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politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 02:51 PM Jun 2014

Is this what the apocalypse looks like?

First came Pat Robertson for the Bushies.

Then Glen Beck jumped on the bashing Bush train and said that the liberals were right and he was wrong.

Now the Drudge Report is posting articles which bash Hobby Lobby and says that they're anything but a Christian organization,

and the Supreme Court makes a ruling that goes against the NRA.

and Pope Francis is nowhere to be seen????

Lord help us all.

I think Liz and Dick picked the wrong day to launch their Save America PAC. They may need to take cover themselves.

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Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
1. No, this is what trying to turn a trainwreck around looks like.
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 02:56 PM
Jun 2014

The big boys of old money let the wrong group control the train and it got out of control. Now they are in full frontal PR mode to try to get it back as the 2014 election looms ahead. Now it is up to Gohmert, King, and the like to keep the crazy alive. I don't think Liz and Dick have a darned thing to worry about, unfortunately. There are still more than enough people in the neocon club car with them.

JHB

(37,128 posts)
6. Careful! When Beck said "liberals were right", it was his imaginary liberals
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 03:08 PM
Jun 2014
From the beginning, most people on the left were against going into Iraq. I wasn’t. At the time I believed that the United States was under threat from Saddam Hussein. I really truly believed that Saddam Hussein was funding terrorists. We knew that. He was funding the terrorists in Hamas. We knew that he was giving money. We could track that. We knew he hated us. We knew that without a shadow of a doubt. It wasn’t much or a stretch to believe that he would fund a terror strike against us, especially since he would say that. So I took him at his word.
Now, in spite of the things I felt at the time when we went into war, liberals said: We shouldn’t get involved. We shouldn’t nation-build. And there was no indication the people of Iraq had the will to be free. I thought that was insulting at the time. Everybody wants to be free. They said we couldn’t force freedom on people. Let me lead with my mistakes. You are right. Liberals, you were right. We shouldn’t have.


The "liberals" who said Iraqis didn't want to be free, the "liberals" who said that Iraqis weren't capable of democracy*.

In other words, the "liberals" of right-wing caricature during the full-court press to invade, not the actual liberals with actual reasons for opposing it.


*i.e., in the sense of inherently incapable, not in the realistic sense of some interests and antagonisms there that would be big honking impediments to democracy.
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