Last year Barack Obama whipped John McCain 66.8 million votes to 58.3 million. Electoral votes: 365 to 173. Landslide.
Let's be extremely charitable. Let's say that "only" 10% of those who voted for McCain were and remain batshit crazy and hard-wired to hate ANY Obama/Democratic initiative: that still leaves 5.8 million crazy, bigoted, loudmouthed, paranoid, willfully ignorant, banshee freaks out there -- out here.
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Let's say only 10% of those nutters are inclined to go to Town Hall Meetings and disrupt discussion and civil debate: that still leaves more than 580,000 ranting kooks who believe in alien abductions and bigfoot -- and shackle-fitted FEMA Railroad Cars -- to go out to Town Hall meetings and turn them into Brownshirt Circuses.
And they're doing it. And the Media Heathers are making them look like 1/2-to-a-majority of the U.S. Population. Three (3) nights ago Chris Matthews gave an apparently (looked to me) Seriously Mentally Ill-and-Dangerous Nutjob a National Forum. Gad.
66.8 million voters vs. 580,000 (or less) Screeching Nutters. Media Heathers give the Nutters equal or greater time. Gad, indeed.
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Of course, the Nutters are also getting an assist from Claire McCaskill, who hasn't found a Town Hall Screacher's backside she's not willing to kiss. President Obama's not helping, either, at least not when he sends flowers and Russell Stover to Chuck Grassley while Grassley's intentionally lying about what's "on the table" with health care reform. Obama's telegraphing that he's ready to throw the Public Option under the bus also emboldens the GOP (Note to the President: don't bid against yourself; don't negotiate from a position of weakness).
At any rate, these several thousand Crazy People have taken over our national discussion and the Media Heathers and their Insurance Jackal Masters are peeing themselves with glee.
Trying to find some good news in all this. Any help there?
BenGoshi
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