The Empire State Joins the Tea Party

As the revolution for limited government, fiscal responsibility, and individual freedom has swept the rest of the country, New York state looked immune to its reach and power. In states as deeply blue as Massachusetts and New Jersey, and as widely disparate as Florida, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Alaska, the movement to bring our country back to its Constitutional roots has taken serious hold. Conservative candidates are winning in places once considered impossible for anybody other than a Democrat.

But New York seemed to buck the national trend. With both U.S. Senate seats up this year and a gubernatorial race, there were three major openings for conservatives to exploit. And yet, every political analyst wrote New York off: too blue, too entrenched, Democrat candidates (Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Andrew Cuomo) too well-known and popular.

Well now. Two new polls today show that the New York Dems had better not count their electoral chickens just yet. In two of the three major races, the relatively unknown Republican candidates are gaining serious ground. In the Senate race against Gillibrand, Joe DioGuardi was running 20 points behind last week. This week, he's down only 10. In the governor's race, Cuomo family scion Andrew was running about 20 points ahead of any named GOP contender as of about a week ago. A new poll today shows him now leading by only 6 points.

Lesson: this year, the rules go out the window. This year, what you thought you once knew about politics has been turned on its head. Any GOP establishment figure who disparages any Republican candidate ought to lose his or her party affiliation. If you have concerns about certain candidates, zip it. The public is with us on the agenda of smaller government, lower taxes, and cutting spending. Let's not choose this particular moment to do the circular firing squad.

This year, anything is possible.

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[Liberator]

Supreme Court Justice Scalia Takes On Women's Rights
By ADAM COHEN Adam Cohen 2 hrs 17 mins ago

Leave it to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to argue that the Constitution does not, in fact, bar sex discrimination.

Even though the court has said for decades that the equal-protection clause protects women (and, for that matter, men) from sex discrimination, the outspoken, controversial Scalia claimed late last week that women's equality is entirely up to the political branches. "If the current society wants to outlaw discrimination by sex," he told an audience at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law, "you have legislatures."

To anyone who has followed Justice Scalia's career, his latest provocative statement shouldn't come entirely as a surprise. It's been more than four years since he answered a reporter's question about his impartiality in religion cases with an under-the-chin hand gesture that some commentators said was a Sicilian obscenity. (A Supreme Court spokeswoman insisted the gesture was "dismissive" but not obscene.) And it's been about as long since Justice Scalia called his refusal to recuse himself from a case about Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force - after he had just gone on a duck-hunting trip with Cheney - the "proudest thing" he has done on the court. (See pictures of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.)

But Justice Scalia's attack on the constitutional rights of women - and of gays, whom he also brushed off - is not just his usual mouthing off. One of his colleagues on the nation's highest court, Justice Stephen Breyer, has just come out with a book called Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge's View, which rightly argues that the Constitution is a living document - one that the founders intended to grow over time, to keep up with new events. Justice Scalia is roaring back in defense of "originalism," his view that the Constitution is stuck in the meaning it had when it was written in the 18th century.

Indeed, Justice Scalia likes to present his views as highly principled - he's not against equal rights for women or anyone else; he's just giving the Constitution the strict interpretation it must be given. He focuses on the fact that the 14th Amendment was drafted after the Civil War to help lift up freed slaves to equality. "Nobody thought it was directed against sex discrimination," he told his audience. (See "The State of the American Woman.")

Yet, the idea that women are protected by the equal-protection clause is hardly new - or controversial. In 1971, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that they were protected, in an opinion by the conservative then Chief Justice Warren Burger. It is no small thing to talk about writing women out of equal protection - or Jews, or Latinos or other groups who would lose their protection by the same logic. It is nice to think that legislatures would protect these minorities from oppression by the majority, but we have a very different country when the Constitution guarantees that it is so.

And the fact that we have a very different country now from the days of the Founding Fathers is why Justice Scalia is on the wrong side of this debate. The drafters could have written the Constitution as a list of specific rules and said, "That's all, folks!" Instead, they wrote a document full of broadly written guarantees: "due process," "freedom of speech" and yes, "equal protection." As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes explained almost a century ago, the Constitution's framers created an "organism" that was meant to grow - and to be interpreted "in the light of our whole national experience," not based on "what was said a hundred years ago."

