Paul Krugman: G.O.P. has become the party of intolerance.
By John Amato Tuesday Nov 04, 2008 11:00amPaul Krugman gets it right.
Instead, the Republican rump, the party that’s left after the election, will be the party that attends Sarah Palin’s rallies, where crowds chant “Vote McCain, not Hussein!” It will be the party of Saxby Chambliss, the senator from Georgia, who, observing large-scale early voting by African-Americans, warns his supporters that “the other folks are voting.” It will be the party that harbors menacing fantasies about Barack Obama’s Marxist — or was that Islamic? — roots.
Why will the G.O.P. become more, not less, extreme? For one thing, projections suggest that this election will drive many of the remaining Republican moderates out of Congress, while leaving the hard right in place.
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But the G.O.P.’s long transformation into the party of the unreasonable right, a haven for racists and reactionaries, seems likely to accelerate as a result of the impending defeat.
This will pose a dilemma for moderate conservatives. Many of them spent the Bush years in denial, closing their eyes to the administration’s dishonesty and contempt for the rule of law. Some of them have tried to maintain that denial through this year’s election season, even as the McCain-Palin campaign’s tactics have grown ever uglier. But one of these days they’re going to have to realize that the G.O.P. has become the party of intolerance.
He's got it perfect. If Obama wins today, the Republican party with the help of FOX and talk radio will be the party of Screaming Zombies that will make the Clinton years look like a walk in the beach.
And as Digby tells us:
And it's obviously a long way from them believing that Americans are tired of conservatism. They will keep fighting.
Now, the villagers are already saying this is a victory for the "center-right" and are becoming apoplectic at the idea that the dirty hippies are coming to town to trash the place, so there will be very strong resistance to anything that doesn't look like centrism and bipartisanship. With the villagers' track record I would hope that a new administration armed with a mandate for change would be smart enough to ignore them.
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I'm getting a little light-headed.
But I'm watching,clicking.... jumping when the phone rings.
I'm waiting for THEM to steal this. I'm waiting for the riots late tonight.
I'm not at all comfortable.
Am I the only one?
I am scared shitless and will be until 1.20.09.
They're going to do it again.
but we should not let our fear take over. I'm voting for hope, that's why I voted for Obama.
Sure, there are so many things that could happen, both today during the election, the days leading up to the Oath, and the first four years. But Obama will take this election and he'll be a great president who will lead ALL Americans to prosperity in every sense of the word.
Republicans: wake up! The neo-cons are taking over and America cannot tolerate such hate any longer.
Vote today! Vote Obama!
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Obama 2008
“Mad McCain” videos: http://tv1.com/playlists/show/11
And we are well within the bounds of sanity to fear its re-appearance.
NO.
Sorry.
Try to relax-its gonna be a long day.
Na you are crazy. Worried yes because we know that they know how to steal elections. But if you are worried so is the other side. I was on democratic underground blog this morning and I read his friend was a good guy but conservative and was scared to death that Obama would win. His friend thinks that Obama is going to take away their guns, have them arrested within the next 2 years and a few other crazy things. So you see people all around are afraid. Obama will surprise everyone. He will govern from the middle left and not far left or far right. I have a feeling he will make a great President. Unless some bastard trys to kill him. Lets pray he will be safe.
I cannot work. I cancelled all my clients today. I'm supposed to be "writing." I live in UTAH - the reddest of red states and even here, we had 300,000 people turn out early to vote - and our state only has 2 million people.
I'm terrified of the dirty tricks played on innocent people - the "official" sounding calls to vote tomorrow, the flyers that look as if they are from the election office, putting people off, and then the riots..
I need to get ahold of myself. I'm a middle aged shrink for chrissake.
But I'm not at all comfortable eiher.
Could the polls be wrong? Could it be that the polls only take those who have a "land line?"
Can we know something SOON?
