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Fearing High Gas Prices, Sean Hannity Proposes Re-Invading Iraq and Kuwait To 'Take All Their Oil'

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ClaudeMonet1/15/2011 11:02:58 am PST

re: #9 moderatelyradicalliberal

My mother said a long time ago, these people aren’t conservatives, they are radicals and reactionaries. Unfortunately, they have taken over the conservative movement, which at this point is about 60 years old. It’s a movement that peaked in the 80s and now degenerated into a racket. It’s decline began when the GOP picked up the Dixiecrats that left the Democratic Party. Hannity and his ilk are making money of of ignorance and cultural resentment. I don’t doubt there are conservatives inn the general population who see this nonsense, but they aren’t running shit. Their once useful idiots are now in charge. There is a new generation that will associate conservatism with the TPers, Palin, Beck, Hannity and various assorted kooks in Congress. There simply is no counterbalancing force. Not yet anyway.

Well said. The conservatives who were ready but never eager to fight are gone. Those who advocated patience and restraint in all matters are long gone. The “ACTION NOW!!” crowd has taken control, full speed ahead and never mind the rocks and reefs. Within the Republican Party, they have intimidated those who don’t march in lockstep with them into silent acquiescence. Worse, the Republican “leadership” has no ideas of its own and is reduced to pandering to the TP fringe. Today’s Rabid Right makes the Loony Left look like true statesmen/women. Sad.

Your mother was (is?) a wise woman.