but McCain and Schmidt picking that idiot with her low class dysfunctional family took it to a subterranean basement.

they took it to another level. It lowered the bar, jumped the shark. Look at what they'll accept now.

and all the younger ones (the old dudes now) swore revenge upon anyone involved in unseating "their" president. Never mind Nixon was his own enemy and had lost the support of much of his own party. They were out for VENGEANCE. One of the people they focused on was Hillary Rodham, later Clinton, who was on the team that helped oust Nixon.

Never mind that tapes released recently confirmed what everybody "knew" about how completely corrupt and paranoid Nixon was and how it was a good thing he went. They want revenge and won't rest until they've thrown a Democrat out of office. Ever since Nixon they've been rage and revenge driven. It's expanded to ripping every single Democratic program away from the people and it doesn't matter to them how popular, how solvent, how effective, and how necessary the programs are. If a Democrat got it passed, they want it gone.

If you think they've gone crazy, it's because they have.

The crazy towards Clinton, and now Obama, was residual rage and revenge for Nixon. I'll go a little further with my theory and add, the wingnuts went so completely mental on this President because they had nothing on him. They wanted another Clinton and they got a squeaky clean guy in Obama so they've been literally making shit up out of nothing for the last 8 years.

was about, his brand was rejected. Or at least the Republican establishment rejected him. With Palin the Republican establishment did not. They gave her a TV show. They let trump run around looking for Obama's birth certificate...you can just see the establishment tapping each other on the shoulder and saying "no, don't stop her, let's see where this goes". And it "went" all the way to Trump.

but I think a case could easily be made also for Tricky Dick and his Southern strategy which started things rolling.

Atwater and his crazy shit - begat Karl the Rove all with increasing intransigence.

No longer was there a carrot to go with the stick. So those who just want to destroy have no controls.

I think the train went off the rails with Nixon being "hounded out of office" by the "liberal media" etc. etc. etc. The rage that engendered, plus the unholy alliance of the Christian Wrong, big business and racist resentment has destroyed the party, possibly the country and maybe even the world.

I luvs me some Bernie, but I don't know if we will recover. The hour is late, I don't see how the Republicans make their way back to sanity and we can't function at all unless they do.

but unless they change the filibuster rule nothing will move in the Senate, and taking over the batshit House is probably out of the question until a) a new census with, b) re-districting and, c) Democrats in charge of state governments. That's a tall order.



Best hope is the Republicans implode somehow in the House.