tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post1293939358035988611..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-52662563706585156762014-07-10T12:32:34.615-04:002014-07-10T12:32:34.615-04:00I find it pretty funny that the idea of the pic wa...I find it pretty funny that the idea of the pic was to infuriate liberals. Do you know any liberals who were infuriated by that? Or did they (like me) just roll their eyes and move on?<br /><br />Would these folks' "heads explode" if they saw a married gay Muslim couple hugging a tree while drinking Starbucks lattes?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-84469859731544635822014-07-09T18:51:00.094-04:002014-07-09T18:51:00.094-04:00Darlin', I think you should keep on pounding d...Darlin', I think you should keep on pounding down the tubs of sugary soda and fried chicken sandwiches in your wish to upset me. Keep on doing it, maybe by the time you're 250 pounds my head might just explode.Glennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03681336164718681936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-60312907040149721742014-07-09T13:14:37.180-04:002014-07-09T13:14:37.180-04:00What aimai said!What aimai said!Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-75408270010619673922014-07-09T11:00:42.785-04:002014-07-09T11:00:42.785-04:00I think these are just really different things. Th...I think these are just really different things. The Tea Party and the dissociating fringe are just looking for reasons to love Icons and to love a winner. If that winner/icon is associated with the Republican party they will go for it. If that winner/Icon is associated with a fringe conservative party, a niche market, they will go for it. The voters and the base don't have any loyalty to the Republican party as a party and they don't identify with its goals in terms of corporate benefits, corruption, or even running the country. They respond at this point only to tribal shibboleths. So they respond very well to mascots, pretty women, armed men, who pose iconically without offering any particular political program.<br /><br />This is politics stripped of politics, government stripped of governance. They are interested, and emotionally invested, in culture war and political action of the "attenat" or the significant blow against what they see as the overwhelming, stultifying, authority of the current democratic government. The question of who should actually run things, or how, is left to another venue.<br /><br />When people actually have to vote, in their local places, they return to the Republican party because they understand the issues and the players a little more and they are looking for someone who can do X, or Y, at the local level. But for most of them the federal government has become an abstraction--it does stuff they don't understand, at a distance that is too far for them to grasp. For those positions they will continue to vote Republican because it is at least a brand name they can identify. The teabagger identity is a sub-republican identity that enables them to participate and experience rebellion within an overall conformity.aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-89721551096733216432014-07-09T10:22:30.330-04:002014-07-09T10:22:30.330-04:00Wait until Holly Hobby Lobby and her conservative ...Wait until Holly Hobby Lobby and her conservative twitter pals find out that every Hobby Lobby store is chock full of abortifacients:<br /><br />Knitting needles.<br /><br />Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.com