The Crackpot Caucus. The Stupid Party. The Angry Extreme that rejects reason and compromise. As the elephants stampede into Florida for their convention, an inconvenient truth is hardening like cement under those stodgy pachyderm feet: Republicans have herded themselves far outside the American mainstream.
Whether it’s taxes, Social Security and Medicare, clean energy jobs, DREAMers, reproductive rights or gay equality, America’s true conservative party is just too conservative for Americans. (Thanks for the one-liner, Claire—and Todd Akin!)
Attempting to explain the dyspeptic state of today’s GOP, the NYT has put together a handy—and hilarious—video clip in which pig-like, claymation elephants wander aimlessly on and off screen. It definitely deserves to go viral.
Beyond the laugh lines, though, Americans are increasingly viewing the tea-party Republican mob as the dangerous entity that it’s been from the start. Chuck Todd and the polls agree.
This week, the Obama campaign will be holding events in all the swing states hammering the neanderthal, anti-woman agenda of Mitt Romney’s Republicans.
The Obama campaign is embarking on a new effort to paint Republicans as out of touch on women's issues with a nationwide week of action.
Starting with a Las Vegas rally featuring actress Natalie Portman, White House staffers Cecilia Muñoz and Valerie Jarrett and others, the campaign will launch a weeklong assault against the GOP on contraception, abortion, and women's health.
Events highlighting how the Romney-Ryan ticket is too extreme for women and families will continue throughout the week, with events in Philadelphia, Richmond, Raleigh, Cleveland, Manchester, Milwaukee and Tampa.
This upcoming election offers a stark, historic
choice: the forward-looking leadership of President Obama versus the raving lunacy of the modern GOP.
For as much as the election is a judgement on Barack Obama's presidency, it must also be a referendum on the bankrupt vision of the Republican party.
It is up to everyone who rejects Mitt Romney's anti-equality, anti-opportunity, anti-middle class agenda to rock the vote in November and re-elect Barack Obama as President of the United States.
Forward.
Update:
Charlie Crist slammed his former party in his op-ed endorsement (h/t to bosshogg) of PBO.
As Republicans gather in Tampa to nominate Mitt Romney, Americans can expect to hear tales of how President Obama has failed to work with their party or turn the economy around.
But an element of their party has pitched so far to the extreme right on issues important to women, immigrants, seniors and students that they've proven incapable of governing for the people. Look no further than the inclusion of the Akin amendment in the Republican Party platform, which bans abortion, even for rape victims.
The truth is that the party has failed to demonstrate the kind of leadership or seriousness voters deserve.