Get ready for Operation Cantor
posted at 1:05 pm on March 10, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
The White House has decided that they’ve run out of distraction value with Rush Limbaugh and have a new target set for their attack machine. Politico reports that the Rahm Emanuel-David Axelrod Perpetual Campaign Squad has its sights set on Rep. Eric Cantor, the rising Republican star:
For all the focus on the king of conservative talk, Democrats may have found a more important villain in House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, a telegenic young Republican trying to bring life to his party on Capitol Hill.
As the Virginia Republican fights President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority on everything from spending to stem cells, the Democrats are racing to introduce him to voters before he can introduce himself.
- At last month’s White House summit on entitlement reform, Obama painted Cantor as a poster child for obstructionism. “I’m going to keep on talking to Eric Cantor,” the president said. “Someday, sooner or later, he’s going to say, ‘Boy, Obama had a good idea.’”
- In a Washington Post op-ed last week, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said Rush Limbaugh’s voice “could be heard in the words of new Republican quarterback Eric Cantor.”
- In robocalls aimed at potentially vulnerable Republicans in Michigan, Florida and California, union groups are urging voters to ask their representatives why they’re “following the ‘party of no’ and its Republican leader, Eric Cantor.”
- In a series of TV spots, Americans United for Change identified Cantor as one of the Republican leaders who have stood with Limbaugh and opposed Obama’s stimulus plan.
Maybe the Democrats should concern themselves with governing instead of campaigning. Instead of picking new faces for the White House Enemies List, maybe they should concentrate on finding people to work at Treasury. They seem more interested in demonizing opposition Republicans than in doing the basic vetting on their nominees to ensure ordinary tax compliance.
And by the way, where is the Grand Plan that Tim Geithner and Barack Obama promised? When can we expect Obama and his Gang That Couldn’t Gift Straight to do the jobs they were elected to do, rather than just plot the next campaign? Or is that above everyone’s pay grade?
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The superego negro behind the piano. Classic!
darii on March 10, 2009 at 2:13 PM
So long as the Obama Brain Trust focuses on these asinine tactics, it keeps them distracted from doing their job (whatever that is). The attacks on Cantor mean that the Limbaugh attacks were ineffective. What a shock.
EMD on March 10, 2009 at 2:13 PM
TARP didn’t work, so why would TARP II? Why is there so much fear-mongering about credit default swaps and the free market? Why does Obama want to spend $2 trillion to fully nationalize the banks? That’s fascism.
chunderroad on March 10, 2009 at 2:13 PM
Speaking of Willy Wonka,
BonerBay Ner the Oompa Looma doesn’t even warrant mention. The guy stood up and cried (literally) over another $100 Billion to be squandered on Bush’s little Iraq Adventure.The GOP, the party of clowns.
capitulus on March 10, 2009 at 2:13 PM
Doctor Zero on March 10, 2009 at 2:13 PM
Try to get to the point doc.
Nobody wants to read that much drivel.
getalife on March 10, 2009 at 2:14 PM
Geez. Looks like someone has a lot of free time!
capitulus on March 10, 2009 at 2:15 PM
So if the markets tank, its just a tracking poll but if it rises, it’s time to pop the champaigne?
This is a quote from cnbc.com website today…
ChicagoBlues on March 10, 2009 at 2:16 PM
capitulus on March 10, 2009 at 2:13 PM
His claim to fame was handing out tobacco checks on the floor of the House before a vote for tobacco’s interests.
getalife on March 10, 2009 at 2:16 PM
I was elaborating on your point, not disagreeing with it. It’s obvious you’re a capitalist. You made the important distinction that Obama supporters are not. We have reached that point. We can remain a free country or embrace fascism.
Thank you for believing in freedom.
chunderroad on March 10, 2009 at 2:17 PM
chunderroad on March 10, 2009 at 2:18 PM
Thanks for the clarification. Sorry for the confusion.
genso on March 10, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Oops. Block quotes for my reply instead of BOLD.
chunderroad on March 10, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Cantor must be loving the coming attention. Nothing will shoot him to the top of the charts faster than the Obamanoids turning him into Public Enemy No. 1.
He’s very popular here in Virginia, and I’m glad to say I voted for him.