It's a beautiful 70 degree sunny fall day here in Michigan. I am going to enjoy every moment of it, then sit down tonight and watch the returns come in that will signal the beginning of the end for corporate fascism.
Relax and enjoy. The republicans are dead meat!
I'm sorry? You are waiting for the "riots?"
Do you think McCain supporters are going to set the house on fire? Or are you saying that black people are naturally violent?
If so i am disappointed.
Fear, by the way, is not a healthy emotion and yes, it is an emotion.
Get yourself under control before you have an aneurysm.
I don't think that the comment was about McCain supporters setting things on fire and certainly not about black people being "naturally violent." I imagine the commenter's sentiment about "waiting for the riots" is about the powder keg of resentment that has been left over since the florida-hanging-chad-popular-vote-vs.-electoral-college mess long ago. Many in this country have felt and have been disenfranchised. Dirty politcal tricks are a reality and paranoia often has its roots in reality. If something happens in which the popular vote goes one way and the electoral count goes another, there's bound to be serious trouble. If there is some mess related to voting machines, voter intimidation, miscounts, or something that goes to the Supreme Court again, I believe that there could be a serious level of unrest. I hope not, but the tension is high everywhere. And many cannot be counted upon to remain civil. Hence the writer's concern. Fear is an emotion that comes from uncertainty and experience. Both apply in this situation.
Remember before the insanity's and dildo's were fawning over McCain, what was their rallying cry? "He's not conservative", what was their answer for shrubbie failing, "he's not conservative enough".
The bad thing about this, is that the dems will prolly follow suit and move even further right themselves as a response, that's the whole reason the two "mainstream" choices in this lousy election are either a republican or a nazi. So I guess next time we'll have the "mainstream" choices of a nazi and something way worse, loverly.
Now THAT worries me, because this is how we wound up with the 'MSM' illusion - by whining about how the Fairness Doctrine wasn't really fair, and that those whining liberal babies should man up and admit they can't compete in the 'marketplace of ideas.'
I think we'll be a long time healing from the vitriol of the past eight years. The rabid right is like an infection that just keeps coming back, and we have to make sure the patient (America) doesn't just shrug and come to accept that oozing, pustulent sore as normal.
Probably not "conservative" enough for their tastes,
but that rallying cry was a smokescreen to fool the idiot undecided's- ie, the Wing Nuts hate him, so he MUST be alright!
Seems the hours today have more than sixty minutes in them. Will the time for returns ever get here?
This is like knowing you have to have an operation. At some point you want to just go ahead and have it and get it over with.
I love it!!! Finally being called the party they really are!
What will remain of the GOP will be what I call POWS-Party of White Sepulchres,i.e., white on the outside,hiding death and decay on the inside.
I thought I said this all yesterday. ; 0 )
I feel intolerant all,the time...
Intolerant of construction workers who vote Republican
Intolerant of old white St. Louis women who yell n______ at my Obama sign.
Intolerant of Zionist/Evangelical/Creationist psychos with McCain signs.
Intolerant of Americans who worship consumerism and soldiers not reformers and peacemakers.
And I'm in St Louis also.
the gop is like living in the deep country
where plumbing and joe the plumber are useless.
you just go out to the out-house and sit on the
open whole and leave you sentiment for the gop.
So instead of the conservative fantasy of a permanent republican majority we get the reality of a permanent republican minority. All it took was 8 years in witch almost all conservative fantasies were fulfilled but were shown in reality to be the stuff of nightmares.
Or..how about "the credo and the damage done"?
*rimshot*
"Thank God, George Bush is our President"!!!
The GOP as the ultra right wing has gone off the map, they will stay off the map.
The 'Moderate GOP' will be replaced by more Blue Dogs.
Thus the Right Wing will take power.
The Left Wing, such as it exists in America, will still be out of power.
