Romney to protesters: ‘Take a hike’

Those who do not learn from the Past are Doomed to repeat it....

Yes, the legacy of the Progressive's ties to Marxism should not be forgotten, neither should the legacy of the Old Left's extolling of Russian Communism, nor the New Lefts adoration of the "agrarian reformers" - Mao, Che, Castro, and Pol Pot.

Mishma are you familiar with the Great Awakenings and the Social Gospel. Evangelicals powered the Progressive movement. Not Marxists.

below Excerpted from http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org

"The advocates of the Social Gospel, however, saw things in a very different light. Instead of seeing the dislocations caused by industrialism as inevitable or desirable, the Social Gospelers saw them as the result of greed and the collective failure to protect people. Social Gospel leaders such as George Herron saw the terrible living conditions of workers and their families in urban areas as evidence of the beginning of a new millennium in which Christians were called to build the Kingdom of God. Not to make an effort to build this Kingdom in the face of such human suffering would be a social sin in the eyes of the Social Gospelers.

Thus, despite the fact that the people in the pews were not often driven during the last decades of the nineteenth century to act on the new message of the Social Gospel, the theologians of the Social Gospel were compelled to continue preaching their unpopular message. On the one hand, they were driven by the association of their ideas with the most current trends in higher education to believe that they were correct in what they believed; on the other hand, they were driven by their evangelical fervor to try to help those in need."

Yes, I am familiar. In the future, please do not post quotes to me unless they simply support something that you have written with understanding.

Anyone can simply do a Google search on anything and post it. If one responds to such a post, it is really only responding to the writer of the article. There is not a shred of evidence that the person who put it up understands anything at all.

I do not know why you wrote that. I do know that the early Progressives - who wanted what amounts to Communism (government control over the entire economy and society) - approached their destructive and pernicious and vile credos from a Christian perspective. Croly and Woody Wilson were two examples.

If this is something with which you have indeph knowledge, feel free to respond. However, I will not respond to more "cut and pastes."

You seem to be operantly conditioned as a right wing social warrior. I can't write a text on the Progressive era; but for any young people who are monitoring this thread; just Google the Progressive era to see why its was called Progressive. Yes some that were associated with the movement referred to themselves as Socialists--such as that which Eugene Debbs--was involved with; However 99% of those in the movement were as American as apple pie; including Teddy Roosevelt. Mishima is just spouting nonsense when he ties Pol Pot, Castro and Mao to American Progressives.

For any young people who are monitoring this, it is important to remember that the Progressives wanted to concentrate power in the federal government, and that was from the late 19th century. Check out the "Nationalist Clubs" for what the earliest ones did to promote total government control of the economy.

Then move on to Herbert Croly and John Dewey, but better yet: That Progressive hero and icon, Woodrow Wilson. Wilson started the Red Scare, set up programs for Americans to spy on fellow citizens and go through their mail and listen to conversations. Wilson, the Progressive, was against any lynching laws in the South, and he admired the Klan.

But the eugenics movement was something highly praised and promoted by the Progressives. Adolph Hitler himself wrote to America, thanking the Progressives for their "inspiration" in promoting the eugenics movement.

And, you youthful one reading these posts - Be sure to look to the major magazines of the Progressives. Start with Nation magazine, the #1 magazine of the intellectuals of the Progressives and today's Left. That, along with most Progressives, wrote panegyrics to the new Communist state in the USSR and pushed for America to follow suit. Many Progressive "fellow travelers" went to Moscow after the revolution there. They came back, eulogizing it, referring to it as "Holy Moscow."

After WWI, the Progressives pushed for the federal government to take over America's industries, notably those of transportation and energy; the government had become involved because of the war, and they said it was now an excellent opportunity to usher in the communist utopia in America, that Americans could do it even better than Russians.

But don't stop there: Check out how the Progressives admired and were in awe at Benito Musolini's Fascist Italy.

Young man or woman, today's Liberals will deny their heritage, so go see for yourself. You will see of what their history consists. Nothing has changed. The only difference is that today's LIBERALS are more patient. They do not advocate overnight revolution today; they have learned to work WITHIN the existing system.

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But the goals, the objectives, the agenda? They have not changed for a century.

