The dismal, dark, traitor-filled world Republican candidates inhabit

[IDemo]

President Obama suggested Tuesday that the United States may not, in fact, be on the verge of total collapse. The Republican presidential candidates responded in Thursday’s GOP debate by painting an even more dismal and dangerous picture than they had in the past. The president is a traitor. The military is a shell of a fighting force. The economy is a shambles. Average families are in grave danger. If Democrats win, the country is lost.

With only a few weeks left before the first primary contests, the GOP race has devolved into a competition for who can squeeze the most political advantage out of voter fear, no matter how over-the-top they sound and no matter how much damage they do by darkening the national mood. Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.) “won” the latest round of this increasingly disgusting show, with Donald Trump and Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) coming in second. But being the most effective at exaggerating the dangers the country faces and preying on voter anger is not an achievement; it is a moral failure.

Here is the world according to GOP:

“Barack Obama does not believe that America is a great global power,” Rubio said. “Barack Obama believes that America is an arrogant global power that needs to be cut down to size.” This was a reprise of Rubio’s line last week that “Barack Obama has deliberately weakened America.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/01/15/the-dismal-dark-traitor-filled-world-republican-candidates-inhabit/

[packman]

1. When you distill the Republican philosophy of getting votes

squeezed out of the average American , it comes down to one word : fear. Been this way since I can remember starting, in my case, with the Communists, then the Hippies, then the yellow-Asian in all our wars, then the Black man, welfare free-loaders, and - more recently - ebola, immigrants, and terrorists.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. Don't leave out fear of a gay planet, their stock in trade for decades.

Remember any of that? AIDS? DOMA? DADT? Rick Warren? Pat Robertson? Pope after Pope? Anita Bryant? Huckabee calling for relocation camps?

[BlueJazz]

2. "Barack Obama believes that America is an arrogant global power that needs to be cut down to size.”

No Mr. Rubio, Not America but the REAL powers-that-be, (the rich, the corporations, the sociopaths) are the ones that are an arrogant global power that need to be cut down to size.”

We can't afford their Egos any more.