Republican candidates for 2012

• Writerbuckeye

  

  Hilarious. 99 percent of the MSM gives Obama every benefit of the doubt, and you're whining because Sarah Palin actually caught a break because the media RELUCTANTLY decided she was right and they were wrong?
  
  By the way, NBC never admitted as much. Brian Williams was too busy looking at himself in a mirror before the broadcast, I guess, to actually report the story accurately. Oh well.
• Belly35

  

  Drunk History
  
  
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• I Wear Pants

  No, I'm not whining about that. It's just that you guys clamor about how everyone should feel like idiots on this and then never do the same in regards to Obama.
  
  I'll admit that I jumped the gun a bit on this one. Though I still think her using it as a sort of parrellel for a 2nd Amendment issue is ridiculous as that's not what Lexington and Concord were about but whatever. My point is that neither side ever does the right thing when they are wrong. Never saw a "oh shit, that Thailand trip isn't costing 32434234234234 trillion dollars because that would be ridiculous and we never even looked into the numbers at all before lambasting everyone about it our bad."
  
  And I get disenfranchised with all the QQing about the msm because of stuff like the Palin newspaper thing. She's not necessarily an idiot because of the way she answered that question but her and her supporters are terribly off base for how they reacted to it. "I was caught off guard by the question and I'm not quite use to interviews where I don't know the general questions that are going to be asked, I certainly can name the newspapers I read and I'll work on trying to be a bit better during interviews". If that's the tone and way her and her camp handled that sort of thing then I would not have near as much of a problem. But turning every single time someone says "no, that's not right" or thinks she handled a situation poorly, or answered a question in a dumb/incorrect manner into a "well they're just using their mainstream media gotcha machine" is bullshit.
  
  In summation, I and a lot of people may have overreacted as to the stupidity of Palin's statements in regards to Revere (though I still believe the way she said it was stupid and confusing) and for that we should try to be better. However, everytime someone questions or thinks a Republican candidate says or does something stupid or untrue the "the MSM is out to get them" engine turns on and not the "let's see who's right" engine. I'd prefer the latter. Same thing for criticisms of Obama on Fox applies though. Instead of "well it's on Fox so you know it's..." I'd rather everyone look into it and find out whether what they said actually was true. And if we're going to be harsh on "MSM" or Fox we also have to be harsh on the others.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  "In summation, I and a lot of people may have overreacted as to the stupidity of Palin's statements in regards to Revere (though I still believe the way she said it was stupid and confusing) and for that we should try to be better"
  
  Oh come on, "may have", even in the humor websites I read every now and then they are still clueless as to the whole situation - yet are ignoring comedy gold (Gold, Jerry, Gold!) with Rep. Weiner - the joke practically tells itself. Joking aside you would think LYING to the American public for a week would mean more than Palin's Harley riding, but that's just me.
• I Wear Pants

  And I've seen a whole bunch of stuff on CNN and all the other news stations about Rep. Weiner's Weiner.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  Where's Jon Stewart? Granted, I find him unfunny, smug and a POS, not nearly on the same level of Maher (can you believe he actually tried to pass himself as a Libertarian?) - but where are they?
  
  This was obvious from day 1. Just like the Duke lacrosse case. Rational, smart people knew it was BS from day 1, yet the defendants involved were dragged along the "liberal" spectrum - Likewise rational, smart people knew there was something up with Weiner (I and other people posted this) from day 1. You don't just randomly have a hacker send a crotch-shot from your twitter account and you certainly don't fail to outright reject the occurrence if you are innocent.
  
  Is common sense and rational logic just lost on people? It really isn't that difficult.
• I Wear Pants

  Yes you do randomly have that happen though. Happens to tons of celebrities all the time.
  
  However he and his camp have obviously not handled the situation well.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  Hasn't happened to me....regardless if I'm a celebrity. If someone shoots a "junk" picture from my FB account I can tell you - it ain't me.
  
  Weiner is making fools out of his supporters, including the lamestream intelligentsia (including the execrable Jon Stewart). Congrats "smart" folks, you've been punked by your own...time to be smart much?
• Y-Town Steelhound

  

  Maher is a blowhard, Stewart is way funnier. Not to mention he flat out owns people using their own clips...
• bigdaddy2003

  

  I don't agree much with Stewart or Maher but I think Maher is tad bit funnier.
• Writerbuckeye

  

  Weiner is (at least last I saw) defiant in his press conference -- saying he won't resign, even though it would absolutely be the right thing to do.
  
