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Re: The 1960s rears its ugly head … again

freshfromflorida — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:35:19 -0000

All too true...

Re: The 1960s rears its ugly head … again

wantonio — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:00:42 -0000

you forget, luncacy appeals to other lunatics, of which this country has no shortage. for that reason i think this race is going to be quite close when it comes down to it.

Re: The 1960s rears its ugly head … again

freshfromflorida — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:24:49 -0000

Its always nice when someone shows what a complete lunatic they are before an election... no one who votes for this guy can claim they didn't know better. He is such a crackpot that you almost can't bother to argue the idiotic points of the ad, such as the idea that policies that take care of our environment and develop safe, renewable energy somehow exist in opposition to jobs, business and families. Last time I checked, the latter were quite in need of the former.

Pearce paints himself as yet another Republican who relies on the same talking points we've been hearing for years now, the most popular of which being: if you don't roll over to drilling, war, or the loss of your civil liberties you are anti-American. If you think anything this country is doing is wrong, there must be something wrong with YOU.

And the quote "The extremists have hijacked our policies, so that we can’t live" would be comical if it weren't for the fact that this guy could soon be a policy maker.

Re: The 1960s rears its ugly head … again

hemingway — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:09:44 -0000

I saw Congressman Stevan Pearce's recent ridiculous ad for his Senate campaign attacking Congressman Tom Udall with images of the 1960's, and I immediately thought that Congressman Pearce had the hippie vote. Then I realized that Mr. Pearce wanted to go back to the policies of the 1960's. I would describe Mr. Pearce as a paleoconservative. Paleoconservatism is defined in the American Heritage Dictionary as, "extremely stubborn or stubbornly conservative in politics." Palecons claim that their brand of conservatism is the true descendant of conservative thought of the 1950's and 1960's. Congratulations for clearly delineating your conservative policy. Mr. Pearce believes it is HIP to be a paleoconservative in the modern world. This does not represent the values of New Mexico.

Re: The 1960s rears its ugly head … again

barbwire — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:42:40 -0000

I've never heard the phrase "wrapping the crowd" before. Must be some kind of right-wing mumbo jumbo. Of course, much of Pearce's statement is mumbo jumbo. Talk about hyperbole. Administration buildings were burned "across the country?

Funny, I never heard that NMSU was a hot bed of radicalism way back then.

What does this mean, exactly? "The extremists have hijacked our policies, so that we can't live.” Last time I looked, Pearce the multimillionaire seemed to be living quite well. I guess that's why he says he doesn't think the "economy is wrong."

I wish Pearce had described who he was talking about when he mentioned a "counterculture" that's the same today. In Pearce's world, nothing has changed in almost 40 years. Unfortunately, he's still hung up on attitudes and ideas he had a couple of decades ago, while our nation needs leaders to take us into uncharted territory in a new century and come up with creative solutions to a myriad of very serious problems. Pearce obviously can't make the transition from his college-age personna to what's happening here and now, and that means he can't provide the leadership we need.