Where can Republicans threaten to move if Obama wins?

[Liberal_in_LA]

The Conservative's Canada

Where can Republicans threaten to move if Obama wins?

By Chris Wilson

Posted Friday, Oct. 10, 2008, at 2:51 PM ET
Conservatives have no Canada. Which is to say, they have no mythical land of ideological soul mates to which they can flee to nurse their wounds and commiserate over lost elections and flunked initiatives. Part of the reason for this may be temperamental: Even staring into the maw of an Obama-friendly electoral map, Republicans' first instinct is not to threaten expatriation. (The McCain-Palin slogan, after all, is "country first.") They have no backup plan for when the country they live in becomes politically unrecognizable.

Maybe they need one.

They needn't bother too much with the details—not even Canada is the paradise liberals imagine, and the logistics of moving there are not so simple. And abandoning America might be anathema to any red-blooded Republican. But everyone needs a Plan B, even if they have no intention of carrying it out—just in case, say, Barack Obama appoints Michael Moore to the Supreme Court (the way President Gore did). With that in mind, let's consider a few candidates for the conservative's Canada.

http://www.slate.com/id/2202070/

*** The article goes on to suggest Israel, Poland, Caymen Island***

[skooooo]

1. How about Alaska, Mississippi, Texas, etc.?

[LiberalFighter]

12. Someplace where they can't add more to the population of a state

cause then it would increase their electoral votes in upcoming elections.

Suggestions:
Turkey
Iran
Iraq
Sudan

If they need to move someplace in the US. Try Little Diomede Island. Whatever can't stay on land would just have to drown.

[Arctic Dave]

33. Hell no! We don't need anymore braindead idiots up here.

I say they can all move to the North Pole. They don't believe in global climate change and in a few more years we will be done with them.

[Sebastian Doyle]

2. Hell

It's the perfect place for them. (Sorry, Satan :evilfrown: )

[DebJ]

7. I second that.

[rateyes]

26. For a second there I thought you were talking about Hell,

Michigan.

[SoxFan]

3. Austria

Of course, the Freepers would be confused when they got there and didn't see any kangaroos.

[hobbit709]

9. I don't want them there. Neither does any other Austrian.

[Sebastian Doyle]

29. And the first thing they would do when they got to Austria

is demand that Fucking, Austria change its name!

[av8rdave]

4. Bill Mahr has been doing a weekly feature on that very subject

The right wing idiots need to be watching his show!

[DJ13]

5. North Korea seems like a perfect fit.

:rofl:

[olshak]

37. Best suggestion of the bunch! n/t

[hobbit709]

6. Send them to Alcatraz and Devil's Island

And any similar places.

[gateley]

8. I would really like to see them stay, and step by step begrudgingly acknowledge

that Obama is doing a good job, and helping us out like the Repubs never did. They might turn around and we could become a less divided country. Wouldn't that be cool?

[DebJ]

10. I thought plans were made in the goal to go to Mars. n/t

[hobbit709]

22. Much cheaper to send them here

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.03/mars.html

they can survive by the Kilkenny cats method

[trotsky]

11. Hmm, let's see. Needs to be a place where laws are based on religion,

where women are kept under control, and where a powerful figure leads the government.

Of course! SAUDI ARABIA!

[HooptieWagon]

19. seconded

Wingnuts would be very happy in an authoritarian state like Saudi Arabia.

[wtmusic]

13. Flat-tax Lithuania

is what I told my Repub client to consider. I told him if he's not, he's going to have to STFU and deal with it.

[Igel]

32. I'd counsel Estonia.

Apart from the language. (I don't think I'd like learning a language with consonant gradation.)

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

14. well what about that South American country where

abortion is illegal even in all cases? I can't remember the country offhand, but it seems like it would be a good fit.

[Hugabear]

20. Um, isn't that Venezuela?

I believe I read something here about abortion being illegal in Venezuela.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

15. They'd need a time machine to get back to 1930s Germany

They'd be thrilled to be able to cheer at rallies about their superiority to all the untermenschen who threaten their existence while flags wave and martial music plays.

[smoogatz]

16. Paraguay?

So they can remain in proximity to the Dear leader? Iraq might be a good choice, too, since it's such a free market paradise and all.

[Richard D]

17. There's only one place I can think of that is appropriate

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

[FSogol]

18. Paraguay. Bush already has his land there. n/t

[WallStreetNobody]

21. North Korea would be their ideal

Republicans would love North Korea, no civil liberties, lots of military spending, and plenty of trailers for them to feel right at home. They North Koreans might even give them double-wides which would be heaven for most Republican inbreds.

[guitar man]

23. give 'em a dollar and send them to Saudi Arabia

on second thought, give 'em 50 cents and drop them off halfway! :evilgrin:

[zbdent]

24. Oddly enough, there are plenty of Arabic countries which subscribe to ideals

that appeal to repukes ...

suppression of women, ultra-religious control, etc. ...

[sinkingfeeling]

25. I thought Bush/Cheney created a beautiful, peaceful new democracy for them, called Iraq.

[KamaAina]

27. Dubai

it's good enough for Halliburton -- and the repukes' motto is "In Halliburton We Trust".

[Happyhippychick]

28. Crawford.

[and-justice-for-all]

30. Saudi Arabia or Iran...nt

[krispos42]

31. The nations listed in "Shock Doctrine"

Chile, Russia, Iraq. Bastions of fundamentalist free marketism. Business paradises. No social programs. I'm SURE that since the Repubs are such hardworking, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps people they'll THRIVE in such areas where they are unfettered by the distortions in free enterprise caused by us commie liberals.






Yeah, right...

[whosinpower]

34. Antartica

Let them become "settlers".

[damonm]

35. IRAQ!

[EmeraldCityGrl]

36. I'd contribute to a fund to move them.n/t

[Raksha]

38. I know one who is threatening to move to Costa Rica

because Obama is gonna raise his taxes. I asked him if he needed any help packing.