Ronulans score one
The last day of the party’s state convention went long and at times got nasty. In the barn-like Bonner County Fairgrounds, where politics will give way to a horse and mule expo next week, GOP delegates battled faulty microphones and disparate views in a fight for the party’s soul.
Semanko was pushed to victory largely by an eclectic group consisting of supporters of former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul and social conservatives who want to shift the party to the right.
June 17th, 2008 at 9:45 am
“social conservatives who want to shift the party to the right” ?
unless they want to change the GOP’s logo from the elephant to the swastika, how the blazes could they possibly do that?
June 17th, 2008 at 9:51 am
weren’t the nazis socialists?
I mean, since you’re always wanting to correct folks for using that term and all. 😉
June 17th, 2008 at 10:23 am
the Nazis were “socialist” like East Germany was a “democratic republic”. IOW, i’d’ve been ranting and raving at both of the fuckers to quit abusing language, same as i do here.
June 17th, 2008 at 10:27 am
but you equated social conservatives with nazis.
June 17th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Well libertarians are nazis, up is down, and good is bad. I read it in a book!
June 17th, 2008 at 11:08 am
okay, maybe i should’ve thrown in a smiley on my original comment. didn’t mean for that to come off as “equating” social conservatives with nazis, although i am having trouble seeing how the GOP could swing much further right without becoming… not the nazis exactly, but something that would be its own worst parody.
i mean, look at the social policies they’re already supporting and opposing, and then try to find what sort of countries elsewhere currently have implemented the kind of society those social conservatives appears to want right here. you mostly have to look at the third world for good matches. some of the more officially Catholic parts of south America, for instance. how could they possibly swing any much further right than that? make theocracy an official plank of the party platform, maybe?
(and since when are libertarians social conservatives, anyway?)
June 17th, 2008 at 11:15 am
When the press is talking
June 17th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Good thing you’re not over 40. Today’s wingers are roughly equal to the Dims of 40 years ago. To call them conservative is to have missed the past 8 years.
God forfend we ever get a conservative party again…your head would explode.