Rey C.
Racing is life... anything else is just waiting.
What you still fail to understand is that I am under no obligation to be "fair and balanced". You've apparently gotten me confused with the kids over on Fox and Friends. And what I'm addressing here is not every single Republican policy position, as there are some that I agree with - just as there are Democrat positions that I disagree with. When I speak about people being ideologues, my friend, it was you (and so many other Republicans or TEA party followers) who use the word RINO when describing anyone and everyone who does not march in lockstep with the hive collective. While some on the right like to claim that it is only "libs" and "Demoncrats" that use that term, you, yourself, just used it... several times here. Can you point me to a Democrat who has tried to popularize the term DINO (Democrat In Name Only)??? If your folks on the far right would stop putting on the big floppy clown shoes and doing retarded things, well, I would make fun of them a lot less. But now, I do find it rather interesting/amusing that when I have taken shots at those on the far left, say, radical feminists or those who believe in the total banning of privately owned firearms, (Soros, Schumer, Bloomberg, Feinstein, Boxer, et al), the memories of our resident "conservatives" are apparently quite short (or just very selective). But it seems that they can list the dates and times that I have made fun of Sarah P@lin and/or Michele Bachmann. But like I said, I'm not obliged to make it 50/50 when I play whack-a-dope on here. If the GOP has more dopes, then that's their problem, not mine.
And BC, if you're OK with wanting to be part of a collective, which demands strict loyalty to an ideology, hey, I'm OK with that... for you. Me, I would prefer to be dead rather than play follow-the-leader with my thought processes. You have a great interest (apparently) in thinking of ways to make sure that the Republican party is as strong as it can be, as long as it follows the desires of its most ideologically extreme members. But as I've said many times before, I really don't care whether the Democrat party is strong or weak... and I don't care whether the Republican party is strong or weak. My interest, unlike yours, is not tied to making either party or group of partisans stronger or weaker (OK, I actually would love to see more Americans abandon party loyalty and begin thinking for themselves). My primary interest is in what it will take to build a stronger republic - parties be damned. You apparently believe in "group thought", where conclusions are reached based on the ideology of the collective. I believe in independent thought, where conclusions are reached based on some form of objective data analysis.
Before you continue to try to argue that being an ideological extremist or a partisan is a good thing (and thinking that calling people out if they don't follow in lockstep is a sensible/healthy way of enforcing the hive mentality), I encourage you to read the writings of George Washington (his farewell address, most specifically) and historical accounts of Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. But no, I'm not at all telling you how to be, how to act, how to think or how to live. Those who know me in real life will tell you that, as long as what you're doing has no direct affect on me, I will watch you do whatever it is that you are doing, and when it blows up in your face and you are stumbling around like Wile E. Coyote (with his hair on fire after his bomb has exploded in his face), I'll just smile and ask you, "so, how's that plan working for you?" :dunno:
P.S. Bifurcation gives the false sense that either/or positions are universally rational. They are not. Seems that our Middle East policies for the past 30 years would tell you that. Give arms to Saddam Hussein in Iraq and the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Since they opposed "the bad guys", that must have meant that they were good guys, huh? So... how's that plan working for you?
