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Republicans are just giving us the WH! Santorum: Women too emotional for combat?!?!? (Original Post) usregimechange Feb 2012 OP
It appears that Republicans indeed are trying to lose. phasma ex machina Feb 2012 #1
That is actually not such a far fetched idea LiberalLovinLug Feb 2012 #23
agreed. what the hell would this loser know about the military and combat? roguevalley Feb 2012 #43
We should appreciate their efforts in their quest to lose! CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2012 #2
It's just not happening for Santorum RZM Feb 2012 #3
They couldn't do any better if we wrote a script for them. lpbk2713 Feb 2012 #4
By that logic, John "Boo-Hoo" Boehner should be disqualified, too. (nt) JaneQPublic Feb 2012 #5
wh....wh...WOW!!! Jus wow. The amount of ignorance from a public figure is dangerous uponit7771 Feb 2012 #6
And Santorum has personal experience of combat? That's news. n/t sarge43 Feb 2012 #7
Of course not. He's too emotional for that... crazylikafox Feb 2012 #27
Yeah, he'd fold like origami. n/t sarge43 Feb 2012 #30
DUzy roguevalley Feb 2012 #45
DUzy^2 BootinUp Feb 2012 #59
'Cause he's such a shining example of everything "manly". DCKit Feb 2012 #8
This is when wise people stand back and just feed them all the rope they need lunatica Feb 2012 #9
There's only thing to do sarge43 Feb 2012 #10
Hey Sarge! Pass some of that over here, wouldja please? Bake Feb 2012 #15
Comin' atcha Bake. Garlic butter? n/t sarge43 Feb 2012 #16
Garlic butter, Sarge... blechk.... :>)) pangaia Feb 2012 #51
That's one thing Carville got right. hifiguy Feb 2012 #18
Priceless pangaia Feb 2012 #52
This is when wise people stand back and just feed them all the rope they need AlbertCat Feb 2012 #64
It wouldn't surprise me if they were madokie Feb 2012 #11
no..but they will. madrchsod Feb 2012 #12
Between our vagina's, wombs and emotions, according to the GOP, we're a hot mess justiceischeap Feb 2012 #13
When Rick wrings his hands about the fact that one in three women sarge43 Feb 2012 #17
LOL! crunch60 Feb 2012 #60
Not to take issue with your general thrust, but I'm not sure coalition_unwilling Feb 2012 #80
Poor Rick. It's not his fault. He just wasn't born in 1500! sinkingfeeling Feb 2012 #14
"One of the great minds of the 13th century" KamaAina Feb 2012 #22
Do you mind if I occasionally uise that quote? pangaia Feb 2012 #53
Go for it! KamaAina Feb 2012 #55
Wow, how ignorant, so nineteenth century can they be? newspeak Feb 2012 #19
Along with many others, Santorum owes this man an apology. sarge43 Feb 2012 #21
aw. that picture is so sad. :( roguevalley Feb 2012 #46
Civilian Ricky would probably try this sweet soul for Ilsa Feb 2012 #57
At least tell him to man up. sarge43 Feb 2012 #69
How many years did Rick serve his country? Rex Feb 2012 #77
That is one hell of a picture. Do you have coalition_unwilling Feb 2012 #81
I got it from googling images "Korean War" sarge43 Feb 2012 #83
