Columnist – John Sammon
I talked to another Republican who wants to ignore the eight years of Bush and blame Obama for everything. I just threw up my hands. I realized it’s hopeless. There will never be any progress in health care or anything except doomsday weapons with people like this guy around.

You can’t reason with people like this.

Here are 10 reasons why you can’t reason with them.

1. They believe there has never been a Republican wrong about anything. If they are proven wrong in their viewpoint, they’ll deny it. They believe it’s impossible for American policy toward other countries to be wrong, if the policy was enacted by Republicans.

2. Republicans, mostly white men, consider black Americans, Mexican Americans and women to be inferior. They consider them inferior in this order (bottom most inferior):

A. Women (white women).

B. Mexicans.

C. Blacks.

Yet, they need women for purposes of sex, those Republicans who aren’t gay. Also, Republicans don’t mind picking a person of color as a token to dispel the notion that they are racist.

3. Republicans don’t believe in freedom of speech. Anybody who has an opinion they don’t like they heckle or shout down. They don’t believe in the Constitution. Anybody who wants to do something different they call a traitor.

4. The Republican Party, the white man’s party, are champions of the double standard. For example, they constantly brand social programs as socialistic giveaways because the programs help those whom they consider inferior, but they don’t mind spending billions forever nation-building in Iraq, giving money to those they consider inferior (Arabs). As long as it’s a war of conquest or building a colony overseas, it’s not wasteful spending. If it’s here in this country and spent on the poor or immigrants, it’s wasteful spending.

5. A Republican harps on the cost of everything, but knows the value of nothing. An older Republican will call you a subversive if you’re liberal, but doesn’t throw his Social Security check in the trash, a check made possible by liberals. The Republican spends the Social Security check.

6. Republicans love to castigate others for being unpatriotic, yet far fewer Republicans in Congress have served in the military than Democrats. Elected Republican officials love to carp about family values, yet they are at least on par with Democrats when it comes to adultery, gay, rough and group sex, and pursuing under-age boys in the men’s room.

7. Very few Republicans have read a history book. George Bush Senior said Pearl Harbor happened on September 6, 1941, and Ronald Reagan laid a wreath in a German cemetery commemorating victims of the Holocaust only to find out it contained SS members of the Gestapo. He laid the wreath anyway. George Bush Junior compared Iraq with its attack helicopters to American independence in 1776.

8. Republicans not only didn’t learn from Watergate, they actually admired it, and have tirelessly developed secret government ever since, including the art of “Plausible deniability,” first coined by Reagan. Republicans fervently believe in secret government.

9. Republicans don’t believe in a two-party system, though it worked fairly well for all its failures and foibles up until the time Republicans began listening to the whacked out psychotic extremists in their party. They make Barry Goldwater look like a Bolshevik.

10. Republicans believe that God is a Republican who looks like John Wayne. This makes reasoning with them very difficult.

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References:

1. Here is Toe-Sucking Pervert Dick Morris spoon-feeding the numskulls with lies | Who is Dick Morris? FIND OUT HERE.

2. 41 Things You Have To Believe To Be A Republican Today
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Dodging an Alaskan Bullet

   [ By: Richard Cohen ]
In his novel “The Plot Against America,” Philip Roth imagined that Charles Lindbergh, an isolationist and an anti-Semite (but a hell of a flier), ran for president in 1940 and beat Franklin Roosevelt. In his novel “Fatherland,” Robert Harris imagined a Britain that had succumbed to the Nazis. These works are categorized as “alternate history.” Here is my contribution to the genre: Sarah Palin becomes president of the United States.

Far-fetched? Not really. After all, Palin was on the Republican ticket, and the Democratic candidate was both untested nationally and the first African American to claim the nomination. A significant misstep here or there and the winner could have been John McCain, the oldest man ever to be elected to a first term as president.

My brothers and sisters in punditry spent a jolly Fourth of July weekend having a swell time with Palin and her decision to quit as governor of Alaska.

Her words were parsed for their meaning and her plans were deduced while political operatives of both parties analyzed her move to see if she is really very clever or as dumb as a mud wall. A good time was had by all.

