Time to destroy the 'legitimacy' of the Republican party.

[GoesTo11]

It's time for a campaign against the entire Republican party.
Right now the focus is on drilling, Iraq timetables, wind energy and social security. But those are piddling details in the big picture. They aren’t why Republicans should be voted out. The Republicans – not just the Bush administration - have spent the last 15 years or more completely abusing the nation’s trust. They:

- Lied us into war, and covered up the lies.
- Broke our military
- Broke our intelligence – for short term political gain (Plame) and then lied
- Broke the Justice Department and the legal system and our confidence that the law is fairly applied
- Stopped and reversed the trend toward open government
- Stacked the Supreme court with ideologues rather than sages
- Lowered political discourse to the level of Survivor
- Used race in every election
- Won by suppressing the vote in all sorts of ways
- Not just squandered but pillaged the national treasure with tax cuts and pork and defense contracts. What should have been a surplus is a huge deficit. We have a crushing national debt and trade deficit and we have shipped out all but service jobs as we face the demographic crunch
- Made America far less equal in income, wealth, and opportunity through policies on taxes, education and healthcare
- Ruined our global goodwill with a my-way or the highway approach to diplomacy
- Set American against American by creating and exploiting wedge issues

All for gain of power and money. Not just Bush-Cheney, but the entire party has been working as one, speaking from the same script, paying each other off, politicizing everything and covering up each other’s crimes. This has been their modus operandi at least since Gingrich’s “revolution” of 1994. They have totally screwed the country and they did it on purpose for the worst of motives.
This party for its performance deserves to lose its place in America for at least a generation if not permanently. The Republican brand should be poison. The Democrats should be advertising against them. This worked for the Republicans – they made liberal a bad word, convinced the country that Democrats were bad for the economy and unpatriotic and elitist. Time to right that wrong.
The 2008 elections shouldn’t just be about McCain vs. Obama. They should be nationalized like the 2006 election. They should be about the Republican Party vs. America. Democrats should take the fight on the side of America and America should win.

[Th1onein]

1. Can I steal some of this and put it in an LTTE?

Great piece, by the way. But, seriously, can I?

[GoesTo11]

3. You bet.

Thanks.

[Cleita]

2. I'm all for that because they have been taken over and are being

operated by a crime syndicate that is no different that the Mafia. I hope conservatives who wake up from drinking the Kool-Aid have the sense to form a new conservative party and leave the criminal element behind. That should decimate the Republican Party into a cipher of history. I think our party needs to take a hard look at what it stands for as well because we are being infiltrated by the same element of profiteers and they need to be exposed as an element that is contrary to the principles of the Democratic Party.

[leftofthedial]

4. hear, hear.

it should be illegal to be a repuke. the GOP has been an organized crime syndicate for over 30 years and should be banned. Next best thing is to make membership shameful.

[Warpy]

5. They used to be a political party, but no more

They've become a typical RICO, gaining and keeping power through murder, interstate election fraud, bribes, and money laundering.

They are absolutely no different from the Mafia in Italy.

If we want to keep our country, we not only have to defeat them. We have to go after them with the full might of our legal system.

They murder our leaders. It's time to imprison theirs.

[GoesTo11]

9. You're right. Dismantle the criminal machine.

Step 1: Delegitimize the party so they can be forced out of office by the remaining vestiges of a democratic process
Step 2: Investigate crimes and clean it up. Break the ring. This will be much harder than breaking the Mafia. But once the dam starts breaking, there will be so much evidence that it will all come crashing down.
Step 3: Don't give the Democratic party a free ride. Same rules (just a lot less of a problem). Clean it up too.
Step 4: Let the rump of the old Republican party - with its Mafia removed - reform and have a functioning democracy.

[ladjf]

12. Republicanism started out as a political strategy designed to gain and hold

power in order to pillage the economy. It has turned into an egocentric philosophy of greed, cruelty
,arrogance and shallow thinking. As such is is doing irreparable damage to life on Earth.

[GoesTo11]

13. I read something like this - conservatism isn't a philosophy, just a tactic

for fooling the rubes and then taking as much advantage of the situation as possible. That's why it's always incoherent when you try to figure out why they say, oh, oppose big government but want it to control women's reproductive systems.

[ladjf]

15. Usually the suffix -ism means that it refers to some value system which

many would say makes it a philosophy. People who call themselves "conservatives" hold certain values as good, others as bad. In the purest sense,that would be a philosophy. However, I agree that political strategists that prey upon conservatives use tactics that they know will move conservatives in the direction that the strategists desire.

[Fire Walk With Me]

6. Their crimes are more and more obvious. The problem is with people who refuse to see the crimes.

[fascisthunter]

8. especially when Our Leadership in Congress PRETENDS nothing Illegal Has Been Committed

[Kablooie]

7. But can you list what they've done WRONG? (from you friendly neighborhood GOP hack)

[DBoon]

10. any party that wants to hunt down the opposition with dogs

does not deserve to exist in a democratic society.

I'm referring to Phil Gramm's comment that he looked forward to the day when Democrats in Texas were hunted with dogs.

People who lived in police states where political opponents were hunted with dogs would not find this comment funny

[Kazak]

11. This thought crosses my mind regularly...

yet, on it goes.

[XemaSab]

14. Bastards don't have legitimacy

:P