Not if we progressives keep up the pressure. If (as I hope) the Dems win a resounding majority, we next need to challenge all those Democratic Bush sympathizers, Blue Dogs, and corporate whores. Run true liberals (let's wear that as a badge of honor!) against them in the primaries. Hold their feet to the fire for all their non-liberal votes in Congress.
This movement cannot stop after today. It needs to keep going until we have a majority of liberal Congressmen.
People need to understand that liberals are the good guys who have their best interests at heart as they always have. Republicans are for legalized thievery in the guise of family values.
impeachment should be on the table, then we can have a discussion about who the real unamericans are.
NOT this time.
have this about right I expect. Obama ,once labeled the most liberal Senator will be claimed by the right. They will insist that it was the moderate votes of the Republicans that put Obama over the top and you can bet they'll be demanding compensation. Stand by for a million minority shareholder suits in Obama Inc. Fortunately he is the sort of man as to tell them to blow it up their collective asses. In the nicest possible way,of course.
It's going to be up to the moderate repubs to figure out what to do with the nut jobs in their party. There's a very good chance that today America is going to tell the republican party they are sick of extremist in their party and if they don't clean their party up, they will continue to turn away from them.
For years, the Republicans have "owned" 2 platforms: economics and religion. The economic leg brought in somewhat normal people, albeit, probably a little more greedy than I'd like to see, but at least they had the ability to think. The religious leg supported the dead weight of the "values voter", which of course also sucks in the ugliest side of humanity- the racists bigots of the far right. Alan Greenspan kneecapped the economic leg a few weeks ago and the Dems need to really ensure everyone knows this. If what's left of the Republicans want to carry on with their 1-legged beast including championing around Palin as their spokeswoman, great. If they don't reinvent themselves before 2012 they'll be the 1-legged man in an ass kicking contest.
The other day someone on tv said the next president will walk into such a mess in Washington that he may immediately ask for a re-count.
Obama, and I am assuming he will win, will be coming into the middle of a severe downturn.
It is predicted there will be 3 million more foreclosures between now and 2011. The Credit Default Swap imbroglio with mind numbing numbers in the tens of trillions of dollars will continue to play, because of its connection to the real estate condition. It is unregulated and no one seems to know the complete scoop of the potential liability.
Nowhere is there compelling talk of regulating all of this. The Democrats are not going to sprinkle some New Deal holy water, say a few incantations and make everything like new.
It is Casino Capitalism that we have, that we are bailing out and they have been Obama's largest contributors.
Next year thanks to the 'bailout' which he supported and the military industrial complex which he also supports, there will a budget deficit of over one trillion dollars.
The Congress could cancel the ENTIRE 'Defense' budget, ALL other discretionary spending and STILL NOT BALANCE THE BUDGET.
The Republic is gone, we are an Empire and we are in the twilight.
Truth be told.
I am off to vote.
Thanks for the pep talk. Now roll up them sleves, put a smile on your face, and lets see that can do attitude!
Seriously though, if we were to take back the 2.1 trillion that Bush gave the gazzillionaires in tax cuts, we would have a good starting point.
no longer exists. They let the religious right wingers come in and those people stole the party away from them. The Republicans used to a good group, I was one (way back when) and they were for Less government, less intrusion into personal lives. They were there to protect America and Protect and abide by the Constitution. They started to Decay back when the John Birch Society came into being. Then the Religious whack jobs like Falwell, Robertson, Hagee etc. came in with their insane anti-science agenda.
Their only hope now is to get rid of the RR and the anti-science, anti-education freaks and build the party over.
Meanwhile, the Democrats can Pilot the Ship of State and try to get it off the rocks.
I thought I had watched the Republican Party slowly walking away from Nixon's racist Southern Strategy. It was a slow and bumpy road but they had actually made some progress. Too bad the past few months have set them back to 1970. If the GOP wishes to remain viable, they would do well to jettison their haters, but unfortunately that won't leave them with much of a party.
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You can not spell (R)epublican without borrowing the (R) to spell...
