RNC Strategy Document Reveals Socialism Fear Campaign

Dvorak,

Where the hell do you find these leftist morons to post for your blog? I take you to be a more rational and skeptical guy when it comes to politics and politicians but the leftist blowhards you let put stories up are frankly ruining this blog, imho. You are becoming the MSNBC of blogs.

#3

Interesting you would think the minority party that controls nothing in DC is on a power trip. But we all know that the dems NEVER politic like this. The Republicans should be as ethical and transparent as Obama and Rangel right?

Liberalism is absolutely a mental disorder.

#2 & #4 The Warden

The point of this post is to illustrate just how totally bereft of ideas the Republicans are. Basing a scare campaign on so called ‘socialist’ Democrats, who do nothing but siphon taxpayer money to the rich via bailouts and scams? There is NOTHING socialist about the Dems. They just pay lip service to the left because they know they have nowhere else to go. The Obama administration are straight up corporatist crooks, just like the Republicans. The only difference is the people they market to, and judging by this document the Republican’s regard their base as a bunch of morons.

I always have to laugh when US politicians and pundits use the word “socialism” in connection with anything that goes in that country…

…as if they knew what it meant XD

#4–Warden–in context ((you do know what a “context” is I hope===but from what you post I would have to think not)) the repugs are on a power trip based on spreading fear amount the idiot red based fundamental rightwingnut base AND in capturing political donations from that base and from large corporations seeking welfare.

You are SO transparent. You don’t have to “control Washington” in order to be on a power trip.

How silly you are. Even Dr Dootie Pants is having trouble keeping up with you, although he is giving it the good college wash out try.

#7-Dallas-Roosevelt declared “we have nothing to fear but fear itself”.

Except of course Roosevelt himself.

If he wanted to be really truthful with the people he would have said, “We have nothing to fear but my wife. I mean have you seen the mugg on that puppy? Oh God, she just never shuts up! I’m gonna have to die to get away from that awful whining.”

OK, maybe he was better off lying like he did. It’s not like he could have out run her.

And Harry Truman said “A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.”

Media scare tactics go back long before the Democrats or Republicans even existed. They just used a different medium to get their message out in those days.

Also… stop with the play on words. “Demoncrats” and “Repugs”… it makes you look uneducated.

As for voting the Democrats and Republicans out of office. They would pretty much throw the equilibrium of this country out of balance. If you want a civil war, get the f*ck out of my country. I am not dying for cheap political theater.

If there is one message to be learned in politics, there will only be two political parties in American politics. This is the way our system was designed.

There simply is no leverage for a third party. Unless it was to replace one of the major two. This of course is impossible (at the moment) because it is a “game” and, or “professional theater” and they will protect each other from an outsider just as much detest each other in “public.”

A third party system could emerge that had a chance, but it would have to be a very moderate party with the proper funding, media connections and corporate sponsorship. In other words, it would have to be as corrupt as the two that are currently in power.

The truth as an America is you simply have to pick one of the two and pretend they are your home team and there really is a championship. Which there are, if you consider small political gains to the left or right to be important… overall true change… no.

At the end of the day, however, we have to realize that the left and right is mostly an illusion (except for small pockets of ideological driven people)who are simply used by their party for reelection and fund raising.

#17 I think for a lot of Republicans the answer is yes, specifically the fundamentalist Christians. They are brought up all their lives that the most important aspect of their life is their religious life, in which they are told to bow down and submit their lives 100% to a (hopefully benevolent) dictator, i.e. God. Given that, I think that many of them are actually uncomfortable with a democracy in the political aspect of their lives, and deep down they’d prefer a dictator in that aspect of their lives too.

Socialism is rule by “the people” and “corporate communism” aka fascism is rule by “The Man”. They’ve been taught all their lives that the people must submit themselves to The Man. Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s, etc.

Eh, it’s just a theory, but I’ve met enough fundies who are suspicious of independent thinking to believe it.

Shocking. Like the party of “NO” has some measurable degree of values.
They value their diminishing standing in a reasonably truthful America.
The trouble is the collective intelligence of this fading party could not
fill a peanut shell, but it works for that phony Michael Steele and fills
the coffers with cash from suckers like the very angry and very scared
posters here.

I think the next winning party will be the “Party of the AK47″

lets see…
They dont like..
Communism..
Socialism..
Nazism..
Nudism..

