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2006-10-23 Home Front: Culture Wars
The Left: We MUST Take To The Streets...
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Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-10-23 12:42|| || Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 The media-based elite do not themselves believe any of this. Vidal is a touchstone but not a genuine insider. What they do believe is that they can use conspiracy theories and their hordes of brainless conformists to delegitimize and disrupt the election. After that, they will make what amounts to a back room deal with Rove et al. The result will be an end to the chaos in return for racial gerrymandering of Congressional districts, a free hand for totalitarian activists on campus, and an end to any attempt to keep illegal aliens from voting, among other concessions. A similar "understanding" and tacit truce allowed radical forces to capture control of the Democratic party after the 1968 convention riots.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-10-23 14:33||   2006-10-23 14:33|| Front Page Top

#2 I should add that I don't think it will work this time. The media-generated uprising depends crucially on the credibility of the complicit media. They had that in 1968, they don't have it today. If Walter Cronkite had claimed that LBJ was declaring martial law and rounding up hippies, millions would have believed him on no other evidence. If Katie Couric made the same claim today, she would be run out of town on a rail.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-10-23 14:37||   2006-10-23 14:37|| Front Page Top

#3 While my confidence isn't very high at the moment, I really, really, really hope the Dems fail in their bid to win back the House.

There's nothing quite like the sound of moonbats falling from the sky with an audible *SPLAT*.

These people are so consumed by hate that they toss all logic and reason out the window.
Posted by eltoroverde 2006-10-23 14:47||   2006-10-23 14:47|| Front Page Top

#4 We MUST Take To The Streets...

Please do.
Posted by .com 2006-10-23 14:54||   2006-10-23 14:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Find out what ANSWER has planned for after election day. If they are quietly assembling activists for planning of massive protests, you know things are going to get hot. There WILL be riots if the GOP retains control of both houses.
Posted by Jonathan">Jonathan  2006-10-23 15:01||   2006-10-23 15:01|| Front Page Top

#6 When I asked Gore Vidal at dinner

Priceless.
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2006-10-23 15:04||   2006-10-23 15:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Go ahead. Just like your 10-5 to take the white house back. Some 40 people showed up and they were all 55+ in age?

Face it. You guys are a old, dying movement.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2006-10-23 15:14||   2006-10-23 15:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Hey, Gore. Couldya pass the fuckin potatoes...
Posted by tu3031 2006-10-23 15:23||   2006-10-23 15:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Bring it on.
Posted by SR-71 2006-10-23 15:24||   2006-10-23 15:24|| Front Page Top

#10 What happens if the Dems do not win all or even half of the seats they say they will? Are we looking at a party collapse?

I wish they would "take to the streets" and do something stupid so we could watch the dance of the rubber bullets.

Posted by Armylife 2006-10-23 15:24||   2006-10-23 15:24|| Front Page Top

#11 "What happens if the Dems do not win all or even half of the seats they say they will? Are we looking at a party collapse?"

Remember the 1981 movie Scanners? The one where peoples' heads would explode and their veins would burst?

If the Dems don't win, keep a close eye on Howard Dean...

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D.  2006-10-23 15:52||   2006-10-23 15:52|| Front Page Top

#12 Yes the Dems are planning for a court battle because they WILL lose again. What I mean by lose is that they will not take enough races to control the Senate or House and they will rapidly deploy lawyers in hopes of digging up some voter irregularities. Ever notice that their (Donks) irregularities take the form of some nebulas unverifiable pronouncement? A good example is that “many more people would have voted if they didn’t have to stand in line for hours” or “Some people were intimidated by a police vehicle parked a block away from the polling place”. Yeah right.
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-10-23 15:53||   2006-10-23 15:53|| Front Page Top

#13 I think we have a misunderstanding here. For R'burgers, "taking it to the streets" means breaking out the hollow-point rounds. For these guys, it means giant puppets.
Posted by Matt 2006-10-23 15:58||   2006-10-23 15:58|| Front Page Top

#14 Lol, Dave.

If the Dems don't win, keep a close eye on Howard Dean...

But wear protection.
Posted by .com 2006-10-23 15:59||   2006-10-23 15:59|| Front Page Top

#15 At the Huffy, you always gotta check the bio..

Ms. Lear received her Ph. D. in clinical psychology at the Professional School of Psychological Studies in San Diego, practiced family therapy at New York’s Foundation for Manic Depression and Depression, and was in private practice in psychotherapy in Beverly Hills specializing in marriage and family therapy.

Talk about a target audience...

Posted by tu3031 2006-10-23 16:05||   2006-10-23 16:05|| Front Page Top

#16 Excellent insight, Matt.

