At the national level, in the crucible of the 2012 presidential campaign, the GOP has finally, publicly decomposed itself into its two, constituent elements: unremitting lying and unfettered crazy.
Usually they work together, the boundless Lie and the imbecile Crazy, like a fascist hand in a bigoted, Christopath glove.
It is interesting to see them bite each other's throats and punch each other's kidneys.
It is infinitely more interesting to see our Villager media pretending that this is not happening.
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Please do not limit the electrolytic products to only "unremitting lying and unfettered crazy" for you seem to have forgotten "seething hatred/contempt."
John Puma
To John...
Both sides do it.
Heh. Didn't expect to see that phrase used accurately here, did you?
Just like our favorite Nazi Sgt Shultz, they see nothing, they hear nothing and they say nothing just like all good little Nazi's should.
Groups band together in competition with external enemies, and fall into factions when the competition ends; it wasn't until the Soviet Union fell that our political parties fell on each other.
If the Jesus Republicans and the Money Republicans are falling out, it's because the Democratic party has thoroughly failed to provide opposition.
Jay,
Nonsense.
Three words.
Richard. Milhous. Nixon.
Three more words.
Tail Gunner Joe (McCarthy).
Long before the Soviet Union fell, the GOP was using the language of demonization and disloyalty to slander Democrats and win elections.
Driftglass,
I see it as a question of degree. The parties had always been competing and name-calling, but the Republicans took it to a new level around 1994 (the Contract with America and all that).
I think that, before the Soviet Union fell, the Republicans would have been reluctant to attack a sitting president too vigorously for fear that the Russians would see weakness and attack. By Clinton's term, that had changed.
To Nagleator:
Certainly to the extent of the success of the DCCC and the DSCC to recruit Republican mentalities to run for congress with a "D" after their names.
For example: http://tinyurl.com/d3vy7d6
and recurring posts at DWT
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