Meryl Yourish on March 10, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Run for teh hillz!!!!!!1!!
darii on March 10, 2009 at 2:20 PM
We’re not the ones talking about orange midgets and boners, Einstein.
chunderroad on March 10, 2009 at 2:21 PM
The Oompa Loompa remarks show that you’re pretty bigoted against little people. Does that mean I can start using racial epithets against Obama?
So how much has been spent on the Iraq War, which has lasted 6 years? And how much was spent in that stimulus, which was passed in one day? 800 billion?
So Democrats approved in one day more spending than the Iraq War got in six years.
Impressive.
MadisonConservative on March 10, 2009 at 2:21 PM
LMAO!
ChicagoBlues on March 10, 2009 at 2:22 PM
Oh, but that 800 billion wasn’t spend on Bushilter’s evil nasty warmongering but on good productive things like condoms and mob museums.
darii on March 10, 2009 at 2:23 PM
I think Allah should open a forum on the WaPo article calling for Geithner’s head. Just the pick out the lies part would be more fun than Suduko.
chunderroad on March 10, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Yes we can vs no we can’t.
Mmmm, I think America will support yes we can.
getalife on March 10, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Spending $700 Billion on a stupid war that accomplished nothing and spending $700 Billion to fix the economy (which was broken by said failed-war-spenders) is different.
You must have cheese between your ears.
capitulus on March 10, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Too much reading for your insipid little brains?
OmahaConservative on March 10, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Don’t forget the highspeed gambling train from bankrupt California to beautiful Las Vegas. They should name a Denny’s breakfast for it. “Moon Over Reid’s Hammy.”
chunderroad on March 10, 2009 at 2:26 PM
Barry’s doing so well, he’s got time to go after Cantor. Gotta admit, the guy sure can prioritize!
Christien on March 10, 2009 at 2:27 PM
The reality is that from the moment Obama signed the Stimulus we had to have into law the on going poor performance of the economy ceased to be the responsibility of the previous administration and started to be primarily the sole responsibility of the current administration and the majority leadership in the House and Senate.
I mean when the week after you sign into law a massive spending bill designed to restore confidence in the market place you start complaining that the deficit is to high and how you are going to have to raise taxes on the wealthy and corporations to deal with it, totally destroying all the benefits of the rather expensive stimulus package you just passed, thus causing the markets to react rather negatively
I think then that means that you are now responsible for the continued economic downturn.
Face it people Obama is a n00b and should resign before his policies turn the United States into some tin pot African Republic just like Kenya.
Dreadnought223 on March 10, 2009 at 2:27 PM
BTW: from cnbc.com:
This 300 point rally is shortlived and based on manipulations on rules that should have never been imposed in the first place. Wait for the end of the day profit taking and see what the trend looks like in a week. The rest of the DOW components are not doing as well.
ChicagoBlues on March 10, 2009 at 2:27 PM
Saul Alinsky’s 12 rules for “radicals”
Saul Alinsky, and his “Rules for Radicals” come up often when the discussion of far left political tactics are in discussion. Obama is said to have studied this book in his early career as a community organizer.
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.
Looks like we can add Mr. Cantor to the ever growing Obama Enemies List:
Limbaugh
Hanitty
Steele
Santilli
Cramer
Cantor
Who will be the next honored member?
DL13 on March 10, 2009 at 2:27 PM
Sure. We have liberated a people from a tyrant, brought democracy and freedom to a dictatorship. That’s not an important accomplishment. Not at all.
On the other hand, spending 700 or 800 billion on projects which don’t kick in til 2010 or later is saving us from our current economic straights? Give me a break.
darii on March 10, 2009 at 2:28 PM
That sounds nasty. Ewwwww.
darii on March 10, 2009 at 2:28 PM
During the time that the bulk of the war money was being spent, the economy was flourishing. If you knew a whit about economic history, military spending always stimulates the economy. Oh, and it’s 550-600 billion for the war (which resulted in the removal of a brutal dictator and the advancement of Iraq to a safe, free state for its people), and 800 billion for the stimulus. Nice attempt at lying about the numbers, though.
