How will the right react if we win big in November?

[Teaser]

Not the politicians, but the base of the right. They have been propagandized against us for so long, I'm really curious if the reaction might not be violent. Take the rhetoric you see on a site like redstate.org and replace the word "liberal" or "Democrat"
with "Jew." The parallels with Nazi propaganda are astonishing.

I'm concerned that if and when we take back congress, the result won't be a saner, chastened GOP, but it will push them over the edge, finally, into something like true fascism, not the pseudo or proto fascism they've been espousing thus far.

I'm by no means certain of this, and of course I WANT to win in November, but it has been preying on my mind of late.

Any thoughts people?

[mattclearing]

1. Who gives a shit?

:D

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. I don't! nt

[Teaser]

5. I do cause I'm interested.

And apparently you did because you posted.

[mattclearing]

19. I was kidding. Hence the smilie.

But seriously, after all the smug trash-talking and liberal-hating they've done over the past six years, I hope they squeal like a stuck pig.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. My guess is they'll allege election tampering.

[icymist]

10. Yup. Then they'll sit in the corner, cry, stamp their feet.....

whining how we all need election reform. This don't matter anyway until after we win the show, then we can enjoy watching the temper tantrums.

[MadMaddie]

17. It's going to be hard to do since so many states are going

back to paper ballots or in the process of reviewing the Diebold machines.....

[windy252]

3. My guess would be

if big in 2006, it's Bush is a poor, persecuted innocent puppy with puppy-dog eyes. if win in 2008 for president "It's the end of the world! There are no checks and balances!!!" with no sense of irony.

[Teaser]

So you don't think

they will get even crazier do you? That is actually possible, in spite of their current level of craziness.

[spag68]

12. how

is it possible for them to be any more crazy then hey are now? Don't forget the rapture is almost here.

[Teaser]

14. They're not trying to round us up yet, for one

nt...

[electropop]

22. Most of them are dispirited and depresssed now.

They're quietly ashamed of their party's antics, and they won't be able to muster many of their 30% to do much of anything.

[windy252]

23. Oh, it's possible

they'll get crazier, but a good portion of the right likes to talk tough with very few backing it up.

[EstimatedProphet]

6. I think there are some that will be violent

And in doing so will expect the rest of the country to rise up.

They will be dissapointed.

[spag68]

21. some of these

idiots are violent now re clinic bombs and doesn't it seem that a lot of this goofyness is in the springer triangle

[EstimatedProphet]

28. Exactly

It will get worse with these flubs, not better

[C_U_L8R]

7. Maybe they'll leave.

please please please

[mdmc]

8. Well, if a bunch of dlc types win, they will say

they act like us, and they convinced America that they were like us. The fascism that you fear will come in the form of corporate takeover of the government.
"It" hasn't happened yet, as Americans still think "that anyone can get on the ballot, and win, if they want to. After all, this is still America."
"It" has not yet sunk in.

[NoAmericanTaliban]

9. Blame the 'leftist' media...

Depends if the real republicans can get the Christain Reich out of their party. The best scenario would be if Pat Robertson or some other end-of-the-world religious taliban type will run as a 3rd party candidate. Maybe they can call themselves the Wacko Party or The American Taliban.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

11. I wonder if some of them

might actually be relieved. They kind of have a tiger by the tail and it isn't going too well. I bet a lot of them would rather get back to the bake sales.

[EST]

13. They will demand an investigation of the vote tampering

by Diebold, et al, and they will find it. The implications of a liberal/progressive victory suggest calling into question the validity of all elections, from 2000 forward. Exciting!

[movonne]

15. About the same way we did in 2000..

[enid602]

16. cycle

They'll cower, retreat and act surprised as their leaders are being indicted, impeached and imprisoned. But Rove, or perhaps a next-generation version of Rove will probably stew and plan for 15 or 20 years, and come up with some new sort of diabolical revolution which will avenge previous defeats. There seems to by a cycle.

[leveymg]

18. The night Clinton won in 1996, some yahoo stole a city bus in DC

(nobody inside) and rode around three states with 100 cop cars slow-motion chasing him until he ran out of gas at 2am the next morning.

The metro section of the Washington Post the next day identified him as a white male in his 30s upset about the Presidential election results.

Expect AT LEAST that level of craziness. These days, they'd probably shoot him for refusing to stop.

[NanceGreggs]

20. The 'base' might go nuts ...

... the Fundies will declare it the end of times, and the anti-choice crowd will predict coupons being handed out on street corners for discount abortions.

But all in all, I think the average Republican voter will heave a sigh of relief to have grown-ups back in charge - ready, willing and able to clean up the mess that the GOP kiddies have left behind.