The Constitution would be a poor set of rights if it were locked in the 1780s. The Eighth Amendment would protect us against only the sort of punishment that was deemed cruel and unusual back then. As Justice Breyer has said, "Flogging as a punishment might have been fine in the 18th century. That doesn't mean that it would be OK ... today." And how could we say that the Fourth Amendment limits government wiretapping - when the founders could not have conceived of a telephone, much less a tap? (See pictures of six archetypes that shaped the way women dress today.)

Justice Scalia doesn't even have consistency on his side. After all, he has been happy to interpret the equal-protection clause broadly when it fits his purposes. In Bush v. Gore, he joined the majority that stopped the vote recount in Florida in 2000 - because they said equal protection required it. Is there really any reason to believe that the drafters - who, after all, were trying to help black people achieve equality - intended to protect President Bush's right to have the same procedures for a vote recount in Broward County as he had in Miami-Dade? (If Justice Scalia had been an equal-protection originalist in that case, he would have focused on the many black Floridians whose votes were not counted - not on the white President who wanted to stop counting votes.)

Even worse, while Justice Scalia argues for writing women out of the Constitution, there is another group he has been working hard to write in: corporations. The word "corporation" does not appear in the Constitution, and there is considerable evidence that the founders were worried about corporate influence. But in a landmark ruling earlier this year, Justice Scalia joined a narrow majority in striking down longstanding limits on corporate spending in federal elections, insisting that they violated the First Amendment.

It is a strange view of the Constitution to say that when it says every "person" must have "equal protection," it does not protect women, but that freedom of "speech" - something only humans were capable of in 1787 and today - guarantees corporations the right to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599202066700

[Rob]

The constitution is the foundation, not the building itself.

Anyone who argues that the Constitution is, or should be, a living document is woefully ignorant of the concept of separation of powers of the distinct purpose of each of our 3 branches of government. Not to mention that support of twisting the Constitution into a living document is ultimately short-sighted and self-defeating! Any changes made by a misguided current court can be changed again or reversed by a future court. Once the Constitution becomes fluid, changes will not ever cease, and we will no longer have a foundation at all. At that point, our government structure will have no checks and balances, and cannot stand - but perhaps that's the goal of those who long for treatment of the Constitution as a living document.

Justice Scalia is correct in identifying the role of Congress versus that of the Court. Laws are controlled by the Legislature, and are intended to change over time. If you want to change laws - that's what the legislature is for. If Justice Breyer wants to change law, he should step down from the bench and run for Congress. But the roles of these 2 branches of government should never be confused. We can choose to re-model the house by changing laws, but the foundation must always remain solid to support the structure. As a nation we cannot allow misguided justices to legislate from the bench. That is simply not their job, no matter how eloquently they speak or write.

That kind of destructive power was never intended to be in the hands of a handful of people who enjoy lifetime appointments.

[Ummahgummah]

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DJ is right to suspect that the Republicans won't do anything to repeal ObamaCare.

To support DJ's thesis, one need only look back at the Prescription Drug Bill, which even contains a specific provision that large institutions may not negotiate lower prices with the drug companies.

In order to get this corporate feeding trough passed, even Bush was up till 4 in the morning, calling reluctant Representatives.

In one instance the budding political career of retiring Congressman Smith's son was threatened by other Republicans.

Here's a pretty good account of how this atrocity was shoved down our throats:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/mar2004/medi-m31.shtml

Lest anyone still has doubts that Bush is also a corporatist scum bad guy, you won't after you read it all.

We are being fleeced on all fronts.

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[Rob]

P.S - That's why our elected officials are subject to a fixed term, and face either re-election or replacement. If we don't like the job they are doing, they are voted OUT.

It should frighten everyone who believes in Liberty to think of a Supreme Court which had the power to change (not just interpret and enforce) our Constitution. A President could appoint like-minded justices who would then change everything according to the desires of the President - and that, my fiends is called TYRANNY.

