This website has made our views on S.C. Sen. Lee Bright pretty clear …
He’s always been a rock solid vote for freedom and free markets in the South Carolina State Senate … which is a good thing. But he’s also been a sanctimonious moralizer whose intellectual capacity is decidedly incompatible with his last name (hence his Senate nickname, “Dim Bulb”).
More importantly there’s Bright’s disastrous personal financial situation – which makes it virtually impossible for him to argue with any credibility on the pressing fiscal issues of the day (which are every bit as important as the individual liberty issues).
Anyway …
Bright is in the crosshairs of the far left for his recent comments on Fox News Radio’s The Alan Colmes Show, which featured an exchange about arming teachers with machine guns.
Here’s how it went down …
COLMES: So (teachers) shouldn’t have machine guns?
BRIGHT: I would think a teacher protecting a school grounds should be able to carry whatever she can carry legally.
COLMES: So should machine guns be legal to carry?
BRIGHT: The Second Amendment is pretty clear. It says the right to carry arms should not be infringed …
COLMES: So you should be able to have any gun you want?
BRIGHT: Well, I don’t see how the government can regulate it.
We’re actually with Bright on this one …
This website has no problem with armed teachers. We believe “teacher carry” is more than just a constitutionally protected right, it is a deterrent to school violence – assuming the teachers go through the proper training.
And while carting a machine gun into a school strikes us as overkill … again … that’s the sort of thing that ought to be left up to the free market (i.e. parents and guardians empowered with their own tax dollars in the education marketplace), not government.
So while Bright is indeed the moron the far left is labeling him as this week … it’s not for his position on this particular issue.
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I concur, Fits!
I say give them TOWs.
Yes, arm the teachers to the hilt. What in hell could go wrong?
Now you’re talking!!!!!!
Make schools completely and utterly defenseless against lone nuts with guns. What could go wrong? Oh….
Yeah, teachers are the problem. That’s the ticket. That’s why Obama is treating Maj. Nadal Hasan like the guest at a country club….
Grand Cliché, do us all a favor and take a logic class because you’re a fork living in a world of soup.
So you think school teachers are too dumb to teach kids but smart enough to carry automatic weapons at school?
Had to admit, that one made me laugh.
You gotta figure Colmes is good at setting traps, he’s on Fox where that’s common. If you don’t have advance notice of what they’re going to ask, you’ll be set up to look like a dumb ass, no matter which side of the aisle you’re on. Hannity tries the same tactic with libtards. You have to be quick on your feet to stay out of the trap, something for which Bright isn’t known.
Absolutely preposterous! This entire concept may play well in back corners of Spartanburg county and perhaps in many other areas of SC, but it is not the path to defeat Graham for a US Senate seat. Why should anyone take this clown as a serious candidate for anything?
Who is Lee Bright”? He is a Republican.
His family tree is circular.
Bright is astoundingly clueless. Please don’t saddle us with this loser. What amazing foolishness. Is this what we want to represent us in the national spotlight? Please, God, give us relief!
Its what the country has come to expect from SC. We sent them that pathetic taker, Sanfraud again.
That dumb bastard even looks dumb!
“I think I’m going to be sick – that looks like *technology*” (must suppress urge to run away!)
Man machine gunned to death in theater for throwing popcorn at teacher. 14 wounded.
Where and when was this?
I took a ride on the Faux train.
Bright is, yet again, not so bright.
The Constitution guarantees us freedom of speech as well, but that actually does NOT mean you are entitled to say ANYTHING you want. Threats of violence, shouting “fire” in a crowded movie theater, barging into any public meeting and just screaming at the top of your lungs.
I understand there’s a lot of debate over what the “well-regulated militia” part of the Second Amendment says, but you can’t honestly pretend that the Amendment means you can carry any gun anywhere regardless of the protests of others under any circumstances.
Government “regulates” via passing and enforcing laws. I’m all for those laws enabling teachers to carry some form of weapon (I don’t see why an assault rifle is necessary, but okay) as long is it is properly secured from the students, the teacher has not committed any really bad crimes, and the teacher has proven they know the laws and can at least hit something. Essentially, a good requirement is for the teacher to have a CWP.
Regulations aren’t just invented out of an oppressive government’s hard-on to needlessly oppress its people, even if Bright and friends would like to claim it is. Sometimes regulations are to keep one person’s rights from infringing on another’s. How many parents would blow a gasket if they found out their teacher carried an AK-47 to work, literally had no ability to aim with it, and did nothing to hide or secure it from 5th grader students? Yeah, exactly. I’m for gun rights, but even then I’d be pissed.
Of course, we don’t often find out about irresponsible gun owners until it is too late.
Where you leftwing idiots are so F*#ked up, is that you are sympathetic to killers, like the Ft. Hood Shooter, because they hate America, And in your sick and twisted minds, you think they have a cause to hate us to the point of murdering our sons and daughters…
And: You’ll priss your little effeminate @$$#$ out to shrilly DEMAND rights for excrement like the Boston bombers or the rapist thugs known as Occupy…but you indict the moral and honest people who build this country because they fear the ‘village’ your evil darlings have so polluted…
I will protect my family. And it’s getting to the point that the greedy and selfish leftwing politicians have incorporated legions of the dull to violate our Constitution. Shielded w/ that Constitution, we obliterated democrat slave-owners and overcame the Nazis.
