Today's Example of GOP Idiocy - AAA, At Residual Forces!

How about "the lies"? Don't those (0.00 / 0)

get you down? I mean: the "idiocy"--that's the conservatives who believe the lies. But for decades now conservatism proudly proceeds on the basis of lies...from McCarthy's "there are 211 card carrying communists currently serving in the US State Department" right down to Aplikowski's "bankrupt radio station."

I would be under terrific stress, every day, if I knew that my political worldview depended on lies and spreading lies--every day, all the time. And if I were a conservative, I would have to do that--and I would have to understand that that they were lies, in order to spread them effectively.

But I would wonder why my political worldview had depended on lies, and had for decades: McCarthy, Buckley, Limbaugh, Coulter, Beck, Hannity... Why is lying at the foundation of conservatism, why is lying a foundation of their daily self-imposed reality?

But apparently this guy is one of millions of Americans who is happy with the fact that his worldview proceeds from lies and depends on the daily distribution of lies passed off as facts.

I think this represents a personality type, a person who needs to spread lies out of some deep emotional "power fantasy."  

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by: Bill Prendergast @ Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 19:46:35 PM UTC

Ya know, Bill - there's an old saying.... (0.00 / 0)

"If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't true."

And poor AAA - as noted above, not the sharpest knife in the drawer - is the type the GOPer spinmeisters prey on.

IMNSHO, Andy doesn't "lie" - he actually believes the cr@p he's fed, and happily regurgitates it every chance he gets.

"Facts are stupid things."  Ronald Reagan said it; simpleton bootlickers like AAA live it.

"Those that forget the lessons of history, tend to vote GOP"

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by: TwoPuttTommy @ Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 20:00:44 PM UTC

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Wouldn't it be ... (0.00 / 0)

not the sharpest spoon in the knife drawer?

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by: The Big E @ Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 20:09:52 PM UTC

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Yeah? You really believe he's (0.00 / 0)

one of the "believers" and not one of the cynics who spreads the lies knowing they're lies? That's a very interesting take, because I figure anyone who can type up a coherent paragraph has the brains to know that lies are standard operating procedure in the conservative movement--the brains to know that sending out a phony claim just because it's what an audience wants to hear and will believe: is lying.

It's not necessarily "about" Mr. A. It's the stuff like "the death panels" lie about health care, "the Clintons were complicit in the death of Vince Foster," countless examples of things like that. Lies that get circulated deliberately by conservative circles, because there's a political payoff for the movement if they're accepted by the unwary.

The conservative movement has a proven track record of lying, about big issues, regularly, as a matter of policy. So, yes, the movement's policy of lying (of "black propaganda") means that people who rely on the conservative movement to tell them the truth "stupid," in the sense of "irrationally credulous." But the people who spread the lies--they're not necessarily stupid, their relationship to the "stupid" conservatives is that of a "con men" to their "marks."

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by: Bill Prendergast @ Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 21:54:41 PM UTC

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Andy Aplikowski (0.00 / 0)

There comes a point when one can take only so much cr@p from someone like Andy Aplikowski. He seems obsessed with attacking me and my character since I announced my run for Minnesota Governor on January 20th and then suspended my campaign in February. Whether or not I return to the gubernatorial trail is none of his business, although I can understand the fear that he and the MN GOP has that I might restore my campaign.

In the past Andy has claimed that I was the reason he drank too much and smoked too much and was ostracized from the MN GOP because he supported my run for party chair in 2007. Andy's position within the MN GOP was destroyed long before he was a minor player involved with my 2007 chair campaign. Others have well documented Andy's displays of public drunkenness at official MN GOP functions and his unsubstantiated attacks on GOP officials and candidates he did not agree, especially Chairman Ron Carey. The truth is that Andy is a very sad and troubled young man who often flies off the handle and then telling lies and throws bombs in his attempt to get noticed by someone or anyone. Andy is an immature pathetic cry baby who refuses to accept responsibility for his own actions.

Let me set the record straight. For years I have defended Andy out of respect for his Mother Bev and his girl friend Carrie. However, his latest attack ends my remaining silent.  

It is long been my belief that Andy Aplikowski was the source of the June 3, 2007, leak of the Star Tribune article about Dwight Tostenson's internal party memo. Although I can not definitively prove my suspicions, here is what I can state as fact.

I ran in 2007 against Ron Carey for the chair of the MN GOP. Andy would show up occasionally to our home to help in mailings. Andy was never an official member of the campaign staff or kitchen cabinet, only a volunteer. One evening in mid May 2007, Andy showed up at our home during a letter stuffing event that was attended by a number of my neighbors, their children and some of my campaign staff. Andy pulled out of his pocket a number of printed pages and declared he had an internal MN GOP document that he was going to release to the Star Tribune that would put an end to Ron Carey's domination over the MN GOP. He implied that he got the document from Michael Barrett, a former candidate for Congress in the 7th CD. The document was an internal memo, dated February 15, 2007, and written to members of the MN GOP Executive Board by Dwight Tostenson, a former worker at state party headquarters.

Aplikowski handed me the papers and I read the front page. I handed them back to him and told them that, "I believed that this document is a fake and likely planted by the Carey/Brodkorb camp. That no one was that stupid to violate the laws pertaining to employee pension payments." I have witnesses/neighbors who will testify that this is exactly what happened. I told him I would not have anything to do with the document. Tim Wilkin, who was part of the campaign inner circle was there and also read the document. Andy left shortly there after but e-mailed me the document a few days or weeks later followed by a phone call saying he had verified the truthfulness of the document. I told him again that I would not have anything to do with it. Days later it appeared in the Star Tribune, and from the detailed investigation by the Star Tribune reporters and the admission by Dwight Tostenson in the article it appears the document was in fact true.

A firestorm resulted. Carey labeled me as an enemy of the MN GOP and my campaign as the source of the leaking of the memo to the Star Tribune. The reporters from the Star Tribune admitted to me that they had met with Aplikowski before the story broke but would not verify my suspicions that Andy provided the memo to them. That memo likely cost me the very close election as party chair.

Sadly, some people never grow up and accept their responsibilities for their actions. Andy still blogs but for the most part it is personal attacks against people de does not like or politicians who do not meet his standard of Republican purity. I'll stake my character and reputation against Alpikowski's any day.  

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by: joe repya @ Thu Mar 11, 2010 at 21:29:05 PM UTC