Beware of anyone who uses the terms "living document" and "Constitution" in the same sentence.

[gringoman]

(Should we thank Troll 'Liberator' for spamming Monicamemo with his droning copy-and-paste Libthink?)

Question du jour: Does Monica's recognizing Tea Party rebellion even in New York mean that she's ready to endorse Carl Paladino for Governor? Does Paladino not excite her as much as NJ's more politically correct Governor Christy?

[Rob]

Getting back to today's topic, I think both Monica and UG are correct! This year, all the rules are definitely out the window, and we are being fleeced on all fronts. The backlash is against "politicians" (in the most pejorative sense of the word) in general.

If your hand is in my pocket, my vote is going against you. Smaller government, lower taxes, belief in the constitution, and COMMITMENT to repeal of all the Obama trainwreck spending are the characteristics I'm looking for.

[Ummahgummah]

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Gringoman, is it just me or have both Scott Brown in MA and Chris Christy moved toward the left, more machinist corporate Republican element than when they were still running for their offices?

Were they hiding their true selves while they ran for office or have they been bought off or even threatened in some form?

I am thinking that the Rovists may love to employ the demoralizing effect this is bound to have on Tea Partiers.

CC in particular got off to such a great start and now he is pro-mosk, pro-pigslam, anti-freedom, pro-machinist politics.

WHAT HAPPENED?

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[gringoman]

Carl Paladino was trailing Cuomo by about 35 points.

Then elitenik Mort Zuckerman's NY Daily News ran front page MEET CRAZY CARL.

Paladino trailed Cuomo by 20.

The entire Demopublican Establishment, including Mayor Nanny Bloomberg, attacked Paladino and/or endorsed Andrew Cuomo.

Paladino now trails Cuomo by 6 points, according to new poll.

Will Obama please, please, please endorse Andrew Cuomo?

ps Is Monica ready to get out in front of the curve on the next Governor of New York?

(There's still time for Monica to do that. Cuomo's not yet trailing Paladino. But there's not much time.)

[Ummahgummah]

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By the way, there are promising signs in Europe: Geert Wilders is traveling to Germany to take part in the festivities in celebration of the start of a new Freedom Party by the name of "Die Freiheit".

Now only France still needs to form a country-wide anti-islam, anti-EU party in order for these parties to work together and take over a block in the dreaded EU parliament in order to roll back EU fascism creep.

The Tea Party should "reach out" to these parties in Europe.

The left does it, reaching out to all the Socialists in Europe and we must reach out to our counterparts there as well if only to prevent the DRATS and the EU socialists from hatching out more anti-American stuff like warmology conferences and pro-islam anti-speech legislation to name but two.

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[Ummahgummah]

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If there has ever a case for a Total Recall, then it has to be our shameless Mayor Moonbat, who usurped the office by voting himself a third term.

And now he acts like a Roman Emperor KNOW IT ALL.

Who is the feckless one to endorse Status CUOmo?

Good to see that his endorsement is toxic and has the opposite effect.

Clear illustration of the Republistablishment closing ranks against the Tea Party.

In the short term the GOP has more to lose than the DRATs because if we see all of the people we put in office go the way of Chris Christy and Scott Brown, we will have no choice but to start a new independent party to make sure that whomever we do get in won't get corrupted and moved closer to the special interests that prevail inside the Beltway.

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[Rob]

HAHA! An Obama endorsement of Cuomo would really help!

First, it would sink Cuomo like an anvil. (Patterson wouldn't do what he was told by the Bama - so Andrew, son of Cuomo, must be the puppet they're looking for!) Hang onto your wallets.

Second, Monica would have to endorse Paladino as the Anti-Bama candidate.

[gringoman]

Gringoman, is it just me or have both Scott Brown in MA and Chris Christy moved toward the left, more machinist corporate Republican element than when they were still running for their offices?

Were they hiding their true selves while they ran for office or have they been bought off or even threatened in some form?

I am thinking that the Rovists may love to employ the demoralizing effect this is bound to have on Tea Partiers.

