Let’s face it. If you’ve lived through the last decade and you are still a proud Republican, there is something deeply effed up with your head. That’s why a guy like Rep. Mike Castle of Delaware can’t even go to a town hall meeting without being assaulted with weaponized stupidity. However disgusted you might get with the Democratic Party now and then, just remember how fucking crazy the Republican base has become. They cannot be allowed to have even a whiff of power for a very, very long time…maybe ever.
They are made up of aggressively stupid people, many of whom are extremely well-armed, and almost none of whom have any qualms about the killing of anyone who makes them uncomfortable.
It’s pretty sad, really. I always wonder what the non-nutjob conservatives are going to do – the Colin Powell conservatives. They may still call themselves Republicans, but the nutjobs seem to have a death grip on the Republican party right now, and it has to be hard for the non-nutjobs.
I have suspected that the Republican party will ultimately split. I don’t know who gets to keep the Republican name – right now I am guessing that the nutjobs will get the party name.
No, I think the nutjobs will definitely go for a new brand — something with “American” in it. The Christian Republican American Party (C.R.A.P.) or the Christian American Restoration Party (C.A.R.P)… something like that.
We’ll probably end up with a splinter “Conservative” party, with Blue Dogs and Republicans uniting, and about 75% of Dems staying with their party.
better Christian Restoration American Party – whatever the name the initials should spell crap
The republican’s live in a ‘bizzarro’ world. I’m sorry to say my own brother is hopelessly overdosed on Fox News Kool aid. He is the only one in my immediate family. I don’t know whether to have an intervention for him or an exorcism.
What creeped me out (the most) about the Mike Castle video is that the zombies broke out in a spontaneous reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance. The pledge always creeped me out, but to see these people worked into a frenzy was down right frightening.
The republican’s live in a ‘bizzarro’ world. I’m sorry to say my own brother is hopelessly overdosed on Fox News Kool aid. He is the only one in my immediate family. I don’t know whether to have an intervention for him or an exorcism.
What creeped me out (the most) about the Mike Castle video is that the zombies broke out in a spontaneous reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance. The pledge always creeped me out, but to see these people worked into a frenzy was down right frightening.
I am still deeply disturbed by the woman in the red shirt at the Castle meeting. It was an outburst of insanity, pure and simple. Just a moment of rational thought would burst the bubble of her hatred… and it hasn’t made a puncture. You’d think if Obama had actually been born in Kenya, or wherever, that Hillary wouldn’t have used that, McCain wouldn’t have taken out a full page ad in the NYT? But, no, the birth announcement in the newspaper in Hawaii, all the government lackies making up false documents, they’re all in on it because… Obama is the friggin’ anti-christ! Isn’t it obvious. The demon legions have been planning this for 50 years! I mean, there is NO WAY a black man — and a gawd-damned liberal — got elected president of these united states! It’s impossible! That’s all she needs or wants to know.
I’m shocked that she’s allowed to move at will; she should be locked up in a mental facility. Somehow these willfully ignorant, crazy people need to be shut down and I can’t think of how to do it without violating the ideal of free speech. Ridicule is just not enough…
People like her are not especially dangerous in and of themselves. She can probably bathe and dress herself, operate a vehicle fairly safely, and hold down a steady job. The only threat she poses is as one anonymous part of an angry mob stirred up by cynical men who are not crazy, just evil.
Worry about the would-be mob leaders: the Limbaughs, O’Reillys, and Palins of the world. They’re the dangerous ones, and fortunately, they are much fewer in number and easier to identify. And without them, the angry mob disintegrates into disgruntled individuals, unable to act on their own.
I’m sorry, I know I’m going to get flak for this … but I think they have a point. I personally don’t trust anyone who can’t produce their birth certificate on demand, signed and notarized by at least three accredited sources.
Speaking of which … where’s your birth certificate, BooMan?
my sock drawer.
…includes making them think! yikes.
Let’s not forget that not 6 years ago the Democratic party was considered dead.
Residual racism is not gone in America, and all it will take is a worse economy than we have now and the Republicans will be back in force, and the kooks will be in power. Never under estimate the gullibility of the American public. They WILL vote for a Palin, Gingrich, or Romney if things get bad.
They were CHEERING when that lady held up her birth certificate.
nalbar
Yup.
And one person, one vote
As sucky as it is out here on the left coast, we are growing a substantial decline-to-state party. ‘Independent’ is the new majority.
You’re right as usual, Booman. They really are sub-human psychopaths who should be locked up for their own good. You know, I bet they don’t really feel pain. Not like we do. You know, us nice normal middle-class middle-management middle-of-the-road progressives who always vote for democrats. They’re not really human. Not like us.
How true, Alan. They are indeed human, and as Terence put it, “nihil humanum mihi alienum puto.” Nothing human do I consider alien to me. But you’ve got to admit they are out of their fucking tree, which is what the Boo actually said. So let us contemplate the depths to which humans can be led by those who stir up fear and manipulate pain, and let us do everything we can to prevent that kind of mass insanity from spreading.