Death to Republicans

“WASHINGTON (Tribune Media Services) -- If you think reporters always tell the truth -- read this book.

If you're looking for proof of corruption and immoral behavior among the nation's most famous conservatives -- read this book.

If you want to learn all about organized crime -- for God's sake, read this book.

David Brock's "Blinded by the Right" reads like the memoirs of a mafia hit man. But it's the personal story of a former Republican hit man, instead.

Throughout the '90s, Brock was the star of Republican conservatives. In March 1992, as an investigative reporter for the American Spectator, he wrote "The Real Anita Hill," savaging Clarence Thomas's accuser as "a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty." In a book by the same title, he attacked her reputation even more viciously, freely quoting her detractors' descriptions of Hill, among other slurs, as "obsessed with oral sex" and "the world's kinkiest law professor."

Brock's next target was Bill Clinton. Again in the American Spectator, in an article titled "His Cheatin' Heart," Brock reported that Arkansas state troopers had frequently been asked by Gov. Bill Clinton to procure women for sex with him -- and had been promised a job in Washington if they kept quiet about it. Brock also made passing reference to a woman named Paula, who visited Clinton in his hotel room and left, telling one of the troopers she'd be glad to be the governor's regular girlfriend.

For his leading role in defending Clarence Thomas and dumping on Bill Clinton, Brock was the hero of the conservative movement. He received standing ovations at meetings of the Conservative Political Action Committee. He was wined and dined by leading conservatives Newt Gingrich, Ed Meese, Bill Kristol, Boyden Gray, Ted and Barbara Olson, and Robert Bork. Rush Limbaugh read parts of his books and articles on the air. He flew around the country, repeating his attacks on countless college campuses and talk-radio shows.

And now Brock admits it was all one big lie.

In "Blinded" he acknowledges that "Hill's testimony was more truthful than Thomas' flat denials." He avows that none of the trooper allegations about Clinton that could be independently checked turned out to be true. (The troopers themselves soon recanted their story of a job offer.) He makes no bones about why he wrote such lies and why the Spectator published them: "The aim was not journalistic, but political." And he apologizes for his role in spreading the lies.

Brock's book is a great read on several levels. It is, first, the fascinating tale of a young liberal who, turned off by ugly, personal attacks on conservatives like Jeanne Kilpatrick, becomes a conservative himself -- only to be sucked into engineering the same kind of personal attacks against liberals. When Brock stunned his conservative friends by writing an objective book about Hillary Clinton -- instead of trashing her, like they expected him to -- they turned on him.

It is also the sad odyssey of a gay man whose sexual orientation was no big deal for his conservative friends -- as long as he sang their song. Once he began challenging their ideology and methodology, they condemned him, like every other gay or lesbian, as a pervert.

But Brock's book is important, most of all, as an insider's expose of the hypocrisy and immorality of the right wing.

Sparing no one, he relates how Gingrich and company steered the Republican party from fiscal conservatism to moral absolutism. How, knowing they could not defeat Clinton's policies, they determined to go after his personal life. How they manipulated the mainstream media into spreading lies, sleaze and ugly rumors. How they reversed their belief in constitutional protection of the presidency to launch a campaign to impeach Clinton. And, how, long before anyone ever heard of Monica Lewinsky, they designed the Paula Jones lawsuit as a trap to catch Clinton in a lie about consensual sex -- thereby creating a crime that, otherwise, might never have been committed.

Brock also, deliciously, names those who were enjoying their own sexual follies while pursuing Clinton for his.

At last we know, Hillary was right. There was a vast right-wing conspiracy -- and David Brock was its high priest. In this book, he apologizes. When will the rest of them?”

“Bummmah!”

“we REPUBLICANS will apologize as soon as the last LIBERAL dies a slow agonizing painful death.”

“Now, now. Why can't you all be like Hannity and Colmes.? Debate but not hate is what makes the US what it is.”

“mrclean-
Yer a dirty bastid!

Oh, the rebublicans will juke and jive, but the deluded are loathe to give up their delusion.

