It just occurred to me that the Republicans have already defined their plan to attack

[cliffordu]

Obama for the next 4 years - it's the same one they used for the general election, with more time to enhance the propaganda...

They are attacking him as a socialist for the low information fiscal conservatives, and the anti-commie crowd

They are calling him a Muslim for the Religious nuts.

They will call him a big -government tax 'n spender for the 'high information' fiscal conservatives and the sheeple that really believe that shit about.

This covers the three competing cults within the Republican Party...

Palin spews all three lies with alacrity, so she's the beef.

Call me stupid for just figuring this out, but this JUST occured to me.

[Solomon]

1. It won't work They're dead. Obama crushed them.

They have no alternative but to seek out "minorities". If they do, they won't be republicans anymore.

[Mojorabbit]

3. Actually it is working

I am getting bombarded with emails about Obamas coming private army, hitler youth because he called for mandatory community service for schoolchildren, and warnings about the coming socialism. It is an all out full court press.

[mwb970]

7. And he hasn't even done anything yet!

It's all in their "minds".

[Solomon]

11. No it's not working. All they are doing is identifying themselves as

permanent losers. They're all getting on a little boat to nowhere while the rest of America sails off.

Little people bitterly clinging to their guns and bibles.

[colonel odis]

2. i was listening to one of nashville's local radio whack jobs this morning.

he was ranting about obama's aides starting a relationship with hamas last winter and asking them to keep it quiet until after the election. apparently, this guy -- michael digiorno, or something. like the pizza, i guess -- is still trying to play the card where he's gonna hand the keys to the country over to every middle eastern terrorist organization on january 21.

then he spent a little time whining about the fairness doctrine.

[genna]

18. I can't wait for the first test case on an on air personality inciting a crowd to violence

Some hungry district attorney somewhere is going to uncover a hate or violent crime connected to this rhetoric. When that enterprising DA does, they are going to lobby to get this on air personality in court under subpoena.


I want to know where this path on the right leads. When the FCC starts reviewing complaints under an Obama administration, I look forward to them reviewing how the decency/??? standard applies to yelling fire over the airwaves. Or maybe private suits can correct the radio stations playing this kind of crap.


I do look forward to change.

[AspenRose]

21. I can already think of a case

The guy in TN who went on a shooting spree at the UU Church.

His house was FULL of O'Falafel and Insanity Hannity crap.

[colonel odis]

22. in reliably red east tennessee, i don't see a DA jumping on the inciting bandwagon.

perhaps an attorney for one of the people killed might try that in a civil lawsuit. however, there would be a huge outcry from the snoteaters and the talk show crowd if someone tried that.

maybe someone needs to do a very serious series of articles about the hatred of right-wing radio.

[AtomicKitten]

4. Calling Democrats "tax and spenders" is so passe.

Rather the GOP should be deemed "charge and spenders" having put this country a gazillion dollars in debt with nothing to show for it.

I fully expect the GOP to snivel and whine about any $$$ Obama spends on domestic issues. Funny that the GOP didn't say a word and did ZERO oversight on the wad of cash flushed down the black hole of Iraq.

[Puzzler]

6. Tax and spenders?

I thought that taxes were supposed to be spent? That's that whole idea.

[AtomicKitten]

10. It's an old school epithet.

[Puzzler]

12. Yeah I know...

... I'm just pointing out that it's a stupid one. If you didn't spend the taxes, then there'd be little point in taxing.

[AtomicKitten]

16. The GOP also warns about Dems increasing government size but

BushCo grew government exponentially over the last eight years.

They got nothin'.

[pipi_k]

20. It's really only the idea when

those taxes are spent on people who already have the lion's share of the money to begin with.

The poor and middle class can basically go jump in a lake as far as they're concerned.


And what's amazing to me...there were actually people (at a whole different site I belonged to) who thought it was a great idea for Corporate Pigs to be getting all that money because, in their words, "They earned it".

Unlike, of course, the middle class "slackers" who only worked two, or even three, jobs just to survive.

There really are some sickos out there....

:scared:

[Renew Deal]

5. Great. So they know what to say at republican club meetings.

That won't help them win.

[ellacott]

9. I hope you are right

I saw an article on the Huffington Post that said that 52% of McCain's evangelical supports still believe he's a Muslim.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/11/52-percent-of-mccain-evan_n_143133.html

[TheKentuckian]

8. Ahh yes...the same as it ever was strategy

From permanent majority to perpetual minority in 12 short years.

Lizardbrained fools.

[jenmito]

13. It doesn't matter. Obama won. Even the "low information voters" will be LIVING under

President Obama and will see how their lives change. The RWers can accuse Obama of anything they want. If people's lives start changing for the better, it won't matter.

[riqster]

14. Lots of people are dumb enough

...and sheep-like enough to buy this line of crap. Including most of them who have been buying it since the Right-Wing Scream Machine got its start in the '90's.

We need the Fairness Doctrine to be re-established, and that soon.

[graywarrior]

15. The republicans were rejected because of these tactics

They lost bigtime. They are losers. No one cares. People I know are worried about heating their homes and buying food this winter.

[sayso7]

17. I hope they keep it up, It's been proven to fail.

The republican party called him every single name in the book and still tried to make him look like a scary black man who goes on yearly ski trips with terrorists and Obama didn't just win, he won by a landslide! I think it's safe to say that Rovian politics is directly correlated with the popularity of George Bush, and at 29% it will be hard to win any type of election.

[tigereye]

19. um, it didn't work this time - not to say they won't simply ignore that fact

and go on like they usually do. :eyes:

[WinkyDink]

23. They'll call Obama a "Republican" if he succeeds.

[uponit7771]

24. Please join me in voting for Palin in 2012 RNC primaries!!!

[No Elephants]

25. A Pub can be a fiscal conservative AND a religious nut. Anyone who works for a living at

less than $250K a year and votes Republican is voting against his or her own economic interest, whether high info or low info. Therefore, I don't know if the low info/ high info distinction is, in and of itself, a very important one.