I better pay my Tinfoil Hat Brigade dues. I'm starting to wonder if...

[TygrBright]

...there isn't a diabolical plan behind the GOPpie meltdown after all.

I'm picturing the Plutocrat wing of the GOP meeting secretly and deciding to deliberately throw the 2008 election. They decide to put all the wackos and nutbags they most want to permanently discredit and purge from the Party out front for the '08 Presidential race, go down in the biggest flaming gasbag since the Hindenburg, give the Dems a few years to clean up the worst of the mess, and then re-emerge, minus the worst of the kook brigade.

I'm wrong, of course.

Tell me I'm wrong.

hopefully,
Bright

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Nothing is impossible.....and I love my tinfoil hat...

:tinfoilhat:

[grasswire]

2. Someone called me tonight to pose that very possibility.

He said he thinks they're throwing the election because they don't want to be the party in charge of cleaning up after George W. When bad times come, people tend to blame the party in power. Bad times are surely coming. It will be our job to hammer the truth home every stinking day.

[rwenos]

3. Sorry, They'd Never

Give up the possibility to appoint a fifth conservative Justice. They'd just as soon Justice Stevens kick over any day now, but of course it would be too late for Bush to do anything with it.

Five Justices. That's what they'll care about after they lose in November.

[Muttocracy]

4. they know they're losing 2008 but need $$ and turnout for downticket races

That's the theory I keep posting.

And that they're hoping the economy tanks and they can run in 2012 to "fix" it.

[begin_within]

5. Possibly, but I can't imagine them letting go of any power at all.

[Arugula Latte]

6. But, you know. if they splinter off the Rapture Ready freakazoids, what do they have left?

The no-taxers. Okay, fine. But that's not enough for them to make a political party out of.

[flamingdem]

7. Let's put our tinfoil hats on and think... because regardless if this is a plan they build on it nt

[marlakay]

8. All i know is they always leave us a mess to clean up

and then for some stupid reason as soon as things are better they vote republican...america is so stupid sometimes.

[Az]

9. I see it as the death rattle of the NeoCons

The NeoCons got into the WH on the back of Reagan. It was there that they gained their strength in the GOP. The NeoCons are a small group. But they got themselves into the center of the arena. And they brought the religious right with them in order to shore up the GOP.

Bush I turned his back on them in Iraq by not going after Baghdad. So they dropped their support for him in his bid for reelection. Thats when our guy got back into office. So they set out to destroy him.

After they got Bush II into office and the towers came down they thought they had the perfect excuse to complete their glorious war to bring their freedom and control to the world. And they failed epically.

Bush and his NeoCon cronies have had all the chances they needed to enact their views. And it has left our nation a wreck. So the GOP is pulling out their support of the little trogs and is back to floundering with a base insufficient without the religious right to carry the day.

The NeoCons are on their way out. The GOP is trying to use what is left of their revolution to maintain their hold. And all is going to hell.

It is true that whoever is going to be president is going to have to take a poison pill. We have not seen the end of the economic rebalancing going on in the world. Nature abhors a vacuum and there is still a tremendous imbalance between our resources and the worlds. And it will be balanced. And we will pay a price.

[WA98296]

10. Been thinking the same thing, anything is possible.