Comments on: If It Walks Like a Socialist and Quacks Like a Socialist http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2006/10/19/if-it-walks-like-a-socialist-and-quacks-like-a-socialist/ When I wake up I read the Bible and the newspaper... because I want to know what both sides are up to. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:24:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Texas Rainmaker » Bill Clinton: Recession is a Good Thing http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2006/10/19/if-it-walks-like-a-socialist-and-quacks-like-a-socialist/#comment-156089 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:15:03 +0000 http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2006/10/19/if-it-walks-like-a-socialist-and-quacks-like-a-socialist/#comment-156089 [...] “For the common good“, right Bill? No Comments » [...] […] “For the common good“, right Bill? No Comments » […]

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]]> by: endorendil http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2006/10/19/if-it-walks-like-a-socialist-and-quacks-like-a-socialist/#comment-14597 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:52:08 +0000 http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2006/10/19/if-it-walks-like-a-socialist-and-quacks-like-a-socialist/#comment-14597 Jonathan, you may wish to bone up on your knowledge of politics. Marxism isn't socialism. Bush's best (only) buddy on the world stage is Tony Blair, a modern socialist. There aren't many real marxists left. Christopher Hitchins used to be one. Keep that in mind next time he waxes lyrical about the Bush administration. I guess "liberal" is no longer working as an epithet, is it? Is that what this new Red Scare is all about? Jonathan, you may wish to bone up on your knowledge of politics. Marxism isn’t socialism. Bush’s best (only) buddy on the world stage is Tony Blair, a modern socialist.

There aren’t many real marxists left. Christopher Hitchins used to be one. Keep that in mind next time he waxes lyrical about the Bush administration.

I guess “liberal” is no longer working as an epithet, is it? Is that what this new Red Scare is all about?

]]> by: Jonathan http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2006/10/19/if-it-walks-like-a-socialist-and-quacks-like-a-socialist/#comment-14570 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:32:41 +0000 http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2006/10/19/if-it-walks-like-a-socialist-and-quacks-like-a-socialist/#comment-14570 Sorry, Endo, but your party shares enough in common with socialists (and this Kennedrunk letter enhances the already accurate perception). You can't hide from your Marxist leanings. Sorry, Endo, but your party shares enough in common with socialists (and this Kennedrunk letter enhances the already accurate perception). You can’t hide from your Marxist leanings.

]]> by: endorendil http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2006/10/19/if-it-walks-like-a-socialist-and-quacks-like-a-socialist/#comment-14261 Sun, 22 Oct 2006 06:58:15 +0000 http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2006/10/19/if-it-walks-like-a-socialist-and-quacks-like-a-socialist/#comment-14261 TR, that is entirely irrelevant. Just because Reagan made illegal deals with Iran's mullah's doesn't mean that Republicans are fundamental muslims either, only that they didn't mind supporting Iran in exchange for political favours and off-record money to send to the Nicaraguan death squads. TR, that is entirely irrelevant. Just because Reagan made illegal deals with Iran’s mullah’s doesn’t mean that Republicans are fundamental muslims either, only that they didn’t mind supporting Iran in exchange for political favours and off-record money to send to the Nicaraguan death squads.

]]> by: Texas Rainmaker http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2006/10/19/if-it-walks-like-a-socialist-and-quacks-like-a-socialist/#comment-14201 Sun, 22 Oct 2006 04:05:06 +0000 http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2006/10/19/if-it-walks-like-a-socialist-and-quacks-like-a-socialist/#comment-14201 "<b><i>You are trying to equate fighting for “the common good” with socialism, and then try to equate that with communism. Farfetched on both counts.</i></b>" Looks like it's <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2006/10/20/the-kennedy-kgb-letter/" rel="nofollow">not so farfetched afterall</a>. “You are trying to equate fighting for “the common good” with socialism, and then try to equate that with communism. Farfetched on both counts.”

Looks like it’s not so farfetched afterall.

]]> by: Jonathan http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2006/10/19/if-it-walks-like-a-socialist-and-quacks-like-a-socialist/#comment-14085 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:17:23 +0000 http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2006/10/19/if-it-walks-like-a-socialist-and-quacks-like-a-socialist/#comment-14085 Thanks, Sis...I forgot about that one! Thanks, Sis…I forgot about that one!

]]> by: Sissy Willis http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2006/10/19/if-it-walks-like-a-socialist-and-quacks-like-a-socialist/#comment-14047 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:23:20 +0000 http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2006/10/19/if-it-walks-like-a-socialist-and-quacks-like-a-socialist/#comment-14047 Reminds me of Hillary's hubby's famous "<a href="http://sisu.typepad.com/sisu/2005/09/_hillary_meets_.html" rel="nofollow">What if you spend YOUR money WRONG?</a>" Reminds me of Hillary’s hubby’s famous “What if you spend YOUR money WRONG?“

]]> by: endorendil http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2006/10/19/if-it-walks-like-a-socialist-and-quacks-like-a-socialist/#comment-14008 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:11:24 +0000 http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2006/10/19/if-it-walks-like-a-socialist-and-quacks-like-a-socialist/#comment-14008 TR, that's preposterous. TR, that’s preposterous.

]]> by: Nate http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2006/10/19/if-it-walks-like-a-socialist-and-quacks-like-a-socialist/#comment-14003 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 05:45:17 +0000 http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2006/10/19/if-it-walks-like-a-socialist-and-quacks-like-a-socialist/#comment-14003 I'm not going to wade fully into the fray here, but I will say that I'm skeptical of either party establishing fiscal sanity in the coming years. I personally think Republicans are the most to blame in recent times, since they have controlled both houses and the White House, but of course they are only guilty of perfecting a "buy votes with handouts" method that Democrats built during their reign. Forget the talk of what constitues socialism. The most pressing things facing our economy are: a) Our dependence on Middle Eastern oil b) Our growing debt to China Both of these things hobble our ability to navigate a changing, potentially perilous world. And they seem to me more important than how we divide up our wealth at home. (Because let's not forget, we are the richest country in history,) I’m not going to wade fully into the fray here, but I will say that I’m skeptical of either party establishing fiscal sanity in the coming years. I personally think Republicans are the most to blame in recent times, since they have controlled both houses and the White House, but of course they are only guilty of perfecting a “buy votes with handouts” method that Democrats built during their reign.

Forget the talk of what constitues socialism. The most pressing things facing our economy are:

a) Our dependence on Middle Eastern oil

b) Our growing debt to China

Both of these things hobble our ability to navigate a changing, potentially perilous world. And they seem to me more important than how we divide up our wealth at home. (Because let’s not forget, we are the richest country in history,)

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