I think the republicans sure know how to energize their base. Unfortunately their base seems to be the violent, ignorant type.

My dad is a republican. If I had a nickle for every time he told me he hated obama and wants to see him dead, I’d be a millionaire.

I listen to him carry on about how Glenn beck tells it like it is, but when I point out to him things like that green czar guy. I forget his name. I honestly didn’t pay much attention to him.. but anyway. Glenn spent 2 full weeks railing on the guy. Digging through his past. Finding anything he could to discredit him and make him look like a dangerous individual. Well, Glenn didn’t do that because he was protecting america. He did it because that guy founded the group that was pressuring Glenns sponsors to drop him.

Ok.. I went and looked it up on cnn. This is the part of the article that I’m talking about..
Quote:
One of the most prominent conservative voices condemning Jones in recent days has been FOX TV host Glenn Beck.

Jones is a co-founder of colorofchange.org, a group that recently has been pressing advertisers to boycott Beck’s program after Beck called Obama a racist.

So again. It’s not about helping america at all. It was a personal vendetta.

The republicans are the best party at dirty tricks. They have fox news and the intellectually challenged members of our country watch it religiously. Did you know that they actually won a lawsuit brought against them by a reporter they fired? She did a story about monsanto. A VERY scary company. And they wouldn’t let it run. So she ends up fired and sued. The court ruled that it’s not breaking any laws for news channels to not tell the truth. Uh… So I dunno about fair and balanced.

So then we have all these tea party people. I was looking at pics of them today. I saw more confederate flags than I care to see in one day.. and hmm… NO black people. None. I couldn’t find one in any picture. There were plenty of kids holding up anti-obama signs. Ya know.. the same kids we don’t want listening to the president tell them to stay in school and get good grades because it’s indoctrination.

Honestly. The biggest problem is we liberals just sit back and take this bullshit. We “take the high road”. We say, Oh that’s not true. There are no gov’t death panels. (which is really laughable to me, because how many insurance companies have told people they won’t pay for their care.. i.e. people with insurance face death panels every day already, it’s just insurance company death panels). But no one hears us because we aren’t o’reilly or beck or rush, screaming it every single day. I said today, there is NO liberal rush, o reilly or beck. We have no one to whip us up into a frenzy like they do. I guess mostly because liberals tend to be better educated and we don’t need someone to tell us what to think. I don’t know about you, but I don’t watch much tv news at all. I read newspapers and watch a little cnn here and there. I keep myself informed, but I’m not glued to the tv every night watching fox news like my dad and 1/2 the country.

Today, my husband was telling me we need to get involved. Now, I do write to my congressmen. Carney, Specter and Casey. I wrote to them about cap and trade and told them I didn’t agree with it. And I actually got a response from casey and specter. They were form letters, basically telling me thanks, but we are going to do what we are going to do.. But I’ve written several times about health care and gotten nothing. Not even the typical form letter back saying, oh thanks. But we are going to do what we want anyway.

But I think what he meant was we need to start organizing people. The republicans are masters at getting people upset over nonsense. They wrap themselves in the flag and proclaim that they are the only patriots. They use it to lead the simple minded into doing what they want. Which is usually more for the rich and less for the poor.

My dad carrys on about health care.. How it’s going to be for the black lady with 18 kids.. and I try to explain to him that that woman already gets free medical through medicaid. That this health care reform is for people who work, lose their insurance due to a job loss, have diabetes or high blood pressure and can’t get insurance when they get re-hired because of preexisting conditions. People who run small businesses and can’t afford to pay $2500 a month for a policy for him and his wife.. and it always comes back to the illegal aliens and the black lady with 18 kids.

I think unless you have a tv show on fox, republicans don’t hear you.
Maybe it’s just that critical thinking eludes them.

The Bush administration was the scariest presidency every. The patriot act destroyed our constitutional rights, but these tea party people are screaming about health care and obama destroying the constitution?

One thing this has taught me, is that when republicans lose, they lose hard.

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