CC in particular got off to such a great start and now he is pro-mosk, pro-pigslam, anti-freedom, pro-machinist politics.

WHAT HAPPENED?

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Posted by: Ummahgummah | September 22, 2010 at 12:13 PM

Often, Ummah, I like succinct, being either too lazy to spell it all out, or lacking the time or whatever, and assuming that the savvy don't need every 't' crossed and every 'i' dotted, although this is sometimes useful and even necessary.

To answer your question about what we might call the "soft liberal underbelly" of many so-called "conservatives," two quick points.

1. Scott Brown and NJ Governor Christy are both Northeast corridor Republicans. Today that is deep-dyed Libland. Carl Paladino looks like an anomaly. But he's not from the elitenik belt. He's from gritty upstate urban New York. That's why even Monica, who is Ivy League, gravitates to Christy in a way she still hasn't with respect to Paladino. I'm not saying she won't embrace Paladino. I'm just saying we haven't seen any sign of it yet.

2. To answer your question with true brevity. One of my new contributions to political enlightenment: DNC (The Demopublican National Collusion---or Corruption, if you prefer.)

[Ummahgummah]

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If they are getting paid, where is the media, relentlessly ferreting out the truth?!

This is a rhetorical question.

After all, it's apparently how things are done in Washington.

Looks like a good startup date for the Third Party might be after we get the best possible Republican elected President in 2012.

Just so we can get the Bama out and get ourselves some breathing room, leaving time for serious platform discussion unfettered by the present state of desperation the country faces each and every day that this dangerous fool occupies his seat in the White House.

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[Ummahgummah]

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Even liberals can no longer avoid drawing parallels to Jimmy Carter:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704129204575505822147816104.html

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[gringoman]

From Reagan to Obama

From MORNING IN AMERICA to MOURNING IN AMERICA

Brand new VIDEO/////http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/reagan-morning-in-america/2010/09/21/id/371075?s=al&promo_code=ACED-1

[Ummahgummah]

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Ahmadinejad's food stinks up hotel

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/fragrant_food_i142YL0VaCZ7BAH1o8sBIL

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad doesn't need nuclear weapons -- his food stinks so bad, he's practically cleared out the Hilton Manhattan East. The finicky fascist brought his own personal chef to prepare his meals while he's in town for the UN General Assembly, a source told The Post's Helen Freund. Unfortunately, his meals "make the whole hotel stink like hell," said the source. The Hilton did not return a call for comment.

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[gringoman]

Good to see that his endorsement is toxic and has the opposite effect.

Posted by: Ummahgummah | September 22, 2010 at 12:32 PM

Mayor Nanny Bloomberg has not, of this moment, endorsed Andrew "Subprime Meltdown" Cuomo, He is expected to endorse him shortly.

Meaning? Meaning that the brand new poll showing Paladino, amazingly, only 6 points behind The Machine's Cuomo, was taken before the widely detested Nannyman's endorsement.

The blowback from Nannyman's "kiss of death" won't be seen until later polls.

The best is yet to come.

ps Monica better hurry up. Cuomo's lead over Paladino is like a stock option, constantly expiring over time. We are waiting to see if she will embrace Paladino with the warmth she did politically correct NJ Governor Christy, who she touted for President.

[Ummahgummah]

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Palladino seems refreshingly aggressive. I really hope he doesn't turn into another Christy who also got off the great start, only to get bought off within months.

Scott Brown may have been more a case of saying as little as possible during his campaign while the Tea Party needed a warm body to capture the "Ted KKKennedy seat".

So sorry if anyone is offended by my disrespect for a "great family name".

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[LongRifle]

Just saw Monica on Fox (10:15 AZ time)--Looking good. Yeah, Obama is in Bunker mode and dangerous. Watch him try to seize more poower through control of the economy. I think he fancies himself as "Emperor or Illinois" or perhaps a bit more...

[Ummahgummah]

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To be honest, I wish Monica would stop using the Bama for everything.

We go plenty of bad guys right inside the GOP.

The Bama can be used as a smokescreen to distract from evildoers like Bush who passed the Prescription Drugulus Bill and who also put a number of servicemen and border guards on trial.

