Which is a more apt term for the conservative/repug mentality: McCarthyite, or Lynch Mob?

Question

A week ago I would have said McCarthyite, but after the bloodthirsty, out of control behavior I witnessed from the counter demonstrators in D.C. this week, I don't know. I guess a lot of them would consider the McCarthyite label a compliment. Not so sure about the lynch mob thing, although I assume many or most of them would like to return to those days. Witness the approval of Anne Coulters calls for the execution of liberals, or the approval of the "extra-judicial" activities of Jack Bauer on "24"

Bereal: Be real! The only thing you've said that has a grain of truth is the spray painting of the Capitol, and I'm convinced that it was the work of provocateurs from Freak Republic who did it so wackos like you could whine about it for the next several decades. No one has ever demonstrated at hospitals or funerals except those troglodytes from the Westboro Baptist Church, who are basically taking *your* ideology to its logical extreme. There is no proven instance of anyone *ever* spitting on a soldier recently or in the past, except for the veterans of other wars who spit on Viet vets for being "losers," and that was your side too. Veterans were an important and respected part of both the anti Vietnam war movement, and the current movement against the Iraq war. Try reading some history. You might start with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spitting_Image
http://www.amazon.com/Spitting-Image-Memory-Legacy-Vietnam/dp/0814751474

Elway: I'm familiar with your POV on "24," and I respect it, but you may want to take a look at this:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/02/19/070219fa_fact_mayer

Biz Iz: Your side's forays into imaginary history (i.e. troops being attacked and spit on by rabid liberals, etc.) makes your claim that cons are on the side of logic and reality laughable. On second thought, maybe it's just sad.

Answer 1

WHAT HAPPENED...

did the patriotism of the Vietam Vets sadden you and your militant Black Panther friends and make you realize that you'll never be anything more than a marginalized minority?

Get in the game. You're [p]wned--13th Amendment notwithstanding. Pancakes with maple syrup please.

Answer 2

I still say McCarthyites, but I get your point. You know, "24" is a funny show. Most people seem to have this idea that it's a show that buttresses the conservative point of view, but I disagree. I never miss the show, I guess I should say that. But it's real heroes, like Jack Bauer, and the President, are figures that ferret out government corruption as well as using any torture necessary to get information out of terrorists. For instance, the bad guys want to put all American Muslims in interment camps like the American Japanese in WW II. The good guys are against it and the bad guys aren't only in favor of this, they are willing to kill the President to get it pushed through. Corruption from those who hunger for power before their nation's security and safety is always portrayed as being bad/negative on this show. And it's hard not to connect the bad guys with some of the deception and corruption being exposed within the Bush Administration. I get more of a sense of "liberal" patriotism from that show than I do the approval of Republican-like tactics.

EDIT: Thanks for the link. I only had time to read the first page, but I've bookmarked it to read later. I do get your point. Maybe I enjoy it so much because I'd the first to say get that information anyway you can if there were a nuke set to go off within 24 hours. I can at least admit that much. Then I feel better about it because I can get behind the rest of the show's obvious stance against corruption. I guess they've got someone like me going both directions at once with this show don't they lol?

Answer 3

i imagine lynch mob is a touch extreem, yet sure, the female is amazingly undemanding in her abilitys and her tatics. that's saddening to work out McCain slump to associating including her (and lowering himself to the point I actually have seen) basically to target to salvage a win in an election that replaced into lost earlier he all started. in fairness, the femin-nazzi's are not helpin the priority both and the democrat's are not wonderfull human beings by ability of defalut both dose any1 remeber biden describing obama as a "fantastic clean affrican american" and retaining he replaced into "storybook"....a touch problematical ehhh inspite of this, that's biden, he's no longer some thing if no longer blunt

Answer 4

Liberal right..... First the only lynch mob mentality I've seen has come from the war protesters.. Spitting on soldiers, demonstrating out side hospitals caring for wounded soldiers and harrassing their families spray painting our capitol etc.... Get a clue.. Yea, conservstives do believe terrorist cells exist in this country...

Answer 5

Maybe Robert Byrd can give us some pointers on lynchings.

Answer 6

What a mess they are with that type of thinking, it's not American. The Conservatives hiring bikers to intimidate women and children was really another downfall in their programing.

Answer 7

What someone took a poster from someone's hand? Hey listen,when Jim Gilchrist was invited to speak at Columbia,he was physically attacked on stage by left wing students. Don't pretend everyone on the left are saints.

Answer 8

For "McCarthyite" to work, people would have to know history....who McCarthy was, and why he was a rat-b@stard. Since his era was 50 years ago, the number of people who actually remember him is decreasing.

"Lynch mob" is much more evocative. Brings up unpleasant pictures in the mind, which accurately describe right-wingers.

Answer 9

Repug, you lack of ability to discuss makes this unworthy of a real answer. Shame on you. When you grow up and want to have a grown-up discussion I will be happy to see you.

Oh and BTW, how about your side trying to get scienctists that dispute global warming human factors fired, attacking returning troops, I could go on for pages but let me end by saying

Mrs Pot, meet Mister Kettle.

Answer 10

Mc Carthy was right, there were communists in the government. Alger Hiss was a spy, the Rosenberg's were guilty. Lynch mobs provide justice when the state is unwilling to do so

Answer 11

Funny, I never heard of any "bloodthirsty, out-of-control behavior".........I heard one case of a woman's sign being torn up. And I cannot, in all good faith, answer a question that is addressed to a "repug" seeing as I don't know what a "repug" is. Seems like petty attempt at namecalling, along with your overexaggeration of "bloodthirsty, out-of-control". Seems to me the only arrests made were from the protesting side.