The Republican Party is the Nazi Party.

Pass the word.

@Robert Giacobbe:  As a moderate Democrat I have to say your post was marvelous to read.  Please, in some idyllic future, let the Republican party be taken over by more people like you, sir.  My disgust could become respectful disagreement—a much healthier thing for our country.

As a Barry Goldwater, libertarian-leaning conservative, I’ll tell you what I think this presidency, a Republican in name only, stands for.

He, and primarily his VP and chief advisor, stand for a singular agenda: holding onto power for the sake of power.  They’ve demonstrated no consistent loyalty to any traditional Republican faction - the Steve Forbes flat taxers, the Ralph Reed religious wackos, the Milton Friedman free marketeers - to be labeled as such.  They’re produced and supported a mish-mash of legislation and executive actions that at times can only legitimately be called hostile to conservative ideology.

On one hand they have complete contempt for the federal bureaucracy, dismantling it by diluting its regulatory bite, and liberally staffing it with incompetent, religiously-tinted lobbyists, friends and associates.  On the other hand, they’ve expanded the scope of the federal government’s responsibility and trampeled state’s rights when it comes to privacy, environmental and business regulations.  Again, to me, this is exercising power for pure sake of it.

Barry Goldwater’s approach to the federal government was to reduce it, streamline it and make it more effective for the betterment of the citizenry.  Bush’s approach is to weaken it, morph it and use it wrecklessly to the detriment of the citizenry.  Despite this huge difference, these clowns have so poisoned the perception of conservative ideology that the average man on the street doesn’t have the intestinal fortitude any more to easily discern the difference.  And I don’t blame him…

The Bush circus believes in the concept of the unitary executive.  They have total contempt for the Congress and only a minor sufferance of the legal branch.  They believe a president’s right to impose his will through executive orders, signing statements, beholding appointees and forced-through legislation supercedes any notion of the separation of powers.  They could care less that the US Constitution has the formation of the Congress as Article I and the President as Article II.  In the event that legal or constitutional strictures, such as the War Powers Act, may impede their agenda, they will lie through, and distort the sacred missions of the CIA, NSA and DoJ to achieve their ends.  I’ve heard that Cheney has a tatoo of Nicco Machiavelli tatooed on his left ass check.

They believe in a mass subsidization of the military-industrial complex to the enrichment of pet industries, companies and associates.  They believe that America’s actions on the world stage are right and good, regardless of their intent or outcome, purely because America executed them.  They would destroy the access and leverage of the free press, based on a belief that the unitary executive requires no transparency or accountability to the republic.  They believe in a constant, unyielding flow of propaganda - they effectively use scary hob-goblins such as terrorists, WMD and mushroom clouds, to justify their actions.  Truth is entirely relative to them - they positively revel in their own version of the truth, much like a huge, flabby wild hog roots around in his own feces until you can’t tell pig from shit anymore.

As a conservative (not Republican… I can’t affiliate myself with the party anymore), I’m ashamed of this president and the damage he has wrought, especially on the international stage.  I’m heartbroken about the harm he has done to the marketplace of political ideas, and how he has poisoned the atmosphere between parties.  The hatred spewed towards conservatives in blogs like this are evidence of that…  I sincerely hope we elect a leader in 2008 that can mend our great divide, make good with our allies, prosecute the Bush criminals after they leave office, and allow conservatives to purge their party and re-establish a sense of balance and progress to our platforms.

well, it ain’t this…......

#80

http://www.teambio.org/2007/06/ron-paul-introduces-legislation-to-abolish-the-federal-reserve/

As usual, the masses frustrated over the dems inability to move faster to stop the Juggernaut of Fascism breeding in our society are feeling like all politicians are the same.

Support for Kucinich makes sense, because he’s always had the foresight and courage to stand against the popular and function in the realm of common sense.

But, the nay-sayers point out Dennis Kucinich is a democrat and since they see all dems and all repubs as playing to the same base, he is not to be trusted.

Support for Ron Paul makes sense, because he has the foresight and common sense to stand against the popular.

But, THIS nay-sayer would like to point out he is a republican, and THEY have proven they can’t be trusted!

