Letters to the Editor
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why?
Why do people think they should talk about harming people like that, especially if someone is around to print those words? Why does the news media find it worth while to repeat the things people say when they are obviously not thinking about what they say? Why do people like me find it immpossible to not read it and then comment on it? Why? Why ? Why?
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mama says knock you out.
Sounds reasonable. I can't think of a single Republican that I wouldn't like to slap around. Not a single one. It's not surprising that they feel the same way about their own and at time it inadvertently slips out in front of a reporter.
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Whom would JC punch?
I think the real dude might actually have taken some swings at lots of GOPers and christian Conservatives, beginning with their tax policies and ending with their hypocrisies
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It's the smugness.
As a close-up and unwilling witness to Mittens' four year* Massachusetts governorship, I can only say ditto.
*said governorship should definitely be marked with an asterisk, since he spent the entire four years preparing his presidential run.
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Just wanted to add
the Carpetbagger's headline for his story on the same subject:
Mitt Romney and the Eddie Haskell Phenomenon http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/14336.html
Sounds about right to me.
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Why do people think they should talk about harming people like that
Well mama, it's like this: Saying you'd like to knock somebody's teeth out is an old figure of speech. Old folks like Rollins are from a time in America where you could say figuratively, "I'd like to knock that son of a bitch's teeth out" and all it meant was that you were just angry/disgusted/offended by said guy. It did not mean that you were actually going to go find him and commit a class 1 felonious assault.
My long dead grampa, born in 1898, used to say of Harry Truman, "I'd like to shoot that son of a bitch." Of course, gramps had no intention of driving all the way to Washington to find Harry Truman and shoot him. He was just bitching about "the goddamn gummint" and that's the way they talked back in those old days. (And no, I don't know what he had against ol' Harry. I was too young to understand.)
If he were around today and expressed his disgruntlement at the president and he said those same words, he would have the "SS" (secret service) banging on his door with guns drawn.
So poor old Ed Rollins was just using an old figure of speech and of course, he'll get a pass because he is Ed Rollins, a recognizable TV pundit and political adviser. Now if I, Garry Owen, were to say I'd like to knock Romney's teeth out, I would be well advised to leave my front door open so the goddamn Feds wouldn't need to tear it off the hinges as they came to haul me away. There are different levels of acceptable speech in this country depending on how famous you are.
Assholes like CNN's Glenn Beck and Fox Noise's John Gibson can advocate that people be murdered for their opinions and the Feds don't bat an eye.
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In spite of all of His legendary calmness
(well maybe that one time in the Temple when he was pissed at the money lenders...) or perhaps the constraint He used by holding back from slapping Bush up side the head for his lying us into a war that brought forth destruction rivaled only by the plague of frogs one of His colleagues in the old Testament launched, Jesus would probably not punch anyone.
Nonetheless, His tendency to distance Himself from the Fire and Brimstone fellers in the Old Testament, and keeping to the turn the other cheek ideation he seems to be utilizing in dealing with Cheney and his ilk, He will surly be tested in the upcoming election cycle.
Woe be it to the one that gets a tweaked ear by that One...
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After Super Tuesday...
...we shouldn't have to listen to Hucksterby and lil Rudy the dictator anymore.
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As stevio allludes...
JC was not above occasionally getting nuts with a whip. Now, it's unclear if he actually beats any people with it, or if he only uses it to drive the livestock out from the temple courtyard, but he definately had a temper. Mitt Romney is also exactly the kind of guy that would have been in the temple changing money, so yeah, I am pretty sure there is a good chance that JC might pop him one it mouth.
You know, if Jesus wasn't totally made up.
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Anger Issues...
Weren't the 'Pubs calling the Dems the "angry party?"
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Ed Rollins...now I remember
Now I remember why I thought he was such a prick. Not that I don't think Romney could use a beating.
It is amusing and entertaining to watch the GOP descend into madness and chaos.
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Two Words
Two words to remember, Ed - Blood Atonement
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Jesus Would Support Ron Paul
First of all, Jesus would not "punch" anyone. ("Turn the other cheek".)
That having been said, if Jesus "had" to choose a Republican there is no doubt he would choose Ron Paul for several key reasons:
1.) Ron Paul is against our illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq and our military intervention in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. (Let's be honest here, we already have "someone" in Pakistan and Iran either snooping, or up to some other miltaristic interference) ("Thou shalt not kill".)
2.) Ron Paul is against the death penalty and always has been. All the other candidates, including the Democratic "front runners" support the death penalty. ("Thou shalt not kill".)
3.) Ron Paul is against abortion and is solidly pro-life, although politically he does support each states' right to decide this issue for themselves as he also supports states' rights to decide about other controversial issues such as the use of medical marijuana etc. (Thou shalt not kill.")
4.) Ron Paul is the ONLY candidate who strongly supports the Constitution and our civil liberties. I think freedom was probably an important thing to Jesus. ("The most important commandment of all, more important than all the others is, LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS I HAVE LOVED YOU.")
Thompson is gone, Giuliani, Huckabee and even McCain are practically BROKE. Romney is only running on his own and big corporate money, plus as the article states he is the most disliked Republican candidate. There is little to no "grassroots" support for him. Which leaves one Republican. Ron Paul. He is raising money online with small donations from all over the country. He has support from Republicans, Democrats and Independents. He is the ONLY candidate who understands how the economy got into the mess it is currently in and eventually anyone with a brain will understand that he is the ONLY candidate who understands how to get us out of the recession we are now in and the depression that is facing us.
So, there's my little prognostication on "What Would Jesus Do?" and where the Republican nomination is heading.