Though several layers of guck above the lowest scum of the political world, republican politicians sure have a thing about hypocrisy. Take Mr. family values George Will, who divorced his first wife, leaving her with a retarded child, for a younger woman.
Or how about Phil Gramm, who says that "In all the world, only in Cuba and North Korea and in the democratic party in America do we still have organized political groups who believe the answer to every problem is more government."
Instead of tell him that other countries have liberal parties also, I'll just point out that the government brought him into the world, payed for his food and other private and graduate school. (He was born in a military hospital, his father was a sergeant, his school was funded by GI insurance money and the national defense fellowship.) After this long period of something for nothing, he got a job at the State-run Texas A&M, and then elected into public service, where, still paid by tax dollars, he supported the "superconducting supercollider" which cost billions of dollars.
Perhaps these two examples say something about the psychology of projection?
Though pro-every war, they were against "war in Europe" (read: war against whites) until Pearl Harbour (attack by non-whites). Since then they've been for every war, until Kosovo - the only other war against whites.
They claim to be opposed to draft dodgers, though as you'll see from the link, only draft dodgers that don't agree with them. They hunted down Spanish civil war (war against whites) volunteers...
They talk about how equality means conformism (A game of tennis with 2.5 billion people on each side, as described by a CATO think tanker) yet are suddenly all for equality when someone mentions affirmative action - but only then!
They love the NRA and hate the ACLU, which does the same thing (defending the bill of rights) - just not on the protection of machines that have turned killing humans from a difficult task to a regular accident.
They're all for coddling and protecting the "oppressed minority" of the rich. All other non-rugged-individual minorities will have to take care of themselves.
They claim to be pro-"Christianity" while fighting tooth and nail everything Jesus stood for. They tell us how their "Christian" fundamentalism will save America - mainly from the threat of Islamic Fundamentalism!
Fighting anything that comes as close to communism as wheelchair ramps, they're all for business with red China - but they're all for starving Cuba! Simultaneously the loudest advocates of free trade and embargos!I'm no fan of government, but I can't let stupidity go without notice:
Rush Limbaugh: WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE MILITARY, I defy you to name one government program [WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE MILITARY] that has worked and alleviated the problem it was created to solve [WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE MILITARY]...
(Of course, Rush wasn't actually asking an opponent! See straw-man argument) "Hhhmmmmm? I'm waiting...Time's up."
Al Franken then defied six conservatives to name one government program [WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE MILITARY] that worked and alleviated the problem it was created to solve [WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE MILITARY]...
The answers:
Rural electrification, interstate highway system (George F. Will, conservative columnist) national institute of health, youth summer jobs program (rep. John Kasich r-Ohio) FAA, lighthouses, prisons (rep Bob Dornan r-calif) national park system, guaranteed student loans, aid to greece (arianna Huffington conservative commentator, fund-raiser) social security, medicare, head start, food stamps, federal deposit insurance (Ben Stien conservative columnist) public libraries, the FBI, the G.I. bill (Richard Viguerie, former publisher of the conservative digest)
Okay, so they didn't name one. They named 18. Nobody's perfect.
I could go on, but there's download time to worry about.
So you see the main point about them. Other right-wingers may be worse, but republicans are hypocritical to the point of absurdity.
Corruption versus stupidity: Republican infighting:
McCain-Bush Race Surfaces in Alimony SuitUpdated 8:43 AM ET February 25, 2000HOUSTON (Reuters) -
The Republican presidential battle surfaced in a personal legal dispute when cosmetics entrepreneur Georgette Mosbacher suggested her ex-husband Robert Mosbacher stopped making alimony payments in part because she backed John McCain over his friend George W. Bush.
Georgette Mosbacher filed suit this week in U.S. District Court in Houston, seeking resumption of the monthly $32,064 payments the couple agreed to in June 1997 as part of a settlement that preceded their divorce in April 1998 after 15 years of marriage. Earlier this month Robert Mosbacher, a wealthy Texas oilman and former U.S. Commerce Secretary under former President George Bush, father of Texas Gov. George W. Bush, said the payments would cease because his ex-wife had broken part of the agreement that bars them from making "disparaging statements" about each other.
