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Sun May 13, 2012, 09:21 AM May 2012

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.html

Today’s GOP: You can’t 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 can’t be reasoned with. Only defeated.

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Great bumper sticker! "Crazy can’t be reasoned with. Only defeated." DontTreadOnMe May 2012 #1
Unfortunately, Repukes would take it as a rallying cry longship May 2012 #3
By trying to reason with crazy, you legitimize it. malthaussen May 2012 #2
But social security IS an entitlement... OneTenthofOnePercent May 2012 #5
Social security is an earned benefit gratuitous May 2012 #6
Yes, it's paid into and earned by the recpient. It's their money that they are entitled to... OneTenthofOnePercent May 2012 #9
In conservative-speak malthaussen May 2012 #7
Then conservatives are wrong and should be called out on it. OneTenthofOnePercent May 2012 #10
That is the point, isn't it? malthaussen May 2012 #15
Yes, an 'entitlement' is an interest or perquisite that exists solely by virtue of law. TahitiNut May 2012 #19
Good analysis. ewagner May 2012 #8
Malthaussen? Stainless May 2012 #12
It's a misspelling, but not of Mauthausen malthaussen May 2012 #13
Interestingly TahitiNut May 2012 #21
Anyone who quotes Veblen gets a handshake from me malthaussen May 2012 #23
He was a genius. TahitiNut May 2012 #29
John D. MacDonald's character malthaussen May 2012 #30
When beliefs are not founded in fact... no facts can persuade them otherwise. OneTenthofOnePercent May 2012 #4
yup, that is the crux of it. BlancheSplanchnik May 2012 #16
I became aware of this insidious process malthaussen May 2012 #18
I saw a poster of it in a bookstore and had to have it... OneTenthofOnePercent May 2012 #27
They're merely demonstrating the strength of their Faith. TahitiNut May 2012 #22
Well, the Apostle Thomas is a Saint malthaussen May 2012 #24
They aren't going to come back to reality, are they? We have to move ahead without them. freshwest May 2012 #11
K/R. NYC_SKP May 2012 #14
Sarah Palin, Secessionist, AK, was no mistake. nt patrice May 2012 #17
Don't hear enough about this FACT in the 'liberal media'. jp11 May 2012 #20
You cannot argue with a crazy person felix_numinous May 2012 #25
If by crazy tama May 2012 #26
My grandfather always said daligirl519 May 2012 #28
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