RWer Jennifer Rubin (WAPO) lambastes the GOP over "crackpots"

[Stephanie]

Since we are posting on Reporter/journalist. Here is one I could probably believe.

Snip:
Pulitzer Prize Journalist:The Osama binLaden raid was a work of fiction, Hussein Obama should resign

at the link
Pulitzer Prize Journalist:The Osama binLaden raid was a work of fiction, Hussein Obama should resign

 

[Mac1958]

The GOP really needs to run a pure Tea Party ticket, President and Vice President.

100% purity. Cruz/Palin or Palin/Cruz.

Let's get past this and move on.

.

Maybe it would do the GOP good to really go that route and lose by 25 points nationally.

Run Ted Cruz and lose even the Dakotas.

There's so much noise and intra-party squabbling on this.

Let's find out, once and for all.

.

 

[Statistikhengst]

The GOP really needs to run a pure Tea Party ticket, President and Vice President.

100% purity. Cruz/Palin or Palin/Cruz.

Let's get past this and move on.

.

Maybe it would do the GOP good to really go that route and lose by 25 points nationally.

Run Ted Cruz and lose even the Dakotas.

There's so much noise and intra-party squabbling on this.

Let's find out, once and for all.

.

Yepp. If the Republicans don't want self-criticism, by all means, let them put up a Cruz/Palin ticket. I am totally cool with that.

 

[Stephanie]

Well I'll be look what a found. a crackpot in the Democrat party. not only that. a frikken dangerous one to women and his family.

snip:
Official Who Opposed Concealed Carry Reform Arrested for Shooting Up His Ex-Wife’s Car

by AWR Hawkins11 May 2015198

On Sunday, Michigan state senator Virgil Smith (D-Detroit) was taken into custody for allegedly firing a rifle at his ex-wife’s car following an argument earlier that morning.
[Editor’s note: contrary to early reports, the official police report states that Smith fired a rifle, not a shotgun, at his ex-wife’s vehicle, not his girlfriend’s. This article has been updated to reflect these changes. Also, the police report alleges that Smith was naked during the incident.]

According to ClickonDetroit, “police were called to Smith’s home for reports of shots fired” around 1 a.m. Sources say Smith allegedly “fired several shots into the woman’s car.”

Police said the ex-wife told them “multiple shots were fired in front of the home at Wexford and Hilldale.” She was not shot but “her 2015 Mercedes Benz was struck by gunfire.”

all of it here:
Official Who Opposed Concealed Carry Allegedly Shot Up His Girlfriend s Car

 

[JoeB131]

Salon - a very Left-leaning publication, has chimed in on Rubin's words:


Has Jennifer Rubin woken up Pundit warns GOP 2016 lineup looks like haven for the unhinged - Salon.com

Some interesting stuff to read there.

No there isn't.

Jennifer Rubin is a shill for the Wall Street Wing of the GOP.

The faustian bargain Wall Street has struck is that they encourage the racists, the homophobes, the misogynists, the gun nuts and the religious nuts to indulge their full nuttiness.

Because if they ever, ever said their true agenda, they'd thrown them out of office.

"We want you to work harder for less money, have less rights at work and less environmental protections". Even the most inbred, bible thumping moron wouldn't buy into that.

so instead, they talk a lot of shit about Jesus and the gays and the war on Christmas and how Obama is a Crypto-Marxist whose coming for your guns.

The problem is, you talk that smack long enough, you are going to get a guy like Huckabee or Carson or Cruz who actually believes that shit.

So Rubin is doing what she did in 2012, denouncing the sincere nuts while trying to slip Wall Street's boy in.

 

[guno]

this is double orgasmic. You'll need a cigarette after reading this.
Look out: Imploding, eating their own....

SNIP:
Democrat on Pelosi's Leadership: 'When the Team Is Not Doing Great, You Got to Make Some Changes'
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s.com) - During an interview on WPRI's "Newsmakers" last week, Rep. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) would have to "make the case to all of us about what the plan is going forward."

He compared her leadership to that of a sports team, saying "when the team is not doing great, you got to make some changes."

"I would say this: You can look at different sports coaches over the years, and when teams are doing great, the coach is doing great, and when the team is not doing great, you got to make some changes, and so certainly I would say we need to look at are we making progress or are we not making progress,” Langevin said when asked it he thought it was time for Pelosi to move on.

