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SixDegrees9/20/2009 11:08:39 am PDT

re: #66 Killgore Trout

It really weird that this stuff is out int the open now. It’s also strange how many people are going along with it. The Republicans might actually become a racially oriented party but I can’t imagine that they’ll we able to win any national elections with this strategy.

It’s not weird. The broadcasters and bloggers are following a well-defined strategy, albeit a flawed one: act like the Democrats/Liberals did when they lost power in 2000. It doesn’t take long to find bloggers advocating the adoption of Alinsky’s tactics, making specific references to emulating International ANSWER’s behavior at protests and generally touting the notion that bad behavior worked for the Dems, so the GOP ought to be outdoing them in vulgarity and intolerance.

It’s flawed because it blithely skips over the 2002 and 2004 elections - elections which the Dems arguably should have won, or at the very least done much, much better in, yet lost because the middle took one long, sickened look at their behavior and bailed for the relative safety of the GOP. Or just stayed home, not willing to cast a vote for a giant puppet with an inflated scrotum.

The shriekers and thumpers now dominating what passes for political discourse on the right (without the actual “di-” part of the word) are convinced that this was a winning strategy for the Dems, and one which they can outdo them at. If they follow this patter, we’ll at least see a repeat of the Dem’s experience with it - further losses during the midterms and worse in 2012.

It’s odd that these folks don’t seem to realize that the Dems didn’t start winning until Howard Dean wised up and started locking their retarded nephews in the basement, away from microphones and television cameras, and began focusing once again on reclaiming the vast middle of the electorate that is crucial for actually, you know, winning. Until the right comes to this same realization, I look for them to continue this losing strategy.

But it’s easily understandable, given that it’s openly being promoted as a strategy.