Howard Dean: Republicans are "not American," should "stay away from our country"

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

The right wing blogosphere has been giving Putin sloppy wet kisses lately, talking about how he's such a strong leader and hates teh gayz and has strong morals and is so much better than Obama, so Dean has a point.

Similarly, I was around back in 1994 when the Far Right kept sending letters to the newspaper praising the government of Singapore for its caning of an American accused of vandalism. I always felt that if the right-wingers liked Singapore so much, they should be deported and sent to live there.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

The right wing blogosphere has been giving Putin sloppy wet kisses lately, talking about how he's such a strong leader and hates teh gayz and has strong morals and is so much better than Obama, so Dean has a point.

Similarly, I was around back in 1994 when the Far Right kept sending letters to the newspaper praising the government of Singapore for its caning of an American accused of vandalism. I always felt that if the right-wingers liked Singapore so much, they should be deported and sent to live there.

Yes. That was around the same time that a prominent Republican senator directly
threatened the President, in an interview. Contrary to what some prefer to believe, the insanity of the Republican party didn't just suddenly appear when Obama was elected.

I think the Singapore story may have actually been the beginning of the Tea Party - except it wasn't normally called the Tea Party yet. But I do remember letters to the local newspaper making references to "Taxed Enough Already."

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Well, the people in this thread talking about 'fighting back', are, in a certain sense, correct. I mean, if the Democrats had the ability to disenfranchise Republicans, then they undoubtedly would do so.

The Democrats controlled all but a few state legislatures 30 years ago. But I don't know of any instances back then where Republicans were turned away when they tried to vote.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

I think I was disfranchised as well. In 1995, I voted Democratic for all the statewide races. Not long after, some Republican county officials stated that one of the Democratic candidates got zero votes in a precinct in Highland Heights. I'm not sure, but I think it was my precinct. In any event, Highland Heights is full of Democrats, so I don't buy for a second that a Democrat got zero votes in any precinct there.

The Republicans breezily dismissed this as just a malfunctioning voting machine. Their excuse was that 50-year-old voting machines sometimes don't work right, so accept it, move on, and drop the subject.

[Bandit3 the Worker]

Howard Dean is daft, let's move on to actual news, something we didn't know...

I guess 'daft' is a synonym for 'cool'.