BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 11:57 PM

I think she's a good candidate to revive the 'Know Nothing' party.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Sep 09 - 05:35 AM

Chongo's still trying to get her for the APP in the next election. Only problem is...she wants his spot and he won't agree to that. He's offering her the Secretary of State position if he gets elected and she helps pull in the Christian vote. She figures that's not good enough. Chongo says she oughta take what she can get, and I can see his point. It would certainly have an interesting effect on America's foreign policy with Sarah as Secretary of State, don'tcha think?

Russia would really sit up and take notice, I'm sure...

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 13 Sep 09 - 08:49 AM

"I think she's a good candidate to revive the 'Know Nothing' party."

             I think Nancy Pelosi has dibs on that project!

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: curmudgeon
Date: 13 Sep 09 - 10:09 AM

Rig,you epitomise the essence of the Know Nothing Party, a brief and correct summation from Wikipedia:

"The Know Nothing movement was a nativist American political movement of the 1840s and 1850s. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by Irish Catholic immigrants, who were often regarded as hostile to U.S. values and controlled by the Pope in Rome. Mainly active from 1854 to 1856, it strove to curb immigration and naturalization..."

Does no one study American history?

Disgusted - Tom

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Greg F.
Date: 13 Sep 09 - 10:29 AM

I would advise her to revive Teddy Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" party...

And yet more disgust @ historical ignorance: The Bull Moose Party & Roosevelt were Progressives fer chrissake - you know, what Palin & the BuShites call "liberals" and "socialists" trying to bring down America...

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 13 Sep 09 - 10:48 AM

We seem to be on the verge of yet ANOTHER unwanted federal election in Canada! Virtually no one in the general public wants it, but the party politicians are playing their usual games of musical chairs. So.....our local Conservative Party member here in Simcoe Country is spouting bullshit about how we should vote Conservative to stop the evils of "socialism" from threatening!

He's appealing to his usual dumbass constituency, those who are stupid enough to respond to that sort of thing...despite the fact that their pensions, their health care, their roads, their schools, their municipal works, their libraries, their police, their fire department, their utilities, and a huge number of other things they want, love, and absolutely can't do without are provided by.....................socialism!

Idiots.

I know Bruce Stanton (the Conservative party member) and he doesn't strike me as a stupid man, so I presume he's simply saying whatever the Conservative party machine thinks will scare people off voting for the other parties and keep him in office. Surely he can't believe it???? No, I don't think he's that stupid by any means.

The average demographic around here is an older age group of rural and small town White English Canadians that is fairly (or considerably) well off financially...and that is exactly where the Conservative Party draws its strength in this country. It's the Old Guard. They live in the past and are terrified of the hordes of immigrants and other have-nots whom they envision clambering at the gates...

You can get a blind dog or a drunken gorilla elected in this town...just as long as he's a Conservative Party member. ;-) (not that I'm suggesting anything about Bruce Stanton...like I said, he's an okay guy, he's just batting for a bad team, that's all).

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 13 Sep 09 - 04:10 PM

"The Bull Moose Party & Roosevelt were Progressives fer chrissake,..."

                Still, they were Republicans just the same. The right-wing-religious-wakkos were mostly Democrats, so one can be "progrssive," it seems, going either way.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Greg F.
Date: 13 Sep 09 - 05:46 PM

Rig,

You apparently haven't the slightest idea of what the Progressive movement and/or the Progressive Party in the U.S. was & what their platform & ideology was.

Still, they were Republicans just the same.

No, they were not. TR had broken rather violently with the Republican party was a 3rd party candidate.

The right-wing-religious-wakkos were mostly Democrats

Not hardly. Sorry.

one can be "progrssive," it seems, going either way.

I don't have a clue what this is supposed to mean.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 13 Sep 09 - 07:45 PM

"I don't have a clue what this is supposed to mean."

            Probably because you don't take the time to look up the facts, Greg. Does the name William Jennings Bryan mean anything to you?

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Greg F.
Date: 13 Sep 09 - 10:49 PM

Yeah, Bill Bryan's quite familiar to me: Democrat, lawyer, cross of gold speech, Scopes Trial & all that. But his presidential races & early populist leanings were all before TR's independent bid in 1912.

So what's Bryan got to do with the price of tea in China?

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 14 Sep 09 - 08:18 AM

No, they weren't. In fact, he was the first Secretary of State in the Wilson Administration.

             But here's the way it came down. TR was in Africa shooting lions with a lever action Winchester when his life was saved by William Howard Taft, who had begun to abandon TR's work as a trust buster and was climbing back into bed with big business.
             It pissed TR off to the point where he came back and tried to wrest the nomination away from Taft for 1912, when that didn't work, he formed his own party and ran against him. That split the Republican party and got Wilson elected.
             So, most of the people supporting TR were progressive Republicans, the one's supporting Taft were pro-business Republicans, while the voters supporting Wilson were Democrats.
             Bryan, of course, supported Wilson with the right-wing-religious-wakko wing of the Democratic Party.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: gnu
Date: 25 Sep 09 - 02:03 PM

News reaches Berlin.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Riginslinger
Date: 25 Sep 09 - 09:36 PM

Whoever made that film had a pretty perverted grasp of history, in my opinion.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: SharonA
Date: 26 Sep 09 - 03:08 AM

Gnu: I posted a link to that YouTube clip on this thread on 06 Jul 09 at 04:02 AM. It's still funny, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: Ron Davies
Date: 26 Sep 09 - 02:30 PM

That clip is the best of the breed so far, seems to me.   Hitler: " Every time she winked I thought it was just for me."..."Now Romney is our only hope."   Classic.    I must have missed it the first time it was posted.

Rig, your sense of humor must have been shot off in the war.   Only question is which one.

Subject: RE: BS: Sarah Palin will resign on July 26!
From: gnu
Date: 26 Sep 09 - 02:32 PM

Yer not the only one, as SharonA has taken the time and effort to point out.