"Can't Keep a Bad Idea Down"

[30ashopper]

But the country the right wants to return to isn't the America that the Greatest Generation built. Judging by the statements of many of the Republican and Tea Party-backed candidates on next Tuesday's ballots, it's the America that antedates the New Deal -- a land without Social Security, unions or the minimum wage. It's the land that the Greatest Generation gladly left behind whey they voted for and built the New Deal order. All of us should want our country back, but that country should be the more prosperous and economically egalitarian nation that flourished at the time when America was not only the world's greatest power, but also a beacon to the world.

Harold Meyerson - When Tea Party wants to go back, where is it to?

A noble cause no doubt.

But remember, the press is centered a small subset of tea party favorites. In this election we're looking at 50 - 70 house turn overs and 10 -15 senate turn overs. I would love to see a break down of which of all of these support what the wapo described. I'd be willing to bet the vast majority of them fit more in with the "limit debt, smaller government" group than the "tear down the new deal" group.

 

[LuciferSam]

There's another group of ill-informed people who frighten me as well. I'm talking about people who choose out of their own free will to believe in nonsense.

...Failure to think critically also affects politics, and politics affects everybody. Remember Mike Huckabee?s tear-ridden testimony about how certain he was that supernatural forces propelled him to victory in the Iowa presidential caucuses? And yet, when he crashed and burned in the polls shortly afterward, how he was strangely silent?

Am I the only person concerned about such an individual becoming the Commander in Chief of the most powerful military in the world?...

FAGIN: Belief in obvious nonsense is not a harmless indulgence | things, around, fun - Opinion - Colorado Springs Gazette, CO

 

[GoodWitch58]

A noble cause no doubt.

But remember, the press is centered a small subset of tea party favorites. In this election we're looking at 50 - 70 house turn overs and 10 -15 senate turn overs. I would love to see a break down of which of all of these support what the wapo described. I'd be willing to bet the vast majority of them fit more in with the "limit debt, smaller government" group than the "tear down the new deal" group.

when you find that information post it...I am having a hard time finding a list of anyone I could call a reasonable fiscal conservative who doesn't support outlandish ideas about how to govern.

 

[GoodWitch58]

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quote=30ashopper;704204]A noble cause no doubt.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but I think this assessment is more on point:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/opinion/31rich.html?src=me&ref=general

Trent Lott, the former Senate leader and current top-dog lobbyist, gave away the game in July. ?We don?t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples,? he said, referring to the South Carolina senator who is the Tea Party?s Capitol Hill patron saint. ?As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.? It?s the players who wrote the checks for the G.O.P. surge, not those earnest folk in tri-corner hats, who plan to run the table in the next corporate takeover of Washington. Though Tom DeLay may now be on trial for corruption in Texas, the spirit of his K Street lives on in a Lott client list that includes Northrop Grumman and Goldman Sachs.

Mike Huckabee, still steamed about Rove?s previous put-down of Christine O?Donnell, publicly lamented the Republican establishment?s ?elitism? and ?country club attitude.? This country club elite, he said, is happy for Tea Partiers to put up signs, work the phones and make ?those pesky little trips? door-to-door that it finds a frightful inconvenience. But the members won?t let the hoi polloi dine with them in the club?s ?main dining room? ? any more than David H. Koch, the billionaire sugar daddy of the Republican right, will invite O?Donnell into his box at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center to take in ?The Nutcracker.?

 

[30ashopper]

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Sorry to burst your bubble, but I think this assessment is more on point:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/opinion/31rich.html?src=me&ref=general

Fitting article by Rich just before Holloween.. If people aren't motivated to vote, scare the bajeezus out of them. Colbert would be proud!