Has the Republican Party gone completely off into Cloud-Cuckoo-Land

[mooseandsquirrel]

LITTLE ROCK — Has the Republican Party gone completely off into Cloud-Cuckoo-Land, or have its leading spokesmen simply decided to mimic the party’s entertainment wing, trusting its loyal audience to believe even the most brazen falsehoods and, equally important, to remember nothing?
Does unwillingness to engage reality signal an acceptance of minority status or merely disdain for the GOP base? After all, you can trick a cow with an empty feed bucket once or twice. By the third try, she won’t even look at you.

GOP savants act as if Republican voters are more easily guided. Consider Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. For weeks, he has been trying to prevent action on pending financial reform legislation by claiming that it would lead to “endless taxpayer bailouts of Wall Street banks.”

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[MisterP]

1. "remember nothing" is quite right:: conservatives are marked by perpetual amnesia

that's why they're so politically vulnerable: Beck can tell them that Bush is a Red because he tortures and invades, or a liberal because he made bailouts (and reinforce the stereotypes that the left and liberals are pro-corporation and that Marxists are evil, monstruous sleeper agents)

that's also why conservatives are still rehashing the fights of the 30s and 50s: they point to Stalin's mauling of the CPSU left and Ukrainians as though it were a new revelation. M. Stanton Evans's "Blacklisted by History" defending McCarthy, Mona Charen's "Useful Idiots" raging about non-warmongering liberals in the Cold War, and Ann Coulter keep puking up stereotypes of the pre-Khrushchev USSR

amnesia is one of the roots of their complacency

of course, conservatism--and thus wilful blindness--crosses party lines: remember those Dems getting so excited that we were getting "guaranteed access to healthcare" with the (conservative) health ins bill?