Every week on ABC, it seems, Will feels the need to point out that they'll tell you "what kind of car you can buy." He's apparently obsessed with the automotive options that will be presented to him several years hence. Good thing there's an alternative to the "nanny-state socialism" of the Democrats, the freedom-loving, freedom-granting, Republican party.
Who you can marry
It's their signature issue. Freedom. Freedom from an expansive, market-squelching, overreaching state that's going to take all your choices, squeeze and mold you into a party-planned drone.
What kind of medicines you can buy
The teabaggers were not Republican per se, just average Americans concerned about the onerous, grinding tax burden that steals the sweat of your brow to buy frivolous things like roads and bridges. Not partisan per se, but we all know which party stands for limited government, which of course means more freedom.
What kind of magazinesyou can buy
El Rushbo talks about it daily--it's the bulk of his show. The way the socialists are keeping TARP banks from buying new planes, telling Chrysler how much ad time they can buy. Mind you, they're not informing decisions of companies that haven't taken billions of our dollars--at least not yet. ((Cue sinister organ music)) Thank God that the R's are there to counteract the expansive reach of the current government.
What kind of musicyou can listen to
Its not particularly insightful, to point out the blatant hypocrisy of the right. The Faustian deal the economic conservatives made with the American Taliban. The poor saps they gladly take money and votes from over "even-year" issues while they continue their real deal of comforting the comfortable. Its so obvious as to be almost trite---at least to people on this site. But truisms aren't necessarily untrue--sometimes they bear repeating.
What your medical options are
Because it's obviously not obvious to everyone. They still say it. "The Party of Freedom". They still must get traction, still must get mileage.
What your medical options are
And we let. Of course we let them. When it comes to optics, when it comes to frames, when it comes to shaping debate, we're as polite as Canadians. Of course they can be laid back--they have health care.
What your medical options are
We're very accommodating. When Will starts waxing poetic about buying a Hemi, do any of our panelists laugh out loud? Of course not. Do they point out, between tears of hysterics: "You called a special session of the United States Congress to involve the Federal government in one family's --one family's!--private medical tragedy!!!! The intrusiveness ship has sailed, bucko." Perish the thought. We may be sociali-fascists --you'd think that would be an oxymoron, but evidently it's not -- but we're unfailingly polite.
What your medical options are
Freedom is why I became--why I am--a Democrat. My political awakening was a book I read 16 years ago, as a Junior in high school, about consensual crimes. It's my issue. The party of Adam Smith and the free market runs smack dab into the wall of the three P --Pot, Porn, and Pros. And wanna hear a funny?--I don't even use them. (Well, mebbe the middle one.) Just the thought of a fine-line distinction between dinner and the price of dinner always seemed funny to me--is there anything that defines the free market more than an basic exchange of goods for service between two consenting adults?
What you can smoke
Again-- nothing you don't already know. The bulk of this site is posts about club from growth primaries and the basic schism between Free Marketers and the American Taliban that is essentially statist--that wants the gummint to dictate who you can marry, what you can read, and whose signature you need if your stepfather rapes you. But SRSLY, don't let them. Laugh in their face when they use their rallying cry of "FREEDOM". Point out the fundamental dichotomy of the party that illegally listened to your phone calls and put undercover G-men in with Quakers pretending to be, in any way, shape, or form, limited.
What access to contraceptives, education, and family planning you have
If I get irrevocably ill, am I forced to linger as an emotion and financial drain on my loved ones, whatever my wishes? "Party of Freedom" my ass--access to medicine, who I can marry, end of life issues, whether and how many kids I have. These are not trivial issues. These are BIG issues. Those aren't the asterisks on my pursuit of happiness--they ARE my frakkin happiness.
Again--obvious to the point of trite. But why don't we USE it? The opposition's key, primary message is basically, fundamentally flawed. Shout it from the rooftops. Laugh in their face whenever they speak.
Laugh at them a lot.
A whole lot.