I just realized why the Right Wing have become completely unhinged

[PlanetBev]

For eight years, they were able to hang on to the 20th century by the skin of their teeth. What better way to do it than with a ignorant, shallow cowboy and an illegal war.

They were not able to ease gently into 2009. They thought they could continue holding back the future with an angry old white man and a vapid pageant queen. When an African American was elected, they were launched hyper-speed into the 21st Century.

They are in a state of shock...

[saltpoint]

1. Nonsense. Rush Limbaugh, the great inspirational Rush Limbaugh mind you,

is leading them to the Promised Land.

[Fearless]

4. So long as it takes 40 years, I'm fine with that.

[saltpoint]

5. : )

[Peacetrain]

25. That over the edge of the cliff "promise land"

:fistbump:

[WonderGrunion]

29. No... Fatty Limbaugh is taking them to the Promise (Margarine) Land

Which as a subsidiary of Unilever UK would be one of these locations:

Factory address:

Coal Road
Seacroft
Leeds
LS14 2AR
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: 0113 222 5362
Factory address:

P.O.Box 105
2 Liverpool Road
Warrington
Cheshire
WA5 1AA
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: 01925 412 011
Factory address:

P.O.Box 69
Port Sunlight
Wirral
Merseyside
CH62 4ZD
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: 0151 641 4083
Factory address:

Corinium Avenue
Barnwood
Gloucester
GL4 3BW
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: 01452 392 344
Factory address:

Croespenmaen Industrial Estate
Crumlin
Gwent
NP11 3AG
Telephone: [phone]
Factory address:

Colman's of Norwich
Carrow
Norwich
NR1 2DD
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: 01603 692 104
Factory address:

London Road
Purfleet
Essex
RM19 1SD
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: 01708 684 664
Factory address:

Trafford Park Road
Trafford Park
Manchester
M17 1NH
Telephone: [phone]
Facsimile: 0161 888 1401
Factory address:

Burton Plant
Wellington Road
Burton-on-Trent
Staffordshire
DE14 2AB
Telephone: [phone]

[sasquatch]

2. The 20th Century? Those guys were fighting for a fantasy time that never existed

[SoCalDem]

11. They want the 50's ..when white men ruled the world and USA cars were

what everyone wanted.. Mom stayednhome & baked cookies, when she wasn;t waxing the ceiling..in high heels.. Men were expected to chase their secretaries around the desk. 3 martini lunches.. thick juice steaks.. Middle management guys who had sassy black housekeepers, so the wives could hang out at the club..

Of course the wolrd they dream of, only really existed on TV and in the movies..but they're too stupid to realize it.

[tanyev]

24. They sold the base on the 1950s; the leaders were aiming for the Gilded Age.

[grasswire]

3. I thought it had to do with the vanishing white majority

Really.

Although with the economic distress in the U.S., immigration of "other" peoples has slowed. That ought to make Republicans happy.

[Solomon]

15. Bingo! Been saying this for years. It's not just that

they will ultimately lose majority status here in the US, but the main driving force of white supremacy has always been the realization that whites constitute less than 10% of the world population. The only way to avoid melting into the world gene pool is to dominate the other peoples of the planet.

It's called fear of genetic annihilation.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. They didn't just lose a close election in 08. They got their ass kicked, 2:1 EVs.

The demographic changes that have been creeping up on them washed over them in a tsunami. Of course having endured the worst president ever, in combination with a poised, brilliant and telegenic Democratic nominee, made all this worse.

Not only did they lose, beyond a shadow of a doubt where they could reasonably say shenanigans accounted for the loss, but they have no clear path back into power and they can see that now.

That's what's driving them nuts.

[Lilyeye]

7. I think its a combination of your post and what the OP stated.

[bigbrother05]

8. Think they also realize that even with tricks they were routed

With their fierce, partisan machine turned up to 11, they still were convincingly defeated. Believe that their back room consultants have seen the "real" numbers and know that only some kind of supernatural intervention will save the party as they would like it to be. The true beneficiaries of Rep policies have far too much money to suffer in the short term, but they are scared shitless that the rabble will storm the gates of their benighted communities.

[Optical.Catalyst]

13. The Republicans are in a death spiral

The right of center voters are hungry to form a new party, and the old Republican Party just doesn't fit the bill. Here where I live, the number of people registered as 'Independent' has reached an all time high. There has been no corresponding increase in people registered with the Democratic Party and there has been a noticeable drop in the Republican numbers.

We will have a new political party after the 2012 elections when the Republicans gasp and expire. We should help their demise by locking them out of all participation in Congress. They only want to say no and obstruct our legislation anyway, so put them in the corner and let the Republicans watch as the Democrats clean up the mess left by the Bush Administration.

[struggle4progress]

9. I think they started off completely unhinged and sort of came apart from there

[Swamp Rat]

10. Fried CPUs

:D

[opihimoimoi]

17. SWAMPY.....LOL......Thats an ole pic of Zitt butt? ...... Hilarious

[Norrin Radd]

12. They were hinged?

[quaker bill]

14. Too rational

I agree with the "state of shock" at the notion of being suddenly catapulted into the 21st century.