  If he were a Republican, I can assure you he'd be tossed (by the party) and wouldn't have to worry about trying to run again; so he'd have no choice.
  
  With Dems it's always a different matter, it seems. They don't call for the heads of their own as a general rule. They like being in power too much and don't care if it's a lying scumbag in office...so long as he has the (D) next to his name.
• stlouiedipalma

  Writerbuckeye;792702 wrote:Nice red herrings...here's some more reading for you:
  
  http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2011/06/06/sarah-palin-was-right-about-paul-revere

  
  Red herrings? That second link was Jacobsen's own blog.
• I Wear Pants

  bigdaddy2003;793031 wrote:I don't agree much with Stewart or Maher but I think Maher is tad bit funnier.

  
  Maher is sometimes funnier but I find myself agreeing with Stewart much more since he's willing to call out/make fun of Democrats and Liberals when they do ridiculous things too. Maher sometimes does as well but not nearly as much.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  I Wear Pants;793111 wrote:Maher is sometimes funnier but I find myself agreeing with Stewart much more since he's willing to call out/make fun of Democrats and Liberals when they do ridiculous things too. Maher sometimes does as well but not nearly as much.

  
  Yes, you are right. Stewart will at least call dems/liberals out once in a while. Maher acts like everything dems/liberals do is sacred and anything a republican/conservative does is bat shit crazy.
• fish82

  

  Maher is a bitter, hostile little turd nugget...desperately attempting to stay relevant is a 24/7 job for him. So really, he's pretty much the perfect spokesmodel for the democrat party.
• I Wear Pants

  Hopelessly paranoid, thinks anyone who isn't a Christian American is out to get us with some evil plot, acting batshit crazy in an attempt to stay relevant. Glenn Beck is a perfect spokesmodel for the Republican party.
• pmoney25

  

  Anyone who would vote for Sarah Palin needs to have their American Citizenship revoked and deported. And this coming from a conservative. She is a joke for more reasons than her answers to gotcha questions.
• Writerbuckeye

  

  pmoney25;793163 wrote:Anyone who would vote for Obama needs to have their American Citizenship revoked and deported.

  
  Changed it for you.
• pmoney25

  

  haha, yea that works also.
• fish82

  

  I Wear Pants;793161 wrote:Hopelessly paranoid, thinks anyone who isn't a Christian American is out to get us with some evil plot, acting batshit crazy in an attempt to stay relevant. Glenn Beck is a perfect spokesmodel for the Republican party.

  LOL...don't tear a rotator cuff with that reach, bro.
• Ty Webb

  

  fish82;793154 wrote:Maher is a bitter, hostile little turd nugget...desperately attempting to stay relevant is a 24/7 job for him. So really, he's pretty much the perfect spokesmodel for the democrat party.

  
  Wow....its amazing how you just described Rush,Hannity,Beck,and Michael Savage for the Republican Party while describe Maher
  
  You're a smart cookie fish
• fish82

  

  Ty Webb;793230 wrote:Wow....its amazing how you just described Rush,Hannity,Beck,and Michael Savage for the Republican Party while describe Maher
  
  You're a smart cookie fish

  The problem is, Junior, that the numbers already deem Rush/Hannity/Beck are relevant. Pick any one of them and they reach more people in a day than Little Billy does in a month. Excellent try, though.
  
  I'm surprised you're not on here trumpeting the latest ABC/WaPo poll about "Obama the Unbeatable." Oh wait....check that...I'm not surprised at all.
• QuakerOats

  Back to the thread topic, the only important point is that ANY of the republican candidates would be a million times better than the marxists now in charge. And that is a fact!
• Thread Bomber

  

  QuakerOats;793253 wrote:Back to the thread topic, the only important point is that ANY of the republican candidates would be a million times better than the marxists now in charge. And that is a fact!

  
  Link?
• Ty Webb

  

  QuakerOats;793253 wrote:Back to the thread topic, the only important point is that ANY of the republican candidates would be a million times better than the marxists now in charge. And that is a fact!

  
  No Quaker......that is your opinion...not a fact