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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 11:14 PM
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The biggest mistake ever made by the republican party
George Walker Bush :dunce:
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file83 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 11:15 PM
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1. TWICE.
:P
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buff2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 11:28 PM
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2. It took a freakin moron to bring em down........
The repuke party is toast. They don't have one shred of credibility left,thanks to that lying little snake of a male george bush and dickhead cheney. On one hand I am LMAO,but on the other hand I am sad,pissed and frightened out of my mind to think that mad man has 2 more years to complete his mission of totally destroying what little bit is left of this country. I just don't understand why SOMEONE doesn't stop that bastard. Everybody talks about how wrong he is on every issue especially this war shit,but no one does a damn thing to stop him.We have an American HITLER we are dealing with. Someone needs to step up to the plate and start impeachment proceedings IMMEDIATELY!

This little brainless twit is planning on attacking Iran before he leaves office. Are these stupid politicians going to give him a blank check and an "OK,go ahead" AGAIN??? Khrist......this is a freakin nightmare. :argh:
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 11:36 PM
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3. He is a dumbed down Herbert Hoover with Al Capone as VP
and two disastrous wars tied to his ass.
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 11:37 PM
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4. Actually it was Ronnie Ding Raygun who brought in the neocon thugs
...and started this whole pandering to the ultra right religious wing-nutz
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 11:41 PM
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5. Many of them worked for Nixon before Raygun
but Bushit will be the final nail that ends their little run.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 11:43 PM
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6. Sorry, but I'm afraid this horror film will have a sequel
It's our job to keep the sequel from ever happening. But if history is any guide, they will sneak thru the fence again some day and further desecrate the White House.
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 11:45 PM
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7. Yes, this is a fact many people don't understand...
If Nixon was never pardoned, Cheney, Negroponte, Rumsfelf and the rest would not have been around to destroy America today.
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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 12:08 AM
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10. ...and that Jerry Ford, such a nice guy. He helped heal our nation.
...and that's what we needed at the time.:sarcasm:
Yep, many of our most unsavory, parasitical characters today were hatched in the vipers nest that was the Nixon White House. Almost none were held accountable. And all realized a free, neutral press was detrimental to fascists and dictators.
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Demoiselle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 12:24 AM
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12. The law of unintended consequences is a very nasty thing....
If Gerald Ford has NOT pardoned Nixon, he might have squeaked out a victory against Carter in ''76. I still would have voted for Carter then because I just never vote for REpublicans, but still... I hope we can agree that Ford was a far more reasonable, centrist Republican than Reagan. A Ford victory in 76 might have squelched the Reagan Movement Conservatives.
Cheney, Negroponte and the rest might not therefore have risen to such power...And then those arrogant f-ers wouldn't have given us Dubya.
I still don't know whether Ford's decision to pardon Nixon was the right one. I do believe that FORD truly believed it was the right thing to do...and, considering what a bunch of loser lying bastards the Repukes have given us since then...I have to put a lot of stock in Ford's honorable conviction that he was doing the right thing. For me, Ford has always been the Republican Truman...a man with no imperial ambitions for the presidency. (Unlike Nixon, and those who manipulated Reagan and Dubya. ) We gotta get back to that somehow.
It is clear to me now that both Reagan and Dubya were/are simply useful figureheads for a far more sinister group of powermongers.