MadisonConservative on March 10, 2009 at 2:29 PM
So they play whack-a-mole with various Republicans while the USS America sinks to the bottom of the sea.
Wonderful. If America re-elects Obama, the last shred of faith I have in all of humanity flies out the window.
Grafted on March 10, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Oh snap!
darii on March 10, 2009 at 2:29 PM
… and spending $700 Billion to fix the economy
(which was broken by said failed-war-spendersinsert liberal lie here) is different.You must have cheese between your ears.
capitulus on March 10, 2009 at 2:24 PM
How does the crapulus fix the economy? That’s the $ trillion question of the day. And I’d take head cheese over crotch cheese any day. And I wlll be skipping lunch today, thanks.
chunderroad on March 10, 2009 at 2:30 PM
S
No, it’s not. Spending $700 Billion to get a 3rd world nation in line is nothing to be proud of.
capitulus on March 10, 2009 at 2:30 PM
That’s O Dumb Dumb’s whole defense of his spending. “Look at WWII! We have to spend all this money, since it’s been proven to stimulate the economy!”
chunderroad on March 10, 2009 at 2:31 PM
Only to those opposed to people being freed from the control of a dictator who liked to put people through wood chippers.
…and let me guess. You were calling Bush a dictator the whole time.
MadisonConservative on March 10, 2009 at 2:32 PM
Really? Justice here means nothing? Providing human rights to oppressed peoples means nothing? That’s very cold of you.
Spending 800 on shit stimulus is stupid.
darii on March 10, 2009 at 2:33 PM
It is when they sit on 10% of the world’s oil supply and have a nuclear program, not to mention biological and chemical weapons. Turns out those programs had been suspended, but the UN was small reassurance and Saddam was not a man you could take at his word. The world is well rid of him. Oil will continue to be the dominant energy source for decades to come. It was important to national security to install a friendly regime in that area.
chunderroad on March 10, 2009 at 2:35 PM
You deadenders need to admit that you were just completely wrong about Iraq. No WMD’s, no imminent threat, no Yellow Cake, no Al Qaeda (until we showed up). Not a damn thing but a dictator.
Big deal, there are dictators everywhere. You won the Surge but lost the war.
Mission Accomplished!!
capitulus on March 10, 2009 at 2:36 PM
The sheer idiocy rolling off your keyboard is absolutetly astounding.
Seek help.
You-Eh-Vee on March 10, 2009 at 2:36 PM
By the way, I thought we were citizens of the World. Obama said so. Therefore, aren’t we just helping the citizens of the same place we live in? You’re just a nationalist, I guess. And racist against people from the Middle East.
MadisonConservative on March 10, 2009 at 2:36 PM
What do you have to say about Afghanistan?
chunderroad on March 10, 2009 at 2:36 PM
Btw, notice when the argument gets a little more weighty, getalife lets capitulus do the heavy lifting?
darii on March 10, 2009 at 2:37 PM
The market “rallies” for one day and all the libs who read this blog are throwing “told ya so’s” in our face.
Wow, up almost 300 today! only 2700 to go before you break even from your wonderful start.
Stupid. So when the market tanks back down, which it will, can I throw it in your faces?
I wonder how many of the libs on this board have ever 1) given some of their pay check to a charitable cause or 2) Served our nation in the armed forces or 3) Ever come up with a solution on something instead of b!tc!ng about it. All the libs in my workplace b!tch and complain, yet there is ABSOLUTELY nothing remarkable about their lives. They are also the most miserable people in the office as well. They b!tch about global warming, yet one drives a motorcycle for his hobby, another a SUV. They b!tch about health care, yet when asked if they would like a government solution instead, they can’t answer and make it personal and call me an a$$hole. Their liberal mentalities that promote sex and no responsibility is wonderful in their eyes, as long as it is not their daughters…Imho, they will be the first to go if we cut jobs here, as they are often serving in redundant or “fluff” positions.
Target Cantor. Go ahead. That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
vsunited on March 10, 2009 at 2:37 PM
So the insurgents drove us out? Violence is up? We’ve lost control of areas of Iraq?
Tell us how the war is lost.
