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Bill USA

(6,436 posts)
Wed Apr 18, 2012, 04:41 PM Apr 2012

The GOP's reliance on hysterical talk is an admission that they have no ideas or solutions to offer

The GOP by their repetitive use of hysterical rhetoric hope (not without reason, - it does work) to get the ignorant and easily manipulated to start running fearfully to their promised deliverance from the arch evil Democrats. It seems their only tactic to win an election is to depict Obama as some sort of incarnate evil. This works when dealing with mental dwarfs and more average type people during times of confusion, dissappointment and frustration (even when the condition is the result of Corporate Lobbyist party policies). And of course, an important principle is REPETITION, repetition, ... repetition.

A brief sampling of GOP demagoguery:

John Boehner: "It will be armaggedon, if HCR passes."

Boehner: "...he's a dead man when he goes back to his district." - referring to a Democratic representative from Ohio who voted for HCR.

Sharon Angle on the possibility of the relection of Harry Reid: "...we may have to resort to second amendment solutions"

Palin: "Don't retreat, RELOAD!"


When the subject comes up of the toxic atmosphere of the political debate the Republicans (and their Corporate Media Disinforming Obfuscating Operatives) are quick to claim that "Well, the Dems do it too!".

Here is a good article from the Hill that addresses that fraudulent argument/excuse.

Second Amendment solutions

There is no parity between "the right and the left" in the politics of hate in the America of 2011. Yes, some on the left say things I do not agree with, or approve of, and they should be criticized when they do. But the politics of hate, which I have been warning about for over a year, are heard far more from the right than the left these days.

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I do not recall anyone from the left going to town meetings of members of Congress and shouting down elected officials to prevent them from talking to constituents.

I do not recall anyone from the left going to town meetings brandishing guns. I do not recall anyone from the left suggesting that guns are a solution to political differences in any way, by any person, for any reason, as Angle did in Nevada.

America does not need right-wing ideologues or political haters questioning our president's faith in Christianity, or his Americanism, or comparing him to Adolf Hitler, and it is profoundly wrong and unwise when some party leaders refuse to unequivocally condemn these things.
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THis is a good article to bookmark for use and reference in 'discussions' on or off the internet. Anybody who has other articles along this line which they can reference (& provide links to) I would certainly like to be made aware of them.

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The GOP's reliance on hysterical talk is an admission that they have no ideas or solutions to offer (Original Post) Bill USA Apr 2012 OP
All they got is Ted Nugent Blue Owl Apr 2012 #1
Yeah, but that means all the rest of the Republicans end up in the Democratic party saras Apr 2012 #2
 

saras

(6,670 posts)
2. Yeah, but that means all the rest of the Republicans end up in the Democratic party
Wed Apr 18, 2012, 07:55 PM
Apr 2012

...as if the DLC crew isn't enough of a problem already...

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