Thank you so much. It is really something. Just out of curiosity, have coalition_unwilling Feb 2012 #84
This guy is a relic from back further than the 19th century Zalatix Feb 2012 #25
My daughter and I survived combat without getting as "emotional" as most. Rozlee Feb 2012 #49
He obviously has not seen Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" and the coalition_unwilling Feb 2012 #82
I have just got to see him debate this with Newt KamaAina Feb 2012 #20
Wow! MustBeTheBooz Feb 2012 #24
Hah Spider Jerusalem Feb 2012 #26
in my fondest dreams unionworks Feb 2012 #28
Feh. I'd like to run him around my old drill pad a few times. sarge43 Feb 2012 #29
Sarge, unionworks Feb 2012 #31
Thank you, unionworks. sarge43 Feb 2012 #33
yup Skittles Feb 2012 #35
Well, that didn't take long. sarge43 Feb 2012 #32
in what branch of the military did Rick serve? Skittles Feb 2012 #34
Spoken like a true chickenhawk. SomethingFishy Feb 2012 #36
Good one. Thanks. sarge43 Feb 2012 #37
Yep. Never served a day in the military but thinks he Ilsa Feb 2012 #56
No, no!! He's RIGHT! Have you ever seen anyone in combat? TygrBright Feb 2012 #38
Heh... true. The troops are not robots, FFS! demmiblue Feb 2012 #39
The honor in combat is to walk away from it. CAPHAVOC Feb 2012 #41
You're correct Rick. This woman looks fairly emotional... FailureToCommunicate Feb 2012 #40
Yeah, how about the emotion of urinating on dead bodies. tabatha Feb 2012 #42
Yea, I just read, Iliyah Feb 2012 #44
Is that like the argument they made about gays in the military... Rozlee Feb 2012 #50
Ricky definitely has crunch60 Feb 2012 #63
If that's his concern, Zookeeper Feb 2012 #74
meanwhile, gejohnston Feb 2012 #75
Sanitorium: Too Insane to Be The Leader of The Free World Dont call me Shirley Feb 2012 #47
Combat! Godot51 Feb 2012 #48
Did somebody thaw this guy out from a 19th century glacier?? Sparkly Feb 2012 #54
I'm sure the female Soviet snipers from the battle of Stalingrad would disagree with lil' Ricky N/T Serve The Servants Feb 2012 #58
also, has me thinking of the russian women combat pilots of WWII newspeak Feb 2012 #79
Hating an enemy, nothing emotional there L. Coyote Feb 2012 #61
Translation DallasNE Feb 2012 #62
He's right! AlbertCat Feb 2012 #65
Wasn't it Newt Gingrich who said, eons ago, that women shouldn't serve on the front lines MADem Feb 2012 #66
oh god!!! now you've got me thinking newspeak Feb 2012 #78
So, Mr. Drag the Dead Fetus home to mourn over thinks WOMEN are too emotional? JCMach1 Feb 2012 #67
Ah I get it now. Warren Stupidity Feb 2012 #68
Of course they are, but so are men. Deep13 Feb 2012 #70
either that or they gejohnston Feb 2012 #71
And the U.S. Air Force began accepting women as fighter pilots in 1993 pinboy3niner Feb 2012 #72
Yeah, it did take the gejohnston Feb 2012 #76
Talk about "emotional..." Zookeeper Feb 2012 #73
We're witnessing the slow implosion of the GOP. Initech Feb 2012 #85
Rick Scent-O'-Rump needs to read up on this woman's amazing life as a combat soldier aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2012 #86