Again for the young people--- stay in school; learn your history, (so you can make a lot of money as a lobbyist); examine your time lines-- and then obvious distortions of history and pure propaganda will be obvious to you. I hope you'll grow up to be Progressive citizens in a strong and noble country; instead of a generation consigned to a footnote of history that records the disturbing ignorance displayed by regressive movements such as the" Know Nothings"; Bundts; Ku Klux Klan; Brown Shirts and Tea Party. (This assumes, of course, that you survive global warming or global war-mongering).

Ask yourself, Could you breathe if an army of Mishimas actually took power? Think about it. They are not in power now. They haven't held sway since Franklin Roosevelt. Do you want the same kind of opportunities that your fathers and grandfathers had?, or do you want to substitute Mishima's (and the Koch Brothers) Dickensian nightmare for humanity?
A return to the "good old days" where you can look forward to sweating your life out in a Foxcom type environment. Your only safety net will be the nets they string between the buildings to keep you from committing suicide.

Your choice; your future. Me and Mishima will be dead in a few years. I hope you won't be singing, "Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till its gone. . ."

Young people: Yes, be sure to read GOOD and ACCURATE histories of your country, not the ones revised by the Left-wingers, like Howard Zinn who protrays our great country as one of the downtrodden fighting against oppressors.

Remember we have the oldest written Constitution in the world, and don't listen to LEFT-WINGERS tell you it is a "living document"; their purpose is to discredit and override it to expand the power of government.

Read the Constitution, young men and women, and the Founding documents; this is the source of our exceptionality, pride and strength. If you do this, it will provide a bulwark with which to resist the onslaught and deception and false promises of the Socialists who would destroy our heritage.

No, he pointed to people who believe in free speech and the freedom of assembly. The radicals in the background are against basic principles of liberty and freedom.

Heh, Voted Up... =)

Well thought-out, sapient post.

I think his own party will... =)

Damned Straight, I could see him saying such a thing in Private, but in Front of a Camera??? Sheeesh, what a Moron.... =)

Romney handled it beautifully.

(Still want Newt as the next president with Santorum his VP, of course. Then Santorum can take over 8 years later, and for another eight years.)

I would have Loved to see pictures... =)

I drove past as they were setting up but I did not know what was going on. I would have loved to have caused trouble.

LOL!!! I would have paid good money to watch you doing so.... =)

Why are you against free speech?

How can I be against free speech when I want to exercise my right to free speech? I do not want Mr. Romney to stop talking, the more he talks the lower his numbers go. I encourage him to keep talking. I do not want his supporters to stop talking. I enjoy a good chuckle when I hear or read their nonsense.

I just want them to hear me. I would even enjoy a spirited shouting match debate. It gets the blood flowing. I like the passion of confrontation. It makes me feel alive.

It is not personal. I do not hate them. I respect anyone that has an intelligent thought and wants to try to convince me I am wrong. I only ask that they allow me to express myself as well.

So actually I would go because of my love for free speech, and my desire to be heard.

Screaming and shouting down a speaker who has taken the trouble to set up a platform to express his views is anathema to the very idea, the very essence, of free speech. It is the strangling, the throttling, and the inhibiting of free speech.

You can call it "nonsense" all you want. But you will have to accept the election results in November. Laugh when Romney or Gingrich is sworn into the Presidency in January, 2013.

"A riot is the language of the unheard."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable­­." John F. Kennedy
"A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."
Thomas Jefferson

Challenging those that will try to destroy America is the true American way. The great Americans above would agree with me. Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Romney do not want a strong America, they want to take from Americans. These men want to redistribute the wealth by taking from hard working tax paying Americans and giving it to large corporations that continue to avoid paying taxes while making record profits as they ship our jobs overseas.

They Can't, they are too busy Flapping their Gums... =)

We have listened. And we are responding.

Yes!!! Keep it Cheap... =)

"For Liberals, free speech means throwing food."
-Ann Coulter

Just one of them so far.... Warren Buffet... =)

Yes, they create jobs.

He will soon enough... =)

LMFAO!!!! =)

More well-thought out and percipient voices from the Left.

Who exactly are you speaking of???

Ex-actly! Well put.

Thanks, you are welcome... =)