The Bama is only the logical result of Bush.

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[gringoman]

This year anything is possible....and what about 2012?......

Bill Clinton: Don't Underestimate Sarah Palin
Tuesday, 21 Sep 2010

Democrats who think Sarah Palin would be an easy mark if she were the Republican presidential candidate in 2012 should be careful what they wish for, says former President Bill Clinton. “It’s always a mistake to underestimate your opponent,” Clinton told George Stephanopoulos, the anchor of ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Clinton made the comment after Stephanopoulos asked him to reflect on the media buzz about Palin, especially after her weekend speech at the Iowa Republican Party’s annual Ronald Reagan Dinner fundraiser.

Sarah Palin might not be the pushover some of her detractors believe when they suggest she'd be a dream candidate for President Barack Obama to knock off, Clinton said. “In the Republican primaries, she's very popular with the conservative base,” ABC’s chief political respondent quotes Clinton as saying in his blog, George’s Bottom Line. “She gets more people to come out. And she hasn't won all of her endorsements, but she's won most of them. And you know, she's a compelling, attractive figure.”

The former president, who convened the sixth annual meeting of his Clinton Global Initiative in New York this week, said, “I do think she’s a resilient character. . . . I think she's clearly a public figure who is, who speaks well and persuasively to the people who listen to her. And she's somebody to be reckoned with. And she's tough.”

gringoNOTE: Granted, Willy is slick. He might be talking Palin up because he's sure that Corporate Charley's mediacks will attempt to destroy her with lib bias, just as that same bias led them to carry into the White House a Community Organizer with loads of jihadi, Marxist, weatherman terrorist and elegibility baggage that was shamefully and only moderately vetted.

Maybe.

[Ummahgummah]

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I dunno. Bubba Bill can talk her up, he can talk her down.

If presidential elections were held today and she were up against the Bama, who do you think would win by a landslide?

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[gringoman]

To be honest, I wish Monica would stop using the Bama for everything.

We go plenty of bad guys right inside the GOP.

The Bama can be used as a smokescreen to distract from evildoers like Bush who passed the Prescription Drugulus Bill and who also put a number of servicemen and border guards on trial.

The Bama is only the logical result of Bush.

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Posted by: Ummahgummah | September 22, 2010 at 01:32 PM

Ummah,

Monica is that bouncy eyefull of a cheerleader at Republican games, their GOP gal with all that oomph and pin-up luster, an advanced Ivy League degree to boot, and all blonde all the time, pulling in eyeballs for Team Elephant.

You want Monica to stray from Her Monicaness?

[gringoman]

A DADT point from Steve Malzburg, WOR:

Now that "Lady Gaga" is doing "reality," telling the US Congress to get with homosexual social engineering in the US military and its shower stalls, her "reality" deserves more reality.

"Let her be known by her real name, enough with the ga-ga!"

STEFANIE GERMINATA

[Ummahgummah]

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Bob Woodward book details Obama battles with advisers over exit plan for Afghan war

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/21/AR2010092106706_pf.html

Woodward's book portrays Obama and the White House as barraged by warnings about the threat of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and confronted with the difficulty in preventing them. During an interview with Woodward in July, the president said, "We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger."

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[Ummahgummah]

If they don't get their Victory Mosque at Ground Zero, I can see them attacking New York City, then building their Victory Mosque near the new attack site.
Death to them!
Posted by: Jodie at September 22, 2010 1:56 PM

[Ummahgummah]

Monica is that bouncy eyefull of a cheerleader at Republican games, their GOP gal with all that oomph and pin-up luster, an advanced Ivy League degree to boot, and all blonde all the time, pulling in eyeballs for Team Elephant.
You want Monica to stray from Her Monicaness?
POSTED BY: GRINGOMAN | SEPTEMBER 22, 2010 AT 04:13 PM

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If the GOP needs a cheerleader I got a broad in a meat suit I'd like to suggest to them.

The lady I have in mind might not really be such a lady, depending on whom you ask from all her locker room visits here in New York.

