Comments on: At CPAC, Jim DeMint Urges Conservatives to “Take to the Streets” to Stop Obama’s “Socialism” http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 07:42:10 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: MarkH http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/#comment-1844282 MarkH Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:06:13 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/#comment-1844282 <p>This CPAC raving reminds me of the ‘riot’ which occurred in Florida in 2000 near the people counting votes. It was all fake, but it did have the effect of pushing people around. Naturally the local police where nowhere in sight.</p> <p>I suspect a street riot with 3 of these nuts would draw the full attention of the MSM…damn liberal media.</p> <p>Really what I think is behind a lot of this is an attempt to push Obama to do something stupid in reaction. I think he’s doing very well and has public support, so he doesn’t have to react to them. He might say something to gain more public support (as he did with his not-the-SOTU speech), but it’s not necessary just now.</p> <p>I suspect the activities of this administration have all the indications of success and it scares the Repubs. I wonder what percentage of the bad mortgages have been modified or refinanced or ended after foreclosure. Are we making progress with this root problem or is it still out of control?</p> This CPAC raving reminds me of the ‘riot’ which occurred in Florida in 2000 near the people counting votes. It was all fake, but it did have the effect of pushing people around. Naturally the local police where nowhere in sight.

I suspect a street riot with 3 of these nuts would draw the full attention of the MSM…damn liberal media.

Really what I think is behind a lot of this is an attempt to push Obama to do something stupid in reaction. I think he’s doing very well and has public support, so he doesn’t have to react to them. He might say something to gain more public support (as he did with his not-the-SOTU speech), but it’s not necessary just now.

I suspect the activities of this administration have all the indications of success and it scares the Repubs. I wonder what percentage of the bad mortgages have been modified or refinanced or ended after foreclosure. Are we making progress with this root problem or is it still out of control?

]]> By: moistenedbink http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/#comment-1844177 moistenedbink Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:28:43 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/#comment-1844177 <p>I wouldn’t underestimate the anger brewing out here with the 90% of the rest of us. The CPAC fantasy group can rage all they want from their comfortable perches of wing nut welfare or their mother’s basements, but the rest of us have had quite enough of the small group who 30 years ago would have been institutionalized for their rantings.</p> I wouldn’t underestimate the anger brewing out here with the 90% of the rest of us. The CPAC fantasy group can rage all they want from their comfortable perches of wing nut welfare or their mother’s basements, but the rest of us have had quite enough of the small group who 30 years ago would have been institutionalized for their rantings.

]]> By: snesich http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/#comment-1844162 snesich Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:58:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/#comment-1844162 <p>Maybe I’m showing my age here, but doesn’t Jim DeMint remind you of Gomer Pyle from the old Andy Griffith show? Just listen to him, “Hi! I’m Jim DeMint!” He sounds and kind of looks like Gomer Pyle. He really does. Doesn’t he? </p> <p>Listening to the drivel coming from DeMint’s mouth, especially with his nutty comments today at CPAC, he sounded very similar to Gomer in that episode of Andy Griffith when Gomer tries to get revenge on Deputy Barney Fife. “Citizen’s Arrest! Citizens Arrest!”</p> <p>Gomer Pyle=Jim DeMint. Separated at birth?</p> Maybe I’m showing my age here, but doesn’t Jim DeMint remind you of Gomer Pyle from the old Andy Griffith show? Just listen to him, “Hi! I’m Jim DeMint!” He sounds and kind of looks like Gomer Pyle. He really does. Doesn’t he?

Listening to the drivel coming from DeMint’s mouth, especially with his nutty comments today at CPAC, he sounded very similar to Gomer in that episode of Andy Griffith when Gomer tries to get revenge on Deputy Barney Fife. “Citizen’s Arrest! Citizens Arrest!”

Gomer Pyle=Jim DeMint. Separated at birth?

]]> By: Bluetoe2 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/#comment-1844017 Bluetoe2 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:28:16 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/#comment-1844017 <p>Don’t be naive. The corporate media will hail them as new American patriots.</p> Don’t be naive. The corporate media will hail them as new American patriots.