MadisonConservative on March 10, 2009 at 2:37 PM
You stole my retort. :(
darii on March 10, 2009 at 2:39 PM
You mean where your idiot Decider should have gone in the first place?? Imagine, 8 years of that fool’s presidency and bin Laden still hasn’t been “smoked out” and “brought to justice”.
capitulus on March 10, 2009 at 2:39 PM
Obama didn’t just read the book–he mastered and taught its tactics in workshops as a community organizer.
The Cult of Alinksy
RepubChica on March 10, 2009 at 2:39 PM
“Get ready for Operation Cantor” is the headline and everybody jumps to attention and carries out the directive. And once again Obama’s objective to divert our attention is carried out successfully.
Helllllooooo????? You don’t even need to buy the clue – it’s free!!!! Get it, will you!!!
Add to that the willingness of so many here to jump on the trolls as soon as they appear – well heck, we need to show off our witty and clever reparte skills now, don’t we – and any chance for reasonable discussion is flushed down the toilet.
Most of you are perfect proof of what Obama and his minions bank on – you have the attention span of a gnat.
marge on March 10, 2009 at 2:40 PM
From the AP 2006:
Saddam said he destroyed them all. He lied.
He also had a nuclear program which the Iraq war commission thoroughly investigated and confirmed. The director of that program Khalid Hamza wrote a book about it published by Scribner’s.
chunderroad on March 10, 2009 at 2:41 PM
speak for yourself, “lady”
runner on March 10, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Let me remind you that Rick Santorum was the ultimate Iraq fan-boy. I remember his desperate little claim about the WMDs right before the midterm elections. No one bought his BS. He still lost – and there still aren’t any WMD’s.
capitulus on March 10, 2009 at 2:44 PM
And the basis for this being bs is what?
darii on March 10, 2009 at 2:45 PM
The Iraq war was not contingent upon finding WMDs. Saddam Hussein was a threat. The region was integral to national security. It was a plan that had been given a great deal of thought and planning.
Furthermore, there was documented and indisputable communication between Iraq and Al Qaeda for a decade before 911. Whether that communication was operational could not be determined.
Charging into the hills in Afghanistan and Pakistan looking for OBL would have been petty, reckless and a waste of our armed forces.
chunderroad on March 10, 2009 at 2:45 PM
you are missing the Octomom thread
runner on March 10, 2009 at 2:46 PM
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Mark Garnett on March 10, 2009 at 2:47 PM
Haha. “Thought” “planning”. That’s good stuff.
capitulus on March 10, 2009 at 2:47 PM
He’s just making it up s he goes along. That’s how the antiwar movement works. Cutesy slogans. Unsubstantiated allegations. Name-calling and insults.
chunderroad on March 10, 2009 at 2:47 PM
So, you don’t believe the PNAC papers mean the evil neocons were behind 911, so they would have a reason to invade Iraq? Glad you’re not that far gone.
chunderroad on March 10, 2009 at 2:49 PM
LOL. +1
chunderroad on March 10, 2009 at 2:50 PM
You said that it would take time for the presidents policies to effect it. So when it goes down it’s still Bush’s fault, but when it goes up it’s obamas credit.
Bush Recession/obama Depression.
hawkdriver on March 10, 2009 at 2:51 PM
Excuse me capitulus,
1) You are dense in regards to the Iraq war. People like you just do not get it. BTW, sister units when I was there, found weapons grade plutonium. It was all over the FM radios. Also, he (Hussein) had to gas the Kurds with something right?
2) The 911 commission report stated that Zarqawi had operations in Iraq, before the US invasion. In fact, he helped plan there. You should try reading it sometime.
3)And we WON the war in Iraq, I do not know what papers or liberal outlets you are reading. Last time I checked, building a SOLID, LEGITIMATE democracy in a part of the world that is not…friendly…towards such things is a remarkable feat. Have you ever experienced something as great as building a democracy where none stood before? Didn’t think so.
vsunited on March 10, 2009 at 2:56 PM
They’ve been doing this since the summer. Remember that DNC “The Next Cheney” page that had “Jewish” in every other paragraph?
