These Republicans are finished if they don’t support global warming and gun control
Republican politicians today have a choice: either change your base by educating and leading G.O.P. voters back to the center-right from the far right, or start a new party that is more inclusive, focused on smaller but smarter government and market-based, fact-based solutions to our biggest problems.
But if Republicans continue to be led around by, and live in fear of, a base that denies global warming after Hurricane Sandy and refuses to ban assault weapons after Sandy Hook — a base that would rather see every American’s taxes rise rather than increase taxes on millionaires — the party has no future. It can’t win with a base that is at war with math, physics, human biology, economics and common-sense gun laws all at the same time.
Do you know how troubled this party is? Two weeks ago, the former G.O.P. Senate majority leader Bob Dole, a great American, went to the Senate floor in his wheelchair to show his support for Senate ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of People With Disabilities. Nevertheless, the bill failed to win the two-thirds needed for ratification, because only eight Republicans dared to join Democrats in support of the treaty, which was negotiated and signed by George W. Bush!
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Surrender, gotcha.
Well you heard the man, lets all just lay out in the street and die.
Gatsu on December 23, 2012 at 11:24 AM
Says the man who lives in NYC, thinks Bloomy is God, and has never seen a gun in his life.
upinak on December 23, 2012 at 11:24 AM
So unless the Republicans go full liberal they are done.
Frank Enstine on December 23, 2012 at 11:24 AM
These republicans are finished if they listen to the media.
jaydee_007 on December 23, 2012 at 11:25 AM
Does anyone take this guy seriously anymore?
Blake on December 23, 2012 at 11:26 AM
So the two touchstone agenda goals of the Left are both lies. Gun control will result in more violence, not less and AGW policies will result in poverty and death. However both policies will dramatically increase the power of the State.
Got it.
iconoclast on December 23, 2012 at 11:26 AM
The straw is strong.
It is clear he does not get it.
CW on December 23, 2012 at 11:28 AM
Pssst sir they had such a law in Conn.
CW on December 23, 2012 at 11:28 AM
And how thoroughly thankful I am that they didn’t promote the ADA to the UN level of Treaty so we would never be able to employ common sense in this country again.
Bob (Let’s Make A Deal) Dole is hardly the example that the Republican Party wants to follow if they want to be viable ever again.
2010 and Read My Lips are the lessons for Republicans to learn if they ever want to be of consequence again.
jaydee_007 on December 23, 2012 at 11:29 AM
JetBoy on December 23, 2012 at 11:30 AM
I’m gonna figure out a way to ignite all these tires and car batteries soaked in gas with my AR, Tom.
You may need another martini.
wolly4321 on December 23, 2012 at 11:32 AM
It’d be real interesting to see how often this a$$hole referred to Bob Dole as ‘A Great American’ in days gone by…
BigWyo on December 23, 2012 at 11:33 AM
Tom Friedman –
1) Government of the Elite, For the Elite and By the Elite
2) Governance at the People, to the people and on the people.
Oh, yes, that sounds like a fundemental change!
jaydee_007 on December 23, 2012 at 11:33 AM
Happiness is a warm gun and a cool globe.
Pork-Chop on December 23, 2012 at 11:34 AM
And here all along I thought GOPers marched in lock step.
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Friedman needs to read more….
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/12/17/connecticut-gun-laws-among-the-nations-strictest/
CW on December 23, 2012 at 11:34 AM
I wonder has Tom sold his house yet?
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/013868.html
CW on December 23, 2012 at 11:36 AM
Yeah, right, when you downsize your house to the size of mine and refuse all use of armed security, dude.
Science shows no evidence that Sandy was caused by AGW. I’ll go with the science on this one.
juliesa on December 23, 2012 at 11:36 AM
And depopulate the planet.
Stu Gotts on December 23, 2012 at 11:36 AM
Yeh one would think that if you are going to rant on about how the GOP base doesn’t believe in science one would not write such crap.
CW on December 23, 2012 at 11:37 AM
Republicans are finished if they don’t support global warming
hokus pokus and gun control mesmerism – by Tom Friedbrain
The News of the GOP demise,
is greatly exaggerated
by Obummer ass kissers
and ChiCom wannabees
“Let’s Roll”
On Watch on December 23, 2012 at 11:38 AM
Tom, you’re intermingling 2 diff issues. On global warming, yes, the dem base have been brainwashed into thinking that its real. So your stridency is valid. But gun control? Thats a far left agenda. When you couch it in a demure way, the dem base might acknowledge it, but not actively vote for such measures. But Cuomo’s solution? In that case, 2010 would be like a picnic compared to 2014, for the dems. The dirty secret is that there are millions of dems who like their guns. Try that, Tom, and you overreach, and lose.
tommy71 on December 23, 2012 at 11:44 AM
Start a shower. Get it nice and hot.
Then spend a few minutes reading the raving lunatics in the comment section of this article. Most of them make Freeman look sane.
Now run for the shower and lots of soap.
Cecil on December 23, 2012 at 11:48 AM
I’ve counted around five logical fallacies that could apply to that sentence. Not that you need to think about it that much to realize it’s one of the dumbest things ever written.
RadClown on December 23, 2012 at 11:48 AM
If Cuomo goes with a ‘confiscate’ option..I think Tom should be the first one to knock on a door.
BigWyo on December 23, 2012 at 11:49 AM
The Republican party is not currently far right. It is barely right of center, and the only reason that is the case is because the Democrats have effectively moved the left about twice as far as it was possible just 6 years ago.
astonerii on December 23, 2012 at 11:54 AM
I thought we all had to be like Communist China.
