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Written By : TrogloPundit

One of my favorite parts of ESPN’s Monday Night Countdown this year was the “Come on, man!” segment: the talking heads would highlight something stupid (or funny) from the previous week and tag whoever was responsible with that line. “Come on, man!”

I’m thinking exactly that about some of my conservative brethren right now, because of John Hawkins’ most recent poll. Seventy-nine right-of-center bloggers (myself included) responded, and I gotta tell you, I’m… dismayed… at a few of the answers.

For example, #3:

Do you believe ACORN stole the 2008 election?

Yes: 20% (16 votes)
No: 80% (63 votes)

Twenty percent?

Come on, man.

I wrote this in November, after another poll showed even worse numbers on that question:

The problem, of course, is that this is ridiculous. ACORN stole an election that Obama won by…what was it? Seven percentage points, nationally? Nearly 9.5 million votes. He won the Electoral College 365-173, and only three Obama states – Indiana, New Hampshire, and North Carolina – were won by fewer than 100,000 votes. Had those three gone the other way, Obama still would have won 335-203.

ACORN is, I honestly believe, powerful enough to sway a few very close districts. A very close state. Maybe more. But swings of that size? No way.

Get your heads on straight, conservatives. Use the facts. Facts. We’re conservatives. Facts matter to us.

Maybe I should be happy it was only 20% – that earlier poll showed an outright majority of Republicans answering “yes.”

That should be enough to invalidate the poll, if you ask me, but still. Come on, man.

Now, on to question #6:

Should Barack Obama be impeached, or not?

Yes: 11% (9 votes)
No: 88% (69 votes)

Eleven percent. Come on, man.

You do understand, right, that Obama has to commit a crime before he can be impeached? Right? We can’t just impeach him because we disagree with him. Not even if we think he’s destroying our nation and our way of life. He has to commit a crime. He has to do something at odds with the written law, and we have to be able to prove that he did it.

So you’ve got a crime in mind, right? And proof of it. Right? You’re not just being a foam-at-the-mouth partisan?

There are two possibilities here. One, people answered “yes” just to be funny. Two…

…come on, man.

(TrogloPundit)

Mr_e_m_t

If facts mattered so much, why is it that John “kung fu” Hawkins is scared shitless of the idea of talking about obama’s birth certificate?

I did a lot of “come on man” reactions over the poll numbers too.
Like i replied in comments to that topic, the results make me sick and reluctant to call myself a conservative.
But I would appear to be more concerned with facts, and the lack of them, than others who try to claim to be conservative.
TrogloPundit

Oh, come on, man.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com/ Christopher_Taylor

Its disappointing to see so many people who call themselves conservatives hold goofy views but that’s just how people are. If you asked 100 lefty bloggers similar sorts of questions you’d get a lot of truthers and silly responses from them, too.
libliever

Posted by Mr_e_m_t
2010-02-14 21:53:30

Maybe you and your state should secede from the Union or better yet why don’t you just leave and become a citizen of Dumbassville in Central Retardnation.

I say this because you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. Hawkins has never shied away from talking about Obama’s BC. Never. I think he covered it ad nauseum as a matter of fact.
Rose

Trog, can you cite the Constitutional provision that says any govt official CANNOT be removed mid-term SOLELY for being so dangerously incompetent that they endanger the security of the United States of America?

For instance, he is proud of I think it is Brennan that says 20% recitivism of the terrorists to the battle field of the GITMO prisoners is acceptable – and it only took 19 of them to bring down the 7 buildings of the World Trade Center area, smash into the pentagon and crash another plane into the Pennsylvania field where as I speak, they are building a muslim monument to celebrate the lives of the terrorists
And how proud he is of Eric Holder for announcing a BILLION DOLLAR trial for terrorists in NEW YORK CITY in civilian court, in a Federal building where many buildings around it have “open shots” into Federal courtrooms.

And I haven’t scratched the surface of the deeds that could be brought to the plaintif’s table at such a hearing.

Trog, I cannot believe that the Conservative cry for his impeachment or SOMETHING isn’t much higher than any backboneless 11%.
Rose

Posted by libliever
2010-02-14 22:52:04

Well, THERE is a fine high compliment to Mr. EMT! SO LOL!

Good Work!!!
http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

the results make me sick and reluctant to call myself a conservative.