It would behoove us, though, to consider how close we all came to utter disaster — the “counterfactual” suggested above. A recent Vanity Fair article clarifies just how awful a vice president (or president) Palin would have made. During the campaign, she proved allergic to briefings and remained determined to stay uncorrupted by knowledge. More recently, she explained her decision to — permit me some GOP talk — cut and run as Alaska governor by lapsing into no known language, explaining herself afterward in a burst of Tweets that only raised more questions. One question, though, has been settled: She is unfit for office.

Naming Palin to the GOP ticket — a top-down choice by McCain — was the most reckless decision any national politician has made in the longest time, and while it certainly says something about McCain, it says even more about his party. It has lost its mind.

Recall, after all, that Palin was not McCain’s first choice. That was either Joe Lieberman or Tom Ridge. Both were rejected by the party establishment because of their appalling moderation on social issues over which the president has little direct authority anyway — abortion, above all — and in Lieberman’s case because he had been a Democrat. In desperation, McCain turned to Palin.

Was there a scream of protest? No. Did the Republican Party demand to know of McCain what the hell he had done? Again, no. Was it okay with the GOP if the person a heartbeat away from the presidency was — pardon me, but it’s true — a ditz with no national experience whatsoever? You betcha. The party had cracked up, accepting a nullity because she was antiabortion over a seasoned senator and former governor because they were not. Ideology won. The nation lost.

   Courtesy: Gary Varvel

Almost as interesting as Palin is South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. Never mind his affair. These things happen. Concentrate instead on how he hid his affair — by disappearing and calling attention to himself. Note also that even before he somehow took the Appalachian Trail to Buenos Aires, he was renowned for rejecting federal stimulus money. Before that, as a congressman, he claimed to have forsaken a housing allowance — and a cot — and said, “I sleep on the floor of my office.” Most of us would consider this weird behavior. In the GOP, it was seen as presidential timber.

Shall I go on? Newt Gingrich, another possible candidate, is the Old Faithful of the Grand Old Party, erupting on a regular basis. He recently suggested that Judge Sonia Sotomayor is racist because of her comment about the innate astuteness of a “wise Latina.” He later apologized, but his hair trigger is well established. This is the same Gingrich, you may recall, who threw a tantrum in 1995 when President Bill Clinton seated him in the rear of Air Force One and then, with ingenious malice aforethought, failed to come back to chat. As for the other GOP candidates, all of them must be vetted by the party’s Grand Inquisitor, Rush Limbaugh, a belch from the gutter.

For Tina Fey, Sarah Palin was comedic material. For the rest of us, she’s been a summer weekend’s diversion. But when the chuckling stops, you have to ask yourself what in the world she was doing on the GOP ticket and what would have happened if McCain had won. Only part of this is alternate history. The rest is frightening reality.

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SPLC Report: An ‘American Legion’ booklet, full of anti-immigrant falsehoods

America’s largest veterans organization has launched another campaign — a hard-line attack on undocumented immigrants that’s at odds with the legion’s mainstream image. As part of this effort, the legion, which purports to speak for 2.7 million members, recently issued a booklet that regurgitates discredited and often completely false information about how “illegals” are bringing crime, disease, and terrorism to this country, even as they wreck the economy for natives.

   An American Legion post in East Haven, Conn., opened its doors last year to anti-immigration
   activists including Walter Moore (with sign). (AP)

The legion’s 34-page booklet, A Strategy to Address Illegal Immigration in the United States, asserts that “poverty, political instability, disease and war” are “on our back doorstep” because of porous borders and the failure of the government to stringently enforce immigration laws. But in making its case, the legion repeatedly cites dubious sources, ignores well-known facts and makes baseless claims — such as the false assertion that the undocumented infected more than 7,000 people in America with leprosy during a recent four-year period…..[ more ]

NOTES: CNN’s Resident “Anti-Immigrant Nativist,” anchor Lou Dobbs, repeated and popularized false claims about immigrants and leprosy. When confronted by “60 Minutes” and numerous critics, Dobbs refused to correct his statements, saying his program did not make errors.

Lou Dobbs is a major media Bigot. A Racist, Xenophobic Extortionist of NAZI proportions — in the mode of Dr. Joseph Goebbels — “Minister for Public Enlightenment & Propaganda in Nazi Germany.” Lou Dobbs’s anti-immigrant campaign is very similar to that conducted against Jews in NAZI Germany…..[ more ] [ Lou Dobb's NAZI Propaganda ]