What, no Rush Limbaugh?

When today’s R party can’t even identify with Ronnie Rayguns, they are in a world of hurt.

David Duke is much closer to today’s R party than Saint Ronald.

jabba the hut?

Well, then. That list should indeed point repugs to support the PO in theory and praxis.

Yeah, no Limbaugh. No Nixon. No McCarthy.

and michael steele is the “cow on the tracks”
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/14/793177/-Michael-Steele:-Im-the-cow-on-the-tracks

Um, ok. Still indirectly fighting the powerless Republicans I see. Doubt we will be seeing Reid or Pelosi (or any other progressive/liberals) in any Top-tens of Historical Accomplishments.

“Oh, you dumb fucker.”

Odd that they do not list “Bomb, bomb, bomb them into the stone age” Goldwater. He is, after all the spiritual father of today’s Republican Part. Seems they prefer the disingenuous (i.e., lying sack of shit), but charismatic Reagan.

Are these people really this fucking stupid?

Sorry. I lapsed into a rhetorical spasm there for a moment.

PS: I miss that photo of “MC Steele.”

It is the party of Goldwater, Nixon, Strom Thurmond, and George Wallace.

and karl turdblossom rove.

But even Nixon created the EPA, expanded welfare — even endorsed a minimum annual stipend for every family.

Off the reservation.

Where’s Jesse Helms? He should be placed right up there with the best of ‘em…

Assuming the Goopers aren’t talking about the fictional title character of a novel by Kaye Gibbons, they probably mean Judith Ellen Foster, the first woman admitted to the bar in Iowa. [The picture is from her Wikipedia page.] Unfortunately, she was not a Republican, but rather of the Prohibition Party. [Which perhaps echoes the tone of the GOP today.]

It is the party of Goldwater, Nixon, Strom Thurmond, and George Wallace.

bomb, spy, lynch.

A rich cultural heritage those R’s have. Much to which to aspire.

Seriously! Where the hell is their scion, Karl Rove? What about Richard Perle, Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz?

They’re clearly not doing their homework, eh?

By the way, where’s Barry Goldwater?

(twisting up a fattie somewhere)

Disqualified.

Why are you being so hard on MC Steele? He does his homework…

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2474/3549304897_ff08dea4fb.jpg

Seriously! Where the hell is their scion, Karl Rove? What about Richard Perle, Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz?

with the exception of Rove, all of those names are emblazened for all eternity on the PNAC 2000 report, advocating the foreign policy which brought American to its knees.

By the way, where’s Barry Goldwater?

And where is Theodore Roosevelt, for that matter? He was arguably the best Republican President after Lincoln. Wait, he passed anti-trust legislation, and greatly expanded the national parks and monuments. Never mind.

Goldwater was the type of “conservative” who thought that government has no place deciding what individuals do with their sex organs.

Persona non grata with today’s GOP.

And don’t forget the progressive tax and inheritance tax.

Why Glenn Beck calls him a “weird progressive.”

I hate to be too obvious, but where is the 2008 candidate for Vice President? Or the gentle Congresswoman from the 6th district of Minnesota, for that matter? What? Are we all out of tinfoil hats or something?

No Roosevelts’s need apply.

None.

It wouldn’t be the Kaye Gibbons book because Oprah once chose that as “Book of the Month”. And I don’t know about Judith Ellen Foster. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union didn’t admit Catholics, Jews or African Americans(plus to the GOP), but were also involved in womens suffrage(GOP hates that).

…government has no place deciding what individuals do with their sex organs.

Well, that’s no republican.

otoh, do we know where he stood on the subject of hookers?

Agnew, Nye, Cunningham

Now hold on.

That’s commerce.

Is that the same Edward Brooke who put it in Barbara Walters?

yes, I also noticed that TR’s domestic policy was conspicuously absent.

I also noticed that TR’s foreign policy was absent as well. The Great White Fleet’s world tour? TR also inherited the Philippines occupation from the Spanish-American War, which McKinley resisted (at least publicly), but TR was much more enthusiastic about.

I guess that kind of foreign adventure doesn’t age well.

Now hold on.

That’s commerce.

Or to put it into Republi-speak, naked capitalism.

This is a GOP attempt to steal our style and be cool like we are its not the Personalty/Issues that makes us cool BT the GOP thinks its our past, our family tree, and our clothes.
The GOP is run by the want to be popular but are not High School girls.

Crap Lizard brains emotional voters Teenagers vain greedy teenage sociopaths that explains it all the lack of sanity from the GOP, the illogic of their actions, Sarah Palin.
We are dealing with the worse any Highschool has to offer.

Seems to me mot of the racial and ethnic civil rights brags are about, in the current GOP context, what amounts to tokenism. So and so GOPer appointed this or that first somebody or other.

But why no mention of old time GOP initiatives for racial equality that had significant economic impact on masses of people. I am thinking of US Grant’s policies, one of the very good things about his messed up presidency that is rarely mentoned these days, and which seriously discomforted white folks, and sparked a grotesuqe backlash politically.