HOW about republicanism??
How about democracy??
I think these folks like MONEY. which is a Plutocracy. HE who has the most money WINS..
It was said that the TOP 20% pay more in taxes then the bottom 60%.. I think thats not correct. If you add all those people together and ADD UP all the cigarette and alcohol taxes from that BOTTOM 60%, I think we beat those TOP 20%..

Got this in an e-mail the other day, but it’s related to what’s being discussed:

Poverty in Our Cities…

City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level

1. Detroit , MI
32.5%

2. Buffalo , NY
29.9%

3. Cincinnati , OH
27.8%

4. Cleveland , OH
27.0%

5. Miami , FL
26.9%

5. St.. Louis , MO
26.8%

7. El Paso , TX
26.4%

8. Milwaukee , WI
26.2%

9. Philadelphia , PA
25.1%

10. Newark , NJ
24.2%

U.S. Census Bureau, 2006 American Community Survey, August 2007 What do the top ten cities (over 250,000) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?

Detroit , MI (1st on the poverty rate list) hasn’t elected a Republican mayor since 1961;

Buffalo , NY (2nd) hasn’t elected one since 1954;

Cincinnati , OH – (3rd)…since 1984;

Cleveland , OH – (4th)…..since 1989;

Miami , FL – (5th) has never had a Republican mayor;

St. Louis , MO – (6th)…..since 1949;

El Paso , TX – (7th) has never had a Republican mayor;

Milwaukee , WI – (8th)….since 1908;

Philadelphia , PA – (9th)…since 1952;

Newark , NJ – (10th)….since 1907.

Einstein once said, ‘The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.’ It is the poor who habitually elect Democrats—yet they are still POOR.

“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”

- Abraham Lincoln

I’d be curious to know if someone is really bored enough to see if the stats are in fact true (not that the stats proves a causal relationship).

Follow up question for bonus points:

What does Lincoln say about corporations?

28, SmartAlix, http://tinyurl.com/a89rwq

29, Olo Baggins of Bywater, That’s a good catch…. I didn’t bother checking the Lincoln quote.

On the matter of grabbing a pile of cities with Republican mayors, I wouldn’t be surprised if you could find similar poverty figures. However, the list is supposedly about the top ten cities with the highest poverty rates (regardless of political affiliation)… cherry picking for Republican mayors COULD lead to similar but with lower figures (assuming the ranking was accurate to begin with).

hmmm… higher taxes, higher energy prices, increased union power – especially for public service unions, horrendous government debt, printing money, crony capitalism, and government micromanagement of everything by people who have never managed ANYTHING.

And oh yes, virtually the entire press acting as a fan club for this.

What could America possibly be concerned about??

Why would people give money to the Republicans just because Obama and his European style socialist friends are trying to get the United States into the same condition as Greece, Spain, etc.

Why would the idea of being a debtor nation having to grovel before China bother Americans?

What’s wrong with having to spend half of federal tax revenues on paying interest on the national dept?

Just because the health care bill pretty much sold out most voters and will leave them worse off rather than better off isn’t a reason to be hacked off is it?

I know it doesn’t seem to contain anything to contain the cost of tax care but if the Democrats did that the people they’ve been taking money from might stop giving them money.

Well it does massively reduce the amount of money for senior health care but goodness knows spending money on keeping seniors around has got to be a waste of money.

As a senior I must admit that I think two to the head would come out ahead of what I’m looking at but maybe that’s just me.

The really depressing thing is how many people now agree with me that the United States is going under.

You guys have a great day and may God bless and keep each of you especially you atheists. Most of you seem to be committed to making the government take over the role of God in your lives and if there is anything worse than worshiping nothing it’s counting on the government to love you and look out for your best interest. You are better off with an imaginary friend.

Both parties use the same tactic. Where the Republicans have the advantage is they can do it by telling the truth.

#33 bbt,

I know what you mean but it’s not clever and it’s not pointless. It’s how it will be if the progressives get their way.

Here’s to digging a little deeper. There are lots of progressives on both sides. Seventy members of congress state that they belong to the DSA or Democratic Socialists of America. Here’s how their membership document starts:

“THE POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA
PREAMBLE
At the beginning of the 20th century, a young and vibrant socialist movement anticipated decades of great advances on
the road to a world free from capitalist exploitation — a socialist society built on the enduring principles of equality,
justice and solidarity among peoples.”

Seventy members of congress say it openly. Seventy.