1. A Liberal Attempts to Think Straight
– Big Mistake!
• Re: The Cognitive Dissonance of Republican Logic
• A column dissection of an article by Jason Stanford
• Huffington Post

2. I enjoy discussing cognitive dissonance when it comes to
liberals. They are so much fun!
Jason Stanford: F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said, “The
test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two
opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain
the ability to function.” That’s also very close to the
definition of cognitive dissonance. The difference is that in
the former, the mind “retain[s] the ability to function,”
whereas in the latter, the tension drives you mad and you
end up voting for Mitt Romney.
Nice. Demagoguery to start a column about cognitive
dissonance.

3. Jason Stanford: Every time Republicans open their mouths
this summer, it’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity. If you try
to apply logic to a political party that believes
contraception leads to out-of-wedlock births, then you’re
just going to give yourself a migraine.
I guess the first paragraph wasn’t enough to get his hate
out of his system. Nice again. [shakes head]
Jason Stanford: Republicans believe that government
spending causes unemployment. But we can’t cut the
defense budget, because that would put people out of
work.
I’ve never heard a Republican actually say that. Is this just
a straw man to easily knock down? Probably. Regardless,

4. this is an example of playing stupid. Who doesn’t know
that Republicans see cutting military spending as
counterproductive in a world where the next line of
defense is the UN?!?
Jason Stanford: Republicans say that the wealthy need the
incentive of massive tax breaks to create jobs, but the
same logic does not apply to the people doing the jobs.
According to Republican logic, abolishing the minimum
wage would unleash the entrepreneurial spirit of the
working class.
Huh? What kind of nonsense is this? He puts 1 + 1
together and gets 3,843. It just doesn’t add up. It is not the
duty of the wealthy to create jobs. They don't create jobs

5. because of "incentive". They create jobs to fulfill a need
when circumstances warrant. If profits are restricted by
high taxes that they don't feel can be recouped by
expansion, they won't create jobs. With a tax break the job
creator gets to profit more and possibly create more jobs.
In the second instance, the job creator (who hires those at
minimum wage) gets to keep more of his existing profit
and possibly redirect it to hiring more people at a lower
wage to create even more profit. Where does this “unleash
the entrepreneurial spirit of the working class” come from?
(I'd need a detailed explanation of that one. [rolls eyes])
For the record, Republicans wish to lower the minimum
wage to allow small businesses to hire more employees.
America has an unemployment problem. Duh!

6. Jason Stanford: In Texas, we’ve got a lot of Republicans
who work all week sucking dinosaur juice out of the
ground and then go to church on Sunday where they learn
Earth is only 6,000 years old. They might spend the
afternoon trying to keep their lawns green despite record-
breaking temperatures, secure in their belief that global
warming is just a liberal hoax.
Read this Jason: #19 Disproving Anthropogenic Global
Warming Theory. Global warming is a liberal hoax.
Jason Stanford: On Wall Street, investment bankers rail
against new regulations that stifle innovation while we’re
still cleaning up from their financial Katrina. These same
bankers demand they be allowed to use the bailout to give

7. bonuses to the jackwagons who ruined our economy.
Otherwise they’d quit.
The “financial Katrina” was the result of liberalism (see
#10 Regulamageddon - The 2008 Financial Crisis). It was
liberal “regulations” that inflated the housing bubble and
caused the crash.
Jason Stanford: The Republican Congress just passed a
new farm bill that increases farm subsidies by $9 billion
— and pays for the increase by cutting food stamps.
Under Republican logic, you pay people to grow food by
making it harder for people to buy food.
C’mon – this is really rich. A liberal that is against green
energy subsidies? I don’t believe it. As far as Food

