I can't help but think all this winger BS is going to backfire on them

[panader0]

The shouters, the birthers, the deathers, the Palinites, the violence, the unmittigated racism. I think there are still a few conservatives with sense (ok, not too many). Those people will be turned off by the idiotic actions of the few. What is the base of these fools? 20%? When the health bill is finalized, Obama will go on national TV and give a great speech. The idiots are vastly outnumbered, they are just loud.

[BlooInBloo]

1. Only if we make it happen. "It" doesn't just happen on "its" own.

[polichick]

2. They're like the yellow pus that has to drain out of a wound before it can heal. lol

[billyoc]

3. It looks like Glenn Beck is hemmoraging ad money already.

[krabigirl]

4. it already is...

[stubtoe]

5. They are just loud. The media loves a good loud fight, That's why they've been getting

all the airtime. It'll get old, they'll eventually get hoarse, and the conservatives with sense will register Independent so as not to be associated with this rabble.

[bunkerbuster1]

6. Oh, I've more or less assumed it would all along.

I think the elections were the referendum on their gross tactics.

I think we have an incredibly astute group of pols (not just Obama) at the bully pulpit, and they're playing these GOP tools.

Heathcare reform will pass. The majorities in Congress will hold. The Republicans will fail.

[robcon]

7. Not yet, at least. Gallup says they've advanced their cause.

New poll highlights health care attitudes
By Susan Page, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The raucous protests at congressional town hall meetings have succeeded in fueling opposition to proposed health care bills among some Americans, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds — particularly the independents who tend to be at the center of political debates.

In a survey of 1,000 adults taken Tuesday, 34% say the sometimes heated protests at sessions held by members of Congress have made them more sympathetic to the protesters' views; 21% say they are less sympathetic.

Independents by 2-1, 35%-16%, say they are more sympathetic to the protesters now.

The findings are bad news for President Obama and Democratic congressional leaders, who have scrambled to respond to town halls marked by aggressive questions and noisy demonstrations by those opposed to plans to overhaul the health care system.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-08-12-poll-12_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

[bobbolink]

12. Which is why they wanted to STOP the Congressional action, and delay.

And it's obviously working.

[HughMoran]

13. lol - yeah, a Gallup poll is going to really make the difference

What are we fucking idiots here - we have the majority and we WILL pass a bill, come hell, high water or a few idiot morons.

[tridim]

8. ..and they will all finally get good health care

That's the part that burns me the most. These idiots are going to benefit from what they're supposedly fighting against.

I bet they try to sabotage the public plan after it goes into effect.

[johnnie]

9. I've been thinking that since the Clinton days

It just never really seems to happen though.

[Atticus]

10. In 2000, I actually rejoiced when W was nominated.

"I can't help but think" I said, "that people will see him for what he is: an incompetent idiot!"

In 2004, Senator Kerry "couldn't help but think" that folks would see through the Swift Boat attack ads.

Do you really think "third time is a charm"?

[applegrove]

11. We can only hope the centre right refuses to be lemmings or think like lemmings.

[Juche]

14. That is my theory

Let the dangerously stupid run the GOP for a while. The dems don't need 100% of the public behind them. A simple 55%/45% majority over the GOP is all you need in elections to get most of your goals accomplished.

An entire generation of voters is growing up and seeing how arrogantly incompetent and backwards the GOP is. As a result of the 9 million votes Obama won over McCain, about 7 million came from people under 30 despite them only making up about 18% of voters.

So the GOP has lost the youth vote, the professional and scientific vote and they are also losing the libertarian vote. Good.