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It’s Interesting…

It’s interesting that on anything related to science (climate change, whether people are born gay, whether a fertilized egg is a person), the GOP  insists on imposing  fundamentalist Christian views on everyone.

But when it comes to economic policy, they have turned to an atheist — Ayn Rand — who preached unregulated capitalism, an unfettered free market that is as extreme to many of us as the GOP’s theocratic policies.

That’s why I don’t understand today’s GOP bravado that Mitt was a lousy candidate, but Paul Ryan will do just great in 2016.  He’s with Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock on abortion, and with Rand on economics.  He’s the personification of what lost last night.

Karl Rove says that this country is still center right.  Even if that’s the case, his party is not center right, it is now far, far right.  As the GOP has moved more to the right, the Dems have not moved equally left, so they are now the more centrist  — and saner-seeming — party.

I would say this is a centrist country, that tilts left or right depending on the issue and how far each party is from the center.  If politics in America is played between the 20-yard lines, the GOP is out in the parking lot, with very few young or female or minority folks at its sad little tailgate party.

 

Frank Rich on the Right’s Move to the Right

Frank Rich, in an interview with David Daley at Salon.com:

“Whether he’s reelected or not, I think the party, the radical, conservative, right-wing party, is going to keep moving to the right.  Keep getting rid of dissidents, purging dissidents.  To liberals, something like the Richard Mourdock thing is, “Oh my god, this is the end of the Republican Party,’ but, no.  A lot of Republican powers that be circled back to Todd Akin once the spotlight was off of him.  That is the party.  For liberals to have the illusion that it’s going to change, or that they’re going to learn a lesson if Romney loses, is to make the same mistake liberals always make.

“If Obama wins, they’re going to say — I can already read the stories — ‘If only we had found a true conservative.’  Now they couldn’t find a true conservative who wouldn’t frighten children.  All they could come up with was Michele Bachmann, Santorum, Herman Cain, Gingrich, but the next go-round they’ll have Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan and others.  That’s the way the party is going to go.  They’ll say as much as they said of McCain, ‘He didn’t really represent us.’

“The other thing that’s going to happen is:  unbelievable rage at Obama.  We’re going to see the rage of fanatics and spin keep ratcheting it up.  The position has been — and this even by relatively establishment people like Peggy Noonan, George Will — ‘He’s an incompetent.  Americans can’t stand him.  They think he’s a nice guy but he’s in over his head.  This is an historic chance to end this collectivist presidency.’  Because underlying so much of this, in my view, is race, they’re going to be furious.  They really felt they could knock him off easily.

“So when that fails, they’re going to be very angry.  They’ll be angry at Romney, but they’ll forget about Romney in two minutes.  They’re really going to be angry at Obama because they can’t believe that this collectivist black man has, in their view, bamboozled the American public once again.”

Newtie’s Back!

“Moderate Mitt” needs to keep the crazies locked away till November 7, but serial adulterer and hypocrite Newtie, who loathes Mitt, is not cooperating.

Newtie weighed in today on Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock’s statement that God intends pregnancies from rape.

He thinks the whole brouhaha is “nonsense,” calls President Obama the “radical” on abortion rights, and advises the Obama campaign (and, by extension, all of us who are outraged) to “get over it.”

Newtie implicitly criticized Mitt for criticizing Mourdock.  Newt at least knows a fellow hypocrite when he sees one.  Mitt can’t criticize Mourdock or Missouri’s Todd Akin without criticizing Paul Ryan, who believes the government should treat rape victims as criminals if they choose abortion.

With about a week to go, Mitt definitely doesn’t need Newtie reminding us how extreme the GOP has become.  But all of us need to listen.

It’s About the Big Bang, Not Big Bird

The GOP tells us that this is a watershed election.  I agree, but not for the reasons they say.  This isn’t about whether or not we’re going to switch to vouchers for Medicare or what the Medicaid budget is going to be.  This is about whether we’re going to continue down the Republican path to the Dark Ages.

To their shame, the GOP has let extremists take over their party at the state and national level.   The question on November 6 is whether we’re going to let the crazies take over our country.

I grew up believing that some things were settled in our society — that evolution was established science, that Keynesianism was established economics.  But now the GOP presents laughable, long-discredited science and economics as the truth.