And if they send her to the steam rooms around Capitol Hill even Rahm Emmanuel will cower in fear!

As for Monica, I hope that she will take the next step and reveal what she knows about the insider Republican party structure, their dirty dealings, their cynical remarks about us voters.. their whorehouse visits and trips to local DC gay bars, their drug binges and their taxpayer-funded trips to Bangkok and Manila.. we want to know everything!

Once the cover is ripped off the filthy insiderist swamp of KuntryKlubliKanz there will be no choice but to install Tea Party folks into all the most influential positions of power and influence everywhere in the GOP.

No way that I want her to play both sides, as she is doing for now. Because to play both sides really means being on the side of those on the inside.

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[rick]

Regarding the corrpupt officials of Bell City, Ca., i have just gone through several reports from CNN and a couple of L.A. Times reports. Nowhere, and i mean nowhere was the party affilitations of these cruds mentioned. I believe i have already read that every stinking one of them is a Democrat. If that is not the case i will stand corrected.....cheers, rick

[Ummahgummah]

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Our pubic schools:

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/09/our-pubic-schoo.html

libs at work..

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[gringoman]

I just heard Bernie say he is in favor of allowing gays to openly serve in the military.

Congratulations to Bernie.

He's just proved he is dumber than Hannity... and that doesn't give him much turf to tread on.

Posted by: DJ | September 22, 2010 at 11:29 AM

This could indicate one of two things.

1. Bernie knows who his boss man is. Imus flaunts for Libworld his invert friends and knows he won't have to worry about a society drenched in homosexual quotas, set-asides, affirmative homosexual action, the new "Homophobia Laws," one year in prison for saying "faggot," jail time for parents objecting to the New Pan-Sexual education etc etc.

2. Maybe Bernie's been listening to Glenn Beck. Beck recently: "What's wrong with gay marriage?"

Or both.

[gringoman]

The lady I have in mind might not really be such a lady, depending on whom you ask from all her locker room visits here in New York.

Posted by: Ummahgummah | September 22, 2010 at 05:17 PM

If she can't project 'lady', Republicans can't use her, except as some kind of bouncer, or for things they don't do in public.

Country Club knows it has to be seen as "better." That's what makes Monica of value to them: She can be a lady AND oomphy.

And that's why she can only go so far off their golf course, unless she's ready to become cheerleader-non-grata, the phone ringing less, and the best invites thinning out, not to mention the speaking engagements.

Monica got the memo.

[M/M]

Carl Paladino was trailing Cuomo by about 35 points.

Then elitenik Mort Zuckerman's NY Daily News ran front page MEET CRAZY CARL.

Paladino trailed Cuomo by 20.
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The guys were talking about this interview on Fox $ Friends on talk radio today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q083MbFiBHg

PALADINO --- NOT THE STATUS CUOMO....

[M/M]

1. Bernie knows who his boss man is. Imus flaunts for Libworld his invert friends and knows he won't have to worry about a society drenched in homosexual quotas, set-asides, affirmative homosexual action, the new "Homophobia Laws," one year in prison for saying "faggot," jail time for parents objecting to the New Pan-Sexual education etc etc.
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Imus has been campaigning for gays for awhile and is coming out strongly for it to carve out an audience niche. Bernie has been a willing accomplice.

Heard him this morning briefly. He still wasn't as bad as the kool-aid drinker I was fighting with yesterday who attacked me when he said that the Republican voted down "don't ask, don't tell". I pointed out that the bill was hidden, along with the dream "amnesty" act, in the defense bill and "amnesty", he may remember was not popular with 2/3 of the country.

[DJ]

"Imus has been campaigning for gays for awhile and is coming out strongly for it to carve out an audience niche. Bernie has been a willing accomplice."

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Let's be perfectly clear: Bernie is for gays openly serving in the military.

[Ummahgummah]

Let's be perfectly clear: Bernie is for gays openly serving in the military.
POSTED BY: DJ | SEPTEMBER 22, 2010 AT 08:31 PM

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Maybe we need to send Bernie on a tour of duty so he can see first-hand why that just won't work.

