Ideological Fault Line! The Doom of the GOP

BuckGalaxy — 1/12/2012 11:56:30 PM (archived)

Wow. THIS is what Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and Ron Paul are attacking Mitt Romney with. It's a longish video but well worth watching if you want a preview of the debate that will shape the next 10 months.

Rush is getting an aneurysm over it. It's "anti-capitalism!" Pure Bullshit. Talking about the excesses of ONE company like Bain is anti-capitalism like the NYT doing a bad book review is anti-literature. Intelligent people can debate the excesses, legal or not, of the corporate raiders and their leveraged buyouts, without condemning the entire free market system.

And that very concept is what is so poisonous to the GOP. The hoards of working class republican voters who have been deceived through wedge issues and obfuscations into voting against their own and their nation's interests, they too have resentments against the type of Wall St. financiers who destroy businesses and jobs and pocket billions leaving scorched earth in their wake. Justifiably so! And opening the ideological schism that the free market actually needs rules is a watershed moment on the far right!

The times they are a changin'!!!!!

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Ideological Fault Line! The Doom of the GOP - BuckGalaxy - 1/12/2012 11:56:30 PM
- Re: Ideological Fault Line! The Doom of the GOP - bowser - 1/13/2012 2:29:57 AM
- The Bain Bomb fizzles - TB - 1/13/2012 1:54:10 AM
  - Re: The Bain Bomb fizzles - BuckGalaxy - 1/13/2012 5:40:40 PM
    - Re: The Bain Bomb fizzles - ER - 1/13/2012 6:00:17 PM
    - The point is that the "information" is false. - TB - 1/13/2012 5:51:43 PM
      - Re: The point is that the "information" is false. - BuckGalaxy - 1/13/2012 8:08:33 PM
        
        Re: The point is that the "information" is false. - BuckGalaxy - 1/14/2012 6:17:13 AM
      - Re: The point is that the "information" is false. - ER - 1/13/2012 6:53:06 PM
        
        I have no information other than idle speculation. - TB - 1/14/2012 5:37:02 PM
        
        Re: I have no information other than idle speculation. - ER - 1/14/2012 8:04:24 PM
        
        "Conventional wisdom" = what we're told to believe. - TB - 1/14/2012 11:19:06 PM
        
        Re: "Conventional wisdom" = what we're told to believe. - alcaray - 1/18/2012 2:48:17 AM
        
        Re: "Conventional wisdom" = what we're told to believe. - BuckGalaxy - 1/18/2012 4:29:34 AM
        
        Re: "Conventional wisdom" = what we're told to believe. - TB - 1/18/2012 4:40:14 AM
        
        You don't have to be told to believe things that are demonstrably true. - TB - 1/18/2012 4:28:08 AM
        
        Re: You don't have to be told to believe things that are demonstrably true. - alcaray - 1/19/2012 2:32:03 AM
        
        Re: "Conventional wisdom" = what we're told to believe. - BuckGalaxy - 1/15/2012 2:29:50 AM
        
        Re: "Conventional wisdom" = what we're told to believe. - ER - 1/15/2012 1:17:11 AM
        
        You can keep revising the outside world, but you aren't going to have much luck revising me. - TB - 1/15/2012 1:42:14 AM
        
        Re: You can keep revising the outside world, but you aren't going to have much luck revising me. - ER - 1/15/2012 1:53:03 AM
  - Re: The Bain Bomb fizzles - bowser - 1/13/2012 2:34:46 AM
  - Re: The Bain Bomb fizzles - TB - 1/13/2012 2:01:57 AM
- Re: Ideological Fault Line! The Doom of the GOP - ER - 1/13/2012 12:45:53 AM
  - Re: Ideological Fault Line! The Doom of the GOP - TB - 1/13/2012 2:22:35 AM
    - Re: Ideological Fault Line! The Doom of the GOP - ER - 1/13/2012 2:26:51 AM

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