Republicans depart further from reality

Both parties have their share of crazies, but as the GOP dwindles in numbers it also seems to dwindle in sanity and rationality. I keep hearing how Palin is some sort of Republican paragon of virtue. Honestly? That’s the best the GOP has to offer? I wonder b/c besides Palin, the only other people I hear from on the right are Hannity, Beck and Limbaugh. Convinced that ACORN stole an election in upstate rural NY where the GOP acted like the Democrats with it’s ridiculous infighting that cost it a seat it’s held for 130 years? Where does that “belief” come from, it’s not from any sort of factual analysis.

All sanity seems to have evaporated. I can see lots of reasons to be against whatever the latest version of the health care bill is, but comparing it to the holocaust? Death Panels? A sane party would discuss reality, not just shout “Socialism” and “Nazism” (at the same time…say wha?).

The part that makes me worry most for your party is that there doesn’t seem anyone from the grown-up rational thinking part of the party is willing to speak up for sanity, reason and real principles. (It’s really hard to take people seriously who claim that providing health care to the uninsured is the end of America and the most egregious affront to civil liberties in the history of America, when those same people shouting this drivel were completely silent, nay full supportive, of a GOP’s adminstration’s policy of tapping the phones of every American and holding Americans without consul indefinitely).

The NY23 debacle shows that the radical fringe of the GOP has no tolerance for any sort of moderation. It just seems that unless some principled and rational members of the Republican party steps up that the GOP will continue it’s march toward ridiculous fringe party. For all the silliness of the Democrats, they have never let the far left vegan/PETA/ecoterrorist/ fringe element run the show. It seems to me that the far right Eric Rudolph wing is in full control of the GOP and I just can’t take you guys seriously any more.

Appears the terrorists have defeated the right anyway

Ridiculous

I really believe that if Barack Obama ran into a burning building and saved the lives of a dozen children there would be an uproar from millions of Americans decrying the horrific Federal intervention into the lives of everyday Americans.

NY 23

It seems to me that the far right overplayed its hand in District 23. Honestly, it’s something you’d expect from the Dems. Obviously the GOP has some internal issues right now. For all the apologists claiming that this didn’t show a civil war in the party, there were twice as many rightwingers talking about how Sozzafava was a “Faux_republican” or Republican in name only. Which seems to make the clear case that the far rightwingers “running” the party these days feel there is no room for a moderate voice…I’m sure that surprises no one. But for all the talk of the big tent of diverse ideas, the very notion of disagreeing to the slightest degree with the far right will result in your ouster.

It’s fine with me, b/c this further proves how far out on the fringe the GOP is these days. And they are leaving millions of “centrist” Republicans with nowhere to go. They’ll either stay home on election day or vote for Democrats or third party candidates (that’s a good thing). In the meantime, the Far Right fringe cost the GOP a seat in the House it hasn’t lost in over 125 years. That takes SOME doin’.

Well played.