Senator DeMint: Obama Is Socialism’s Best Salesman

Hitting the nail on the head:

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Another prominent Republican told the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday that the president’s spending plans are pushing the country to the brink of socialism.
Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, the only member of the senate to earn a perfect rating from the American Conservative Union, called President Obama “the world’s best salesman of socialism” on Friday in describing his prime time speech earlier this week.
DeMint, a fierce opponent of government expansion, told the CPAC crowd that conservatives might have to “take to the streets to stop America’s slide into socialism.”

And socialism does, in fact, need a salesman. Because in order for people to give government the sort of massive amounts power it takes for the government to run just about everything they have to be sold. Convinced. Cajoled. Tricked and fooled, frankly.
Freedom, on the other hand, is simple. People take care of themselves. Government is kept to a bare minimum. As Robert Heinlein once said, “The purpose of government shouldn’t be to do good, but simply to refrain from doing evil.”

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  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    Whatever…

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    I am a conservative right-leaner. Emphasis on conservative. Those CPAC people don’t represent conservatism. If they did, I would be in agreement with them. I am adamantly opposed their ideals of global imperialism, i.e. support of Bush’s illegal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

    Really you sound a lot like Michael Moore and Bagdad Cindy Sheehan. You’re a left leaning pinko commi. CPAC is the GOP.

  • Mark

    http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=454369

    Hey Dino, does this send a chill up your leg?

  • Spartacus

    Fuck you, goonbitch.

    They say the flack is heaviest when you’re over the target Goon!

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    Socialism wouldn’t be such an easy sell if the capitalists hadn’t messed things up so badly.

    See, that’s the beauty here. Capitalism always makes socialism possible.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

    Fuck you, you lying shitbird poseur

    Don’t forget, I really did serve.

  • Bat One

    DINO is here just to increase his COMMENTS total.

    Must be. Heaven knows he has yet to add anything useful, pertinent, or worthwhile to any of the discussions here.

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    “Bring it on.”

    That is a quote from a dumb ass.

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    It seems that the purpose of CPAC is to incite hatred, spew lies, and obfuscate reality.

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    I am a conservative right-leaner. Emphasis on conservative. Those CPAC people don’t represent conservatism. If they did, I would be in agreement with them. I am adamantly opposed their ideals of global imperialism, i.e. support of Bush’s illegal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Bullwinkle

    Obama has even sold the card-carrying Marxist (DINO) on socialism, for now. You gotta wonder why Dino didn’t leave the US long ago for Cuba.

    Maybe because they don’t like fags in Cuba….

  • http://twitter.com/r0ckH0pp3r sayanything-3285

    DINO is here just to increase his COMMENTS total.

    and to see how many he can ‘hook’

  • http://www.kenmccracken.blogspot.com/ Ken McCracken

    Socialism wouldn’t be such an easy sell if the capitalists hadn’t messed things up so badly.

    Oh wait, I thought you said this mess was George W. Bush’s fault. Now you say its capitalism’s fault.

    I wish you would make up your mind.

    See, that’s the beauty here. Capitalism always makes socialism possible.

    Yeah, but it will never make socialism practical!

  • docdave

    It seems that the purpose of CPAC is to incite hatred, spew lies, and obfuscate reality.

    They would have to go a very long way to top you and the other leftards that comment here.

  • bustoff

    Capitalism always makes socialism possible.

    The flip side of that coin is that socialism is always the fall-back position for people who lack the ambition or the courage to earn a living.

    Socialism ultimately is the people surrendering their responsibility for taking care of themselves, and leaving it entirely in the hands of the government. Socialist governments then systematically take everything of value away from their people, and distribute it in whatever fashion they choose — usually to government officials. Those who question this process are jailed, shipped off to a gulag, or put to death.

    I am not aware of any historic examples of a socialist nation where the survival of it’s political and economic systems did not come at the expense of the working classes. They all ultimately collapsed under the sheer weight of their bloated bureaucracies.

