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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-04 01:45 AM
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Are we finally wearing the RW down?
The neocons are punch-drunk. They used to have a swift defense for every attack, but now the responses are sluggish and half-hearted. Everybody's blaming everyone else, and the general mood is pissed off, tired, and evasive.

They've had enough defending a president who's less and less defensible. Everyone hates to be proven wrong, even a neocon, but enough is enough.

Anyone else get that impression?
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JaySherman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-04 01:48 AM
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1. Just makes them more desperate, and therefore more dangerous.
Edited on Wed May-12-04 01:48 AM by JaySherman
A trapped and wounded animal is the most dangerous one.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-04 01:56 AM
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7. Yep
The next few months anything could happen.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-04 01:48 AM
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2. And Even In Victory We Must Never Quit And Never Let Our Guard Down
they are a hatefule and venomous and spitefule and vile and putrid lot. No rest for the weary... no sympathy for the evil.

-- Allen
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-04 01:54 AM
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5. No victory yet
but now is the time to capitalize on it--if we can keep momentum like this going * is toast
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-04 01:49 AM
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3. Nope
The extent of their programming is too complete. The best we can hope for is they decide not to come out to vote. Them wising up is out of the question.
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SlavesandBulldozers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-04 01:54 AM
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4. we arent, no
they are being worn down by karmic justice.
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squidbro Donating Member (129 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-04 01:55 AM
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6. Defending a president? It's their own ideology that is at fault!!
The Neocon ideology needs to be annihilated. Else it may rear its ugly head once again.

I don't think I personally, and the nation in general can survive another Neocon controlled executive branch leading the nation at any time.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-04 01:58 AM
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9. The neos won't go away
but maybe they can be relegated to skinhead or white supremacist status.
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drumwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-04 10:29 AM
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13. a better analogy would be the KKK
Edited on Wed May-12-04 10:30 AM by drumwolf
"but maybe they can be relegated to skinhead or white supremacist status." (my italics added)

Neocons and dittoheads are closer to the KKK than to skinheads. Funny you should even bring that point up, because I'm convinced that dittohead/freepers are essentially the ideological descendents of those Americans in the old days who felt it was their privilege as white men to lynch blacks and run Indians off their land.

Most current-day neocons and freepers are not racist (well, at least not explicitly so, in that they don't adhere to an explicit white-supremacist ideology like they would have a century ago), because society has advanced to the point where racism is no longer acceptable thanks to the courageous efforts of liberals.

But they have exactly the personality types such that if they were alive a century earlier, they would be burning all-black towns in Oklahoma (anyone see Rosewood?) or lynching Chinese laborers in anti-Asian riots in California.
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KissMyAsscroft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-04 01:57 AM
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8. It hasn't been us...

It's been the result of their own idiotic agenda that has sealed their fate.

But I think we are having an effect with the general populace.
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moof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-04 02:06 AM
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10. "Are we finally wearing the RW down" ?
Interesting, wasn't aware that chickenhawks had down feathers.
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MichaelUK Donating Member (403 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-04 03:40 AM
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11. keep going
Worst thing that could happen is that you stop and Bush thinks he's won. keep going. harrass the (insert expletive here) until he's got his war-loving, zenophobic arse out of that house.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-04 06:28 AM
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12. The only way the RW will change is by some sort of traumatic ...
event. An event like a devastating economic collapse or a war that requires a sacrifice directly from them and disrupts their lives in a significant way. Otherwise they are going to be around until that happens.
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