It's Vintage, Duh on March 10, 2009 at 3:01 PM
People like Cantor and Rush are Obama enablers. First Rush is a skilled rhetortician, he knows that “wanting him to fail” will just get him more listeners while hurting the conservative movement. He’d rather be Obama’s dancing partner than see a conservative majority in congress. He should have said that his policies are doomed to fail, and he knows a lot better at to the repercussions of using either statement. Cantor is just a plain loser. This is the guy who didn’t vote for the bailout, not because it was a bad bill, but because “Pewosi hurt his wittle feewings”. The mettle of a man is how they act when they are tested and Cantor showed no backbone when it counts. It’s no wonder Obama wants these people as his dancing partners. These guys are just a joke and they’d rather play the game, or keep conservatism just out of reach than actually see us win. It’s more profitable to their cause, reminds me of the Bronx Tale when Sonny said, “don’t give them what they want, just give them enough so that they still need you.”
LevStrauss on March 10, 2009 at 3:02 PM
That is their MO, take an up and coming Republican, turn their life into hell, and out of public life… FIGHT BACK ERIC CANTOR…
reshas1 on March 10, 2009 at 3:04 PM
I’m unwilling to concede a Bush Recession unless we include Democrats for their role in the housing problems and the concomitant lending problems. The GOP tried to introduce some regulation, but Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, Chris Dodd, and too many other Democratic pieces of sh*t would have none of it. Talk about obstructionists. Those idiots allowed feelings to trump economic reality. They’re a national disgrace, and we’re paying the price.
Obama can disclaim the inheritance if he wishes, but his party’s leaders are equal partners in creating it. And Bush had to spend a good chunk for matters directly related to our national security. I, for one, am glad that Bush was spending those dollars rather than either Al Gore or John Kerry. In contrast, Obama spends like an airheaded, Valley Girl shopholic at the mall while the banking sector is going up in flames. Very soon, Obama will no longer be able to blame Bush.
I’m tired of Obama’s whining. It’s unpresidential.
BuckeyeSam on March 10, 2009 at 3:05 PM
The anti war movement is also a joke. Does anybody think you can change anything with paper mache and puppets? That kind of arts and crafts nonsense makes me believe the leadership at the top of their network doesn’t really want to win, just keep the unwashed wrapped around their little finger while they keep them satisfied with their feelgood bread and circuses, stupid stunts and drumcircles.
LevStrauss on March 10, 2009 at 3:06 PM
you are wrong. people like Axelrod and Emanuel are Obama enablers.
runner on March 10, 2009 at 3:08 PM
If he’s our up and comer we are screwed. Being the star of the RPV doesn’t really mean much at the moment, their current crop of talent is garbage right now and its a big part as to why VA is so blue.
LevStrauss on March 10, 2009 at 3:08 PM
Listen, we only live so long, and I don’t feel like living under socialism the rest of my life. Cantor has nothing going for him, he has no spine politically and looks like someone that belongs stuffed in a high school locker. What is he really going to win us?
LevStrauss on March 10, 2009 at 3:11 PM
1)your personal dislike of Cantor does not justify you calling him an obama enabler
2) what exactly are you looking for in a minority whip ?
runner on March 10, 2009 at 3:16 PM
Stock market up nothing but Obama’s policies (which are what?).
Stock market down anything but Obama.
No matter how many times this is tired it gonna sell to people that are thinking.
I do find it sad that the first black president has performed so poorly that there will never be another one.
jukin on March 10, 2009 at 3:16 PM
No matter how many times this is tried it ain’t gonna sell to people that are thinking.
Preview is your friend but only if you use it.
jukin on March 10, 2009 at 3:17 PM
Cantor just needs to keep hammering the message that conservative solutions to righting the economy are the best for the nation. He needs to define those solutions and explain their superiority. He needs to emphasize the irresponsibility of not reining in the deficits and why those deficits stagnate our economy and make us vulnerable.
I like Cantor. He WILL be our next Speaker of the House if we pull our support together and win over the majority in 2010.
I would like for Cantor and those like-minded in the House to convince the Blue Dog Democrats to set aside their political partisanship and work for the good of the country and the opportunities of our capitalist system.
onlineanalyst on March 10, 2009 at 3:18 PM
runner on March 10, 2009 at 3:16 PM
Sorry bud, but if you oppose socialism, the bailout bill was your chance to come clean. Cantor showed that he doesn’t oppose socialism, just that he opposes Pelosi’s attitude problem. This financial crisis and what is going to come out of it is the most important issue that has a direct effect on us, flub it and you don’t deserve to be a leader of the party. So yes, I personally dislike socialism.