Do not be so bold as to think Patriots will not take our nation back again…by any means necessary…and then let’s send pieces of $#!* like you, to the countries you so stupidly champion…and see how that works out for ya….when you run your mouth…
Yeah, why don’t you run somebody electable and vote them in? You said it yourself that “Conseratives” stayed home last election, so what makes you think they’ll get off their asses to overthrow the government??
They sent Bush to office twice. and it took 8 years, a 24/7 media onslaught, and a Racist leftwing god running against a conceding Liberal-Tarian, for you to eventually S#*t all over us,….with Obama…
What has been, will be again…And your current F*#k ups will make it a lot easier to ship your $#!tty party to the trash heap, where you belong…So the overthrow of your tyrant will be internal…Just the way you gained power for your greedy, America-hating messiah.
GT, the next time you want to express yourself – call UPS….
The next time youwant to express yourself, why not just cut and paste from the DNC, Hamas or Hezbollah, again????…it beats the H#!! out of trying to think for yourself…
GT, aren’t they the VanderVoort triplets?
GT, you’ve become annoying to the point that I just changed your ringtone to “99 Problems” by Jay-Z…
A debate with you is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe that you have an advantage, and the third … when you know you’re going to lose
The infallible criterion by which to distinguish the true from the would-be analyst is the degree of originality of his conceptions.
I encounter people with something to prove, all the time.
You prove something…just not what you’d hoped to prove.
Bottom line: You’re trying way too hard.
Bottom line – I’m an internet GOD!
Whoa, there buddy… Don’t go off on one of your damn common sense rants and start injecting logic into this conversation. You’ll fuck the debate all up.
Yeah…attack law-abiding Americans, because criminals are running wild, and law enforcement has its hands tied by leftwing sympathizers…that’s the ticket..
Why do you think you lord-god Obama is polling in the 30s…???
Obama isn’t poling in the 30s this week. Bless your heart. He’s polling in the 40s and moving up because the ACA is working, despite the tactics of people like you.
You are an IDIOT…Don’t take that personally, because I promise I am not trying to insult you. It’s a description.
It is fools like you who are the reason children are doing w/o, fathers don’t have jobs and we are living in a depressed state…while the do-nothing Obamas laugh it up and live lavishly….on perpetual vacation…
The country is SCREWED UP. Obamacare is a Freaking JOKE, w/ no chance of doing what he claimed. He LIED about it…
And the only chance our country has is for the GOP to get the Senate in Nov. thwart as much Obamacare as they can…and then get the White House in 2016..and rip out all the disaster of the Obama presidency…
The GOP dies, and the Greatness of America as we know it, dies if we do not reject and turn back every single one of Obama’s colossal failures…
Let’s see, SC is controlled by a republican govenor and republican legislature and Obama is screwing it up? Not sure about your logic.
SC is in a lot better shape than Calif., NY and other @$$-backwards leftwing states…. And defeating Obama is helping us….(NLRB, Voter integrity, anti-Medicaid expansion)….
And SC, w/ ALL States, were in Much Much better shape under Eight years of GW Bush..That simply cannot be denied by any sane and intelligent person…
But that’s also a fact that total F*#king Dumb@$$#$, like you, are too F*#king Stupid to comprehend….
And it’s getting to the point, if any of you Nazi-level robots keep Bashing this country, by lying about what your god-Obama is doing…I will simply Slap the Living $#!* out of you…
You have the right to be ignorant. And the right to be dis-honest…But as long as I pay the penalty, I have the right to defend my country…by kicking your @$$…
Just remember that, if you want to priss out into the streets and perpetuate your ignorance. Good people, who know better, and are tired of your Bull-$#!*. We are watching you. Consider the price you may be paying for your hatred and vengeance…so Obama can play golf, drink champs and live large…
Country is great but you need help. Serious help.
When you don’t know what to say, don’t just post insults – wait for an idea to come into your mind. You may be sure that idea will be wrong, and clearly indicate to everyone just exactly what you mean.
From Nikki’s speech —
“To that I would simply say that a child who cannot read at the level of his or her peers is already damaged socially” — GrandTango got a mention!
There’s a nerve bundle between Damned Tango and reality that filters everything into the shifted number keys.
Shifty, excellente – that’s Spanish for something went to public school so I don’t know)
This is why we ended,albeit as lovers.Your over the top machismo,was but a thinly veiled disguise for your insecurities,although I will never forget the great times we had(especially w/the peanut butter)…
Love,
‘Your Sequoia’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IriEq4H1XSU
Excuse the hell out of me but YOU, sir, and your ilk is what is wrong with this country. F**k you with a 10 foot pole.