... (R)acist.
... Intole(R)ence.
... Hate(R).
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Reptile
(R)etard
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I heard Christine Whitman on NPR last night saying she was really worried about the country turning in to a western European-style socialist nation after 20 years of wonderful center right rule. 2 things struck me: 1) It ain't never gonna happen. There's is no way in hell the US is going to become like Denmark or France no matter how liberal the Pres or Congress becomes. More's the pity IMO. 2)Center right? Are you freakin' kidding me? Clinton maybe but Reagan, Bush 1 and Bush 2? They were nowhere near center.
Our current Prime Minister - the buddy of Bush - is trying hard to turn us Republican.... We're on the way in the shitter, if he doesn't leave. Polls are in favour of the socialists.
BTW, we laugh very hard at the GOP notion of Obama's socialism.
I really am tired of the party lines being drawn so harshly. I'm hoping that a president Obama can work with both parties, set a common goal for our country and encourage everyone to work toward that goal for the good of our country and our future.
They will try their best to make an Obama presidency be a failure. That is why I am hoping for a 60 seat Senate.
bring the country to where it was long ago, divided on party lines not on religious or ideological lines.
and they might yell louder, but at least we know there are MORE of us and FEWER of them!
There always were fewer,
but they whined louder and cheated better.
if this guy says something, it has smoe merit no matter who you are.
is the higher thread-count of the former's sheets.
As for the election, will you people just RELAX!!!!!!!!
President Obama has the situation well in hand.
You sound just like my husband. He has the same confidence that you are expressing in regard to the outcome tonight. I on the other hand am nervous as hell. I have just wanted this to happen for so long and now we are within hours of knowing whether it can be real or not.
So what's new? The GOP has been doing the same thing for sixty years. Admittedly, there has been an increasingly small segment of Democrats who do the same thing (I've was Red-baited by a couple of dweebs on Daily Kos who told me I ought to go live in teh USSR just yesterday) but how surprising is it really that the party that pandered to the John Birch Society with their 1964 nomination was intolerant of minorities, foreigners, liberals, and others of that ilk?
As has been said to blacks (et.al.) wrt to Africa, let all the wrong wingers move to Alaska, let it (require it to) secede and let 'em bask in the warm glow of supremacy and hate. Then we can apply the Bush doctrine (whatever that is) and Palin doctrine and invade them to "secure" the oil supply.
It's a win win.
E Pleb Neesta
But there are no com's now.
Sure there are. They rear their head up and ... where do they go?
Palin believes they're going to freeze the Bering Strait and march their armies down through Wasilla, which is right out of the neocon playbook. Someone's going to come here and take it all away, whether it's the gays, or the terrorists, or the Russians. It's like Bill Wolfram's blog this morning.
*Presto* You're in an Islamic theocratic state. Shari'a Law and burquas. Right here in River City.
There's gonna be nothing left to take.
It keeps the Bering Strait liquid, and hence, us safe.
Brilliant.
E Pleb Neesta
GODISNOWHERE
I think it really fits now. Nobody seems to know what are actually in this and the other clever documents those old guys wrote.
No coms, but NeoCons are far more dangerous.
Cloud Williams rul3z!
Blessed are the cheese makers.
Here's an even better article about what the right has become. From a man who'd know...
John Dean: Republican Rule Is Dangerous and Authoritarian
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/1...
John Dean for those of you who don't know is a former Nixon aide.
Orangutan, I completely agree...an excellent article about Republican inability to govern without excess. I don't think the party has changed. The Nixon bunch carbon copied right into the year 2000. The Republican Party is the party of fear...always has been.
You probably know this already, but John Dean wrote an entire book called Conservatives without Conscience dedicated to that subject. (As well as another one called "Worse than Watergate" about the Constitutional lapses of the Bush administration. But that book was specific to Bush, who is now two months away from his sofa on "the trash heap of history." Conservatives without conscience is a better book, because it's more general, and talks about the direction that the conservative movement has taken since the Gingrich revolution.
