The Real GOP Factions

Markos recently wrote a diary about the various factions of the GOP. He defined.

Corporate Cons
These are Wall Street Republicans.

Paleocons
This are the old-school anti-communist, anti-immigrant, John Birch Society types.

Theocons
This is the Christian Coalition/Moral Majority crowd.

Neocons
These are the pointy headed "intellectuals" holed up at think tanks like the Project for a New American Century.

Markos model is based on observable behavior. I propose a new model based upon inherent characteristrics that drive these people to become republicans.

In my model we have.

Kleptocons - For these folks its all about the money. The category is similar to Markos Corporcons but it really gets to the root of the issue.

Notables:
Jack Abramoff
Duke Cunningham
Contractors in Iraq

Napoleocons - Are mistrustful of everything and have an insatiable desire for control. This category would relate to Neocons.

Notables:
Ken Blackwell
Monica Goodling
Katherine Harris

Philandercons - Their inability to accept their sexual procilivities drives them to be sure no one else is enjoying themselves either. Of course they can't stop themselves from engaging in the behavior they protest. They are like Theocons if one accepts how much behavior driven by sex.

Notables:
Larry Craig
Jack Ryan
Mark Foley

Psychopathocons - have interpersonal, and behavioral characteristics including egocentricity; impulsivity; irresponsibility; shallow emotions; lack of empathy, guilt, or remorse; and the persistent violation of social norms and expectations. This category relates to Paoleocons.

Notables:
David Duke
Roger Stone
Lee Atwater
George W. Bush  

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  by CTMET on Thu Dec 20, 2007 at 05:51:57 AM PDT

•  And, as I added to Markos' diary:

  
  Traditional & Conned

  These are old-school Midwestern-type Republicans, hungry for the good old days, less business regulation, decreased immigration, ambivalent foreign trading partners, and the protection of the established "meritocratic" (which includes, in their opinion, the middle class and business class) elite.

  Government spending: Against, except for farm stuff
  Aggressive foreign policy: For, but not too aggressive
  Immigration: Anti
  Traditional values: For - but not too preachy
  Notables: My Dad, Chuck Percy, Eisenhower, Everett Dirksen, Chuck Hagel?

  There are a lot of Republicans out there that have missed the fact that their party was sold out from under them. Some of them are tuning in, now, belatedly, and without an appropriate amount of responsibility for having let it happen. They're not racist, they're not Christianist, they're not corporatist. They want good government, small (but not drownable) government, opportunity for all (but don't take away mine!), and relatively little intrusion into personal and social lives.

  Some of them are winnable, the others not. We should hope they are all mad as hell after we destroy the GOP in November, and aim their anger - appropriately - at the insane clown posse that dominated their party.

  It's too easy, and intellectually lazy, to ascribe evil to every last one of them.

  For me, personally, that doesn't pass the "Mom & Dad test." They raised me on values that, to me, have made me a fire-breathing progressive activist. Yet they're still Republicans. I need a better answer than "evil."

  by pat208 on Thu Dec 20, 2007 at 05:59:27 AM PDT

  •  I was actually thinking about Manipulacons

    2 kinds the manipulators and the manipulated.

    Bill O'Reilley, Ann Coulter - the former.
    The category you mentioned for the latter.

    by CTMET on Thu Dec 20, 2007 at 09:12:10 AM PDT

    •  Exactly. As the great Homer once said...

      ... "Marge, it takes two people to lie: One to lie, and the other to listen."

      by pat208 on Fri Dec 21, 2007 at 08:59:38 AM PDT

•  They all fall under one heading, IMO.

  Comicons

  It's absolutely comical to watch them fall all over themselves trying to be the most anti-democratic, bigotted and hateful.

  by scoff0165 on Thu Dec 20, 2007 at 06:27:36 AM PDT

•  I just call em all dickheads.

  It works out to be all inclusive, and saves time.

  by manwithnoname on Thu Dec 20, 2007 at 07:32:41 AM PDT