Pics: Meet The Right Wing Lunatic Fringe ( All White )

[MustavaMond]

The Political Carnival: Photos: The current state of the Republican party

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Photos: The current state of the Republican party

By GottaLaff

Via a Tweeter, Stephanie Taylor, we get a snapshot what the most unAmerican blowhards imaginable claim is patriotism. Not quite the million they expected, by the way.

This morning I heard this quote on CNN from 9/12er: "I'm sick of being called Hitler and unpatriotic". Oh, the irony...

Please let me know if you spot a non-white face, other than those on the deranged signs:

There you have it: The future of Rushpublic America. Makes you feel all warm and cuddly inside, doesn't it?

[MustavaMond]

Comments from more rational conservatives:

washingtonpost.com

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Mark McKinnon, a former adviser to Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) and other Republicans, said there is an "opportunity for Republicans" to tap into legitimate fears about an overreaching federal government. But he said that


"right-wing nutballs are aligning themselves with these movements" and are dominating media coverage.
"It's bad for Republicans because in the absence of any real leadership, the freaks fill the void and define the party," McKinnon said.



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[Butterfly]

holly shit, this is so fucking funny

time to put those people out of their misery, and put them in re-education camps

they all seem so miserable, what a bunch of lunatics

[Jet Gorgon]

Aww, poor musty has to play the race card. Try again. There were blacks at the rally, but seeing as how many of Obama's black supporters are on welfare, get AA support or work for community organisers or ACORN, I doubt you'll see many at a rally against the freebies that these hard-working taxpayers will have to fund. But, there were some black faces there. Hmm humm.

[Butterfly]

70k people is still a lot of deranged people, and they might have a point, HC would be wasted on them

[raycarey]

interesting pics OP.

i'm sure you've noticed part of what they're trying to do with those images.....it's an attempt to dehumanize obama.

label him the anti-christ
call him evil
digitally manipulate his photo to resemble a cross between hitler and 'the joker' in the most recent batman movie
etc....


earlier this year they tried to 'de-legitimize' his presidency with that 'birther' nonsense.....and when that blew up in their faces, they moved to this.

and this will fail also....because moderates see this crap for what it is......the right wing lunatic fringe.

[MustavaMond]

^^^ JG Ignored

It seems to be racism , pure and simple,
Egads, US has so much further to go, I really thought it was better than this. I worry for OB's safety, too

lots more right winger assassins than left, and these guys are rabid with hate. I feel the same about CheneyCo though , but he really is evil !

That pic of the boy all ready to go into the military, to KILLLLLL...with that big assault rifle , ( so Freudian !! ) he's just a mindless robot for this racist agenda. How can any parent actually encourage their child to hate? It's tantamount to abuse.

Why is racism and sexism so fucking prevalent still?

It's depressing, we have to LOVE LOVE LOVE not HATE . It so simple.

interesting pics OP.

i'm sure you've noticed part of what they're trying to do with those images.....it's an attempt to dehumanize obama.

label him the anti-christ
call him evil
digitally manipulate his photo to resemble a cross between hitler and 'the joker' in the most recent batman movie
etc....


earlier this year they tried to 'de-legitimize' his presidency with that 'birther' nonsense.....and when that blew up in their faces, they moved to this.

and this will fail also....because moderates see this crap for what it is......the right wing lunatic fringe.

[MustavaMond]

Enlightened Boston Globe Editorial

The extreme Republican Party - The Boston Globe

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BACK IN 1970 when Richard Nixon nominated a little-known district court judge named Harold Carswell for the Supreme Court and Carswell’s opponents branded him “mediocre,’’ Republican Senator Roman Hruska of Nebraska famously rose to Carswell’s defense. Even if he were mediocre, Hruska said, “mediocre people are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they?’’ With that ringing endorsement, Carswell’s appointment was soundly defeated by the Senate, but not even Hruska could have foreseen how his prescription would be adopted by our political system.









Let’s not mince words here:

We now have an entire political party that is not only dedicated to the mediocre. It is dedicated to the nearly deranged.


We are long past the time when we can pretend there are two serious political parties in this country - one right of center and one left of center. That is the situation in virtually every other industrialized country. England has its Tories and Labor, France its Gaullists and its Socialists, Germany its Christian Democrats and its Social Democrats. These parties generally don’t agree on policy; they are, after all, political adversaries. But they are all serious, they all represent large constituencies and interests, and they all operate from a set of shared values, not least of which is that the other side is not treasonous or evil or ill-intentioned; it just has different prescriptions for solving problems. Typically, the differences between right and left in these countries are fairly small because in most democracies most people agree on the really big stuff. Even Tory leader David Cameron has vigorously defended England’s National Health Service.

