One candidate, who talked of privatizing Social Security, also declared that pregnant rape victims should make the “lemon situation into lemonade.”
Another candidate says he has reservations about the 46-year-old Civil Rights Act.
Another candidate says unemployment benefits aren’t authorized by the Constitution.
And the latest tea party favorite, among other things, defaulted on her mortgage, didn’t take the college courses she claimed, and is on tape criticizing masturbation and blabbing about dabbling in witchcraft.
Much of the media are portraying the likes of Sharron Angle, Joe Miller, Rand Paul and now Christine O’Donnell as wacky extremists. That may prove to be unduly dismissive.
To be sure, journalists have every right to unearth past statements about retirement benefits and civil rights by Republican nominees who are now trying to fudge their records. And it’s certainly fair to question, in O’Donnell’s case, why she made $6,000 over the last year, sued her former employer for gender discrimination and who once said that “homosexuals’ special rights groups can get away with so much more than nobody else can,” including “perversion.”
In a normal year, the accumulation of rhetoric and might be enough to send a candidate down to defeat. But this is not a normal year.
And here’s the thing: the slightly mocking tone with which some journalists are portraying these tea party conservatives is probably helping them with the broad swath of voters who don’t much trust the media. If some of these voters are fed up with the establishment, that would include the establishment press. O’Donnell, for one, has cleverly brushed aside questions about her checkered finances by saying that helps her identify with struggling workers.
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Know what, while we're at it let's just go ahead and talk about Obamas gay club he is aquainted with in Chicago and is a member of. Why he was never questined of the death of his male lover in Chicago. Let's talk about Bill Clinton's forced rape charge or even his known drug associates in Arkansas. Or how about the tens of thousands of dollars he and his wife took and never claimed to IRS….how bout we start by talking bout few of those topics to start with huh…..I mean we could go on and on….but before you guys start throwing stones about what these canidates might have said…ha ha ha you might wanna look in your own back yard first!
Good one Teresa!!!
Ain't ye got no respect fer persons, Teresa? how can we have a double standard unless we practice respect of person. Yes, I know about the Chicago Bath House and I know about Bill Ayers and I know they are both citizens of the UN so there can be no question about dual citizenship. Read about Haman in the Book of Esther and think about who he might represent in our day. Why do these two deserve such a double standard treatment as we are fully aware they have received. These are the ones that come under the law.
~ 1Ti 1:8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
9 Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;~
The law is authorized to use force while the righteous do not have that authority. Therefore we have the following from Daniel and the government does not need to be a righteous entity to enforce the law with the sword of steel. It can use that sword to protect the guilty The United States has be the exception and not the rule. We have been guided by conscience rather than law. Like the current controversy at Grambling, we can be legalistic but it does not produce the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Reason enough that we cannot be justified by law. These truths have stood over the centuries and against severe attack and still stand. As it has always been, we stand at the threshold of choice and the choice we make will be our own doing. No force is ever used to solicit that choice.
~ Da 4:17 This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men.~
We do not have to make the right choice but the wrong choice can close our door to finding our way back but it will not snuff out the truth. The double standard is to our own detriment. Or what liar ever lied for your sole benefit?
Excellently written Teresa!
Let's talk about Clinton's multiple sex encounters. Why did so many females vote for this bastard? Did they wish they would be next in line?
What about Clinton's cigar penetrating Lewinski's vigina in the Oval Office, while talking to his field Generals on the telephone. Why did they vote for him the second time? Did they think they could get into that cigar game with Clinton? How could Nillary stay with that creep?
Let's talk about the illegal. islam, muslim, alien, baby killer in the White House and his queer encounters with Larry Sinclair in Chicago. Larry Sinclair put up a $100,000 challenge for Obama to prove he did not have homosexual encounters with him. If he didn't, why didn't the queer bastard take up the challenge? The bottom line is, he didn't want to lose $100,000.
It was Barack Hussein Obama that said during campagning, " If it wasn't for Michelle, he wouldn't be straight! This was his way of letting everyone know that he was a queer.
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Don't all the above outweigh a female candidate that had a date during high school with a fellow student that was a wiccan?
52 million votetrs ended up becoming a fool and voted for a queer. There's more. Obama is a lifetime member in the ObamaChiagoGayMen'sClub. 'Google: ObamaChicagoGayMens'Club'
iof you want proof. You will a picture of Obama with his queer buddy Rahm Emanuel there also.
Google: 'ourcountryman'. Let's see if 52 million fools will vote for this queer again.
Muslims kill homosexuals. Muslims kill those that convert to Christianity. Why haven't they killed this self proclaimed homosexual that has his own Gay Mens' club in Chicago and is now saying he is a Christian? God will not look favorably on those that aide and abet a queer, illegal, islam, muslim, alien baby murderer.
