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Originally Posted by StrongInTheArm
Michael Tomasky describes the Republican Party as being the Alternate-Universe Party because they seem so contrary.
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What would you expect a liberal extremist to say? That the Republicans are "good and upstanding"? That the Republicans are "correct most of the time"?
I bet I can find a right wing writer who says that liberals are crazy. So what?
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And on climate change, of course, most deny its existence, and all deny that human activity has played any role in it whatsoever.
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Um, yes? The global warming skeptics bet against global warming, and tada! we are in a "cooling trend". I see egg on the faces of the global warming alarmists.
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I'm not that familiar with Tomasky but his rhetoric sounds about like a Bill Maher standup routine. Anyone who would use this kind of talk as a compass is just exactly who he's looking for.
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His liberal credentials are pretty impressive. Check out his wikipedia page.
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Obama has been compared to Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Charles Manson, a monkey (of course) and, in an image promoted last week, a witchdoctor – by a neurosurgeon no less, who has been a big opponent of healthcare reform.
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Bush was compared to a monkey, Hitler, Stalin, Ted Bundy, etc, etc. Kind of stepping into your own alternate universe trap there, aren't you?
In the future, if you want to accuse the Republicans of something, you might want to check to see if Democrats haven't been doing the very thing you want to accuse the Republicans of.
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Most conspicuously, there's the growing "birther" movement, people who believe that Obama is not a US citizen, doesn't meet the constitutional requirements for the presidency and must therefore be impeached. He was born in Hawaii in 1961. That makes him a citizen. His campaign last year released a copy of his birth certificate. But of course, for these folks, it's a forgery. There's even a video afoot "demonstrating" how the document was faked.
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Oh crap no? Surely, surely, there were no whacky conspiracy theory nutjobs who accused Bush of, oh, I don't know, doing 9-11?
That's too funny. Republican nutjob conspiracy theorists - 1 in 10,000? Democrat nutjob conspiracy theorists - 1 in 3?
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From an outsider's perspective I ask myself does he have a point and can the Republicans ever be taken seriously with such odd ideas at the heart of their thinking?
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What ideas are at the heart of their thinking? That a healthcare plan that is wholly subsidized by the top earning 2% is socialism? Yes, that's socialism.
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