The two groups can only work together if they are working towards the same goals, we are not. The Tea Party Freedom Fighters were not sent to congress to work with Bolsheviks, they were sent there to stop them. We sent them to reverse their agenda as much as possible and perform a holding action until enough of the reds are expelled from government to begin some serious repealing. Most of the successful jobs bills will have the phrase “do hereby repeal” in them.

It is time we on the Right realize that there is no reasoning with the Left, that they will not listen.

Their minds are closed and bolted shut to any arguments because they believe they have found THE ANSWER, the Way. The Progressives believe they are the only Enlightened Ones and that we are, at best, misguided idiots, and, at worst, dangerous and insane lunatics. This is what they believe. Don’t kid yourself that they view us as anything but fools or thought criminals. Just think of the ways they describe us and our ideas…go ahead, think…I’ll wait…well? In their depraved way of thinking, the Left believes that the Right is evil.

Therefore, there’s no point in EVER arguing with them about anything.

The time has come for us to refuse to deal with them in any reasonable way. To engage them in any conversation is to give them and their ideas legitimacy, to announce that their fantastical thinking is normal – it is not. Created in the sterile laboratories of their minds, the ideas and schemes of the Left are unrealistic, unworkable, and unsuited to human beings living in Reality. Therefore, we are only wasting our time in arguing with them. They are zealots, fanatics who cannot be persuaded with Right Reason. We must forego trying to argue with them and go on and do what it takes to restore and then maintain our freedoms and liberties. Perhaps, just perhaps, by the example we set, a few of the loons will recover their mental health sufficiently to see the light and fight against their crippling [and dangerous to others] retardation.

I agree that it’s a waste of time, and frequently counterproductive, to argue with calcified leftist ideologues.

However, we might possibly persuade a few of the everyday non-activist/non-intellectual/non-junkies (i.e. credulous neophytes) who know little about politics and history (and what they do know was packaged by their leftist teachers), but whom feel themselves aligned with the left (Democrat Party and/or the “progressives”). Those folks have not yet become ideologues and therefore are reachable.

The trick is sorting between the ideologues and non-ideologues, because the former will often pose as the latter. Still, I think it’s worth the effort, within reason.

I feel it too Stacy.

The Perry campaign has all the hallmarks of foreplay that starts out great but goes on way too long. Then when you actually get to the fun, it’s incredibly short-lived and anti-climactic.

What filibusters? Folks forget that what the press dribbles on about filibusters – it’s really the threat of them, and the cloture vote that precedes them.

Knauer, why are you engaging in name-calling if you want to an end to name-calling? “Theocratic Oligarchy…” Really?

There is not a need for social justice. There is a need for justice, and that scares the hell out of folks. And for some reason, I can’t find “social justice” in that Constitution you look to for inspiration and ideas. Maybe it was in the Articles of Confederation.

Government can not create wealth, but it can create jobs. In government, until the money runs out. Since January of 2009, most of the jobs created have been government jobs. Now with the cuts come the RIF, so even those jobs are being lost.

Government can create the legal and regulatory environment that permits capitalism to thrive. But not under this administration with its hidebound adherence to academic theories that never seem to work in even so much as a kid’s lemonade stand.

“I showed up a few minutes late, and Pawlenty had already split the scene.”

Classic Stacy. Miss the news, chat up young girls. Add this to the list:
- Traveled to Pasadena to watch the game on TV in a bar, interviewed the waitress;
- Traveled to Kentucky but found out nothing about what happened to Bill Sparkman, interviewed the waitress;
- Traveled to Massachusetts, didn’t interview Scott Brown but did manage to lay hands on his daughter in order to “make my wife jealous.”