phasma ex machina

(2,328 posts)
1. It appears that Republicans indeed are trying to lose.
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 02:46 AM
Feb 2012

In the end, the loose cannon called "Newt's ego" will sink the whole ship. LOL.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,153 posts)
23. That is actually not such a far fetched idea
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 02:25 PM
Feb 2012

The economy is still not patched up quite yet (from their abuse)

They enjoy the role of the thorn in the side.

If they had the WH, they'd have to come up with something to do, as opposed to oppose. War is always an option with the GOP because it focuses the attention away from domestic problems, but the population may not have an appetite for another one so soon.

As long as they retain the House, and have a posse of Blue Dog Dems to work with in the Senate they can continue their work of stifling progress all the while blaming the lack of progress on the WH. They know a Lame Duck with no House or Senate won't do too much damage improvement anyways.

I think they've given up on it awhile ago. They are saving their big dogs until 2014 when they have a chance with fresh Dem meat to go against. Christie, Jeb Bush, .....

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)
43. agreed. what the hell would this loser know about the military and combat?
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 06:14 PM
Feb 2012

He needs to talk to Tammy Duckworth, the fucking idiot.

 

RZM

(8,556 posts)
3. It's just not happening for Santorum
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 02:50 AM
Feb 2012

They've been doing this flavor of the month dance since last summer. And just about every candidate has had their shot. Bachmann, Perry, Cain, Gingrich, and now Santorum. The only one left is Paul and he's just not somebody the Republicans will rally around. In the end, after all of this song and dance, it's going to be Romney just like everybody has been predicting the whole time.

lpbk2713

(42,696 posts)
4. They couldn't do any better if we wrote a script for them.
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 03:00 AM
Feb 2012



They're imploding all on their own.

All we have to do is sit back and point and laugh.



 

DCKit

(18,541 posts)
8. 'Cause he's such a shining example of everything "manly".
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 08:37 AM
Feb 2012

If he wins the pResidency, I'm buying stock in Depends.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
9. This is when wise people stand back and just feed them all the rope they need
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 08:41 AM
Feb 2012

Never interfere when your enemies are destroying themselves.

edited for grammar

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
18. That's one thing Carville got right.
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 01:16 PM
Feb 2012

"When your opponent is drowning, throw the SOB an anvil."

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
64. This is when wise people stand back and just feed them all the rope they need
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 02:02 AM
Feb 2012

Amazing, isn't it?

It's like when Jerry & Pat would get together and talk on the 7000 club. In their secure, enclosed environment, they'd get too comfy and spew forth atrocious crap that horrified the world (like gays caused 9/11). Santorum had a little win win and now thinks he's a huge success, everyone wants to bask in his wisdom, and he can state his too clever positions because he thinks he has Joementum, or something.

How clueless and childish can one be? This is not presidential material.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
11. It wouldn't surprise me if they were
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 09:00 AM
Feb 2012

None of them are up to the task that lies ahead. Plus they want to tar and feather this President and haven't been able too yet so yes I think they are very capable of doing just as you suggest. The last thing the old white man club wants is a successful Black President cause in their minds, what little they have that is, there would be more to follow. They will do anything to stop that from happening you can bet on that too. You want to see that old white man club go ballistic all we have to do is elect a Woman President. Heads would be exploding all over the place

Just a reminder I'm mostly an old white man myself but I don't ascribe to that group that I'm referring to mind set.

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
13. Between our vagina's, wombs and emotions, according to the GOP, we're a hot mess
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 09:11 AM
Feb 2012

Maybe we should all just quit the workforce, not have children ('cause that's emotionally and physically hard too) and sit at home in appropriately quiet safe rooms knitting chastity belts and repeating Psalm 140:4, "O LORD, keep me out of the hands of the wicked. Protect me from those who are violent, for they are plotting against me."

A**holes!

sarge43

(28,939 posts)
17. When Rick wrings his hands about the fact that one in three women
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 01:06 PM
Feb 2012

will suffer abuse, then he can get back to us. Hell, at least in the service we have a frackin' M-16 and taught how to use it.

 

coalition_unwilling

(14,180 posts)
80. Not to take issue with your general thrust, but I'm not sure
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 01:25 PM
Feb 2012

knitting a chastity belt will provide much in the way of preserving chastity Although, come to think of it, the mere act of knitting said belt would go some way to fostering chastity (think Penelope in Homer's "Odyssey"

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
22. "One of the great minds of the 13th century"
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 01:44 PM
Feb 2012

as described by the Philadelphia Inquirer -- where he is now a columnist!

newspeak

(4,847 posts)
19. Wow, how ignorant, so nineteenth century can they be?
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 01:16 PM
Feb 2012

Pewesta (sp) was one of the first casualties in the iraq war. She went down firing. Lynch was captured in the same incident. I have a book about the history of women in battle; and women can be some very vicious fighters. The catholic church had to pass an edict twice to keep women (celtic) from fighting. In celtic societies, both men and women fought.

In one of my college history classes, we discussed women who fought in the civil war. Women who dressed like men and fought.

To me, it doesn't matter if you are a man or woman. It depends if you have that "warrior", fighting spirit. Just like not all women are nurturers and there are some men who do a better job at nurturing.

