Specter Strikes Again
Written by William Mulgrew on October 24th, 2006Everyone’s favorite RINO came to my school, Drexel University, yesterday morning. I had to cover it for my newspaper, The Evening Bulletin. You can read what he had to say here, but let me sum it up for you.
*We’re ugly Americans and the solution to the North Korea and Iran situations is to show the countries more respect and dignity.
*We need to spend $7 billion more in education.
*Funding for the National Institute of Health should be incrased from $12 to $29 billion.
*Stem cell research is the “available fountain of youth.”
*Cancer would have been cured had we appropriated more in research in the 1970s.
*The Constitutional right of habeas corpus should apply to enemy combatants like prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
*Election Day should be held on Sunday, but not Saturday mind you because that’s a Jewish religious day.
*The president should be elected by popular vote [conservative translation: liberal cities get to choose the president.]
*Public policy should be controlled by moderates, and not “extremists.”
*Independents should be able to vote in party primaries so moderates like himself and Lincoln Chafee shouldn’t be threatened by “extremists.”
*The best of all, you waited for it: the definition of a moderate is someone with an “open mind.”
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That is disgusting. Thanks to Bush and the GOP we can proudly call him a member of our party! Santorum must hate looking in the mirror.
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Wait I just thought of a great idea that I am sure the RNC would jump all over! We could find liberals like Specter all over the country and run them as Republicans, that way we would be assured of total control of both houses of congress and the presidency. Then we could introduce all of the conservative measures that have been promised to us since 1994, of course we wouldn’t have the votes to pass any of them . . .
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Just when I think I could not get any madder today, you had to go post this. I have about had it.
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Remember this gem:
“The Republican Party is basically liberal nowdays.”
I’ll give you three guesses who said that this last year.
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Three guesses, and the first 4 don’t count… that was none other than Snarlin’ Arlen himself. Makes me proud to be a Republican… not.
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Specter’s value to the Republican party is decidedly “not proven”.
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“…The president should be elected by popular vote [conservative translation: liberal cities get to choose the president]…”
Yeah, God forbid that a negro from Harlem’s vote should count as much as some gun-toting trailer trash white guy’s in Nebraska. I thought we made arrangements for them to only count 3/5 anyway?
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Please at least make up a name to post under.
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Would my social security number do?
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“anonymous”:
Regarding the 3/5ths Compromise, slave-holders wanted their slaves to count as a whole person while northerns didn’t want them counted as all. It was in the slaves’ best interest not to be counted at all because it would deny the slave-holders less representation in Congress, and therefore less power to protect their immoral institution.
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“Yeah, God forbid that a negro from Harlem’s vote should count as much as some gun-toting trailer trash white guy’s in Nebraska. I thought we made arrangements for them to only count 3/5 anyway?”
What exactly about this blog brings out the worst in people?
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Claiming that urban people’s votes shouldn’t count as much as fine country folk has obvious blatant racist undertones!
This typical republican fare, though: support positions that are de facto racist, but come up with some other cock-and-bull explanation to hide your real motivation. Just like anti-lynching laws are a states’ rights issue!
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You are a parody my friend, nothing more. If you want to be taken seriously (as I assume you do) I suggest you raise the level of your thinking a few notches.
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Get an 800 on the quantitative section of the GRE (and a 740 on the verbal) and enroll in a top 10 PhD program in econ — then you can criticize my level of intellectual prowess. Or are standardized tests and IQ tests biased against Republicans too?
Mainly, being in a good department at a top University, this blog is just about the only opportunity I have to interact with people of your ilk; it reinforces why my sort of people do our best to avoid your sort of people.
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Wow. Well I have no doubt that you are intelligent and I will take your very, very impressive test scores at face value. All that proves is that you have quite an array of analytical tools with which to logic your way through this issue, but you seem to have failed to do so nevertheless.
You like to throw out incendiary statements and watch everyone in the room run around in small circles out of shock. Sorry to disappoint you but I think you’ll find the reasoning on this blog a bit more elevated than the type you are used to from “your sort of people”.
If you wish to begin an intelligent, educated dialogue with anyone on this blog you are free to do so at anytime, but until then you seem to be wasting that fabulous IQ of yours with childish rhetoric.
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Mike, 小心一点啊！他是个天才，不要让他生你的气，要不然。。。。
Anonymous, the problem with using the name “anonymous” is that it isn’t very original or clever. You see, there are a lot of commenters who have done that over the years. Their all being jerks appears to be the dominant leitmotif, and it’s hard to keep them all straight.
Congratulations on your test scores and everything! We’re all idiots here that don’t understand a damned thing. I never got into a top Chinese literature PhD program (test scores secret!), no one at this site went to one of the best engineering schools in the entire Republic, nor one of the best international affairs and political science schools.
I encourage you to spend your time in academia actually learning, maybe take an American history course or something? Then you would understand what Will was talking about, which is useful in your line of work.
Wait, I’m channeling your advisor…”STOP SCREWING WITH THE INTERNET AND DO MY RESEARCH FOR ME!”
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I’m an econometrician, actually. I can’t remember the last time I wrote anything with any social or political implications. Some of us actually value contributing to the state of knowledge, not just pontificating on our own opinions and beliefs.
FYI — so you don’t so ignorant the next time. Although it’s common for people in the natural sciences and the light social sciences (e.g. anthropology and sociology) to mimic their advisors’ work, this is highly unusual in econ. My own research is only broadly related to my advisor’s, and I’ve never worked on any of her projects.
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Good for you.
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“Anonymous”
You do your best to avoid “our sort of people” because you can’t compete with our ideas so you have to resort to race-baiting. You personify what’s wrong with universities as a whole.