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BarbinMD Pat Toomey Explains The Goposaur
Mon May 04, 2009 at 06:20:04 PM PDTVia The Washington Independent, Pat Toomey explaining why he can beat Arlen Specter:
Reagan carried this state twice. I don’t think this state has changed.
Yes, they're exactly the same. And Republicans wonder why dinosaurs
walk the earthare only found down south.
John Amato Monday May 04, 2009 12:00pmI forgot to post about this last week. You may remember Neal Horsley when he famously admitted his love of farm animals with Alan Colmes a few years ago.
"Is it true?" Colmes asked.
"Hey, Alan, if you want to accuse me of having sex when I was a fool, I did everything that crossed my mind that looked like I..."
AC: "You had sex with animals?"
NH: "Absolutely. I was a fool. When you grow up on a farm in Georgia, your first girlfriend is a mule."
AC: "I'm not so sure that that is so."
He is now running for governor in Georgia as a Republican and says that he'd kill his own son for liberty. I'm not kidding you.
A longshot Georgia candidate for governor who’s already admitted having sex with a mule before finding God says he’s ready to sacrifice his own son in an effort to get his state to secede from the union.
Neal Horsley made national headlines when he posted the names, phone numbers and addresses of abortion doctors online. His “Nuremberg Files” website also crossed off the names of doctors as they were killed.
Now he’s ready to make new news. In an interview by Dylan Otto Krider published late Wednesday, he indicated he’d kill his own son to dissolve the United States (in an effort to overturn Roe v. Wade). Asked if he was ready to sacrifice his own son in a national insurrection, Horsley recounts a fight with his son where he almost killed him. “I was one foot from killing my own son, or hurting him really, really bad,” Horsley told Krider. “If he would have attacked me again, I would have stuck him. Or cut him or sliced him or done something to stop him. That’s the point, you hypothetical has literally already been worked out with me, and that’s what makes me different from the other candidates for Governor.
I don't think this is the type of candidate that Republicans intend to now fill their new "Big Tent" party with.
Aravosis: GOP Rep. Michelle Bachmann talks about orgies
Putting aside the comedic value for a moment, the Republicans have a real problem here. Their top representatives in the national spotlight are an ongoing source of embarrassment. Bachmann, Limbaugh, Steele, Palin, Gingrich, Boehner, Cantor. They're also, all, embarrassingly conservative - or like Steele and Romney, trying awfully hard to fool people into thinking they are. Either way, they don't present a very enticing picture for moderates.
"During the last 100 days we have seen an orgy. It would make any local smorgasbord embarrassed," Bachmann said. She then told the crowd that April 26 was National Debt Day, which conservatives commemorate as the moment government spending outpaces revenue. As Bachmann explains, "The government spent its wad by April 26. Every dime government spends after April 26 throughout the rest of this fiscal year is borrowed money."
Neiwert Monday May 04, 2009 10:00am
Republicans were out this weekend in force, holding town-hall meetings designed to "reconnect" with constituents -- and demonstrating in the process that they remain as clueless as ever.
As it happens, there was also an interesting Rasmussen poll showing that those constituents basically despise them:
Just 21% of GOP voters believe Republicans in Congress have done a good job representing their own party’s values, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Sixty-nine percent (69%) say congressional Republicans have lost touch with GOP voters throughout the nation. These findings are virtually unchanged from a survey just after Election Day.
Among all voters, 73% say Republicans in Congress have lost touch with the GOP base.
Seventy-two percent (72%) of Republicans say it is more important for the GOP to stand for what it believes in than for the party to work with President Obama. Twenty-two percent (22%) want their party to work with the President more.
In other words, the Republican base, by a large margin, is unhappy with their party's political leadership for not being right-wing enough. And that happens to comport with what their real leadership, aka the Right-Wing Punditocracy, has been saying.
Unfortunately for Republicans, the electorate at large has a distinctly different outlook. They strongly want Republicans to cooperate with President Obama, and strongly believe they are not making a good-faith effort to do so, either. Republicans want to fight, but this not a fight Republicans are winning:
A new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll shows that the president has a 63 percent favorability rating. But 31 percent of Americans approve of how congressional Republicans have conducted themselves, a dropoff of 13 percentage points from February when the same question was asked.
Here's the standard GOP analysis of the problem:
Shortly after the November elections, Republicans en masse began to acknowledge that the party had lost its way on the issue of fiscal discipline during the Bush administration. Their vote against the stimulus bill was the first real test for Republicans to exercise their frustration with what they describe as excessive federal spending. And they're shaping a message around this theme.
"We are united," said Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. "The debt of this country is a national crisis and a national security issue."
The problem with this is that Republicans seem to believe that it was simply George W. Bush's profligate ways with the budget that caused the economic disaster we currently are confronting. And that's part of the picture, to be sure. But only a small part.
The cold reality is that, as we explained after the election, the economic turmoil was created by a broad swath of Bush policies that, in every respect, were clear products of conservative fiscal and governmental philosophy:
BarbinMD (Daily Kos): Lindsey Graham: GOP "Closer To America" Than Obama
We're all familiar with political spin, but there's spin and then there's outright delusion. Here's what Lindsey Graham (R-
NCSC) had to say a short time ago on (what else) Fox News:GRAHAM: And I know this; our party's politics is closer to America ideologically than President Obama, but he's connected with young people. We lost ground with the Hispanics, we got to repair the damage there.
Do you really want to go there, Lindsey? Currently, the President is viewed favorably by 70% of the country, versus the Republican Party's pitiful 22% favorability rating, and that isn't just among young people. Graham must just be looking at polling from the rump. And yes, by all means, repair the damage with Hispanics by embracing real immigration reform. Then say adios to what's left of your meager base.
It gets better:
Q: How confident are you in the leadership at the RNC right now to do that?
GRAHAM: Well, I think Michael Steele ran a competitive race here in New York. We lost by 200 votes, a seat that we lost by 10 points. Things are moving our way, but if Michael, you're listening? Talk to Tom Ridge. I am confident that we're well-positioned if we get good candidates to come roaring back because the Obama agenda is not what people really expected.
Yes, things are moving their way because they lost an election in a Republican district. All they need is a bloodbath of a primary between Pat Toomey and Tom Ridge to further split the wingnuttia from the really wingnuttia and they'll be roaring.
Because after all, people didn't expect the Obama agenda. You know, the one that he articulated throughout the course of the campaign. The one that they attacked as socialist and radical. The one that got him elected in a landslide. Yeah, that one. Clearly, Americans preferred the GOP agenda in 2008...only a person with a fully functioning brain couldn't see that.
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