Paranoid, rage-driven, xenophobic nuts are taking over the Republican Party.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-brooks16-2008oct16,0,4661274.column

Thinking conservatives: MIAs of the GOP
Paranoid, rage-driven, xenophobic nuts are taking over the Republican Party.
Rosa Brooks
October 16, 2008


Liberals haven't had so much fun in decades.

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Aside from the dwindling size of our 401(k)s, life is treating us well. True, we're heading into a major recession. But that's OK: That just presents us with new opportunities to Do Good. And while we wait for President Obama to bring us New Deal 2.0, we'll also get a few giggles out of watching the Bush administration preside over the nationalization of the nation's financial sector. (Tip: Practice saying "social democracy." Also, practice saying "Told ya so!" with compassion.)

Maybe most fun of all, we're getting to watch a steady procession of rats leaving the sinking GOP ship.

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But enjoyable as it's been to watch conservatives flee from the GOP, something about all this leaves me feeling a little down. Because as the more respectable, literate conservatives distance themselves from the GOP, increasingly, the only ones left on the right are paranoid, rage-driven, xenophobic nuts. Bitter? You betcha! Twisted too!

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But today, as the last few sober grown-ups leave the party, the visible face of the GOP increasingly looks like that of the people who shout "kill him!" when Obama's name comes up, who speak of black men they don't like as "uppity" or as "boys," who think you can't trust a Muslim or an Arab, who think talking about "Barack Hussein Osama" is witty and (I'm talking to you, Sarah Palin and John McCain) who claim Obama "pals around with terrorists."

This isn't really that funny anymore.

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Dies Committee, 1930's.

Republicans have ALWAYS been psychopaths or paranoids. At least since the Lincoln assassination.

So you're right -- they set about immediately destroying their own party!

That's the new GOP. The traditional Republican helped feed the monster and give it power. Now they'll have to live with its shadow for many, many years.

After this election I believe the rethuglican party will be on
its way out, a victim of its own corruption and mismanagement.

One of the important things about this next congress is that they will do redistricting. When the delay crowd did the last one it left us at a real disadvantage. Now it will be our turn and that will help us in the next ten years. If there was only some way to get Roberts and Alito out of there we could be on the way to a more progressive future.Pedal to the medal, elect lots of democrats.

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I hate to use a joke from such a decidedly unfunny comedian, but its true. Religion is at best something that can be ignored by government, at worst an insidious influence that threatens our constitution. It is time for a return of morality based on virtue, not some cosmic judge that will put you in eternal time-out if you are bad. Good actions done out of fear of reprisal are not moral actions, they are pragmatic.