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Derwood · 04-14-2011, 12:22 PM

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Originally Posted by YaWhateva

I hope the Tea Party plays a big role in this election because it will all but assure the win for Obama. An independent or some other third party will run (that idiot Trump said recently he would run as a third party candidate or maybe Ron Paul). This will steal votes from the Republican nominee because these birthers and faux-libertarians will flock to the third party candidate.

I guarantee that if they tried, the GOP would absolutely bury them. Swift Boating and black babies will look like nothing compared to what they'd do. I'm sure they learned their lesson from the Perot debacle.

---------- Post added at 04:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:11 PM ----------

This is stolen from another message board, but illustrates why I think the GOP needs to get their collective shit together. Congress is overplaying their hand right now and are not helping:

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Republican claimed focus before election:

* Jobs
* Economy

Republicans demonstrated focus after election:

* Restrict/ban abortion
* Redefine rape
* Recategorize cold-blooded murder of abortion doctors as "justifiable homicide"
* Eliminate net neutrality
* Ban gay marriage
* McCarthy-esque "muslim" hunt
* Ban already-non-existent Sharia law
* Restrict the voting ability of college students
* Investigate secession from the union
* Investigate ways for states to ignore federal mandates
* Demand yet another birth certificate, transcripts, and some other things George W Bush refused to release
* Eliminate collective bargaining agreements
* Repeal health care reform
* De-fund Obama's teleprompter to save money (seriously)
* De-fund public broadcasting
* De-fund NPR for firing employee who made racist remarks on-air, citing free speech
* Demand NPR fire employee who made uncontroversial remarks in private conversation, citing bias
* De-fund education
* De-fund Planned Parenthood despite the fact that government money already cannot fund abortions, thus only impacting medical screenings and testing functions
* Decry energy efficient lightbulbs
* Decry breastfeeding awareness
* Decry healthy eating initiatives for children and schools
* Decry 'socialism' and idealize 'free market capitalism' and in the same breath claim that oil companies (making record-breaking profits) will collapse without government subsidies
* Decry 'pork' while simultaneously seeking 'pork'
* Decry federal stimulus dollars while accepting/seeking it and taking credit for the things it pays for
* Push for creationism in schools
* Chastise Natalie Portman 'glorifying' (by existing, apparently) pre-marital pregnancy while simultaneously defending Bristol Palin
* Get between women and their doctors by forcing them to get sonograms before abortion
* Attempt to get a completely unwanted second F-35 engine (coincidentally to be built in Speaker Boehner's state) funded over the protests of the military, department of defense, and secretary of defense
* Convincing the people earning $30,000 that the person making $250,000 is too poor and the teacher making $60,000 is too rich

[added 3/11/11]

* Condemn the NYC multicultural center and mosque because muslim = terrorist, despite having been an avid supporter of the IRA for years
* Explain that the reason you cheated on two of your wives, one who was in the hospital with cancer, was because you were extremely passionate for America

[added 3/14/11]

* Half-jokingly suggesting that the illegal immigration problem can be solved like the feral swine problem - by shooting them from helicoptors; in defense of comments: "I was just speaking like a southeast Kansas person."

[added 3/15/11]

* Lower a state minimum wage
* Call an emergency meeting to again try to de-fund public broadcasting in the wake of a heavily-edited and exceedingly misleading video

[added 3/17/11]

* Blame an 11 year old girl for being gangraped by 18 people for several hours because she had dressed like a "prostitute"
* Reaffirm "in god we trust" as the national motto
* Protect creationists (and nobody else) from workplace discrimination

[added 3/25/11]

* Strongly advocating for intervention in Libya before Obama gets involved, sharply criticizing intervention after
* Abusing the freedom of information act to try to harass and/or discredit a university professor who wrote an op-ed in his personal time questioning a Republican governor

[added 3/30/11]

* Loosen child labor laws
* Lament that your $172k salary isn't as much as it sounds because you have a family, loans, bills, etc. and that you have trouble paying your bills then go on to support cutting public sector compensation packages
* Complain that Democratic congressmen keep asking where the jobs are
* Speak to a Christian organization event during a taxpayer-funded trip to Kenya (which has stricter abortion laws than the US) to rail against a new provision in their constitution allowing abortions when the mother's health is at risk

[added 3/31/11]

* Scold a Democrat for using the word 'uterus' on the house floor because young pages might hear
* Accuse the president of going to war with Libya to deplete our armed forces so he can call up the private army written into the health care reform bill (seriously)

[added 4/1/11]

* Repeal school integration laws, saying "they ruined our neighborhoods with integration and [de]segregatio."
* Employ small government tactics by fining people who are obese or smokers
* Put a gay marriage ban in the state constitution

[added 4/6/11]

* AT LAST, an economic proposal: A budget where seniors will have to pay more for their increasingly-defunct Medicare,where the lower/middle class will see tax increases to pay for tax cuts for the rich, where 2 million private sector jobs will be eliminated, and assumes we'll reach 2.8% unemployment in 10 years.

[added 4/7/11]

* Make it illegal for homosexuals to act gay or "recruit" in public
* Pay GOP civil suit legal defense with taxpayer money
* Despite Obama compromising on a $30 billion spending cut, which is the amount you asked for originally, try to force a government shutdown to please your Tea Party constituency

[added 4/13/11]

* Vowing to hold up senate nominations process because a $50k pork project for your district didn't make it into the budget deal
* Repeal ban on the use of public dollars for vouchers for religions private schools
* Pass a bill requiring state and local educational authorities to assist teachers in teaching the supposed controversies of evolution, origins of life, and global warming
* Pass a birther bill for presidential candidates
* Outlaw abortions after 20 weeks even in cases of rape, incest, abnormality, or health of the mother because the "hand of the Almighty" was at work, and "His ways are higher than our ways. He has the ability to take difficult, tragic, horrific circumstances and then turn them into wonderful examples."
* Claim on the House floor that 90% of what Planned Parenthood does is provide abortions, and when called on the fact that the figure is only 87% higher than reality, explain that "it was never intended to be a factual statement"