Not my favorite prez..... by a country mile.

But let's face it: the man is *attractive*.


Anyway... they're going to have this coot on the show, apparently.

Better keep the butterfly net handy.

done with discretion and tact (such as the events in Crimea, the modern divorce rate, and the earthquake off the coast of Chile), so I will not entertain critiques of our methods.

Hope he wins the primary though!

But only because I want to see him get fewer votes than David Ortiz.

up in Uganda?

Dave and Lewis make the point I've been trying to make here for twelve years: what we in America, regardless of political ideology, call conservative today is really right wing. Dave is correct when he says that the idea that government controlling sexual behavior is a right wing point of view, not a conservative one, and Lewis is incorrect when he says that it has become a conservative point of view. What he really meant to say is that the right-most boundaries of American mainstream thought has shifted rightward from a sober conservative, who believes in low taxes and a small, non-intrusive government, to the paranoid lunacy of the old John Birch Society.

Barry Goldwater was a conservative who didn't believe government had any business telling American citizens what church to attend or with whom to sleep. People like Rev. Lively are right wing morons who believe it is the government's business to protect and endorse Judeo-Christian values and ethics are right wing (and in need of a remedial reading class for claiming the Constitution doesn't separate church and state). Jerry Falwell may have called himself a conservative, but he most decidedly was not a conservative.

It is a characteristic of the right wing to hold that some people are simply better than others and have the right to rule them. The moral superiority assumed by the right may be based on religion, race, gender, social class or any one of a number of other characteristics that in fact have no bearing on whether one is morally superior to the next person. In addition to Jerry Falwell, Americans of the present or recent past such as Rush Limbaugh, Jesse Helms, Sarah Palin and the Koch brothers are spokesmen not of conservative but right wing ideology. How any of those reprobates became a model of conservative thought is beyond me.

In the 2D political spectrum, people who are socially conservative and fiscally conservative are not your average middle of the road conservative.

How did Limbaugh, Helms, Palin and Koch become spokespeople? By latching onto Republican framing of issues by framing the language. By exploiting a "political market". By selling themselves to the highest bidder, especially Palin who snuck into Canada to use Canadian health care. It is all basically to the benefit of the corporations and the right-right types are dupes.

The phrase "I support individual freedom" actually means "I support individual freedom insofar as the individual is doing something I, personally, approve of". Or, to put that more simply, "I do not support individual freedom."

While there are many, many things I disagreed with Barry Goldwater about, I never questioned the man's personal integrity. He was, I believe, profoundly mistaken. But he was honestly mistaken. Goldwater! Thou shouldst be living at this hour: Republicans hath need of thee: They are a fen of stagnant waters; altar, sword, and pen.

Goldwater's famous line, "you don't have to be straight to be in the military, you just have to shoot straight" alone would have done it.

What a tool!

I hope people realize, though, that this guy is a fringe-of-the-fringe nutjob who makes the other wingnuts look, well, sane by example. If NO Democrat ran for office, he would still not gain more than a percentage of a percent of the vote.

I don't know why he was given any attention at all, save as a crazy "point and laugh at him" idiot.

bearing false witeness and casting first stones..

I think the man is a man of satan, not God.

does that mean the Federal Bureau of Sex is going to be abolished, and the Secretary of Sex position will be eliminated, and all of the Sex Officers will no longer walk the beat?

Go on a site like Breitbart and they can't stop posting their wet dreams about him