But then 40 years ago, Nixon devised the “southern strategy,” and they surfed the civil rights backlash-racism thing for a while. They campaigned on hidden racism themes like activist judges, tough on crime, and federalism-state’s rights (to keep those activist judges from insisting on making them consort with negroes). Then under Reagan, they sold out to the religious whackadoodles, and suddenly abortion and family values and morality were their big issues.

And then Reagan and Bush I worked the war angle, fighting little wars wherever they could, Nicaragua, Panama, Lebanon, fucking Grenada, what a joke, they had a constant stream of new Hitlers, Pineappleface in Panama, Qaddafi, and Gulf War I and Saddam, the Hitler of Hitlers.

So there they are, in 1992, and Bush I loses, and they are thinking its because he didn’t kowtow to the fundies enough. And then in 1994, Newt and the fruits of the suddenly powerful southern strategy racist unreconstructed confederates took over congress. And simultaneously, the rise of hate radio created a small insane group of angry male whites.

Bush II, controlled by an angry old Nixon henchman still furious over watergate, played every ugly card they had, fundie social policy, southern confederate racism and “federalism,” completely corrupt fascist-style crony capitalism, old school John Birchism, and amoral, might-makes-right, neocon militarism and warmongering.

What their problem is, is that they don’t have any values at all, any coherent vision, any single uniting belief system. They do not have an honest agenda, they have no real fundamental beliefs that they can speak of openly. Bush II bankrupted them completely and totally on two fronts, maybe three. He was so openly cynical and deceptive on every single policy position he ever took, it was all lies. He was massively corrupt on the simple level of throwing billion dollar spoils around to cronies. He was so completely incompetent that nothing he ever tried to do succeeded. And he dragged us through lies into a war which has killed hundreds of thousands, thoroughly corrupted the federal justice system into a political arm of the fundie wing of the party, and oh, I almost forgot, destroyed western civilization’s financial and economic system.

I mean, they are so fucked, so thoroughly fucked, that their “leaders” now are a drug addict pedophile rabble-rouser, a monstrous, stupid, vile, and corrupt alaskan ex-beauty queen runner-up, and a Joe who is not a joe Plumber who is not a plumber who doesn’t have two working brain cells.

They are just so fucked, really and truly.

You mean driven the results higher, right? Everyone knows that white menconservatives can’t jump.

The question people were asked was, literally, “[Do you agree or disagree that] Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party. He says jump, and they say how high.”

An appallingly leading question. The only way they could have driven the results a bit more is if they dropped the “He says jump, and they say how high” and used “He says bend over, and they drop trousers and grab their ankles.”

It is crap….

Thank you for that.

He sort of reminds of me Londo Mollari from Babylon 5. If Londo went on a alien food binge for ten years.

FYI, for those non SF geeks. This is a pic of Londo Mollari.

http://www.freehomepages.com/jweyand1/londo.jpg