Clint Didier: 'Rugged individualism' and blunt, angry rhetoric

[Ian David]

Clint Didier: 'Rugged individualism' and blunt, angry rhetoric
A 51-year-old ex-NFL player, Clint Didier is running an underdog campaign as the tea-party alternative to Republican Dino Rossi. While his blunt, angry rhetoric has been a hit with some conservative activists, he's not viewed as much of a threat by either Rossi or incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Patty Murray.

By Jim Brunner
Seattle Times political reporter

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He acknowledges the federal government's role, to a point. But he argues that since Columbia Basin farmers are assessed annual per-acre payments for the dam, they are actually subsidizing the cheap electricity the system sends to Western Washington.

Studies have shown the opposite is true. The irrigation network that benefits farmers like Didier has been mostly paid for by federal taxpayers and electricity ratepayers elsewhere. A 1995 paper co-authored by economists at Washington State University estimated that farmers were paying only 1.5 percent of the irrigation system's cost.

Didier says he doesn't support New Deal-type infrastructure programs now, opposing federal stimulus spending. Further, he says most of the social programs launched during the New Deal and later on were mistakes. "It's turning us into a socialist country," he said.

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That means businesses — including farms — should be allowed to fail in the free market and social programs for the poor should be slashed. He'd cut Medicaid, Medicare, welfare and food stamps, too.

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[MyNameGoesHere]

1. I knew Theisman should have thrown passes to

Didier a little high and long. A saftey's dream lol.

[USA_1]

2. 'Rugged individualism'

A nice way of disguising the truth about corporate welfare.

[tjwash]

3. I hate that bullshit thinking.

I've been to a hell of a lot of third world countries that this idiot would gladly see us become with that way of thinking. Large gated communities with guards and razor wire on the walls surrounding the perimeter, where the well off live that can afford water, utilities, trash collection. All the things that we take for granted.

Everyone else lives on the outside where they have to scratch and pretty much fend for themselves. No thanks...I say we send him out to live there.

Fucking athletes...the true irony is, that they even realize that if they weren't worth something to a rich billionaire when they could run fast and catch a ball, they would have never gotten scholarships to college, cushy jobs while they were there producing gate money for them, and cut every break imaginable. They would be stocking shelves at a walmart somewhere like the very people that they look down their noses and sneer at if they weren't a member of the lucky sperm club with the running fast gene.

[Soylent Brice]

4. OH SHIT!! Beck Butter Jeebus!!!

RUN AWAY!!!