According to Michael Gerson, a former top aide to President George W. Bush as assistant to the president for policy and strategic planning.

Quote:The conservative mind, in some very visible cases, has become diseased. The movement has been seized by a kind of discrediting madness, in which conspiracy delusions figure prominently. Institutions and individuals that once served an important ideological role, providing a balance to media bias, are discrediting themselves in crucial ways. With the blessings of a president, they have abandoned the normal constraints of reason and compassion. They have allowed political polarization to reach their hearts, and harden them. They have allowed polarization to dominate their minds, and empty them.

The conservative mind has become diseased

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Some people think a cucumber tastes better pickled!

We have the House, Senate, Whitehouse, Supreme Court.

#Winning

Or in other words...................The Tea Party

Yep, we were delusional that Trump could win the election. Ooops.

Yep, we were delusional that Trump would act on his conservative platform. Ooops

Yep, we were delusional Trump would implement a highly skilled and conservative cabinet. Ooops.

Yep, we were delusional that Trump would appoint a conservatice SC justice. Ooops.

Yep, we were delusional about our conspiracy theory on Obamas wiretapping. Oh wait, that was proven true by the FISA court. Oooops

Nice...2 posts in and already the author has been proven correct.

(05-26-2017 09:24 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  Yep, we were delusional that Trump could win the election. Ooops.

Yep, we were delusional that Trump would act on his conservative platform. Ooops

Yep, we were delusional Trump would implement a highly skilled and conservative cabinet. Ooops.

Yep, we were delusional that Trump would appoint a conservatice SC justice. Ooops.

Yep, we were delusional about our conspiracy theory on Obamas wiretapping. Oh wait, that was proven true by the FISA court. Oooops

(05-26-2017 09:27 AM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  

(05-26-2017 09:24 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  Yep, we were delusional that Trump could win the election. Ooops.

Yep, we were delusional that Trump would act on his conservative platform. Ooops

Yep, we were delusional Trump would implement a highly skilled and conservative cabinet. Ooops.

Yep, we were delusional that Trump would appoint a conservatice SC justice. Ooops.

Yep, we were delusional about our conspiracy theory on Obamas wiretapping. Oh wait, that was proven true by the FISA court. Oooops

You do realize that nothing he posted speaks to the point made by the writer, don't you?

Who has the disease? Democrats look like they're going extinct.





http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/14...-governors

Quote:Republicans have total control over 25 states outright and another two where they can override a Democratic governor’s vetoes. These 27 states cover 56 percent of the population. Meanwhile, Democrats have total control outright in a mere six states and veto-proof majorities to override a Republican governor in just two more. These eight Democratic-controlled states add up to only 19 percent of the population, or roughly one-third as much as Republicans control.

Democrats

The writer seems disappointed that my deplorable vote counts just as much as those of the smart, curious, perpetually honest disease free people of the Beltway deep state.

Sorry, Michael. We know that this is just a way for you to signal that you can co-exist with the “right sort” of people– you know, the type that thinks exactly like you do - and that this article is a clever way of signifying of a certain kind of Beltway credibility.

Hopefully you get that Democrat Party or Never-Trumper cocktail party invite you are angling for here......

Now Conservatism is a disease? Another justification for snuffing it out with brute force?

(05-26-2017 09:36 AM)Hood-rich Wrote:  

Flock of Seagulls lose a band member?

(05-26-2017 09:30 AM)Hood-rich Wrote:  Who has the disease? Democrats look like they're going extinct.





http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/14...-governors

Quote:Republicans have total control over 25 states outright and another two where they can override a Democratic governor’s vetoes. These 27 states cover 56 percent of the population. Meanwhile, Democrats have total control outright in a mere six states and veto-proof majorities to override a Republican governor in just two more. These eight Democratic-controlled states add up to only 19 percent of the population, or roughly one-third as much as Republicans control.

Democrats

I love it when conservatives point to a map as proof that they are still popular when everyone knows that popularity comes from the people and not from the land.

People inhabit the land ...

Tom, do you realize that the same can be said for what the progressives have done to the democrats and liberals right? Once again this is not a conservative / liberal thing. It's a modern era thing.

The reason the dems have been booted from power at most every level is not because of some conservative mental disease, it's because they've had their own for 15 years (progressiveness) and they have refused to act on it.

(It's OK to trim out or not quote a post if it has a lot of pictures in it. Really. It's OK. Seriously.)

Quote:The Hannity right, without evidence, accused Rich rather than the Russians of leaking damaging DNC emails.

Quote:Who is the politician who legitimized conspiracy thinking at the highest level?

Joseph McCarthy, Al Green, Maxine Waters, John Lewis, Nancy Pelosi...

Quote:Who raised the possibility that Ted Cruz’s father might have been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy?

The National Inquirer

Quote:Who hinted that Hillary Clinton might have been involved in the death of Vince Foster, or that unnamed liberals might have killed Justice Antonin Scalia?

William Richie

Quote:Who not only questioned President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, but raised the prospect of the murder of a Hawaiian state official in a coverup?

Hillary Clinton's campaign, circa 2007

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...008/37952/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...r-movement

(05-26-2017 09:45 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(05-26-2017 09:30 AM)Hood-rich Wrote:  



http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/14...-governors

I love it when conservatives point to a map as proof that they are still popular when everyone knows that popularity comes from the people and not from the land.

All of that was determined by a popular votes, dumb***. You really are a dumb*** btw, I regret nothing.

(05-26-2017 09:45 AM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(05-26-2017 09:30 AM)Hood-rich Wrote:  Who has the disease? Democrats look like they're going extinct.





http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/14...-governors

Quote:Republicans have total control over 25 states outright and another two where they can override a Democratic governor’s vetoes. These 27 states cover 56 percent of the population. Meanwhile, Democrats have total control outright in a mere six states and veto-proof majorities to override a Republican governor in just two more. These eight Democratic-controlled states add up to only 19 percent of the population, or roughly one-third as much as Republicans control.

Democrats

I love it when conservatives point to a map as proof that they are still popular when everyone knows that popularity comes from the people and not from the land.

I love it when liberals always point to popular vote as proof that more people wanted Hillary as President when everyone knows that the President is elected from the electoral vote, not from popularity.

(05-26-2017 09:31 AM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  The writer seems disappointed that my deplorable vote counts just as much as those of the smart, curious, perpetually honest disease free people of the Beltway deep state.

Sorry, Michael. We know that this is just a way for you to signal that you can co-exist with the “right sort” of people– you know, the type that thinks exactly like you do - and that this article is a clever way of signifying of a certain kind of Beltway credibility.

Hopefully you get that Democrat Party or Never-Trumper cocktail party invite you are angling for here......

Sounds just like the Democrats, upset they didn't get their way.

Trump didn't get nominated by the conservatives in the party. His supporters aren't particularly ideological. Its the never-Trumper conservatives who are diseased-people like Kristol. Just filled with hatred, kind of like a lot of Democrats.

Trump won. The Democrat's candidate didn't. The writer's didn't. My preferred ones didn't. Its still President Trump.

A highly contagious disease it seems...