Quote from: Graham R.A. Garner on December 16, 2013, 11:20:25 AM
I don't think it good to be always playing partisan politics, or to have extreme views one way or the other.  Few choices in life are black or white. It is even the more so in politics, for it is not always a question of "right" or "left," but in choosing rightly and wisely. It's easy to be blinded by partisanship.  You know that you are too partisan when your loyalty to your political party takes precedence over your loyalty to your country. On the subject of politics, in particular, people have become so polemic and so partisan that there is no place for argument anymore. The opposing party has become "the enemy." One cannot even agree to disagree for there is no tolerance for opposing views. In his farewell address, George Washington (who is considered the father of our country) advised against political parties. The rest of our so-called "founding fathers" had no hesitation to choosing sides.

Yes it is good. Consensus, simply for the sake of consensus; is what the GOP has been doing since Franklin D. Roosevelt. And many choices in life are exactly black and white. For example the choice of whether to kill another human being or fail to protect your family. The idea that every thing is another shade of grey is the relativistic philosophy of the left. There are things that are simply wrong.

Quote from: Graham R.A. Garner on December 16, 2013, 11:20:25 AM
I don't think it good to be always playing partisan politics, or to have extreme views one way or the other.  Few choices in life are black or white. It is even the more so in politics, for it is not always a question of "right" or "left," but in choosing rightly and wisely. It's easy to be blinded by partisanship.  You know that you are too partisan when your loyalty to your political party takes precedence over your loyalty to your country. On the subject of politics, in particular, people have become so polemic and so partisan that there is no place for argument anymore. The opposing party has become "the enemy." One cannot even agree to disagree for there is no tolerance for opposing views. In his farewell address, George Washington (who is considered the father of our country) advised against political parties. The rest of our so-called "founding fathers" had no hesitation to choosing sides.

Incorrect.  Liberals are the enemy.  They are destroying our country.  It really is that simple.  Don't let people telling you to be partisan because people scream over each other on talk shows spur you to not feel like you can't recognize and acknowledge the destruction our our country and freedoms by liberalism.

The radical right are the people who say liberal policy hurts the country, and when it comes true, are still radical, even when the affected libs who are pissed at the predicted policy take the same position.

Who is the "radical right"?  It is the name that the left gives to people like you and me to make us seem scary, mean, and wrong.  Name calling is all the left (from Bohner and McCain all the way up to Obama and Reid) has when their policies fail and they start getting worried that people might listen to the opinion of others.

Quote from: Montesquieu on December 16, 2013, 01:51:28 AM
Radical means advocating for dramatic change in any form. The GOP is not going to put up a serious contender that would eliminate the Department of Education, abolish the IRS, or completely privatize social security.

Looks like a radical righty is someone that wants to fix the problems and has the balls to do it.

Reagan wanted to eliminate the Department of Education. Did he do it?

Quote from: The Boo Man... on December 16, 2013, 02:37:50 PM
Looks like a radical righty is someone that wants to fix the problems and has the balls to do it.

Boners replacement....

Quote from: Solar on December 16, 2013, 04:34:58 PM

Boners replacement....

Now those are some balls!

Quote from: The Boo Man... on December 16, 2013, 04:45:47 PM
Now those are some balls!

Something seriously lacking in the GOP.

Quote from: Solar on December 16, 2013, 04:49:38 PM
Something seriously lacking in the GOP.

Finally! The Republicans have a minority they can pander to. The testicle challenged. The Democrats have the blacks, latinos, gays, women and now Republicans have the emasculated which could attract metrosexual liberals. What a strategy!

Quote from: The Boo Man... on December 16, 2013, 05:11:47 PM
Finally! The Republicans have a minority they can pander to. The testicle challenged. The Democrats have the blacks, latinos, gays, women and now Republicans have the emasculated which could attract metrosexual liberals. What a strategy!

...don't forget the transvestite vote...

Quote from: taxed on December 16, 2013, 06:00:11 PM
...don't forget the transvestite vote...

I smell coalition!

Quote from: The Boo Man... on December 16, 2013, 06:08:19 PM
I smell coalition!

If you think Sandra Fluke was something, wait 'til you see a Chaz Bono rally...

Quote from: quiller on December 16, 2013, 10:30:51 AM
But, but, but...we're a DEMOCRACY, and MAJORITY RULES!!!! 

Every underwater basket-weaving college major needs a job so basements can be sandblasted for re-use. Every slug too dim to comprehend that hard work never killed anyone will cower under federal auspices, mortally afraid to do any.

10th Amendment and subsidiary political subdivisions were the original intent in Michigan and everywhere else. We were supposed to know our representatives, and we were supposed to keep an eye on them and fight them if we opposed them. Friction was built right into our system, but things sure did work better at a township and county level then. Now it's reversed and everyone depends on OUR money being fed back to us by people we never see and cannot hang when their going gets good.

Why do people have such a difficult time with the word Republic anyway??