Ignorant people who would rather pray the drought away than actually learn how the weather works, because learning about weather means learning science which means worshiping the devil.

Don’t you know Perry will just claim that was a liberal-elitist-god-hating stooge who was paid to make that sign, where they knew of the spelling error in order to make their people look stupid? Come on. This is GOP talking point #1. (That said, I am certain that woman does “school” her kids, but if it isn’t from the good lord, she cares less. Jesus didn’t care about spelling.)

Mitch, that’s not what I said. But, praying has done so much good for Texas, what with the fires and all.

Jodeo- You are either an awesome troll or a complete “moran”. I’m going with option 1. Nicely done!

It’s well known spelling has a liberal bias!

Jodeo: I assume the stuff in parentheses was intentional (57 States etc. etc.) but moranic statements? Alanis M. has a song for you.

“or why Obama’s EPA has banned inhalators.)”

The FDA (not EPA) rule banning CFC asthma inhalers was made during the Bush administration. So, that would be “Bush’s FDA.”

The lesson here: just because a right-wing blogger says it, doesn’t make it so.

Jodeo::

1. Moronic, not moranic.
2. are, not be.
3. 50 states, not 57. (Unless somehow we gained 7 when I wasn’t looking. If so, I’d love to see them named. Perhaps a link would be helpful!)
4. Transcontinental railroad, not intercontinental.

In regards to the sign… yes it’s funny and yes people make mistakes. The sad fact is that a child going through public education would make a similar mistake. Any kid would if they were excited enough about something. It’s still darn funny though, given the location of said sign. I’d say the same if it was a democractic gathering, but the fact that it’s for Perry just makes it even more funny.

Look, it’s so obvious that with all the drought, fires, and funding mishaps throughout the state of Texas that God is just really pissed off with Republicans being in charge for so long.
Let’s get back to how it was when things were good.

@Jodeo: Don’t be defending this kid. An ADULT took him to that rally or whatever it is. The ADULT let him take that sign misspelled. Kids attend school 5 days a week 9 mos a year, for the most part, and they can’t spell “school”? You think that kid decided on his own to make that sign? Give me a break.

Intercontinental railroad? What’s an inhalator?

57 states? Is that the best you can do on Obama, a joke from 3 years ago? That line is SO old, even 99 pct of republicans won’t use that anymore.

Nice job posting an 18 month old photo…what’s next, breaking news about Newt Gingrich’s credit limit at Tiffany & Co? Idiot.

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/02/perry_palin_homescholers.php

Correction: Bree, your use of commas is perfect. See? No one is immune from making mistakes.

In case you aren’t on on the “moran” joke:

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2005/06/27/we-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-a-moran/

I see jodeo has not responded. Perhaps he is in his homeschool class. Yeah, us liberal educated people are scary. It’s those long winters when we have nothing to do but read and learn about the environment and science and all those other intellectual things. How many Texans can even name the Ivy League colleges?

Marg While you so proudly were at home sitting on your butt reading the rest of us Texans were out working. While you are at it pick up a history book and read about the history of the Democratic party; founded by Andrew Jackson who was responsible for the trail of tears and partly the genocide of the American Indian. Democrat Strom Thurmond voted against civil rights legislation and come to think of it Jim Crow laws came from the Democrats solid south. How about Robert Byrd (D)(KKK). I think you might wish to read about the Democrats history a little more and spend a little less time giving a child a hard time about forgetting an o, cause as we all know liberal elites are perfect and never make mistake; what a pathetic a-hole Marg

President Obama and his staff of highly educated, degree holding professionals can’t tell – even with references and resources available to them (such as the map that they were copying the information off of) – where Wyoming and Colorado are on a map. But that isn’t important, or a reflection on their intellect, or the quality of their work.
But a little kid who makes a spelling mistake on a home-made sign supporting a Republican candidate MUST indicate that the candidate, party, and all home-school students are idiots? Right.

Bob, it’s a mistake to get your history from Glenn Beck, because he will only give you half the story, at best, and even that will be packed with lies.

Before the Civil War, the Democratic Party was, by current-day standards, the conservative party. Like all conservative parties, it opposed progress and advocated clinging to the status quo — with the status quo being the preservation of slavery.

The 19th century conserva-Dems viewed slaves as private property no different from livestock, except that this “stock” represented a combined value of $3 billion, which is equivalent to $81 billion in today’s money. The conservatives adamantly opposed the idea of the government forcing private citizens who happened to be slave owners to divest themselves of their property.

Plus, while the North was quickly industrializing, the Southern planter oligarchs had not bothered to diversify their economy, which was based entirely on the business model of agricultural production by enslaved people. Ending slavery would bankrupt not just the oligarchs but the economy of the entire region.

The Republican Party was founded in the 1850s out of the progressive abolitionist movement. Its number one objective was upending the status quo by freeing the slaves, which, by current standards, makes it the more liberal party. The Republicans’ most famous leader, then and now, made his name in politics as an anti-war member of Congress. In the late 1840s, Rep. Abraham Lincoln of Illinois — sort of a Dennis Kucinich of his day — was part of tiny minority in Congress who opposed the War with Mexico.

After Lincoln was elected president in 1860, all but a few Southern conservative Democrats in Congress resigned from Congress, went home and traitorously took up arms against the United States. The Democratic Party in the North split into a pro-Union faction that went to war against the Confederacy and an anti-war faction known as the Copperheads.

Over the next century after the Civil War, the two parties began to morph from the ideologies they held in the mid-19th century to the polar opposite positions from their original positions* they hold today.

In the late 19th century, the Republican Party began to cozy up to the robber barons, for example. Three decades or so later, after Republican pro-banking, pro-Wall Street anti-regulatory policies in the Coolidge and Hoover administrations led to the Great Depression, the Democratic Party in the North became the party of unions and working people. Meanwhile in the South, the Democratic Party held onto its conservative white supremacist ideals.

The schism in the Democratic Part led to the walk-out by the white-supremacist Dixiecrats under Strom Thurmond in 1948.

In 1964, the establishment wing of the Democratic Party completed its 180 degree transition from conservative to liberal with LBJ’s signing of the Civil Rights Act, which guaranteed equal rights for blacks and other races.

This move so outraged the old Dixiecrats that it paved the way for GOP Pres. Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy.” In the next election after the Civil Rights law was signed, Nixon’s Republican Party welcomed the old Dixiecrat white supremacists into the GOP, including Strom Thurmond himself.

(Check out this candid, off-the-record assessment of the GOP’s switch to the party of white supremacy by the late Republican operative Lee Atwater, the George H.W. Bush political guru from the 1980s, who is credited with teaching young Karl Rove and George W. Bush how to lie, cheat and steal and get away with it in politics.)

The marriage from hell of the one-time party of Lincoln to the ideological sons of his bitterest enemies, the planter oligarchs, was consummated in 1980, when Ronald Reagan, as his first act after winning the GOP presidential nomination, officially opened the Republican Party’s general election presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Miss.

Reagan chose Philadelphia, Miss., to honor an act of white supremacist terrorism that took place there in June 1964, when Ku Klux Klan members, including a deputy sheriff, abducted and killed three Civil Rights volunteers.

Reagan’s symbolic move sent a signal to racist ideologues in the South and around the country — including in California, his home as well as Nixon’s — letting them know in no uncertain terms that white supremacy had a home in the “new” Republican Party.

Since then, the American mainstream white supremacist faction inside the Republican Party has rebranded itself several times — while also reaching out to its Christian nationalist allies by expanding its hateful ideology to target gays. It was known as the Moral Majority in the 1980s. In the 1990s, it became the Christian Coalition. In the 2000s, it was known as Bush’s base.

Today, white supremacy is alive and well in the GOP, manifesting itself now as the corporate-funded tea party “movement,” which coalesced not coincidentally 22 days after the inauguration of the United States’ first African-American president.

* Updated for clarity.

Did Perry write the sign?

Thanks, Orangutan. On the first point, I meant polar opposite of their positions in the mid-19th century, not from each other today. (I updated the sentence to make that point clearer, I hope.) I agree that corporatist influence exists in the Democratic Party, but if you ignore Republicans’ down-home patriotic jingoism and judge them based entirely on their actions, it is clear that the main, centralizing objective of the GOP is to promote the interests of their corporate sponsors and wealthy patrons at the expense of the middle class and poor.

On the second point, I don’t believe the tea party’s ranks would even exist if a black man had not been elected president. Evidence of this is the fact that when the spending and deficits they railed against in 2009 first grew out of control during the presidency of a white Southerner in the mid-2000s, they couldn’t be bothered to get up off their couches. It wasn’t until February 2009, 22 days after Obama was inaugurated, that it all became so unbearably outrageous that they finally got off their fat asses and collectively flew into a spittle-spewing rage.

Also check out Lee Atwater’s summation, in an off-the-record interview in 1981, of how the GOP sublimated Jim Crow policies into its small-government, anti-taxation messaging in order to attract the white supremacist establishment into the Republican ranks:

ATWATER: You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

I don’t know, Dj. I checked Snopes and found nothing stating that it’s fake. I can’t say for sure that it’s not PhotoShopped, since I didn’t take the pic, but I can’t find any confirmation that it is. Can you? If so, please provide a link. Thanks.

VOTE RON PAUL!