The Thing that Used to be Conservatism
…that it promoted him to Executive Director of the South Carolina GOP:Oh, but that’s not all:A number of media outlets detailed a range of inflammatory messages he posted to his Twitter account[11][12] in 2013, which include mocking Florida shooting victim Trayvon Martin[13] and saying that transgendered people should be placed in a concentration-style camp.[2][14][15] He also posted to his Twitter account…
Read MoreYou can’t get me far enough away from this lunacy fast enough:“The former general counsel and executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party is coming under fire for the novel solutions to the Ebola epidemic he is posting on Twitter.The vehemently pro-life Todd Kincannon began by arguing that anyone who contracts Ebola should be…
Read More…on the lamentable state of the Thing that Used to Be Conservatism.Heretic-burning “conservatism” can only conceive of criticism as an attack by Outsiders since it is obsessed with trying purge heretics and can no longer conceive of anyone critiquing it because they want a better conservatism.Without a better conservatism, we will get, forever, dumbells like…
Read MoreDear Thing that Used to Be Conservatism: This is why people hate you.
Read More…to the despicable cynicism of this despicable man. First, he betrays Middle Eastern Christians for the sake of a fund-raising ploy. Now he declares that his critics don’t care about Christians.If the Thing that Used to be Conservatism supports this creep for President they will lose, lose bad, and deserve the beating they get.Update: Cruz…
Read MoreThose Republicans you voted for in the Most Important Election of our Lifetime? The ones you *screamed* at me for failing to support and told me that I, personally, have the blood of millions of babies on my hands? Those guys?They just voted–again–to fund Planned Parenthood–not to mention Syrian rebel (aka Al Quaida).Next time, don’t…
Read MoreA reader nicely sums up the latest nonsense from the FOX Ministry of Truth:Obama has too much power, is breaking the constitution, and is waging a war on Christians.We should give him the power to put enemies of the state in concentration camps based solely on their religion.Also, don’t forget that we all need to…
Read MoreThe infallible charism of Wrongness again asserts itself, this time in favor of, y’know, suggesting a course of action for Muslims on our shores. It is, notably, the same network that for years hosted the paranoid rantings of Glenn Beck and rumors about FEMA concentration camps, as well as Sean Hannity’s games of footsie with…
Read MoreBe a political figure and post this:Then, by way of apology to your Missouri constituents, explain that “at one time I was a very active Republican”.No. Really:Here’s the thing, Mr. Tinsley. Good job attempting the apology. I think your heart was in the right place and that you are sorry. But when you feel compelled…
Read MoreIn the ongoing metamorphoses of the Thing that Used to be Conservatism into a social movement that manages to get almost everything wrong, here is one of its Shapers of “Thought” hoping against hope that America would just grab the One Ring, and transform itself into a mass-murdering Communist despotism (and the one with more blood…
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