I'd Call This Peak Wingnut, but I Bet We'll Top It Eventually

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/3/1/163934/0286

I'd Call This Peak Wingnut, but I Bet We'll Top It Eventually

by Steve M.
Thu Mar 1st, 2012 at 04:39:34 PM EST

For those who are still in denial about the extremism of modern-day Republicans, the past week -- hell, the past 24 hours -- should have been a cold slap in the face, a big jolt of reality. Rush Limbaugh, praised for years by Republicans, declared an honorary member of the House freshman class in the Contract with America year of 1994, pal to Dick Cheney all through his time as vice president, attacks an advocate of contraceptive coverage as a slut and a prostitute and, after being criticized, doubles down, demanding that the woman "post {sex} videos online" in return for contraceptive coverage. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, honorary Arizona co-chair of Mitt Romney's 2008 campaign, backer of Rick Perry last fall until he dropped out of the race, object of the entreaties of Rick Santorum, holds a press conference today to reassert that the long-form Obama birth certificate is a fake. (Santorum, when he met with Arpaio last week, was briefed on Arpaio's birther "investigation" and didn't immediately distance himself from the sheriff.) Oh, and what else? Nearly every Republican senator voted for the Blunt amendment? Andrew Breitbart died and much of the right concluded that President Obama murdered him? And, five days ago, Rick Santorum declared that anyone who wants more Americans to have access to college is a "snob"?

That's just one week. And yet ...

We will go into the fall election with Obama and Romney as the candidates and Romney will try to portray Obama as "extreme" and "out of the mainstream." He, his running mate, and his surrogates will declare that Obama stands for an extreme, peculiar, bizarre, foreign worldview. And this will be taken seriously. One or two setbacks in the economy or the foreign-policy sphere, one or two good news cycles for the Romney campaign, and we'll be right back to the premise that "real Americans" are Republicans and that it's the Democrats who are the weirdos and freaks.

For the love of God, mainstream media, please remember this moment. And realize that there'll be even worse moments to come.

[FSogol]

1. K & R. n/t

[The Magistrate]

2. Too True, Ma'am, Sadly

[Fumesucker]

3. Non wingnuts can still understand them to some extent, hence we have not yet reached the Wingularity

http://www.balloon-juice.com/balloon-juice-lexicon-q-z/

Wingularity, the- the point at which the insanity from the far right and those controlling the Republican Party [continues] to grow exponentially until it reaches an unsustainable weight and collapses upon itself. This is also known as the Purity Spiral, wherein the density of wingnut increases compared to mainstream conservatives to the point of pure wingnut. As the ratio rises, this creates a phenomenon wherein no logic or sanity can penetrate or escape. When rightwing argument has become completely inaccessible to the uninitiated, it has reached the Wingularity.

[oldhippydude]

4. is this then the phenomonon known as the wevent horizon?

[Fumesucker]

6. At the same link..

Wingnut Event Horizon – An event that is always happening, yet never ever happens. Occasionally, a wingnut will say/write/blog/publish/fart something so ridiculous, so closed-minded, so full of hate and scorn, yet free from thought and consideration, that anyone hearing it will be forced to conclude that said wingnut will never again be taken seriously/linked to/have a Time article written about him. However, in a sick twisted perversion of the actual event horizon, no matter how far you walk from the Wingnut Event Horizon, they’re never any further away.

[randome]

7. That is funny!

[Demonaut]

5. memories are short, I'd like the most current bs to be posted every week

[Scuba]

8. Turns out all the MSM outlets are owned by Bain Capital.

[malaise]

9. Bookmarked

in case M$M forget