Republicans: Violent Losers

[Joanne98]

By Frank Schaeffer

With the Senate having now passed the final reconciliation changes to the health care reform bill, the Republicans from their "Tea Party" wing to their high priest of hallucinatory fantasy; Glenn Beck, are about to pay a historic price for the biggest miscalculation in American political history since Charles Lindberg sided with the Germans. The pundits all have it wrong. Obama’s victory on health care reform will result in the Democratic Party retaining the majority in both houses of Congress as well as Obama winning a second term.

Disclosure: As a former Republican and Religious Right leader who quit the movement in the mid 80s (for reasons I explain in my book Crazy For God) let me tell my progressive friends and all reality-based people why and how the Republican Party just consigned themselves to defeat by (amongst other things) opposing health care reform.

Why would the Republicans go down in flames siding with the insurance industry against the American people?

Because they (like all political-religiously-inspired fanatics) are in the grip of their own propaganda.

They have committed the ultimate act of political folly: they believe their own BS.

The Republicans have drunk deep at the well of their version of bad back woods moonshine. And their tainted moonshine of misinformation has blinded them. But when the facts are in the Republicans will pay a price. That’s because most Americans are not watching Fox News and still live on planet Earth with their eyes open.

So this – contrary to the pundits — is going to be a great year for Democrats.

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[LiberalLoner]

1. Great article, thank you for posting this.

[NecklyTyler]

2. K&R

[HughMoran]

3. Nothing like a reformed religaholic psychobabble peddler to tell it like it is!

I like this guy :)

[Cresent City Kid]

4. The GOP reminds me of Homer Simpson

There was an episode where Homer and Marge are fighting. Homer draws a line on the floor and says something to the effect of, "You stay on your side of the house and I'll stay on mine." The camera pans out and you see that Homer is stuck in the corner, "Doh!"

The right has similarly boxed itself in. The message has been distilled to its ultimate extreme. With no wiggle room, they are becoming a smaller, but somehow louder minority. They are a one trick pony with an obsolete trick. As they lose political battles, they dig in and purify the message further instead of moderating.

[Viva_Daddy]

5. I quite agree with Frank

How attractive will it be for people to vote for the "Repo-Party" of Sore-Losers. The crazies among the Tea-baggers are creating quite a backlash among my (soon-to-be-former) Republican friends.

[teknomanzer]

6. There will be a backlash...

Most folks in America are not politically motivated and as such have a very dim view of extremism. The Republican party and thier Tea Bagger subsidiary had demonstrated clearly where the extremists are. Republicans will be surprised this November -- Americans do not like violence or the threat of violence and they will make that known at the polls.

[Festivito]

7. Yup, then people will forget, Repubs will rewrite history and then come back.

until we realize they're being paid by people who are the real troublemakers.