Though they did throw in two of the communist Republicans, Eisenhower and Warren’s efforts for school and other early desgregation efforts. Rush should talk about that.

Also, TR was a Nobel Peace Prize recipient for negotiating the end of the Russo-Japanese war. They don’t want to brag about that either?

And why don’t they brag about how Eisenhower fell in love with covert operations, and started the great grand daddy of covert interference, the great grand daddy of the way we would only deal with the most extreme Islamic elements of the Afghan resistance after the Soveit invasion. I think that is the biggest blot on Eisenhower’s record, and that kind of thing does not age well either, but it is a big theme in current GOP.

Those past GOP heroes is a good lesson in how far the GOp has fallen, though.

Why isn’t Chuck Hagel or Arlen Spector on the list.

Why isn’t Chuck Hagel or Arlen Spector on the list.

turn-coats. Refused to parrot the party line from each day’s fax machine.

Resembled human beings.

We are dealing with teens hoped up on sugar and energy drinks/power for the last 8 years and Obama and the Dems holding the WH, Senate and House is getting the same reaction from the GOP as a Mom saying no more sugar and energy drinks for you.

Thurmond miscengenated – definitely off the reservation

He looks better in that hat, though, cuz his skull is too small.

It would be nice if they had a chain of command chart with Nixon at the top and all of his familiar underlings.

No President Hoover? I mean Free Trade, No job stimulus during a Recession the Hoover think tank his ideas are GOP economic policy. Helicopter Ben’s bank bailout thats the Modern GOP fix to Hoover’s Great Depression save the Rich!
It seems there has been some Conservative thought besides just saying No to any change.

Jackie Robinson: Oops.

A blatent misrepresentation on a GOP website???

Well there’s a shocker!!

Lying assholes just can’t help themselves even when they know everybody else knows they’re lying. Assholes.

Lying assholes just can’t help themselves even when they know everybody else knows they’re lying. Assholes.

Do you award points for consistency?

What really insults me is that they think they will get away with it.

Its not like the voters have been buying these lies the last few elections.

Some more GOP heroes…

I agree – but you’d think they’d rank up there with the GOPs favorite heroes.

MC Steele left out

Jeannette_Rankin – 1st woman elected to the House – oops, lifelong pacifist

and

Margaret_Chase_Smith 1st woman to have her name entered as POTUS candidate – whoops, that whole Declaration of Conscience thingy against Tailgunner Joe

the GOP thinks its our past, our family tree, and our clothes.

Id really like to live beside you, baby
I love your body and your spirit and your clothes
But you see that line there moving through the station?
I told you, I told you, told you, I was one of those (…Republicans? Not!)

Nice one!

BTW, was that really a picture of the Rushbo??? Man that didn’t look like Rush. Must’ve been before he met teh pain pills.

Indeed it is.

Jane has a fresh cross-post available for our enlightenment: “Rahm To Meet Over Combining Senate Bill With Reid Today”

Jesse Helms? arguably he helped create today’s party by migrating southern Dems to the GOP. Pete Wilson? (of the technocratic wing of Willard Romney and ilk) Ralph Reed? (as Christian Coalition founder) AZ torture sheriff Arpaio? William F Buckley Jr? Emperor Franz Joseph? Czar Alexander? Otto Von Bismark? Senator/Emperor Palpatine?

Otto Von Bismark? He started German social insurance system, including health insurance.

Nope, including that radical communist as a GOP great would not be a good idea right now.

Ellen Foster is a fictional character.

When’s Steele going to go?! With his rewriting of history, he is an insult to both Republicans and to African-Americans.

THE POSTERS HAVE FORGOTTEN TO INCLUDE MLK, SR. AND ML KING JR. AS REPUBLICANS

By Dr. Alveda C. King – Niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[modedit snip]
There would have been no law for President Lyndon Johnson to sign in 1964 had it not been for the Republicans breaking the Democrats’ filibuster of the law and pushing to have that landmark legislation enacted. No one batted an eye when President Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King. Hardly a ripple of protest was uttered when President Kennedy, through his brother Attorney General Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated on suspicion of being a Communist.
[modedit snip]
To their eternal shame, the chief opponents of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act were Democrats Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd, a former Klansman. All of the racist Democrats that Dr. King was fighting remained Democrats until the day they died. How can anyone today think that Dr. King, my uncle, would have joined the party of the KKK? There is a law of unexpected outcomes. Who could have predicted that the black exodus from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party in the 1960’s would have also ushered in decades of destruction which continue to plague our communities today?

A Covenant With Life:
Reclaiming MLK’s Legacy
My grandfather, Dr. Martin
Luther King, Sr., or “Daddy
King”, was a Republican
and father of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. who was a
Republican.

–

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the
oppressed.” –Steve Biko

[Modnote: edited to respect the copyrights of the author, link to original text PDF.]

And what does it say about the GOP that they haven’t included any Republican ex-presidents who are still alive?

(Dubya is probably too drunk to notice, but I imagine his dad may feel slighted.)

Are all those people dead on the list? Could be why they were chosen. The GOP is dead.