Good morning, folks!
Sorry about the outage and the subsequent flood of queued posts. Our host was brought down by a DDoS attack – hopefully it’s mitigated, and the infected zombie machines’ IPs are blocked from the internet forever:
“Hey – I can’t get to any internet sites! I wanted to download some more virus-laden games and ‘special offers’ !”
OK – to business.
Seriously – it has to be hard to be a Freeper. I’m not talking about the endless freepathons, the enormous pressure to be the first to post the fauxrage of the day – I’m talking about the constant disappointment.
When you’re a Freeper, there is no “happily ever after” – your heroes turn on you, your successes turn to ashes – there’s never a victory. Even “successes” like Dubya slide into obilvion as the mists of hoo-hah die down and the stinking reality squats in the noonday sun like a run-over toad.
So – some of the recent disppointments, in reverse order.
First –Joe The Bummer!
U.S. conservative ‘Joe the Plumber’ a union man? ‘You betcha,’ he says
Reuters ^ | 2/19/14 | Brendan O’Brian
Posted on 2/20/2014 4:31:30 PM by Oliviaforever
(Reuters) – An Ohio man who rose to fame as “Joe the Plumber” by challenging then-presidential candidate Barack Obama on tax policy in 2008 has taken a unionized job with one of the U.S. Big Three automakers, he said on his website.
Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, a conservative, announced on Sunday that he recently had the “fortune of being hired by a great company”, Chrysler Corporation, where all workers must be United Automobile Workers union members.
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To: Oliviaforever
Beats welfare and starvation.
2 posted on 2/20/2014 4:35:58 PM by
cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
…better known as the Paul Ryan budget plan…
To: Oliviaforever
Never ever put your faith in a politician, or anybody who wants to be one. You will be disappointed.
8 posted on 2/20/2014 4:43:03 PM by
clintonh8r (Don’t twerk me, Broi)
To: Army Air Corps
Understood. It was a rhetorical question. My point is why did the guy have to make a public announcement, anyway? He simply made himself a tool for the left. Nice going, Joe!
13 posted on 2/20/2014 4:46:55 PM by
clintonh8r (Don’t twerk me, Broi)
Why, indeed? What nefarious plot must be behind this betrayal?
To: Oliviaforever
Imagine the reception he would have gotten by his coworkers the next day if he had dissed them…
5 posted on 2/20/2014 4:40:43 PM by
Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
Peer pressure’s a bitch, innit?
More disappointment after the clicky-thing…
Next up – Is that Cruz/Paul ticket done?
Rand Paul RIPS Ted Cruz: Sometimes People Think They’re The Next Ronald Reagan (video)RealClearPolitics ^ | March 10, 2014 | RealClearPolitics
Posted on 3/10/2014 9:45:11 PM by i88schwartz
SEAN HANNITY: You’re really taking on a lot of issues. One of them is outreach, the second one is the NSA, the third going after the president. Do you agree with Ted Cruz when he said Rand and I are good friends. Do you agree with that statement?
SEN. RAND PAUL: We always have been good friends. I’m not real excited about him mischaracterizing my views and, you know, I won’t let that pass. I think that, you know, sometimes people want to stand up and say, ‘Hey, look at me, I’m the next Ronald Reagan.’ Well, almost all of us in the Republican party are big fans of Ronald Reagan. I was a 13-year-old kid when my dad was a delegate for Reagan, I was there in Kansas City. I’ve always been a big fan of peace through strength.
I think America should and has a responsibility around the world and really, virtually all the opinions that have been coming from Republicans are somewhat the same on this. That Putin should be condemned. He should be isolated. I favor sanctions against Putin. So, for people to characterize that as somehow not being the Reagan position, I think they need to have a re-reading of Reagan, frankly. Reagan was famous for —
1 posted on 3/10/2014 9:45:11 PM by i88schwartz
To: i88schwartz
Oh, Rand, how nice of you to sound like a leftist.
To: i88schwartz
The leftist media and Karl Rove types are popping the popcorn over this crap. Levin or Palin needs to call both Cruz and Paul to the table and have them bury the hatchet, NOW.
I don’t mind healthy infighting, as we conservatives are not sheep who will blindly vote for Republicans like Dem supporters do. But 2016 is way off and we need to keep the focus on Obama and his communist policies.
To: Paladin2
Why does Rand Paul win CPAC?
Uh oh.
To: JudyinCanada
Because the Ron Paul Lunatics stuff the ballot boxes every year. If you would do your homework, you would find that Ron Paul won most CPAC polls, it was his LUNATICS stuffing the ballot boxes.
16 posted on 3/10/2014 10:05:01 PM by
chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty and Let the the Stupid AmericanTaxpayer foot the bill !)
Oh. Voter fraud.
To: chicagolady
Because the Ron Paul Lunatics stuff the ballot boxes every year. If you would do your homework, you would find that Ron Paul won most CPAC polls, it was his LUNATICS stuffing the ballot boxes.
No, it’s your claim so it’s your homework. Coming from Chicago, maybe you aren’t aware of that. So let’s see some links to YOUR lunatic contentions.
25 posted on 3/10/2014 10:23:01 PM by
Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
To: Talisker
Ok ,I now its hard to be smarter than a 5th grader so I will start you off, because I feel sorry for you
“Paulites” streaming into the main auditorium to hear him rail against government overreach and neoconservativism on Friday afternoon. In many respects, his win in the CPAC poll seemed pre-ordained — his band of followers having a well-earned reputation for flooding polls and forums like these.
