Discussion: The REPUBLICAN Party V

[Spidey-Bat]

In the end, the results are the same: people get ****ed.

 

[enterthemadness]

This pizza thing is like when Hannity and Laura Ingraham were implying Obama was un-American and elitist for 1) asking for spicy or Dijon mustard on his burger and 2) not getting ketchup on his burger.

I wasn't aware that ketchup was a mandatory condiment for a burger? Haven't had it on any burger I've eaten since I was a kid... But yeah, you know people have run out of things to talk about if all they can do is nitpick how politicians eat their food.

I use ketchep, but I also like bleu cheese with no ketchep, sometimes I think I've put it on with bleu cheese. Um...BBQ sauces...no ketchep with that. So uh, yeah, ketchep....not mandatory, but recommeded.

 

[Marx]

That "Lame-Stream Media" strikes again. They just keep asking her them hard questions.

She's pathetic. The fact that she only 'grants' interviews to FOX News speaks volumes. What's even worse is her 'I don't owe the lamestream media anything' mentality which really means that she believes she is above being held accountable for her words and actions.

 

[Kelly]

Well, until she becomes a candidate, really who does she owe? She has freedom of speech as do we. She's an idiot, but she is an idiot that has the right to give her opinion.

I still don't understand why people get so upset at her, get upset with the media for keeping her relevant.

Think about this for a second...if the media did not follow her around and report everything, and I mean everything that she says, would you ever know?

Probably not...

 

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[DACrowe]

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[Marx]

I'd say the media is definitely responsible for propping her up. The 24 hour news cycle has been nothing but a detriment to our society.

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[Marx]

FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE EAGLEBURGER HAS DIED
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co...ry-of-state-lawrence-eagleburger-passes-away/

 

[Marx]

TRUMP IMPRESSES AT CONSERVATIVE GATHERING IN IOWA
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.co...les-yet-wows-crowd-at-conservative-gathering/

 

[Superman]

Sarah Palin On Paul Revere Ride: I Didn't Get History Wrong

WASHINGTON (AP/The Huffington Post) -- Sarah Palin says she didn't mess up her history on Paul Revere.

The potential 2012 presidential candidate was in Boston on Thursday as part of her bus tour when she was asked about the Revolutionary War hero.

Palin said Revere "warned the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms."

Palin, a paid Fox News contributor, told "Fox News Sunday" that she was correct. She says there were British soldiers in the area for years before Revere's legendary ride, and that he was warning them, as well as his fellow colonists.

"Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there that 'hey, you're not going to take American arms, you are not going to beat our own well-armed persons individual private militia that we have.'"

She blamed her previous answer on the media, saying it was a "gotcha question."

The Paul Revere House's website says that on April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren instructed Revere to ride to Lexington, Mass., to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them.

Watch Palin speak about Revere at the Old North Church in Boston:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/05/sarah-palin-paul-revere-ride-history_n_871479.html

Did I call it or did I call it? She blamed her stupidity on the media. How is a question about Paul Revere, Who's home she was just at on a tour, A "gotcha question."?

 

[The Squirrel]

Even as Conservative, I cannot stand Palin. Bleh.

 

[Kelly]

I refuse to continue her stupidity, if the media won't stop talking about, at least I will...I officialy boycott any discussion of her stupidity, or of her in general. I can change the channel when she is on the news, and I will do the same here.

I'm tired of loosing braincells when she is mentioned.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

I refuse to continue her stupidity, if the media won't stop talking about, at least I will...I officialy boycott any discussion of her stupidity, or of her in general. I can change the channel when she is on the news, and I will do the same here.

I'm tired of loosing braincells when she is mentioned.

I feel the same. I wish the media would stop following her and just stop covering her in general. I want her banned from the continental US. Biggest mistake McCain made was picking her as his running mate. Killed his chances and created this monster that keeps hurting the party.

 

[Marx]

Sarah Palin On Paul Revere Ride: I Didn't Get History Wrong

WASHINGTON (AP/The Huffington Post) -- Sarah Palin says she didn't mess up her history on Paul Revere.

The potential 2012 presidential candidate was in Boston on Thursday as part of her bus tour when she was asked about the Revolutionary War hero.

Palin said Revere "warned the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms."

Palin, a paid Fox News contributor, told "Fox News Sunday" that she was correct. She says there were British soldiers in the area for years before Revere's legendary ride, and that he was warning them, as well as his fellow colonists.

"Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there that 'hey, you're not going to take American arms, you are not going to beat our own well-armed persons individual private militia that we have.'"

She blamed her previous answer on the media, saying it was a "gotcha question."

