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Recently, former White House Chief of Staff William Daley said that Sarah Palin marked the beginning of the GOPs dysfunction. But when you really examine it, it started long before the former Alaska Governor emerged into the spotlight.
Ring of Fires Farron Cousins and Sam Seder discuss this.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)What specific measures will we take to reform Social Security? Are we for the death penalty, or opposed to it? Do we favor a woman's right to choose in a all circumstances? What do we propose to do about firearms violence? What Wall Street reforms do we support? And so on.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)ffr
(22,671 posts)Then it was Dubya.
Then it was Palin.
If you really want to go nuts on it, you can pick out any one of the nut jobs in congress with an R by their political affiliation.
The GOP reads like a who's who of intellectual midgets, but staunch loyalists to the donors who do their bidding.
Geronimoe
(1,539 posts)Drill baby, drill. Global warming denier. This was so popular that Obama swtiched from renewables to all energy sources.
Palin was largely funded by energy industry and she delivered.
All the other nonsense issues are just to distract and divide people.
nightscanner59
(802 posts)Now they can't control, direct or unify around anything but completely goofball notions, wacked out theocratic lies. It simply amazes me the utter idiocy of the constituency outside of the 1 percenters who benefit magnanimously from all this folly.
Christ, anyone who even finished high school ought to have the critical thinking skills to see these emperors have no clothes.
And I'm just as glad to see their crazy train derailed.