Thugs. Because They Are Thugs.
The real difference between Republicans and Democrats is the same difference between Rush Limbaugh and Jon Stewart – the difference between guts and gall.
Guts is when you never take on anybody with less money, power, or good looks than you have.
Gall is when that’s all you take on.
Jon Stewart takes on the power boys. Rush Limbaugh takes on Sandra Fluke.
We have a Republican guy here named Rick Miller who is running for the State Lege who claims to be a former Naval officer and a deacon in the Baptist Church, but he has to keep telling you that because you can’t tell that by his behavior. He stood and watched, doing nothing, while his fellow Republicans beat up a 70 year old woman. He did nothing to stop it. He is a raging coward on top of it all.
They are thugs. They are bullies.
And that is why they attract people like this guy.
Gregory Peterson is a major TEA Party activist in Utah and has hosted the Rocky Mountain Conservatives Conference at his lakeside cabin the past three years. He was a co-chair of a Romney for President fundraiser in 2007. And he has some other hobbies.
News that a Utah Republican activist is accused of raping four women — two of whom say they were taken to the Heber cabin where the man hosted major political events — caused ripples of unease Thursday throughout the GOP.
Gregory Nathan Peterson has hobnobbed with the likes of Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee, Gov. Gary Herbert, U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, and candidates such as 4th District congressional contender Mia Love.
But for the past 14 months, the 37-year-old Orem man allegedly has led a double life as a serial date-rapist.
Peterson was charged Wednesday in 3rd District Court in Salt Lake City with 23 felony counts, including rape and kidnapping, and two misdemeanors.
They are thugs and bullies. It is second nature to them. And that is why Gregory Peterson was attracted to them.
I am not calling Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan rapists. I am calling them thugs.
Paul Ryan has never had a real job in his life – he has lived off the government dole from the time his father died and he collected social security until today. But he wants Grandma off the medicare and social security. He’s a thug and a bully.
Mitt Romney wants to move all the jelly to the top shelf where it can only be reached by this car elevator. He has made a fortune off thugging people out of their money.
And that is my Monday Morning soapbox. I will put it away until next Monday morning when they do something else that hacks me off.
Thanks to Bananas for the heads up.
DO NOT put that soapbox away just yet……We’ve got more days to go yet…and you know ROMNEY, and now he’s got THE KID with him!! Keep the liquor close at hand, too…..
1Another nice tidbit about one of Ryan’s supporters.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/businessmans-contributions-to-paul-ryan-could-draw-attention/2012/08/12/fe8e5700-e3d1-11e1-98e7-89d659f9c106_story.html
I think we’ll get to know Ryan really well over the next 2 1/2 months, much to his and his party’s detriment.
2I am waiting for a call back to see how much it would cost my husband and me, both on Medicare, if we had to pay for insurance with a $12,000.0 combined voucher.
I think we all should do it and report it to our local papers and at least one other paper.
You are inspiring, Juanita Jean.
3We all can do this!
juanita, you capture my mood this morning to a tee. thank goodness for you, woman.
4Reminds me of one of Sarah Palin’s picks–that guy in Alaska that said,”if you can’t rape your wife, who can you rape?”
5Bullies and worse–any female that votes for the lead character in “a clockwork orange”—-big blue eyes, sociopathic grin and likes to beat up old people along with his thug player mittens, has got to be nuts!!!
No JJ, you will not put it away until next Monday precisely because they are thugs. Trust me it won’t take 24 hours much less a week for these guys to exhibit a level of bile engendering hubris that will force a collective scream out of you and your readers. Why? Because they are thugs and bullies – don’t forget Mitt is a bully of LONG standing and so is his brown nosing little side kick Paul.
6I listen angrily to the lying commercial about Obama “gutting” the Welfare “reform” program which – number 1, isn’t true and number 2, the actual (non-gutting) changes were requested by Governors including Republicans and 3) Romney himself asked for bigger changes as Governor that would have fundamentally undermined the program.
But that’s not what I’m maddest about.
What gets me is the whole “they’re giving away money to people who aren’t doing ANYTHING.”
It’s the same argument with medicare, medicaid, SCHIP, social security, and food stamps. Also education, school lunches and prison. And there’s two sides to their evil carping about all of that.
First, the real reason: tons of gubmint cheese is being handed out and we ain’t getting our cut! “Vouchers,” “block grants,” “privatization” “school choice” – these are all thinly-veiled ploys so that, like milk snakes, profiteers can suck off the gubmint teat and richly reward the pet legislators who let them hook on.
Second, the false reason, but the one they use to rile up the base: somebody, somewhere, somehow is getting something for nothing. (And its corollary: somebody, somewhere, somehow is getting guilt-free, hang-up free, consequence-free SEX!)
Lazy colored people and preverts, my friends, undisciplined kids and uppity women. They’re the ruination of Murrica!
Vote for rich white men.
We’re not prejudiced, we hate 99% of everybody.
7Well, as many have noted, the possibility of Juanita Jean Her Own Self climbing on the soapbox all week long is the reason most of us visit here, and I imagine is also Pleasing in the Sight of the Lord, who rolls his large, wise eyes every time one of these jokers even THINKS about opening his mouth. You are simply doing God’s work, JJ, weeding in the fields of the Lord, and carrying a giant-ass spray bottle of Round-Up just in case.
So, everyday? all day? bring it on, girl! But will you make a promise that we can count on (at minimum) a Monday Morning Rant each and every week? I feel stronger and lighter and a little more hopeful just imagining it!
8Well, pardon me if I am being redundant, but the best description of this duo was offered by Paul Krugman in his Blog on Sunday morning in the New York Times.
GALT and GEKKO! Our Motto: GREED IS GOOD! And bless you all with the Sighn of the Dollar which we worship above all else.
And if you want to find the reference for that, read just the last page of Atlas Shrugged by Ryan’s adored philospher the late Ayn Rand. Now there’s a real strange woman.
9Let’s see- Gregory Peterson is one of them and the women are most likely sluts who use birth control so they were asking- no, begging for it.
On the other hand, even though he’s an All American Tea Party Republican who loves traditional family values the wrong people might use this as a political advantage.
This is causing ‘ripples of unease’ among the more sensitive members.
Well, luckily Mitt Romney never met him, retroactively.
10deChipster – did you hear Ryan saying his “veins ran with cheese” ? In his case, an unfortunate admission, it being government cheese. (-:
11Your having fun doing this … say… Yes, I am. 🙂
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