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The conservative crackup: How the Republican Party lost its mind
Salon ^ | August 31, 2013 | Kim Messick

Posted on 08/31/2013 4:46:03 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: txrangerette; All

Another “comment” from the sourced article (for your reading pleasure).

:)

“The GOP thinks they have accomplished something— they have. They have alienated the majority of humans on this planet, who used to look to America as the dream and and future fulfillment of every humane hope of the world. They have showed off a part of our population who support racism, contempt for the poor and sick, and out-of-control corporate and personal wealth. It appears to all that we not only oppose a decent social safety net, but but that we agree to a political system that no longer functions for the benefit of its people. America’s former vaunted democratic republic is a sad, dead joke.

Reading the foreign press online, it seems that Europe and much of the rest of the world have caught on to what is going on here, faster than a lot of our own people have. But, pessimistic as I have been about our future, it now seems to be coming clear to the majority of Americans.

We don’t want to be this small-minded, hateful, hypocritical theocracy that the Right-wing has tried to turn us into, with its lies and propaganda. We all can see the place that having such an ugly national character will lead us to— and it is a shameful, depressing sight. The America I grew up in had many troubles to work through, but we had a beautiful ideal in our future.

If we allow the GOP to destroy the possibility of that beautiful ideal, in the name of a robber-baron economy and a mean-spirited, dog-eat-dog society, then America, for me, will be dead.”


21 posted on 08/31/2013 5:16:29 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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North Korea ‘r Us


22 posted on 08/31/2013 5:17:57 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (we're the Beatniks now)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Oh yeah....Republicans should listen to this Marxist writer at Salon for political advice, since of course, she wants them to improve their chances of winning. When the money runs totally out, I hope the Takers turn on these media types first.


23 posted on 08/31/2013 5:23:12 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: old and tired
there are many potential Jewish and Hindu conservatives.

Somehow those "many potential" seem to vote at least 70% democrat.

24 posted on 08/31/2013 5:23:38 AM PDT by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: ZULU

Didn’t you mean, why is being diverse and inclusive an advantage? You wrote “disadvantage”, but your lead-in statement of the Democrats being successful by being TOTALLY left-wing would necessarily make the correct word “advantage” without the “dis”.

And to add to your good point, radical left-wingers are a much smaller percentage of the population than Conservatives and Moderates are.

Yet they have been successful by never giving the slightest inch on anything. If they ever momentarily give, it’s only a short pit stop on the way to their pedal-to-the-medal destruction of America as we’ve known it.


25 posted on 08/31/2013 5:24:11 AM PDT by txrangerette ("...hold to the truth; speak without fear." - Glenn Beck)
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To: ZULU

Oops, make that “pedal to the METAL” (not medal).


26 posted on 08/31/2013 5:25:16 AM PDT by txrangerette ("...hold to the truth; speak without fear." - Glenn Beck)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

CW, I think maybe the deranged Chris Matthews wrote that comment.


27 posted on 08/31/2013 5:26:34 AM PDT by txrangerette ("...hold to the truth; speak without fear." - Glenn Beck)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

So the writer doesn’t know the virtues of liberty or what it means to create economic value. Harrumph!
democrats still the party of slavery. Why would we want to submit (by compromise) to that?


28 posted on 08/31/2013 5:28:44 AM PDT by griswold3
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I also love reading comments. Yahoo has stopped all commenting because, I believe, the majority of the replies were conservative! Anyway, here’s to Free Republic, another comment:

“exboyracer 6 minutes ago

@Gerry Q Part of this article was quoted (un credited) on freerepublic.com this morning — so far the comments reflect exactly what the article was expressing. Perhaps you would be more comfortable with the commenting on freerepublic”


29 posted on 08/31/2013 5:34:09 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: Timber Rattler
Its amazing how many liberals are suddenly so concerned about the health and well-being of the Republican Party.

The are worried that the rotting, hollow tree of the GOP will fall over leaving room for a vibrant opposition party. Got to keep the old wood propped up to keep saplings like the tea party from growing.

30 posted on 08/31/2013 5:34:10 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (This message has been recorded but not approved by Obama's StasiNet. Read it at your peril.)
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To: ptsal

Yep, those are targets in the GOP Primaries.

Exposure.


31 posted on 08/31/2013 5:42:00 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: txrangerette
CW, I think maybe the deranged Chris Matthews wrote that comment.

I think they have been listening to Professor Matthews and buying his "clever" line of bs.

It's smoke and mirrors employed by the Left to drive more division - wooing the weak-minded with twisted history and misinformation, all wrapped up in a pretty "I care" bow (or shiny poison apple, if you will).

32 posted on 08/31/2013 5:42:01 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Yeah, stopping the looters and the popularity of abortion, corruption and luring black racism, is indeed a saintly death wish warranting mental health treatment...


33 posted on 08/31/2013 5:43:01 AM PDT by lavaroise
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

ping


34 posted on 08/31/2013 5:46:22 AM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Here's where the real agenda of this article pokes through. The Democrats fully control the mainstream media; academia; and Hollywood and the rest of the entertainment industry. What's more, most of the people working for the federal government are democrats and willingly pursue Democrat agendas as recent demonstrated by the IRS and other agency scandals. In other words, there are virtually no major private or public institutions in the United States that they do not control. They own the culture. The only thing they don't really control is talk radio and they so they badly want to eliminate it. Hence the raison d’être for this article.

Given how high the odds are stacked against them, it's a wonder to me how any conservatives are elected at the national level.

35 posted on 08/31/2013 5:47:29 AM PDT by Jagman
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To: lavaroise

I am more convinced than ever that LIBs/DIMs arre a plague upon Free America. Their craniums are filled with angry mush.


36 posted on 08/31/2013 5:47:34 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: huldah1776

;>)


37 posted on 08/31/2013 5:48:32 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"...The peculiarities of our system — a Senate, armed with the filibuster, that gives Wyoming’s 576,000 people as much power as California’s 38,000,000; gerrymandered districts in the House; separate selection of the executive and the legislature; a chronically underfunded elections process, generally in partisan hands and in desperate need of rationalization — simply won’t permit it..."

Wow. I was almost speechless after reading this one line. So much ignorance and stupidity in one segment.


38 posted on 08/31/2013 5:50:34 AM PDT by rlmorel (Silence: The New Hate Speech)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

I’ll boil down this verbal barrage to its most elemental form. This writer would prefer to live in a country with a single party dictatorship. That being a Leftist party of course; just to be “progressive”, naturellement.


39 posted on 08/31/2013 6:02:34 AM PDT by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
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To: Timber Rattler
Its amazing how many liberals are suddenly so concerned about the health and well-being of the Republican Party.

Actually Salon self-proclaimed "writers" may be the last people left on the planet who take the Republican party even 2% seriously.

40 posted on 08/31/2013 6:03:27 AM PDT by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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