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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
The media has painted this picture of all republicans being radicalized and polarizing figures and it simply isnt true. .
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Baloney. It was the GOP that allowed that to happen. No, correct that - they ENCOURAGED it to happen.
To get Bush re-elected the last time, the GOP gave increased voice to the 25% of the radial, polarized, ultra-conservative far right portion of the party.
The GOP ginned these polarized radicals up again by choosing Palin and letting her open her mouth. The Palin rallies were scary, racist, filled with lies. Palin herself is responsible, she encouraged it. That's why they chose her.
But it backfired big time, resulting in a good portion of the GOP voting Democratic this time. Until the extremists are dampened back down, the GOP is useless, and nobody will see that "it simply isnt true".
As lifelong GOP (I even loved Rumsfeld), to have extremists like Dell tell me "you're not a Republican" is laughable and ludicrous.
But as long as the GOP decides that is the voice of the party, the party will have no voice.