tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post2072680782358068334..comments2024-03-18T22:21:33.261-07:00Comments on The Debate Link: So That's Who My Friends WereDavid Schraubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04946653376744012423noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-73909816413763761662009-04-26T09:07:00.000-07:002009-04-26T09:07:00.000-07:00PG: Well, at least he's smarter than most of the R...PG: Well, at least he's smarter than most of the Republican "leadership" in that.Pope Incontinentius XIIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08841765401787854137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-82935379598911870512009-04-26T09:02:00.000-07:002009-04-26T09:02:00.000-07:00The timing indicates that Johnson has realized tha...The timing indicates that Johnson has realized that the American public's willingness to be terrified has dimmed and that he's going to be on the political losing side unless he can clean that side up. None of this rhetoric or alliances that he now criticizes was new in October 2007, but what was new was that Republicans the prior year had lost their Congressional majorities, and as of that time were not fielding any presidential candidate for 2008 whose personal appeal was sufficient to overcome the mud on the GOP brand. <br /><br />Policing your own side for excess when they're in the minority is just basic political savvy, not a sign of any underlying change in ideology either of the policeman or his side.<br /><br />All the people I've seen describing themselves as having been Democrats before 9/11 and now being "neoconservatives" or some other variant had <A HREF="http://neoneocon.com/2005/03/24/mind-is-difficult-thing-to-change-part-3/" REL="nofollow">indications of "us vs. them" mindsets</A> long before 9/11; it was simply the trigger for them now to have a sufficiently distant and foreign "them" on which to focus that thinking.PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381347581328622706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-10570811438179926522009-04-26T07:50:00.000-07:002009-04-26T07:50:00.000-07:00Hey, Chuck:
One of us...one of us...one of us...Hey, Chuck:<br /><br />One of us...one of us...one of us...Pope Incontinentius XIIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08841765401787854137noreply@blogger.com