The GOP isn’t playing hardball, it is playing lunatic ball
I’ve always thought that Democrats have a built in disadvantage when trying to go head to head against bullshit streaming from the modern Republican Party. We are sensible, open to the possibility that our views can change in response to new information, kind and optimistic. Republicans…well….
Booman breaks it down, better than I can:
Why Doesn’t the Left Do These Things?
It’s interesting to me that we don’t see corollaries on the left of a lot of the stuff that we see on the right. I’m talking about from elected officials, not some-dudes on the internet. Why, for example, don’t we see relatively obscure backbenchers in the House calling for investigations of Romney staffers based on six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon ties to Islamic jihadists? Why aren’t we seeing extreme liberals from…I don’t know…Vermont, questioning whether Mormonism is a cult and denying that Romney is a Christian? Why are there no elected Dems pointing out that Romney’s ancestors fled from two countries under duress, and that they practiced polygamy? Why has no one concocted a conspiracy theory that Romney was really born on the RMS Queen Elizabeth in international waters and, thus, is not a natural born citizen who is eligible for the office of the presidency? And why have no congressmen or senators expressed some concern that Romney hasn’t disproven that theory? Why hasn’t some official Obama surrogate questioned whether Romney knows how to be an American?
Most of these things are absurd or grossly exaggerated, but some of them are true or at least open for debate. I don’t think it’s an unwillingness to play hardball that explains why the Democrats won’t mirror these Republican tactics. I think people on the left genuinely think it’s wrong to attack someone’s religious beliefs or espouse ridiculous conspiracy theories or arouse fears on completely baseless nonsense or to treat the truth as something that is worthless. I think they also don’t like to look stupid in front of their peers.
For some reason, there is nothing in the typical Republican officeholder’s brain that tells them there’s an unacceptable downside to obliterating the truth in the pursuit of power. I think it is because lying is a critical and indispensable ingredient in their political success.
Maybe No Child Left Behind worked. The whole darned country got dumbed down.
At long last, Republicans have no sense of decency.
Although it was nice of Mitt to politely disagree the other day with the woman who said Obama is a monster.
While I agree that Democrats are less inclined to indulge in such ridiculous attacks based on completely unfounded beliefs, I think when it comes to President Obama the attacks on him have very little to do with party affiliation. If Obama were white, the majority of the baseless attacks on him would not exist. Just my opinion.
I would love for this young woman Huma Abedin to go toe to toe with Michele Bachman and call her out on national television for her use of demagoguery and McCarthyism tactics. Subverting someone’s civil rights in the name of national security is pathetic . . . if they wanted to win the election so bad they shouldn’t have put forth such shitty Republican candidates – – Bachman being the most shitiest!!!! (that is probably not proper English but you know what I mean : ) )
“If Obama were white, the majority of the baseless attacks on him would not exist. ”
Bill Clinton would disagree.
Not all the attacks on Bill Clinton were baseless.
“I would love for this young woman Huma Abedin to go toe to toe with Michele Bachman and call her out on national television for her use of demagoguery and McCarthyism tactics.”
John McCain did call her out: http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressOffice.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=9acf4627-0fad-89d1-d5d3-dda642179bca
“These allegations about Huma, and the report from which they are drawn, are nothing less than an unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable citizen, a dedicated American, and a loyal public servant.”
“When anyone, not least a member of Congress, launches specious and degrading attacks against fellow Americans on the basis of nothing more than fear of who they are and ignorance of what they stand for, it defames the spirit of our nation, and we all grow poorer because of it. “
Lunatic ball continues:
Gohmert was one of the signers of the Bachmann Muslim letter. Oh yeah, Gohmert also said the theater-goers should have been armed.
If Thomas Jefferson could have foreseen this, Congress would be required to have bailiffs with butterfly nets to catch Republican congressmen gone off the deep end.
Gohmert was one of the five members who signed the Bachmann letters. Freaks!
@Dave no I meant woman to woman . . . Huma is articulate and educated and I want her to call Bachman on it! This is bullying at its finest and she needs to be bitch slapped!!! (figuratively speaking)
@Linda,
I see. Well I, like most males, are very supportive of any physical activity that features two or more women. Oh, you said figuratively. Ah well!
HA,HA, good one. Best joke of the day.