I gotta say this: During the Clinton years I was young and not interested in politics yet. So...

...my entire political "socialization" more or less happened during the Bush years. I always saw right-wingers as those extremely powerful people no one can put a scratch on, that have spokespeople like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh mocking and humiliating the opposition in a way that is in itsself an insult to any thinking mind and who can get away with what they are saying because "their side" is so damn powerful they could go around claiming the sky is green and still have people nod their head.

Now I'm getting a glimpse of what it must have been like during the Clinton years. The right wingers have been reduced to a hoard of paranoid, bat-shit crazy clowns who only get taken serious by people who are considering whether one of them might be crazy enough to blow something up.

Someone posted on this board a while back that once the Republicans are out of power, the right-wing will "go back to stockpiling weapons and hating the government." Seems like that has really happened. While the danger of one of them going amok might be there, as a group they seem far less threatening to me than six months ago.

And have you noticed noticed how the complaints on right-wing blogsites about the right-wing "not being in power" have sort of died down a little? I mean those comments that were made during the Bush years which, again, were an insult to the thinking mind because it was obvious to everyone that they are firmly in power. It seems a bit ironic to me. Seems like its not so fun to say that when it's actually true.

Hard to believe that a few years ago someone could go around saying "American liberals are doing to christians what the nazis did to the jews" and not have his ass tared and feathered at least verbally.

Republicans GAINED Congressional seats in the '92 election and kept that ball rolling in '94.

Gingrich was coaching R's to use incendiary language to describe anything Democrats did. Clinton was accused of being a 'sex addict' while Gingrich was doing a young aide and Bob Livingston was doing EVERYBODY.

throws me right back to listening to them during the Clinton years. Same words, complaints, emotions and all. Just now they have a bigger cable news network as part of their echo chamber. Rush Limpballs and company can reuse their old material, just change the names of the Dems they are attacking. Some of their followers are dangerous though and none of us can afford to forget that.

Liberals had yet to organize through cyberspace. The mainstream press could decide that, yes, it was the year of the angry white man and we must all submit to the angry white men and what they wanted. We didn't have the means to talk to each other online and say: "Can you believe this shit? What a bunch of crapola" and debunk all their bullshit instantly.