03.23.13
WhiteManistan — by numbers
In my decades of polling, I recall only one moment when a party had been driven as far from the center as the Republican Party has been today.
The outsize influence of hard-line elements in the party base is doing to the GOP what supporters of Gene McCarthy and George McGovern did to the Democratic Party in the late 1960s and early 1970s — radicalizing its image and standing in the way of its revitalization …
In those years, the Democratic Party became labeled, to its detriment, as the party of “acid, abortion and amnesty.??? With the Democrats’ values far to the left of the silent majority, McGovern lost in a landslide to Richard Nixon in 1972.
While there are no catchy phrases for the Republicans of 2013, their image problems are readily apparent in national polls. The GOP has come to be seen as the more extreme party, the side unwilling to compromise or negotiate seriously to tackle the economic turmoil that challenges the nation …
I see little reason to believe that the staunch conservative bloc will wither away or splinter; it will remain a dominant force in the GOP and on the national stage. At the same time, however, I see no indication that its ideas about policy, governance and social issues will gain new adherents. They are far beyond the mainstream.
If anything, Andrew Kohut is a bit gentle. The GOP became the party of Ted Nugent. WhiteManistan, as a broad description, is a sickening collection, according to Kohut, “demographically and politically distinct from the national electorate … Ninety-two percent are white … They tend to be male, married, Protestant, well off and at least 50 years old.”
Paranoid and the core of the GOP, they cannot retain power but, from a relative minority position, have brought the country to a near standstill, simply through the power of rage — at the president, at Hispanics, at women, at gays, at the poor, etc.
And from Ted Nugent, this week, at the birther conspiracy website, WND:
If you are addicted to common sense and logic, South Dakota should bring a smile to your face.
These sensible Americans just passed a law allowing teachers to carry weapons in school as a means to protect their students from terminal psychos hell-bent on committing mass murder …
Truth is, it is the socialist stooges who are responsible for violence. It is their policies that prevent good guys from arming and protecting themselves and creates the big lie of “gun free??? slaughter zones.
It isn’t just anti-gun leftist policies that have enabled thugs to breed and prosper. The violence on America’s streets is the result of a number of other leftist big-government policies that have worked to destroy families and entire communities by discouraging accountability and rewarding dangerous behavior.
That’s the turbo destructo modus operandi of the socialists …
The Obama Hitler thing, which I’ve documented before, also at Media Matters:
Nugent: The President of the United States Barack Hussein Obama went to the Vietnam Memorial Wall. He did his smoke and mirrors scam. He pretended to show respect and honor, 58,000 American warriors who died fighting communism. And then he hired, appointed and associates with communists.
If you can’t see through the dishonesty and the scamming of this president with that scenario fresh in your mind, then that’s literally like, I guess that would be like, I don’t know, a German in 1938 pretending to respect the Jews and then going home and putting on his brown shirt and forcing his neighbors onto a train to be burned to death.
So we really have a rotten, rotten man in the White House who I am convinced hates America, hates individuality.
In WhiteManistan the President is a Nazi and a Communist, simultaneously. It’s something easy to see but not precisely addressed by Andrew Kohut’s Pew polling.