Wow, it reads like a bizarre game of Telephone. From run-of-the-mill upstate NY Republican to communist in 7.5 seconds, Twitter time. These people are insane.

And moderacy? Is that the dictatorship of the pollitariat, or just wearing khaki chinos and string ties?

The reason these republican assholes don't shut up is that there is a long term republican culture in this Country. Generations worth. I am speaking of the maybe ten percent that actually controls the party, not the ninety percent cretins, imbiciles and morons that support a party that will lower their wages anytime there's a chance to do so and which would like to bring back the economic conditions of industrial revolution England. The republican party heartily embraces the sweatshop owner's mentality. Now, these folks, the ten percenters, live in their own world. In subdivisions where teenage boys wear cardigans and play lacrosse and are on the rowing team if there's a body of water around. Where all family, friends and aquaintances are white. Where there typically is no military service done except of the kind young Bush did. Where boys have names not found anywhere else in the population at large, like Todd, Brent, Brice, Trent, Tad etc. Country Club membership is a culture totem. Telling stupid jokes to each other is a social lubricant. Their jobs are often in the financial sector or in larger corporations as professional meeting goers. This culture is enormously influential presently. What they are afraid of is that there is a real chance under President Obama that the wealth will be somewhat more fairly distributed. This is what drives their hysteria. They might loose some power and other people might actually make a living wage, reducing their own special priviliged status. It will get uglier rather than better. Since they have no logical argument to support their selfish attitudes they must resort to lies, deceptions and threats and must be very loud and repetitive to convince the cretins among us that the republican party actually has the welfare of all in mind. Since our population includes a lot of cretins and the republican party is in a very energetic mode due to a hysteria of fear, the chorus of imbiciles attacking President Obama for anything he does will get louder, the McCarthy like references to communism will increase and toxic trolls like Krauthammer will get more and more irrational. Such is the state of affairs in our Country today and I cannot predict what it will evolve into. All I know is that we cannot allow republicans to run the Country again for the forseeable future. It would get real real ugly on Planet Earth.

Roy, I always appreciate your humor, sarcasm, cynicism & bon mots. This piece is also just a really good piece of political research. Something I could link to to give someone the lowdown on this race in NY-23, with its social and political context. Congratulations on a really well-written piece.

"Perhaps it is time to go your own way," Malkin told Gingrich, "with Al Sharpton and Nancy Pelosi."

I find this utterly delightful. Can anyone top Malkin for sheer craziness?

Conspiracy theories were floated. "No word yet on what sort of payoff Scozzafava will get for her whoring herself out to the American Marxist Left," said the Jawa Report.

Mother Hero?

You know, when Newt Gingrich is not conservative enough for you, you're going to be pretty hard to please. Does Malkin not realise that if she had the world she's agitating for, she'd likely find herself on a plane out of town? There's no room for token Asians in the white paradise the likes of Erick Erickson dream of.

Well, she DID express a distaste for "Anchor Babies" sometime back, not noticing she was one. Perhaps having herself run out of the country would be the culmination of a lifelong dream.

Rightbloggers affected to be outraged that the candidate they'd been persecuting for weeks failed to support the party they had taken over.

Roy, this is in the running for one of the best sentences you've ever written.

An extremely well-written piece.

I think it's terribly sad -- and terribly dangerous -- that there is a sizable & (unfortunately all-too-vocal) minority of hysterics that are fueled by their own rage and fear to spur them on to imbecilic & inchoate displays of sheer unmitigated stupidity.

Drape yourself in the flag, and there is no end of damage you can do to Democracy.

Well played UnAmericanLunaticFringe, well played.

"I hope she enjoys her new party," said Don Surber. "Hey, maybe she can take some of her RINO supporters with her."

Oh, Don. They'll drive themselves over.

After mulling over my post of a few days ago, I realized that some expansion of my views is needed. Not that I think my views are necessarily profound, but they are mine and should be clearly stated.

The very fact that we have a republican minority of rich and influential folks who think that the USA is theirs to exploit and to farm for Treasury money which is there because of taxes (Oh MY GOD!) is cause for misgivings. First of all they constitute a shadow Government. It's ok for Democrats to have the Presidency to bring money into the Treasury which they will subsequently loot next term. I think that they allow Democrats as Presidents occasionally so that there will be more Treasury money for them to subsequently transfer to their own pockets. Without being blamed for the inevitable tax increases. Remember that there is a shit load of welfare for the very rich under any Republican Administration. From tax breaks to subsidies to wars to profiteer from. To Government steered efforts to get rid of any environmentally beneficial program.

I think their main, ludricous and highly energenic efforts to get rid of Clinton were not somuch ideological, but because he managed to get elected to a second term.

So who are these people? I gave some of their cultural charcteristics in my first post. Here is how they can be described. Having actually run the Country for generations (All one needs to look at is the Cold War, Vietnam and some coincidental assasinations.) Disputable, but I think true. Getting mightily vocal only when someone is President who may actually bring the Country back in line with the Founding Father's vision. The two words "FOR ALL" are especially offensive to them.

They are powerful. They have money, they know how to push the buttons that kick start the moronic mental program in about half our population. They are essentially greedy and without morals and will not stop at anything to protect their priviliges. Yet they have this idea they are protecting decency. The translation for decency here is that anything lessening their income and power is by definition indecent, usually described as communism. And, you know what? The subculture is so distinct that it has no idea on how 90% of America lives. Anyone not in the coven is automatically assigned peripheral status. In the order of millions of Vietnamese and Cambodians were killed and maimed and it was ok because we were trying to protect them from themselves and we lost 50 plus thousand of troops (I am sure that no more than one or two were republican members of the coven, but essentially all killed were members of and sons of the vast, potentially very cheap servant pool which constitutes almost all other Americans. The same with Iraq. All the republican warmongers, except for McCain and maybe one, perhaps two more, had mo military service and none of their immediate ancestry did. It's ok though to have troops killed, they're not of the coven and the widow gets a whole few hundreds dollars a month. ENTITLEMENTS!

These republican people (People being a word to describe only their bodily parameters, not a mind set.) need to be exposed instead of having pretty much all media print their latest lie or manipulation as if it amounted to something real.

The Voice is one of the last bastions against having these pukes run the show alltogether. Thank you.

So what is the conclusion? Support President Obama, of course. The only chance most of us have not to be scounging around in the ruins after WW III, if these republican sewer rats gain ascendancy, or having our wages cut little by little, jobs sent oversees, having our Social Security Trust Fund looted by these republican so called patriots and so on.

All the best;

Will

Don't look now but whose scalp is hanging from the pole in NY-23?

It is amazing that the conservatives who gave the Democrats the seat for the first time since the civil war obviously did not think too much about the district. There is some interesting analysis of the district http://www.pollster.com/blogs/rep_mchugh_to_army_secretary_a.php and McHugh's moderate politics.

This is one of the cases where you have to be an adolescent wino to label your moderate candidate a RINO and give the Democrats a sink.

I for one will have a drink in the name of Michelle Malkin and the rest of her ilk.

So Owens won, then. Good job, right bloggers.

To be fair, at least the conservatives actually got a conservative candidate to vote for. All liberals ever get are moderates.

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