Ever notice how the Republicans are becoming the party of the insane?

[RC]

Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Tim pawlenty, Eric Cantor, Grover Norquist and hordes of lesser known's.

Reality? Treason? Sedition? Wadat?

Swear to uphold the Constitution? How quaint, Grover Norquist's plan to destroy the government is more important than "We the people..." and the Constitution they all swore to uphold.

Gotta make those rich people richer. Let the poor die in the streets, they ain't got no money anyhow.

[RKP5637]

1. Yep, I've been noticing that a long time now. Crazy sells and gets votes, sanity and

logic are losers in today's F'ed up world. Politics in the US today has become another reality show.

[get the red out]

5. Yes and,

Crazy gets all kinds of time in the 24 hour news cycle, sensible solutions, not so much.

[raccoon]

2. Yes. Recd. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Seems to me that right-wing ideology attracts people who aren't quite sane.

It's a pernicious stew of authoritarianism, rigidity, bigotry, fanaticism and fear; it appeals to people who need those elements to satisfy their dysfunction. The narcissistic types like Palin and Bachmann see themselves as instruments of God come to save the benighted masses from their doomed "liberal" existences. The more cynical ones, Romney and Pawlenty, aren't necessarily true believers, but they will alter their positions to appeal to those who are. When you get to the really extreme end of the spectrum you get people like Anders Breivik, whose pathology was fed by vicious right-wing bloggers like Pamela Geller. He, like other disturbed individuals, completely embrace the wingnuttery and become the tools of the organized right wing - and in extreme cases commit crimes on their behalf. The right needs the loons in order to function.

[RKP5637]

8. +1, n/t

[Avalux]

4. What's disturbing is how their insanity is conveyed as normal by the mainstream media.

The line between church and state has always been a tenuous one; it seems now however, because they economy is in such a bad way, it's OK a good thing to be a crazy christian Republican candidate. Rick Perry said in a recent interview "we are going through these difficult economic times for a reason; god wants us to go back to biblical principals". Instead of warning us of the dangers of such talk, the media gives him a free pass, and props up as some sort of wonderful person because he said it.

[RKP5637]

11. Often this country reminds me of pre WWII Germany. I seriously fear there

is some dangerously crazy shit coming down the way. Too many Americans take too much for granted, and others are easily deceived and duped, and others are just naive. I agree so much, "their insanity is conveyed as normal by the mainstream media." It is dangerous, very dangerous. And MSM does it to make a buck. I think this country is treading on thin ice.

[AverageJoe90]

17. Perhaps so.

May only be a matter of time before fascism DOES come to the U.S. And when it does...........

[JHB]

6. They became the party of the insane a long time ago...

...they're just not bothering to hide it anymore.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

7. Now, terrorism. n/t

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[The Backlash Cometh]

10. Oh hell yes.

You want to know what it's like living among Republicans? You cannot say anything to them because they twist your words to their advantage. For example, Republicans will remove survey markers, so the boundaries between properties becomes nebulous over the years. In a conversation which might have nothing to do with the boundaries, you might casually say that your sprinkler system runs along the property line. You say it knowing that the heads and pipes run anywhere from six inches to an inch from the border. The next thing you know, they've removed their sprinkler heads and use your sprinkler head as the new boundary between the properties.

And we're not talking about Appalachian rednecks. We're talking about people who hold high office in high places.

[LibDemAlways]

12. Yep. And the idiots who mindlessly vote for

these turds, aided and abetted by the media, are ultimately responsible for the shithole this country has become.

[RKP5637]

13. +1, n/t

[Initech]

14. Yup the GOP has become insane while the rich are addicted to their money.

[SeattleVet]

15. Becoming?

They've been there for a while.

[Nostradammit]

16. Next thing you know they'll be telling us nuclear energy is a good idea

Naw -

Nobody's THAT crazy!