10 Ways Republicans Lie
Posted: Saturday, January 09, 2010
by John Sammon
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The GOP, the Grand Ole' Phony, the party of lies and liars, has perfected the twisting of facts to a new high art form.
Republicans used to be somewhat decent and reasonable people, for example Nelson Rockefeller. That was before the advent of Ronald Ray Gun and the headlong decent into reactionary dogma, zealotry, quasi pseudo-religious-political nuts, Rush, Sarah, Glenn, Ann, Sean and the rest who are currently making the party a fringe lunatic club.
Here are 10 principle ways Republicans lie.
1. Republicans don't believe in history. How could they? To them, everything bad about the country happened on the one-year watch of Obama. Nothing bad happened before that, during the eight years of Bush. There was no previous history before Obama. Whatever Bush did wrong, it wasn't wrong, or it didn't happen. The American people, who gave Bush a 19 percent approval rating, knew better.
2. Republicans use the same crowd mentality the Nazis in Germany did. You repeat a bald-face lie over and over. For example, Obama was born in Palestine. You repeat it again and again in spite of proof to the contrary. Some people will believe it. Republicans believe in throwing figurative spaghetti on the wall. Some of the slime will stick.
3. Republicans love the fable they are for small government, despite the record-setting debt they piled up when they were in power, from conquering and nation building small impoverished countries at a cost of billions, wasteful over-kill weapons systems, loop-hole advantages for ruthless corporations, and farming American jobs overseas to take advantage of cheap labor. It's pretty simple. If it's a program to help poor Americans (health insurance) it's traitorous socialism. If it's a new bomb to help conquer and subdue and exploit a poor country, it's great. Both cost money. Republicans are big spenders who act like they're not.
4. Republicans believe God is a Republican. This is fueled by the exclusionism that is a big part of the party subconscious. Just like I want to keep immigrants out except for boot blacks and melon pickers, I know God and you don't. You're going to hell. I'm not. God is my God, not yours. God looks like Charlton Heston. He likes me, not you.
5. Use of tokens. Republicans are renowned for their long-held belief that women and blacks are inferior, and the use of high-profile tokens to hide it. This resulted in the barely tolerated Uncle Tom Michael Steele, the aborted misfire Bobby Jindal, and the moronic, winking (aren't I clever?) rouge queen Palin.
6. Republicans are predictable. They constantly harp on how they are against government intrusion, but love wide open, laissez-faire, sky-is-the-limit-live-like-there's-no-tomorrow benefits-trickle-down-to-the-poor free market capitalism. Just as predictably, these markets running wild and unchecked, lying, cheating, stealing from investors and rate payers, eventually destroy the system, making government watchdog regulation necessary.
7. Republicans preach patriotism like they do religion. They seldom serve in the military. Democrats in Congress have out-served Republicans almost two-to-one. Republicans love war. They just don't want to get their hands dirty fighting it. Most of the time, neither do their children.
8. Republicans are angrier, more intolerant and prone to acts of disrespect and violence than Democrats, thus the unprecedented, disgraceful "you lie" shout made by Congressman Cretin Joe Wilson during an Obama speech. No Democrat on Capitol Hill ever yelled at Bush in eight years, though Bush did have a shoe thrown at his head by an angry Iraqi.
9. The Republican Party is rudderless. Proof of this is that no office holder of stature leads. There is no Dwight Eisenhower. Mis-leadership is instead provided by radio pundits and nut-cases more interested in ratings than they are in the truth.
10. Republicans can't adapt to changing conditions. A party that has traditionally been anti-immigrant, anti-low-income, anti-people-of-color, will find itself marginalized in a country where those categories are increasing. White Americans will make up half the population by mid-century. A majority of the Republican Party in Congress are 60-year-old white men who were brought up as children in a time when blacks were considered nig.'ers and Mexicans spicks. Republicans will cling to the past and shrivel.
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More commentsWow. Republicans lie?? I know Republicans and I wouldn't recognize them if this is what I was looking for. By the way, would someone like to point out the purported facts in this article to me? One of the few actual facts - that Congressional Dems out-serve the GOP in the military two to one - is inaccurate. In the 111th Congress, as of 3/2009 before Murtha's passing, it was 48 to 47 with almost equal combat duty (13-10).I know Republicans and this article could serve as a litmus test of their adherence to "GOP Values". Ain't you proud of what you believe?
As a kid in the mid-to-late 40's I saw a documentary between double features which I remember vividly. It was called the "Big Lie" and went into great detail about how Goebbels and Hitler swayed millions by presentling outrageous lies as fact over and over until the public "got it" one by one. I have never forgotten it but I am dismayed at all those of my own generation who have. Rove, Limbaugh, Ailes and crew must have found an archived copy somewhere and stuck it away as a reference tool in their lower, right-hand desk drawers.
And then at the bottom of this page I find an Ad(?) from Joe Miller the right wing Republican idiot who is probably gonna wind up as a new Senator from Alaska. Lisa Murkowski wasn't nutty enough for 'em. What really sets my ulcers aflame is that this moron loves to tout his credentials as a former Marine. Believe me folks, we former Marines can't afford this kind of association. It degrades our motto - Semper Fi.
I can't believe I missed this article, John, it's brilliant. You should re-publish it, I'd love to see it on the front page!
Pretty good overall but please answer this question.
"Republicans are predictable. They constantly harp on how they are against government intrusion, but love wide open, laissez-faire, sky-is-the-limit-live-like-there's-no-tomorrow benefits-trickle-down-to-the-poor free market capitalism. Just as predictably, these markets running wild and unchecked, lying, cheating, stealing from investors and rate payers, eventually destroy the system, making government watchdog regulation necessary."
How is this contradictory? Free market liberty is the opposite of government intrusion, so wouldn't it make sense that if you're against government intrusion, you might be for the free market.
Also, where are your sources that the free market runs wild and collapses the system? We've never had a free market system that would allow us to know what would happen under a free market system.The closer we've gotten to a pure 'free market system' (as demonstrated by the G.W. Bush years) the closer our economy came to complete collapse. I don't think it would be worth allowing our system to come to a complete collapse just to see what happens.
The current GOP is no longer the Republican Party our parents knew, infact in the past few years it has reinvented itself in to something very unfamiliar. It is not patriotic and does not have the interest of the nation and the people. It is selfish and looking out for the super wealthy, large corporations and special interests. It is no longer deserving of respect. . . it needs to dissolve itself and become extinct. It has served its purpose and no longer needed...it is a cancer in our nation. Chemo is needed badly....I agree completely. What passes for Republican these days is a sick imitation of a legitimate political party.
John, I agree with much of what you are saying here. That's one of the reasons I now I identify myself as a conservative-leaning libertarian rather than a Republican. However, I'll be looking forward to the article that you write about the lies Democrats tell. You are going to write one, aren't you? Democrats do lie, don't they? Just a little?
I believe the republican party is evil, they don't do the Lord's work.
Good gosh, you would have thought someone on SearchWarp would have updated their status as to the timely killing of Osama Bin Laden . . .WHAT A SITE!! Behind on anything and everything that brings the GOOD NEWS TO THE WORLD AND TO THE UNITES STATES OF AMERICA . . .
this needs to updated and published across the country everyone should hear the truth. jesus is smiling.
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