Rep. Jean Schmidt’s Premature Ejoyulation

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   harold

   July 1, 2012 at 10:02 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   This is what she feels, and what many people who support her feel.

   Intense angry hatred of those labeled “enemies” and orgasmic joy if a misfortune befalls an “enemy”.

   You have to think of the very worst kind of sports fans. The focus is on how much they despise the other team. There’s no actual direct benefit for them if one team or the other wins, it’s all about an extension of their deep, deep anger and huge but fragile ego, and labeling of the team they aren’t rooting for as “the other”. Anything that benefits their team is good. Anything that hurts the other team is fantastic. Unbiased officials are loathed because they sometimes find in favor of the other team. Members of their own team are harshly judged, too – excessively deified as long as they are hurting the other team, but subject to threats and anger if they have a bad day (with some slack cut only for those with very long records).

   That’s how they feel, not think, and it’s important to realize that.

   For full disclosure, I support most parts of ACA, and don’t like mandates.

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   YankeeCynic

   July 1, 2012 at 10:14 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   What’s incredible is that Representative Schmidt was primaried because she wasn’t sufficiently conservative enough for her district’s GOP members.

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   reverendrodney

   July 1, 2012 at 10:29 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   Not that I would ever question the sterling qualities of such people, but I must wonder how much of her portfolio is comprised of HMO stocks.

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   harold

   July 1, 2012 at 10:37 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   What’s incredible is that Representative Schmidt was primaried because she wasn’t sufficiently conservative enough for her district’s GOP members.

   It’s a rigid negative ideology based on obsessive rejection of everything associated with “the other” (which at this point means everyone who isn’t a fully brainwashed member of the ideology, all of whom are despised as “libs”, “leftists”, etc, even if a category like gay, black, immigrant, hippie, etc, doesn’t fit).

   There’s an obsession with purity.

   Another key thing to note is the physical appearance of the guys in the “Facts aren’t true if they don’t agree with (our claims about) the Bible” video in one of the posts below. I don’t mean the fact that they’re white, I mean the fact that they’re talking craziness but look ordinary.

   One of the more disturbing characteristics of this movement is that, of course, its members not only epitomize a common mental image of completely mild-mannered and benign people, they do so deliberately. They consider their insane ideas to be perfectly reasonable, and their appearance reflects that.

   The set of ideas coming out of the Tea Party ideology is arguably worse than many ideas that people who wear tinfoil hats and winter coats over underwear on hot summer days espouse, at this point.

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   Modusoperandi

   July 1, 2012 at 1:05 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   harold “The set of ideas coming out of the Tea Party ideology is arguably worse than many ideas that people who wear tinfoil hats and winter coats over underwear on hot summer days espouse, at this point.”
   Wait. Those are two different groups?

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   Azkyroth, Former Growing Toaster Oven

   July 2, 2012 at 1:31 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment

   Wow, what a piece of schmidt.