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Official Gingrich-Cain 2012 response to Rick Santorum’s homophobia: “Rick, Rick, Rick. Don’t you know that the anti-gay bigotry only carries water if you have a few failed straight marriages under your belt?” Follow all their other words of wisdom here. (0 comments)Ron Paul Quote of the Week: Honest Rape
Here’s Grandpa Fustypants on rape and abortion:“If it’s an honest rape, that individual should go immediately to the emergency room, I would give them a shot of estrogen.”
via (4 comments)Unhinged vagina-shackler on Komen’s volte face:Cancer is Cancer! Aboration is Aboration!
(0 comments)Since it’s Mitt Romney week everywhere, I figured I’d post this op-ed by an ex-Mormon, which is a pretty interesting take at the institutional culture of the LDS church. Not much to say about it, but it’s definitely worth 5 or so minutes of your time. (0 comments)Why Bipartisanship Is Impossible, In One Sentence
When one party climbs back to power by promising action on the economy, does nothing on it, and instead spends literally all its time trying to hurt the other party. (0 comments)New From The Gingrich-Cain Front
Newt rants about cable movies he doesn’t like, and flips out when Herman tries to seize control. Catch all the fun here. And the main site is here, as always. (0 comments)Headline of the Week: Making Rapeanade
Leave it to TBogg:
(0 comments)Rick Santorum Suggests That When Life Gives You Rape, You Should Make Rapeanade Back when I was in junior high and the Clinton Impeachment was going on, I could hardly have imagined that Clinton would be used as an excuse for wrongdoing by Republican leaders. But that’s where we are. Interesting, isn’t it? (0 comments)Catch up with the official Gingrich-Cain “Great Statesmen” series over at @GingrichCain12. (0 comments)Only 65% of White Americans Have a Favorable Opinion of MLK Jr
…with a whimper. Drum is worth reading on this. I think he’s just got to be the most overhyped and overcovered guy who never managed better than third place since…Joe Lieberman? (0 comments)Mitt Romney's Overwhelming Inauthenticity
It’s amazing to me that Mitt Romney brings up France as a scary comparison point to himself so often when he spent years there and speaks the language. It’s such a minor point, but telling. Of all the people running for president, Mitt Romney has to be the most aware that the rightwing caricature of ... (0 comments)Mother Teresa Doesn't Deserve Sainthood
Case in point. It’s amazing how all the famous/respected Catholic figures from the 1990s have turned out to be incredibly corrupt, isn’t it? I’m sure they’re somehow connected. Of course, as I’m a Protestant I know little about such things. (1 comments)I Fixed It! Ban Sitting Politicians From Running For Another Office
Wonkette reminded me of one of the provisions that I want to write into my fantasy Constitution:No person who holds any elected office shall be permitted to seek election to any other office until he shall have permanently vacated his current post.
(2 comments)The Kardashians want their own magazine?
Unintentionally hilarious: “Bachmann, 55, told a small group of supporters Tuesday night that she was staying in the presidential race…”What other kind of group of Bachmann supporters could there be?(0 comments)Santorum Finishes #2, Sliding Down In The Final Minutes To Lose To Romney
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wow, that black lady in the crowd sounded MIGHTY defensive.
and you have to love this bit by mr. random white dude: "if you're a good muslim, you'll kill christians"
there are some scary folks in this country. growing crazier by the day.
Nice piece. I think if you got a drink in a lot of those folks the unclear, unmentioned 'thing' they want to restore/take back is simply having a white president that they can worship again. Decades from now people will look back at these various Beck rallies and wonder what the hell these people were so exercised about and it will be hard to conclude it was not largely ethnic politics that was at least the gateway to accepting all the other paranoid delusions of Glenn Beck (and of course the religiosity of this crowd makes them easy prey to Beck's fantasies).
that's the thing about all of this that really chaps my hide: the "thing" people are all so bent out of shape about. the reactionary right is completely immersed in a viscous soup of code words, con artists, dog whistles and magical thinking. it's gotten so bad that well-meaning people who try to figure out what they're saying -- on the face of it -- just come away with an earful of word garbage. people need to develop better inductive reasoning skills, and not take things at face value.
simple question: what do you think the tea partiers/Beck worshippers hate more: taxes or Barack Obama? … Yup and 'Nuff said.
these people are the same people who got all stirred up in the confederate south by fears of black men ravishing pure white women. these are the same people who got ginned up by the GOP's 40-year southern strategy to make white people feel victimized at the hands of the minorities. these are the people who are now running around crying that christians are being PERSECUTED and that there is a WAR ON CHRISTMAS! always victimized, always paranoid, always driven by fear and hatred of The Other. and today, these are the people who express thinly veiled "fears" and "concerns" about a black President who is a "socialist", "marxist", "Nazi" — all because they can't say Nigger anymore.
Yep, Hitch wrote a great piece today on Slate about all of this. Money quote: ""It's not unfair to say that such grievances are purely and simply imaginary, which in turn leads one to ask what the real ones can be. The clue, surely, is furnished by the remainder of the speeches, which deny racial feeling so monotonously and vehemently as to draw attention."
and these same people cannot bring themselves to blame the Rep who lead us to this disaster. When I talk to them, and ask them who bailed out the banks without holding the bank corporate structure accountable they all say Obama. . not one remembers that it was G.W. Bush. To them the world has ended because a black man won the election.