Its been going on for years.
The conservatives can't prevail politically, at least in a sane society.
So they have for years used propaganda and lies and character assasination and LOTS of money to take America from its citizens and have their way with U.S.

God Bless America.....
.....long live the queens!”

“Oh, and please, abolish the death penalty.

No death to rebublicans.
We must stand on principle!”

“Rather humorous...the things people will do for money”

“It's obvious that all Brock ever wanted to do was sell books...He's def. got you convinced B-packer...don't forget he started out as a liberal and as far as I'm concerned he was but a wolf in sheeps clothing..pure and simple”

“And the DEVIL is a communist in Republican clothing.”

“Violin.. that picture is CLASSIC! I already saved it and sent it to a few friends who are deserving of a mug.. :-D”

“That was nigal's find. He just couldn't post it because the dirty word filter screwed it up.”

“Hey, she's givin' the old Rockefeller sign!”

“Evil conservatives, evil republicans, blah, blah, blah. How stupid can you get? No party is all good or all evil, there are good Democrats but on a National party level, Republicans occupy the area of the spectrum Democrats did 40 years ago and the dems have moved left to socialist. For my money less govt is better, and conservative makes more sense than liberal, they all screw up everything anyway. The Constitution is not a "living document" to be re-interpreted any way you want and the Second Amendment means "the people" just like it does in "We the People" in the preamble. Now please STFU”

“Amen mtnman.”

“Thanks So4, I'm aparently in a ranting mood but BS is BS and I have a low tolerance for it.”

“Blah, blah, blah...”

“"Blah, blah, blah..."

Ahhhhh! A perfect liberal reaction! LOL!”

“Better than the conservative reaction: Baaaaaahhhhh, baaaaaaaahhh, baaaaaaahhh.”

“Yes, but after the liberals decided to tax the letter B and the comma, the conservative reaction became:
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha”

“Wake up man. Where do you think that $40 billion Bush and Congress just appropriated to stamping out evildoers is gonna come from? Thin air? Read my lips: Brand new taxes!”

“What's really stupefying is that these so called conservatives actually believe Republicans are fiscally responsible. LMAO!

You want to talk about screwing things up? Just imagine all the Americans that Bush and his fellow republicans are condemning to death. Bush's irresponsible foreign policy in the middle-east is growing terrorists like weeds. Resentment and hatred against Americans must be breeding like flies thanks to Bush's incompetence and republican war-mongering.

Thank the Republican war machine for 9/11 and future terrorist attacks.”

“So tell us Mr. Pro-Palastine, exactly how is Bush's Mideast policy different from Clinton's? Did Clinton even have a foreign policy? What was it? Was it sending Hillary over there to play kissy face with Mrs. Arafat? Was it lobbing cruise missiles at aspirin factories?

Which war mongerer sent our troops flagged under NATO to attack a sovereign country protecting it's own territory? Better yet, which war mongerer staged an "incident" in the gulf of Tonkin in order escalate our involvement in a civil war?

"Resentment and hatred against Americans must be breeding like flies...."

So what? These people are never going to love us.Hell they don't even love each other. Iraq hates Iran, Pakistan hates India, the Sunnis hate the Shiites, the Watbis hate everyone etc. etc. Why is it so important to you that everyone love us? They're never going to love us, and they'll never repesct us, but they damn better well fear us.”

“They should fear us? Like a child fears an abusive father. Tell me, how does such a relationship create mutual respect? Doesn't it reality create animosity?”

“Hey, Mr. Pro strap a bomb to myself to become a martyr and get virgins, instead of shifting the conversation, why don't you answer some of the questions about your hero's (you know, the whore hoppin hillbilly) mideast policy? How about this question? Does each martyr get a fresh batch of virgins or do they have to re-use them? In that case, then they really aren't virgins and blowing yourself up is pointless. Aren't these guys martyring themselves really pedophiles? I mean those virgins must be really young.”

“You boys play nice now, or no more jerky.”

“Huh huh! He said "jerky". huh huh!”

“Kleetn, will you be providing the jerky?”

