CPAC: The Politics of Scapegoating, Fear and Conspiracism

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CPAC Rep. King (R-Iowa) Claims Obama's Game Plan is Identical to Democratic Socialists of America's

After claiming Obama 'nationalized' 8 huge private sector entities ~ Bear Sterns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, CitiGroup, Bank of America, General Motors and Chrysler ~ King, quoting Sun Tzu's The Art of War, warned "Know thy enemy," and listed the "Constitutional Conservatives'" (that's their new label, apparently) enemies: "Liberals, Progressives, Che Guevarans, Castroites, Socialists, Trotskyites, Gramsci-ites, Leninists, Maoists, Marxists, Democratic Socialists..."

He then tells his audience to go to the DSAUSA.org website (Democratic Socialists of America), and says ""Take a look and see what you find there ... looks suspiciously like President Obama's game plan ... they want to nationalize major corporations and take them over... CAP and Tax, Socialized Medicine, Comprehensive Amnesty ..."

Morning Session: GOP political leaders headline second day of cpac
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2010/02/19/HP/R/29747/GOP+political+leaders+headline+second+day+of+cpac.aspx
(approx 02:11:00)

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1. Is this the kind of Leaders America really wants....to win with spin and din, lie, cheat, steal???

What wonderful shit they ever gave America when in charge? Nai, Nada, zilch, puka, empty, zero.....etc

The sheer audacity for the GOP to even run with their Negative Mode ....

Boner the Moaner leads the pack

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2. Hate to say it, but the Socialism meme has been very effective

The ole' GOP is giving it all they got, throwing out all the punches. Gotta hand it to them, they care not whether they hit below the belt, and the audience eats it up.

Can you imagine what would have happened, if in '04, a group of progressives, including elected Democratic officials, had have called Bush/Cheney Fascists and directed their audience to a website to 'prove' their game plan?

And yet, the GOP gets away with it, and it becomes legitimized and accepted as fact.

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3. Not this time....they burned their Creds on BS CRAP...now they look like shit

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4. At a minimum, they're shoring up their base, and haven't you heard yet?

They're the populist party now. :eyes:

They're reining in the Baggers.

They've reinvented themselves, new labels and all. They now consider themselves Constitutional Conservatives.

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5. New names and mems but same ole GOPers underneath the facade

Same Agenda, same Negative Mode, and same battle plan....

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6. Yes, and new foot soldiers willing to do their battle

the GOP has managed to rile not only their usual base, but a much broader group of crazies.

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10. It is not logical, reasonable, sensible to allow such groups to reach control levels

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9. "Strong and wrong always trumps right and weak."

Howard Dean said it the other day.

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7. What Right Wingers Mean When They Call Obama a "Socialist"

What Right Wingers Mean When They Call Obama a "Socialist"

Right-wing attempts to paint Barack Obama as a socialist aren't just disingenuous. They're rooted in a history of conservative smears against black leaders.

Adam Serwer | October 13, 2008 | web only

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The hysterical accusations of socialism from conservatives echo similar accusations leveled at black leaders in the past, as though the quest for racial parity were simply a left-wing plot. Obama may not actually be a socialist or communist, but his election would strike another powerful blow to the informal racial hierarchy that has existed in America since the 1960s, when it ceased being enforced by law. This hierarchy, which holds that whiteness is synonymous with American-ness, is one conservatives are now instinctively trying to preserve. Like black civil-rights activists of the 1960s, Obama symbolizes the destruction of a social order they see as fundamentally American, which is why terms like "socialism" are used to describe the threat.

This phenomenon extends beyond Obama's candidacy. The conservative explanation for the mortgage crisis falls neatly into this narrative, too; the country is at risk because Democrats allowed minorities to disrupt the natural social order by becoming homeowners. Never mind that this defies all data, logic, and history, the narrative resonates because it allows Obama, a living symbol of black folks rising above "their station," to become a focus for conservative economic anxieties.

~snip~

http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=is_john_lewis_right_after_all

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8. So many lies, so little time