How the Right Brought the Trump Birther Madness on Itself

[yellowcanine]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/04/how-the-right-brought-the-trump-birther-madness-on-itself/237646/

The man does not have a well thought out philosophy. He does not have serious, substantive principles. He's figured out the hot button issues. And he's going to keep pressing them. Look, I like a lot of what he says too. That's not the point. ~ talk radio host Mark Levin, criticizing Donald Trump



There really is a God.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Republicans are stuck with their "big tent".

[yurbud]

2. the first time this happened was Papa Bush and the ''Saddam is Hitler'' crap

they did such a good job of making Saddam look like a monster, that when they made the realistic assessment at the end of the Gulf War to leave him in power, the mouth-breathers still believed the original propaganda instead of the more nuanced, less visceral explanation for leaving him in place.

[yurbud]

3. same with Papa Bush and ''Read my lips: no new taxes.''

The propaganda was too good to do a 180.