Sure thing, herr moby.
http://conservativebootcamp.com martinhale

Its disappointing to see so many people who call themselves conservatives hold goofy views but that’s just how people are. If you asked 100 lefty bloggers similar sorts of questions you’d get a lot of truthers and silly responses from them, too.

Posted by Christopher_Taylor
2010-02-14 22:32:20

CT, I’ve seen this coming for close to 20 years – the fragmentation of societies along the lines of reason v. emotion. It’s a process which has been rapidly accelerated by the ability of people to publish their ‘screw-loose’ thoughts on the web with the same perceived authority, respectability and credibility as those of legitimate thought leaders in various disciplines. It’s happened in all aspects of life and therefore cuts across political party lines as well as any other lines which formerly divided us into camps.

We’ve liberated the common man from the ‘tyranny’ of following thought leaders (yay for us) only to learn that the common man isn’t all that bright or articulate, just prolific in his opinions (boo, that’s not good). We’ve learned that there were good reasons why we listened to experts and thought leaders and not to the common man. And of course now we have to contend with the fact that some of our former thought leaders have gone rogue themselves. Take that group of less than 100 scientists who’ve caused world governments to spend perhaps in excess of $200Bn chasing a mirage which, it’s finally coming out, never really existed.

The death of reason is not a pretty picture.

I was talking with my youngest daughter yesterday and she told me of a co-worker who has been making the claim that the Haiti earthquake was the result of the Chinese and the US secretly placing nuclear weapons along the fault line under Haiti in order to take over Haiti. Of course, when questioned, he has no idea of why the US and China jointly want to take Haiti over, nor can he explain why the need to kill 200,000 people in the process. Clearly this young man is labouring under some serious misperception of the world around him, yet he’s been free to self-publish his ‘theory’ on his blog and he tweets about it constantly. The death of reason leads to the rise of the delusional twit.
Mr_e_m_t

Posted by libliever
2010-02-14 22:52:04

Summing up John “kung fu” Hawkins “covering” of the BC issue…
He is almost certain based on the fact someone said so and there is a newspaper clipping of a classified ad announcement…

And those are the “facts that matter” as TP referred to.
Gee, how could there be a reasonable doubt in anyone’s head based on those “facts”… despite the fact there are more substantial “facts” saying he was born in Keny

You could not be the janitor of the hospital I work at with so little credentials.

Hell you couldn’t be legally employed anywhere, much less serve in the military.

Long story short: birtherism has no place at conservative events or political campaigns and Republican politicians would be very wise to steer clear of it as much as possible. ~John Hawkins

I say this as Mayor of Dumbassville where libliever is one of my proud residents.
http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

he has no idea of why the US and China jointly want to take Haiti over,

Sounds like he needs professional help.
Jack Schite

It’s stupid to think that acorn stole the election. There is no evidence that acorn did any such thing and no, a kid with an agenda posing as a pimp doesn’t prove anything.
http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

a kid with an agenda posing as a pimp doesn’t prove anything.

Posted by Jack Schite

It proved that the ACORN workers in that office were cool with breaking the law. Don’t let facts bite you in the ass, stoner.
http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

I say this as Mayor of Dumbassville where libliever is one of my proud residents.

Posted by Mr_e_m_t
2010-02-15 08:51:24

May Nixon refer to you as His Honor, Mayor McCheese?
AF_Vet

“It’s stupid to think that ~~acorn~~ Bush stole the election. There is no evidence that ~~acorn~~ Bush did any such thing and no, a kid with an agenda posing as a pimp doesn’t prove anything.
Posted by Jack Schite
2010-02-15 09:12:56″

Fixed that for ya, pimp.
gfchicago

I’m not gfchicago just fyi…
Rose

Gee, who needs documents? I remember when all the girls burned their bras and the guys all burned their draft cards. Back in The Day – the 1960′s… Why don’t we all just burn our birth certificates, and school records, passports, and such?

Since it is so stupid and crass of anyone to insist on someone being forced against their will to produce them for inspection, like some poor muslim girl being forced to show her face and thus shame her family in order for her to gain those documents, and/or entry into high security locations. Like banks, or for drivers licenses, passports, boarding airplanes, entering military bases….

All this prissy formality over such trivial matters. We all need to just quit being such snobs.
Jack Schite

It didn’t prove any such thing, Dickhead. It was selectively edited to fool fools like you, and it worked, you fool.