Loved em' both. They also give great insight into many of the neocons who created this disaster.
And you really understand that Dick Cheney has always been an evil asshole.
What's left will be End-Timer, survivalists, snakehandlers and neo-Nazis, led by their prophet Sarah Palin. Armed, functionally insane and with limitless hate and energy for destruction, they will prosecute a skirmishing war with the Obama Administration in the hills of Appalachia and the Far West and south while Fox News, Michael Savage and Limbaugh encourage them with daily praise of their patriotic efforts and their love of country. The remaining GOP members of Congress will be treated like suicide bombers and will spend 100% of their time trying to obstruct legislation and introducing legislation to investigate Obama's conspiracy with Al Qaeda to turn the US, Canada and Mexico into a North American Caliphate.
To put this in military terms, an army needs infantry, air power, and armor. Somebody discovered, however, that the effective size of the infantry can be increased on the battlefield by adding SNIPERS. People like Atwater and Rove were always the snipers of the Republican Army. But in the old days they still had real armor. They had statesmen like Kissinger, Powell, Shultz, Haige etc. Arguably, from a Democratic point of view those people were all clowns and war criminals, but from the point of view of the general public they still had gravitas.
Ever since the Gingrich revolution days, the role of the snipers has become more important, as the party picked up more snipers, and lost more and more of their armor. Today, the Republican party is NOTHING BUT snipers, and a battalion of snipers cannot win a war. They're about to find that out.
McCain is making one last stump speech and they are covering it on tv. If there is a god, this will be the last of his speeches I will ever hear.
He sounds like shit. He should have taken the day off. Listen to him cough and speak with his scatchy voice. Vote for me, I'm gonna die, seems to be the message he is sending today.
there are millions that would vote for bush all over again. people that lost their house, car, job, 401k, and family members in iraq, and vote for a guy that they want to have a beer with, but can't cause he's a drunk. you can't form a way to deal with people like that.
There are shitloads of idiots like that around me. They are losing everything they own, just like you said, but they have decided they want some more GOP.
Ain't no fixin' stupid!
back in the senate.
Hopefully not for long.
This McCain speech is starting out awful. He just said that sarah calls her husband first dude, and the crowd just sort of acted like they wondered why he was telling them this. Then he said Todd had raced in his snow machine when he had a broken arm so he should be ready for DC.
So very lame!
Huh? Lame indeed...McCain must think all Americans are utterly without substance. I can just hear BOTH undecideds thinking, "Hell yeah, I'll vote for McCain 'cuz first dude is showing me the way...sure glad I caught this last speech". Jesus!
And now the folks on MSNBC (Joe and Mika) are saying this was one of his best speeches. It was not. It was the same old tired lines sewn together with the same old worn thread.
I prefer to spell it First DUD!
I prefer to spell it First DUD!
From the sound of the voices cheering at McCain's speech, I'm guessing they bused in more kids
...unless it was in the {snip} part.
You cannot be complete or "get it perfect" if you omit the religious aspect. What Krugman wrote is nothing that Kevin Philips would have missed, but he (Phillips) is right to factor into the calculus that the GOP "rump" is heading towards a theocratic party (yes, more than it is now). Anyone still "with" Bush at this point and in the next few years (holy war in middle east, terri shivo, screw the environment the planet is ours ) is not going to budge, hence the REAL cause of extremism, imo...
Heck, McCain himself seriously considered jumping ships. It looks finally like the republican mods are all in the lifeboats, and the ship of fools is heading out to deep waters. We may end up with 3 parties if the Dems cannot hold them (or the far left, greens and so on, splinter as well).
BJ
The seeds are sown for another Oklahoma city. I hope I am wrong.
but, assuming aggregate sociopolitical opinions and values are approximately bell-curved, a truly moderate "centrist" party is something I would in fact overtly join. It's where the bulk of rationality resides. Think about, to use the Gaussian analogy, how ~68% of the data reside within +/-1 one std deviation of the center. Just a thought.