“no need to wonder why we have silly ass wars ,after following
this thread.organized religion and politics have only this as their end result.instead of sending Powell to the mid.east,Bush should have sent the following note;
"NO MORE MONEY"”

“Bush is irrelevant. He tells the Isaelis to cease-fire and pull out. Israel totally ignores him.

Bush has no moral authority. Bush is worthless as a world leader.”

“What a hoot this thread turned out to be.

I don't know where your information comes from mtnman, but Thomas Jefferson called the Constitution a “living document”. The framers wanted it to last for many generations and not have to be tossed out and rewritten every so often. That's why they allowed for amendment and judicial review.”

“It's a wonder the Wilson Center hasn't been recruiting candidates for fellowships here... ain't it?”

“i think the ACLU is bad because they defend the parts of the constitution i don't like but the NRA is good because they defend the parts of the constitution i do like”

“If you don't like the First Amendment... Hey, no one is going to force you to exercise your rights, BOL!”

“mtnman-
So, the REbublicans occupy the political spectrum the Demoncrats did 40 years ago?

Civil rights, social welfare, etc?

The notion that things have shifted "left" is laughable!

BaSO4-
Which warmonger got us involved in "that" civil war?
That would be the same dude who authorized the nukings August 6 & 9, 1945.”

“Tommy T,
Johnson authorized the nukings? I thought it was Truman. Isn't the gulf of Tonkin by Vietnam or is my geography messed up?”

“You got it pal.

Truman got U.S. involved in Vietnam, stabbed Ho in the back, and allowed U.S. ships to be used to carry Foreign Legion combat soldiers "over there".”

“Huh, huh! Stabbin' hos from behind is fun!”

“Tom:
Yes. More republicans than demoncrats, both # and %, voted for civil rights act. Dems got most of the credit because we had a dem president that signed it eventually. Your hero ALGORE's dad voted AGAINST the civil rights act of 1968. Who was it blocking the school door from the little girl, why, it was a democrat. The nation has moved somewhat left. The Democratic party (on a national level) has moved WAY left. On a local and regional level there are a lot of good conservative democrats. Your Pal AL lost his home state (my state) because he had to move left to get in with the national Dem party. He used to be pro life and pro firearms till he went to play with the big boys and now he's for abortion and against firearms. I'd say that was a shift left. He left the "people".”

“Oh yeah. Voting pro choice is leaving the people. *Gaaaaagggggg*”

“Of this state, yes. Face it, the guy couldn't carry his "home" (never really was) state. Just why do you think that was? The people who knew him best voted for the other guy. If he'd gotten TN (and I thank my lucky stars he didn't) he'd have been President.”

“Then say he lost the vote of the majority because I think it's pretty safe to say that not all of the people, even in Tenn., believe in the same things you do.”

“mtnman-
ALGORE is not my hero.

May I please speculate on who your hero might be?

Dude, even if a mojority of people of Tinnissee decided to vote to have the 10 commandments written into law, it would not fly.


See if you can figure out why.









There's a little thing known as "tyranny of the majority"......oh yeah, and the U.S. Constitution too!”

“What kind of guy are you? Don't you have something else to do besides "Bork" Republicans? Besides, I like Republicans much beter then any other party. They are not perfect but there is nothing worse then a liberal Democrat (Communist)

"Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.... We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price." ~~ Ronald Reagan”

“and what did reagan do after election?

Grew the size of the Federal government faster than the rest of the country.

Increased government control over a woman's body.

Increased the power of the Federal government over the individual states.

Yet republicans fawn all over him...”

“Ronald Reagan is MY modern American hero..... Your just jelious......”

“"There's a little thing known as "tyranny of the majority"......oh yeah, and the U.S. Constitution too!" Tom Terrific"

Tom, what is the problem with the US constitution? The Bill of Rights was specificly designed to protect any minority from the tyranny of any majority.

"The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority.... it is the one guarantee of human freedom to the American people."
-- Frank Cobb - (Editor, New York World - 1920)”

“hay Nancy get the globe and show me where the "evil Empire" is again? are you suuurrree.”