Unemployment, targeting Conservatives w/ the IRS, exorbitant costs for inferior healthcare, spying, continually high gas and energy prices, de-valued homes, declining wages, increased taxes, ashamed of America…those are the specific results of the Obama presidency…
Yet you have nothing. You just lash out w/ hate, with no substantial content to back up your ignorant claims…
Fools and injustice eventually collapse from within. It’s a un-changeable rule of human existence. America has always physically fought the corrupt and hateful, who refuse to yield…
And make no mistake about it: you and Obama are the corrupt and hateful…and you will yield, one way or another, or the US will fall….either way, you will tumble…as you deserve..
You will do the tumbling and the rest of your hateful ilk. Blinded by whatever you are blinded by, lashing out with false talking points and claiming liberals are the problem. While there is enough blame to go all around, I’ve not seen a single truth posted in your rants. We aren’t going back to 1950, no matter how much you would like to see that. Point your damned crooked finger at Congress if you want to lay blame for all the above. That’s where it starts. Obama has done a good job turning this country around from the devastation of the Bush/Cheney/Bush/Reagan era. But, you, in your blindness, will never see or admit to that. Keep hating, that’s all you have going for you, besides your willful ignorance.
Up to a point Damned Tango follows well-known Faux analysis. But he always makes a fatal error: he begins to use his own head
Dude opens his mouth and shit just falls out.
One of my mentors years ago in the Republican party told me : “the media is NEVER on your side.” Bright fell into Comb’s trap. The left always portrays a conservative as a nut job. When you answer any question the least bit off they go for the jugular . This was the modern day version of the sucker punch. Bright is a very capable legislator on the state level. The U.S. Senate on the other hand is constitutionally tasked with foreign and military matters. There is one candidate with that world experience. RESTORE HONOR VOTE BILL CONNOR.
POLITICIANS and the MEDIA
(A) The most guileful among the reporters …. are those who appear friendly and smile and seem to be supportive. They are the ones who seek to gut you on every occasion. [ Edward Koch ]
(B) Reporters are not required to read you your Miranda
rights. [ Christopher Matthews ]
(C) No matter how many friends he may think he has in the press …. the president must recognize that his relationship with the
media is primarily adversarial. TV reporters always claim to be “speaking for the people,” but they are really speaking for themselves. In many ways they are political actors just like the president, mindful of their ratings, careful of preserving and building their power. A president must respect them for that power, but he can never entirely trust them. [ Richard Nixon ]
Movie Idea:
Tony Montana – High School Spanish Teacher
Machine gun nation.
It was dark and dank. Very dark. Very dank. And my mind – my mind had gone absolutely blank. What was I supposed to be doing, anyway? Where was I? And for heaven’s sake, what was that big pile of dirty dishes doing in my sink? My head hurt.
Then suddenly, the doorbell rang.
A strange postman was there. He handed me a glowing white packet with no address on it. “This, is an Idea Booklet.” He had an AR-16 on his shoulder, and I could see the selector was on the three round burst position.
“I don’t understand,” I said. “I didn’t order anything at all from anyone.” Reaching for my own rifle behind the door.
“Well, the folks at Upson Panels, they thought that all the homemakers out there would like to know how you can have lovely crackproof walls and ceilings with washable, non-dust-catching surfaces.”
“Gosh, that does sound exciting,” I said. “There are plenty of cracked walls and dusty surfaces in here.”
…and then he opened fire. Or maybe I did. Did I mention my head hurt?
This man looks like a moron.
If the teachers were known to be armed with machine guns, do you think the murders at VA Tech, Colombine, and Sandy Hook would have ever been attempted? I doubt it…
if everyone in the theater was armed with machine guns, do you think the murders at Aurora would have been attempted?
..ok, so maybe they would have…
would there have been as many dead?
…well, maybe more – but it would have been a better news story!
if everyone in the theater was armed with machine guns, do you think the Florida popcorn murder would have been attempted?
…ok, well maybe it would have…
would there have been as many dead?
…well, maybe lots more – but it would have been great camp fire conversation!
omg, this read like an actual transcript…
So Will, you are for him, except when he runs against your girl. Get a life. Don’t see you covering her very much or being critical of her. You have zero Cred here now. Just endorse her and get it over with it. The longer you drag it out, the more you lose any journalistic integrity you had.
I love the what all the “free market” has come to represent for intellectually lazy political philosophy wannabe’s -‘yeah its a bad broken leg, but the free market will work it out’, ‘got bit by a rabid dog, just get government out of the way and let the free market handle it’, ‘wife cheating on you? Smaller government and freer markets are the solution’, ’50 something female teacher who could easily be bowled over by a 14 student wants to bring an arsenal of javelin missiles into the class room? Government restructuring and free markers oughtta do it!!!’
fucking platitude and bromide me to death why don’t ya. Why can’t the free market save me. Ugh.
dang. that was the comment i’ve been trying to come up with since i started reading fits.
I thought that was a picture of Corky from Life Goes On. Come to think of it, he’d do a better job than the elected officials we have now.