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Gallup Poll: GOP Favorability Sinks to Historic Low

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EPR-radar10/09/2013 3:22:09 pm PDT

re: #149 Dr Lizardo

Buckley was far from perfect, but I will give credit where credit is due. He had little patience from the proto-wingnuts of his era, and he did make a solid effort to keep them at bay.

Even Barry Goldwater detested the Religious Right; I remember a 60 Minutes interview with him, where he remarked he was flying on a private plane and someone the PA tuned to a televangelist, and he yelled out, “Someone turn that g***amned skypilot off!” He was concerned about the influence the RR and the Fundamentalist SoCons would have. He was right; Michelle Bachmann is pretty much his fears come to life.

Not really out of any concern for the national welfare, of course. Goldwater and Buckley wanted a version of conservatism that had a thin veneer of civilization on it, the better to attract persuadables in the middle.

The job of racists etc., especially after the Southern strategy, was to vote GOP all quiet-like without getting any of their itches scratched.