Driftglass has a brilliant, simple strategy: Peel off 100,000 MODERATE Republicans by showing them how they're helping the Fundies destroy America. Blame the current mess squarely on Moderate Repubs who got in bed with Fundie lunatics and tell them to either stay home or vote Dem next time.
Driftglass is a great strategist, and fun to read too.
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2005/04/hey-kids-tom-delay-sez.htmlFor my Moderate Friends, its time to face some unhappy facts. The biopsy can back, and the news ain’t good: turns out while you were dreaming your happy Tax Cut dreams, the always amusing and hardworking Christianofascist wing of your party metastasized.
Consider this from Dana Milbank in today’s WaPo:
Conservative leaders meeting in Washington yesterday for a discussion of "Remedies to Judicial Tyranny" decided that Kennedy, a Ronald Reagan appointee, should be impeached, or worse.
Phyllis Schlafly, doyenne of American conservatism, said Kennedy's opinion forbidding capital punishment for juveniles "is a good ground of impeachment." To cheers and applause from those gathered at a downtown Marriott for a conference on "Confronting the Judicial War on Faith," Schlafly said that Kennedy had not met the "good behavior" requirement for office and that "Congress ought to talk about impeachment."
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Not to be outdone, lawyer-author Edwin Vieira told the gathering that Kennedy should be impeached because his philosophy, evidenced in his opinion striking down an anti-sodomy statute, "upholds Marxist, Leninist, satanic principles drawn from foreign law." Ominously, Vieira continued by saying his "bottom line" for dealing with the Supreme Court comes from Joseph Stalin. "He had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty: 'no man, no problem,' "
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