GOP primaries in recent years have basically become a game show of Who Wants To Be the Wingnuttiest? The theory seems to be that the more obscenely offensive you can be to liberals, the more hard core conservatives will come out to vote for you.
In the general election, whoever wins will be competing for the center, and the tone will most likely change. (At least, if Romney is the candidate. Santorum will continue to spout exactly the same hateful drivel he's been spouting for years because he's a true believer. Mitt just wants everybody to like him and will basically say anything he thinks will be popular.)
I can't engage him because his ridiculous co-worker just attacked me for wanting correct apostrophes in the doc he submitted.
Wait, this guy agrees with Rush AND can't use apostrophes properly? Is he the anti-Buffista?
A number of years ago I posted a link to an article about pro-life women who nonetheless have abortions. Their thinking was along the lines of "Abortion should be banned because naughty sluts have slutty sex and because they're naughty they shouldn't be allowed to have abortions, but I'm not a slut because I have sex responsibly and maybe I was even using birth control so my abortion is OK."
A guy in the next section (who I normally like perfectly fine) just went on a rant about how Rush's 1st Amendment Rights are under attack.
"I wasn't aware that he had been arrested."
GOP primaries in recent years have basically become a game show of Who Wants To Be the Wingnuttiest?
That's what I'm thinking. They basically try to outflank each other on the right, until one of them is standing over a cliff like Wile E. Coyote holding up a sign that says, "Yipe!"
I remember watching the Prohibition miniseries on PBS, and how the people voting for it assumed that they were cutting off booze for the ethnic people. They didn't realize that the white Protestants having a glass of wine with dinner would be affected, too.
To be fair, Allyson, the President did say earlier that hurling insults at people who are actively participating in the democratic process has "no place in the public discourse." So, you know, CLEARLY Rush Limbaugh is being silenced by The Man.
how Rush's 1st Amendment Rights are under attack.
Gah. It drives me batshit when people don't understand the 1st Amendment.
I remember watching the Prohibition miniseries on PBS, and how the people voting for it assumed that they were cutting off booze for the ethnic people.
Huh. I did not know that.
Sorta' like how pot was criminalized to hurt non-whites and Mexicans.
I remember watching the Prohibition miniseries on PBS, and how the people voting for it assumed that they were cutting off booze for the ethnic people. They didn't realize that the white Protestants having a glass of wine with dinner would be affected, too.
Of course, as it turned out, they weren't all THAT affected. Especially if they were willing to buy their "medicine" from the Catholics, who got it for sacramental purposes. IIRC.
