Tony Perkins on the election November 7, 2008
Posted by Evil Bender in News and politics, bigotry, wingnuts.trackback
You just knew he was going to say something incredibly Orwellian, and he didn’t disappoint:
“There was clearly no mandate to shift the country to the left on social issues,” Perkins said. “What Tuesday was, was a fact that people wanted change, and it’s a rejection of a moderate view.”
That’s right, folks, Perkins just claimed that people voted for Obama and more Democrats in congress because they want more conservatism! Brilliant. He’s a fucking genius!
God, watching wingnuts squirm at the results of the election has been truly beautiful.
More Perkins below the fold:
“Moderates never beat conservatives. We’ve seen that in past elections,” he said.
Rejecting suggestions that the conservative movement was viewed as being out of touch with the electorate, Perkins says the Republican Party needs to go back to basics.
“It’s a return to fundamental conservative principles that Ronald Reagan showed work and that people can be attracted to,” Perkins said.
Dear Republicans: please, please, PLEASE follow Perkins (and Rove’s, and Limbaugh’s, etc.) advice and shift even further to the right: progressively label yourself as the anti-choice, anti-regulation, anti-effective government, pro-trickle-down party.
Please continue to marginalize yourselves into a regional party run by bigoted Bible-thumpers and Rand’s desperate disciples. Whatever you do, don’t realize that the social conservative base of your party is toxic, and that they’ll continue to drive you further out of touch with the American mainstream.
While you’re busy with all that, the rest of us will keep working on that whole “more perfect union” thing, unencumbered, finally, by any chance you’ll be able to appeal to moderate voters.
Wingnuts are doing more to destroy the Republican party than every moderate and liberal in the country combined. And it’s damn hillarious to watch!
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The cannibalism that is going on within the party is Freakin HYSTERICAL! It’s so fun to watch them point fingers, spin the win, freak out and blame each other.
Of Note: I made a bet with a GOP friend. He SWORE–and was really really really certain that Obama would NOT win the presidency. We made a bet of .50 and a Beer. Yesterday, I collected. He didn’t have .50 (he did have the beer) so he gave me a dollar and said “KEEP IT, SO YOU”LL SHUT UP”. I said, “thanks!” kept .25 for myself, put .25 towards the beer fund (infrastructure) then gave two quarters to my Dem friends and said,
“There. I spread the wealth!”
Awesome! So much fun.
On a related note: less than two years ago, a conservative acquaintance of mine, concern-trolling, said that due to the huge increase in the Hispanic population, America would never have a Black president. Hilarious! Unfortunately, I didn’t get a beer out of that.
I know, like any other politician, I’ll be disappointed at times by President Obama. But it’s nice to know that even at his worst he’ll be infinitely better than the jackasses who have been running this country for the last eight years.
We had a female Bushite coworker here at work freak out when someone brought in a Hope cake (which was clearly picking on the Obama fanatics by saying, “You can have your cake and eat it too!” in a fun fashion).
I was in my office when I heard the table go crashing. I go out, and she’s kicking cake all over the walls, crying and screaming. Everyone around her is standing there, morbid and unable to do anything out of shock. She’s screaming, “YOU GOD DAMN FUCKING LIBERAL ASSHOLES FUCKING RUINING MY AMERICA” and “THIS FUCKING COUNTRY IS GOING TO DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH.”
At this point, she tries to start a fistfight with one of other female coworkers she knows voted for Obama, tearing a nice blouse. “YOUR GOING TO BURN IN HELL! JESUS WILL STRIKE YOU DOWN!”
At this point, I stepped in and took her by the elbow. She turned, and fucking bit me! I let her go, picked up the phone to call Security and said, “Your employment is terminated, effective immediately.” Security said they’d send someone up ASAP. Meanwhile, she grabbed a big paperweight and tried to throw it through my office window.
Security dragged her out, hysterically crying and screaming. She kicked one, and the security manager there said she’d be hearing from their lawyers for assault. They literally pitched her into the parking lot and she stood there ranting for another 10 minutes before she leapt in her car and sped off.
It’s like … all the NeoCons have suddenly let their brains and restraint fall out. They tried to remind everyone on TV how the liberals were going to riot and throw tantrums when they didn’t win the election, and here I am, watching a crazy fucking lady try go bananas in the middle of a professional IT corporate environment.
What a bunch of sore losers.
What a fine display of Christian love.
I will happily burn in hell just to avoid the true believers.