The base is revolting!

[pokerfan]

Finally something we agree on. String him up? Really?

CNN commentator and right wing hate spewer Erick Erickson finally wrote something today with which I can agree wholeheartedly:

The base is revolting…

Absolutely! When a conservative audience boos gay soldiers, cheers for letting uninsured people die, cheers Newt Gingrich’s blatant race-baiting, boos Juan Williams, and shouts “string him up” when Gingrich mentions Obama in his SC victory speech, “the base is revolting” is right on the mark.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/39806_Erick_Erickson-_The_Base_is_Revolting#rss

Reminds me of this bit from last September's SNL: "Good evening, I'm Shepard Smith, and I'd like to begin by apologizing for responses by the audience at the previous three debates who booed a soldier, cheered executions and applauded the death of an uninsured man."

[BlueCaliDem]

1. The Rightwing/TeaBagger base of the Republican't Party is contemptible.

Every time I hear or see them, I get flashes of white hoods, white capes, and Mississippi Burning. It makes me want to

[Scuba]

2. DU members agree...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002179208

[TheKentuckian]

3. The rank and file are only better than "the base" in that they are less brazen in their heartfelt

shared convictions.

The "left" of the TeaPubliKlan party are neocons and corporatists. Revolting is their jumping off point and one need not wade very deeply before you are over the head deep in Bircher and/or theocrat territory and it gets worse from there.

[ellenfl]

6. well the tea party IS backed by the koch brothers whose father co-founded the jbs. eom

[NMDemDist2]

4. yes they are n/t

[rocktivity]

5. But that's okay

Because no Republican can win on the "Obama hate" vote alone.

The more anti-Obama extremists they attract, the more pro-Obama moderate, undecided, and swing voters they create.


rocktivity

[ellenfl]

7. from your mouth to fsm's ear(s). eom

[2banon]

8. My first reaction after reading "string him up" was one of shock..

don't know why... that kind of comment DEFINES the South.


As a born and raised "southener" I'm allowed to say this, but I continue to be appalled. I left the south at the age of 20, 42 years ago. I dis-owned it then for this reason. In recent decades I wanted to believe what I had been hearing... "things have dramatically changed" since I left ..

But when Obama was elected, every single one of my Southern relations posted vile racists bile on their fb pages, bar none.. Needless to say we have "unfriended" each other.

For better or worse, Obama's election did prove one thing if nothing else, the recent meme that "race issues" are behind us as a country is utter nonsense. Obama cannot defend himself against these miserable pathetic asshats, but the Corporate Media, can and should give intense scrutiney on thse people that support these that call themselves Presidential candidates representing the Greedy Old Pigs.

I recall the media commentaries responding to the Memorial services of Corretta Scott King, it was a mixed bag of general lameness to racist remarks.. but the rediculous meme that stood out to me was the notion that the bad old days of Jim Crow are forever behind us.

I don't have cable or satellite so I don't see or hear what the Corporate Media Whores give their attention to, but other than the horserace aspect of the primaries and a few titillating pieces of gossip, I'd wager that no news anchor or host (other than probably Maddow et al) has made a point of reporting on this.

[HopeHoops]

9. The entire Republican base is revolting.

As in "disgusting".

[Yavin4]

10. You Said It, They Stink on Ice

History of the World, Part I. Mel Brooks' most underrated comedy.

[davsand]

11. They don't think much of you either, Erick.

Just sayin...




Laura