Meanwhile, president wannabees like Joe Lieberman, Newt Gingrich and Chuck Hagel, their noses sniffing out the opportunity of “change” are talking about being an “Independent” candidate. Nothing works better for the opportunist than divide and conquer. Only in this case they don’t need to. We’re doing it for them.

Were their a strong, well-led and well organized “Independent ” party, offering a truly qualified candidate. And were there truly dedicated people behind them ready to work and give and share the leadership, and the problems, I’d join in a heartbeat!

But their isn’t.

What there is, is a disorganized and barely credible bunch of disparate groups all with their own gripes and poorly defined agendas. And a lot of nay-sayers who daily remind us what’s wrong [myself included] and how badly we need a third party, followed by a mind-boggling unwillingness to do anything about it!

Besides, as anyone with the sense of an earthworm knows, people who can think and people who like to be independent are darn near impossible to get organized behind a common political goal!

That is after all why the repubs have success! Focus on the easiest to organize and control, then tell them what to do.

I recently had a conversation with a veteran. He expressed disgust and dismay with Blackwater and similar private contractors who play soldier. “They are demoralizing our troops on the ground,” he said. “And worse than that they create problems they cant fix, leaving our troops to go in and clean up after them and get shot in the process!”

Then he asked the $64 question!
“Why do we need a private army anyway? We’re supposed to have the best military in the world!”

Our military’s being destroyed, our economy’s threatened, we’re fighting a costly and losing war, our civil rights are being taken away from us, crime is up, the drug problem grows exponentially, 40% of our population cant get proper health care, and the 109th congress stands as witness to the depth of cronyism and corruption in government.

Yet, the most urgent problem half the population feels threatened by are illegal emigrants!

“Why do we need a private army anyway?”

Because any scholar of the Constitution and military history will tell you how difficult it would be to get our military to turn on and imprison us. Private mercenaries on the other hand ... well some folks will do anything for money. The “Immigration problem” serves as the distraction and ultimately the excuse for federal prisons to house problem civilians. And we already have those prisons and the private armies in place. Blackwater and like-minded associates, are ready and willing to do anything if the price is right. A price by the way that we are paying!

So, what can we do?
Short of a miracle ... like main-stream media getting it, or us getting organized. The only thing that makes sense is getting behind Kucinich. As of Friday, eight Senators have signed on to his Impeach Cheney Resolution. Lets put some pressure on our Senators to follow the lead!

Then, if we really want to do something besides bitch and moan, lets spend 2008-2011 organizing the VIABLE third party! Because I doubt it can be done in a few months!
In fact, I’ve been around long enough to know it cant!

E. J. is seeing the elephant, all right, but I don’t think he recognizes what he is seeing. Thompson as the heir to Goldwater/Reagan?  Liberal, please. All this trouble just to keep from mentioning the only real conservative in the race: Ron Paul.
Just think, if Ron Paul teamed up with Bill Richardson…

Above all, the Republican Party is the party of oversimplification.  To a Republican there is no such thing as a complex issue or one with any nuance.  Democrats tend to look at all problems as having many colors; Republicans only see black & white.  Education is in trouble in America?  Make ‘em learn!  There is no great debate about how to accomplish that: get better teachers.  Really?  Where from?  The economy is struggling? Lower taxes (on the rich).  The economy is doing great?  Lower taxes (on the rich).
  Republicans are very uncomfortable with delving into the depths or ambiguities of a problem; they simply want to find a quick, uncomplicated solution.  Terrorism?  Kill all terrorists!  Who are the terrorists?  Doesn’t matter - kill everyone who looks like a terrorist. Causes of terrorism?  Who cares?  Let’s go to war against someone to prove you can’t screw with us.
  What is at the core of the Republican’s current woes is that they have relied upon a simple-minded President to handle enormously byzantine problems.  Now that the simple expedient of war has faltered; now that the easy choice of removing taxes on multi-millionaires has failed to “trickle down”; now that we’re faced with a potentially disastrous environmental problem without any simple answers, the Republicans are lost, since they just don’t know how to deal with complexity - even if they wanted to.

78359 by kevin99999 on 6/15 at 1:08 pm

“There is no such identity crisis. The Republican party is what it always was…a corporate instrument for economic and political control of this country. They used wedge issues, like gay marriage, abortion, etc., with the help of corporate media, to build broader support for electoral purposes.”

