The extreme right is already building their excuse for a Romney loss next month.
Instead of facing the hard fact that their relentless campaign of "OMG! OBAMA!", which they've waged now for 4 years, isn't going to deliver the victory that seemed so sure to them just months ago, they're getting ready to blame the "media" for stealing the election. We see that excuse being posited already right here on these boards day after day. We hear candidates and talking heads blather on about it every news cycle.
Instead of accepting the reality that their message just isn't resonating with a majority of voters, they're doubling down on the politics of illegitimacy. Since before Obama won the nomination in 2008, they've tried to de-legitimize him personally, claiming he's a closet Muslim/Communist/Fascist/Whatever and sowed seeds of doubt about his parentage and nationality. Now, they intend to de-legitimize more than half the American voters and nearly all the free press!
The Über-right wing of the Republican Party seems to be trapped in a destructive loop of their own making, one from which they cannot break free without becoming the very traitors to "the cause" which they claim liberals to be. Their own rhetoric has become a web of entanglement which denies them the vision and the ability to compromise which they will need to remain a viable party in the future.
How sad. What was once the Grand Old Party of Ike and Barry Goldwater has become a shrinking cabal of conspiracy theorist's so out of touch with mainstream America that they don't even realize it. Instead of admitting their message has been rejected, and crafting a more moderate one, they hunker down in their ideological bunkers and throw bombs at shadows.
Who will save the Republican Party from themselves?
"....To put it bluntly: you are rigging this election and taking sides in order to pre-determine the outcome. In the quarter century since the Media Research Center was established to document liberal media bias, there has never been a more brazen and complete attempt by the liberal so-called news media to decide the outcome of an election..."
Bozell and Conservative Leaders Call on Public to Tune out the Liberal Media! | Media Research Center
Instead of facing the hard fact that their relentless campaign of "OMG! OBAMA!", which they've waged now for 4 years, isn't going to deliver the victory that seemed so sure to them just months ago, they're getting ready to blame the "media" for stealing the election. We see that excuse being posited already right here on these boards day after day. We hear candidates and talking heads blather on about it every news cycle.
Instead of accepting the reality that their message just isn't resonating with a majority of voters, they're doubling down on the politics of illegitimacy. Since before Obama won the nomination in 2008, they've tried to de-legitimize him personally, claiming he's a closet Muslim/Communist/Fascist/Whatever and sowed seeds of doubt about his parentage and nationality. Now, they intend to de-legitimize more than half the American voters and nearly all the free press!
The Über-right wing of the Republican Party seems to be trapped in a destructive loop of their own making, one from which they cannot break free without becoming the very traitors to "the cause" which they claim liberals to be. Their own rhetoric has become a web of entanglement which denies them the vision and the ability to compromise which they will need to remain a viable party in the future.
How sad. What was once the Grand Old Party of Ike and Barry Goldwater has become a shrinking cabal of conspiracy theorist's so out of touch with mainstream America that they don't even realize it. Instead of admitting their message has been rejected, and crafting a more moderate one, they hunker down in their ideological bunkers and throw bombs at shadows.
Who will save the Republican Party from themselves?
"....To put it bluntly: you are rigging this election and taking sides in order to pre-determine the outcome. In the quarter century since the Media Research Center was established to document liberal media bias, there has never been a more brazen and complete attempt by the liberal so-called news media to decide the outcome of an election..."
Bozell and Conservative Leaders Call on Public to Tune out the Liberal Media! | Media Research Center
