Congresswoman shot.

[PearlWatson]

also, what's interesting when you compare the SDS and the Black Panthers and their own rhetoric of violence from the 60's & 70's, and the violent actions they initiated across the country, and you look at those who were involved in those movements and where they ended up, many of them eventually found their way into the mainstream and worked in more "acceptable" ways to reform society (ie, Tom Hayden, Bobby Seal, Bernadette Dohrn, Bill Ayers etc) - - yet somehow I can't see any of the current crop of "radicals" ever becoming willing to "work within the system"

But who knows.

What current crop of radicals? This was one guy. He will likely be in prison for the rest of his life for his actions, unlike the Weather Underground who get "punished" for their crimes with influential places in academia.

 

[PearlWatson]

This is the same tactic the right uses when they venture into the inner city, find the dumbest black folk possible and try to show the world that these are the idiots that will put or put Obama in office, search for stains on a dress, or scream that Bush is going starve the poor and throw old people out in the street.

Overall your post was excellent, but I think you went off track on this sentence:

The RIGHT goes into the inner city to find dumb black folks?
The RIGHT searched for stains on a dress?
The RIGHT screams that Bush is going to starve the poor and throw people out in the street?

 

[The Pearl]

To be honest Pearl, I would love it if she ran.

Although I don't think your post was really aimed at me.

OK, not aimed at you. My off the cuff, no special knowledge, gut reaction is she will not run, nor did she ever have any intention, nor does the party want her to. The worst thing that could happen to the party is if she gets steam rolled against Obama, and if she runs, she will get defeated big time and the intelligent facet of the party, if there is one, knows it.

 

[The Pearl]

Overall your post was excellent, but I think you went off track on this sentence:

The RIGHT goes into the inner city to find dumb black folks?
The RIGHT searched for stains on a dress?
The RIGHT screams that Bush is going to starve the poor and throw people out in the street?

Ok got you. The last one is wrong, I should have said the left, bad edit there by me. The right searched for the stained dress, OK, I see your point there. How does the right makes a big deal about it?

 

[One Brow]

Ex-Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Pa., October 23rd, 2010

Because calling for capital punishment for someone Kanjorski thinks of as a felon is *exactly* like calling for a "second-amendment solution" if an election is lost legally.

I can certainly understand why an avowed opponent of capital punishment would equate these two statements. Of course, someone who supported capital punishment would look like a moron for saying these are the same thing.

 

[VINYLONE]

OK, not aimed at you. My off the cuff, no special knowledge, gut reaction is she will not run, nor did she ever have any intention, nor does the party want her to. The worst thing that could happen to the party is if she gets steam rolled against Obama, and if she runs, she will get defeated big time and the intelligent facet of the party, if there is one, knows it.

Here, here.

****in A Pearl. Let me buy you a virtual beer.

 

[PearlWatson]

OK, not aimed at you. My off the cuff, no special knowledge, gut reaction is she will not run, nor did she ever have any intention, nor does the party want her to. The worst thing that could happen to the party is if she gets steam rolled against Obama, and if she runs, she will get defeated big time and the intelligent facet of the party, if there is one, knows it.

Why does the left treat sarah Palin like a threat if the conventional wisdom is that she wouldn't win?

 

[sirkickyass]

Why does the left treat sarah Palin like a threat if the conventional wisdom is that she wouldn't win?

I think you're a little off here. I don't think they treat her as a "threat" so much as they treat her as an individual who embodies most the things they don't like about the other side.

I know personally I perceive her as one of the prime examples of people who engage in rhetorical exercises designed to link left politicians to a fundamentally illegitimate form of government.

 

[PearlWatson]

Ok got you. The last one is wrong, I should have said the left, bad edit there by me. The right searched for the stained dress, OK, I see your point there. How does the right makes a big deal about it?

It?

The tactics the right uses to regain power? Attacks liberalism. Liberal policies aren't popular.

 

[PearlWatson]

I think you're a little off here. I don't think they treat her as a "threat" so much as they treat her as an individual who embodies most the things they don't like about the other side.

I know personally I perceive her as one of the prime examples of people who engage in rhetorical exercises designed to link left politicians to a fundamentally illegitimate form of government.

That sounds reasonable.

 

[Scat]

Because calling for capital punishment for someone Kanjorski thinks of as a felon is *exactly* like calling for a "second-amendment solution" if an election is lost legally.

I can certainly understand why an avowed opponent of capital punishment would equate these two statements. Of course, someone who supported capital punishment would look like a moron for saying these are the same thing.

I was simply showing that the left and Dems make bombastic statements calling for people to be shot as well. You are way overthinking my post.

 

[The Pearl]

Why does the left treat sarah Palin like a threat if the conventional wisdom is that she wouldn't win?

Why does the left treat Rush like a threat and he will never run, nor has ever run?

The left hates Limbaugh not because he is a conservative or for his conservative views. This is the greatest myth of why the left hates him. They hate Limbaugh because he turns the mirror back at the left and exposes the hypocrisy that exists between their ideology and their actual behavior. When he ties it all in with the drive by media and their complicit nature in the left's agenda you have 3 hours of kyrptonite a day. You can say what you want about Limbaugh but he knows their entire playbook, strategy, reactions, counter-reactions, etc. He is like your dad that knows all your tricks and all your BS you try to pull. He calls it on you. What is your reaction as a teenager? You hate him. You put that knowledge in a guy who can articulate the English language at a captivating pace and you got 25 million listeners a week. If he just spouted right wing crap, he is just Neal Boortz. He is not an economic or sociology expert, etc. What he is an expert on Liberals and Liberalism. He knows the enemy better than they know themselves and the left has no equivalent. None.

You can hate Limbaugh but I would bet big money his IQ is off the charts. He is every bit a genius at what he does as Jordan, Woods, Van Gogh, Steinbeck, Speilberg, etc.

Now, Palin is no genius but she is a threat because she shines the mirror back on liberalism. When it comes from an attractive woman that is the anti-poster of the NOW stereotype than that is lethal to the left's cause. That is why she will never run, she is too much of an asset as a lawn ornament.