Ok I admit it. I'm not the smartest guy in the world

[Bluzmann57]

I'm just a small town guy from Iowa who works at a Union shop and gets dirty, sweaty, and sometimes achy at the end of the day. I have made several mistakes and admit to them. But I cannot understand for the life of me why anyone would stick up for repubs about this growing sex scandal. I'm talking college educated people. I mean if a simple man like me can see what kind of nastiness therse repubs are up to, then shouldn't an allegedly educated person be able to see it as well? We need to shout this far and wide, then maybe the media will at least pick up bits and pieces of the evidence that bloggers have picked up and bring the repub house of cards down. The convoluted evidence they use doesn't even make sense.

[wakeme2008]

1. They are supporting a House of Cards...

and they know with the Woodward book things are getting shaky

[waiting for hope]

2. They lack Integrity - the whole

lot of them......that's whats been missing from Congress. Integrity.

[pecwae]

3. Well, you're obviously smarter

than the 39% who still approve of the monkey:-)

I feel the same. I scratch my head and think that if 'I' can figure this out, why can't everyone in America?

[OwnedByFerrets]

4. Intellegence should not be measured by degree's but

rather by life experiences.

[Nye Bevan]

5. But it *is* completely excusable

Like Catholic church altarboys who seduce priests, those young pages are just so damned *sexy*.

:sarcasm:

[Warpy]

6. You didn't get a tax cut

They did.

End of story.

[Binka]

12. Money Money Money

The GOP song of choice. It is very simple and basic. Pimp greed and nasty things will happen.

[Virginia Dare]

7. If you work in a union shop...

then you're a smart guy...:thumbsup:

I agree, it's pure hypocrisy, but then we always knew that about the Republican party.

[BattyDem]

8. I've been wondering the same thing.

It's got to be some kind of psychological problem that allows them to ignore even the most despicable acts - as long as the person is a Republican. It's like a cult or something! They can't get beyond their party.

Right or wrong means nothing - truth or lie means nothing - good or bad means nothing - normal or perverted means nothing - sane or insane means nothing - legal or illegal means nothing ... the list goes on and on!

How does a person get to a point in their life where a POLITICAL PARTY is more important to them than their morals, the values, their beliefs, their religion and their country?! :shrug:

:wtf:

[CoffeeCat]

9. I'm not the smartest gal in the world...

...and I'm a small-town girl from Iowa. Although I don't work at a Union shop, I do get dirty, sweaty and sometimes achy at the end of the day---from trying to keep up with my kids--I also don't get this either.

It's repugnant and it's disturbing.

I see Republicans trying to spin dark webs into golden, flowery nothingness. They're out in full force, minimizing and rationalizing child sexual abuse and exploitation.

It makes me cringe.

I really feel, that when this all shakes out in a few days--and the Republicans come to understand that they can't solve every problem with guerrilla marketing--that they will stop what they are doing. They are in spin mode now. They've been backed into a corner and this scandal is horrendous. It's worse than Lewinsky, and they all know it. This is about a middle-aged man sexually exploiting, teenage pages--and it's also about the Republican leadership covering it up.

It's just gross.

It will take a few days---but in the end--this entire house of sickening cards will fall very hard. They're defaulting to what they know best--lying and spinning.

However, the next few days will make it obvious that you can't spin child sex abuse and exploitation. It just won't fly.

The rationalizing, minimizing, denial and lies that we see now, by Republicans--will be used against them for eternity.

[skids]

10. Protecting their investment -- in pompoms and miniskirts. n/t

[bryant69]

11. There is a legitmate question about what the best way to handle this is

I can see this creating problems for Democrats if Republicans can turn this around to be a discussion of how Democrats will politicize anything in order to regain power. Of course it's impossible to know how far is too far. How much hay are we able to make out of this crime, before the story is about our hay making abilities?

Of course it's also possible to be too timid with this story.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[endarkenment]

14. Ah no.

If the Democratic leadership allows the bullshit media system to control this issue it will be turned into an equivocation between clinton-lewinsky and foley-16 yr old interns. If we had any ability to influence or control the media, you might have a point. As it is your view, argued elsewhere, is fatally flawed. This issue must be raised to full scandal level with demands for the resignation of every house leader who participated in the cover up. The voters can then be motivated BY THIS ISSUE AND OTHERS to nationalize the election and vote incumbents out, to take matters into their own hands.

Inaction, as always, timidity, as always, will lead once again to the defeat which we will, once again, have snatched from the jaws of victory.

[A wise Man]

13. Not just for this issue

I can't, with all the mess from the economy to this fake war anyone human would defend these thugs in congress and this disgrace of an administration. How can anyone allow themselves to be completely brainwashed?