These days
there is a lot of soul-searching going on within the Republican Party. Most analysts talk about how the GOP should
have worked harder to get female or Hispanics votes, or those of
minorities. They say that Romney should have been tougher against Obama's economic record. These analysts have it all
wrong. The thing that killed the GOP is
their acceptance of gonzo madness.
It’s hard
to believe, but when Mitt Romney was Governor of Massachusetts he signed a cap-and-trade
program to reduce carbon emissions. At
the time, he touted the program as contributing to the future health of our children and the
“stewardship of this Earth.” He also
supported abortion rights. Not any
more.
Over the last 20 years, the GOP has
altered its platform to appeal to powerful splinter
groups such as the Tea Party, the Libertarian Party, civilian militia groups and survivalists. And in becoming the lunatic sponge, the GOP has lost the
nation -- and the world.
In today’s GOP, it is common to believe that Barack Obama is a Satan-worshipper,
that he is the Anti-Christ, that he is a secret Muslim extremist intent
on wiping out Israel, that he is a secret Communist agent sent to destroy the US economy, or any combination of the above.
In October of 2012, Mitt Romney visited Reverend Billy Graham at his
home in North Carolina. Following Romney’s electoral defeat, Graham warned voters that God’s punishment is
coming because the Lord “brings bedlam when countries turn their back on
him.” Just prior to the election, Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Texas assured his followers that he doesn’t believe Obama is the Anti-Christ, but merely “paving the way for the future reign of the Anti-Christ.” To many Americans (and most of
the world), opinions such as these are bat-shit crazy.
It is well known that most GOP members deny the existence of global
warning (and who knows, they may be right).
However, few GOP supporters mention their reasons for not believing in global
warming. One is that global warming is
a Communist plot. Donald Trump summed
it up nicely on his Twitter account on Nov. 6th, just before the
election: “The concept of
global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S.
manufacturing non-competitive.” It’s a
bizarre idea, especially since most climate change scientists are Westerners. The second (and more popular) belief is that
God created the Earth and that he would never have made it fragile; therefore,
global warming cannot exist.
You’ll never
hear a GOP candidate talk openly about Communist conspiracies, God's wrath or Satanism, because that would be political
suicide. Instead, they let talking
heads like Donald Trump, Wayne Allen Root, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and others
do it for them.
During the campaign, when Donald Trump attempted to extort the President by offering a charitable
donation in return for the President’s college records (so that he could “look
them over”), Trump looked and acted just like an evil character from an Austin Powers movie. GOP insanity was suddenly
vaulted to the forefront of the public mind.
With that weird conspiracy-theory speech, Trump probably helped Obama’s
re-election more than any single person except campaign leader David Axelrod.
Finally, there is the GOP and Tea Party’s religion: Founding Fatherism. Sarah Palin can hardly get through an
interview without mentioning the founding fathers as if they were omniscient
gods.
The GOP
didn’t lose the election because they lost the female or Hispanic vote. They lost the election because too many GOP
members have boarded the crazy train.
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"He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis, and social chaos- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within."
Professional gambler and former Libertarian Party Vice-Presidential Nominee Wayne Allen Root, describing President Barack Obama.
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