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Mostly politics, a few current events, a squirt of seltzer down yer pants .. a little blog for my rambles and rants.

2009/11/4

I'll loan you my garlic necklace, silver bullets and crucifix

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@ 08:57 AM (20 days, 10 hours ago)

 

I followed last night's election results with great interest...Democrats won a couple and lost a couple. Looks like voters are the most upset about jobs and the economy.

I already knew Republicans would win governorships in NJ and VA. Democrat Jim Corzine ran a lousy campaign based on Karl Rove's dirty tricks and deserved to lose NJ.

We had a sucky candidate who ran a sucky campaign in VA...enough for Republican Bob McDonnell to get by with that thesis he once wrote on keeping women subjugated. He also probably won because he didn't buy into Tea Party ideology and kept Sarah Palin at bay.

So Teabaggers can relax....New Jersey and Virginia are safe from a Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

Let's party like it was 1871! The NY-23 Democratic win against the Tea Party Conservative candidate sure helped me sleep a little better. Looks like the traditional wing of the Republican party said "hell, no" to the crazies.

Take that Teabaggers and Birthers! You drink too deeply from the cup of Palin, Beck and Limbaugh.

But don't get too giddy, lefties... this doesn't mean the Teabagger movement is smothered in its crib. They won't give up this easily. But if NY-23 was a trial run for Florida.... if the Republicans don't want to see Florida go the way of NY-23, somebody better rein 'em in.

In a way, I hope no one does...we Dems love to see them run wild.

It was a shame that left-wing zealot Republican Dede Scozzafava got chased off from NY-23 by Glenn Beck and the Teabaggers -- hey, nice name for a rightie rock band -- but the crazies didn't have the smarts to back a moderate who could win in a moderate district by just being moderate.

It was good that Dede threw her lot in with loyal comrade Democrat Bill Owens...and if he isn't up to the job of crushing those capitalist pigs, Chairman Obamovich can always exile him to Siberia...or North Dakota.

Is anybody amused because the Republican Party spent $900,000.00 on a Republican who dropped out and endorsed the Democrat? Or because the combined votes for Scozzafava and Hoffman would have given them a win? In a district that had been held by the GOP since 1871...when Ulysses S. Grant was President....

The GOP might be better off taking a Hoffman loss, rather than emboldening third parties in 2010. Remember Ralph Nader and Florida in 2000? Third parties are suicide...but the hard-left and hard-right wings often get impatient with the moderates and try it from time to time.

I know the Republican establishment is spineless and out of ideas, but for us to have a decent two-party system, someone needs to save the GOP. It dang sure ain’t gonna be me...but if someone wants to try, I'’ll loan you my garlic necklace, silver bullets, crucifix and wooden stakes....oh, and you might need some pitchforks and torches.

And don't worry, there's not all that many of them...they call themselves the base of the party, but they're just the fringe...the lunatic fringe.

I have a year's supply of popcorn, I'm going to love every minute of the Loony Teabagger Revolution. It's going to make the Goldwater thang look like a walk in the park.

2009/10/17

Teabagger Frankensteins

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@ 06:56 AM (1 month, 8 days ago)

 

Now even the conservative Wall Street Journal is writing about the problems the GOP is having with its wingnut fringe.

We all know how the Republicans rounded up and bussed their hard right loonies to townhalls to scare people away from President Obama's healthcare reform...and how they organized and promoted tea party marches. Well, the crazies got fired up alright, but now they won't go away...they're still running rampant and scaring the villagers.

From the WSJ: "[B]ut these newly energized conservatives present GOP leaders with a potential problem: The party's strategy for attracting moderate voters risks alienating activists who are demanding ideological purity, who may then gravitate to other candidates or stay at home. It's a classic dilemma faced by parties in the minority -- tension between those who want a return to the party's ideological roots and those who want candidates most likely to win in their districts.

"The potential that the Republican Party puts up candidates that fail to excite the support of this movement is very real," says Lawrence Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance, University of Minnesota....."

Well, judging from all the photos and videos of townhalls and teabagger marchers, no wonder they're scaring centrists and moderates off. Teabaggers don't seem like just disgruntled conservatives who want to return to the party's roots...they come across as a little batshit nutty...no, a lot batshit nutty.

Democrats are sometimes berated and called wimps because they don't defend their principles strongly enough. It's true...when we march we don't carry around signs depicting Republicans as Hitler, and we don't show up packing heat, or call for an armed revolution to take our country back.

The crazies on the right are an entirely different species...they're not just party purists, they're extremists. That's a big difference.

Too late Republicans...you reap what you sow. You have actively cultivated these people, encouraging them to become outraged about issues you invented...like 'death panels.'

You gave radicals like Glenn Beck the most powerful mind control device ever used on people, television...and let him spew poison and lies continuously. You promoted the worship of frauds and phonies like Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber.

You should've worked harder to come up with your own ideas and plans, instead of blaming Democrats and making them the scapegoats for your frustrations. You should've thought more about how fearmongering turns fear into anger, rage, violence, xenophobia and paranoia...which now scares off the villagers.

Why did so few of your moderate Republicans stand up and denounce the insanity? Too afraid to piss off Rush Limbaugh?