, child sense) what would you see?

Republican: The core Republicans are actualized and know whom they are and what they believe. Self awareness is possible.

Democrats: The Democrats are a conglomeration of special interests that by definition can not achieve self actualization. Self awareness is not possible without a system crash.

This situation makes:
Republicans look more like adults
Democrats look more like spoiled children.

Neither of them are like modern parties elsewhere. The political agenda evolves and has no real relationship with pros and cons of issues.

I think Reagan was able to use the "adult-ness" or maturity of the Republican Image to attract the Religious Right and Southern Democrats to the Republican party. He took advantage of a patriarchal father image fit these folk prefered so he and they can say "because I told you so" in a Parent to Child mode.

This constrasted well with the disordered childlike democratic image seen by the pre-Reagan Moral Majority and Southern Dems as existing in a Democratic Party environment right out of "Lord of the Flys".

Posted by 3dc 2004-09-04 4:00:29 PM|| 2004-09-04 4:00:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 #2 Is 60 rounds enough?
Hrmm......I was going to scoff but after checking my own ammo supply, clearly I don't have enough. I have more than sixty, but only for 1 gun and less than 30 for 1 pistol. Time to restock.

Posted by Silentbrick 2004-09-04 4:55:40 PM|| 2004-09-04 4:55:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Pork-based lubes for all weapons!

Posted by Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-09-04 5:06:03 PM|| 2004-09-04 5:06:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 ..Let me tell you guys what I see coming.

Around the beginning of October, a group nobody's ever heard of is going to present 'proof' of a massive Republican plot to steal the election. The media will run with it and they'll hammer at it until we'll have a replay of last time, with the same result. Only this time, you will see at least two former presidents and a bunch of LLL leaders stand up and say for the good of the country, GWB must hand over the presidency to Kerry - and that is when the marches and riots will start...

I was happy to see those poll numbers today - but then I realized what it means for the Dhimmicrats. If they lose this time, and by the kind of margins those polls indicate, they are DOOMED.

And they'll pull the temple down around them before they let that happen.
Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-09-04 5:41:23 PM|| 2004-09-04 5:41:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Mike---I am going to print out a copy of your comment and file it in my drawer at work. Then we'll watch through heavy lenses and compare notes in October.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-09-04 5:47:17 PM|| 2004-09-04 5:47:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Crikey: I fully expect nationwide Rodney King style rioting after Bush wins. The closer the election, the more idiots in the street.

Relax. Liberals just aren't mentally equipped to riot. Too darned dangerous. It also takes time away from quaffing lattes, going to art movies and making love.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-09-04 5:51:17 PM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2004-09-04 5:51:17 PM|| Front Page Top

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