I fear that dumbed-down America is buying the obstructionist Republican message, or maybe we need to make sure that thinking America votes next year and thereafter.

American Prospect published some college work by several leaders, perhaps a good indication of their true character and/or their mediocrity.

Palin attended several colleges and submitted the same vapid passage for at least 4 of them.

I would say that she is even more ignorant than Bush II.

Perhaps this is how Republicans want to be characterized: down the mediocre path of George W. Bush, but further sinking into the swamp of ignorance.

The GOP has a whole new crackerjack marketing strategy that’s sure to bring them back from the edge:

http://bit.ly/fxv3G

(satire)

Sarah Palin is nothing but a good-lookin’ version of “The Junior Senator from Wisconsin”, Joseph McCarthy, whose name will forever be associated with one of the darkest and riskiest times for our democracy.

He was dumb, he was ignorant, but he was crafty and he was looking for something, anything to put him in the national spotlight.  And he wrought havoc with it for no damn good reason.

I’ve said it before: Republicans’ message is twofold:
1) “real men don’t vote for wussy, fairy Democrats.”  And most men, if they think their masculinity is in question will do ANYTHING, no matter how stupid, no matter WHAT the atrocity is, to hide from facing that question.
2) The GOP is now the party where white (mostly) “Christian” racists can feel at home without the stigma of the KKK, the American Nazis, or the Aryan Brotherhood.  It’s all about racial purity, disguised as “American” purity and questioning if someone is “good enough” to be American, whether it’s Barack Obama, or the naturalized boy from Eritrea who grew up here and won the New York City Marathon last week.

In 1964 I was present when Senator Goldwater tried to purge the Rockefeller
Repubiicans out of the Party. It got pretty ugly but nothing compared to the
nuttiness of CD-23. The ultra right wing of the GOP which used to infect only
Orange County California and Texas, has now infected most of the South and
pockets in the rest of the U.S. Even Goldwater knew a lot of his followers were
“looney tunes” types, but he felt he could control them. What is going on now
has gone from being funny to being scary. DJNOLL has some salient points -
there are very dangerous forces behind the scenes that would like nothing
better than a complete “corporatization” of the United States, and they have
found an audience willing to help them do that. I never thought I would live to
see the day when leaders of our Congress would actually egg on these
wingnuts to incite revolution if necessary. At this point there seems to be no
one except possibly John McCain and Lindsey Graham that can exert any form
of “adult supervison” on this crowd. McCain though is suspect because he had
the poor judgement to bring Palin out of obscurity and put her on the national
stage. This whole scenario has a “Manchurian Candidate” feel to it. While I have
full faith in the ability of the American people to see through these idiots, I am
worried that other countries like China and Russia will lose confidence in the
United States to control internal political events that could destablize world
economies, and lead to military confrontations.

First and foremost, you need to remember that those who pull the strings do not fight the battles.  They let lesser beings do this.  What you are seeing is how those who pull the strings use those lesser beings to defeat anyone who will not support their agendas, of both parties.  Sarah Palin, like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, is not an intelligent woman by any means.  What she is a vain woman and one who has strong ambitions - usually a fatal flaw for others, but for her the perfect combination, in her mind anyway.  When you have someone who is so ignorant, but is willing to be taught what they need to be important and you take that person and give them a national platform, you begin to create the monster we see today tearing away at the GOP.

Corporate America operates at a different level than the rest of America.  It watches, it moves, it manipulates, but it never truly engages.  It uses pawns, and that is what Palin, Beck, and the tea-baggers are - pawns.  Look closely at who is behind these people, and I mean further than the Rupert Murdochs or Grover Norquists.  Murdoch and his FOX News outlet are the media arm, but they are not the message makers, only the delivery mode.  Norquist is a political right-wing hack, but he is only a funnel for the money.  There are other factors at work here because too much is at stake - the control of the United States for the next century.  Corporate America does not want it to be the citizens, it wants to control policy and life, and for that they need the likes of Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.  It needs the religious zealots and military fanatics, and the ignorant, easily-led.

America is in trouble.  Not just politically, but socially and in every way imaginable.  We are dependent on oil companies for our energy so we look away when they push for war.  We are dependent on foreign food sources since we have stopped producing healthy food for ourselves so that we can produce grain for an alternative fuel that still needs oil.  We turn a blind eye when companies like Monsanto poison our food supply, adversely affecting natural biosystems and future generations of children, while believing corporate America’s message of we can feed the world.  Corporate America supplies our armies while encouraging war; supplies our public schools while encouraging ignorance and controlled education; supplies our basic needs while telling us that it is all right to be unemployed and homeless. 

Look beyond those who are so publicized.  Look beyond the obvious, because if we do not, then when this monster reaches its full development, we will all be in very serious trouble.  In dealing with monsters, you cannot make them a joke (tempting as that may be), but rather you must take them very seriously and do everything you can to expose them to the light of day and show their actions to be filled with lies and fear.  Like the monster in the closet of childhood, you need to expose it for what it is - fantasy and fiction mixed with equal doses of fear and horror.  That is what the Corporate American monsters are - fear, fantasy, fiction, and horror (better known as 9/11, winnable wars, lies, and corporate dominance in America, including homelessness, joblessness, pollution, oil dependency, starvation).

Be vigilant, America, and do not let the GOP descent into madness overwhelm you.  Face the monsters at every turn, and keep America safe.  Only you can do this - and you must if you are to keep America whole.

“Barack Obama’s continuing personal popularity, has his cool, non-confrontational, consensus-building style”

“managed to get Democrat Bill Owens elected in a solidly Republican upstate New York congressional district. They accomplished this feat by driving the Republican candidate, Dede Scozzafava, from the race because of her apostasy”

“The tea party people have made clear, however, that logic doesn’t count”

Mr. Robinson,

Obama’s, “we don’t need to listen to republicans”, consensus building style? You fail to mention that Ms. Scozzafava was dead last in a three way race and maybe, just maybe, that had SOMETHING to do with her pulling herself out? And I love the last one. People who protest today, compared to the dozens of protests you fully and outwardly supported prior to His Holiness, Obama, are all illogical?

Do you think if you were try a bit harder, think about it a bit longer you could be any more of an short-sighted, nasty, and outwardly obvious political bigot?

The Democrats think?  Ha ha! 

And, really, rather than telling the Democrats to think or the Republicans to think (something that neither is likely to do as there is no money in it), why don’t you tell the sheeple to think and kick all of their rotten, stinkink’ asses out of office and take power into their own hands already?  Haven’t we all had enough of these incompetent and corrupt bastards already?