A letter sent to Georgette Mosbacher's attorney on Feb. 15 said the most recent breach of that clause occurred in a Jan. 31 article in the New York Observer in which she discussed her life and her fund-raising work for the McCain presidential campaign. Georgette was also quoted in the article as saying that she felt betrayed by her former husband, saying he had left her for another woman and referring to him as "the man who threw the hand grenade in my life." She said she respected both Bush and McCain but had felt compelled to support McCain's bid for the Republican presidential nomination after reading about how he overcame his ordeal as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. [Why not just choose politicians by what they look like? Seeing that republicans choose their leaders based on poitless personal things (ditto with their enemies - think Clinton) and crap like Quale end up on the top, I can't help but be curious what's on the bottom!]
Her suit, filed on Tuesday, suggested that the ending of the alimony payments might have been politically motivated. "Plaintiff has a constitutional right to support the candidate of her choice as vociferously as she wishes, regardless of her ex-husband's wishes," it said. Robert Mosbacher has denied that politics are involved in the dispute. "John McCain is an old friend of mine and I like him," he was quoted as saying in Thursday's Houston Chronicle. Georgette Mosbacher contends that her comments were truthful and therefore did not amount to disparagement and that Robert Mosbacher's attempt to invoke that clause of their agreement is an unconstitutional infringement of her right of free speech. Her suit is due to be heard by U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes in Houston on June 12.
The typical republican politician:
Hamilton Fish - republican congressman 1920-1945 Chairman of the first congregational committee to investigate "communism" (read: anything they disapprove of) in the US: 1930. It later became the House Un-American Activities Committee (because they did Un-American activities!)
"If we declared war [in Vietnam] we'd have the RIGHT to bomb [nuke] 'em, that's war"...[In world war two] We were forced into war. It was the biggest cover-up ever perpetrated in the USA...I'd been speaking [on the radio] every week to keep us out of the war. The day after the attack...I damned the [racial slur for "Japanese"] [but not the Germans!]...For 15 minutes I talked to 25 million people...I made only one speech because I took up the whole time allotted. [Read: He's full of hot air!] I'd led the fight for 3 years against Roosevelt getting us into the war. I was on the radio ever 10 days, BIG radio. I stopped him until he issued this ultimatum. That is the greatest thing I did do [sic] in my whole life. He would have gotten us into the war six months or a year before Pearl Harbor. We would have been fighting those Germans, plus probably the Russians, 'cause they made a deal with them. EVERY American family owes an obligation to me..."
Okay, so he not only predicted Pearl Harbor 3 years before it happened, but he also controlled the president like his puppet, thus saving America...He also stopped us from fighting the Russians, though he calls them "our enemy and always will be...They wouldn't think one minute about pressing the button..." Actually, they've spent half a century thinking about it!
He says that America is "a god-fearing country. We have no enemies." See above quote: "The Russians are our enemy and always will be."
I said this before, but I'll say it again: notice how politicians who go on about how "god-fearing" we are, can't stand Islamic "fanatics"?
Break time for the conservatives
Quiz: Which of your heros is this quote describing?
"[He] was against aid to the poor [Deleted] state-supported education, sanitation, housing regulations, or control of medical practice. He also opposed the establishment of [Government items] on the grounds that it was wrong to give the people something for nothing and that [Government items] encouraged loafing. With business as a reflection of the national order, social changes that are counter to the interests of business are not only doomed to failure"
The quote is from the social Darwinist Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903. The first deletion is "who were by definition unfit". The "government item" is libraries!
(Picking up where we left off) "but weaken the race as a whole...Spencer suggested that the mixture of Aryan races in the United States would produce the finest species of humanity yet." ( Robert D Smither Competitors and Comrades p26)
The idea that Americans are superior is common among conservatives - American casualties are tragedies during wartime - while the "neutralizing" of Iraqi conscripts is just a case of "serves them right". (Just what the conscript's wives and children did to deserve become widows and orphans is not examined in detail) (See also the racism page)