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Archae

(46,328 posts)
Fri Mar 7, 2014, 12:45 PM Mar 2014

More lunacy from CPAC, Oliver North and Mike Huckabee

There must have been a mass escape from the local asylum for the criminally insane...



Oliver North: GOP Must Oppose Marriage Equality Like It Fought Slavery

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Friday, 3/7/2014 11:10 am

In an appearance at CPAC today, Oliver North denounced President Obama for treating military service members like “laboratory rats in some radical social experiment” and “apologizing” for America. North insisted that the US “has nothing ever to apologize for, not once” in its entire history.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/oliver-north-gop-must-oppose-marriage-equality-it-fought-slavery#sthash.RO175RZk.dpuf

Huckabee: Deep In Their Hearts, Most Americans Know God Created This Nation

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Friday, 3/7/2014 10:50 am

Mike Huckabee was only given ten minutes to speak at CPAC today, so he wanted to get right into talking about "the things that I know," foremost of which is that God created the United States and if the nation does not repent, it'll deserve to be destroyed just like Sodom and Gomorrah.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/huckabee-deep-their-hearts-most-americans-know-god-created-nation#sthash.cqRjFFKk.dpuf

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More lunacy from CPAC, Oliver North and Mike Huckabee (Original Post) Archae Mar 2014 OP
K & R Wounded Bear Mar 2014 #1
CUR-AY-ZEE!!! longship Mar 2014 #2
D'Snooza was there too... Archae Mar 2014 #3
Mike Huckabee hearts God and Vladimir Putin eridani Mar 2014 #4
This guy Capt. Obvious Mar 2014 #5
Ollie of the BFEE Octafish Mar 2014 #6

Archae

(46,328 posts)
3. D'Snooza was there too...
Fri Mar 7, 2014, 02:32 PM
Mar 2014

Preaching his usual bullshit.

D'Souza: Obama Is Coming For Your Couches, Cars

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Friday, 3/7/2014 12:55 pm

Dinesh D’Souza came to CPAC today to promote his new movie, “America,” and explain how President Obama is implementing an anti-American, anti-capitalist agenda. D’Souza told the conservative conference that Obama believes “the free market system is based on theft” and seemed to be under the impression that Obama came up with the entire system of taxation: “Think about this, it’s almost like here you are at home, you’re watching TV, and a bunch of government guys show up at your door and they start taking your furniture and taking your car and you’re like, ‘What are you doing?’ They’re like, ‘You know your paycheck that you got last month? You didn’t earn that, you stole it, it doesn’t really belong to you.’ This is what, in a sense, we are up against.”

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/d-souza-obama-coming-your-couches-cars#sthash.XJJuJNB3.dpuf

eridani

(51,907 posts)
4. Mike Huckabee hearts God and Vladimir Putin
Tue Mar 11, 2014, 07:50 AM
Mar 2014
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/07/1282943/-Mike-Huckabee-hearts-God-and-Vladimir-Putin

Mike Huckabee spoke at CPAC because of course he did; he may represent the general spirit of CPAC more than any other single attendee (with the possible exception of Oliver North, who trades in a good portion of Godliness for a much higher proportion of patriotically themed criminality—good conservative choices, both). He wants to make sure you know that our nation was founded by God (see above), but that's just Hucka-boilerplate. The real message is that Russian President Vladimir Putin is such a man:

Huckabee said Obama's perceived weakness has emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"I know the only time that Vladimir Putin shivers is when he takes his shirt off in a cold Russian winter," Huckabee said to laughter and applause from the audience.


What the hell is with this conservative fixation on Vladimir Putin? I know conservatism loves a good, strong father figure, but choosing "post-Soviet Russian strongman" as one of the archetypical figures of the new conservative movement is not among the outcomes anyone would have predicted a scant 10 years ago. Show these people a strong chest and they go weak at the knees.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
6. Ollie of the BFEE
Tue Mar 11, 2014, 09:01 AM
Mar 2014

Learned the line from something his boss and fellow Iran-Contra co-conspirator once said:

[font color="purple"]"I will never apologize for the United States — I don't care what the facts are... I'm not an apologize-for-America kind of guy."[/font color]

Statement as Vice-president, during a presidential campaign function (2 Aug 1988), commenting on the Navy warship USS Vincennes having shot down Iran Air Flight 655 in a commercial air corridor on July 3, killing 290 civilians, as quoted in "Perspectives", the quote of the week section of Newsweek (15 August 1988) p. 15; also quoted in "Rally Round the Flag, Boys" by Michael Kingsley in TIME magazine (12 September 1988)

SOURCE: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush

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