Normally, I like Rachel Maddow, but tonight I think someone laced her coffee with a big old stupid pill. First up, Maddow goes after the RNC for their association with a hate group, the American Family Association or AFA. No problem there, but she adds at the end of her segment that she BELIEVES that the RNC doesn't realize who they got into bed with here. Second, she gets all a twitter about Senator Claire McCaskill, and how McCaskill as Democratic presidential nominee would GUARANTEE that Democrats keep the White House in 2016.
WTF?
Let's start with the first part of stupid here. The AFA has been around since 1977, and they have been spouting their hatred for years. So Republicans would have to be deaf, dumb, and blind not to know who they were associating with. And they court bigots like the AFA to get votes! Period.
Has Maddow forgotten about Steve Scalise?
Next up, Claire McCaskill. Ugh. She is typical of what passes for "moderate" in the Beltway. She votes for her corporate sponsors, and like other centrists, she will reflexively split the difference on issues. McCaskill was on Maddow's show spouting the same line of BS that "People send us to Washington to find compromise and reach across the aisle...blah, blah, blah."
How often do we hear that line of shit from corporate hacks?
But here was Rachel slobbering all of over McCaskill, even when McCaskill just voted for the Keystone XL pipeline. And does Maddow remember how McCaskill is all buddy buddy with the Ferguson prosecutor McCulloch? Or what about how McCaskill fought against taking rape prosecutions out of the hands the military chain of command because of the all those unprosecuted rapes in the military?
Shit.