The GOP is really batting 1000 today.

[Ganja Ninja]

Charges dropped against the Elvis impersonator. The new lead suspect is pedophile Everett Dutschke (R) a former GOP candidate for state office in Miss.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/23/paul-kevin-curtis-ricin_n_3142159.html

Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev an Alex Jones fan.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/alex-jones-downplays-connection-to-boston-bomber

Adam Savader, Former Mitt Romney Campaign Intern, Former Newt Gingrich Staffer/Intern, Arrested In Alleged Sexual Extortion Scheme
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/23/adam-savader-mitt-romney_n_3143488.html

The hits just keep on coming!

[Laelth]

1. What can one say? Birds of a feather flock together? k&r n/t

-Laelth

[mucifer]

2. yeah but alex jones is not a republican.

[NewJeffCT]

3. Most of his fans are Republics, though

because his show appeals to them

[Ganja Ninja]

4. Oh yeah a Libertarian.

He only votes Republican every chance he gets.

[old guy]

26. It has been my experience, limited tho it may be,

Not all repubs are Libertarians, but all Libertarians vote repub.

[Chan790]

28. Nah, there are left-libertarians too.

Big on civil-liberties (to a lesser extent the ACLU, who a lot of them consider co-opted and too mainstream), anti-gun-control, pro-drug, anti-tax, anti-military, anti-social-services, anti-law-enforcement, pro-choice, pro-small-government, pro-"freedom" (Not in the same sense as conservatives...more like "pro-anarchy&quot , humanist and most I've met were atheists.

I met a bunch of more-extreme ones through some NPO sector work I was doing here in DC that kept peripherally bumping into them...there's a bunch of them in Occupy DC where, in advance of the election, they were pushing this completely fucking moronic "Vote for Nobody!" campaign. We just don't hear much about them because they're not really a factor. They're holding out for a perfect candidate...they tend to either grudgingly vote for the Ron Paul types, vote for their fringe candidates or simply stay home. Mostly, they stay home. They're very critical of Obama and in some of them I sense a closeted racism, a few of them kept trying to tell me that Obama was a worse war criminal than Bush.

You're free to think whatever you want about them...I tend to think of the ones I encountered as a bunch of useless fucking losers...but they exist.

Edit: They weren't really keen on me either...I'm apparently "authoritarian leftist, pro-violence and a statist."

[MrModerate]

38. I love the nutters' use of "statist" as an insult . . .

Since all it means is that one thinks there's a legitimate role for government in human affairs.

[TalkingDog]

29. Untrue. And although Chan790 wants to paint them with a broad brush

the spectrum of Left Libertarians includes people like Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama.

[old guy]

37. Untrue?

How the hell do you know what my experience has been?

[LeftishBrit]

39. In Britain traditionally...

'libertarian' meant 'civil libertarian' without implications about views on other political matters. The economic form of 'libertarianism' was called 'laissez-faire'. However, with the increasing tendency for our political discourse to be influenced more by American than French terminology, 'libertarian' now tends, in the UK as well, to mean 'economic free-marketeer'.

[Volaris]

5. Right.....

but even if he WERE, it works like this:
see, if this loon had been a Liberal, this would have been a massive grand conspiracy by, well, basically EVERYONE who is NOT a Republican lunatic, but since he IS a lunatic (and happens to listen to OTHER lunatics on air and on the Web) CLEARLY he is just a LONE NUT.
Isn't that nice for them how that all works out that way?

[MsLeopard]

6. +1000

Yep, two scales of everything in the US - rich/poor, connected/unconnected, Liberal/everything else..... it goes on and on.

[Volaris]

36. Not Liberal/Everything else...

The dirty, America-hating Liberal MEDIA and the rubes they brainwash with their America-hating soshulizm, and Fine, Upstanding, Moral Christian Capitalists ('cause baby Jeebus wants you to be rich, don't you know, as a reward for being a good Christian, and whatnot)...

[Atman]

7. I don't know any Republicans willing to admit they're Republican these days.

Every single one of them -- and I mean every one -- says they're a "Libertarian." Of course, not one of them can name a Libertarian candidate, or what the term Libertarian actually means. They're just embarrassed to be connected with the GOP. They're not fooling anyone.

[progressoid]

9. I've also heard some bobble heads on TV refer to themselves as conservatives but not Repubs.

Apparently the GOP isn't conservative enough.

[47of74]

10. I listen to Stephanie Miller

And when the righties call into her show a lot of them start off on the "I am an independent, I like to listen to both sides" bullshit or claim they're conservative but not Republican.

