Mysteries of modern life

[Paul Mackin]

On 3/5/2012 4:06 PM, David Morris wrote:
> http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2012/02/this-is-not-merely-true.html
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>> From Krugman:
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> How did American conservatism end up so detached from, indeed at odds
> with, facts and rationality? For it was not always thus. After all,
> that health reform Mr. Romney wants us to forget followed a blueprint
> originally laid out at the Heritage Foundation!
>
> My short answer is that the long-running con game of economic
> conservatives and the wealthy supporters they serve finally went bad.
> For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and
> racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and
> tax cuts for the wealthy — a process that reached its epitome when
> George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America’s defender against
> gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to
> privatize Social Security.
>
> Over time, however, this strategy created a base that really believed
> in all the hokum — and now the party elite has lost control.
>
> The point is that today’s dismal G.O.P. field — is there anyone who
> doesn’t consider it dismal? — is no accident. Economic conservatives
> played a cynical game, and now they’re facing the blowback, a party
> that suffers from “severe” conservatism in the worst way. And the
> malady may take many years to cure.

Paul Krugman has really put his finger on how it came to be that such a 
DISMAL assortment of candidates has worked itself to the top of the GOP. 
It's merely a case of the GOP getting just what it deserves--for its 
past sins.

I can understand the two obviously cynical hopefuls--Mitt and Neut. They 
still see the degraded GOP as a shot at the Presidency, and will say 
anything to get that shot.

It's Rick and Ron I can't fathom--both sincere in their own ways, but 
both so out of step with reality and possibility.

P








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> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Paul Mackin<mackin.paul at verizon.net>  wrote:
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>> The p-list isn't big on electoral politics but one thing I'm always wondering about is where extreme right wing Republican would-be-candidates can possibly be coming from.
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