With their concepts of allowing robber barons free reign, child labor, getting rid of workers' rights and wanting slave labor; I think every damn one of them want the "good old" nineteenth century robber baron days. Where women and children are mere chattel.

sarge43

(28,939 posts)
21. Along with many others, Santorum owes this man an apology.
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 01:43 PM
Feb 2012

His wicked, horrible implication that men can face the horror of combat and feel no pain, can endure indefinitely and come away without wounds, seen or hidden.

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
57. Civilian Ricky would probably try this sweet soul for
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 11:15 PM
Feb 2012

treason or dereliction of duty.

It's obscene that he thinks he knows more than those who've served and made recommendations about women serving.

sarge43

(28,939 posts)
69. At least tell him to man up.
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 01:28 PM
Feb 2012

The photo was taken during the Korean War. He had just learned a friend had died from wounds. He still had his humanity and still could grieve.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
77. How many years did Rick serve his country?
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 12:56 AM
Feb 2012

Yeah you know, that time when he was in the ________ for _______ years and _______________________. Oh wait...he never did and never will that chickenshit coward.

I think Rick needs a big mug of STFU.

sarge43

(28,939 posts)
83. I got it from googling images "Korean War"
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 02:33 PM
Feb 2012

It's one of Life magazine's classics photos. I'm old enough to remember the original. Caused a bit of a stink.

 

coalition_unwilling

(14,180 posts)
84. Thank you so much. It is really something. Just out of curiosity, have
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 06:26 PM
Feb 2012

you read Halberstam's The Coldest Winter? It's a pretty stirring account of what the soldiers had to go through after the Chinese came in. A bit weak on Truman's shit-canning of MacArthur, imo, but still worth the time.

My Dad landed at Inchon with the USMC and was subsequently wounded there, but I was not even a glimmer in his eye at that point so everything I've learned about the war has been from hearing him talk and reading about it.

 

Zalatix

(8,994 posts)
25. This guy is a relic from back further than the 19th century
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 02:59 PM
Feb 2012

His kind just came down from the trees, hell he's not even past banging rocks together and scratching his arm pits.

Rozlee

(2,529 posts)
49. My daughter and I survived combat without getting as "emotional" as most.
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 08:25 PM
Feb 2012

Doesn't that idiot realize that in urban warfare like in Iraq, there is no frontline? That women are just as much a target as men and have to jump in and join in firefights? I was an Army nurse and my daughter was a Coast Guard instructor on detecting hazardous and contaminated substances and possible WMDs. No one was exempt from sniper fire; not cooks, supply clerks (like Lynch and Piestewa), chaplain assistants, no one! Women might be able to join Spec Ops like the Rangers and SEALs someday, but it doesn't mean that in the recent wars, we haven't already technically been "frontline."

 

coalition_unwilling

(14,180 posts)
82. He obviously has not seen Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" and the
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 01:31 PM
Feb 2012

brutal revelation at its end. Nor has he read much history (thinking Joan of Arc and earlier Celtic antecedents like Boudica).

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
20. I have just got to see him debate this with Newt
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 01:43 PM
Feb 2012

Frothy: "Women are too emotional for combat!"

Newt: "No, it's that they get infections in foxholes!"

"Emotinal!" "Foxholes!" "Less filling!" "Tastes great!"

MustBeTheBooz

(264 posts)
24. Wow!
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 02:49 PM
Feb 2012

And with the frequency of which he blinks his eyes, I can't tell if he's lying, believes what he says, or has some nervous twitch. Regardless, this guy has serious issues. Not the least of which, after losing re-election he thinks he should be leader of the free world. The ballz!

MBTB

 

unionworks

(3,574 posts)
28. in my fondest dreams
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 03:14 PM
Feb 2012

...Rick gets into the ring with an olympic level woman kickboxer, and starts crying for his mommy as she "emotionally" takes his ass apart. (Remember this from "Jackass"?)

sarge43

(28,939 posts)
29. Feh. I'd like to run him around my old drill pad a few times.
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 03:28 PM
Feb 2012

Let's see who cries first.

"Yo troop, let's have some fun in the Texas sun!"