Amazing how fast these know-it-alls are willing to sell out the military to the social do-gooder engineers.

How will gays serve "openly"?

Somehow this makes me think of a Village people music video.

Might be funny for ten minutes if the situation weren't so serious!

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[M/M]

Let's be perfectly clear: Bernie is for gays openly serving in the military.

POSTED BY: DJ | SEPTEMBER 22, 2010 AT 08:31 PM
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I got it DJ. And the good news is that show is taking such a sharp turn left, I can replace him with the gym again.

[Ummahgummah]

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Democrat Dirt Dish
Posted by Van Helsing at September 22, 2010 4:56 PM

Knowledge is power — but in the case of Democrats, other people's knowledge is a pain in the neck. Here are some stories casting a dark light on moonbat bureauweenies who will be looking at trouble in November in key congressional races:

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/09/democrat-dirt-d.html

Links are in the link above. The more we comment the more these names will show up in web searches :-)

Let's dish the DRAT dirt!

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[M/M]

I LOVE what Carl Paladino is doing for you guys. He is showing you how to fight that "political correctness" that you've been enslaved in. LOVE IT.

Paladino -- not the Status Cuomo!

[thorn66]

Hey UG- Here's a surprise heart and mind that you've apparently won over. I figure x-nut is up next and will declare itself a zionist.
cheers,
thorn

Fidel Castro firmly backs Israel's right to exist: report 2 hrs 10 mins ago

NEW YORK (AFP) – Fidel Castro, the longtime president and leftist icon who stepped aside during a health crisis but still leads the Cuban Communist Party, has told a reporter that Israel definitely has the right to exist.

"Yes it does, without a doubt," Castro, 84, told visiting US journalist Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic magazine, according to a new article published Wednesday.

In the same interview Castro criticized Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust and said in an interview Tehran should acknowledge Israel's fears for its own survival.

Asked if Cuba was ready to establish diplomatic ties with Israel, Fidel Castro said that those things took time, the report added.

The former Cuban president who handed over power to his brother Raul in 2006 said Iran should understand the consequences of theological anti-Semitism.

"This went on for maybe two thousand years," Castro was quoted as saying. "I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say much more than the Muslims. They have been slandered much more than the Muslims because they are blamed and slandered for everything. No one blames the Muslims for anything."

"In my judgment here's what happened to them: Reverse selection. What's reverse selection? Over 2,000 years they were subjected to terrible persecution and then to the pogroms. One might have assumed that they would have disappeared; I think their culture and religion kept them together as a nation."

"The Jews have lived an existence that is much harder than ours. There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust," he said.

[Ummahgummah]

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Well, Thorn, I have my doubts as to the X-lax becoming a Zionist anytime soon.

But then I'm not a Zionist either.

I just think that israel has a right to exist and that this right includes the right to effective self-defense.

Nothing really radical I used to think.

And Castro? Did he get a brain implant? A conscience develops as he is nearing his death..?

And you, Thorn, are you beginning to realize how stupid all this liberalism is?

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[gringoman]

I dunno. Bubba Bill can talk her up, he can talk her down.

If presidential elections were held today and she were up against the Bama, who do you think would win by a landslide?

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Posted by: Ummahgummah | September 22, 2010 at 03:23 PM

Right now it looks like Obama could only be in a mudslide.
Even his 98% blacks are singing The Bama Blues. Lots really thought he'd be paying their rent by now. Maybe send even drop=outs to "special" college on "diversity" scholarships.

[thorn66]

UG, I think we are in agreement about Israel; I just don't like seeing the government there led around by the theocracy-leaning settler fringe.

As for Castro, I'm thinking either more witchcraft, or else he had a nice brisket at the break-fast this past Saturday and finally came to his senses.

As to your last question, I still consider myself a pragmatic liberal capitalist (I think I still have my high school "F*ck Communism" t-shirt around somewhere).

[M/M]

Gringoman is in the mood for a little Cole Porter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqbe2jdF8JI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z4zFI-eQdo&feature=related
(with Christine)

[gringoman]

I LOVE what Carl Paladino is doing for you guys. He is showing you how to fight that "political correctness" that you've been enslaved in. LOVE IT.

