Pardon me while I cheer... Re: Rush Fiasco

[Mother Of Four]

When I was posting regularly, I've spoken about my (R) friends a couple times. Good people, just a little psych washed on talking points.

So. Talking on the phone with one, and I played the clipped together smears he vomited. The outrage was knocking the scales off her eyes. I used it as an opening to talk about teen pregnancy, insurance mandates, womens rights, etc. Discussed the current field of R contenders and how they reacted.

It went so well, I decided to call a couple others and say "Hey, can you believe this?" ...chit chat then later, play the video in the background.

Guess what folks...
5, yes 5 self proclaimed southern R's are voting D in the upcoming presidential election.They also stated their husbands/SO's will probably as well after they hear the bile being spewed. The disgust at being treated badly (one actually said "Treated like breeding stock&quot was palpable.

Ok, this may sound a little stupid but I think I may have a bit of dust in my eye. It's a little wet.
Women are rising and I couldn't be prouder.

[SmileyRose]

1. I hope you are right about your friends.

Since they are your friends I would assume they are good people.

While I have friends that vote both ways, I do not have any friends that are partisan Republicans. The partisan republicans I know aren't unselfish enough for friendship.

[Mother Of Four]

2. You know...

When I started talking to them about pol's, I noticed that we don't get mad when we talk about it. Passionate yes, but not mad. These friends I'm talking about, the least amount of time I've known one set is 5 years.

I think they are in the middle, but they just don't realize it.

Does that make sense?

[emulatorloo]

3. Absolutely. The hardcore extreme Republicans can't discuss, they just yell slogans

I am so glad you've been talking with your friends about this.

[nenagh]

4. Well done, Mother of Four, Well Done..

The MSM was attempting to frame Rush's comments as name calling only....

I'm so glad you opened other women's eyes (and ears) to the truth.

Thank you.

[Ian David]

5. Do you have a link to the montage? n/t

[Mother Of Four]

7. Here you go :)

It's by think progress here in the multimedia forum.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101715159

[Ian David]

10. Thanks! n/t

[Gato Moteado]

6. Great job!

You're doing exactly what we all need to be doing.

[democrat_patriot]

8. Update in August, when the RNC has found their 'man' and coalesced.

Do they still watch Fox?

It's going to be a 24/7 Obama hatefest 100 times what we see today.

What if unemployment is 8.5% ?
Gas at 5.15 a gallon?
2 BILLION in super-pac money for the RNC.


This is going to be a very hard fight. And we can rest a bit now, but come the early fall it's going to be tough.

Make the election in 2008 look like a knitting club. (Remember shouts of "Kill him!" ??)

[Whiskeytide]

9. Is it really possible...

... that this iteration of the republican party has played out? We libs have believed for at least two decades that the GOP was hijacked by morally bankrupt, neoconservative psychos bent on re-shaping the US into a corporate dominated combination of ancient Rome, Nazi Germany, Rollerball (the original with James Caan) and Orwell's 1984. Hillary mistakenly called it the "vast right wing conspiracy", but in reality it was a relatively small group of wealthy, determined and organized propaganda specialists who brilliantly used the one-way media to create the illusion of a sustained movement of hard core conservatives "taking their country back". These guys were in charge, and really were capable of creating their own reality.

When the monster turned on them and spawned the Tea Party, they were slow to recognize the danger of a real movement - one they didn't really control - growing out of their astroturf. Really crazy - I mean REALLY crazy - people rode the wave into local, state and national office, and now they are lending their own brand of lunacy to governmental decisions. Vaginal probes? Defining life at conception? Drug testing for welfare recipients? Busting unions in blue collar jurisdictions? Demonizing teachers?

Now, the super red will be ok with all that, or will be so deeply indoctrinated that they won't be able to see it for what it is. But I think most ordinary, busy, otherwise decent people who usually vote republican - the average conservatives - have finally looked up and said "WTF? ... This isn't my father's GOP anymore."

I don't necessarily think the Red machine is dead. It is too well funded to ever completely die. But I think it will have to re-group and re-form - rising like a drone shaped sphinx from the ashes, maybe? Yikes.