[spag68]

27. remember

that the real nuts in the rethug party are in a minority in their own party

[NanceGreggs]

41. So true. And I keep trying to remind people of that.

The average citizen who has traditionally voted for and supported the Republican party is even MORE pissed-off than we are with this Administration.

We KNEW what the Neo-Cons would do to this country, once they were in power. But millions of Repub voters bought the 'Compassionate Conservative' BS and are now shocked to find out that their ideals and they, themselves, have been betrayed.

BU$HCO's biggest mistake, IMHO, is that they didn't hand out special gas discount cards to their supporters, or make it a crime to outsource a Republican's job.

Once their policies started hitting their own supporters, right along with those of us who didn't buy into their crapola from day one, they stepped into it, big time.

The only chance the Repubs have now of surviving in the political wilderness is chewing off their own leg (Bush + cronies) to free themselves from the leg-hold trap they're now caught in.

[opihimoimoi]

24. If the Big Time Dems get off their collective asses and actually Plan,

Implement, etc, systems benifiting America/Planet,,,Who Can rightly argue with that?

If our Dems/Bless them/ want to Lead...then they have to if given the op.

We must have an Altruistic Society...the Big Picture thingy..the best ideas are considered, discussed, implemented...

We know what we got from the Pubs...Nada cept grief and Debt...

Lets see if the Dems can actually do it....I know they can...Let them come here, openly or otherwise...let see our ideas and concepts...open the freaking debate...

Lets help them ID the most pressing things concerning our Collective Future....and solve for the damn things...

This MEism gatta stop...or minimized...else we suffer needlessly into the future...

[MadMaddie]

25. Then they will show that they are no different than the

religious zeolots that we are supposedly fighting!!

The thing about these zeolots is they think that we will not fight them back....hmmm..I am just saying....I think they are going to be a wee bit surprised.

The moderates will realize how close we were to a theocracy...

[spag68]

31. fight back

I think you are right and the surprise for them will be that there are plenty of us older dems out here that still remember our youth when fist fighting was a sport and we didn't get mad at each other. we havn't forgotten how to fight

[MadMaddie]

34. I still think that there is going to be an event....

similar to Kent state that is going to be the catalyst...(A tragic event)add the election which is looking better and better for Dems...

They have never been critical thinkers...and they haven't figured out that they are truly the minority!!

Well, we will be there right along with you!!!

[Warren Stupidity]

26. "Day One America Held Hostage: The Sequel".

It is not like they have imagination or anything. The medialoons will be a howling, the special investigators will be a prying, and everything will be our fault.

[mdmc]

29. Ever watch the Boondocks

I bet the gop would react the way the rich people on the Boondocks react to Huey's rant.

[Rabrrrrrr]

30. The fundy Jesus-Taliban assholes will be booted out of the repuke party

and the repukes will go back to being financial Republicans without all the Jesus-Crispy nonsense.

That's my guess - that was an alliance forged in hell, and one that has been only tolerated, I think, by the true republicans, in order to gain votes.

But the majority of the repuke party who aren't fundy fuckjobs are gonna take their party back, they might even crucify CokeBoy, and will go back to being much closer to what they used to be.

[spag68]

32. rethugs

right on!!! let them crawl back into their holes for awhile and go back to their incest and snake charming churchs

[spag68]

33. repubs as opposed to rethugs

keep in mind that the repubs were not that good for the middle class anyway. Some in the old days at least knew how to compromise

[verse18]

35. Kool-Aid Party?n/t

[Ignacio Upton]

36. Bush will just sign more executive orders and recess appointments

He doesn't need no stinkin' Congress. Meanwhile, the Freepers will prepare for 2008, and choose between wingnuts such as George Allen and Sam Brownback.

[ladjf]

37. Perhaps some will realize that progress is being made toward

restoring a Democratic government in the U.S.

[LiberalEsto]

38. Whiningly

They start as whiney kids.

[hughee99]

39. Just a hunch...

I think the repukes will probably claim that the election was stolen. Unscrupulous secretaries of state, elections boards and local elections officials conspired to rig the election outcome by screwing with the polling places directly or registering and voting for non-existent, deceased, and otherwise ineligible voters. They'll claim that democrats knew all about black box voting and how it isn't secure because they've hacked the voting machines. Rural voters will have been "disenfranchised" due to long distances between where they live and polling places. They'll find a few districts where exit polls and pre-election polling didn't accurately reflect the election outcomes and cite this as evidence. If any boxes of ballots are found in dumpsters or floating in San Francisco bay it will be cited as further evidence.

Bill and Hillary used their collection of influential contacts and the information from thousands of FBI files on repukes taken from while he was president, along with millions of dollars from George Soros, the "Chi-coms", and "hollywood liberals", and labor unions to make this happen.

[maveric]

40. They'll blame it on liberal hackers messing with Diebold machines.

Because there's no way this country wants anything else but repubs. :sarcasm: