Top GOP Senator Says "If Romney loses Michigan, We Need a New Candidate"

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122. I think that's the problem.

The code of the right-wing authoritarian is cracked, like the cheat sheet on the back of an old Playboy centerfold. Win their trust, make them feel special and part of a majority, feed 'em a steady diet of hostility to social out-groups, thump the bible, and then scare the living shit out of them to keep them voting against their own best interests. Almost one out of four voters in the bag, right there.

The problem is that right now RWAs are being 'turfed in multiple directions at the same time. As you noted, right-wing authoritarians require, above all else, authorities they trust to provide them with the opinions that they think they have.

But those authorities are all busy discrediting and contradicting one another, each attempting to bend the opinions of that demographic to their own ends.

That they will vote against President Obama is certain; therefore none of the contestants--a number which goes far beyond these clownish candidates--are bothering to address that.

I think that there is an excellent chance that many of these voters will be contradicted straight out of interest in the race, while still others can be split off or nullified by stupid get-out-the-hate drives like this birth control circus, and more led astray by a third-party breakoff from the likes of Paul or Gingrich.

Whomever those powers are who are vying for control of the RWA mind, I think they're all flailing because they no longer have the power or the ability to invoke fear in their constituents. That's the magic ingredient that lines them up and gets them to the booth.

I fully expect one or more of the competing conservative powers to resort to that, but I have no idea how or when.