GOP = Liar, Fear-Monger, Liar, Fear-Monger
Politicians lie. We’ve all known that since we the moment we grew up and became adults, or sooner for some of you that gain wisdom early. Lying comes in many forms. There’s simply withholding the truth, or maybe not correcting other people’s lies. There’s giving half-truths so what you’re saying is mostly true. Then there’s a complete unequivocal lie whereby someone states one thing with the full knowledge that the opposite is true.
Filtering through these different types of lies is exactly what you have to do when listening to almost any rhetoric be it originating from the media, politicians, our acquaintances… More and more I’m coming to the conclusion that people that support the GOP (along with fundamentalist Christians) have no idea how to distinguish between these types of lying. This is a failure in critical thinking skills. Once a person believes that so-and-so tells the truth, they no longer try to distinguish between when they’re telling the whole truth or half-truths. They no longer question if the person would ever lie. It just simply isn’t done. It’s my theory that GOP supporters, Tea Baggers, and Fundies are all part of this group of people that have little to know critical thinking skills.
Now, with that in mind the GOP continues to abuse their constituents low critical thinking skills by lying and fear-mongering. Case in point:
1) Dems should be afraid of losing their majority in 2010 because it’s almost certainly going to happen. How do we know, because there are so many Dems retiring.
2) The failure of TSA and Homeland Security and Obama is that no one is saying “terrorism” enough. We need to say “terrorism” as often as possible in order to remind everyone that we are at war with “terrorists.” America is at war with drugs communism Iraq Afghanistan Terror.
First off, the Dems losing seats and thereby their majority may happen. There’s an election, who knows what the results will be. You could argue that the majority isn’t even important considering how well the Dems have used it up to now. What you can’t argue, legitimately, is that the Dems have more to fear than the Reps when it comes to losing seats because the numbers don’t even suggest that. If anything they suggest the exact opposite. Polls show that Dems are more in favor than the Reps; both have low scores but Reps’ tend to score a good ten points or more lower. Also, there’s more Reps Representatives and Senators retiring than there are Dems. I know Faux viewers are pulling their hair out by now because this simply can’t be true; Glenn Beck never mentioned this! No, of course not. He’s off ranting about how African-American is a bullshit term for… what? Black, Negro, Afro-American,… or would Beck prefer Nigger?
Democrats
FAV UNFAV NO OPINION ALL 42 54 4 MEN 33 63 4 WOMEN 51 45 4 DEM 75 22 3 REP 5 94 1 IND 36 62 2 OTHER 32 64 4 NON VOTE 42 46 12 WHITE 33 65 2 BLACK 79 12 9 LATINO 51 40 9 OTH/REF 51 39 10 18-29 59 33 8 30-44 28 66 6 45-59 49 50 1 60+ 40 58 2 NORTHEAST 61 29 10 SOUTH 24 72 4 MIDWEST 45 53 2 WEST 44 55 1 Republicans
FAV UNFAV NO OPINION ALL 29 61 10 MEN 39 51 10 WOMEN 19 71 10 DEM 9 87 4 REP 84 4 12 IND 19 69 12 OTHER 21 68 11 NON VOTE 11 73 16 WHITE 37 53 10 BLACK 6 88 6 LATINO 12 74 14 OTH/REF 11 75 14 18-29 10 84 6 30-44 47 41 12 45-59 23 69 8 60+ 26 61 13 NORTHEAST 10 83 7 SOUTH 58 30 12 MIDWEST 19 71 10 WEST 20 70 10 These figures are taken from Research 2000.
Second, WTF does using the word “terrorism” have to do with keeping the country safe? Let’s just skip over that fact that Obama and his appointees have been using the term over and over again for months. But, in what way would it benefit the American people, how would it help keep us safer, if Obama said the word “terrorism” more? Of course, it couldn’t be the GOP or Dickhead Cheney’s repeated international statements saying that America is weak that would instigate an attack, would it? No, it wouldn’t be the continued use of Holy Warriors trying to convert Afghanistan and Iraq people to Christianity, would it? It wouldn’t be that America has killed thousands of innocent civilians and tortured thousands more and many Americans support these actions that would create animosity towards America, would it? Nah, it’s because Obama doesn’t say the word “terrorism” enough. Got it?
What’s sad is how many people believe this crap spewing from Faux News and the GOP. Let me set the record straight, whether you call yourself Conservative, Libertarian, Republican, etc. you’re either a complete idiot for believing their drivel, you’re one of the people lying for your own benefit, or you’re a complete asshole that believes the American Dream is to care only about yourself and never about anyone else. I’m betting it’s one of the first two.
