CAN REPUBLICS CONTROL THE MONSTERS THEY HAVE MADE?????

[HowHasItComeToThis]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gop-fringe14-2009sep14,0,5000500,full.story

Some fear GOP is being carried to the extreme
The Republican establishment hopes cooler heads will prevail over strongly anti-Obama parts of the conservative base.
Demonstration in Washington, D.C.

Tens of thousands of people converged on Washington to protest Obama. An energized base is essential to election gains, some leaders say. (Michael Reynolds / European Pressphoto Agency / September 12, 2009)
By Peter Wallsten

September 14, 2009
Reporting from Washington - Amid a rebirth of conservative activism that could help Republicans win elections next year, some party insiders now fear that extreme rhetoric and conspiracy theories coming from the angry reaches of the conservative base are undermining the GOP's broader credibility and casting it as the party of the paranoid.

Such insiders point to theories running rampant on the Internet, such as the idea that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and is thus ineligible to be president, or that he is a communist, or that his allies want to set up Nazi-like detention camps for political opponents. Those theories, the insiders say, have stoked the GOP base and have created a "purist" climate in which a figure such as Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) is lionized for his "You lie!" outburst last week when Obama addressed Congress.

[Hekate]

1. What I've been sayin'. I'm glad someone else noticed besides us. nt

[Rex]

2. Oh tens of thousands of people! From what I hear it was about 5,000 tops.

Repukes are worried about their sicker repuke kin embarrassing them!? Series!? Hey lurking idiot freepers - did you guys not get the memo about George and Dick? They were total embarrassments for 8 fucking years! Are you guys really that stupid and detached from reality? Wow, I was just kidding about repukes being stupid beyond belief. I guess they really are. How totally pathetic.

[kelly1mm]

12. Ed (from MSNBC's Ed Show) just said 60,000. nt

[DJ13]

3. They're expecting their co-conspirators in the MSM to control them

Once they've served their purpose the MSM will cease covering them and the so-called movement (think bowel) will wither and die.

[liberal N proud]

4. They opened pandora's box again

They did this with the war on Iraq and now the extremist right here at home.

[K8-EEE]

5. They're so fucked. EVERYBODY hates freepers except freepers.

Seriously -- they are going to lose the "conservative-leaning" and "on the fence" people. My MIL from Buffalo NY is like, "I don't know what happened to that party, I don't recognize it." She voted for Barack after voting GOP for 50 years!

[Parker CA]

11. " EVERYBODY hates freepers except freepers...(and Cheeto factory owners)."

[madrchsod]

6. no they can`t...and they do`t want to.

what is left of the intelligent republicans are now moderates with no party affiliation. what we see on the streets are the shock troops of the radical right wing in this country.

[damntexdem]

7. It's alive! But the GOP has perfect control.

And they can stop using them whenever they want; but they don't want.

[rhett o rick]

8. Dick Armey is controlling them. They are acting per script. They are the brown shirts of the

republican-reich. At some point they will outlive their usefulness and will be put back under their rocks. They are hapless, gullible, chuckle-heads.

[graywarrior]

9. You beat me to it....

They ARE being controlled by the republicans.

[rhett o rick]

13. I am quicker when I am sober. I think Brown Shirts is a good description.

It may be a little extreme at this point, Armey is only handing them signs, but lookout if he starts handing them clubs.

[graywarrior]

14. Clubs! what about guns?

[rhett o rick]

15. Truthfully, I think even Armey is smarter than to give them guns. At some point you will want to get

them back. I think Hitler's Brown Shirts successfully used clubs to intimidate the public. Then when they outlived their usefulness the SS used guns on them.

[Ruby the Liberal]

10. Where were these pundits last fall

Geez Louise. This isn't new, media. These kooks were ranting about this stuff last fall. You know, at the Palin rallies that you all so breathlessly covered? You all are just NOW noticing?

[Lagomorph]

16. I'm not seeing any signs of control...

I'm watching the Republicans scratch their heads and wonder what to do.

Their success has always been that the middle class has stayed home and minded their own affairs.

They must know that when the hammer comes down, many of them will be out of their offices.

[Raine]

17. NO, they can't. They lost control of them and the nuts are now

controlling them.