ALL of it here:
Democrat on Pelosi s Leadership When the Team Is Not Doing Great You Got to Make Some Changes

Looks like you are incapable of reading the posted piece and rationally commenting on it

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Republicans twice ran squishy Moderates against the most radical, unqualified, unAmerican candidate ever and we lost both times. In the midterms we ran with a Conservative message and inflicted the biggest defeat on an enemy since we destroyed the NVA Tet Offensive

 

[CrusaderFrank]

We have a dynamic, robust Party with varied opinions; Democrats are more like the Borg Collective

 

[Mertex]

Grow the fuck up and learn to debate like a real adult.

Are you serious.....Steph is the poster child for the whacko conservatives that Rubin is talking about.........

And, let them continue to be whacko....in the end it just makes it easier to beat them come Nov 2016.

 

[Mertex]

We have a dynamic, robust Party with varied opinions

You left off the word "insane" between "varied" and "opinions".....

 

[Stephanie]

Scratch out Kerry and insert any D

We have a dynamic, robust Party with varied opinions; Democrats are more like the Borg Collective

Scratch out Kerry and Insert any name with a D next to it:

 

[Mertex]

Scratch out Kerry and insert any D

We have a dynamic, robust Party with varied opinions; Democrats are more like the Borg Collective

Scratch out Kerry and Insert any name with a D next to it:

Steph....you're just pissed because your ilk has been exposed and you're uncomfortable with the truth.........

 

[Statistikhengst]

We have a dynamic, robust Party with varied opinions; Democrats are more like the Borg Collective

And yet, you absolutely cannot focus on the OP content at all.

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[IlarMeilyr]

Jennifer Rubin (source)​

Getting rid of crackpotism in the GOP - The Washington Post

(The blog that she contributes to on WAPO is called "Right Turn". She is a staunch Conservative)

Getting rid of crackpotism in the GOP

...Republicans have their own problem: They tolerate far too many crackpots.

Dr. Ben Carson joins Mike Huckabee in refusing to accept that Supreme Court decisions, on gay marriage for example, are binding. Pressed by Chris Wallace, Carson insisted that Marbury v. Madison and more than 200 years of history have not settled the issue. “It is an open question. It needs to be discussed.” Actually, it’s not open...

Huckabee has ... hawked “nutritional supplements” as a cure to diabetes. He insisted on Sunday, “One of the elements of the plan was dietary supplements, but it is not the fundamental thing.” (Then why encourage people to buy them?) He declared, “I don’t have to defend everything that I’ve ever done.” So he’s both a constitutional and dietary charlatan. Either one should disqualify him.

Then there is Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), who cynically chooses to pander to the conspiracy-mongers who turning a military exercise primarily in Texas into a secret plan to impose martial law. Cruz has taken their nonsense as legitimate and made inquiries at the Pentagon. Rich Lowry hit the nail on the head on ABC, calling this “pandering to a vocal minority.”...

...How many times has Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) falsely suggested the National Security Agency is listening to the content of millions of phone calls? Before reversing himself, he also gave support to the anti-vaccine hooey. At what point do voters say, you know, that’s not the mindset or character of someone who we’d want as president?

Responsible conservatives should follow Lowry’s lead — name and shame — lest the GOP be seen as a haven for the unhinged. ...

Who is Jennifer Rubin?

Jennifer Rubin journalist - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Jennifer Rubin is an American neoconservative columnist and a blogger for The Washington Post. Previously she worked at Commentary, PJ Media, Human Events, and The Weekly Standard. She also published at Politico, The New York Post, New York Daily News, National Review, The Jerusalem Post, and a variety of other media publications.

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For discussion ---

This quoted material begs the question: are Conservatives out there in the real world going to be willing to listen to self-criticism? Once the Jade 15 exercises are completed and people like Ted Cruz are going to look like complete and utter fools for having tried to make this into a nefarious gubbermint plot to enslave Texans and what-not, are Conservatives going to wake up and realize that a number of their candidates are often saying things that are considered absolutely insane by the overwhelming majority of people who are sane?

I accept criticism of Clinton, Sanders, O'Malley, etc, because I know that no candidate is a perfect person. Are Conservatives willing to do the same, or are they going to just grumble that somehow, Jen Rubin is not really a Conservative?

I gotta say, from my perspective, the crop of GOP candidates that is forming for 2016 makes the 2012 GOP crop look tame, lily-livered and Liberal in comparison. They make Barry Goldwater look like Lenin. And their 2012 nominee lost decisively against an embattled Democratic president during economic rough times. I see the same conundrum forming for 2016 as formed for 2012: that GOP candidates are tacking so unbelievably hard to the Right in order to feed enough "red-meat" to a crazed ultra-Conservative base, "red-meat" that then turns into a poison-pill for the GOP when the General Election campaign starts up after both nominations are completed. It appears that Jeb Bush recognizes this conundrum, but even before officially getting out of the starting gate, he has put his foot in his mouth about the Iraq War that may very well jettison any hope of him even launching, which I suspect causes Scott Walker to whoop with glee.