 

unionworks

(3,574 posts)
31. Sarge,
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 04:42 PM
Feb 2012

(Hope you don't mind my calling you that) in my younger years I dated 4 different women who were ranked 5th or higher in various styles. Each of them was a bona fide member of the "killer elite", fortunately the demonstrations I received were for the most part friendly ones. Any man who holds Santorums illusions about the capabilities of women is a damn fool. And thank you for your service.

sarge43

(28,939 posts)
33. Thank you, unionworks.
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 04:58 PM
Feb 2012

Women have always been in combat, sometimes even as combatants. According to my husband, retired ammo man, there's no such thing as a bullet or bomb that stops in mid flight because its target is a woman.

Skittles

(152,963 posts)
35. yup
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 05:05 PM
Feb 2012

my mum survived WWII bombing when she was a child - funny how these repukes who care so much about the "emotions" of women in combat don't give a crap about children when they endorse war

sarge43

(28,939 posts)
32. Well, that didn't take long.
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 04:47 PM
Feb 2012

Rickie got on his bicycle and backpeddled. Seems it's men who have the emotional issues. Waiting for him to cite one example where a man endangered his unit or the mission because he rescued a woman. As for the physical strength, some women don't have it, but then neither do some men. Give it up, Rick. These arguments were old ten years ago and more.

http://news.yahoo.com/rick-santorum-meant-mens-emotional-issues-154221352--abc-news.html

SomethingFishy

(4,876 posts)
36. Spoken like a true chickenhawk.
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 05:06 PM
Feb 2012

"Hi I'm Rick Santorum, I have never served in the military, have never been in combat and I have no idea what it's like to be a woman. However I have watched Full Metal Jacket and Apocalypse Now a dozen times and have a close personal relationship with my wife and with all that experience under my belt I think I'm personally qualified to decide who is too emotional for combat."

Nice try Ricky..


Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
56. Yep. Never served a day in the military but thinks he
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 11:11 PM
Feb 2012

knows more about what it takes to serve than those who actually do serve.

TygrBright

(20,733 posts)
38. No, no!! He's RIGHT! Have you ever seen anyone in combat?
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 05:17 PM
Feb 2012

They're all, like, you know... cool. And logical. And rational. And calculated.

That's the very ESSENCE of combat!

There's no emotion involved at all!

Seriously!!

Why are you laughing?

amusedly,
Bright

demmiblue

(36,742 posts)
39. Heh... true. The troops are not robots, FFS!
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 05:35 PM
Feb 2012

I would think that some of the most honorable actions in combat are the ones in which the soldier puts aside logic and relies on their emotional core; the thing that makes them human.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
44. Yea, I just read,
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 06:19 PM
Feb 2012

that now Rickiepoo says apparently women distracts men in the military, y'know, ahem, sexually and therefore, men, ahem, cannot serve properly, ie will lose battles and wars because - its too emotional for men because of these sexy women . . .

I think thats what he's trying to say.

Rozlee

(2,529 posts)
50. Is that like the argument they made about gays in the military...
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 08:38 PM
Feb 2012

that during life-and-death combat, hetero soldiers wouldn't be able to concentrate on destroying the enemy because they'd be too worried about a gay soldier checking their asses out while they were all under heavy fire? The mind boggles.

 

crunch60

(1,412 posts)
63. Ricky definitely has
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 01:04 AM
Feb 2012

a problem with women's sexuality. He would like us to be all good Stepford Wives.

Zookeeper

(6,536 posts)
74. If that's his concern,
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 08:02 PM
Feb 2012

perhaps he could speak out against the harassment and assault female soldiers currently receive from some male comrades. Perhaps he could demand that the military take action to stop it.

Yeah, fat chance.

gejohnston

(17,502 posts)
75. meanwhile,
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 11:52 PM
Feb 2012

the ghosts of Roman soldiers that ventured north of Hadrian's Wall and Germans that took part in Operation Barbarossa are telling Ricky,
We wish.