LevStrauss on March 10, 2009 at 3:22 PM
Why should today be any different?
Physics Geek on March 10, 2009 at 3:23 PM
How about a cage match between Cantor and Jindal? 230 pounds of combined “conservative” power battling it out! Sarah Palin could be the round card girl!
capitulus on March 10, 2009 at 3:24 PM
Exactly. Obama pays no attention to deficits.
He is HopenChange. Let others clean up the messes, that’s below his pay grade.
Can’t wait to hear President Romney or Palin talk about what he/she inherited.
Steve Z on March 10, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Despite Jindal’s goofy speech after the faux-State of the Union, though I don’t think I’ve ever seen a good one of those, I still like him. He’s good in debates and not buzzword good, but reasoned conservative explanation good. Yet I think Palin, though I don’t like her dumbed down personna, could probably whip both of them in a fight, even though Cantor looks like he could run fast, I think he might saunter away unscathed.
LevStrauss on March 10, 2009 at 3:28 PM
a theoretical opposition to a failed economic/social philosophy is fine and dandy, “bud”, but when you do not have the votes..you don’t have them.
runner on March 10, 2009 at 3:29 PM
capitulus on March 10, 2009 at 3:24 PM
Ok, you have conservative in quotes. I was wondering how the hell Jindal looked like he was 230 lbs.
LevStrauss on March 10, 2009 at 3:30 PM
runner on March 10, 2009 at 3:29 PM
What does the number of votes have to do with his position? It was a Dem Congress, he didn’t have to pass jack.
LevStrauss on March 10, 2009 at 3:32 PM
Combined those 2 AV Club veterans come in at 230. I think Jindal’s power move should be to use his scrawny, pointy elbows as weapons. You’ll see Cantor cry as hard as the time Nancy Pelosi offended him on TARP!
capitulus on March 10, 2009 at 3:37 PM
I am only a recent addition to the list of posters here at HA. That out of the way, is there some long standing tradition here at HA, or something that I missed in the terms of use that says we have to let obvious idiots like getalife and his band of merry pederasts hijack nearly every thread on this site? I have never seen a site whose members ignore
all useful methodsthe only useful method for dealing with trolls: ignoring them. Yet some people seemingly cannot resist an opportunity to engage in wasteful, screen-hogging dialogue with these eminently stupid and illogical tools from the left. You are giving them two things that are exactly in accordance with their goals: attention (what any decent basement-dweller pines for) and a distraction from the issue at hand.They consistently bastardize, hijack, and attack any thread on HA, and drag some posters into dialogue with them, and then proceed to begin discussions on completely irrelevant subjects.
I will be the first to admit that watching DTMH getting a Reagan-esque Qadaffi smackdown is highly entertaining. But even these schadenfreude moments still give the troll exactly what they want(see above).
Or am I completely wrong and the old-timers here at HA have tried this in the past and, unlike any other website, “not feeding the troll” doesn’t work? Am I in violation of HA posting etiquette by suggesting these things? Quit letting them steer the direction of the conversation. I mean, I saw a post earlier where the trolls hadn’t even shown up on the thread, yet there were HA posters wondering “why getalife hadn’t shown up yet”. WTH? Do you actually need to verbally spar with a mental midget to justify your posts? If this is the case, someone let me know! I can try this method out for myself (although I am going to take the liberty of preemptively questioning its effectiveness).
Thanks,
Not A Professor of Comparative Philology
TASS71 on March 10, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Heh…glad to see you can be funny without resorting to offensive ethnic stereotypes.
As for Cantor, I really don’t know why team Obama would be spending their resources trying to undermine him…I honestly don’t see him as a conservative threat. What about Mike Pence?
RepubChica on March 10, 2009 at 3:42 PM
Trolls do tend to dominate this site more than at other sites, in my experience.
I agree with your strategy.
Y-not on March 10, 2009 at 3:55 PM
Still waiting to hear how the Iraq War is lost.
