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   masterskrain said, 5 months ago

   Sadly, Lincoln would have a hard time even being able to join the Republican party the way it has been corrupted over the last 50 years or so…
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   Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago

   Socialism works until other peoples money runs out.
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   moderateisntleft said, 5 months ago

   @Ms. Ima

   So what happens to capitalisim when poor people have no more money to take? I try to stay away from the extremes Ima – theirs and yours………
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   onguard said, 5 months ago

   @HOWGOZIT

   Because the Dem Libs Tooners are scared of the Tea Party therefore they must be Demonized…….Media Matters mandates it to it’s Minions.
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   ossiningaling said, 5 months ago

   @HOWGOZIT

   GoComics has No Fear!
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   ansonia said, 5 months ago

   @onguard

   Yes!
   Anything that can’t be controlled or silenced must be demeaned, demonized and attacked!
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   Cute little bastardizations of names works well to get the attention of the low information voter. For example, if you say “Faux Noise” and “Fux News” often enough the people will at first laugh, then believe it, and eventually spew it themselves, believing it’s bad, without ever questioning. Memes and mottoes of derision and negativity work. Another example: “Tea Party” – that could seen as a positive thing to voters, hurry and get some negative memes to spew, make it an enemy, call it cute names, like “Baggers” so the low information will get the message without having to think for themselves.
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   Finally, when you attack the Right, attack all their sources of information as being “Right Wing Nut Jobs” and then go on to offer proof that they are by linking them to Far Left Wing News sources to prove it.
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   Bruce4671 said, 5 months ago

   @masterskrain

   So you are saying that there is no corruption within the democratic party?
   
   Charlie Rangel ring a bell? And don’t dis the source since it’s all public record.
   
   http://hotair.com/archives/2012/09/20/congressionally-censured-tax-cheat-tells-romney-americans-pay-their-taxes-unlike-you/
   
   But gee whiz, he was “punished” for his crimes by being “censured” by his peers ….. and then put back into office by his constituents. No corruption there. No sir.
   
   And how about Tim Geithner? Sure it ws just a “mistake”, everybody does it. That’s Obama’s stand. Sort of like putting out a cigarette on the carpet in school. Right?
   
   http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/jan/16/competitive-enterprise-institute/geithners-second-crack-squaring-taxes/
   
   But yeah, it’s only republicans,
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   masterskrain said, 5 months ago

   @Bruce4671

   Did I say that?
   All I said was it’s sad that Lincoln could NOT get into the Republican Party today.
   And, by the way, I happen to be an Independent voter, NOT a member of either party.
   As Lincoln might say today “It’s my Party, and I’ll cry if I want to!”
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   masterskrain said, 5 months ago

   @HOWGOZIT

   I guess NONE of these organizations use the term anymore then, Gozie…

   Tea Party Patriots, an organization with more than 1,000 affiliated groups across the nation¹⁹² that proclaims itself to be the “Official Home of the Tea Party Movement”.¹⁹³Americans for Prosperity, an organization founded by David H. Koch in 2003, and led by Tim Phillips. The group has over 1 million members in 500 local affiliates, and led protests against health care reform in 2009.¹⁹⁰FreedomWorks, an organization led Dick Armey. Like Americans for Prosperity, the group has over 1 million members in 500 local affiliates. It makes local and national candidate endorsements.¹⁹⁰Tea Party Express, a national bus tour run by Our Country Deserves Better PAC, itself a conservative political action committee created by Sacramento-based Republican consulting firm Russo, Marsh, and Associates.^194195196197For-Profit Businesses:Tea Party Nation, which sponsored the National Tea Party Convention that was criticized for its $549 ticket price.^198199200201 and because Sarah Palin was apparently paid $100,000 USD for her appearance (which she put towards SarahPAC²⁰²).²⁰³Informal Organizations and Coalitions:The National Tea Party Federation, formed on April 8, 2010, by several leaders in the Tea Party movement to help spread its message and to respond to critics with a quick, unified response.²⁰⁴The Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, a loose national coalition of several dozen local tea party groups.Shame that they must have ALL changed their names…
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    DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

    I love this war in the GOP: the Neanderthals versus the Cro-Magnons.
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    Bruce4671 said, 5 months ago

    @masterskrain

    Well, there is this from your comment: “ the Republican party the way it has been corrupted”. So I just thought you said the republican party was corrupted and there for IS corrupt (which I agree with being an independent myself). But I want to make sure you include congress in it’s entirety with that charge so that you can be factual in your comments.
    
    Leslie Gore? Really? I squeezed a few tomatoes to that one….LOL
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    flake-67121 said, 5 months ago

    you give too much credence to the “moderates”. They are simply Reagan Democrats, in the absence of Reagan, “just Democrats”.
    They should never have been part of leadership in this party in the first place.
    They certainly should not be elected.
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    Respectful Troll said, 5 months ago

    The cartoon shows a stone elephant unable to stand on shattered legs about to collapse on “founding principles.”
    It fails to show the modern day republicans and there democrat “allies” speeding the process along with sledge hammers. Very sad.
    G. Washington – Political parties will divide and weaken the nation.
    Respectfully,
    C.
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    masterskrain said, 5 months ago

    @HOWGOZIT

    I’m commenting on your inane statement that the “Only Place you Hear Tea party is on GoComics”.
    Thy Googling it, and tell all the members of TEA Party.org that they are not being heard anywhere except in the comics! (Which, by the way is where they belong.)
    Or Teapartypatrots.org,
    or teapartyexpress.org, or teapartypatriots.ning.org, or
    teapartynation,org, or…shall I go on??
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    Stipple said, 5 months ago

    @masterskrain

    You are catching on, the first post used big words and could not be understood.
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    Dumbing it down may have helped, but we shall see.
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    I throw in snarky comments because they are expected, but I follow these strips for the commentators who post background information and statistics.
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    You know who you are, thanks.
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