If her speech is "you're traitors and you should be imprisoned," that's personal. That isn't a joke, or satire either. Liberals must counter her speech just for self-preservation when she writes things like that, because if we play dead, tell me that your next step wouldn't be to do it. Right wingers certainly have orgasms over bullies, and cry for them when the bullied fight back.
There is nothing sympathetic about Ann Coulter's plight. I think she will probably be killed in the second or third Republican purge-- for not being fascist enough. You'll probably make it to the fourth. If you'll lucky, you'll make to the same gulag as Ann Coulter.
The above paragraph was farce, BTW, but farce exactly where this country is at now.
In your first point-- you ignored totally the point I made, that the candidates and representatives are "scripted" heavily. That people write the scripts for them. Anything to add to that? Any counter-argument? I didn't see any. Apparently you felt you had to distract from it.
Now I'll make an even better point: Debates at the level of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Al Franken or even between us all matter because it affects what people think-- and that's eventually reflected in the opinion polls and, one would hope, the voting booth. It has an effect, and not just on the people doing the voting, but indirectly on how politicians act.
So, you were shocked when Franken called your conservative idols liars, wierd, because that's what they are. Moreover, with Rush Limbaugh, whose audience always called saying "Dittos" it makes sense to counter that dedication with "idiot" for getting facts consistently and/or deliberately wrong. It's fair to criticize him for being fat, because he consistently brought people's physical appearance into debate as though it were politically relevant, or even comical. As David Letterman said: "You are such an example of physical beauty yourself that you could make that judgment?" Rush looked as scared and blubbering as George Bush on 9/11, BTW.
Maybe it shocked some conservatives and turned their hair white that liberals finally showed their balls. Most liberals knew it was old news, but delivered bluntly.
BTW, Rush Limbaugh hasn't had a show on TV lately either. It seems to have fizzled and another one hasn't been contemplated.
Democrats, Republicans and segration: to recap, since you missed the point, the racists did not feel comfortable in the Democratic party after LBJ, and so they left and arrived in the Republican party and have always been nurtured there-- even if they've have had to put a lid on it and use the proper code words.
Occasionally the racism simmers over a bit, like with Trent Lott praising that ol' time Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond (the total exaple of what I refer). The Dixiecrats no longer feel welcomed in the Democratic party, and so the minorities don't feel welcomed in the Republican party. That simple. That's why you'll never beat the "race card." Do you have a counter-argument?
The racists were a bit more discouraged and slower to go to the polls, and the minorities felt like getting there when Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton won the south.
Also, Bush won by knocking people off the voting rolls in select places, engaging in fraud, and by getting some help from the Supreme Court.
Parties don't stay the same over time. The Republicans have nothing in common now with the party of Lincoln, just like the Democrats have nothing in common now with the party of Jefferson.
I believe that career criminals aren't motivated do a lot of voting anyway these days. They seem to be apolitical. Don't you think so? However, there's one class of felons that would probably vote solidly Democratic-- drug criminals.
Republicans have biased the polls in their favor while corrupting law enforcement through the war on drugs, and it is about time Democrats wake up to this. It is strange that Republican drug addicts like Rush get an easy sentence.
For 5, you lost me.
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