If you think that right wing insanity can only be found with the freepers, then think again

[ck4829]

In the bowels of the Ritz-Carlton in downtown Washington last Friday, as the G20 met across town and the Republican Governors' Association assembled in Florida, the activist elites of the conservative movement gathered to plot their resurgence. The Council for National Policy (CNP), founded in the early 1980s by the power brokers who brought together cold warriors, moral majoritarians, John Birchers, dispensationalists, anti-government libertarians, free-enterprise zealots, and national-security hawks under one roof, has long been the incubator for the conservative movement's political strategy, and an essential stop for Republican presidential aspirants.

Activist and radio host Janet Porter, an early Huckabee backer in the 2008 campaign, told me she favored either Palin or Huckabee in 2012. Porter is straight out of the wing of the movement that is all frothing ideology, and no stone-cold strategy. That explains her ongoing fixation with the long-debunked lie that Barack Obama does not have a U.S. birth certificate, and her attempt to stop the electoral college from voting next month in the formality that will officially make him president.

Porter insists that Obama has not produced a U.S. birth certificate (he has) and that he was actually born in Kenya (he was born in Hawaii). She claims to be awaiting the results of the lawsuits filed by attorney Philip J. Berg, whose effort to halt the presidential election because of the alleged question of Obama's U.S. citizenship was rebuffed by the United States Supreme Court.

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_fundamentalist_111908

These aren't the types of right wingers who complain that the "communists in the Democrat Party" (I.E. us) are gaining power, but Porter and the rest of the Council for National Policy types are the movers and shakers of the conservative movement.

Think about for a second! These people, for all intents and purposes, ran the government for the past eight years!

No wonder it's so bad now, right?

[theoldman]

1. I don't think the Supreme Court will change its mind about

Obama's birth certificate. These nut cakes will just have to suffer for at least the next 8 years. The may even have to suffer for the next 16 years if the Democrats find a good replacement for Obama. It would not surprise me if Obama has not already selected his replacement in 2016.

[patriotvoice]

6. "replacement for Obama"? Surely you mean "successor to Obama".

:toast:

[Warpy]

2. Berg's lawsuit was thrown out on Oct. 25

as was Martin's just last week.

I guess Porter either doesn't keep up with the news or doesn't believe it when she hears it.

These people do live in an unreal world, unpleasantries dismissed, disbelieved, ignored.

In a more compassionate country, they would have access to and be encouraged to use mental health care services. Here, they continue to run for office and sometimes they get elected.

The Council for National Policy, for those of you who don't know, are the ones who vetted Palin and hung her around McCain's neck like a rotting albatross. They consider that exercise a policy success and now want to wrest control of the GOP from the moneyed class.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Maybe she is waiting for some aliens from another planet to land and bring proof

that in actuality, Obama was not even born on Earth!!!!!

[JuniperLea]

4. I look forward to their total embarrassment

When the SC makes them the laughing stock of the entire world.

Idiots.

[Marr]

5. It's interesting how these people suddenly become so acutely interested in the precise

application of law... when it benefits them.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

7. It's really disturbing how much access and power these lunatics have. nt