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	<description>Unfair ... Imbalanced</description>
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		<title>By: Silence Dogood</title>
		<link>http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/02/20/litmus-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-47800</link>
		<dc:creator>Silence Dogood</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>FITS, I am still curious to hear, if this vote was a &quot;litmus test&quot; as you have entiled the entire piece, for who is conservative and who is liberal - Then does this mean Sens. Sheehen and Leventis are conservatives?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>FITS, I am still curious to hear, if this vote was a &#8220;litmus test&#8221; as you have entiled the entire piece, for who is conservative and who is liberal &#8211; Then does this mean Sens. Sheehen and Leventis are conservatives?</p>
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		<title>By: baker</title>
		<link>http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/02/20/litmus-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-47794</link>
		<dc:creator>baker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Will&#039;s handed out two or three &quot;moron&quot; tags today. 

GOP in-fighting is kind of an interesting deal. I sometimes wonder if folks wouldn&#039;t be happier if we had a legitimate two-party system in our state.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Will&#8217;s handed out two or three &#8220;moron&#8221; tags today. </p>
<p>GOP in-fighting is kind of an interesting deal. I sometimes wonder if folks wouldn&#8217;t be happier if we had a legitimate two-party system in our state.</p>
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		<title>By: Silence Dogood</title>
		<link>http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/02/20/litmus-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-47792</link>
		<dc:creator>Silence Dogood</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>FITS, Thanks for another hard hitting piece (of crap) article.  Based on  your backasswards analysis, numerous Republicans were cast into the neither world of being RINO&#039;s.  Therefore, does that mean at the same time we are supposed to belive that Sheheen and Leventis are not &quot;conservativ&quot; or maybe &quot;DINO&#039;s?&quot; We will just assume Sheheen is running for governor and Leventis is not.

Yet, maybe...just maybe...and I am going to go out on a limb here, as much as you try to make complex, nebulous and often very intricate issues into true/false, black/white questions with clear colorcoded graphs of what is &quot;&#039;conservative&#039; or &#039;liberal&#039; people&quot; perhaps the world, and particularly the messy world of politics and running a state, just aint that easy.  And to your chagrin, just doesn&#039;t break down as simply as you might like.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>FITS, Thanks for another hard hitting piece (of crap) article.  Based on  your backasswards analysis, numerous Republicans were cast into the neither world of being RINO&#8217;s.  Therefore, does that mean at the same time we are supposed to belive that Sheheen and Leventis are not &#8220;conservativ&#8221; or maybe &#8220;DINO&#8217;s?&#8221; We will just assume Sheheen is running for governor and Leventis is not.</p>
<p>Yet, maybe&#8230;just maybe&#8230;and I am going to go out on a limb here, as much as you try to make complex, nebulous and often very intricate issues into true/false, black/white questions with clear colorcoded graphs of what is &#8220;&#8216;conservative&#8217; or &#8216;liberal&#8217; people&#8221; perhaps the world, and particularly the messy world of politics and running a state, just aint that easy.  And to your chagrin, just doesn&#8217;t break down as simply as you might like.</p>
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		<title>By: sid</title>
		<link>http://www.fitsnews.com/2009/02/20/litmus-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-47782</link>
		<dc:creator>sid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>That&#039;s the best you&#039;ve got?  I&#039;m disappointed.  I know your &quot;conservative&quot; credentials are focused predominantly on money and how government spends it, but that&#039;s not all it takes to be &quot;conservative.&quot;  Your definition of a RINO is pretty myopic, as it seems to ignore many issues that are key to what most consider to be &quot;conservative&quot; standards.

That said, if you&#039;re so thin-skinned you can&#039;t take a little jab when you screw up a pretty basic concept like who has rights and what does not, then it may be you who needs to release a little fluid.

What, exactly, am I trying to slow down?  Did I question your stance on the differing views for correcting the problems with your Port Authority?  I don&#039;t think so, but perhaps you can point me to that passage where I did.

Or am I trying to slow down the &quot;rocket&quot; that is FITS?  By correcting you when you misapplied a term in a way that most true conservatives would find problematic?  Just accept that you screwed up, and I&#039;m sure your &quot;rocket&quot; will do just fine.

Keep proclaiming to yourselves that you are &quot;power to the people&quot; all you want.  Sometimes I see it, and sometimes I don&#039;t.  If you want to call me a &quot;moron,&quot; that&#039;s fine.  I&#039;ll shed a little tear, if it makes you feel better.  But in reality, I couldn&#039;t possibly care less what you think of my mental abilities (or, at least, what you want to project as what you think).  I&#039;ll call you out when I see you screw up in the future, whether it&#039;s a big mistake or something nitpicky.

