Fear and loathing among conservatives
June 19th, 2008 at 12:07pm Pat Cunningham
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Over at Redstate, a popular blog site among right-wingers, one of the denizens seems mighty fearful that efforts to defeat Barack Obama in November will come to naught.
She writes:
“I am very depressed about the future and am perilously close to full blown anxiety here. It just seems so simple. How can we even be considering letting this man have the keys to the WH? How? How? How? Why? Why? Why?”
The CONTEXT of this angst is especially delicious: The conservatives who never favored public financing of presidential campaigns are angry as hell at Obama for opting out of that system. (Be sure to check the comments at the bottom of the piece to which I’ve linked. Some of them are pretty funny — unintentionally, of course.)
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1. Orlando Clay | June 19th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
I happen to live in a part of Central Florida where just about every town has either a Ronald W. Reagan Boulevard or a Ronald W. Reagan Junior High School (or, in some cases, both). Listening to the legions of Dittoheads down here coming unglued on local right wingnut radio has been incredibly entertaining (”I’d vote for Hitler before I’d vote for Barack HUSSEIN Obama” and “Obama, Osama, same thing, right?”). Five years ago, these same folks were fantasizing about the possibility adding George W. “Mission Accomplished” Bush to Mount Rushmore; today, they’re praying for the apocalypse! Hollywood could never have written a better script!
2. Pat Cunningham | June 19th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Pretty funny, ain’t it, Clay?
3. Orlando Clay | June 19th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Yep, but not nearly as funny as the right-wing version of the New Three Stooges (Gretchen Carlson, Steve Doocy, and Brian Kilmeade), aka “Fox and Friends.” Now, that’s comedy!
4. Bookworm | June 19th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Sounds to me like the conservative version of the Hollywood lefty types (e.g. Rosie O’Donnell, Susan Sarandon, etc.) who threaten to move out of the country if Bush or McCain is elected but never actually do.
5. Bookworm | June 19th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Really, Orlando, I’d be tempted to suggest a law against naming public buildings or monuments after a public office holder until they’ve been dead a certain amount of time — at least 25 years. I can understand why conservatives get so nostalgic for the “Great Communicator” but geez, it’s way to soon to be canonizing or even beatifying him like they do. Again, that had its Democratic counterpart in the (understandable) rush to name everything Kennedy after the JFK assassination, including Cape Canaveral.
6. Pat Cunningham | June 19th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
My pet peeve is naming stuff after Woodrow Wilson, a despicable white supremacist and nativist. Yes, his record had its merits, but, as they say, Mussolini had the trains running on time, too.
7. Wade | June 19th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
If Obamma is elected President, Will it still be called the White House???
8. Craig Knauss | June 20th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Yes, Wadde. It will.
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