Can we pause here a minute in our slugfest?

A Republican gave us the entire National Park system.
It was the same Republican who reined in business last time they attempted to re-institute slavery.

It was a Republican who gave us the most peaceful eight years in the 20th century.
It was a Republican who gave us the Warren Court

Earl Warren was the progressive Governor of California.

Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, was one of the great,liberal, legal minds of the 20th century, and the antithesis of Byron (Wizzer) White a Democrat appointed by John Kennedy.

When the Country goes crazy (as it has a tendency to do) it doesn’t do it by party. Joe McCarthy was a Republican, but Bobby Kennedy was his close aid.
Margaret Chase Smith (another Republican) stopped him in his tracks.

James J Walker was a New York Mayor and the last of the Tammney Hall(Democratic) big-shots.
Republican Fiorello LaGuardia closed them down, and ran the cleanest administration in New York City’s history.

Norris Cotton stopped the Feds from jamming a highway through Franconia Notch and destroying one of the greatest sites in New England

Francis Sargent Republican Governor of Massachusetts lowered the Commonwealth’s crime rate by half when he closed down the 150-year-old reform school system.

I could continue, but the list would be longer than allowed by this site.

I dispise the current administration. but I dispised Clinton’s also.

My point is it is the person’s action which matters, not the letter next to his name.

PS we have had two Independent governors here in Maine over the last 30 years ... both stunk!!

This, hopefully, is the NEEDED transformation of the Republican Party that puts it on track to become (once again) what Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward and other like minded folks had in mind when they founded the party! <sigh>

http://OsiSpeaks.com or http://OsiSpeaks.org

E.J. the people have seen the republican party in control of everything and they do not like it.There is a hunger for the old democratic party but alas that is nowhere to be found.In their desire to appeal to people who would never vote for them they are are trying to become republican light.There is such a yearning for a third party that will actually represent the people rather than different corporate interests.If a third party on the left runs it will surprise the inside the beltway pundits at the instant popularity it will achieve.If this is a turn the page election which one of the candidates is capable of that.Most people would say Obama but until he puts some meat on all the kombaya rhetoric he is going nowhere.

Before everyone goes off on the tried and true rant, the Democrats are saints and Republicans are all scumbags. Ask yourself this, what has been done for you as an individual by either party in the last 40-50 years. After all aren’t the politicians supposed to be working for us.
Not a damn thing since LBJ’s “Great Society” legislation. We’ve been placed further and further under the thumb of the corporations who truly rule this country. Both parties are just fronts. Big business has them both in their pocket and doesn’t give a rats ass which one wins because they win either way.
Vote third party because both parties biggest fear is that someone like Ross Perot will go on television and show the American people just the what the hell is being done to them. Simple charts and graphs and he scared the shit out of the Dems and Repubs. It can happen again and the right person can win. The people of this country are fed up enough to make it happen. Don’t buy into the you’re wasting your vote crap. A vote for change is never wasted.

There is no such identity crisis. The Republican party is what it always was…a corporate instrument for economic and political control of this country. They used wedge issues, like gay marriage, abortion, etc., with the help of corporate media, to build broader support for electoral purposes.

It is not to say that Democrats are that much different from Republicans. The internet has somewhat reduced the
power of the corporate media because it provided an outlet to people with different views. I am sure sooner or later they will try to control the internet as well. They will create a crisis and attack the unsupervised use of the internet.

It’s the party of pollution, exploitation, corruption and destruction.  Plain and simple

Must be the toughest thing in the world writing about republicans. You have to dig through history, find and assign labels. And most difficult of all, each of those labels has to imply that there is actually a difference between the leaders of old, their modern counterparts and each other.

The only difference is how they define their sameness. Because in fact, the republican party has changed little since Nixon first popped a seam waving his arms, fingers spread in a hopeless mockery of wanting peace in the world. I say little, because they no longer even try to pretend to be honest conservatives. Which no doubt leads to the confusion in their party membership who struggle daily to understand, what exactly does conservative mean?

I think I can sum that up pretty easy. Given the reality juxtaposed over the belief, “conservatism” in the collective minds of republican leadership seems to be a synonym for DUMB. How do you like that folks? Your leaders think you are dumb.

