Comments on: Rank And File Anger Out Of GOP Hands

The Nation: After Inspiring The Worst In Its Base, Republican Party Cannot Control Irrational Fear And Resentment

[ausus-2009]

My concern is the censorship that is being seriously discussed in Democratic Party circles. Some wish to shut down Fox news, right-wing radio commentators and anybody who opposes Obama.

This is not Venezuela, Cuba, Zimbabwe, North Korea or China we are talking about. This is the USA. I think some right-wing commentators say some pretty nutty things but I still value the basic freedoms - press, speech, religion and assembly. To curb comments of those you oppose is heading down the slippery slope of totalitarianism.

[caldwellptr]

GUTTER POLITICS = GUTTER GOVERNMENT

[ausus-2009]

gingersnap19,

You didn''t answer the question. You sound like a true politician. I repeat, give me a direct quote from McCain and Palin (not their surrogates) that you think deserves jail time.

[dburfears]

THE GREAT DANGER: Far-right stoking anger

Make a NOTE of this:

If Obama wins, the practice of this kind of dangerous political hysteria will lead to another Lee Harvey Oswald. The anger being planted by these Far Right Wing extremists will boil and fester until it explodes. I fear that it may even extend beyond a single act, and may create an anti-government underground movement of domestic Right Wing terrorists aimed at bringing down any non-Right Wing government. Out of anger, many in the less radical right will give silent assent to such a movement.

I hope I am wrong. However, I see a growing radicalization of Right Wing politics in this country.

[dburfears]

MERCHANTS of HATE and FEAR ARE HAVING THEIR EFFECT

It''s clear that Steve Schmidt, Hannity, Rush, Coulter, Malkin, Kristol, Liddy, and FOX NEWS are finally having their desired effect. The hate filled mobs attending these McCain and Palin rallies are the harvest from years of seeding hate and fear, while spreading the slander of the far right.

I suppose these MERCHANTS of HATE AND FEAR make a lot of money trying to keep their party in power and spreading their filth. However, the COST TO THE COUNTRY and our political health is incalculable.

These people who spend their radio and TV time ginning up hate and fear should be ashamed. They are the most UN-American public figures we have seen in quite a while.

What is worse is that the once proud GOP has become dependent on these MERCHANTS of HATE AND FEAR. The GOP is becoming the party of the unruly mob. They cater to the fears of many good Americans who are looking for an answer to their anxieties about the direction of the country.

The GOP''s MERCHANTS of HATE AND FEAR tell these Americans that is is OTHER AMERICANS (!) who are the ENEMY. They divide. They overtly state that people who disagree with them are NOT AMERICANS- that those who do not follow the MERCHANTS of HATE AND FEAR are "not like us".

Shame on these MERCHANTS of HATE AND FEAR and their disdain for their fellow Americans.

[carolrieger]

McCain/Palin have tapped into the dark side of America. If the polls are tight, then we are teetering on the verge of hope or dispair. Which side will win? The forces that would like to take us back to the black days of McCarthism? The forces that sees hope and common goals when looking to the future? I''ll cast my vote for hope every time.

[noloyalisti]

Isn''t it time to STOP the right wing robber barons? Or should we wait until they get us way into a depression? Because that is what they want for the poor and middle class. This should be 90-95% of the American people voting for Obama vs. 5-10% who are greedy and are doing well in this economy.

[dnsallday]

How can MCCain say "country first" and pick someone who is NOT prepared to be President like Palin???

Posted by apple2pie
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What he means is that rather than lose an election he will destroy the COUNTRY FIRST!

[upto1947]

In case you haven''t heard, there''s a guy running for president named Barack Hussein Osama Nobama. This Nobama was born outside America and secretly schooled in Islamic terrorism at a Wahhabi madrassa. He then moved to the United States to take up the radical ''60s teachings of the Weather Underground''s Bill Ayers, while also organizing for ACORN, a subprime-lending, voter fraud-committing collective of affirmative-action welfare queens. All this happened before he became an elitist celebrity advocate of socialism, infanticide, the sexual abuse of children and treason.
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[mswolfestock]

"The Nation: After Inspiring The Worst In Its Base, Republican Party Cannot Control Irrational Fear And Resentment"

But this is what they''ve been doing since the Sixties. They didn''t think they had to be careful about what they wished for, and that is just too freaking bad. Irrational fear and resentment is what Rush Limbaugh incites every day.