To me, Republicans are mostly just arrogantly, narcissistically full of shit, and the left is overpopulated with We're-All-Victims whiners and romanticists.
Look the Repubs have always appealed to the racist and bigoted, that's no surprise, but by now its understood to be done with a nod and wink. But now people are vocal outside of McCain rallies, saying on TV that they won't vote for a black person. McCain supporters honestly believe Obama is a secret muslim, terrorist/terrorist sympathizer, anti-american, communist/socialist/marxist. And the MSM hasn't been all over McCain asking him, "Why do these people support you? How do you feel about their support? Do you repudiate these racists or are you proud of their support?"
The party of Winkin'(Sarah Palin),Blinkin'(Johnny Mack), and Todd(First Dud.)
That's a good one. Well put.
Although, you could replace Todd with Nod - watch Cindy McCain during hubby's speeches. She does the slow nod thing, must be the expected role of the dutiful Rethuglican wifey.
Obama will get smeared at every turn by Fox, Rush, Hannity, and the rest but he appears to have a good handle on ignoring that type of radical nonsense. Clinton on the other hand brought a lot of the turmoil onto himself. He may be the smartest man in the room but his inability to keep it in his pants is a disgrace. I watch him speak even today and listen in awe. He still has that political magic that few can claim but his actions, denials, and admittances could be a key factor in why Gore did not win in a landslide. Gore had to distance himself from Clinton and had Clinton campaigned in Arkansas for Gore Florida would not have been essential. Obama is a cool customer and I hope he delivers on his message because we are sick and tired of being lied to. LBJ on Vietnam, Nixon on everything, Reagan/Bush 1 on Iran/Contra, Clinton on affairs, W on destroying civil liberties. We need Transperency in Government and we should demand it.
My fear is Obama will bring back:
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/11...
mad mad i say disco? madness sheer madness!
"Centrism and bipartisanship" two filthy words that should be banned from every Democrats vocabulary. Anything done in the spirit of bipartisanship will be viewed as a triumph of the window lickers ideology. They must be crushed by solutions from the left.
Bringing the wing nuts on board will wreck the democrat party. And uncooperative democrats must be brought into line.
If there is a crushing mandate for change at the polls, and democrats fumble about for "bipartisanship", you can flush hope down the toilet.
Paul Krugman: G.O.P. has become the party of intolerance.
They'll just accuse us of being intolerant of their intolerance.
At your outrage!
At your muff?
Bush continues wrecking the country kind of like that rent house in Alabama.
See? We can't have nice things because of this jackass.
They'll probably remove the O's of all the White House keyboards.
George Bush will kick Obama in the nuts on his way out the door.
What would a President Obama put joe the plumber in charge of?
Rowing a boat to China.
But, you know, with the tough economic times, we can't afford to give you any food, water, or an oar.
No, that's what I think Obama will put Joe the Lieberman in charge of should the Democrats manage to get 60 Senate seats today.
Now I has THIS in my head.
the NEOCON philosophy/agenda is major problem for the republicans. specifically nation building,authoritarian rule and big government spending. in order to have success they need to have support so they create division and cultural attacks toward the opposition. otherwise there own supporters would really see and take the time to question there agenda. it's been shown that many people VOTE for the wrong reason(s) or NOT on issue(s), but CULTURE CLUB propaganda. the people of this country
have been the missing variable. a few have decided for many whether they liked it or NOT. these few decided years ago they knew better than others. consequently they're intolerable of those that disagree.
Some buff Gannon type dude with a guitar, hat and cross in Time Square, being interviewed by Richard Roth, guess who he voted for !