8. Stamps are concerned, they are a part of the problem of
meddling government and the liberal entitlement attitude.
How does the rest of the world survive without Food
Stamps?
Jason Stanford: Republicans think it’s OK to invite Indians
to come to America for well-paying high tech jobs. But it’s
not so bueno for Mexicans to sneak over the border to pick
our fruit, scrub our toilets and do our dishes. Somehow
those are the jobs worth protecting.
So let’s look at the inverse, which apparently Mr. Stanford
supports. It seems Mr. Stanford thinks it is OK for illegal
aliens to sneak into the country, but it’s not OK for

9. legitimate, legal immigrants to come fill jobs for which
they are in demand.
Jason Stanford: Joe Biden tried to make sense of
Republican logic the other day. “Mitt Romney wants you
to show your papers, but he won’t show us his,” he said.
Biden was referring to Republican efforts to treat
American voters like illegal immigrants by demanding
they buy special government ID. There are 3,615 times
more UFO sightings in America than there are cases of
voter fraud. Heck, there are more exploding toilets every
year than there are people showing up to vote under false
pretenses. … But that’s not really the point. Pennsylvania
House Majority Leader Mike Turzai accidentally told the
truth recently when he bragged, “Voter ID, which is going

10. to allow Gov. Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania,
done.” The scary thing is that he might be right. The
number of otherwise-eligible Pennsylvania voters who
lack the required ID exceeds Barack Obama winning
margin in 2008.
I dealt with this here: Better a Societal Outcast and
Vote Democrat
Jason Stanford: The Republicans’ righteous fervor for self-
disclosure doesn’t seem to apply to Mitt Romney, though.
God forbid he should show Americans the same tax
returns he showed John McCain in 2008 when he
unsuccessfully auditioned for the vice presidential
nomination. I’d like to know what was in those returns

11. that made Sarah Palin seem like a smarter choice, but
maybe that’s just me.
Shall we go through President Obama’s list of documents
that he refuses to release? His student grades and
enrollment documents. His student writings. His
attendance at socialist conferences. His accomplishments
as a “community organizer”. His legal cases. His
legislative records. His small donors list. His medical
records. His Annenberg Challenge records without them
being sanitized first. His connection to Raila Odinga, the
Kenyan election and the hundreds of murders by Odinga’s
supporters. His past associations. A video of his
attendance of supposedly an innocent dinner party where it
was reported that anti-Semitic statements were applauded

12. by Obama. Update: Here’s a link with a few more. TOP
TEN THINGS OBAMA HAS NOT RELEASED
Mr. Stanford, go gather all these up, and then we can talk
more tax returns.
Jason Stanford: Romney has a special talent for cognitive
dissonance, which might be why he won the Republican
nomination. After drawing golf claps and scattered boos
from the NAACP convention, Romney had the bad taste to
tell his donors that those black folks he talked to didn’t
like him because “they want more stuff from government.”
I guess if you use Republican logic, it’s not a
contradiction that he took a $77,000 tax deduction for

13. Rafalca, his dancing horse that will compete this summer
in the Olympics.
That’s funny. I read it reported a number of times that
Romney received a standing ovation at the end of his
speech. Mr. Stanford, let me clue you in about tax
deductions. It’s nothing like entitlements from the
government. A tax deduction is the taxpayer’s own money
that he gets to keep. An entitlement is when the
government coercively takes money from a taxpayer and
then gives it to someone who didn’t earn it and doesn’t
deserve it.
Jason Stanford: Cognitive dissonance never seems to
bother Republicans. Their minds continue to function,

14. after a fashion, and pay no penalty in the polls.
Meanwhile, I’m making myself nuts struggling to make
sense of the non-sequiturs that pass for Republican
policies. If Fitzgerald was right, then maybe Mitt Romney
has a first-rate mind after all.
Well, here we can finally agree on something, Mr.
Stanford. I can wholeheartedly endorse your conclusion
that you are indeed going “nuts”. But I have a solution for
you. You are the victim of a societal conditioning which
has turned you into a contemporary liberal. My Nuclear
Counterarguments 22-Essay Series is specifically written
for your affliction as a type of exit counseling. Good
luck…

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