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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 12:43 AM
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16. Your last sentence...totally and completely spot on. You win the pony.
Edited on Fri Jan-26-07 12:44 AM by Raster
The reign of ronnie the raygun saw the beginning of the disassembling of the social and moral fabrics that bound our nation. Greed became good. Poverty was a punishable offense. Does anyone remember a national homeless crisis before st. ronnie? Me either. Punishing people for their poverty became sport and selling your soul to Mammon became a career option. We as a society became paranoid and mean. And the great communicator communicated on...
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 06:12 PM
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22. noooo
they brought HIM in
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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 11:54 PM
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8. No truer words. I've followed the life and times of george w. bush* for over
Edited on Thu Jan-25-07 11:56 PM by Raster
twenty years. I lived in Texas during much of that time. I had friends connected to the Texas rethuglican party. One of those very well connected friends whispered in my ear years ago--even before bush* was governor--that they were going to make a run with george w. It was so ludicrous I didn't take him seriously. He told me to watch and see. I've watched and I've seen. There is no doubt in my mind there has been a long-range, concerted effort to engineer bush* into the White House. From his sobering epiphany to his finding Jesus to his stint as "owner" of the Texas Rangers and then to Governor of Texas, and finally to (P)resident, the path has been paved. And I have to ask, who the fuck thought betting the ranch on w was a good, solid idea? I know why Poppy sobbed like a little girl.
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 12:12 AM
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11. Sad that it took Bush to start getting the peoples' attention
but many are now waking up from the reupuke propaganda blitz of the past 25 years. Limbaughisms and Foxisms are the same old regurgitated shit. The results don't jive with the republican paradise promised to the generally dumb public.
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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 12:25 AM
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13. roger ailles runs Faux News. He came from the same nest of vipers.
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 12:28 AM
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14. Yep
He was part of the same crime family that migrated right on up through Raygun, HW Bush, and now Bushitler. Isn't he the one who discovered Limbaugh?
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Raster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 01:25 AM
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17. He did produce a television show for flush, but discover him? No.
Edited on Fri Jan-26-07 01:29 AM by Raster
They're collaborators and accomplices. I have no doubt ailles has had some hand in shaping and honing the media cancer that is flush limpballs. ailles has somewhat of a reputation as being a media savant, especially with the religious fascistas, the flag wavers and other members of the tractor pull crowd. roger ailles is this generation's joseph goebbels. It was ailles who masterminded the Faux News Networks complicity in the coup that was bush*. And this is no small part. It was a bush* first cousin on Faux that first challenged the ALREADY PREDICTED RESULTS of the exit polling calling Florida for Gore. It was Faux that led the media blitzkrieg against Gore. It was Faux that first showed a smirking w* in an Austin hotel suite telling us that he knew the results in Florida would take an interesting turn. It's Faux that has functioned as the ex-officio public relations arm of the rethuglican party without shame or apology.
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roamer65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 12:02 AM
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9. 2 more years of * and the Rethug party will go the way of the Whig party...
oblivion.
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Greeby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 12:32 AM
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15. Hmm, wonder who'll take their place? nt
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 01:57 PM
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18. Correction: "The Republic Party". ....... as you were.
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 02:02 PM
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19. GWB Is the Nixon Administration Part Deux
For them, it was a "success". For the Nation, another disaster.
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Hidden Stillness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 02:05 PM
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20. Their Biggest Mistake was What They Thought was Their Greatest Coup
Actually, I think the biggest mistake they ever made was the thing they stupidly thought was the most "brilliant," namely, their asinine "plan" to completely destroy the Constitution, the fairness of elections, the nominations of Federal Judges, the redisticting of all voting areas in the country, "framing," slogans, smear and lies replacing education and debate--and all the rest--as part of their asshole "master plan" to create a "permanent Republican majority." Most disastrous of all for them, was their "brilliant" "Southern strategy," whereby they would steal the South away from the Democrats with veiled threats to poor whites about race, and thereby capture the whole country. Unfortunately for them, they never counted on reality, and the fact that other people exist, and so, like all their other "plans," this one turned to horror and nightmare. Best of all, they took the South off our hands as a region we just had to have, and now the National revulsion against Republicans has started another historic reconfiguration of the Nation's political map, with areas of the West now added to our Norhteast, Midwest, and Pacific Coast. Lately, I have even heard political writers talk about how, eventually, because of the Republican blunder, they may end up being the Party of ONLY the South. When selfish assholes like this crowd try to "play God," usually only disaster and unintended consequences result--for them.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-26-07 02:21 PM
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21. Which is a bigger mistake: Driving off a cliff & into mid-air?
Or hitting bottom after falling 1000 ft?

With Bush Jr the Republicans have hit bottom. They drove off the cliff with Reagan.
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