There’s Not Much That’s Funnier Than a repugican Confronted With Facts

[ErikJ]

There’s Not Much That’s Funnier Than a repugican Confronted With Facts
by Allen Clifton

I’m sure I’m not the only one who, when debating a repugican, walks away thinking, “I wonder what reality is like on their planet?”
Because some of the comments I hear coming from these people would be hilarious if they didn’t actually believe them. Hell, sometimes I even feel sorry for them.
For instance their hero is President Reagan, someone they call a “true wingnut.” Except, they can’t tell you exactly how he was a wingnut. He quadrupled our national debt, something repugicans don’t deny. Yet they still consider him the epitome of “repugican wingnuttery.” Then again, both George H. Bush and the shrub grew our national debt, so if Reagan is the example of “repugican wingnuttery,” they followed that example perfectly.Most sane people know that being “fiscally conservative” doesn’t mean running up giant deficits, so calling Reagan a “wingnut legend” doesn’t make any sense.

Or let’s look at the recession — they actually blame it on President Obama, and the ones that don’t blame it on him say he made it worse. Which is just about as bad as those who think he caused it, considering our job losses were cut by more than 50% 4 months after he took office. Only in the world of repugicans can reducing job losses by more than half, quickly, be a bad thing.

Then again, an improving economy is bad news for repugicans. Before the election, I always liked asking them whether or not they felt repugican cabal politicians were happy when positive economic numbers came out. If they answered yes, knowing positive economic numbers meant it was more likely President Obama would win re-election, they were most likely lying. If they answered no, then they were basically admitting they knew their politicians were doing anything they could to sabotage economic recovery and hurt Americans.
Pointing this out, however, often caused their brain to shut down as they couldn’t come to grips that their party was actively trying to harm the economy, which made them the bad guys.

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[blkmusclmachine]

1. There's Party Loyalty on both sides of the aisle. Unfortunately.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

2. Exactly!

I was just mentioning that in another thread.

[HubertHeaver]

3. False equivalency.

Party loyalty vs party discipline.

[Dustlawyer]

4. Party loyalty exists on both sides. It's when Party loyalty

overrides common sense and the facts. They are not "teams" that must win on all issues.
Currently, most of them get tangled up with having to fund raise all of the time, incurring an unspoken debt (sometimes spoken) to the people responsible for all of that campaign cash. Both parties are guilty of taking the money, our election system is broken!