"The extreme Republican Party" by Neal Gabler | September 12, 2009
First consider the source:
Neal Gabler is the author, most recently, of “Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination.’’
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That might helped you understand this divisive diatribe of doo-doo.
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We have one party that is severely compromised by its ties to big money, and another party that is just plain nuts. There is no other way to parse it.
They are both tied to big money, and both nuts for wars and banksters.
According to recent polls, a majority of its followers either believe that President Obama was born in Kenya or aren’t sure, believe there is no such thing as global warming, believe that the House health care bill calls for death panels to euthanize senior citizens, and believe that Obama is responsible for our economic woes (61 percent!). The only bright side is that according to a recent Pew poll, only 23 percent of Americans identify themselves as Republicans, which makes them not only a fringe in beliefs but also, thankfully, in numbers.
The only one I count myself in is the global warming crowd, but that's because I follow my nose.
Republicans haven’t always been like this. For most of our history, America was pretty much like our European allies. We had two sensible parties with different traditions, constituencies, and orientations. The Democrats were the party of Jefferson, Jackson, and Franklin Roosevelt. They saw themselves as representing the common man against larger economic interests, favoring, in the now-common characterization, equality over liberty. Republicans were the party of Hamilton, Lincoln, and McKinley. They saw themselves as representing business interests that would unleash the nation’s entrepreneurial energies, favoring liberty over equality. It was a nice balance, and it served the country surprisingly well for nearly two centuries.
Still, both of these descriptions were caricatures. In reality, the parties were large, unwieldy, and contradictory. Each was forced to include many interests in its big tent, which is why each tended to the center rather than to the extremes. Historically, Democrats were both the party of the minorities and of Southern racism. Republicans were the party of untrammeled free enterprise but also, with Theodore Roosevelt’s ascent to the presidency, of regulation that sought to limit big business and foster competition. Democrats had those Southern racists along with their Northern liberals. Republicans had their progressives along with their conservative business Brahmins. Some of the biggest political donnybrooks were intra-party, not inter-party. TR had to leave the GOP because he thought it too solicitous to big business.
Let's see if the Zionist influence is hinted at in any way.
The post-TR Republicans of the 1920s were certainly conservative, and by the 1930s most of them were obstructionist. The majority closed ranks against the New Deal, even voting against Social Security. They weren’t any more enthusiastic about Harry Truman’s social agenda or Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society.....
What, the VIETNAM WAR?
The problem here is ALL MY STATE-SPONSORED EJERKASHEN wuz LIES!
Oh, yeah, REPUBLICANS were TRADITIONALLY ANTIWAR back then, too!!!!
Oh, so he's PITCHING BOOKS for a fellow Jew?
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Even Republicans would happily concede that they had taken a turn to the far right, justifying the change from moderation not only on the grounds of ideological purity but also on the grounds that the Democrats had turned to the far left - a patently false accusation.
Yeah, whatever! When they END the WARS I will consider them "left."
What is under the radar is something more recent and more terrifying for the health of our political system: The Republican Party has become a small minority of out-of-mainstream people (think Representative Joseph Wilson’s outburst to the president this week) but, by virtue of its history, of the media attention it receives, and, frankly, by default, it still occupies a central place in our political life.
Oh, can you SMELL the WITCH-HUNT McCarthyism!!????
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Oh! Oh!!!
In any other Western democracy it might have become a far-right splinter party. In America, we don’t really have splinter parties. When one of our parties goes crazy, it doesn’t slide to the margins.
Then IT IS OUR TIME!!!!
The RON PAUL WING should NOW BE the REPUBLICAN PARTY?
Is that what he is saying?
Republicans used to boast that it was the Democrats who were out of touch with ordinary Americans.
Oh, THAT is STILL TRUE, as they BOTH ARE!!!
It's ONE PARTY NOW, the WAR PARTY!
So what to make of this: Democrats and Independents more or less agree on a whole range of issues....
It is the Republicans who are out of touch with everyone else....
Oh, REALLY?
Well, this is where I TURN THIS GUY into a LIAR!!!!
"Poll numbers for Congress lowest in history of center
President Obama’s poll numbers are dropping, but it could be worse. A national survey released yesterday gives Congress its lowest favorability ratings in the 24-year history of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Only 37 percent of respondents had a favorable opinion of Congress, down from 50 percent in April, and 52 percent had an unfavorable view.
I'll bet its even lower.
While the displeasure with Republicans (40 percent favorable) is still higher than for Democrats (48 percent), the Democratic number has dropped 11 percentage points since April. “Voters are about evenly divided when asked how they would vote if the election for Congress were being held today,’’ Pew says. Most of the shift is among independents, who had backed Democrats but now say they would support Republicans, 43 percent to 38 percent.
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TAKE THAT, you TOOL of PROPAGANDA!!!!!!!
These are gaping disparities....
I would SAY SO!
The country needs a serious right-of-center party - one that has real ideas, one that can engage in a serious debate with the Democrats, one that has a sense of a larger national purpose beyond winning the next election, and one that can actually attract more Americans to its banner because it has earned their trust, not because it knows how to polarize.
We are RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU! We are ALL AROUND YOU!!!!!
Maybe Democrats should be happy that Republicans have been reduced to a lunatic fringe. But the lunatics still have their seat at the table, and someday they may be sitting at its head again.
What then? Well, I WOULD HOPE they/we would have WISED UP by then!
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Of course, there is ONLY ONE TRUE SOLUTION to the America's problems, and that is SHAKING OFF the ZIONIST CONTROL of CONGRESS, COURTS, the EXECUTIVE, and the MSM!
