Checking in on the state of the Republican Party
I subscribe to about a dozen left-wing RSS feeds, but I also subscribe to at least as many right wing newsletters. I want to know what everyone’s saying. And every week, I browse the right wing newsletters to get a snapshot of their state of mind. Or at least, a snapshot of the tactics someone’s trying to use to manipulate them. I want to see if the Republican chatter has turned away from nonsense and begun talking about issues that average Americans care about. I want to see whether they’ve come up with some way to appeal to voters who grew disgusted with Rove’s petty and destructive divide and conquer politics. I want to see if they’ve noticed the demographic shift in America and realized racist code-speak and xenophobia are bad long term strategies in a nation where whites will be a minority in just a few decades. I fired up my Mailplane app this morning and clicked on one of the right wing “Human Events” e-mails at random because I wanted to see if they’ve woken up.
“Dear Friend of the Constitution,
The biggest political cover up in American history
is taking place right before our eyes.Worse than Watergate, Whitewatergate, or any of the other cover ups of previous administrations, is the question of whether Barack Hussein Obama is eligible to serve as President of the United States of America… OR, is he a FRAUD, a USURPER, a man with no legal authority to sit in the position that he now claims to hold?
Barack Obama could simply put the issue to rest right now by releasing his ACTUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE! But he WON’T! Instead, he has had teams of attorneys all over the country, fighting “tooth and nail” to thwart the efforts of the United States Justice Foundation (USJF), and our allies in a number of states to compel him to produce an ACTUAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE and to prove that he is Constitutionally eligible to be President of the United States!”
…Guess not.
Was the birth certificate "issue" the dominant trend in your sampling of right wing sources or was it simply the nuttiest "issue" from those sources and focusing on that "issue" allows you to imply that all of your sources were similarly inclined?
Did I say it was a scientific study? I'm pretty sure I described it exactly as it happened: I clicked on a random e-mail from my selection of right-wing newsletters. It was that day's "Human Events" newsletter.
It's clearly a tongue-in-cheek post, not a work of journalism or a doctoral thesis.
Robert’s right. Obama wins when the opposition is busy howling at the Moon. Democrats who kept on trying to replay the 2000 election kept the party from figuring out how to win in ’04.
The far right is unable to accept the fact that their solutions (tax cut, tax cuts, tax cuts) are no longer a credible to most voters. If they’re true to form, they’ll back a nut in ’12 who will lose spectacularly (Palin would be an excellent choice for this) before they figure out that they need to change their ways.
Many of these people have always assumed that they’re the privileged class and entitled to rule. The idea that someone who isn’t one of them won office is hard for them to accept. They need the “foreign Obama” myth to get them through the night. It’s much easier than dealing with the fact that the world changes.
My personal theory on this – the POTUS knows exactly what he's doing. As long as he ignores these wingnuts, they'll keep barking and looking like a pack of fools. Which they are, of course, but it effectively neutralizes them as an opposition force. No reasonable person will want to align themselves with people like this, so the reasonable conservatives will either have to become blue dog Democrats or form a third party; in either case, problem solved.
Don’t bother with the left-wing or the right-wing; they’re both insane. Have you considered libertarianism?
This one will never go away unless the President does something really stupid that won’t require rumor and “I know this is true so pass it on” crap as it is all they have to “prove” he doesn’t deserve to serve. As a white woman with an illegal alien father I also find that is another piece of “I know pass it on” that just seems to hit on everyone but whites. I have read the articles about how swine flu is being spread by illegal aliens who are angry at the U.S. and sending sick people across the border. One of my favorite stories I heard was from a farmer who was complaining about how he couldn’t get migrant workers in to pick his fruit crop and how that was damaging the U.S.. economy. So I guess that means he couldn’t find any white, Americans willing to do the work.
I can’t believe they’re still singing that old song. I really wish they’d let Obama do his job, they can try again in 4 years
Why are people worried about a global economic meltdown, millions of Americans losing their homes, and a never ending war when the obvious crisis that will bring down civilization as we know it is an issue settled months ago during the campaign?
I wasted too many years of my life as a member of the Republican party, but thanks to idiots like these and the Bush administration I was able to wake up, look around and say, “What the hell are you people doing?” I honestly fear for the future of this country more than ever due to the increase in idiots like these. Sadly the internet has allowed the nut-jobs that were once ignored as, well, nut-jobs, to unite and gain an audience. Only through education and enlightenment can we hope to ever move forward.
OMG. SUSAN in WORKOUT clothes? How does she keep in shape? Fat people like me all over the world would like to know her secret. And LEMONT sleeps in his same T shirt along with BOXERS? COOL!!!!!! Bluetooth- although I don't have one, I can relate to losing things and then the feeling of FINALLY finding it. My cell phone is lost again, but when I found it the last time, I was SOOOOOO happy! For about 10 minutes, until I looked around and it wasn't there where I put it.