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Hugabear

(10,340 posts)
2. But JFK would have been a REPUBLICAN if he were alive today!
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 11:34 PM
Mar 2012

Lol, I often hear rethugs claim that JFK would actually be a rethug if he were alive now.

Mopar151

(10,003 posts)
3. Birchers then, Baggers now
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 11:38 PM
Mar 2012

The script has'nt changed much, either. Still full of shit, racisim and paranoia.

emulatorloo

(44,211 posts)
10. Modern Media mainstreamed baggers. Birchers were recognized for the kooks that they were.
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 10:05 AM
Mar 2012

That is the thing that pisses me off about this bagger thing. Total fringe kooks, media pretended they had a legit point of view.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
11. The main reason that Birchers were marginalized
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 10:11 AM
Mar 2012

from the Republican party was that William F. Buckley denounced them constantly for years. No Repuke has the nerve to take on the baggers now that all the moderates have been purged from the party.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
5. JBS (Koch funded) posted these in Dallas in 1963.
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 11:40 PM
Mar 2012

I was only 12, but remember some of the students at my school calling for his death before he came down to Texas. We'd gone through the Cuban missile crisis and they wanted blood. People were pretty open about their hatred. Just think, they may have grown up and never changed their minds, either. A memory can be a terrible thing.

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
7. Becoming More Obvious
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 11:51 PM
Mar 2012

It is more obvious now that the RW conspiracy that Hillary was talking about has been going on for along time. Certainly makes you wonder if the Warren Commission was a fraud. Plus look at all the murders RFK, Aldridge Cleaver, & MLK. Who did it is still clouded. Sirhan Sirhan has not ever said a word all these years. Too many questions and not many clear answers.

The poster is really strange. I was in Jr College then and naive politically. Never knew that there was that much hatred out there.

When I see things like this I wonder. And I still think that the GOP is up to something. All the anti voter stuff makes you wonder if they are up to some kind of voting coup. Their growing stridency and vitriol is suspicious.

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
8. I have DVD's of the old
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 12:11 AM
Mar 2012

Get Smart in the 60's, and one episode the chief and Max were trying to tell the young woman she was in danger. "There is an organization of shrewed determined men who've been trying to get control of this country for a number of years. Perhaps you've heard of them?"
"Oh, you mean the Republicans".

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randome

(34,845 posts)
12. Get Smart was full of other good one-liners.
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 10:11 AM
Mar 2012

I remember that somehow the prospect came up of an actor trying to be President of the US. They laughed at the idea.

Since 1980, I know they were talking about Reagan.

newspeak

(4,847 posts)
13. the JFK poster reminds me of the RW artist
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 10:15 AM
Mar 2012

portraying obama burning the constitution. I guess he forgot, his hero little boots, actually was in office when the unpatriotic bill was passed.

As yesterday, so today-these RW chickenhawks love war and aggression. Talking about treason, some of them would betray the people in this country in a heartbeat if it would further a corporate interest and make a profit.

and yet, some who act with violence usually don't identify themselves with people like pinochet, franco (who overthrew a democratically elected leader) or hitler (with his brownshirt intimidating thugs).

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