With 435 congressional districts, we’re going to get people like Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin.  But fringe people like him should not be elevated to the Senate.  And they definitely shouldn’t become Vice President, but Paul Ryan and Todd Akin are Tweedledee and Tweedledum on social issues.  Ryan is a little more careful about what he says in public, but their views and votes are the same.

We are outraged about the Taliban shooting of 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai in Pakistan because she defended the right of girls to go to school.  We rightly think the Taliban are sick barbarians.  But if Ryan and Akin had their way, we’d have 14-year-old rape and incest victims dying from illegal abortions.  That is every bit as sick and barbaric.

I voted for Bush 43 in 2004 and McCain in 2008 because I was afraid of the radical Muslims.   I’m still a registered Republican, but I’m voting for Obama because I’m afraid of the radical Christians.  I want to defeat the Christian Taliban here at home.

 

Lunch with Todd Akin for $2500

Four GOP senators — Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint, James Inhofe, and Lindsey “Butters” Graham are hosting a fundraising lunch in D. C. for Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin next Wednesday.  For $2500, you can meet Mr. Akin and learn how lady parts magically distinguish rapists’ sperm from consensual sperm.  Every time!

Seems all is forgiven by the GOP.

But not forgotten by the voters of Missouri.

And Here Comes the Money

Following up on his endorsement of Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin,  SC Senator Jim DeMint is now putting his (or his Tea Party group’s) money where his mouth is.  DeMint’s Senate Conservative Fund just promised Akin $300,000.

Keep your eye on the money as the GOP now turns its back on its turning its back on Akin.  If DeMint’s in, Preibus and Rove won’t be far behind.

After six weeks of suffering the GOP’s “punishment,” Akin will bask in six weeks of their passion to gain control of the Senate.

The extremists in the Middle East chant, “Death to America!”  To me, giving power to idiots like Akin represents a death to the America I love.  We are dying from within.

Let’s Hear It for the Moderate Muslims

From “Backlash to the Backlash,” Thomas L. Friedman, NYT:

“One of the iron laws of Middle East politics for the last half-century has been that extremists go all the way and moderates tend to just go away.  That is what made the march in Benghazi, Libya, so unusual last Friday.  This time, the moderates did not just go away.  They got together and stormed the headquarters of the Islamist militia Ansar al-Sharia….

“This coincides with some brutally honest articles in the Arab/Muslim press…that are not the usual ‘What is wrong with America?’ but, rather, ‘What is wrong with us, and how do we fix it?'”  Italics in original.

I wish the moderates of all religions and those of no religion would get together and kick out the extremist nuts from Ahmadinejad to Akin.  Really, there are way more of us than them.  We can take them!

Here in the U. S., you don’t have to risk your life, you just have to take a few minutes to vote.

 

NRSC Dips Toe in Water for Akin

I posted earlier that the GOP is moving back to supporting Missouri Senate candidate Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) just issued a statement that they “hope Todd Akin wins in November and we will continue to monitor this race closely in the days ahead.”

Translation — Those ads buys we cancelled in August?  We’ll be reinstating them.

The tiff with Todd is over; the war on Claire McCaskill is just beginning.

Curtain Falls on Akin Kabuki Theater

When the GOP tried to distance itself from Missouri Senate candidate Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin, it was a case of false outrage meeting the false belief that only false rape claims can result in a pregnancy.

Well, as I’m sure Todd Akin himself knew would happen if he hung tough and stayed in the race, the GOP is now embracing Akin instead of pushing him away.

Because the truth is that there’s no daylight between this current crazy incarnation of the GOP and the crazy Akin.  The anomaly was their pretending he wasn’t one of them, a hypocrisy that Mike Huckabee had the honesty to point out about Akin’s August 19 remarks.

But now instead of throwing him under the bus, they’re circling the wagons for Akin.

Newtie campaigned for him on Monday, and today Rick “Frothy” Santorum and South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, the Tea Party’s favorite senator, endorsed him.

DeMint’s endorsement is huge because he controls the Senate Conservative Fund, which has millions to spend.  Aside from his own fund, DeMint wants the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) to put back the funding it pulled from Missouri.

This obviously isn’t just about Missouri.  Voting for the GOP in any congressional race or for Mitt tells them that their Taliban views on women are okay.  If they get the votes, they won’t change.  Why would they?

The GOP must be decisively told to lose the crazies or lose elections.