So, what do you think of Jen Rubin's words?

Let's see who can actually debate like a real adult on this thread and put his emotions in his side pocket and actually debate the quoted material...

Oh, and nat4900 - thanks for trying this once already. This material DESERVES to be debated.

she is hardly a 'staunch conservative.'

She is a waffling platitude-spewing, left-wing respect seeking bundle of contradictions.

Levin has repeatedly called Rubin out:

* * * * Rubin's smears of Cruz, Lee, Paul, et al and numerous conservative groups, explain her popularity as a guest on MSNBC and a paid hack as a Washington Post blogger. But if you're looking for insight, substance or scholarship, she's incapable of it.

-- Mark Levin Show - The idiotic Jennifer Rubin again

Back in March of 2013 Mark Levin summarized what Rubin is and isn't:

* * * * I'm tired of stand-for-nothing, unprincipled, putative Republicans who've done nothing for conservatism but trash it and misrepresent it, lecturing us from their basements. Jennifer Rubin knows nothing about Russell Kirk or Edmund Burke. She knows nothing about Locke or Montesquieu. She knows nothing of Madison, Jefferson, or Adams. She's your typical big mouth know-nothing RINO who found her way from LA to DC and spews her idiocy in the pages of the Washington Post.

-- Mark Levin Show - Jennifer Rubin is just another idiot

Send up a flare when the alleged "staunch [sic] conservative [sic]" actually authors a blog that addresses the idiocy of the modern American liberal political philosophy. We won't be holding our breath.

 

[IlarMeilyr]

Imagine how enraptured with the 'staunch conservative' Jennifer Rubin our left-wingnut OP pal, Statiskalmange, would be if Jennifer ever penned a piece about the kooks of the left wing Democrat Parody!

 

[Statistikhengst]

Jennifer Rubin (source)​

Getting rid of crackpotism in the GOP - The Washington Post

(The blog that she contributes to on WAPO is called "Right Turn". She is a staunch Conservative)

Getting rid of crackpotism in the GOP

...Republicans have their own problem: They tolerate far too many crackpots.

Dr. Ben Carson joins Mike Huckabee in refusing to accept that Supreme Court decisions, on gay marriage for example, are binding. Pressed by Chris Wallace, Carson insisted that Marbury v. Madison and more than 200 years of history have not settled the issue. “It is an open question. It needs to be discussed.” Actually, it’s not open...

Huckabee has ... hawked “nutritional supplements” as a cure to diabetes. He insisted on Sunday, “One of the elements of the plan was dietary supplements, but it is not the fundamental thing.” (Then why encourage people to buy them?) He declared, “I don’t have to defend everything that I’ve ever done.” So he’s both a constitutional and dietary charlatan. Either one should disqualify him.

Then there is Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), who cynically chooses to pander to the conspiracy-mongers who turning a military exercise primarily in Texas into a secret plan to impose martial law. Cruz has taken their nonsense as legitimate and made inquiries at the Pentagon. Rich Lowry hit the nail on the head on ABC, calling this “pandering to a vocal minority.”...

...How many times has Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) falsely suggested the National Security Agency is listening to the content of millions of phone calls? Before reversing himself, he also gave support to the anti-vaccine hooey. At what point do voters say, you know, that’s not the mindset or character of someone who we’d want as president?

Responsible conservatives should follow Lowry’s lead — name and shame — lest the GOP be seen as a haven for the unhinged. ...

Who is Jennifer Rubin?

Jennifer Rubin journalist - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Jennifer Rubin is an American neoconservative columnist and a blogger for The Washington Post. Previously she worked at Commentary, PJ Media, Human Events, and The Weekly Standard. She also published at Politico, The New York Post, New York Daily News, National Review, The Jerusalem Post, and a variety of other media publications.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

For discussion ---

This quoted material begs the question: are Conservatives out there in the real world going to be willing to listen to self-criticism? Once the Jade 15 exercises are completed and people like Ted Cruz are going to look like complete and utter fools for having tried to make this into a nefarious gubbermint plot to enslave Texans and what-not, are Conservatives going to wake up and realize that a number of their candidates are often saying things that are considered absolutely insane by the overwhelming majority of people who are sane?

I accept criticism of Clinton, Sanders, O'Malley, etc, because I know that no candidate is a perfect person. Are Conservatives willing to do the same, or are they going to just grumble that somehow, Jen Rubin is not really a Conservative?

