Okay, Bob Dole, I agree. But who Palinized the Republican Party? Answer me that.
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I assume Lee Atwater was the mastermind of the selection of Dan Quayle for Veep. Can we trace the Republican fascination with know-nothingism to that?
Nixon’s selection of Agnew?
Ike’s selection of commie fearing Nixon?
Or maybe all the way back to Filmore, Lewis Levin and the Know Nothing Party
The Right seems to have a long habit of pandering to the stupid
According to this, it was Paul Weyrich and Ed Feulner who founded the Republican Study Group and later the Heritage Foundation in response to Richard By-God Nixon being willing to pass a budget with a Guaranteed Basic Income.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/the-cabal-that-quietly-took-over-the-house-20130523?mrefid=m
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Barring the likes of Ayatollah Khomeini, that might be the most successful reactionary takeover of any country’s politics in the late twentieth century.
The NYT story from yesterday about the billionaire who bankrolled the entire North Carolina state GOP and installed himself as the state’s chief budget official is also instructive.
Those comments are scary.
I love how he failed to take any responsibility for his part in creating the monster that is today’s modern Republican party.
This myth that Reagan was some kind of great compromiser is getting really nauseating. He (or those who pulled his strings) sold America a poison pill that’s still corroding our national spirit nearly a half-century later. That poison was fermenting long before Reagan, though: after the Civil War; after the New Deal and the Great Society; after the Civil Rights Act. It had its roots in the Klan and the John Birch Society and the NRA.
I think we look at the current situation upside down. Today’s Republican Party is the rule, not the exception. So-called moderates like Eisenhower are the anomalies, not the archetype.
I do agree with Dole on his main point, though. There did used to be Republicans who could and would think about the issues. Now it’s all Jonestown-style fervor based on nothing but ignorance and corruption. Unfortunately that disease has jumped species and drawn way too many Dems into the same mindset.
certainly Goldwater brought in the kooks.
then Nixon brought in the racists.
Gipper brought in the neo-cons and theo-cons.
Gingrich started bomb throwing, hyper-partisanship.
Hate Radio and Fixxed News stirred up the ingredients and keeps the pot perpetually simmering.
Yep, as succinct and brief a history of the modern GOP as I’ve ever read.
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Shorter Bob Dole….. “If Obama had only put in a tire swing at the White House and had weekly barbecues with the GOP back in 09 we would all have pony in our garages right now”.
Sorry, but Dole is a dumb shit.
My best guess of the earliest influence is Spiro Agnew and his contempt for the college students and the media, those “nattering nabobs of negativism” who were preventing our soldiers from winning in Vietnam. Isn’t that the continuing frame? Scary black President must not, according to the the know-nothings, give up his extraordinary para-constitutional powers that they put in place over 40 years. Sorta betrays that he is not scary enough to them.
Ronald Reagan used know-nothing-ism to cover his growing Alheimers. Dan Quayle was picked so as not to overshadow George H. W. Bush or threaten the planned Bush Dynasty.
George W. Bush, the candidate, exalted in his life’s failures as a sign of “humility”. And put the Bush dynasty in motion after an essentially four-year delay.
And then there’re the Alaskan voters who made her governor of their state.
Or you could go back to “God and Man at Yale” for the erudite origins of know-nothingism.
It’s much more ingrained than that and earlier. Watch The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Shot_Liberty_Valance
Clarification: I’m just saying it builds on a long standing anti-intellectualism
I don’t think it’s fair to blame Alaskan voters for Palinism. Palinism, as we know it, was an invention of national Republican strategists, not an organic outgrowth of Alaskan politics.
Whatever the relative merits and demerits of state politics or Palin herself, the candidate that Alaskans voted for governor didn’t have all that much in common with the persona that the McCain campaign invented to serve its needs. Governor Palin did not write, and indeed, could not have written the speech that made her a national figure, and which set her on a trajectory quite different than the one she had charted for herself within the state.
It seems clear enough that she preferred her new role and the attention that it brought to here more than the one she had created for herself: Her readiness to abandon her responsibilities within the state shows that. But that approach was never confirmed by the voters of Alaska. Bush/Cheney 2004 did better against Kerry/Edwards than McCain/Palin 2008 did against Obama/Biden. And this February, Alaskan respondents to a poll that gave Congress an 8% approval rating said they had a higher opinion of Congress than Palin and would rather vote for Hillary Clinton.
Why is anything he said “news”?
Do you mean “Palinized” as in Sarah, or as in Michael? Because honestly, you can make a pretty good case for either one right now, so long as you’re willing to overlook the suffering of millions to get your absurdist humour.
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