Assuming even God can keep track of what you folks claim Obama is from one day to the next. It's all very entertaining for the rest of us, though.
Don't Worry James !
Be Happy!
Gee even i think Obama is a Alian!
Most likely he is from either The Planet Dumbo or Uraass.
"Even" you?
Most definitely!
Most likely both of you are from Uraass!
Have you seen Rand Paul's new 30 second ad? This is why he will win; this and the disconnect with the way the media portrays him. People will be saying 'THAT's the extremist?'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVorVi8gCJM&fe…
Paul: "First, enact term limits." Sounds good, but he won't and neither will anyone else. And once he gets in, he'll try to stay.
"Next, require Congress to read the bills they vote on." Also sounds good, but there are too many bills the bills are too long and complicated, and members of Congress have to spend too much time raising money to keep their seats."
"Stop wasteful spending by requiring a balanced budget."
So if you favor a balanced budget, Rand, I assume you'd oppose your fellow Republicans who want to extend the Bush tax cuts? Or doesn't that kind of "spending" count?
James,
Of course you are not a Rand Paul Supporter! One can surmise from your comments that you are most definitely not ! I would be inclined to categorize you into more of The Liberal Progressive Demcratic Singing Kum Bah Yuh Group.
Paul's policies which you may laugh at are in fact what the majority of Americans want. I do not endorse all of his policies either. Term Limits i am not in favor of except in the case of the Presidency. Why should a Politician who is doing a good job for his or her constituents have to vacate his or her office due to term limits. It is these kind of politicians that we need to in fact remain in office. The requirement for Congress to read the bills they vote on i fully edorse. If additional staff is needed to read the bills so to advise the Congressman or Congresswoman then so be it. All Congressmen or Congresswomen have a budget for such staff support. Stop wasteful spending is a must! As for a balanced budget i support it as well but that will take some time! The Bush Tax Cuts are as well a must to help stimulate & jump start the economy in order to create jobs for the unemployed. Without Change we will remain Dormant Economically as well as a Country and Society.
Hot Cougar as usual McPherson the liberal is up to his old liberal rhetoric.The man loves the half white spook more then his wife Moochelle.
Lol! Agreed!
"If additional staff is needed to read the bills so to advise the Congressman or Congresswoman then so be it."
That's what they do now (perhaps too often)–have staffers read them, and then give summaries.
Small (for most of us) tax cuts of the sort proposed are a pretty inefficient way to stimulate the economy.
James,
The staffs assisting in the reading & the interpretaion or as you say summaries of bills is in fact a normal & acceptable practice in Congress. Look they all have budgets for this practice! So what is the big deal?
Further what tax cuts? These tax cuts have been in place for the past decade! This is nothing more than a extension of the tax cuts. Inefficient way to stimulate the economy? Just what college did you go to? Tax cuts do in fact stimulate the economy & historically it is proven to be so. If you do want to see a double dip recession or possible depression then you had better hope that these tax cuts are extended.Entrepreneurs, Businesses Soul Proprietorships, Partnerships,Businesses & Corporations will not invest in times of uncertainty. God knows this president has created so much uncertainty for business that we will not recover overnight & if these tax cuts are not extended you will see this economic failure by Obama extended by a decade or more.
We didn't get screwed when the U S was founded; we are getting screwed now. We have been ever since Darwinism and socialism have come into fruition. May God help us. God bless America.
Media Mockery of The Tea Party Candidates is Great !
The more the media attacks these Tea Party Candidates The more motivated are the people to vote for them! Americans will conceive this as being unfair & if there is one thing a true American dislikes
is when they feel that someone is being treated unfairly !
Now once again in history the Liberal, Comunist, Socialist, Progressive, and what ever new name they come up with will have to go underground and dissapear until like the Deviv feels safe to emerge again. For a long time it was not cool to be all those names but finally the American Faithful Patriots are standimg up again. We just left well enough alone until it was almost yo late. Thank Fox News and Glen Beck for being the only half honest News on the air. I say half honest because they will still not bring ISLAM to light for everyone to understand better. VCheck out Worln Nwt Daily. Muslam Brotherhood
The Only One At The Tea Party Speech About The Number Of States?? All Tea Party Fans Said 50 And The Manchurian Muslim President Obama Said 57, Yikees, Now You Tell Me Where The Traitor With The Forked Tongue Will Bad Mouth Next, Yikeess, How About The Long Legged Mack Daddy Obama, Yippee, Per Rev James Manning PhD, Yikees, Whats This Mean?? Dhimmitude Muslim System Of Controlling Non-Muslim Population In The Un-Read Part Of Obamacare, What ,The Progressive Twins Have Spoken Soros-Obama.