Come On, Grow A Set

It's pretty obvious what Mackowiak is talking about here. What really grates is seeing people on the Right and supposed libertarians so afraid of their own shadow that they apparently have nothing better to do than tell other people to mind their thoughts and language.

If Mackowiak had advocated something outrageous it would be fair to criticize and even condemn him. He didn't. While it may or may not have been the best analogy, it's ultimately far less damaging to conservatism than some of the weak-kneed nanny-like silliness to be found on the Right. Obama and the Left won an election in part because they were bold. If you want to cower in the corner, get another line of work than political activism. Losers lose. Taken as a whole, the Right would do well to stop looking and sounding like one.

The coming revolution is akin to "Fight Club," the 1999 film that follows the struggles of day to day life for a regular guy who starts an underground fight club as radical and not terribly productive psychotherapy.

As Brad Pitt's character, Tyler Durden, says in the movie, "Fight Club was the beginning, now it's moved out of the basement, it's called Project Mayhem."

Well starting today, Tax Day Tea Parties were the beginning, now it's moved on past April 15; it's called the 2010 midterm Congressional elections.

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[IslamoLlama]

"-- The coming revolution is akin to "Fight Club," the 1999 film that follows the struggles of day to day life for a regular guy who starts an underground fight club as radical and not terribly productive psychotherapy. --"

Now, stop me if I'm wrong, but didn't "Fight Club" revolve around disaffected middle income wage slaves violently lashing out at their corporate masters? If I'm not totally off base, I even remember multiple scenes in which the unnamed main character blows up office buildings.

And again, correct me if I'm mistaken, but isn't that exactly the same kind of shit Timothy McVeigh pulled in Oklahoma City circa 1995, except targeted at the federal government?

So... if I'm reading you correctly... the "end game" as you put it, is domestic terrorism on a large scale comparable to one of the nation's worst mass murderers, amirite?

[Paul A'Barge]

from the article: "Mackowiak is a Republican political and communications consultant and former Press Secretary to U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas."

You know they call Kay Bailey "Senator Bailout" right?

For this mutt now to come out all "Fight Club" is beyond hypocrisy.

In Texas politics, Rick Perry and Cornyn are pretty righteous, but Kay Bailey and her Republicidiot apparatchiks?

Not.

[SacTownMan]

You know Lame-O, you really are a tard!

You've so full of shit it's running out of your ears!