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Showing Original Post only (View all)Crazy can’t be reasoned with. Only defeated [View all]
http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/12471883-452/todays-gop-you-cant-reason-with-crazy.htmlTodays GOP: You cant reason with crazy
By Gene Lyons May 11, 2012 10:54PM
After the comprehensive failures of President George W. Bush, conservatives faced a hard choice: rethink or go crazy. For too many, the election of Barack Obama appears to have made it a no-brainer. Millions have chosen the comforts of delusion, envisioning the ordinary give-and-take of politics in a democracy as an apocalyptic struggle between good and evil.
In a presidential election year, the evidence is everywhere. Two weeks ago, Florida GOP Rep. Allen West told a gathering of constituents that he knew of 78 to 81 congressional Democrats who are members of the Communist Party. Almost needless to say, West failed to name even one. Hardly anybody noticed, and certainly not the severely conservative presumptive Republican nominee, Mitt Romney. snip
Longtime GOP congressional aide Mike Lofgren wrote last year in explaining his resignation, the Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe.
For Obama to succeed where Bush had failed also had the potential to reduce the GOP to a powerless bloc of neo-Confederate whiners for a generation. So Obama had to fail at all costs.
Crazy cant be reasoned with. Only defeated.
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Yes, it's paid into and earned by the recpient. It's their money that they are entitled to...
OneTenthofOnePercent
May 2012
#9
Yes, an 'entitlement' is an interest or perquisite that exists solely by virtue of law.
TahitiNut
May 2012
#19
When beliefs are not founded in fact... no facts can persuade them otherwise.
OneTenthofOnePercent
May 2012
#4
They aren't going to come back to reality, are they? We have to move ahead without them.
freshwest
May 2012
#11