Meanwhile over at Jim Robinson's FreeRepublic.com....

[Aviation Pro]

...the fear and loathing is just palapable. There is not one single thread that I could pull that typifies the absolute fear of these 40-year-old-living-in-Mom's-basement types over the election of Senator Obama to the presidency.

I fear a Jim Jones-like outbreak of Koolaid drinking after the election.

[NanceGreggs]

1. ...

"I fear a Jim Jones-like outbreak of Koolaid drinking after the election."

Hey, don't fear the Reaper ...

[Cheap_Trick]

16. Need.....more....cowbell.....

sorry, couldn't resist.

[WillyT]

20. Here Ya Go...

:rofl:

:hi:

[Snarkoleptic]

2. They are scum and I present to them this offering...

[XOKCowboy]

3. Watch out and don't get too cocky...

There are still 4 weeks to go.

[Aviation Pro]

4. I'm not cocky, just confident....

...everyone is working and we are not letting up.

[Cali_Democrat]

5. After reading that forum you can clearly see the extreme hatred for Obama

McCain and Palin's remarks lately have put them into an even greater frenzy.

It's no surprise that one of these freeper types today shouted "KILL HIM" and "TERRORIST"

[ShortnFiery]

10. Buck up! This is not productive. These snot nose hate mongers are being monitored.

You betcha the Powers that Be are as FREAKED (more so!) of nutcase wingers with guns as much as as with US little league "commies" over here. ;)

[Cali_Democrat]

13. You're right

I really don't want to dwell on this any longer. It makes me too angry.

I guess we have to have faith in Law Enforcement and hope for the best. We really have no other choice.

[raysr]

6. Really? Kool-Aide and end times?

I'll bring the paper cups for 'em.

[Snarkoleptic]

8. We should suggest castration and matching Nike shoes as well...

Castration for obvious reasons and Nike shoes in case they need to flee their parent's basement.

[tedoll78]

7. Honestly?

I fear violence. Maybe not immediately following the election, but in the long term. You can hear them make reference to their gun collections, the talk of another "revolution" or "rebellion" or "civil war," and talks about how the change the country "by other means."

What I especially fear is when it becomes apparent that the electoral map is moving towards a near-lock for Democrats in the future (due to demographic changes, younger voters participating, older conservative voters dying-off, etc), they'll feel that the only path to their goals is, umm, let's say "less-than-pleasant."

Imagine Democrats winning national election after national election. 5 of the 9 Supreme Court justices are from Democratic presidents, and a Republican-appointed justice has just passed. This is just one area where they're going to be freaking-out. It won't be pretty.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. I honestly don't think they'll do anything...

People like that tend to be all bluff and bluster...

And no action.

[jacksonian]

12. and if they did take action

they would be terrorists and be dealt with as such.

[grace0418]

14. I think most of them are all talk. They can barely leave mom's basement to go buy more

twinkies at the convenience store, much less organize into any kind of action.

[Spider Jerusalem]

15. Such paranoia is unwarranted

hard-core social conservatives and reactionaries (because, let's face it, that's what these people are) are comparatively few in number in the larger population; they're largely concentrated in the South, Midwest and Mountain West states (and thanks to demographic shifts favouring increased urbanisation their numbers are declining in the South). The present-day Republican party has managed to exploit the social fears and prejudices of rural Protestants and stereotypical 'angry white men' since the days of Richard Nixon and the Southern Strategy; as this becomes an increasingly unviable path to electoral success, the Republican Party will of necessity change, as it changed before, as the Democratic Party too changed.

At the close of the Second World War, the success of the New Deal in the US, and the election of Attlee's Labour government in the UK, led to a generally liberal tendency in both Democratic and Republican administrations here, and in Labour and Tory governments in Britain. This is something that persisted for over thirty years, by and large; the Thatcher government in Britain, and the Reagan administration in the US, began a shift to the right of the centre of the political spectrum, in response to a decade of economic malaise and the breakdown of Keynesian economics and the social welfare state. This shift to the socioeconomic right was largely across the board; the American Democratic Party, and the British Labour Party, both shifted right in response (most notably on economic issues--see as examples Bill Clinton, who was, on most things, to the right of Nixon, and Tony Blair, who was quite rightly called a neo-Thatcherite).

What we're seeing now, with the economic fallout of massive deregulation, is to some degree a repudiation of the economic neoliberalism and free market absolutism of Thatcherism and Reaganomics. There will be a corresponding shift in the political centre; this may take a decade or more to shake out, but it WILL happen. When it does, the relative importance of the resentments of rural religious fanatics as a part of Republican electoral calculus will likely ALSO fade; what they don't realise is that they've been played for suckers, the GOP never really intended to give them a theocracy, or ban abortion, or abolish welfare, or deport illegal immigrants; they never intended to, because removing the reasons for their resentment would deny them the leverage that the political exploitation of those issues gave them, allowing for a cynical division of the populace along social and demographic lines rather than along socio-economic ones and thus encouraging many of these self-styled 'consservatives' to vote against their own interests. With the coming political realignment, they're likely to find themselves surplus to requirements.

[jberryhill]

17. Agree...

If a non-southern Democrat can be elected, this is a re-alignment in the making.

[old mark]

18. I believe we will win, and if our numbers are large enough

the republican party will split in name as well as in fact (it already is fractured - many republicans consider McCain liberal, many hate him, but fear Obama more.)

The wacky/"religious"/Palin segment will form a 3rd party (possibly several) or combine with an existing party such as the Constitutional Party, while the Republicans will retain the McCainist big money oil/financial bullshit artists (traditional Republicans).

I believe they will be out of power for a long time to come, if we can generate a real landslide victory.

mar

[Rocknrule]

11. Which one of them was bragging about yelling "Kill him!" on national TV?

That's what I wanna know

[11 Bravo]

19. Rimjob and his sycophants see the handwriting on the wall.