  • 11B40

    Greetings:

    Once again, Today’s Question: What’s Black & White and Red all over?

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    Fuck you, move_zig. You’re yet another clueless kool-aid drinker. See ya in Rugby sometime…

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/homosexuality_is_wrong_-_a_compendium move_zig

    Rugby lies to us. But worse than that, he lies to himself.

    With every character he types, he heaps derision and scorn on that which is American, patriotic and Conservative.

    He spews hatred at the military and contempt for the Marine Corps.

    Yet he writes that he was a Marine.

    In the slim possibility of this being true, it is more likely than not, given the attitude reflected in his writings, he was, at best, one of the few types that other Marines call shitbirds or fuckups.

    Because, first and foremost, being a Marine is an attitude and a state of mind. That state of mind, for example, is reflected in the writings of Pilgrim and Nieman, and is very much the same as what you would find in Chief RZ and 2H9′s writings, as they too were veterans, but from the sister service of the Army.

    Rugby, on the other hand, spews the vitriol of the shitbird who spent most of his time on his face or in the brig.

    I would be very surprised to learn — if he actually was a Marine, like he says he was — that he left with an Honorable Discharge.

    We only know Rugby from his writings, and nothing from his writings reflects that he is Conservative, right-leaning or a Marine.

    The signature is all wrong.

    Based on the foregoing, I think he is a liar.

  • Spartacus

    Whatever…

    exposed

  • http://norseberserker.blogspot.com/ Rugby Reader

    Fuck you, goonbitch.

  • imagine

    On a lighter note-
    What is up with Joe’s “lid” in this photo?

    That comb over done got blown over.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    Socialism would’t be such an easy sell if the capitalists hadn’t messed things up so badly.

    See, that’s the beauty here. Capitalism always makes socialism possible.

    Your like a broken record, do you have any thoughts of your own? Every time you make a post you look like a bigger buffoon.

  • zxcvb1

    Capitalism doesn’t fail, it just had a some bad decisions made on its behalf, socialism always fails no matter how you look at it, its just a matter of time

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    Socialism wouldn’t be such an easy sell if the capitalists hadn’t messed things up so badly.

    See, that’s the beauty here. Capitalism always makes socialism possible.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

    Ha. Bush is socialism’s best salesperson. “Its urgent.” The epitome of fiscal irresponsibility. Heh. Keep talking shit.

  • http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

    When you remove from people the conscious knowledge of the consequences of their actions, the society begins to act in whatever way can be gotten away with as there is no negative repercussion to dissuade them.

    When you remove from people the unconscious knowledge of the consequences of their actions, the society begins to stop acting at all, for they no longer see any point in doing anything as actions no longer have any consequences implied, and thus there is no reason to do them.

    At that point force, blind obedience, unquestioning acceptance, an unthinking adherence to a tradition without a past, become the social order at the bottom or else utter chaos and revolt. Like 1984, no one remembers the past accurately, and the present and future are whatever they are told.

    The human mind however will not cooperate and eventually the human instinctive understanding of actions being followed with effects begins to bubble up again as it did when they discovered fire, realized they could smelt ore to make metal, and so forth. They also begin to acquire a sense of the mistreatment from the system continuing to try to force itself on them against their instincts. It feels alien, wrong, and dangerous.

    Revolt and chaos follow.

    That is what socialism must inevitably bring about. Disruptive misbehavior, opportunistic predatory behavior, passive-aggressive non-cooperation with one’s own interests, underachievement, malaise, idle sloth, mental and social graying out, and then the spark of man’s self-defense mechanism against the total death of the self ignites a fire.

    We should just say no to Obama and his ilk and avoid that outcome by encouraging people the other way. That things you do have meaning, effect, and consequence. That you can and that others cannot for you. That you must and must not wait for others for you. Thankfully, Obama is giving us an excellent example of the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of it. We need only keep notice of it alive and preach the opposite to have a chance. We need only sit back and do nothing to see our civilization decline into nothingness.

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