I gotta say, from my perspective, the crop of GOP candidates that is forming for 2016 makes the 2012 GOP crop look tame, lily-livered and Liberal in comparison. They make Barry Goldwater look like Lenin. And their 2012 nominee lost decisively against an embattled Democratic president during economic rough times. I see the same conundrum forming for 2016 as formed for 2012: that GOP candidates are tacking so unbelievably hard to the Right in order to feed enough "red-meat" to a crazed ultra-Conservative base, "red-meat" that then turns into a poison-pill for the GOP when the General Election campaign starts up after both nominations are completed. It appears that Jeb Bush recognizes this conundrum, but even before officially getting out of the starting gate, he has put his foot in his mouth about the Iraq War that may very well jettison any hope of him even launching, which I suspect causes Scott Walker to whoop with glee.

So, what do you think of Jen Rubin's words?

Let's see who can actually debate like a real adult on this thread and put his emotions in his side pocket and actually debate the quoted material...

Oh, and nat4900 - thanks for trying this once already. This material DESERVES to be debated.

she is hardly a 'staunch conservative.'

She is a waffling platitude-spewing, left-wing respect seeking bundle of contradictions.

Levin has repeatedly called Rubin out:

* * * * Rubin's smears of Cruz, Lee, Paul, et al and numerous conservative groups, explain her popularity as a guest on MSNBC and a paid hack as a Washington Post blogger. But if you're looking for insight, substance or scholarship, she's incapable of it.

-- Mark Levin Show - The idiotic Jennifer Rubin again

Back in March of 2013 Mark Levin summarized what Rubin is and isn't:

* * * * I'm tired of stand-for-nothing, unprincipled, putative Republicans who've done nothing for conservatism but trash it and misrepresent it, lecturing us from their basements. Jennifer Rubin knows nothing about Russell Kirk or Edmund Burke. She knows nothing about Locke or Montesquieu. She knows nothing of Madison, Jefferson, or Adams. She's your typical big mouth know-nothing RINO who found her way from LA to DC and spews her idiocy in the pages of the Washington Post.

-- Mark Levin Show - Jennifer Rubin is just another idiot

Send up a flare when the alleged "staunch [sic] conservative [sic]" actually authors a blog that addresses the idiocy of the modern American liberal political philosophy. We won't be holding our breath.

I thanked you not because I agree with you, but rather, because you were at least willing to bring additional information to this thread.

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[Seawytch]

That's right Conservatives...you don't need a RINO like this Jennifer telling you what to do. Buck tradition...nominate your far, far right candidate and prove it was Romney's "middle of the road" stance that made him lose. Put your theories into action!!! Palin/Cruz 2016

 

[CrusaderFrank]

ok, never heard of her.

but now what are the people suppose to do, orgasm? run and change parties to that other stinking, corrupted, nasty party, the Democrats.

man you people are so hard up because your own party and that man you put in as President...... is imploding

We're supposed to become more Starkey

I don't think that at all.

Tell me, once Jade 15 is completed and Ted Cruz looks like an utter fool for trying to get people to distrust the US military, are you going to support him? Is that the Conservative view these days? To hate the military?

Please, expatiate.

The fucking government has no fucking business having the military conduct fucking training exercises in civilian centers. Had Bush conducted military exercises label Democrat cities hostile -- there'd be blood in the streets

 

[CrusaderFrank]

We have a dynamic, robust Party with varied opinions; Democrats are more like the Borg Collective

And yet, you absolutely cannot focus on the OP content at all.

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What content? You want us to be like the democrat collective and embrace the candidate we're instructed to support?

No, thanks

 

[Stephanie]

ok, never heard of her.

but now what are the people suppose to do, orgasm? run and change parties to that other stinking, corrupted, nasty party, the Democrats.

man you people are so hard up because your own party and that man you put in as President...... is imploding

We're supposed to become more Starkey

I don't think that at all.

Tell me, once Jade 15 is completed and Ted Cruz looks like an utter fool for trying to get people to distrust the US military, are you going to support him? Is that the Conservative view these days? To hate the military?

Please, expatiate.

The fucking government has no fucking business having the military conduct fucking training exercises in civilian centers. Had Bush conducted military exercises label Democrat cities hostile -- there'd be blood in the streets

oh you know it. Their wails would be shriller than usual and some, their heads would explode
but since it's under their DEAR Leader and he's never MISLED us before.
snip:
Lie of the Year: 'If you like your health care plan, you can keep it'
Lie of the Year If you like your health care plan you can keep it PolitiFact

How can ANYONE question his intentions for us.

I tell you, watching them turn into quivering sheep and snobs to boot under this man. embarrassing