I'm not afraid the communards will back it up for once, I'm afraid they won't.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-10-23 16:06||   2006-10-23 16:06|| Front Page Top

#17 In a thousand years, we may see a museum exhibit devoted to this phenomenon:

Lear and Vidal stuffed and seated in a reproduction of an elegant restaurant, fake Fernet Branca and all. The sign explains: "and here we see two exemplary specimens of an exotic 21st century species, the screeching limousine- lib moonbat, in its native habitat. This is believed to have evolved from a lesser species, the 60s yellow-tailed hippy, when the latter developed more elaborate plumage. Both became extinct when their typical habitats disappeared under natural competitive pressure."
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-10-23 16:19||   2006-10-23 16:19|| Front Page Top

#18 Found this gem from Wikipedia:

"Adolf Hitler's bodyguard has said that Hitler, despite a popular belief that he did not drink alcohol, drank a glass of Fernet Branca before making public speeches."
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-10-23 16:23||   2006-10-23 16:23|| Front Page Top

#19 Lol, AC! #17 is priceless, heh.
Posted by .com 2006-10-23 16:35||   2006-10-23 16:35|| Front Page Top

#20 What's next for the Dems? Suicide bombers?
Posted by eLarson 2006-10-23 16:41|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2006-10-23 16:41|| Front Page Top

#21 CS, I think I alluded to this before, if the donks don't win the majority, they will contest so many elections in the courts that the House cannot be organized in any normal fashion come next January. They amy actually try to force some sort of coalition govt so they can get some chairmanships and power before it is all resolved or they will hold everything up.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-10-23 16:45||   2006-10-23 16:45|| Front Page Top

#22 Totally OT : Remember the 1981 movie Scanners?

Yes, I do.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-23 16:53||   2006-10-23 16:53|| Front Page Top

#23 I'm not afraid the communards will back it up for once, I'm afraid they won't.

Heh, we've been missing something around here.
Posted by Shipman 2006-10-23 17:46||   2006-10-23 17:46|| Front Page Top

#24 Don't think Scanners, think Max Headroom and blipverts -- information that comes so fast the viewer's head explodes.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2006-10-23 17:50|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-10-23 17:50|| Front Page Top

#25 Fox News said the MD and TN races are tightening, and Ford Jr. broke election etiquette last week.
Posted by anonymous2u 2006-10-23 19:29||   2006-10-23 19:29|| Front Page Top

#26 Ms. Lear received her Ph. D. in clinical psychology at the Professional School of Psychological Studies in San Diego

I've lived here all my life - 47 years - and NEVER heard of this outstanding diploma mill institution
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-10-23 19:46||   2006-10-23 19:46|| Front Page Top

#27 takin' it to the streets. Heh, heh. Good luck with that. Be another pathetic little dinosaur fossil parade. Downright embarassing it will be. ha, ha.
Posted by anon 2006-10-23 19:49||   2006-10-23 19:49|| Front Page Top

#28 That's because they've only had three graduates in the last three years, Frank. I'm not kidding:
http://www.psychboard.ca.gov/exams/numofgrads.pdf
Posted by Darrell 2006-10-23 20:04||   2006-10-23 20:04|| Front Page Top

#29 "...whose doctorate came from the now defunct and never accredited Professional School of Psychological Studies..."
http://skepdic.com/news/newsletter34.html
Posted by Darrell 2006-10-23 20:18||   2006-10-23 20:18|| Front Page Top

#30 nice research, Darrell!
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-10-23 20:39||   2006-10-23 20:39|| Front Page Top

#31  For these guys, it means giant puppets.

Maybe. But rumblings at DU and a few other sites suggest the destructive anarchists who've burned shops during economic summits are aching for some street action. 'Intifada' has been mentioned.
Posted by lotp 2006-10-23 20:39||   2006-10-23 20:39|| Front Page Top

#32 They should do it before the election-- it'll have more impact.
Posted by Dave D.">Dave D.  2006-10-23 20:51||   2006-10-23 20:51|| Front Page Top

#33 Intifada -> Into Fodder
Posted by Hyper 2006-10-23 20:51||   2006-10-23 20:51|| Front Page Top

#34 Somehow I get the feeling there won't be any moonbat parades in my tiny Middle Tenn town. Sure we've got a few moonbats here at TTU, but since they haven't even managed to stop the University from playing actual Christmas music in the Student Union during December, I rather doubt they could manage more than 300 out of 8000+ students.
Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick  2006-10-23 21:00||   2006-10-23 21:00|| Front Page Top

#35 Dave D., can they be somewhat...ahm....nudged? I think that the impact would be beyond their wildest dreams. In fact, the impact you mention may be the biggest one of many, but the little impacts would count too. ;-)
Posted by twobyfour 2006-10-23 21:33||   2006-10-23 21:33|| Front Page Top

#36 I was going to make a comment but then I changed my mind.
Posted by Floluter Phemp9244 2006-10-23 22:19||   2006-10-23 22:19|| Front Page Top

#37 the destructive anarchists who've burned shops during economic summits are aching for some street action.

Then I shall bring a street sweeper.
Posted by Secret Master 2006-10-23 22:21||   2006-10-23 22:21|| Front Page Top

#38 Your full auto Glock?
Posted by Floluter Phemp9244 2006-10-23 22:30||   2006-10-23 22:30|| Front Page Top

#39 Street Sweeper - 12 Ga
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-10-23 22:42||   2006-10-23 22:42|| Front Page Top

#40 A classic street sweeper is a short-barrelled 12 gauge shotgun with double barrels and the triggers wired together. It also can refer to the 12 shot revolver shotgun that the Dems outlawed in 1986.
Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-10-23 22:43||   2006-10-23 22:43|| Front Page Top

#41 Well, as amusing as the thought of "rock salting" some moonbats is, I think a garden hose with a $5 sprayer on the end would probably work fine.
Posted by Secret Master 2006-10-23 23:06||   2006-10-23 23:06|| Front Page Top

#42  I think a garden hose with a $5 sprayer on the end would probably work fine.

And they'd smell better, too. Everyone's a winner.
Posted by mrp 2006-10-23 23:13||   2006-10-23 23:13|| Front Page Top

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