The leaders on the RW knew it was coming. This is why Sarah Palin came from nowhere to be VP. She was a bone to toss to the religious right in a year when no serious future contender wanted to be on a losing ticket. In a sense, the same goes for McCain, while not not a favorite of the religious right, it was understood that 2008 would be his last national campaign. The RW leaders crafted a throw away ticket.

Among the rank and file, or what remained of it by 2008, a good many of these Bush deadenders have taken the Bush mantra as coming direct from divine intervention. If you harbor the notion that God was involved in your victory and all you stand for, what must it mean when you lose? When the explanation for your victory is irrational, the explanation for your defeat has to go even farther in that direction.

The consequences of your loss must be apocalyptic, thus the run on the gun stores, and the various rants about socialism and such. There is no reality based and rational justification for this line of thought, which is exactly why they find it attractive. Rationality would require acceptance of the fact that they were handed the keys, ran the country into a ditch, and were simply rejected by the vast majority of voters for their utter incompetence and the moral/intellectual bankruptcy of their ideas. This is a bridge that many simply cannot cross. It is a shame because sanity lies on the other side.

[Enthusiast]

16. They still rule the MSM

I'm watching Biden on NBC right now. The host is as hostile as can be and every question is from the Reich Wing perspective. This media dominance make the GOP far more dangerous than they would otherwise be. All they need to do is cripple the internet in some manner and the country is their's.

[PlanetBev]

18. Well put and scary thought, Enthusiast

I've often thought what kind of country we'd have now if the Internet didn't exist. If it's ever crippled, we're dead.

[Cha]

22. "Their's" again, eh?

Obama and his team have learned how to go around and straight through the corporatemediaWhores..without which we would be now dealing with the fascist fuck mccain-palin idiot.

We have to change the tv corporatemedia.. by holding them accountable for their reich wing points.

Are you talking about david freakin'i'manassholegregory?

Thankfully, more and more Americans are on to them..and this will be done.

[Enthusiast]

28. Yes, I can't stand Gregory.

I think you are right about viewers waking up to the one sided nature of the MSM. The louder Limbaugh cries 'liberal media' the more convinced I become that it is the opposite.

[CoffeeCat]

19. There's no doubt that the powers that be...

....in the Republican and Democratic parties--did not anticipate an Obama win.

All they can do is try to control him into not destroying all of the "progress" they've
made in the past 20 years or so.

Obama is up against forces that we can't even begin to imagine.

[Cha]

30. Exactly..

"Obama is up against forces that we can't even begin to imagine."

It was a miracle he even got elected and I really appreciate that he's in office trying his best.

[Enthusiast]

31. I fear you are right about this.

"Obama is up against forces that we can't even begin to imagine."

[Cha]

20. I'm changing my post..

I thought you said you realized that the right wing was unhinged.. sorry.

Okay..yeah, that sounds about right..poor assholes..their corporatemedia didn't come through for them this time and they don't get to suck at the teat of big brother.

[lunatica]

21. Actually they wanted to hang onto that non existent June and Ward Cleaver image

and the period just after WWII and just before the Civil Right and Women's Rights movement gave everyone but White Men rights. Everything just went to hell after that. Having our first Black President (even though he's half white) is the last straw for them. It's like they know they're going down for the third time with that one. The survival instinct has kicked in and the mighty beast is now thrashing in its death throes, clearly illustrated by the mighty Cheney roar we've been hearing lately.

[Jade Fox]

23. Good analysis....

It seems clear to me that the invasion of Iraq was a desperate attempt to go back and "win" the Vietnam war. An attempt vindicate that 20th century Cold War mentality that said we had the right to invade other countries to stop the spread of Communism (updated to "Islamofacism").

[grantcart]

26. Their entire electoral college strategy since 1968 has collapsed

It used to be a strong southern strategy that allows them to concentrate on a few key states to get to 270 electoral votes.


With the current electoral college map they have to expend resources to stay competitive in the south and and have no hope in the East are less competitive in the Mid West and have lost the Pacific coast states completely, with several mountain states drifting more and more blue.


If your a Republican and you read a pollster who is telling you that you wouldn't have taken AZ if McCain wasn't on the ticket and that Obama is likely to take it in 2012 how could you stay hinged?

[CatWoman]

27. from today's Frank Rich:

What is this fury about? In his scant 145 days in office, the new president has not remotely matched the Bush record in deficit creation. Nor has he repealed the right to bear arms or exacerbated the wars he inherited. He has tried more than his predecessor ever did to reach across the aisle. But none of that seems to matter. A sizable minority of Americans is irrationally fearful of the fast-moving generational, cultural and racial turnover Obama embodies — indeed, of the 21st century itself. That minority is now getting angrier in inverse relationship to his popularity with the vast majority of the country. Change can be frightening and traumatic, especially if it’s not change you can believe in.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/opinion/14rich.html?_r=2

[opihimoimoi]

32. Them Pubs Have Destroyed their Credibility....They now are using 100% Cow chips for rhetorical ammo

They think their Social Engineering shit brain washing still works wonders....

No Longer....peeps have smelled the coffee and use Super VISINE

The Pubs went overboard in their arrogance....

Now look....Young Republicans in Universities have drastically declined in Numbers.

Independent numbers going up while Pubs going down...

Its a Whig Party coming soon to your city....