And a second thought, if Friedman thinks the GOP is finished, it must mean that it still has a lot to go for it.
Thanks, Tom!
Wethal on December 23, 2012 at 11:55 AM
Pretty much par for the course for Tom and many of his fans.
CW on December 23, 2012 at 12:01 PM
Not to worry tom, at the sotu where bho comes in and everyone(r’s/d’s/i’s) there will be clapping like trained seals and does so every time bho opens his mouth! The r’s know bho will slam them for the ‘cliff’ thing, but still they will jump up and clap? They are a bunch of hypocrites! bho even slammed the SC Justices at a sotu address for crying out loud!
It sorta reminds me of that little nk worm and everyone around for miles claps at his every move, words, or deed everytime bho does anything!
L
letget on December 23, 2012 at 12:04 PM
Tom Friedman?
There’s a wall for that.
tom daschle concerned on December 23, 2012 at 12:12 PM
I stopped here — he wasn’t going to come up with anything more accurate later. Although, it may be fun to go back and find out herer he thinks “we need to go”…
affenhauer on December 23, 2012 at 12:14 PM
The paranoid part of me thinks 0bama will use the SotU to incite a modern Kristallnacht.
cozmo on December 23, 2012 at 12:16 PM
need a better
spellcheekspellcheck…affenhauer on December 23, 2012 at 12:17 PM
Shorter version of Friedman article: “Kneel before Zod!”
tbrosz on December 23, 2012 at 12:18 PM
I want to end the kind of bargains and policies that got us where we are. We are not in a place that bodes well for the future.
Earlier I was thinking that what we need is advice from someone who thinks that Communist China is a proper model for government. /
I expect it and I’m prepared for it. I hope I’m wrong.
single stack on December 23, 2012 at 12:22 PM
Guess which area Bass Pro Shop was the busiest yesterday here in California. The gun area. I know, I know, the easy access to guns and ammo must have caused someone to start shooting. Maybe it was the Christmas spirit, but no one was shot. They even had kids sitting with Santa near the guns. And yet, no guns forced someone to go on a rampage. I was lucky to get out alive.
Howcome on December 23, 2012 at 12:23 PM
Whoa.
The left is that anti-science?
rogerb on December 23, 2012 at 12:27 PM
Dream on, Bubble Boy. GOP might be finished, but it won’t be for not supporting gun control and your CO2 global warming theory.
Friedman: To win, you must be like us.
But last time I checked the polls, we were on the winning side of both issues.
Living in a bubble has its drawbacks, eh Tom.
petefrt on December 23, 2012 at 12:28 PM
It ain’t a bubble.
Its a pus filled cyst that must be cut out and disposed of.
cozmo on December 23, 2012 at 12:33 PM
Friedman’s dream jobs are driving the organ-harvesting van and sending bills to execution victims’ families for the bullets. He’d be very happy if Republicans were exterminated in service of Democrats’ Great Leap FORWARD!
Christien on December 23, 2012 at 12:36 PM
Liberals wonder why we are so tired of them trying to control everything we do and have.
They tell how to live, what we have to eat, what we have to drive, where we can farm, they take state and private land and amongst a hundred other things they never compromise … on anything.
Now they want our fuel and our guns.
When will they understand we don’t believe them, we don’t trust them, and the tighter the grip the more guns we will buy.
darwin on December 23, 2012 at 12:39 PM
Well, if that’s what they want to do. Why not just disband the party and join the other side.
JellyToast on December 23, 2012 at 12:42 PM
I’ve never understood the appeal of Friedman. His intellect appeals to the simple minded that are unable to think for themselves and respond to the big words he uses that meke them believe he is smart. He has made a fortune as a partisan hack exploiting those who follow him so I guess he can’t be as stupid as he sounds.
Ellis on December 23, 2012 at 12:57 PM
Not long ago I read about organ harvesting in China.
If they want the prisoner’s heart they shoot him (or her) in the right side of the chest so the heart won’t be damaged. Unless there is an order for the lungs prisoners to be harvested are never shot in the head because they always take the corneas and a head shot might damage them.
It isn’t unusual for the prisoner to still be alive when they start removing the heart, and it’s usually not the first organ harvested.
Not all prisoners are harvested because with the volume of executions in China they can afford to be selective.
Friedman thinks we should emulate such monsters. The unspeakable evil of this man is sickening.
single stack on December 23, 2012 at 1:02 PM
Easy there, don’t want to irk our resident ChiComophile, DarkCurrent.
Christien on December 23, 2012 at 1:07 PM
I never heard him defend the bad policies that China has.
DarkCurrent has been fair and very insightful.
cozmo on December 23, 2012 at 1:15 PM
Oh, OK. I’ll take your word for it. LOL.
Christien on December 23, 2012 at 1:19 PM
Sir. You see the destroyed homes of those on Staten Island, and the dead, the corpses, and lives destroyed. You see pictures of the dead children of Sandy Hook (I have pix if you want … dead children, with their eyes open. Look into their eyes). And yet you deny what you see, what you see with your own eyes. You deny the truth of global warming, and the need for gun control? Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
Paul-Cincy on December 23, 2012 at 1:21 PM
Don’t do that. When has DarkCurrent defended the bad policies over there?
cozmo on December 23, 2012 at 1:31 PM
You sure know how to stomp on a Jets fan when they are down.
Come to think of it, when is a Jets fan not down?
cozmo on December 23, 2012 at 1:32 PM
Go back and re-read his comments. Dude went native long ago, IMO.
Christien on December 23, 2012 at 1:34 PM
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