Attack on America: Right wing fringe wants to overthrow government

Includes Rachel Maddow video. Here is an excerpt:



Forget about the conservative compassion advocated by Republicans presidential advisor Doug Wead in 1979. Wead believed that policies of Republican conservatives should be motivated by compassion, not protecting the status quo. That era is clearly over. There is no Republican civility, much less compassion.

In August, the corporate sponsored and professionally orchestrated town hall meetings were held around the country with well organized right wing extremists shouting down anyone who posed a question that wasn't part of their agenda (their agenda being the status quo). The Republican electorate enjoyed August. They reveled in it. Senators and Congressmen who said one thing in the chambers of Congress used terms like "pull the plug on grandma" in health care reform town hall meetings without batting an eye. They shamelessly promoted death panel paranoia and spread the lie that illegal immigrants would get free health care if health care reform is passed.

Because of the media focus on astroturf town hall meetings, the images that will forever be captured in the memories of Americans who watched the news consist of shouting, red faced white men and white women holding signs made for them by foundations such as the Eagle Forum, a group whose tenets include family values. They will be remembered as the screaming costume wearing extremists with guns strapped to their legs who carried signs comparing the President of the United States to Hitler or to the "Joker" from Batman movies. They weren't town hall meetings, they were town hall circuses and elected Republicans were content to let the party be represented by corporate sponsored clowns.

The Republican party has no leader who will consistently stand up to the craziest fringe elements, instead they embrace them and now they have become associated with them. They embrace the lies and the craziest proponents of paranoia and fear, those who created the deather, birther, and now the tenther movements. So caught up in the misinformation being spread through the craziest of the right wing fringe, a little known Congressman from South Carolina named Joe Wilson forgot he wasn't at a town hall party during the President's speech before a joint session of Congress and shouted, "You lie" during the President's speech.

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The August astroturf town hall parties had an effect on poll numbers regarding health care reform in this country. But like the Sarah Palin bump received by John McCain around the same time last year, the astroturf town hall parties' effect will be fleeting. What people will remember about the town hall meetings are images of people who advocate violence and the overthrow of the American government. Despite recent poll numbers, a majority of Americans want health care reform. A majority of Americans are frightened by gun-wielding sign carrying hate mongers, especially those who attend Presidential meetings. But officials of the Republican party don't even pretend to promote compassionate conservatism these days, instead they prefer the status quo and have ditched compassion, civility, and respect altogether.

American voters have fled the Republican party in droves yet the Republican electorate seems intent on pandering to their shrinking extremist base. It's embarrassing to watch elected Republicans lose their dignity as they cower before Glenn Beck's glassy-eyed followers.

And don't let the door hit them in the ass on their way.

I suggest South Carolina.

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They have the experience and a lot of conservative Libertarians have already talked about going there to start a colony anyway. My vote is definitely for South Carolina.

It's all about secession. Tim Pawlenty thinks it is a good idea and he's supposed to be the moderate running for president in 2012?

The tenth amendment was big until the Civil war. States took it to the extreme, rather the southern states took it to the extreme, led by South Carolina of course and we had a civil war. Apparently there is a whole new set of radical right wingers who want another civil war. They want to secede, ala states rights or the tenth amendment and have been dubbed "tenthers."

and similarly for any other of these morons who might be running for President.

Framed right, it should kill their chances.

Boy, wouldn't I love to have all the freepers crowd themselves into one state, then secede. Damn that would be nice!

Of course we would get the occasional border attacks, those random shootings across the border by big-bellied gun toters with a few too many beers in them, the toothless wonders sporting that glassy-eyed paranoia as they load up their Uzis.

And of course there would be the constant flow of immigrants, those moderates or liberals who didn't keep up with current events and found themselves in the middle of a state of insane people. The real question is, do they get our health insurance?

That's what Pawlenty said yesterday. He said that if the health care reform bill passes, Minnesota will look into challenging having to accept health care reform based on the tenth amendment. And he said that other states should stick together with Minnesota and Texas so they don't have to listen to the federal government. As in, they should unite or something and oh wait, how would they decide who gets to decide what if they unite and become united states of Texas or should it be the US of Minnesota. Maybe US of South Carolina. He's blown his chances of election in 2012. Another one bites the dust.

are heavily Democratic.

God, I hate that little cross-eyed weasel. Apologies to weasels.

Cheney had it in mind for us.

Send em all to California and tell them to line up and stomp on the west side of the San Andreas fault, and then cross our fingers.

at least we're consistent as a country.

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