Democrats becoming an angry party of hate
By Brian Kirwin | Sunday, August 21st, 2011 | PoliticsNevermind everything we’ve heard about “cooling the rhetoric” from Democrats. Listen to what they say when they go home.
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The right wants to jeer him. The left wants to censor him. Moderates usually want both. Brian Kirwin is a political consultant and public relations strategist in Virginia Beach with a lightning-rod flair. Brian also serves on the VB Arts & Humanities Commission and frequently appears on Hampton Roads theatrical stages, if only to prove that all actors aren’t liberals. Kirwin’s columns stir up debate and hit the political scene with no punches pulled.
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“The Tea Party can go straight to Hell”… isn’t she one of “the few, the proud and the brave” Democrats who have been kicking and shoving us down this road of economic Hell to the fires and destruction of Armageddon since they gained control of Congress in 2006? What ever happened to her little House Ethics Committee investigation where she used her office to help a bank in which her husband owned stock?
while most would call me a main-stream Republican, I do hold dear most of the philosophies of the TEA party. After all, they are conservative.
but I don’t like being described as a “terrorist”. My brother was a 20 year Army veteran! He was in Baghdad when it fell.
We pay all our taxes to support these anti-American & destructive programs (think EPA e.g.). If this is terrorism, then I would gladly quit paying.
to Dems: sorry that my family is productive. you don’t like us except to take our money. name calling is juvenile.
I find it interesting that so much brouhaha is being made in the media about Rick Perry saying that the Fed printing more money would be “treasonous,” but that the Democrats, led by Vice-President Biden, can call the Tea Party members of Congress “terrorists.”
I think that there is plenty of hyperbole on both sides and that the American people want both parties to crank it back a couple of notches. Neither side is looking responsible and confident with that kind of inflammatory rhetoric. The Republicans would do very well if they took the high road and let the economic numbers speak for the failure of the Obama Administration. If you want to be President, then you have to look and sound presidential. There is a good reason why neither Joe Biden nor Maxine Waters will ever be President. Or Rick Perry if he keeps on his present tack.
YO MOMMA!
The Dems aren’t the first party of hate but they are the latest and perhaps most dangerous we’ve seen here. They remind me of the McCarthyites. Whatever good they are trying to accomplish is being drowned in a sea of bile. But it’s not simply hate; it’s coupled with gross deceit and willful stupidity.
The Repubs need to hit back hard at each lie but as HisRoC says, without hysteria.
Becoming? Really? Have you already forgotten the Bush years?
History has proven, and is yet proving, McCarthy was correct.
@HisRoc –
Problem is, the Republicans are taking the high road. And this gives the Democrats the latitude to take the low road unimpeded. When the GOP gets back in the trenches, the Dems wail and bemoan the lack of “civility” in politics.
Pfft.
At some point, we need to realize this is a contest of ideas. And at the end of the day, it will be contested on the terms of the lowest common denominator, because that’s human nature.
What is that lowest common denominator? It has nothing to do with the other party… it has everything to do with one’s self. That Republicans are called to condemn every instance of error, yet Democrats continue to hand out free passes on their hateful speech?
We all reap what we sow. The Democrats think they’re getting away with something… but it’ll come back when they are truly unpopular, and they can’t get a word out edgewise. Pendulums always swing.
Shaun,
I agree with you on the hypocrisy of the Democratic rhetoric. But they just don’t get it. (No surprise. This is the same crowd that pushed through a health care bill that 60% of all Americans didn’t want while unemployment was climbing faster than the space shuttle taking off.) Obama’s approval rating on his handling of the economy is only 26%. The American people are not buying what he is selling. That is why I suggest that the Republicans should relax and let the lefties have their hissy fit. No one is paying any attention to it except for the lefties. And, meanwhile, deep thinkers like Maxine Waters are encouraging the President to turn up the volume. That is how he got down to 26% after the debt ceiling crisis.
Well since HisRoc introduced the hypocrisy rhetoric, how can any serious republican on this forum abide the slate of candidates who want to become the nominee of the GOP, a once grand party now reduced to quacks and charlatans. I mean, does the Party really stand for isolationism? Is the most important issue facing Americans State’s rights? With the jobs picture as grim as it is, are loyalty oaths that critical? Is the Party really at war with reality? With most Americans in support of a balanced approach to debt reduction, with cuts, increases in taxes, tax reform, and modification of entitlements, these politicians raise their hand to support Grover Norquist’s no tax pledge? For long term main line republicans, this must be the twilight zone.
Mike, I was going to respond to your post but then I realized there weren’t any facts to respond to //grin//.
Yes Temporary, I was going to try to write something factual and rational about the eight republican candidates, but then realized they are all running on emotion, fear, and extremism. Whoever thought states rights would become the predominate issue in this next year’s elections?
Mike, almost all of the candidates on all sides are running on fear this year, sadly. The economy is terrible and they’re all just going to blame each other for it and see who can scare the electorate the most.
Yes, regretfully, in this bunch of eight, the concept of fiscal conservatism has been delinked from fiscal responsibility. To deny the need for additional revenue over the next decade to get the debt under control is simply irrational, yet that is what the eight candidates are saying and pledging. To see them all bending in tribute to Grover Norquist is frankly, disgusting. Is the Party so weak that it refuses to tell the Emperor that he is wearing no clothes?
Far be it for me to agree with Mr. Falkenstein, but I must confess that, on this occasion, he beat me to it.
“Becoming,” Brian? Puh-lease!
Stop it, Mike. You’re killing me. The American people want tax increases and entitlements modification? Of course they do. So why did Chuck-The-Schmuck Schumer support no tax increases but no entitlement reforms? Is this another Democratic “have your cake and eat it too” plan like all the other spending plans that got us into this mess?
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