“Are we supposed to be sitting and waiting, watching for the possibility of a new Holocaust? Who’s going to take the responsibility to keep America, I mean Israel, safe? I’ll tell you why this really scares the hell out of me. Everything Obama has recommended has turned out to be disastrous.”
“Obama really thinks he is a soft-spoken Julius Caesar. He think he’s going to conquer the world with his soft-spoken sweet talk and really think he’s going to bring all of the enemies of the world into a little playground, where they’ll swing each other back and forth.”
“We and we alone are the right frame of mind to free this nation from this Obama oppression. Let’s give thanks to (Republicans) for not giving up and staying the course to bring an end to this false prophet, Obama.”
Those are the words of John Voight.
New Holocaust? Oppression? False prophet? What’s this guy been putting in his coffee?
As a long-time Republican (and then a swing-voter), it makes me sad on some level to see the Republican Party is such a state of disarray and confusion, wandering ever further to the right. I think my political leanings would be best described as being centrist in nature. I voted for people, not parties, at least until Bush happened and I saw we needed to equalize the balance of power a little. I’m not entirely thrilled by the idea of one of the two major political parties rolling over and dying, but the Republicans seem determined to push away anyone who won’t follow them out onto their extreme far right-wing branch, which looks to me like a very tiny twig holding fewer and fewer people every day.
Newt Gingrich had something to say last night too:
“I am not a citizen of the world. I think the entire concept is intellectual nonsense and stunningly dangerous!”
He might want to have a seance and chat with Reagan about being a citizen of the world. Better yet, if Mr. Gingrich doesn’t want to be a member of the society of humans living on this planet, he could leave. I wouldn’t miss him.
Maybe some third political party will rise up and fill in the gaping hole where true centrist thought used to be. I don’t see that happening any time soon, but if the Republicans don’t get their act together soon and start making sense to more than just the basest of their base, they stand to be considered irrelevant far into the future.
Doesn’t make me happy to consider that, but it would make me less happy to have their current incarnation holding any sort of power at all. They are so full of hate and anger, and they seem so lost and clueless. To be honest, I don’t even know how to react to the things spewing from the mouths of Republicans and their supporters these days. I suppose I could react the way they did when people who didn’t agree with the Bush Administration and its policies spoke up about their displeasure and call them un-American (and declare the argument over).
But that wouldn’t be nice, now would it? I’m sure, somewhere deep down, they really do have the best of intentions and truly do want America to be a great country, but they aren’t expressing that very well. Their rhetoric and thoughts are all too wrapped up in hate and anger, as if the only way they can prove they are the better party is to slash and burn anyone who doesn’t agree with them.
Didn’t they ever learn that to demonstrate you are a better person (or organization), you build yourself up, not tear other people down? Otherwise, you just come across as being a bully … or a cry-baby … or crazy.