Truckers Ride for the Constitution to shut down DC

[garbon]

No, you're a New Yorker.

After only 3 years?

[Berkut]

Tamas, you have zero idea of what a "average hard-line Republican" is actually like. All you know is the caricature of them created by the media.

You should be mature enough by now to realize that there is little actual resemblance between the tens of millions of people who make up the core of the Republican party and the singular and narrow view of them that you get out of the media, and that includes the pro-right media, like Fox and such.

[Malthus]

I wonder if the election of the first black President was too soon. I am having trouble not linking the ever-increasing shrill-parade of the far right to the fact that they have started it when they spotted the sheriff is a n....

I'm old enough to remember how much Republicans loathed Clinton. 

[Tamas]

Tamas, you have zero idea of what a "average hard-line Republican" is actually like. All you know is the caricature of them created by the media.

You should be mature enough by now to realize that there is little actual resemblance between the tens of millions of people who make up the core of the Republican party and the singular and narrow view of them that you get out of the media, and that includes the pro-right media, like Fox and such.

Fair enough. But then why is that fringe minority manages to totally dominate the party?

[Grey Fox]

No, you're a New Yorker.

After only 3 years?

It's not a measure of years, it's a measure of attitude.

Have you witness & ignored someone dieing, yet?

[lustindarkness]

If they do this, will they go ahead and film The Great American Traffic Jam 2?

[Barrister]

I wonder if the election of the first black President was too soon. I am having trouble not linking the ever-increasing shrill-parade of the far right to the fact that they have started it when they spotted the sheriff is a n....

Sounds like you have forgotten the 90s.  Vince Foster, Whitewater, David Koresh, and of course impeachment...

[Berkut]

Tamas, you have zero idea of what a "average hard-line Republican" is actually like. All you know is the caricature of them created by the media.

You should be mature enough by now to realize that there is little actual resemblance between the tens of millions of people who make up the core of the Republican party and the singular and narrow view of them that you get out of the media, and that includes the pro-right media, like Fox and such.

Fair enough. But then why is that fringe minority manages to totally dominate the party?

This has been discussed ad naseum. If you don't know the answer by now, I certainly don't have the patience to sum it up yet again.

[Razgovory]

I wonder if the election of the first black President was too soon. I am having trouble not linking the ever-increasing shrill-parade of the far right to the fact that they have started it when they spotted the sheriff is a n....

Sounds like you have forgotten the 90s.  Vince Foster, Whitewater, David Koresh, and of course impeachment...

Tamas didn't have a TV then.

[dps]

I wonder if the election of the first black President was too soon. I am having trouble not linking the ever-increasing shrill-parade of the far right to the fact that they have started it when they spotted the sheriff is a n....

Yeah, there could be no other explanation.

Yeah, because "I wonder if..." certainly implies "there could be no other explanation."  NOT   

Yeah but his post suggests that at least a sizable portion of increase in "shrill-parade" stems from the fact that the opposition is just racist.

The opposition is racist, tho.

I'm not racist.

Honestly: what would the average hard-line Republican think of you?

The problem that some conservatives would have with Garbon would be that he's gay, not that he's black.  And nowdays, most conservatives wouldn't have any problem with him being gay, either. 

[Darth Wagtaros]

Tamas, you have zero idea of what a "average hard-line Republican" is actually like. All you know is the caricature of them created by the media.

You should be mature enough by now to realize that there is little actual resemblance between the tens of millions of people who make up the core of the Republican party and the singular and narrow view of them that you get out of the media, and that includes the pro-right media, like Fox and such.

Fair enough. But then why is that fringe minority manages to totally dominate the party?

They get good press.  The liberals like them because they get their viewers good and riled up. The Fox News and Limbaughs like them because they create a lot of filler and make things more dramatic.

[frunk]

To my mind it is primarily about the economy, and the current president determines where the idiots come from.  If the economic situation was better than there wouldn't be nearly as much support for the loonies.  If a Republican had the White House since 2008 it would be the Occupy nutsters that would be splitting apart the Democrats.  Unfortunately it also means that the Tea Party isn't that interested in a stable or improving economy, since they lose a lot of support.  It's just a question of how far the TPers can push it before the popular blame goes almost entirely on them.

[Jacob]

They get good press.  The liberals like them because they get their viewers good and riled up. The Fox News and Limbaughs like them because they create a lot of filler and make things more dramatic.

I think Fox, Limbaugh, deMint et. al. like them because they're a good source of revenue.

[Jacob]

To my mind it is primarily about the economy, and the current president determines where the idiots come from.  If the economic situation was better than there wouldn't be nearly as much support for the loonies.  If a Republican had the White House since 2008 it would be the Occupy nutsters that would be splitting apart the Democrats.  Unfortunately it also means that the Tea Party isn't that interested in a stable or improving economy, since they lose a lot of support.  It's just a question of how far the TPers can push it before the popular blame goes almost entirely on them.

Right now the popular blame does seem to be trending towards the TPers: http://election.princeton.edu/2013/10/08/the-risk-to-the-gop-house-majority/

[Capetan Mihali]

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