But that is not the case here. We have one party that is severely compromised by its ties to big money, and another party that is just plain nuts. There is no other way to parse it.



According to recent polls, a majority of its followers either believe that President Obama was born in Kenya or aren’t sure, believe there is no such thing as global warming, believe that the House health care bill calls for death panels to euthanize senior citizens, and believe that Obama is responsible for our economic woes (61 percent!).


The only bright side is that according to a recent Pew poll, only 23 percent of Americans identify themselves as Republicans, which makes them not only a fringe in beliefs but also, thankfully, in numbers.


Republicans haven’t always been like this. For most of our history, America was pretty much like our European allies. We had two sensible parties with different traditions, constituencies, and orientations. The Democrats were the party of Jefferson, Jackson, and Franklin Roosevelt. They saw themselves as representing the common man against larger economic interests, favoring, in the now-common characterization, equality over liberty. Republicans were the party of Hamilton, Lincoln, and McKinley. They saw themselves as representing business interests that would unleash the nation’s entrepreneurial energies, favoring liberty over equality. It was a nice balance, and it served the country surprisingly well for nearly two centuries.

Continued...

[Jet Gorgon]

^ musty, the RACE CARD carrier.

[Butterfly]

this is the same non-sense that led to Nazism in 1933 Germany, exuberance for racism and segregation

America is nothing more than Europe in its infancy, it won't be long before it takes the route of a mature Europe like it was in 1933

[Jet Gorgon]

this is the same non-sense that led to Nazism in 1933 Germany, exuberance for racism and segregation

America is nothing more than Europe in its infancy, it won't be long before it takes the route of a mature Europe like it was in 1933

Um, remind me, was that before the US had to come and save your sorry a**?

[Butterfly]

^ they were supporting Germany and financing Hitler

[Jesus Jones]

The biggest propaganga bullshit going.

Putting a black predident in power and using the racist card at every attempt is a perfect distraction from the controlled collapse of the economy and the raping of the US and its citizens.

Those that argue between left and ring have well and truely had the wool pulled over their eyes!

[barbaro]

What I see with the pics above is ignorance.

I don't like BO's big gov - but I didn't like GWBs big gov. I'll ask again: where were these people last year with the bailout, then? With the first bailout in 2007?

When the national debt was 10.6 Trillion when GWB left office. When medicare-D was signed in 03 and implemented in 06?

These "protests" are also using Nazi and Communist symbols incorrectly.

The GOP will seize the opportunity to make this a political issue to benefit them in the mid terms cominp up next year.

[Humbert]

Bill Maher said it best:

Mr. President, there are some people who are never going to like you. That's why they voted for the old guy and Carrie's mom. You're not going to win them over. Stand up for the 70% of Americans who aren't crazy.

[Jesus Jones]

Foreign media is printing numbers much greater than the US media. That's to be expected of course.

This single angle CCTV footage shows there were quite a nember.

[Humbert]