Godot51

(239 posts)
48. Combat!
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 08:07 PM
Feb 2012

Personally I believe all humans, and all other animals and robots, etc., should avoid combat. However, I'll volunteer Rick for combat, I'm sure almost anyone in Afghanistan would trade places with him. They could have a lottery. Perhaps waging war against the Godless followers of Allah will prove his mettle. Or scare the santorum out of him.

newspeak

(4,847 posts)
79. also, has me thinking of the russian women combat pilots of WWII
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 01:18 PM
Feb 2012

mostly, when shot down, the nazis just executed them on the spot. Those slavs, doncha know, were inferior to those egotistical superior aryans.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
61. Hating an enemy, nothing emotional there
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 12:36 AM
Feb 2012

Without emotion, there would be no enemy. The enemy, the "others" are a creation of the emotions.

DallasNE

(7,392 posts)
62. Translation
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 12:41 AM
Feb 2012

Of what Santorum said and his "clarification".

Women are emotionally unstable cowards and that men only view women as sex objects ayway.

Tammy Duckworth may have a thing or two to say about that.

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
65. He's right!
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 02:05 AM
Feb 2012

Women ARE too emotional for combat?!?!?

Imagine a REALLY angry woman with a gun. The enemy hasn't a chance. We'll win everything!!!!







MADem

(135,425 posts)
66. Wasn't it Newt Gingrich who said, eons ago, that women shouldn't serve on the front lines
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 02:20 AM
Feb 2012

because they might get "infections" in the trenches?

These guys all sing from the same songbook, don't they?

newspeak

(4,847 posts)
78. oh god!!! now you've got me thinking
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 01:15 PM
Feb 2012

of limpballs anal cyst!!! That's right only women get infections, not men.

 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
68. Ah I get it now.
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 10:40 AM
Feb 2012

His concerns is that in addition to the men humping each other in the face of death, women will now also be desperately demanding a last minute fuck before the shit hits the fan, it is the well known santorum frenzy effect. Yes.

gejohnston

(17,502 posts)
71. either that or they
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 06:38 PM
Feb 2012

need to take more classes in military history, or at least join the military.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/doctor/drruth.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Russian_and_Soviet_military
http://senchus.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/pictish-warrior-women/

While US and Canadian women served as mechanics and other support/logistics troops, UK women also operated anti aircraft guns inside the UK.

Soviet women drove tanks, flew fighter planes, worked as snipers just like Israeli and Canadian women do today.

When I was at Prince Sultan AB, I saw USAF, UK-RAF, and French Air Force women manning machine gun nests guarding where I worked. Women were in my Combat Camera unit. I have no clue where Ricky and Newt are getting their information.

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)
72. And the U.S. Air Force began accepting women as fighter pilots in 1993
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 06:45 PM
Feb 2012

They flew combat ops throughout the Iraq War, and by 2008, the USAF had 70 women fighter pilots.

Zookeeper

(6,536 posts)
73. Talk about "emotional..."
Sat Feb 11, 2012, 07:57 PM
Feb 2012

Santorum looks to be a bundle of barely contained hysteria, himself. Perhaps he's just projecting.

Initech

(99,909 posts)
85. We're witnessing the slow implosion of the GOP.
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 06:44 PM
Feb 2012

The infighting between the GOP and the Koch-teabaggers is what's triggering it. Their inability to pick a true leader combined with their anti-threat of impeachment if they lose in November means they're getting desperate. The pundits heads have been exploding on a nightly basis and they're all but proving to be just a completely racist douchebag movement. This is the end folks and it's been fun to watch.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
86. Rick Scent-O'-Rump needs to read up on this woman's amazing life as a combat soldier
Sun Feb 12, 2012, 07:00 PM
Feb 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Bochkareva

Wounded in combat three times in trench warfare on the Eastern front in WW I, killed a German soldier with a bayonet in hand-to-hand combat, decorated for heroism by the Russian government, organizer of the first of several all female volunteer front-line combat units that served in the trenches and went over the top in The Great War, defended the Winter Palace with her all female battalion when revolutionaries stormed it. This lady, Maria Bochkareva should have had a movie made about her incredible life.
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