MadisonConservative on March 10, 2009 at 3:56 PM
Welcome! Good post. Feel free to speak your mind around here. You’re right in a way, but I can’t agree completely because I’m guilty of engaging…with that said, I’m glad they allow the other viewpoint here so we can respond and demonstrate the flaw in their “logic”.
LoL…you know @ Dkos they pounce on you right away and tell you up front that their website is for Dem n Lib discussion only, to beat it. If not, you’re hit with 1,000 troll marks and automatically ejected. @ HuffPost you can’t get past the moderators and on it goes.
I admit the conversation does get somewhat railroaded at times on some threads.
RepubChica on March 10, 2009 at 4:01 PM
The attack on Cantor is actually a lot slower than I had expected. I thought he was going to get fried right after the initial TARP failure in the House.
Otis B on March 10, 2009 at 4:06 PM
Eric Cantor looks like he might be Rich Lowry’s older brother.
If anyone looks and sounds like a beta male, it’s this guy.
BigD on March 10, 2009 at 4:06 PM
Yeah, but that’s not trolling. Expressing a differing viewpoint relevant to the topic of the thread and backing it up with thoughtful arguments is not trolling. As someone said earlier (I think it was rockmom) the quality of the posts of our 2009 variety of trolls is akin to what a computer program might generate. They are short, off-topic snipes designed to irritate, not reasoned arguments about the topic.
I find that the sites where the hosts/posters are actively involved in the discussion threads and/or have clear ban-hammer policies have far fewer trolls.
Y-not on March 10, 2009 at 4:06 PM
Do you actually need to verbally spar with a mental midget to justify your posts? If this is the case, someone let me know! I can try this method out for myself (although I am going to take the liberty of preemptively questioning its effectiveness).
Thanks,
Not A Professor of Comparative Philology
TASS71 on March 10, 2009 at 3:37 PM
I totally agree with you. Sometimes they get so stupid however, that is is hard not to do a smack down.
duff65 on March 10, 2009 at 4:07 PM
BetseyRoss on March 10, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Eric Cantor is the next president of the United States.
Jayrae on March 10, 2009 at 4:16 PM
Why is it that we know every evil socialist dictator, or, pretty much any dictator/totalitarian lies about everything, but we know that the Won is always telling the truth to power? Give me a break here. The Won is a lying communist wannabe dictator and he is going to prove it to everybody pretty darn soon.
Help the economy–buy a gun.
TimothyJ on March 10, 2009 at 4:16 PM
What the Iraq war accomplished was to get rid of a ruthless Dictator who killed thousands, probably more like a million people over his entire “rein”, and establish a Democracy right in the heart of a violent and “terror” prone Region. Our military did in fact find chemical weapons as someone in an above post so accurately pointed out.
The interesting thing to me is, the Dems in Congress supported the war and the reasons for going into Iraq until we started having some problems, which typically occur in all wars. Had the President been a Democrat instead of Republican, you and your party, except for the most passive of Libs, would have been gun ho! You did not like it because it was not supported by your Lib friends in the UN, and because your Ilk hates the US Military. You hate it now even more now because you know it was successful after Bush turned things around, and you hate Bush.
Oh, one more note; Why do you and getalife even post on this site? I guess you enjoy being the jacka***sses of the site and all the attention you get. No wonder you like Obama so much, you are both narcissists just like him!
Susanboo on March 10, 2009 at 4:24 PM
These people are scum, aren’t they? Instead of looking for someone to trash, how about they do their damn jobs?
therightwinger on March 10, 2009 at 4:24 PM
You probably would have said that about Newt Gingrich in 1993. College professor, high pitched voice, no military service, etc. etc.
rockmom on March 10, 2009 at 4:28 PM
Liberals believe in their own superiority – that’s why they love welfare and giving the “less fortunate” government money, all the while they actually despise the “lower classes”. But Cantor and anyone with superior intellect – Rush, Mitt, Ann Coulter for example – and Eric Cantor, well these people don’t need welfare. That bothers Liberals – so like ants at a picnic, they set off to destroy them………sort of funny once you know how Liberal think – sort of scary when you realize they now control the House, the Senate and the White House.
Cinday Blackburn on March 10, 2009 at 4:30 PM
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