birdog1960

perhaps, "fellow tea partier" would be more appropriate but you got the point. being opaque doesn't change your argument. the things said by these other bozo's are their actual beliefs and those of many of their "disciples". they just aren't regularly said on the campaign trail. but you can't change a leopard's spots. they eventually become visible. fortunately, most of the electorate vehemently disagrees.

don't you remember these triple bogies as the repub strategist in this piece termed them? http://bigstory.ap.org/article/gaffe-prone-candidates-hurt-gops-senate-chances

while this piece is mostly about journalistic blind spots http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/business/media/eric-cantors-defeat-exposed-a-beltway-journalism-blind-spot.html?_r=0, it also illustrates the power of people like mark levin, glenn beck and laura in graham among the portion of the electorate responsible for this upset primary campaign. from a liberal perspective, this is a good thing in many ways. these extreme views have no chance whatever of winning in a national election. just ask mitt romney who kissed the rings of these bozos on almost every issue in the primaries and had no way to return to right center in the general election. it will play out this way repeatedly in conservative districts that for the most part were always untouchable to liberals. but give it time. there will be some future brat like disciple that will say something blatantly cookoo about women or equal rights or race in a sincere and unfiltered moment and he'll lose one of these districts to a dem. and while it plays out this way, there will be no republican president. the numbers just aren't there.

you do realize that the venn cited doesn't support or refute any economic or political belief. it merely points out commonality of belief among otherwise disparate voting blocks. and in this way is salient to any converstion on cantor and political cronyism. in regards to multinational large corporate turnover, it doesn't happen with near the regularity you predict in banking, finance or oil. when those entities are mortally threatend, gov't has bailed them out either directly or via legislation or both. might as well throw certain players in the auto industry in that mix as well..

are you saying that there is a gray course of action towards vacuum filling that has proven efficacy? what exactly is that course. i can only recall failed attempts regardless of approach.

lacking proof of effectiveness of intervention, no, we shouldn't intervene. same as in medicine - do no harm. do studies both observational and prospective but wait til there's proof that the proposed intervention is likely to result in desired outcomes. we don't have that proof in "vacuum filling".

you linked the 2. power vacuums are ubiquitous throughout the globe. while they may represent a relative security threat, they can't reasonably preemptively be filled as we are witnessing.

+1: perspective.

9/11? iraq? they weren't related then and they aren't now despite over 1/2 the population believing that they were. how did that happen?

weaker minds are destined to relive history.

sears and kmart? both were obsolete 10 years ago. little to do with capitalism, lots to do with technology and changing consumer preferences. i don't see any oil co's going bust and not too many big finance co's. outcomes aren't really the point at any rate (although they are often good for the cronies), none of this is desirable from a true governing perspective.

we need to stick to the principle that involvement in war is justified only by major national security risks. that criteria would have kept us out of at least 2/3 of our most recent wars. i'm reminded of a military analyst i recently saw commenting on d- day. "soldiers are the currency of war", we need to think long and hard before spending that currency and it should never be a trade of one currency for another.

really liked that. kinda reminds me of this fella...new in the sense that he's getting some recognition of late. was on mountain stage radio show a few weeks back.

i think this is mostly true as well. there are those in the tea party that would disband medicare, just not many that are already on medicare. healthcare is not conducive to the free market model because it will not ensure minimum humanitarian care. it needs to be cut out from the rest of the model as it is in most other industrialized nations.

we agree...amazing.

i found it interesting that yahoo finance showed this venn diagram http://www.businessinsider.com/tea-party-and-occupy-wall-street-2011-10 in it's discussion on the cantor upset loss. i can't see a coalition around this but who knows?

one more that probably will be watched at least twice if not more due to the complexity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CC60HJvZRE&feature=kp

"wall street lost a friend last night" and gained an "ayn rand disciple" http://finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-street-lost-friend-last-130100026.html

read the last 2 sentences starting with "despite the decline.." awful may be better than terrible but both are bad.

do you think another couple of statistics might be useful to this analysis? ya know like number of motorists per 100,000 population versus gun owners?. or hours spent driving versus shooting per 100,000 population? additionally, safety is constantly the subject of research in transportation industry. not so much in the gun industry. the biggest safety improvement will likely be getting rid of drivers through intelligent cars. wouldn't the analogous situation be great for the most lethal types of guns?

why stop there? scalia believes missles are ok for private citizens to own. talk about an arms race...we don't desire it between countries but it's ok between citizens? ridiculous, idiotic, irrational, paranoid, reactionary, in a word, liberytarian, thought.

i guess i'm slow...i don't see the analogy. care to explain?

what's your point? a long gun for home protection is hardly controversial. has there been any proposed legislation to abolish that? this is a strawman. i have a shotgun in my bedroom and would not hesitate to use it in a similar situation. that's a far cry from having an automatic or semiautomatic weapon or a concealed handgun.

http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1221764,00.html

"tar babies" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/20/frank-ruff-tar-baby_n_4999779.html. this may just accomplish medicaid expansion in Va. if nothing els it's a freudian slip with real political consequences.