Reply #11: I noticed a lot of that... [View All]

...the uncharacteristically subdued tone of many RWers, both in the media, and in meatspace. I still haven't quite figured out why every Repuke relative I have wasn't immediately in my face with the gloating.

my point is not all Republicans are like this sector of society just described above. I want to ask that we don't immediately label someone as evil because they did what they have always done--support the GOP candidate.

We need to differentiate between the relatively small and previously marginalized religious fascists who are the most outspoken right now...and the straight fiscal conservative Republicans that have been around for years and years.

That's the idea. If they can finally see past that beatific facade to the rotten core of religious extremism in this country, there are enough of them (yes, I'm thinking especially of the traditional, fiscal conservatives, too) who will want to distance themselves so fast, it will be the GOP left in the dust and forced to rebuild.

No, I'm not talking about starting a party war either (or advocating the destruction of the GOP, the way they want to destroy us). But had the average American traditional conservative been aware of this folie en masse when these nutjobs first got their claws into the party, the GOP would be a very different animal today.

And just think, the word "bipartisanship" wouldn't sound like a joke right now.