Heritage Foundation, a Harvard conservative, and the conservative crackup- terrible week for the GOP

[midnight]

"In my column about The GOP's Hillary problem, I suggested why the latest attempt of the GOP to exploit the death of Americans at Benghazi will probably drive Hillary Clinton's favorable ratings from 67 percent to 66 percent while favorable ratings of House Republicans may fall from 22 percent to 21 percent and the usual suspects who predicted a great Romney victory predict similar GOP landslides to come.


Regarding the immigration fiasco surrounding the Heritage Foundation: As the civil war within the GOP over immigration intensifies, the Heritage Foundation should withdraw its discredited "study," written with the help of a gentleman who once offered ignorant and bigoted theories insulting Hispanics, that falsely alleged that the cost of immigration reform would rise above $6 trillion.
The bogus Heritage report is one more example of the conservative crackup, the tendency of the right to rely on delusion and denial that is embarrassing even to many Republicans.

Heritage should just withdraw the report, throw it away and try again. There is more. Now comes professor Niall Ferguson of Harvard, another darling of the right and another example of the conservative crackup, who spent his week apologizing for a bigoted smear of gays and economically ignorant comments about John Maynard Keynes in which he falsely suggested that Keynes did not care about future generations because he was gay and childless.

Huh? I guess conservative "thinkers" cannot rebut Keynes by citing the success of their conservative economics as imposed on America by Herbert Hoover or George W. Bush, and they cannot rebut Keynes by citing the economic recoveries brought by more enlightened policies of FDR and Barack Obama, so they (again) play the gay card and (again) are forced to apologize."

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/lawmaker-news/299029-heritage-foundation-a-harvard-conservative-and-the-conservative-crackup


"Heritage, founded forty years ago by frustrated right-wingers Paul Weyrich and Ed Feulner, has grown to become perhaps the largest, most lavishly funded conservative advocacy group in the country. Funded by corporations like ExxonMobil, non-profits run by the Kochs"

http://www.thenation.com/blog/174277/why-does-press-still-take-heritage-foundation-seriously#

[ZRT2209]

1. those conservatives took a nice shit on Harvard, didn't they

instead of upholding Harvard's standards and reputation, they let an ode to racism pass as academic scholarship because it suited their hateful, stupid, extremist ideology

[hue]

2. Harvard's reputation is also flawed by the discovery of the flaws in the Austerity paper

by Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff.

http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/04/24/debunked-the-harvard-study-that-republicans-used-to-push-austerity/


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324493704578430884206397640.html

[midnight]

4. State funded school vs private.... State funded school shows critical thinking superior to private..

[GeorgeGist]

3. Harvard shits.

[CTyankee]

7. Yale agrees.

[We People]

5. They got what they deserved

Karma needs to come back on them for their deeds on a regular basis!

[Kablooie]

6. The problem is that any publicity is good publicity.

All the scandals keep conservatives in the news and when voting comes around many voters feel more familiar with the conservatives than Democrats so they vote Republican.

The main thing you hear about Democrats is serious policy proposals which are ignored by most of the public.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. That is a cute axiom, but it is simply not true at all. There most certainly is bad publicity

and such publicity can and does have bad results on those who are subject to it. To suggest that bad press never harmed any career is seriously counter to the facts and to some very important issues and parts of history. Senator McCarthy destroyed lives with bad press.
How do you think that publicity about the 47% did for Mitt? Was that good publicity? How about John Edward's affairs? Good for him?