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Currently headlining RedState- DailyKos's closest analouge on the right -this picture shows perhaps more clearly than anything else how the Republican party is morgaging its future and is in danger of being shut out of power for the next 20 years.
Its boldness in insulting the Democratic Party has attracted some amusement in the blog-plugged parts of Washington. The uber-insider Hotline even had a post about about it. But rather than being insulted I shall argue that Democrats should welcome this new virluent strain of trash conservatisim.
This image's snarky confidence that average working people would respond favourably to an association between the party that 54% of the American people voted for in the last election and the spead of global communism isn't meerly ahistorical and anachronic to the degree of beging ludicrous.
It also reveals just how much it hasn't yet hit the Republican party that 2006 was not an abberation, but a turning point.
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