A SIGN OF THE TIMES
Paul Begala for the Huffington Post

The sign said it all. It was not some last-minute message some meth addict scrawled in crayon on a scrap of cardboard. No, this sign was professionally printed. White block letters on a blue background, the four-word message was in all caps. Someone had to have thought this through. Someone wrote it, edited it, planned it, designed it, ordered it, paid for it. Someone approved it, printed it, distributed it. And then someone thought this was a message he or she wanted to convey to the world. Thank goodness someone had the courage to take a photo of it, and then Huffington Post had the guts to post it on its home page.
The sign made me nauseous, made me embarrassed, made me wonder if at long last there is no decency on the far right. The sign said:
"BURY OBAMACARE WITH KENNEDY"
Oh, I get it. Sen. Kennedy is dead, and these slugs want health care reform to be dead too. That is so clever.
Fourteen days after Edward Kennedy was laid to rest in the company of his fellow American heroes in Arlington, right-wing hate-mongers decided to use his burial to make a cheap point about their opposition to health care reform.
What would they have done if liberals had printed signs that equated Ronald Reagan's burial with the hoped-for death of George W. Bush's plan to privatize Social Security? Or Bill Buckley's painful passing with the GOP's loss of the White House in 2008? Or the demise of my right-wing former colleague Bob Novak with the expiration of the Bush tax cuts? You can't imagine that, can you? Because, while we progressives have our moments of frustration and our occasional lack of couth, there is nothing I can think of that compares to the sick, savage sign that the teabaggers were waving in Washington.
The inmates have taken over the asylum. The ever-sunny Reagan is dead. The congenial Buckley is dead. The old-school conservative Novak is dead as well. In their place is the party of Joe the Shouter and Joe the Plumber and Sarah the Death Panel Screecher.
They hate Pres. Obama - even though he has bent over backwards to accommodate Republicans. They hate tax increases - even though the Democrats have cut taxes for 95% of Americans. They hate health care reform - even though Ted Kennedy fought his whole life to get them the same health care millionaires like him already had.
There was not, to my knowledge, a sign that said, "Let's Bury Medicare," even though Medicare is precisely the sort of single-payer, government-run, socialized health insurance the whack-jobs say they hate. Nor did I hear about a sign that said, "Let's Bury Tricare," although the military health system is as socialized as Britain's, its beneficiaries (including, according to Newsweek, Congressclown Joe Wilson of South Carolina) are very happy with their socialized health care. Nary a sign, so far as I know, decried the Bush prescription drug entitlement, even though it ballooned the deficit, enriched the pharmaceutical companies and furthered the supposed slide toward socialism. Nor, I'm told, were there any signs criticizing the $2 trillion Mr. Bush's unjust, unwarranted, unwise war in Iraq will cost our children and grandchildren. Nor ever a single sign about the Bush tax cuts, which helped squander the Clinton surplus. If this were about fiscal policy, the protests would have happened long ago.
These tea parties are, at least for some, more about hate than high-minded debate. Anyone who needed proof need look no further than the sign captured in the photo on the front page of the Huffington Post.

[Boon Mee]

Heh...those folks' numbers are vastly greater than you bleeding-heart commie-sympathizers know. 70% my ass!

[Jet Gorgon]

It seems to be racism , pure and simple,
Egads, US has so much further to go, I really thought it was better than this. I worry for OB's safety, too

lots more right winger assassins than left, and these guys are rabid with hate.
It's depressing, we have to LOVE LOVE LOVE not HATE . It so simple.

This is LOVE LOVE LOVE?
musty, it is you who is promoting racism to the max.
More right wing assassins than left? So, you admit there are leftie assassins?
You are one commie jerk, musty. You are spouting so much racist crap against whites here and you have no agenda except to copy and paste lefty propaganda and try to fuel hatred against anyone who has a mind of their own and anyone who disagrees with what you are brainwashed into.

And anyone who believes what the huffington post spouts is truly braindead.

[GooMaiRoo]

Back in the 1960's, those who opposed the Washington establishment and the excesses of corporate America were characterized in the mass media as drug-crazed hippies.

Today, those who oppose the Washington establishment and the excesses of corporate America are characterized in the mass media as semi-retarded, gun-toting trailer trash. As we can see from the photos these people exist and are quite scary, but there's a lot more to today's widespread anger.

In reality, the corporate mass media brilliantly discredits popular anger by focusing on its most clownish elements, who in turn become emboldened by their publicity. It's good for TV ratings and also marginalizes dissent. If today's protests are led by paranoid, right-wing cretins, then dissent surely can't be within the province of moderate Americans who feel similarly screwed by their government and Wall Street.

[Jet Gorgon]

In reality, the corporate mass media brilliantly discredits popular anger by focusing on its most clownish elements

True, if they put this stuff in the news at all. They are avoiding mention of it and when you have the WH saying these people are wrong, this protest movement is only going to get bigger. Many of the protesters are just ordinary hard-working folks, but boy, you don't want to get on the wrong side of them and by dismissing them, that's what the govt is doing.
Sure, demented folks like musty are playing the race card on this. This ain't about race, it's about the socialist road where this guy is leading their country. They don't like it.
Only FOX has shown good coverage of the Washington event and usually only FOX is unafraid to call the president on issues.

[pickel]

usually only FOX is unafraid to call the president on issues.

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Does that apply to all Presidents Jet? Because most of them still haven't been able to get the brown stains of their noses since Bush left.

[Mr Earl]

"BURY OBAMACARE WITH KENNEDY"
Oh, I get it. Sen. Kennedy is dead, and these slugs want health care reform to be dead too. That is so clever.

Ohhhh please!!!
The real Ted Kennedy died years ago on Chappaquiddic Island.

[Jet Gorgon]

usually only FOX is unafraid to call the president on issues.

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Does that apply to all Presidents Jet? Because most of them still haven't been able to get the brown stains of their noses since Bush left.

You talking about Clinton or Obama?

[Jet Gorgon]

Gee, some info from another side. These folks really look like mobsters and racists, huh?

http://www.lookingattheleft.com/2009...s-the-capital/