Posted on 09/09/2011 8:40:03 AM PDT by SmithL
The Internets are buzzing about Mike Lofgren's takedown of the Republican Party published by Truthout, the left-wing rabble-rousing website. The news here is not that Truthout doesn't like Republicans; it's that Mike Lofgren is a Republican who worked for 28 years as a legislative aide to various GOP members of Congress.
So it would be fair to say that he knows what he's talking about. What he's talking about is not exactly new, but it is a succinct (despite its length) statement of what has happened to the Republicans, why it happened and how the Democrats - or indeed, patriotic Americans of all political orientations - completely missed the point and thus the boat.
The whole thing can be found at links.sfgate.com/ZLCR.
The nut graf, as we say in journalism, of his introductory section goes like this: "It should have been evident to clear-eyed observers that the Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe. This trend has several implications, none of them pleasant."
The unpleasant part: We're pretty much screwed.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
No suprise. We say the same here about the Democratic party.
First, I think they have the wrong party.
Second, it’s funny for a Chron writer to compare the GOP to an apocalyptic cult, when there are so many San Francisco Democrats shouting “ARMAGEDDON!”
The pleasant part: If San Francisco lefties think they're screwed, then it's a good sign for America.
OK...
Yeah, I thought so...
Me, neither.
So the tea party has held republicans accountable for their votes and made them a little less likely to roll over for the democrats......move along, nothing too see here!
>The pleasant part: If San Francisco lefties think they’re screwed, then it’s a good sign for America.<
It still is unpleasant: because the leftards still won’t accept the reason why they’re screwed in the 1st place...they voted for a teleprompter-reading idiot as p-Resident.
The problem the Left has is that all we (the Conservatives, Republicans, TEA Parties) are calling for is the lawful following of The Constitution, you know, that document every one of our elected officials swore to uphold and defend when they took office?
They are screwed, and they know it... it's the only reason they'd go to this "Defcon Five" level ploy, even though there is no way it can work. It's all they have left.
This is actually quite good news.
“...becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe. This trend has several implications, none of them pleasant.”
Yup, just the modern Democratic party.
By sabotaging the reputation of an institution of government, the party that is programmatically against government would come out the relative winner.
Someone is clueless and spouting drivel. Republicans
attempting to tell Republicans what Republicans believe.
Must have been using leftist blogs for research, assuming
research is a word that is understood.
Internets?!
I’ve only found one of them, so far. Could someone clue me in?
Truthout??? isn’t this the same site that reported Karl Rove was given 24 hour to settle personal matters as he was going to be arrested in Plamegate???
“Deputy Managing Editor/Investigative Reporter: Jason Leopold”
http://www.truth-out.org/about
Jason Leopold- isn’t he the self admitted psychotic, drug addict who wrote the story about Rove being arrested in the Plamegate affair???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Leopold
really need to get worked up about this eh?? LOL
LLS
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