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    Embattled Conservatives Look To Star Wars For Guidance
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    05/05/09

    In reply to Embattled Conservatives Look To Star Wars For Guidance
    Does this mean conservatives have finally given up on Star Trek? I suppose it was only a matter of time before they realized the Federation is a bunch of godless pro-science communists who believe in free love and social programs. (In that case, it really is cool to like Trek again.)


    Star Wars, on the other hand, says that wise teachers should always lie to their pupils, and that it's totally okay to lust after your sister, which are of course bedrock principles --or is that "principals"?-- of the GOP.

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    05/05/09

    In reply to Embattled Conservatives Look To Star Wars For Guidance
    The ultimate fact is that government is the evil empire as it actively seeks to destroy the rights of individuals in order to increase its power. No matter what party is in charge, there will always be those disenfranchised. No matter what party is in office we will all lose liberties as the government exerts more control over our lives.
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    05/05/09

    @darthsidious_7: Or, debatably, government is an institution voluntarily entered into by a number of parties which provides a stable environment for commerce to exist in.


    I mean, "evil"? Really?


    I know that you'd really like to have the right to murder your neighbors, say, or pee on my cat, but the ultimate fact is that I don't think a society that prohibits it is evil.

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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    05/05/09

    In reply to Embattled Conservatives Look To Star Wars For Guidance
    This political treatise doesn't demand an antithetical counterargument so much as a swirly.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    05/05/09

    In reply to Embattled Conservatives Look To Star Wars For Guidance
    Dick Cheney shot first.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    05/05/09

    In reply to Embattled Conservatives Look To Star Wars For Guidance
    I refuse to take seriously anyone who confuse "principle" with "principal".
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/05/09

    @Roklimber: Like my kindly old grade school Principal Arlene Specter? She was so sweet.
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    Image of iliad2099 iliad2099
    05/05/09

    In reply to Embattled Conservatives Look To Star Wars For Guidance
    Well, first, President Obama is obviously Mace Windu.

    However, if Obama is Jabba the Hutt in this scenario, then his Bib Fortuna is certainly Rahm Emanuel. Joe Biden is Salacious Crumb.
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    Image of Lincolnsbeard33 Lincolnsbeard33
    05/05/09

    @iliad2099: lol I could totaly see Biden sitting next to Obama laughing.
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    Image of Alasdair Wilkins Alasdair Wilkins
    05/05/09

    @Lincolnsbeard33: My goodness, you guys are so totally correct. Although there's something about Bib Fortuna's muttering that just screams Biden to me.
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    05/05/09

    In reply to Embattled Conservatives Look To Star Wars For Guidance
    Sheesh. What the hell is it with Cons and Star Wars? I still remember the "young" Repubs doing a Youtube vid about the Evil Dems and Darth Pelosi in 2005 when the Dems were the MINORITY in both the Senate and House.


    Shouldn't they go back to their old SF standard of old school Battle Star Galatica (aka Starbuck with a Peen)? It fits.


    Wiped out by "mindless" automatons aka Obamanauts, combining ideas that don't really go together (BSG-Cowboys in Space/GOP-Big Government and deregulation) and a way too simple view of war ("Take the guy out on the left, I'll take the guy out on the right") and logistics.

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    05/05/09

    @ManchuCandidate: Republicans like clean problems with clean solutions. Stark portrayals, good versus evil, mythic symbolism standing in for gritty, messy, compromising policy.


    I mean, I guess everyone likes that; I just don't think it's a really great platform to build a political party on.

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    Image of Ed Grabianowski Ed Grabianowski
    05/05/09

    In reply to Embattled Conservatives Look To Star Wars For Guidance
    Yes, the repressive, xenophobic, militaristic regime of Emperor Obama. Uh...
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    Image of zegota zegota
    05/05/09

    In reply to Embattled Conservatives Look To Star Wars For Guidance
    Also, the Empire was known for extreme xenophobia and hatred of non-human races. Sounds more like a conservative government to me, eh?
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    05/05/09

    @zegota: But look at their investments in science and giant death laser technology.
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    Image of 浴武士!!!! I'd like to start a manga like that 浴武士!!!! I'd like to start a manga like that
    05/05/09

    In reply to Embattled Conservatives Look To Star Wars For Guidance
    next quote: "It came from behind"
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    05/05/09

    @浴武士!!!! I'd like to start a manga like that: Loosen up!
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/05/09

    In reply to Embattled Conservatives Look To Star Wars For Guidance
    Oh, and Dr. Tony Mangana?



    good day sir.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    05/05/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.: Tony Mangina? Haaaahahah!
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    Image of AngryLagomorph AngryLagomorph
    05/05/09

    In reply to Embattled Conservatives Look To Star Wars For Guidance
    But what role does incestuous desire for one's secret sister twin sister play in the Republican resurgence? Why isn't this man answering the important questions?
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/05/09

    @AngryLagomorph: It's the one inappropriate sexual act that Republican politicians haven't yet been caught performing in public?
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/05/09

    In reply to Embattled Conservatives Look To Star Wars For Guidance
    "The 1977 classic movie, Star Wars, portrayed an epic struggle between a righteous outnumbered few (Rebel alliance) against a much stronger dominant government (Empire)"


    Thats strange because when that happens in Iraq they're called Terrorists.

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    Image of transbastard transbastard
    05/05/09

    In reply to Embattled Conservatives Look To Star Wars For Guidance
    Conservatives everywhere should take their cue from Star Wars and throw their leaders down energy shafts.
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    Image of Lincolnsbeard33 Lincolnsbeard33
    05/05/09

    @transbastard: the conservative party hasn't had a leader for the last 8 years that is the problem.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    05/05/09

    @transbastard: ha!
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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    05/05/09

    @Lincolnsbeard33:


    O RLY?

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    Image of World's Greatest Dad World's Greatest Dad
    05/05/09

    In reply to Embattled Conservatives Look To Star Wars For Guidance
    Also, they need a leader who is a whiney good-for-nothing who shirks his chores to run off and fly space ships with his friends, abandoning his adoptive family to be destroyed in a kind of police cover-up
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    Image of BaconCat BaconCat
    05/05/09

    @World's Greatest Dad: Also, though clearly peniless, he uses nationalized healthcare to get an expensive operation on his hand.
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