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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 04:57 PM
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Krugman: "The GOP is sounding a bit, well, demented these days." (updated)
Edited on Fri May-29-09 05:42 PM by ProSense
May 29, 2009

Same as they ever were

Obama is a socialist/fascist; Sonia Sotomayor is a racist, and La Raza is the KKK; there’s an evil plot against Republican car dealers. The GOP is sounding a bit, well, demented these days.

But here’s the thing: it always did. A few trips down memory lane:

Senator Tom Coburn:

In a tape recently released by Brad Carson, Coburn’s Democratic opponent for the Senate race there, Coburn is heard warning the good clean citizens of Oklahoma of the great lesbian threat to their state.

On the tape, Coburn tells how a campaign worker form Coalgate, Okla., told him that lesbianism is “so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they’ll only let one girl go to the bathroom.”

Senator James Inhofe:

Why did the UN cook up the idea of global warming? To “shut down the machine called America.” In fact, we learned, global warming is a plot to destroy the US economy and to initiate one-world government–a goal not only of the UN but of the American political left more broadly. Establishing his Christian credentials, Inhofe invoked Romans 1:25 (For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever) to suggest that taking steps to ameliorate global warming would constitute a form of idol worship.

We’re not talking fringe activists here; we’re talking U.S. senators. The truth is that lunatics have been running this particular asylum for years. But in a classic case of emperor’s new clothes, it wasn’t acceptable to notice this until the lunatics lost power.


Updated to add:

Tancredo: ‘I don’t know’ if the Obama administration ‘hates white people.’




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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 05:00 PM
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1. Only "a bit"? n/t
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DrToast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 05:09 PM
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3. "These days"? n/t
Edited on Fri May-29-09 05:09 PM by DrToast
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AlexanderProgressive Donating Member (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 05:34 PM
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5. Krugman said they always have sounded that way
If you read the piece you will see it:

Krugman:
"The GOP is sounding a bit, well, demented these days.
But here’s the thing: it always did.
"
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 06:10 PM
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6. "Sounding"? n/t
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wellst0nev0ter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 06:36 PM
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7. "The"? n/t
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AlexanderProgressive Donating Member (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 06:56 PM
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8. LOL n/t
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Jennicut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 05:00 PM
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2. They have been bringin the crazy since I started paying attention to politics
in the late 80's/early 90's. My first major political memory is watching crazy Pat Buchanan go on and on at the RNC in '92.
Krugman is right though...the MSM finally notices now that the nutball crew is no longer in power.
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-29-09 05:18 PM
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4. Shame on Krugman- picking on the mentally ill again .
:evilgrin:
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sellitman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 08:13 AM
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9. Only part of the Republican Party is demented
99.9% is.

The rest are normal.
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creeksneakers2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 04:11 PM
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10. It does go back a long way
It got much worse with the creation of RW talk radio. It was frustrating for years to watch clever manipulators use lies, hatred and kook conspiracy theories to control gullible and crazy masses. Those same armies were then used to destroy anyone who opposed the right wing agenda.

Before, everyone was too afraid to confront this. Then, with prodding from the Internet left, politicians and media started to fight back. Once enough people stood up to the right wing wave the RW enforcers didn't have time to destroy everybody who disagreed. So now anybody who wants can hit back at the right wing. The RW can't overcome scrutiny. A lie flies around the world while the truth limps behind, but eventually the truth catches up.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 04:17 PM
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11. Those poor people in their
respectively represented states who actually voted against coburn, inhofe, et al.

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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-30-09 07:13 PM
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12. lol -- those two quotes bring back bad memories of having those two twits as my senators
:scared:

The lunatics have been running the GOP asylum for a looooong time ...
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