Letterman: "When did the Republican party become the party of the unstable?"

[progressoid]

He just asked Brian Williams.

[OriginalGeek]

1. I L'd my a o

when I heard that. This is why I love Letterman.

[Scootaloo]

2. 1976

Next question?

[opihimoimoi]

3. ed zachery

[progressoid]

6. Oops wrong spot.

[greyl]

4. "emotionally unstable", I think it was. nt

[progressoid]

7. You're probably right.

I was laughing too much to get it right.

[glinda]

5. brilliant

[Historic NY]

8. Raygun opened the asylum's...

so the had no where to go except the GOP.

[Odin2005]

13. Alerted for bigotry toward the mentally ill.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. voted to hide.

but was out-voted.

[Motown_Johnny]

9. January 20th 1981, 1:00 pm edt

[dimbear]

10. Goes back to John Brown, who is responsible for the election of Lincoln and a loon.

It goes way back.

[Odin2005]

14. Being anti-slavery makes one a loon?

[dimbear]

16. The cold blooded murder and terrorism did, tho. He hanged for good reason. n/t

[Odin2005]

17. If trying to forment a slave rebellion is terrorism, then I'm a terrorist sympathizer.

[reACTIONary]

18. I'm not sure I know everything there is to know about John Brown, but...

...my understanding is that at Harper's Ferry he was trying to instigate what would seem to be a classic guerrilla warfare insurgency. He was stealing arms from the "regular army" to set up irregular bands of fighters and was going to recruit more guerrillas by liberating slaves.

I wouldn't characterize this as a terrorist strategy. I don't know what he was up to before that, however, in Kansas.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

11. Did Williams have an answer?

Silly question.

[no_hypocrisy]

12. Starting with Joe McCarthy. Nonstop since then.