Where Do They Find Them?

Allen Quist is hoping to win a Republican nomination in Minnesota. He tells the world what to him is the greatest political battle of the current generation.

“Now why am I doing this? I don’t need to be in lights, I don’t need to speak, I don’t need to be before a TV camera, I don’t need to be in the paper. I have been there, I have done all that. I don’t need to be there”

“It’s because I, like you, have seen that our country is being destroyed. I mean, this is — every generation has had to fight the fight for freedom. This is our fight. And this is our time. This is it. Terrorism, yes — but that’s not the big battle. The big battle is in D.C., with the radicals. They aren’t liberals, they’re radicals. Obama, Pelosi, Walz — they’re not liberals, they’re radicals. They are destroying our country. And people all over are figuring that out.”

Got that? According to this wingnut, President Obama and his fellow Democrats represent a greater threat to the country than terrorism. These guys are so far out of whack now, they’ve completely lost perspective on what’s what and they’ve got me convinced that they’re actually believing their own idiocy.

Someone’s got to save these morons from themselves. Eight years of Bush and not a peep from conservatives as President Numbnuts systematically worked on destroying not only the country but it’s standing in the world. Eleven months of a Democrat in the White House and it’s a “fight for freedom.”

Whatever.

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Comments

Brad Northenscold says:

January 4, 2010 at 4:18 pm

Although I doubt Quist’s campaign will get much traction, what he means by the “big battle” is the ongoing struggle between opposing ideals of what this country should look like, and how involved the government, especially the Federal gov’t, should be in our everyday lives.
Of course Quist recognizes the grave & immediate damage that terrorists pose to people and infrastructure at any given time. And we have several agencies charged with combating just that threat.

But even the terrorist’s greatest success to date didn’t fundamentally change our economic/political/cultural identity. We’re still a capitalist free-market (mostly), constitutional representative republic, with freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of association, a right to bear arms, etc.

However, those who work to make America a more Liberal, collectivist, socialist nation pose a greater threat IN THE LONG RUN to the traditions and identity of America (and our economic solvency, eventually) because they seek to change the very foundations upon which this country was built.
They call it progress, but it’s unsustainable. The system will collapse under it’s own weight eventually. It may take a few generations, but we simply cannot give everyone everything they need. It WILL bankrupt us, ultimately.
Conservatives battle the creeping socialism that (mostly well-intentioned) liberals continue to plug-away at, always looking for another way to “help people out”. Through, as always, the government.
Heed the prediction often attributed to Norman Thomas, 6-time Socialist Party presidential candidate: “The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of “liberalism”, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”
And, he DID opine: “The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly”.

That’s the battle that Quist is talking about.
Frances says:

January 4, 2010 at 6:22 pm

It’s not just any old Democrat in the White House. It’s a black Democrat. The wingnuts’ clockworks are pretty tightly wound right about now.