Some of the labels for the Republican right listed below in the poll are over the top. However, I am dead serious about this point: We should start a movement to rename this despicable group that wants to destroy Obama and party competition, and which ultimately threatens this country if they ever get into power again. We Democrats and Liberals and Independents who are disgusted by the Republican Party should simply call them out. NOW.
The current Republican Party has made a pact with racists and judeo-christian theocrats who seem to believe that they are “chosen” ones and that they have a God given right to “rule”. The Republicans who endorse this wing of their party do not understand what it means to be an American. These people do not really want to live in a democracy; they have a very narrow-minded viewpoint and desperately want to be led. They do not think, they are not curious, they reject science. They do not believe in the principles set fourth the Constitution of the United States or in the Bill of Rights. They are represented by the C Street clowns, Palin and her groupies, Joe the Plumber aficionados and a senator who would dare to pejoratively conjure Desi Arnaz when addressing our first hispanic supreme court nominee.
Many times over the course of the 2008 Presidential Election I would tune in to hear right-wing-nut radio hosts and pull my hair out at their suggestion that the Democrats are out to destroy this country. I wanted to call in to one of these hosts to ask straight out if they believed there should be only one political party in America, because that sentiment was so clearly at the base of their rants. It sickened me to hear the blatant anti-American sentiment underlying their ravings. It sickens me now even more because there is so much at stake for our country and the world at this juncture in history.
None of our previous presidents (the whole white-male kitten caboodle) has EVER been asked to show their birth certificates. The only reason these nut-jobs are screaming that they believe our President isn’t an American is because his skin is brown. News anchors and reporters are generally tip-toeing over this basic fact but it must be addressed. It is crystal clear that those Republicans who endorse or refuse to speak up against the radical right are cowards at best; racists at worst. The sick woman in the video being shown over and over calling Obama a 'Kenyan' was really thinking of the ‘n’ word. Listening to this latest round of smearing I am utterly sickened by the rhetoric of the Republican Party. I am terrified at the thought that the fringe element the Republcians accept into their party could completely take over and eventually win back the White House. I say "win-back" because they were in power for the past eight years. The consensus these days is that the right is so weakened it is no longer a threat; but they could come back if their smears and obstructionism sticks.
Let us not forget that the Republicans mounted a campaign to rename the Democratic Party as the 'Democrat Socialists' this past year. Are you as tired as I am of the right claiming that their views are the majority views of this country? Are you sick of Republicans calling moderate judges “activists”? Are Roberts, Alito, and Thomas not right wing fundamentalist activists?
Finally, I heard a Republican on Air America today who said he might have to leave his party because he is so sickened by it, so I don’t mean to 'dis' fair-minded Republicans. We need you all too, and my concerns are not directed at you.