GOP sounds alarm over American 'decline'

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Tue Mar-15-11 07:18 AM
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GOP sounds alarm over American 'decline'

DENISON, Iowa – Republican activists in this key presidential state have a dark, foreboding feeling that America is in decline. They believe the nation is hurtling in the wrong direction, and worse, on the brink of losing its unique place in the world.
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Together, it’s fueling the rise of an emerging debate on the right that could overshadow the traditional focus on social and fiscal issues and create an opening for a candidate who can speak to a still inchoate but clearly volatile element that is roiling the conservative grassroots.
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It’s the idea, held by many conservative activists, that America is becoming too European—weak, feckless and faithless—a spendthrift nation in hock to China and led by an irresolute president who is accelerating the process, either by design or effect.
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This widespread lament over the loss of the nation they once knew is already provoking a response from GOP presidential prospects. The candidates are tailoring their rhetoric to tap into a fear that is apocalyptic in tone, expressed by a base that is gripped by a sense of deep disappointment with the national GOP and worry over a Democratic president they see as intent on making America more like France.

From Tea Party luminary Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) to establishment favorite Mitt Romney, the GOP hopefuls are all vying to respond to the mix of fear and outrage coursing through the right.

“There is doubt in the minds of Americans that we will continue as this great, exceptional nation,” said Bachmann in her debut appearance last month in Iowa, warning against the path of “managed decline.”
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Likely GOP caucus-goers, of course, direct much of their venom at Obama. But they also want it known that they’re skeptical of the entire political class and intend to press the Republican candidates as they trek through the state this year.
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An element of the GOP base doesn’t just dislike the president – they think he’s illegitimate and intent on harming the country.

“Do you think we’re going to make it to 2012?” asked Cecelia Patterson, a Republican activist at the Sioux City dinner. “Do you think the United States is still going to be intact in 2012? He could put the whole country down the tubes by 2012.”

After praising Cain’s speech at the candidate cattle call in Waukee, Sue Brown, a Republican activist from Greene County observed that, “He’d be our first black American president.”

Asked about Obama, Brown responded: “He hasn’t proven to me that he’s an American yet.”

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51309.html

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Sounds like they are setting things up to either win in 2012 or instigate a full fledged revolution against the U.S. government.

If they do win they are intent on tearing out the heart of our country in the name of preserving the heart of our country.
(And present that heart to our rich overlords to eat.)

2012 is beginning to sound like the apocalyptic year that was predicted.