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AsahinaKimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 06:58 PM
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Poll question: When was the last time you heard a Republican apologize?
Edited on Wed May-25-11 07:01 PM by AsahinaKimi
Okay, we all mistakes. Most of us will apologize for them, but when was the last time you heard someone like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Glen Beck, Michael Savage, or any Republican Government Official apologize for any thing. Did Dick Cheney or George W. Bush apologize for anything? So... When was the last time you heard an apology out of a Republican?
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rpannier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 06:59 PM
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1. THey apologise all the time
When they contradict Limbaugh. They always apologise to him
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 07:02 PM
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2. They're masters of the phony apology.
They always use the term "if I offended anyone", which puts the onus on those offended and isn't really an apology at all.
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Little Star Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 07:02 PM
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3. Other---I've heard a ton of them apologize..................
to their wife and family when they can't keep it in their pants.
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 07:06 PM
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9. Are you sure they didn't only say . . . "I'm sorry I got caught"?. . . n/t
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 07:02 PM
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4. Tim Pawlenty said, "I'm Sorry" I Once Cared About Climate
From May 6--

Thursday night's Republican debate was worth watching if only to see Tim Pawlenty try to talk his way around his previous support for efforts to cut planet-warming emissions. As governor of Minnesota, Pawlenty not only acknowledged that climate change is a problem, but also endorsed a cap-and-trade plan to deal with it. That makes him something of a pariah among other Republicans these days.

In a very "This is Your Life" moment, the Fox debate hosts replayed a 2007 ad that Pawlenty recorded for the Environmental Defense Fund in which he argues for cap and trade as a solution for climate change. When asked to discuss the ad, Pawlenty abashedly replied, "Do we have to?"

After trying to explain that he didn't actually support cap and trade policy as governor—he just supported the "study" of it—Pawlenty decided to try apologizing:

"I’ve said I was wrong. It was a mistake, and I'm sorry," Mr. Pawlenty told the Fox television audience, presumably filled with potential Republican primary voters. "You’re going to have a few clunkers in your record, and we all do, and that’s one of mine. I just admit it. I don’t try to duck it, bob it, weave it, try to explain it away. I’m just telling you, I made a mistake."
Pawlenty has apologized for this before. In March, he told conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham that his support for cap-and-trade was a mistake and pointed to other Republican 2012 hopefuls who made similar "mistakes."

--more--
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/05/pawlenty-im-sorry-i-once-cared-about-climate

Does this count?
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Dawson Leery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 07:03 PM
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5. Either it is a false apology "I am sorry if I offended anyone" or they apologize to to Rush
Edited on Wed May-25-11 07:03 PM by Dawson Leery
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tjwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 07:04 PM
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6. All the time...
...of course it's usually in the context of "I'm sorry you don't like that we are trying to gut medicare and SS and hand it over to our criminal pals on wall street."

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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 07:04 PM
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7. When they SHOULD apologize, they double down... It's like an
involuntary reflex. They also ALWAYS floor it at a yellow light . . And if there's a choice between "bad" and "worse", the latter is the go-to option.
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BlueDemKev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 07:06 PM
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8. Ummm.......I give up. When?
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Journeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 07:17 PM
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10. I don't need apologies -- I'd just like to hear one admit he was wrong. . .
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AsahinaKimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 07:20 PM
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11. Good point..
That will probably never happen.
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LetTimmySmoke Donating Member (970 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 07:21 PM
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12. Did Nixon apologize for watergate?
Regardless, that was before I was born.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 07:23 PM
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13. Have you seen their ratings- Rush & Hannity have lost 30% of their viewers the last 6 months
Glenn Beck is quitting his show.

This should not be "If they can do it why can't we?" mentality. That is shameful we would act like that. We are better than these right-wing screeds and we need to show when one of our own says something stupid that they will accept their punishment and learn from their mistakes.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 07:27 PM
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14. They are always sorry when they get caught
But they are only sorry that they got caught.
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saras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 08:08 PM
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15. Real republicans have no problem apologizing for the scumbuckets that have taken over the party
I know some 'old-fashioned' republicans - farmers, old college professors and whatnot. They are even more lost than progressives at this point - progressives at least know where they are on the political spectrum and who's fighting them. Progressives are used to having corporate fascists and religious wingnuts as enemies - these old-line republicans aren't. They're going WTF?? in a way progressives can't really imagine.

The reptiloid sadists that currently inhabit the Republican (and Democratic, to a depressing extent) are another matter entirely. They can no more apologize than a guinea worm can apologize.
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 11:51 PM
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20. Lincoln Chafee...right before he left the party over what it had become.
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needledriver Donating Member (174 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 11:45 PM
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16. Didn't Harry Whittington
apologize to Dick Cheney for "everything Vice President Cheney and his family have had to deal with."?

That counts.

Sort of.
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AsahinaKimi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 11:49 PM
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18. He was probably
Bullied into it. "Sorry sir, for putting my face in front of your gun".
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 11:48 PM
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17. They only apologize when the piss off Rush
Edited on Wed May-25-11 11:48 PM by donheld
Edit to add an f
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AlabamaLibrul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 11:50 PM
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Never. Only a Democrat could get offended at what one of their own calls the other assholes. nt
Edited on Wed May-25-11 11:50 PM by AlabamaLibrul
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backscatter712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 11:50 PM
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19. All they give is the insincere bullshit apologies...
Edited on Wed May-25-11 11:50 PM by backscatter712
"I'm sorry if you were offended" or "I'm sorry I got caught" or "Mistakes were made."
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Lugnut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-26-11 01:17 AM
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21. How about never?
Not in my lifetime.
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