You Made Them Crazy

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2010/9/18/1199/34749

You Made Them Crazy

by BooMan
Sat Sep 18th, 2010 at 11:09:09 AM EST

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So, why are rank-and-file Republicans throwing their bums out in primaries all over the country?

I think, obviously, the starting point in explaining this has to be the trauma of George W. Bush's failure both on policy and politically. Whatever 'compassionate conservatism' was supposed to mean, it wound up meaning a bigger role for the federal government in education, a much bigger Medicare entitlement that now includes prescription drugs, and yawning economy-killing deficits. That might have been easier to swallow if Bush had delivered more for conservative causes, but his main contribution was simple cronyism and corruption and lax regulation. It might have been good for some high donors in the short-term, but it was no model for the future. The Republican voter isn't asking for a return to the Bush years. They're looking for a party that actually follows through on its rhetoric about the government being the problem, not the solution. They seem to have wised up to the fact that the GOP fat cats have been feeding them a line of shit.

Which leads me to the second explanation. The rank-and-file have been indoctrinated, literally. They've consumed so much of this shit from Fox News and hate radio that they actually believe in it. And one of the things they believe is that our institutions are not trustworthy and they're not worth a damn. It's hard to argue with them about that; it's just that everything they're doing is making things worse. By making it harder for the government to function and making it harder to do the things that need to be done, the right-wing creates a self-fulfilling prophesy. We ought to close Guantanamo Bay, but the people are too frightened and, so, no one has the president's back to make that decision. Congress denies him the funds. The same is true on a host of other issues, most notably stimulus spending, climate change, and immigration reform.

Does anyone think our immigration policy doesn't need reforming? Making that impossible doesn't help anyone.

Republicans are getting thrown out of office because they aren't crazy. But that's because they've been teaching their base to be crazy for so long that they've finally started to demand that their representatives be crazy, too.

And no one can get control of this beast.

[Cha]

1. Precisly..this is so obvious and I've been stating it too..

"Which leads me to the second explanation. The rank-and-file have been indoctrinated, literally. They've consumed so much of this shit from Fox News and hate radio that they actually believe in it. And one of the things they believe is that our institutions are not trustworthy and they're not worth a damn. It's hard to argue with them about that; it's just that everything they're doing is making things worse. By making it harder for the government to function and making it harder to do the things that need to be done, the right-wing creates a self-fulfilling prophesy. We ought to close Guantanamo Bay, but the people are too frightened and, so, no one has the president's back to make that decision. Congress denies him the funds. The same is true on a host of other issues, most notably stimulus spending, climate change, and immigration reform."

Thanks booman and babylonsister! :hi:

[BrklynLiberal]

2. They have been Becked and Limpballed. New forms of brainwashing.

The repukes have created a monster, and now they have lost control of it.

The new logo for tbaggers:


and the repukes can take all the credit..or blame, whatever.

brilliant! just brilliant...

[girl gone mad]

3. "Economy-killing deficits"?

I think this writer mistakes symptom for cause.

[slingsam]

4. I confess......I'm a Pittsburgh Steelers Fan......and so I plagiarized your post....

to conservative friends of mine........

Methinks the Party (The GOP) is over (Header)

But it’s Paaaarty Time....in the ‘Burgh! BlitzBurgh, I mean.........er...Pittsburgh......! Home of 6....count ‘em! ...6 Superbowls....That’s 6...OK?



Ooooooooooh! Three 6’s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The End....might be nigh!

(attached a link to your post here.... http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2010/9/18/1199/34749)



and added.....

Are you readyyyyyyyyyyyyyy for some Footbaaaaaaaall????



Thank you for putting words to my thoughts.

[Phx_Dem]

5. That is so perfect.

[BeFree]

6. Crazy? You betcha'

The T-Baggers have been betrayed. They were spoon-fed lies by bushco and now they find they were being poisoned all along.

Who wouldn't go crazy knowing their 'daddy' lied, cheated, stole from and poisoned them?

All along, we, here in the Truther section of American politics, clearly saw what was going down in the last few decades.

It's good to see others finally grokking the reality.

The best we can do is not get caught in the crossfire of this republican civil war, which is getting hotter by the day.

[Hansel]

7. The spoon fed lies started with Reagan.

That is why the Tea Party is so gray. The Republicans have been using social issues since Reagan to gin up these people to vote for them and have done little to deliver on what they promised. The Tea Party is finally realizing that they are now being sacrificed just like all of "them" people that they were so much better than because they "worked harder" and did all the right things. They are finally realizing the Republican Party has betrayed them.

Now with the wealthy in this country thinking that they are now in total control it is time to snap the trap and take the entire middle class down. Including those dutiful tools who kept putting morons like Reagan and Bush and their ilk in power to do their bidding.

Conveniently they can blame it on the 1st black president, the Reaganites' worst nightmare. They have moved further to the right out of complete desperation because what they thought was going to save them from the blacks and welfare people and gays has failed them. Instead of accepting that they have been had, they are doubling down. And their overreach will be the final defeat of Reaganism. And Karl Rove knows this.

The left has a huge opportunity to win right now. Let's see if we can do it without snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. We either put a stake in this monster right now, or we give Rove a chance to regroup and re-strengthen the right.

[BeFree]

8. That's what I'm saying

And you wrote it mo' better than I.