tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post5938913141548796112..comments2024-03-26T13:46:42.738-05:00Comments on 4 Quarters, 10 Dimes: Stray Thoughts on the Recent Televised Hearing of the January 6 CommitteeDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03463621516644789183noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-48348301051168092612022-06-12T23:02:03.936-05:002022-06-12T23:02:03.936-05:00Sounds like a plan to me.
Good night indeed. :)...Sounds like a plan to me. <br /><br />Good night indeed. :)Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03463621516644789183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-29044214148425323612022-06-12T22:19:33.292-05:002022-06-12T22:19:33.292-05:00Couldn't argue with that. Wouldn't want to...Couldn't argue with that. Wouldn't want to.<br /><br />And, again, to be perfectly clear: Not just any Buick:<br /><br />A 1957 Buick Roadmaster. (But only after you sharpen the fins a bit.)<br /><br />Good night to all.<br /><br />LucyLucyInDisguisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08169432604954981941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-83355633396919975902022-06-12T22:13:49.890-05:002022-06-12T22:13:49.890-05:00It's a target-rich environment, what can I say...It's a target-rich environment, what can I say?<br /><br />Barry Goldwater died complaining that the country as a whole and the GOP in particular had lurched so far into right-wing extremism that he'd become a liberal without changing anything in his beliefs, which was perhaps an exaggeration but not by a whole lot. My dad voted for Goldwater in 1964, but by the early 2000s - after Newt Gingrich ramped up the Culture War and Bush Junior launched the flatly unconstitutional Unitary Executive Theory - he'd washed his hands of the GOP. "Bastards stole my party," he complained.<br /><br />I've never been a Republican, though until the early 2000s I considered myself enough of an independent to vote for the candidate rather than the party. Most of those candidates were Not Republican, but not all. I grew up in an Old Republican area, where Bush Senior was considered the right-wing edge of acceptable and that parvenu Reagan was just tacky. There were reasonable Republicans there.<br /><br />I have to say it's been a long time since I considered voting for any GOP candidate no matter what they are like as an individual - the mere fact that a person chooses to tie themselves to that howling morass of insanity and authoritarianism is enough to disqualify them as far as I am concerned.<br /><br />We do need a grown-up, responsible conservative party. We haven't had one since the early 1990s and every year the GOP doubles down on its right-wing extremism until the logical result happened on January 6, 2021.<br /><br />Fuck them sideways with a Buick, I say.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03463621516644789183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-62754343325932358542022-06-12T21:56:38.681-05:002022-06-12T21:56:38.681-05:005. (And I kinda picked that number at random …)
I...5. (And I kinda picked that number at random …)<br /><br />I was born into and raised in a Republican Family/Household. Up until I sat down and watched the Watergate Hearings I thought of myself as a Republican. Like my parents, I tended to lean a little more center-right than full-on conservative but still …<br /><br />Nixon was the beginning of the end for me and that party. Rayguns shot that relationship in the head and removed any remaining doubts I may have been harboring. When Ronny got the nomination, I declared myself independent. From that time forward I studied the candidates and voted for the individual that I felt best represented where I was politically - which until Pappy Bush got elected was still Center-Right - but I always seemed to be voting Democrat. My father would have been appalled. He likely would have been voting for Democrats right alongside me, be he would have been appalled nonetheless.<br /><br />I still consider myself to lean towards the conservative side, which, on today’s yardstick places me so far left of center that everyone I know considers me to be a Flamin’ Liberal. That may actually have become true now, but … damn.<br /><br />We need a strong conservative party in this country if only to rein in the worst excess of the Liberals. But the Republican Party died about the time Nixon resigned, never to be heard from again. The new clown car of rethuglicans does not fill the bill, and they seriously need to pay the price for their duplicity and treasonous acts.<br /><br />Keep swinging - eventually you're goin' to hit <i>something</i><br /><br />Lucy LucyInDisguisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08169432604954981941noreply@blogger.com