Obvious tag's house just went into foreclosure.

"Wilson - an avowed conservative and Libertarian"

There we go.

Well then, smart guy, he probably knows a lot about the rules of home ownership from all those Final Notice mailings, doesn't he?

FireBreathingLiberal: Conservative hypocrisy is not the exception. It's the rule.

gameshowhost: "Wilson - an avowed conservative and Libertarian"

Wait a second guys.

If he personally stays under in his own mortgage, this is BAD for him, and a strategic foreclosure is good for him personally.

If everybody does it, it will cause the economy to go under, which is bad for him personally.

They are all about PERSONAL responsibility you see, and he is acting as a rational actor looking out for his own personal interests - just like in every good free-market economy.

So you see, there is no hypocrisy here!

Is it true that you have be born in Toledo or you will get sick?

Subby here and I consider myself a conservative. I pay my bills. I've never been even a single f*cking day late in paying my mortgage in the 24 years I've owned homes.

People like this slug Brian Wilson are not true conservatives.

Speaker2Animals: Subby here and I consider myself a conservative. I am a responsible adult. I pay my bills. I've never been even a single f*cking day late in paying my mortgage in the 24 years I've owned homes.

People like this slug Brian Wilson are not true conservatives responsible adults.

FTFY

/being responsible has nothing to do with conservative, centrist or liberal. just being an adult.

Spanky_McFarksalot: kmmontandon: If you're in foreclosure, you already broke the rules you agreed to follow.

According to my mortgage if I stop making payments, the bank gets my house back.

So, if I stop making the payments and they take the house back, I'm following the rules.

In obtaining money from the bank to buy the house, you sign what's known as a "promissory note." Implicit in that word is the word "promise." If you stop making your monthly payments, you have broken that promise.

A completely separate issue: If you stop because you don't have the money (laid off, medical expenses, etc.) that's one thing. But if you simply stop paying because you're under water, or you've moved and cannot sell the old house, you have no standing to blather into a microphone about anyone else's shortcomings, be they politicians or regular people.

In short, STFU Mr. Wilson!

Spanky_McFarksalot: Speaker2Animals: But if you simply stop paying because you're under water, or you've moved and cannot sell the old house, you have no standing to blather into a microphone about anyone else's shortcomings, be they politicians or regular people.

Is that what this person did? Because the article doesn't say anything about him not making payments because his homes "underwater".

If thats what he did, then yes, total hypocrite.

Well, he stopped paying when he bought a house in Virginia, so he presumably just didn't want to pay on two mortgages. Whatever the reason, he just stopped paying and violated the rules of the agreement.

Spanky_McFarksalot: kmmontandon: If you're in foreclosure, you already broke the rules you agreed to follow.

According to my mortgage if I stop making payments, the bank gets my house back.

So, if I stop making the payments and they take the house back, I'm following the rules.

If I rob a liquor store and get sentenced to prison for five years, I'm following the rules.

Spanky_McFarksalot: GAT_00: What part of berating someone for falling into foreclosure while being in foreclosure yourself isn't hypocritical?

The only actual quote in this article related to it from this person was "Where do they stop and where does the compassion and the warm fuzzies begin?"

How do you get "berating" someone from that?

I've been trying to find the audio of the show online to hear that sentence spoken. But even in writing I can hear the snark dripping off it. I am using the local mini-Rush-wannabee in Atlanta, the Kimmer, whose show follows Rush on the radio as a guide, but a sentence like that couldn't be spoken without it sounding like it was in a contemptuous, condescending tone. I listen to right-wing radio on occasion, trying to be fair and balanced and give the benefit of the doubt, but I still come away thinking "What a willfully ignorant, hatemongering prick." And yet many sit, with glazed eyes, lapping it up and not bothering to fact check any of it. Scary.

/the Kimmer hung up on me when I asked his opinion about Bush rubberstamping Dubai's handling of US ports. It was the lead story in every news outlet, and the Kimmer's topic of the day was something like homeschooling vs public schools. What a puss.

It's hard to pay the mortgage when you lie in bed all day.