What it portends for a possible 2012 presidential run is anyone’s guess. Paul had a similar cult-like following during the 2008 election, only to garner a relatively small chunk of the actual vote.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/20/cpac-2010-straw-poll-resu_n_470319.html
No Go to sleep it’s past your bedtime.
30 posted on 3/10/2014 10:29:37 PM by
chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty and Let the the Stupid AmericanTaxpayer foot the bill !)
And when you no go to sleep, don’t take no doz.
To: chicagolady
Ok ,I now its hard to be smarter than a 5th grader so I will start you off, because I feel sorry for you “Paulites” streaming into the main auditorium to hear him rail against government overreach and neoconservativism on Friday afternoon. In many respects, his win in the CPAC poll seemed pre-ordained — his band of followers having a well-earned reputation for flooding polls and forums like these. What it portends for a possible 2012 presidential run is anyone’s guess. Paul had a similar cult-like following during the 2008 election, only to garner a relatively small chunk of the actual vote. No Go to sleep it’s past your bedtime.
No, no, no – you misunderstood. I didn’t say please spew childish insults because I dared asked you to present evidence for your slander about stuffing ballot boxes.
What I said was, please provide the evidence.
You know, evidence – the thing you can’t provide.
The thing you replace with a filthy mouth.
Evidence.
42 posted on 3/11/2014 12:33:17 AM by
Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
And Talisker gets one last shot in…
To: itsahoot
LOL, so voting, itself, is treachery because it’s impossible that so many people could disagree with you.
LOL, m’kay. Sure simplifies things, I’ll give you that!
50 posted on 3/11/2014 1:33:16 PM by
Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
It’s the wingnut way!
So – who else are the Freeperati disappointed with these days?
Here’s –Pope-a-Dope!
Rick Santorum at CPAC: Republicans Need to Be More Like Pope FrancisChristian Post ^ | 03/09/2014 | Napp Nazworth
Posted on 3/10/2014 10:41:48 AM by SeekAndFind
Republicans should learn from Pope Francis how to better communicate their message, Rick Santorum, former Pennsylvania senator and 2012 Republican presidential candidate, argued Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Republicans focus too much of their message on attracting business owners rather than workers, attacking President Barack Obama and explaining what they are against rather than what they are for, Santorum claimed. Instead, Santorum urged Republicans to reach out to those who are hurting and to talk about how their policies will help them. And to do that, learn from Pope Francis.
“I think we need to take a lesson from someone who is maybe the most popular person in the world right now — Pope Francis,” he said.
Like Francis, Santorum wants Republicans to reach out to those who are suffering, and to talk about their positive policy agenda.
Francis is “going out there and not talking about what the Christian faith is against. He’s going out there and talking about what we’re for. He hasn’t changed a single policy. He won’t change a single policy. But what he’ll do is he’ll go out there and talk about the good news to a hurting world because he believes that is what the world needs. It needs the Lord,” he said.
While the Republican Party is not a religion, Santorum clarified, it can learn to better communicate its message by observing Francis and explaining to those who are struggling how Republican policies can help them.
“Well, we’re not a religion,” he continued, “and we’re not going to go out there and talk about the good news. But what we need to do is go out and talk about the news of a good America and what that good America can be. We need to paint a picture for people. We need to use a brush where they see themselves in the painting. They see a part of their life, where they hear someone or see a policy and say, ‘that’s me.’ We need to be the ‘that’s me’ party.”
Courtesy of C-Span, you can watch the full speech below.
1 posted on 3/10/2014 10:41:49 AM by
SeekAndFind
To: SeekAndFind
??
It seems like the Pope Francis is constantly having a crew following him after the ‘Clean-up on Aisle 12’ announcements.Maybe he is deliberately misquoted by the Media, or maybe his comments are taken out of context, but a lot of his messages have been backtracked as either being mistranslated, misquoted, or not what he meant…
Not exactly the communicator you want to emulate.
2 posted on 3/10/2014 10:48:38 AM by
El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house…)
Yep – that’s it. He was misquoted.
In fact, the Media quoted him as saying :
“Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting.”
…when what he REALLY said was:
“The point is ladies and gentlemen that greed, for lack of a better word, is good.”
Happy to clear that up for you.
To: SeekAndFind
He’s going to run again.
It’s what he does.
I hope the Huckster gets in, just to knock Santorum OUT.
7 posted on 3/10/2014 10:55:58 AM by
onyx (Please Support Free Republic – Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin’s Ping List, Let Me know!)
To: SeekAndFind
Yes, let’s all emulate the Pope in his redistributionist violation of the Tenth Commandment, which naturally leads to violations of the Ninth which quickly breaks down the Eighth.
Great examples, Rick.
11 posted on 3/10/2014 11:01:25 AM by
onedoug
To: SeekAndFind
I voted for Santorum in the primary but my enthusiasm was considerably dampened when he he pronounced George Zimmerman guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin, saying that Zimmerman had a”very sick mind” and that his motive was “malicious.”
18 posted on 3/10/2014 12:38:55 PM by
Fiji Hill
Ya know, sometimes there is just so much insanity that you can’t reply to all of it.
RE: “To: Oliviaforever/Never ever put your faith in a politician, …” Uh, since when was Joe the Plummer a REAL politician? I use “REAL” both in the sense of him being really what he was projecting as well as really being a politician.
And the thought that Palin somehow has the power to bring the two feuding children together and have them make nice? Aren’t they against the idea of an unelected shadow govt?
In any case, wishing you the best on your imminent birthday and hope it is a happy occaision. But if you take a break, I hope you’ll come back with an analysis of the FR and Nevada rancher Bundy.
Merry pre-retirement, Tommy. Hope you enjoy it. 🙂