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House Republican Chairman Praises Limbaugh, Beck

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))10/22/2009 11:06:44 am PDT

re: #218 SixDegrees

The reviews were, at best, mixed. But that’s not the point; it was the aftermath, with Bush not only winning by widening his margin, that woke the Dems up that pandering to the nuts was costing them elections. Let’s face it: the Dems absolutely should have won in 2004, across the board, without even breaking a sweat, and they tanked. Much of the credit goes to the looney toons sideshow freaks who were doing exactly what the GOP is doing now: grabbing all the attention they could and engaging in increasingly bizarre and insane behavior. It was a huge turn off for a huge number of voters, and it wasn’t until Dean started duct-taping their mouths shut that the Dems started winning again.

2004 was for the Republicans wht the Alamo was for Santa Ana or Pearl Harbor for the japanese: a great victory that contained the seeds of their demise.

The smear campaigns, the looney-pandering and spreading outright lies worked agains Kerry because people, well, didn’t like him very much. Even folks who supported his party and his politics.

But Obama has a different charm: for eveery right-wing who hates him with a passion for who he is and what he stands for, there are many more who might disagree with his politics but admire him as a symbol of what America stands for: domeone who rose from humble origins through hard work and initiative, someone who is educated, erudite and generally admirable as a human being.

Which means that the tactics tht won the Republicans 2004 flew back in their faces, and they seem to have intensified rather than eased up on them.