Eugene Robinson:Deranged by Obama, Republicans are spouting nonsense

[cal04]

Republicans had better divert some of their campaign cash toward finding a cure for Obama Derangement Syndrome. If they don’t, their nemesis will beat them in a third consecutive presidential contest — without, of course, actually being on the ballot.

GOP power brokers and potential candidates surely realize that President Obama is ineligible to run in 2016. Yet they seem unable to get over the fact that he won in 2008 and 2012. It’s as if they are more interested in vainly trying to rewrite history than attempting to lay out a vision for the future.

Obama Derangement Syndrome is characterized by feverish delirium. The Republican Party suffered an episode last week when former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani began speaking in tongues about Obama’s patriotism.

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Republicans need to abandon the fantasy that there’s some sort of grand deception underlying the Obama presidency. They’re only deceiving themselves.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gops-obama-self-deception/2015/02/23/640da4fa-bba2-11e4-b274-e5209a3bc9a9_story.html?postshare=6761424742423728

[FSogol]

1. K&R. n/t

[Major Hogwash]

2. Hahahaha!!!! The Rethuglicans have NO vision for the future!!!

They want to go back to Reagan's time of dawdling in the White House.

[Art_from_Ark]

12. ...and threatening to bomb Russia,

and visiting Nazi cemeteries, and proclaiming that trees cause more pollution than cars

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Gene Robinson knows the players well.

This is the Campaign strategy of the Rethugs,keep blaming the Kenyan in the White House every way you can. This is how they won the 2014 Mid Terms. When you have all the Media pumping the same old theme it wears the populace down and they through up their hands and become servant sheep. Game Set and Match.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Drowning in their own hate spittle

Republicans are so inept, even in their own hatefulness.
It's the most amusing thing.

[freshwest]

5. LOL@ 'Rudy Giuliani began speaking in tongues...' A forked one, at that! n/t

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

6. But DU has proclaimed there is no such thing as ODS!

Shame on you Gene for pushing this myth!

[Cha]

7. the Quintessential example of ODS.. rudy and booby.

thanks Obama.. mahalo cal

[mindwalker_i]

8. The elected republicans took every chance to show Obama as "foreign"

Rudy saying Obama "doesn't love America" is the latest in a long campaign to appeal to the emotion in republicans that he "isn't one of us." Some of the other instances or republicans stoking that feeling are the birth certificate BS, calling him a muslim, and associating him with rev. Wright as some crazy non-American radical. In contrast, the whole thing about "Bush is just someone you can have a beer with" is meant to reinforce the idea that Bush was "one of us."

So why do republicans want to do that to Obama? Quite simple: if they can stoke the feeling of foreignness, it'll be easier to get the public to oppose whatever Obama is doing, thus making it easier for republicans to pass their agenda or at least block Obama's even when in the minority. So republicans (not elected) oppose whatever Obama wants to do even if they would greatly benefit from it.

It's fighting a war by emotional manipulation.

[Rex]

9. Same as it ever was.

Obama just has them all beat up now and the Dems in Congress are like NOPE fuck off. Or enough of them are. The GOP has to punish thousands of families right now, because they want what they want RIGHT NOW!!!

[appalachiablue]

10. Obama is to the GOP what the Moon is to Werewolves-~ Julian Bond.

Those photos are howlin' funny!

[AverageJoe90]

11. The Modern GOP. Boggling rational minds with endless piles of wack-ass bullshit since 1-20-09.