The Paul Revere House's website says that on April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren instructed Revere to ride to Lexington, Mass., to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them.

Watch Palin speak about Revere at the Old North Church in Boston:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/05/sarah-palin-paul-revere-ride-history_n_871479.html

Did I call it or did I call it? She blamed her stupidity on the media. How is a question about Paul Revere, Who's home she was just at on a tour, A "gotcha question."?

She's never wrong Supes. Never. No matter what the subject.

 

[wiegeabo]

She's never wrong Supes. Never. No matter what the subject.

"I reject your reality and substitute my own."

 

[Kelly]

Wait a minute, don't the majority of the people on here do that?

Not necessarily on this particular forum...

 

[wiegeabo]

Palin has raised it to an art form.

 

[Marx]

"I reject your reality and substitute my own."

Pretty much Wieg.

 

[imdaly]

Sarah Palin On Paul Revere Ride: I Didn't Get History Wrong

WASHINGTON (AP/The Huffington Post) -- Sarah Palin says she didn't mess up her history on Paul Revere.

The potential 2012 presidential candidate was in Boston on Thursday as part of her bus tour when she was asked about the Revolutionary War hero.

Palin said Revere "warned the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms."

Palin, a paid Fox News contributor, told "Fox News Sunday" that she was correct. She says there were British soldiers in the area for years before Revere's legendary ride, and that he was warning them, as well as his fellow colonists.

"Part of his ride was to warn the British that were already there that 'hey, you're not going to take American arms, you are not going to beat our own well-armed persons individual private militia that we have.'"

She blamed her previous answer on the media, saying it was a "gotcha question."

The Paul Revere House's website says that on April 18, 1775, Dr. Joseph Warren instructed Revere to ride to Lexington, Mass., to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them.

Watch Palin speak about Revere at the Old North Church in Boston:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/05/sarah-palin-paul-revere-ride-history_n_871479.html

Did I call it or did I call it? She blamed her stupidity on the media. How is a question about Paul Revere, Who's home she was just at on a tour, A "gotcha question."?

Now I'm not going to pretend for a second that I'm a Paul Revere expert in any fashion...and I understand that quoting Wikipedia is usually frowned upon...but if Wikipedia is to be believed he DID give warnings to the British about the dangers they'll find themselves in if they try anything in Lexington:

Revere, Dawes, and Prescott were detained by a British Army patrol in Lincoln at a roadblock on the way to Concord. Prescott jumped his horse over a wall and escaped into the woods; he eventually reached Concord. Dawes also escaped, though he fell off his horse not long after and did not complete the ride. Revere informed the officers of the army's movement from Boston, and that British army troops might be in some danger if they approached Lexington, because of the large number of hostile militia gathered there.[19] He and other captives taken by the patrol were then escorted east toward Lexington, until the sound of musket fire from the town center alarmed the patrolmen. Revere explained to them that it was probably an arriving militia company that had fired a volley upon its arrival.

 

[DACrowe]

He was captured, he rode to warn Sam Adams and Hancock as well as those along the way of the British approach. It wasn't about the right to own guns and he wasn't ringing bells or firing pistols to get attention. Palin is a moron. End of story.

 

[Matt]

Every time Palin says something this stupid she gets the kind of exposure that Tim Pawlenty could only dream of. And being as her ever growing base can just deflect blame off of her onto the media, it may not be a bad strategy.


.....Nah, I'm giving her way too much credit.

 

[StorminNorman]

Experts back Sarah Palin’s historical account

 

[Matt]

That is a misleading article. Every historian it cites seems to be suggesting that while he was stopped by the British and basically bluffed them (rather than "warned," them), the intent of his ride was in no way to warn the British about taking guns as Palin suggested.

 

[StorminNorman]

But one of the purposes of the British at Concord was to secure the arms of the colonist, and Revere's ride was to warn the militias of the British action.

During the wee hours of April 19, 1775, he would send out regiments of British soldiers quartered in Boston. Their destinations were Lexington, where they would capture Colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock, then Concord, where they would seize gunpowder....
Two lanterns hanging from Boston's North Church informed the countryside that the British were going to attack by sea. A series of horseback riders — men such as Paul Revere, William Dawes and Dr. Samuel Prescott — galloped off to warn the countryside that the Regulars (British troops) were coming.

http://www.ushistory.org/us/11c.asp

Now I would agree with the quoted professor who said that Palin "got lucky" in regard to Revere "warning the British that they weren't going to take American arms", but there is no question that such action was part of the British mission.

 

[Franklin Richards]

I'm pretty sure every school kid is taught the following phrase...


"The British are coming!"


If she would have just stuck with that and watched a little Schoolhouse Rock, she would have been fine.

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