[progressoid]

12. Yup. Like Bill O'really calls himself an independent.

Gimme a fuggin break.

[NewJeffCT]

13. These days

any Republican that breaks from toeing the extreme right position on even one issue is considered a moderate or reasonable Republican by the media, or even an "independent minded" Republican, if it's something like ultra-conservative Chuck Hagel speaking out against Iraq, a major issue.

So, a lot of these RW radio hosts and TV pundits maintain that one moderate position so they can claim independence. I remember a few years back, I was out of state on a business trip and was flipping through the radio dial and I stopped when I heard some guy making a passionate argument for raising the minimum wage, saying how he grew up in a lower middle class or working class neighborhood and knows how even a small increase can make a positive difference, and that study after study shows that increasing the minimum wage has a positive effect. I thought maybe I had found the local Air America, but it turns out that it was Michael Savage.

[tofuandbeer]

22. Yeah. I noticed that "I-was-a-replublican-but-didn't-vote-for-Bush-the-2nd-time" thing kicked in...

just after the Bush completely destroyed our economy with the recession.

[nxylas]

11. Or "Independents" or "Moderates"

When someone describes themselves as a "moderate", 9 times out of 10 they're really a Teapublican.

[Turbineguy]

16. "Independent"

is code for, "I don't want you to think I'm an imbicile and a lunatic, but I am a republican".

[timdog44]

23. The repukes I know

call themselves independents and usually say they have a black friend.

[Atman]

25. Yeah...the black friend they pay cash under the table to mow their lawn or clean their house.

I know those kind of "Independents" too.

[neffernin]

35. *shrugs*

Lately the choices of the brass in the Democratic party make me want to consider myself independent as in I have independent thought and I'm not associated with the extremely horrible choices associated with the party. Then I realize it doesn't make a difference as we live in a two party system and that I will never vote for republican ideals (on almost any front), so why bother register anything other than democrat?

[arcane1]

17. I started seeing a lot of repubs suddenly become "independant conservative" after 2008

[Cha]

30. Is he a stupid hate monger?

[mountain grammy]

8. The party of "family values" is a good cover for the worst behavior.

[SunSeeker]

14. Of course, that's small potatoes compared to what Repukes do to our economy on a daily basis. nt

[freshwest]

19. And town by town...

[cantbeserious]

15. Family Is As Family Does

eom

[Blue Owl]

18. Don't forget about Eddie Munster's creepy cyberstalking intern!

http://gawker.com/paul-ryans-campaign-intern-indicted-for-cyberstalking-479676756

[Initech]

20. The party of liars, crooks, criminals, and thieves. What's new?

[Sheepshank]

21. Step one....disenfrianchising the GOP and their constituency. Done.

Step two....voting for anyone other than GOP. Getting there.

[Land Shark]

24. Add Republican former judge charged with death penalty today for Texas prosecutors' murders?

See http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-texas-courtroom-massacre-authorities-reveal-unsettling-truth-about-triple-homicide-8586744.html

Originally these Jan 31 and March 1 murders of two prosecutors and one prosecutor's wife were suggested to be the work of white supremacist prison gangs or perhaps Mexican drug cartels.

But now that it is alleged to be a former Republican judge local who was kicked out of office after a criminal theft prosecution resulting in only probation, it looks like the national media may lose most or all interest in the case.

The death penalty is being sought both for the former Republican judge as well as his ailing wife, alleged to be an accomplice.

[timdog44]

27. I can not say

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that it surprises me how low people will stoop to avenge something that happened to them, even if it was their own fault. But it also does not surprise me to see it be a republican who did it, considering the moral and ethical manners of the republicans.

Actually I feel sorry for all of them. Sorry for the victims, and sorry that the "alleged" criminal has no more thought than to kill someone for a conviction that lead to probation. Sad for the pickle people seem to get into.

[flamingdem]

31. Plus the GOP Arizona rep saying that zero terrorist attacks happened under Bush

[baldguy]

32. Par for the course.

And of course they blame Obama for all of it.

[RyanThomas]

33. I'm sure they will "Discover" that it is all the Democrat's fault

No doubt their claim will be that we fostered an environment of moral hedonism, that Alex Jons obviously was responsible for keeping him from committing such a crime for so long, and that Everett Dutschke is a "Moderate Republican" which proves they need to go further to the right.

[Bucky]

34. I think these stories are peaking too early.

Why can't this shit hit the headlines in even numbered years?