Rachel Maddow - GOP's lurch right leaves party moderates behind

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1. But we know who they'll vote for come election day.

"The party has moved way to the right, but I ain't no Democrat" they'll say.

Much like the idiots like me that vote Democratic as they fly further and further to the right. "But I ain't no Republican" I said.

Sigh.

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2. It gets me how much effort there is by Dems to save Republicans from themselves....

I say, when your enemy is drowning, toss them an anvil.

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6. with an anchor attached....

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3. The GOP has become the Koch Brother party

Everything RepubliCONS support helps the elite capitalists like the Koch brothers. Sometimes the Koch brothers' interests congeal with other groups, but that is just coincident. The Koch brothers pay for and manipulate the GOP - with a little help from KKKarl Rove.

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4. I never thought I'd say it . . .

Bob Dole looks damn good for his age, almost vibrant.

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5. Teapublicans can fix all this infrastructure with some more tax cuts and gutting some more...

regulatory structure.

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7. To listen to them EVERYTHING was built by the private sector....

Ask them about the moon landing and they will say it wasn't "the government" that they hate with every fiber of their being, it was "NASA". You have to actually CONVINCE them that NASA is part of the government.

Americans are famous for their failure to pass a basic civics test but the Tea Party types bring "moran" to such a level that some of them don't even know the military is part of the government. This is the brain trust that believes Medicare and Social Security are not part of the government.

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8. As a progressive Republican I am glad we're finally starting to tack to the left. The ...

President is too conservative for the times. We need a stimulus package that is wrapped around infrastructure that is Federal and a lot like the CCC and WPA. We need to allow the "Obamacare" which is a Republican sort of scheme to privately manage payment of health care provided by the private sector into a French or Canadian single payer system.

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9. On health care, I say provide basic stuff for free and only pay for house calls.

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10. I agree. National health is part of the wealth of the nation. Its a right and a necessity ...

for everyone including so-called illegals.

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11. Can you imagine if the debate was about freeways?

I picture right-wingers trying to say Mexicans shouldn't be allowed to drive on them.

After all, they could penetrate deep into the country over state lines within hours!!!

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12. They already do: wingers don't want "illegals" to be allowed driving licenses or get ....

drivers insurance.

Its a lot like people who refuse to allow gays to marry and cite as a reason for discriminating against gays that they engage in promiscuous lifestyle.

Undocumented immigrants drive illegally because they are made to drive illegally.

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13. The hatred towards immigrants was a big part of National Socialism...

They wanted benefits to only go to "True Germans" much as the Right wants government benefits to only go towards what Palin called "Real Americans". Tell a bunch of overweight older white people who have seen their lives go downhill from corporate greed that the Mexicans are to blame and watch the fun.

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14. Hatred greases the skids into crimes against humanity, genocide, wars the US engages in ....

anywhere but especially Asia and the Middle East. Central America. The Caribbean.

Makes me wonder why we stayed out of Africa after the ending of the slave trade in the US.