The Republicants are on a witch hunt. They want to rid their party of anyone they consider moderate. Moderate, of course, being a sliding scale thing that is defined as differently by Newt Gingrich as it is by Joe Wilson. The witch hunt started with Scozzafava in NY-23, and on the drunken success of the ousting, they are now eating toward Charlie Crist, even if it didn’t work.
Is that the end? Of course not. Now, Limbaugh and Hannity and Savage and Beck and the lot are directing their minions to execute the public service of anyone that does not strickly adhere to what they say is conservativsim. Kind of like a party Fatah.
But the problem with this, similar to the KKK hatreds, is that you eventually have to draw the line somewhere or you end up with all white, blond, 6 foot, 165 pound men that want to kill the guy with the brown eyebrows. Heretic!
Look, I don’t like current conservative thought. They can not drown the government in the bathtub as they all seem to think will solve it all. Norquist is a god to them. I think they are wrong. Dead wrong. Do I like the liberals in congress? Of course not. But really! The democrats, besides maybe Grayson, Franken, Feingold and a handful of others, are a pansy-assed weak-kneed off-message bouillabasse of disfunction. One thing you can say for Virginia Foxx and about 30 of the 41 Republican Senators… they stay on message.
It is quite enjoyable to me to see them eat their own. If a Republican governor approves of affirmative action: Kill him! If a Republican congressman is pro-choice: Lance her! If a Republican Senator votes with the 59 Democrats on ANYTHING: Toss her to the wolves. Amazingly short sighted, but then again, what if it works?
The only thing scarier than a fuckstick like David Vitter is if this purging of the dirty GOPs actually leads to them being in charge of everything again. Dear God, how far do you have to be in the loony hole to listen to these wipers of other people’s hinder parts? No answers, just gripes. Really? Glenn Beck is threatening to Sean Hannity? Really?
If it was really only 20% of the country that is getting the pantaloons in a binder, and the current RNCC is courting them hoping they can make it 51% soon, well, maybe that is a tact. But what if a vast array of people are really so ungodly mortifyingly bereft of any cogent thought that they really believe that Obama is purposely ruining America for his own evil means and for the dastardly city of Chicago? I shutter to think of what even Cheney and Bush would think if the current vocal crop were calling all the shots.
The right goes further right. But the left, unless you are with Democracy Now! or something, is pretty much middle liberal and cares a little bit about those that make less than them. But picture a world where Michele Bachmann is the secretary of the Interior or something. And the aforementioned Foxx is in the henhouse banning abortions even if the woman would die without it.
The right have a huge problem. The internet for one. But they know, as Orin Hatch said, that if they let Obama have what he wants, he might succeed, and it would take the curtain away from the Wizard, and all of Oz will be shown for what it is. Shills for big corporations. The gig would be up, Socialism or not.
UPDATE: Christie wins in NJ and McDonnell wins in VA.
Christie is so close to Tony Soprano his ass stings.
McDonnell:
=At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for governor of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell submitted a master’s thesis to the evangelical school he was attending in Virginia Beach in which he described working women and feminists as “detrimental” to the family. He said government policy should favor married couples over “cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators.” He described as “illogical” a 1972 Supreme Court decision legalizing the use of contraception by unmarried couples.=
And: “[W]hen the exercise of liberty takes the shape of pornography, drug abuse, or homosexuality, the government must restrain, punish, and deter.”
Nuff said. And VA voted for this prick. Is scares you to death.
Whatever you think about Obama’s social goals, these crack monkeys might just be the 2010 emphasis for the tea baggers in the halls of congress to actually foment the change to a system of such discord the likes this country has not seen since the 18th century.
Say what you want about free market versus regulation of industry and corporations, these squirrel nuts might just make their states zipper up any dissent, reform, or necessary regulation in the US - allowing them to be a fascist state akin to Italy in 1938. Just saying. These crap mongers have convinced people in two pivotal Eastern states that they should lead.
And now, Orrin Hatch in a candid moment on the future of the GOP should health care pass (telling):
http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/hatch-gop-fears-permanent-democratic-majority
And:
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