Paladino -- not the Status Cuomo!

Posted by: M/M | September 22, 2010 at 09:09 PM

M/M,

That was good. Andrew "Subprime" Cuomo will need a lot more than Mayor Nannyberg to save him from Carl Paladino.

Now who is "you guys" who need instruction re "political correctness"?

www.gringoman.com
Escaping Politically Correct

[gringoman]

Gringoman is in the mood for a little Cole Porter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqbe2jdF8JI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z4zFI-eQdo&feature=related
(with Christine)

Posted by: M/M | September 22, 2010 at 09:46 PM

The last one looked like it had its black-and-white charm (Hollywood'a idea of 1948 mid-Manhattan?), but pausing every 10 seconds in computer transmission was no way to convince me.

The former, in color, was the most progressive "Beguine" I ever heard, but I started to appreciate it a bit eventually and even began to recognize it. Cole Porter might too. Sometimes Sinatra is indispensable.

[gringoman]

I LOVE what Carl Paladino is doing for you guys. He is showing you how to fight that "political correctness" that you've been enslaved in. LOVE IT.

Paladino -- not the Status Cuomo!

Posted by: M/M | September 22, 2010 at 09:09 PM

M/M,

That Fox clip was good. Andrew "Subprime" Cuomo will need a lot more than Mayor Nannyberg's endorsement to save him from human steamroller Carl Paladino. (You can take that to any solvent bank.)

Now who are "you guys" who need instruction in the perils of "political correctness"? What "slaves" do you have in mind?

www.gringoman.com
Escaping Politically Correct

[M/M]

Nanny Bloomberg's endorsement can only help Carl. You guys are the "average Joe". The guys Savage talks to who have been beaten down and enslaved by the feminazis, purple hand and every other special interest group. I think men really respect him.

I own the De-Lovely album and I think that the performers updated the sound. Cheryl Crow sings a sultry version of "Begin the Beguine" and I never liked the "Let's Do It" until I heard Alanis Morrisette sing it.

I listened to other performers perform the same songs and I didn't like their versions.

Somebody was mocking Christine on Facebook, so I posted your song.

[M/M]

****men respect Carl. He is a "man's man". I think they are digging this.

[Ummahgummah]

As to your last question, I still consider myself a pragmatic liberal capitalist (I think I still have my high school "F*ck Communism" t-shirt around somewhere).

POSTED BY: THORN66 | SEPTEMBER 22, 2010 AT 09:45 PM

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By "liberal Capitalist" you mean that you voted for Obama but you really knew better?

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[Ummahgummah]

I LOVE what Carl Paladino is doing for you guys. He is showing you how to fight that "political correctness" that you've been enslaved in. LOVE IT.

Paladino -- not the Status Cuomo!

POSTED BY: M/M | SEPTEMBER 22, 2010 AT 09:09 PM

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I don't think I've been enslaved in political correctness. I see through all of it. I am however exposed to it constantly because it's all around me. Thus I am forced to consider my purchases to make sure that any company that's caved to islam or PC doesn't get my business.

I have had to radically alter my entertainment consumption. Before all I boycotted was anything with Tom Cruise in it, because of the extreme annoyance factor. I borrow whatever I watch and I loan out mine so as to allow as little money go to them as possible.

I now have Sean Penn, and that horrid English MTVMA host Brand on my hard NO WATCH list. Angelina Jolie is also on there. What a dumb broad with puckered lips. Could be Nasty Pelouser's daughter. I don't like David Geffen one bit either and it's a lot of work not to let any of my money go to his company.

I also watch a lot of older "vintage" stuff and foreign movie classics and sometimes even never things.

There's an awful lot of political correctness in lot of contemporary German and French fare so i often can"t bear to watch something all the ay through. I don't watch ANY of the talk shows either. HELL NO. They are nothing but DNC Party Propagandists. Goebbels-GROSS.

Better to deal with PC on that level than to mindlessly consume it.

PC: Identify it - attention and money deny it!

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