Every GOP Candidate Seems To Be A RW Christian Nut Radical.

[TheMastersNemesis]

As I survey the GOP candidate running across the country it seems like almost all of them are connected to or are some kind of radical Christian nut these days. We have our share in Colorado and there is not a one that is not connected to a fundy church. Or am I just paranoid. Then I look at the nuts on the Jefferson County school board.

And it seems like all of them are openly spewing ultimately radical pro theocracy memes.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. It certainly seems that way.

They are playing to an increasingly narrow but reliably fanatical base. I think they hope to make up for the fading of the evangelical movement (as younger people find it less appealing) with reliance on the fact that those fundy wackos that remain will always come out and vote for them. Candidates at the state and local level are especially extreme, and they get away with it because only their immediate constituents know how nuts they really are.

However, these people, if successful locally, often eventually try for higher office, particularly Congress. And that's why there are so many loony GOPers in Congress - they weren't stopped at the local level. So we need to pay attention to what's happening with our state legislatures, mayor elections, school boards, all those "minor" offices hardly anybody pays attention to. Because that's where so much of this craziness is coming from.

[louis-t]

2. The Kochs are behind a lot of this at the local level.

These are people they can easily manipulate. This is how they plan to own the country.

[Hortensis]

5. Umhm. Authoritarian followers who will do as they're told and call it virtuous.

Strong overlap with religious authoritarians hardly a coincidence. I feel sick when I read this stuff. WHEN will we turn our poor country around...? Please let us be too much in the middle of the woods to see a basically healthy forest for the trees.

[B Calm]

3. After they get into office they're caught cheating on their spouse. Then they go on TV

with their wife apologizing to God and to anybody who believes them. Then they run for reelection and they are back in for another term.

[world wide wally]

4. And the Dems are missing a golden opportunity to exploit this.

It is totally within reason for any Dem candidate in the country to point to ANYTHING any Republican candidate says and pin that on his opponent. Republicans are of one mind and one vote. Everything they do is in lockstep and their recent history shows you EXACTLY what they will do if they win elections.
If one says it… they all say it.
If one does it… they all do it.

It wouldn't hurt to point this out in their campaigns.

[Fred Sanders]

6. Religious nut jobs are easily manipulated, they are already brain washed to submit to authority

and come with the passion only God's Chosen can bring to the game.