Yes John WcCain.
oh, and his 'daddy' is a WcCain campaign worker...
lets not jump to conclusions about sexual repression and mental illness ;)
Good job Chimpy was nowhere around, the SS would have had to drag him off the dude and away.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/200...
wonder how many tricks or phone numbers he collected
A lady was interviewed on tv. She had lost her job and couldn't find another one. Her finances were in the shitter. When asked who she would vote for, she said McCain because Obama would take some of her money and give it to others. She said she needed all of her money.
This is a woman who is going to vote against her own best interest. She is the very sort of person Obama is wanting to help.
this is exactly why they use deception. it works. some people are living fear on a daily bases. they the
republicans know that. they group test most of these talking points and use the results for certain demographics. negative linguistic framing/deception is an expertise if you will within the RNC.
Isn't amazing how clueless some people are?
My wife's idiot friend is worried Obama is going to try an employ people by increasing government spending. SHE works FOR the governement! Her husband works FOR the government!
I got so disgusted with her, I HUNG UP THE PHONE ON HER! Though my wife was upset with me, she said she actually understood where I was coming from.
You can't fix stupid!
Now that the Republicans have lost (unless they steal this election after midnight, like they did to Spiegelman) I guess it's safe to reveal what our secret war strategy was all along. Paul Waldman actually outlined it in his book "Being Right is Not Enough." Basically, the idea was to target moderate Republicans in non-Dixie areas. By selectively taking them out, the idea was to leave the Republican party with a base consisting of nothing but southern wingnuts who will drive the party in an extremist direction that will no longer be electable. This process will only accelerate now that they're no longer in power, since pragmatists and people interested in exercising power will not waste their time with a party that has no power. Those people will flock to the Democratic party now, leaving only the rampant right wing populists to drive the Republican party to new levels of lunacy.
Make lots of popcorn, this is going to be fun.
About damn time we had a change. We've had the same two parties for about 150 years (although their platforms have changed dramatically over the years). I think a lot of the people that are fleeing the GOP en masse will go to the Libertarian party, or they will create a new party. Interesting fact here. There already is a theocratic party in place, and it's called the Constitution Party. I'd better dollars to doughnuts that they will see an increase in membership over the next four years.
If he wins, Obama has every right to claim a total mandate. He should proceed by the Republican's own standards, and ignore and marginalize conservative "ideas." Frame them as extreme and detrimental to the country. The US is facing perilous times, thanks to them.
ENOUGH of the failed and flawed policies of the Bush/Cheney administration. America has repudiated their corruption and abuse. This is the Republican's accountability moment, long overdue.
last November Australians dumped Howard. I worked a booth where there was a huge silent queue that stood in the rain and I could not tell which way they were voting. The booth swung 20% towards Labor. You do not stand in the rain for long periods for people you are half-hearted about!
Krugman is right but I can offer an additional ray of light. Changing the leader to someone positive, intelligent and (constrained or not by the realities of leadership) intent on making a fairer society will have a quick effect. Little decisions can add up to a sense that the country is coming out of the dark. I promise you will enjoy it.
Finally John thanks for your work and enjoy your break happy in the knowledge that regardless of the outcome you have helped the sanity of hundreds of thousands of people :)
The Dems have to grow a pair and stand up to the neocons, who will no doubt try to wreck Obama's presidency and blame him and the Dems for the economy and the failure of the Iraq occupation.
I made the mistake of flipping to Morning Joe during a CNBC commercial.
You should have Joe going off on Krugman for this piece!
Starts trying to re-frame it into how Krugman's piece is full of hate and intolerance . . . toward Republicans.
Yeah, that's the ticket, project all your own sins on your enemy by pretending that your enemy is in fact projecting his sins on you?
Only problem is, opposing bigotry is not quite the same as bigotry itself. Which party opposed civil rights legislation? Which party is more anti-gay? Which party is more xenophobic and jingoistic?
If I'm wrong to oppose that party, I don't wanna be right.
About 4 weeks ago Scarburro called himself an Independent.
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