OK, now that everybody’s paying attention, take a look at the reality that led to this conclusion.

FOURTEEN CHARACTERISTICS OF FASCISM
http://www.chetzar.com/fascism.html
Folks, you’ve got to read this!

As Michael Rivera ( http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ )
so succinctly put it,

“If it ‘Sig Heils’ like a duck ...”

#78289 by Inherit The Wind
“Finally, there are the dupes.  They fall for the rhetoric of the Feudalists and/or the Fundies without ever questioning two things: 1) Is it in my and my family’s best interest, 2) is [it] real or a big phony.  They also fall for another scam put out for years: Only Wimps, Commies, pussies, fags and dykes vote Democratic.  Real Men vote Republican.”

“Even if it kills them, their nation and their freedom.”

“Vote Democratic! Even if you have to hold your nose!”

I LOVE THAT!

Waiting for your new Bumper Sticker:
HOLD YOUR NOSE AND USE YOUR BRAIN ... Vote Democrat!

The Republican Party is no longer of any use to the ruling class. It’s formula of white supremacy and posturing towards religious fundamentalism no longer works in the electoral arena. Before we celebrate their demise though consider that elections and bourgeois democracy are no longer of any use to the ruling class either. The looming threat of an attack on Iran abroad and a martial law declaration at home are indications of this development.

Capitalism’s contradictory impulses have begun bumping into each other. It’s happening in the national debate on immigration and it happened in the recent Dubai Ports World controversy. Profits are the system’s lifeblood so the ruling class craves an immigrant guest worker program and the United Arab Emirates’ petrodollars but the rabid anti-immigrant and anti-Arab sentiment coursing through U.S. society has so far blocked their designs. Racism and xenophobia and every other tactic of division have been the guarded carefully by capitalism with good reason. Unity of the working class is the only potentially deadly threat to this system. White supremacy, Black Nationalism, religious fundamentalism, sexism, homophobia, and all the crackpot schemes and the nihilistic cults of the bourgeoisie, like al-Qaeda, are dead ends for all of us who work.

Let me see…It looks like the Goldwater and Rockerfeller Republicans, which used to be at each others’ throats have merged realizing that they alone are the carriers of the legacy of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.

Then there are the religious right—most fundamentalist Christians, some orthodox Jews, and conservative Catholics who want a religous-based government that teaches The Bible in public schools, councils prayer and abstinence as effective (!) means of birth control, and sees nothing wrong with using public money for churches, and wants laws that restrict any criticism of them or religion.  The American Taliban.

Then there are the racists.  They left the Democratic party in the 60’s in droves in response to the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, and the GOP welcomed their nasty racist asses in, for the money and the votes.  Many are fundies (see above) but many are not, and many fundies aren’t racist.

Then there are Modern Feudalists.  They pretend to be libertarian but really want to ensure there are NO limits on the excesses of corporations, there are all SORTS of limits on individuals fighting off corporations, that taxes are ONLY paid by the non-wealthy, and that ANY opposition is stifled.  They are simply interested in a society with an inherited elite, where meritocracy is nothing and they live in unimaginable wealth.  George W. Bush is one of these.

Finally, there are the dupes.  They fall for the rhetoric of the Feudalists and/or the Fundies without ever questioning two things: 1) Is it in my and my family’s best interest, 2) is real or a big phony.  They also fall for another scam put out for years: Only Wimps, Commies, pussies, fags and dykes vote Democratic.  Real Men vote Republican.

Even if it kills them, their nation and their freedom.

Vote Democratic! Even if you have to hold your nose!

Surely you jest. You don’t expect an honest answer to the question ‘What is the republican party?’, on a non-XXX rated blog, do you?

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The fact is that the republican party is a group of people who live in a separate reality. They find acceptance to their lunacy from other lunatics who want acceptance. These in turn are used by a smaller percent of very wealthy people/corps.

The bottom line is ‘I support your lunacy if you support mine’. We lunatics stick together and let’s see what happens?

Yeap, EJ the Republicans don’t have much, but they do have one trump card…. The Democrats are also in transition from the party of the working class, to the party of cheap illegal labor.

A pox on both houses!