]]> By: Bluetoe2 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/#comment-1844011 Bluetoe2 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:24:31 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/#comment-1844011 <p>What do you expect from a Senator of South Carolina, the state that precipated the Civil War by firing on Fort Sumpter? These times the traitors won’t get amnesty. A rope and a blindfold.</p> What do you expect from a Senator of South Carolina, the state that precipated the Civil War by firing on Fort Sumpter? These times the traitors won’t get amnesty. A rope and a blindfold.

]]> By: Bluetoe2 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/#comment-1844008 Bluetoe2 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:23:17 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/#comment-1844008 <p>Closing Gitmo may be premature.</p> Closing Gitmo may be premature.

]]> By: serge http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/#comment-1843981 serge Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:58:29 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/#comment-1843981 <p>This is what I just sent to <strike>my Senator’s</strike> the asshole’s office:</p> <p>From CNN: <em>“Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, the only member of the senate to earn a perfect rating from the American Conservative Union, called President Obama “the world’s best salesman of socialism” on Friday in describing his prime time speech earlier this week.</em></p> <p>DeMint, a fierce opponent of government expansion, told the CPAC crowd that conservatives might have to ‘take to the streets to stop America’s slide into socialism.’”</p> <p>That’s great, Senator…now you’re calling for an armed revolt? Sedition? The kind of action that can a fella tossed into the Navy Brig in Charleston? I guess that would only happen to a member of the “Democrat” Party. You should be ashamed of yourself. It’s pretty clear, though, that you’re incapable of shame. You are a blot on the landscape of our beautiful state.</p> This is what I just sent to my Senator’s the asshole’s office:

From CNN: “Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, the only member of the senate to earn a perfect rating from the American Conservative Union, called President Obama “the world’s best salesman of socialism” on Friday in describing his prime time speech earlier this week.

DeMint, a fierce opponent of government expansion, told the CPAC crowd that conservatives might have to ‘take to the streets to stop America’s slide into socialism.’”

That’s great, Senator…now you’re calling for an armed revolt? Sedition? The kind of action that can a fella tossed into the Navy Brig in Charleston? I guess that would only happen to a member of the “Democrat” Party. You should be ashamed of yourself. It’s pretty clear, though, that you’re incapable of shame. You are a blot on the landscape of our beautiful state.

]]> By: Winski http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/#comment-1843965 Winski Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:15:22 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/#comment-1843965 <p>When do these folks cross the line between bad, lip flapping rhetoric and incitement??</p> When do these folks cross the line between bad, lip flapping rhetoric and incitement??

]]> By: cinnamonape http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/#comment-1843952 cinnamonape Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:07:47 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/#comment-1843952 <blockquote><p>DeMint, a fierce opponent of government expansion, told the CPAC crowd that conservatives might have to “take to the streets to stop America’s slide into socialism.”</p></blockquote> <p>Did he actually mean “take up the streets”? With picks and shovels…after all, if anything is a symbol of “collectivism” and “socialistic thinking” it’s the public roads!</p> <p>May I suggest that they begin tearing them up and demanding <strike>trolls</strike> tolls across the newly instituted private property.</p> <p>“You may cross if you can answer this riddle!”</p>

DeMint, a fierce opponent of government expansion, told the CPAC crowd that conservatives might have to “take to the streets to stop America’s slide into socialism.”

Did he actually mean “take up the streets”? With picks and shovels…after all, if anything is a symbol of “collectivism” and “socialistic thinking” it’s the public roads!

May I suggest that they begin tearing them up and demanding trolls tolls across the newly instituted private property.

“You may cross if you can answer this riddle!”

]]> By: Synoia http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/#comment-1843909 Synoia Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:34:01 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/02/27/at-cpac-jim-demint-urges-conservatives-to-take-to-the-streets-to-stop-obamas-socialism/#comment-1843909 <p>Holy Fucking Shit. Idiocracy <strike>has come to</strike> finally out of the closet at the GOP.</p> Holy Fucking Shit. Idiocracy has come to finally out of the closet at the GOP.

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