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Is This How Patriotism Works?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/08/25/why-u-s-conservatives-love-russias-vladimir-putin/
I voted against George W. Bush in both 2000 and 2004, and I spent most of his presidency actively working against his administration with every tool at my disposal, but I never said or wrote that I would prefer that the country be led by a foreigner or a foreign leader. Not so, for many pundits on the right. Ann Coulter wants Benjamin Netanyahu to be our president, Erick Erickson wants David Cameron to be our president, and Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle would be okay with either Netanyahu or Vladimir Putin being our president.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_08/is_this_how_patriotism_works051906.php
Coventina
(27,121 posts)c.f. the thread in LBN.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)What else do you expect from a group that gets most of it's funding from Communist China and the Koch brothers?
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)That's what they want. It's why the 27% that was continually loyal to bush like him. They saw him as tough, male and WHITE! He was none of these thing but hey it is perception that counts with some people.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)garbage come from? Because one public right wing figure snarks about replacing a Dem president with EVEN a commie from Russia everyone runs with the 'Right loves Putin'??
Every Right Wing moron I have ever met, HATES Russia with a passion and especially Putin. But they WOULD say 'even he' would be better than 'demoncrat'.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)Tough was just an act.
However the liberal media did their job in crafting an image of him as a tough guy so a sizable percentage of idiot Amurkins bought into it.
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Putin out in the wilderness stalking bears!
rock
(13,218 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Especially after their demands for loyalty to their sort-of elected POTUS 2001-2009.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)High School macho posturing means more to them than how many people get killed when the world is seen in such a simple and barbaric fashion.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)"The shining city on the hill" and all that right-wing jingo nationalist crap? Well, that's Putin in Russia. And right-wingers everywhere lap that stuff up.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)The low-info jingoists always go for this shit like a honey badger tears into a beehive.
former9thward
(32,025 posts)It's the Rs who want to go to war with him. Have you been listening to McCain, etc., etc.?
moondust
(19,993 posts)Today's RW authoritarians would have loved Hitler as well.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)lame54
(35,294 posts)Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)It's that simple.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)RKP5637
(67,111 posts)Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)It's a trait of an ideology that emphasises conformity while at the same time disdaining collective action.