To summarize, you screwed up, I didn&#039;t say anything about what should be done to fix the Port Authority, and you can&#039;t seem to take it when someone points out you screwed up, so you lashed out blindly.  Good job, if that&#039;s what your job requires of you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s the best you&#8217;ve got?  I&#8217;m disappointed.  I know your &#8220;conservative&#8221; credentials are focused predominantly on money and how government spends it, but that&#8217;s not all it takes to be &#8220;conservative.&#8221;  Your definition of a RINO is pretty myopic, as it seems to ignore many issues that are key to what most consider to be &#8220;conservative&#8221; standards.</p>
<p>That said, if you&#8217;re so thin-skinned you can&#8217;t take a little jab when you screw up a pretty basic concept like who has rights and what does not, then it may be you who needs to release a little fluid.</p>
<p>What, exactly, am I trying to slow down?  Did I question your stance on the differing views for correcting the problems with your Port Authority?  I don&#8217;t think so, but perhaps you can point me to that passage where I did.</p>
<p>Or am I trying to slow down the &#8220;rocket&#8221; that is FITS?  By correcting you when you misapplied a term in a way that most true conservatives would find problematic?  Just accept that you screwed up, and I&#8217;m sure your &#8220;rocket&#8221; will do just fine.</p>
<p>Keep proclaiming to yourselves that you are &#8220;power to the people&#8221; all you want.  Sometimes I see it, and sometimes I don&#8217;t.  If you want to call me a &#8220;moron,&#8221; that&#8217;s fine.  I&#8217;ll shed a little tear, if it makes you feel better.  But in reality, I couldn&#8217;t possibly care less what you think of my mental abilities (or, at least, what you want to project as what you think).  I&#8217;ll call you out when I see you screw up in the future, whether it&#8217;s a big mistake or something nitpicky.</p>
<p>To summarize, you screwed up, I didn&#8217;t say anything about what should be done to fix the Port Authority, and you can&#8217;t seem to take it when someone points out you screwed up, so you lashed out blindly.  Good job, if that&#8217;s what your job requires of you.</p>
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		<title>By: fitsnews</title>
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		<dc:creator>fitsnews</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sid-

You need to get laid. That&#039;s the most nitpick comment we&#039;ve ever heard.

We are &quot;power to the people&quot; more than any news outlet this state has ever seen, which is why morons like you are grasping at straws to find anything you can micro-analyze and misrepresent in a desperate effort to blunt the momentum.

You&#039;re trying to slow down a rocket with a rubber band, dude.

-FITS</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sid-</p>
<p>You need to get laid. That&#8217;s the most nitpick comment we&#8217;ve ever heard.</p>
<p>We are &#8220;power to the people&#8221; more than any news outlet this state has ever seen, which is why morons like you are grasping at straws to find anything you can micro-analyze and misrepresent in a desperate effort to blunt the momentum.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re trying to slow down a rocket with a rubber band, dude.</p>
<p>-FITS</p>
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		<title>By: sid</title>
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		<dc:creator>sid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;...remove the executive branchâ€™s right...&quot;

If you are going to put forth the impression you are the true compass for all things &quot;conservative,&quot; you better start getting the language correct.  The executive branch has &quot;powers&quot; and &quot;authority.&quot;  The people have &quot;rights.&quot;  Rights, it is understood, exist even without whatever form of government is in place.  Whatever governement that is in place has the power and/or authority to do certain things, and in a true republic, this power and/or authority is granted to the government by the people.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;&#8230;remove the executive branchâ€™s right&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>If you are going to put forth the impression you are the true compass for all things &#8220;conservative,&#8221; you better start getting the language correct.  The executive branch has &#8220;powers&#8221; and &#8220;authority.&#8221;  The people have &#8220;rights.&#8221;  Rights, it is understood, exist even without whatever form of government is in place.  Whatever governement that is in place has the power and/or authority to do certain things, and in a true republic, this power and/or authority is granted to the government by the people.</p>
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		<title>By: Just Checking</title>
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		<dc:creator>Just Checking</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lee Bright, Kevin Bryant, Mick Mulvaney, Mike Rose, Greg Ryberg, Phillip Shoopman, and Danny Verdin ---- the sooner they are unelected the better we all are</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lee Bright, Kevin Bryant, Mick Mulvaney, Mike Rose, Greg Ryberg, Phillip Shoopman, and Danny Verdin &#8212;- the sooner they are unelected the better we all are</p>
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		<title>By: StupidShouldHurtMore (SSHM)</title>
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		<dc:creator>StupidShouldHurtMore (SSHM)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ryberg as a true conservative? Are you kidding me?

Did you miss the piece of &quot;nanny-state legislation&quot; he has put forth? For those that have missed it, read on:

SC Senator: If You Weigh More, You Pay More
http://www.wjbf.com/jbf/news/state_regional/state_govtpolitics/article/sc_senator_if_you_weigh_more_you_pay_more/10258/

What of personal responsibility? Why do we need the government to tell us we are fat? Don&#039;t stand among the conservatives crying for smaller and less intrusive government only to turn around and start labeling people with a government-mandated label.

Conservative? No way. Hypocrite? All the way.


- SSHM</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ryberg as a true conservative? Are you kidding me?</p>
<p>Did you miss the piece of &#8220;nanny-state legislation&#8221; he has put forth? For those that have missed it, read on:</p>
<p>SC Senator: If You Weigh More, You Pay More<br />
<a href="http://www.wjbf.com/jbf/news/state_regional/state_govtpolitics/article/sc_senator_if_you_weigh_more_you_pay_more/10258/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wjbf.com/jbf/news/state_regional/state_govtpolitics/article/sc_senator_if_you_weigh_more_you_pay_more/10258/</a></p>
<p>What of personal responsibility? Why do we need the government to tell us we are fat? Don&#8217;t stand among the conservatives crying for smaller and less intrusive government only to turn around and start labeling people with a government-mandated label.</p>
<p>Conservative? No way. Hypocrite? All the way.</p>
<p>- SSHM</p>
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