Texas Republican Party goes "bats*** crazy"! - Off-Topic

Posted by Paracelsus (1029 posts) - 11 months, 6 days ago - Show Bio

Anybody unlucky enough to look at the recently adopted platform of the Texas State Republican Party will yawn and say"same old, same old- stop the world as America wants to get off!""as I observed of Pat Buchanan's speech to the Republican Party Conference in 1992.

The Lone Star GOP reiterated its opposition to "same sex marriage" the" Law of The Sea Treaty"(presumably because Ronald Reagan opposed it), "hate crimes legislation" taxation of US citizens by the United Nations( is this even possible) reiterated its "pro-life credentials" and oh, demanded US withdrawal from the United Nations and the UN's expulsion from American soil- about the only thing it didn't explicitly oppose as well as the fluoridization of water, the mythical threat to America from the likes of Shariah Law and/or the International Criminal Court.( the UN is NOT a prison- if the US wishes to leave then it is free to do so-in fact I wish it WOULD leave; let it try going it alone in the 21st century!)

All in all the Texas GOP not to mention the Republican Party as a whole appears to have gone(to use a crude but apt phrase) bats*** crazy-and parties like that usually get wiped out at the polls( Goldwater in 64, McGovern in 1972, Mondale and Dukakis in '84 and '88, Michael Foot's and Neil Kinnock's Labour Party in '83 and 91). Anybody else think as I do?

Terry

#1 Posted by Reginleif (40 posts) - 11 months, 6 days ago - Show Bio

Creeping Sharia is a real threat, how dare you deny the inherent evils of Islam?

#2 Posted by Paracelsus (1029 posts) - 11 months, 6 days ago - Show Bio

For the record, upon further perusal of the Texas GOP's platform, it makes no reference to either Sharia or the ICC-but it could easily have done so. Whatever we may think of Sharia as practised in Saudi Arabia , Taliban ruled Afghanistan or Pakistan, to claim that it is some kind of existential threat to the US is as ludicrous as quoting "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" or rabbiting on about the "Papist plot"!

Terry

PS Yep, the Texas GOP is STILL bats*** crazy!

#3 Posted by Reginleif (40 posts) - 11 months, 6 days ago - Show Bio

@Paracelsus: My god are you saying the Jews, Catholics and Muslims are working together? WE MUST WARN PROTESTANT AMERICA

btw I dont even think I could name all the conspiracy theories republicans believe; birtherism, Obama is muslim, athiest, etc, anti-vaccination,New World Order, anti-evolution, anti-science in general, FEMA Camps, Obama wants your guns, global UN government, black helicopters, fluoride is poison, Bush did 9/11, Oklahoma city was a false flag too...all terrorist attacks are false flags, HAARP, North American Union, private Federal bank...uh a lot more, I didn't even talk about the religious stuff (i.e. Obama is the anti-christ)

#4 Posted by SyIar (405 posts) - 11 months, 6 days ago - Show Bio

It's all part of the plan.

#5 Posted by Paracelsus (1029 posts) - 11 months, 6 days ago - Show Bio

Of course this is a symptom of a wiser problem for the GOP in general- as Jeb Bush himself noted in today's Financial Times (www.ft.com June 12, 2012)-the entire party has gone so far to the Right than even a Ronald Reagan or George H.W. Bush ( pere) might seem dangerously too liberal or "RINO" (Republican In Name Only)!

Terry

#6 Posted by Lunacyde (16453 posts) - 11 months, 6 days ago - Show Bio

"Goes" bats&*^# crazy?

They were there a long time ago my friend.

#7 Posted by Shuma-Gorath (425 posts) - 11 months, 6 days ago - Show Bio

Embrace chaos!

#8 Edited by Vaeternus (3966 posts) - 11 months, 6 days ago - Show Bio

@Reginleif

Actually, a few of those theories are liberal ones such as Bush caused and planned 9/11 and/or america haters, fluoride being poison I'm sure people of both parties believe that one. That's been a myth for a while now regardless of political affiliation. The rest, Some of which are just crazy talk like Obama being the Anti-Christ to Bush being like Hitler.

They're all nuts though or merely egotistical, especially the dude in now, Obama recently denying those leaks as anything to do with him and his people. Right.

Hard to blame one side when they're all flawed and nuts. Some of them are logical, but that doesn't happen often.

#9 Posted by Paracelsus (1029 posts) - 11 months, 6 days ago - Show Bio

The rot first started to appear when we started hearing the line that Ronald Reagan single-handedly "won" the Cold War(although he could hardly have done so without the help of his predecessors -inlcuding several Democrats- from Harry Truman to Jimmy Carter-whether or not Reagan ever knew or admitted to himself that this was the case is beside the point( veteran Sovietologist George F.Kennan, who came up with the idea of containment back in the 1940s, aptly called this claim "childish and arrogant in the extreme").

Terry

#10 Posted by _Sojourn_ (18925 posts) - 11 months, 6 days ago - Show Bio

Texas is and will always (maybe, depending on the demographic changes) be full crazy white people that want to preserve an America that no longer exists

#11 Posted by Vaeternus (3966 posts) - 11 months, 6 days ago - Show Bio

I for one, don't even believe they're crazy, they're just not liberal but more conservative, merely an area based thing. Crazy is often relative anyway.Example, I Just read a story believe in New York some where I believe, teachers banning opposing political views in classrooms and banning patriotic songs. It's not like a kid asked to have Eminem played, just a patriotic song. Guess what I'm pointing out with stories like such is that Crazy is shared and relative half the time such as states New York and Cali, they want to pass laws now banning sugary drinks. Really? Is this really a priority? lol One thing I'll give Texas at least is their concerns are of actual important elements, not too much sugar in drinks lol.

Still, that all being said. There are certain things these days that don't need to be changed, some other things do.

#12 Posted by slacker the hacker (7615 posts) - 11 months, 5 days ago - Show Bio

In other news

#13 Edited by Ashra (674 posts) - 11 months, 5 days ago - Show Bio

This certainly goes both ways.

#14 Posted by BiteMe-Fanboy (6504 posts) - 11 months, 5 days ago - Show Bio

Ah, another political thread. Bravo, my friend.

#15 Posted by PunkMastaFlex (3152 posts) - 11 months, 5 days ago - Show Bio

@Slight said:

Texas is and will always (maybe, depending on the demographic changes) be full crazy white people that want to preserve an America that no longer exists

I apologize but white does not need to be included.

#16 Posted by _Sojourn_ (18925 posts) - 11 months, 5 days ago - Show Bio

@PMF- yes it does.

#17 Edited by Vaeternus (3966 posts) - 11 months, 5 days ago - Show Bio

That sounds kind of racist.

@Ashra said:

This certainly goes both ways.

I concur.