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Tea-Publicans drink their ‘hater-ade’
April 18, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
I rarely watch Chris Matthews because he is always hawking somebody's book (skip the first minute of the video below). But I happened to catch this segment with Ron Reagan and Michelle Bernard which actually offered some insightful points for a change.
The first point was one that I have often written about, the Tea-Publican sense of entitlement by divine right to lord over us all. There is also the GOP tradition of "waiting your turn" to be the GOP nominee. No new revelations there.
But the second point was recent polling data from a CNN poll. Full poll (pdf) It is both disturbing and a flashing red-light warning to Americans just how radical and dangerous the Tea-Publican Party has become. It turns out that they are willing to vote for an empty vessel, a cardboard cutout even, because they are voting against President Obama out of hatred, and it does not matter one iota to them whom they are voting for. As the panel discusses, Tea-Publican voters are motivated by hatred against an African-American president many of them wrongly believe is an illegitimate usurper, and a secret Muslim born in Kenya to boot. Racism, religious bigotry, nativism — Tea-Publicans drink their "hater-ade."
If we were all weighing the personal qualities and characteristics of the candidates, their qualifications and capabilities, as well as their positions on the issues like rational, reasonable, responsible mature adults, this election would not even be close. The American public as a whole prefers President Obama by double digits in this same CNN poll.
So if you are trying to make sense of how or why a political party could possibly vote for someone so demonstrably unqualified and unfit to serve in public office, like our own Jesse Kelly, it is because the Tea-Publican Party is no longer rational, reasonable or responsible. It is a party consumed by controlling power and motivated by hatred for anyone who is not one of them and stands in their way of controlling power. This is a dangerous development.
It is why a Teabagger like the "Motor City Madman" Ted Nugent threatens harm to the president and threatens cutting off the heads of Democrats if the election does not go the way of Tea-Publicans this November. This is something new in American politics, it is home-grown authoritarianism. Our longstanding American tradition of "ballots over bullets" and accepting the results of democratic elections as legitimate is threatened by this new un-American authoritarianism.
Video below the fold.
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by David Safier A Heritage Foundation "Bloggers Briefing" broadcast online on "Breibart TV" begged conservative bloggers to write in defense of ALEC. The problem, according to the speakers, is ALEC hasn't gotten much press over its 35 years, so the progressive push against the organization has happened without much response. ALEC, of course, created this … Read more
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Kelly? Really? OK, Prepare to Get Pasted.
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By Michael Bryan I sometimes indulge in a little prognostication. Last week I told some friends that I believed Kelly would win the nomination for the CD8 special. Check. Now, I will reveal the rest of my prediction: Kelly will lose the CD8 special by an embarrassing margin. And then he will lose the CD2 … Read more
Early Returns in Special Election Primary (Updated)
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NRA pays The Nuge $50,000 to threaten Obama
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by David Safier What, you thought Ted Nugent threatens Obama at the NRA convention for free? (See the post below for what Nugent said to make the Secret Service take notice.) Hardly. He charges $50,000. This is from the NRA Report to the Annual Meeting of Members sent out April 14, 2012 (Download the whole … Read more
