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Originally Posted by MaDalton
from a european pov both parties are right wing but considering how the american political system works, i think it's dramatic that the reasonable republicans are held hostage by crazies...
and i dont see how crazy people can win a majority
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Once again this falls back to the Bush admin as Karl Rove realized the GOP could capture the Religious Right vote, which is largely what brought Bush into power. The problem is the GOP was already losing touch with fiscal conservatism after Bush Sr and Reagan's budget busting spending sprees and conservatism took on a new meaning out with the old fiscal in with the new religious conservatives.
The problem is the religious nuts expected the Bush admin to do away with woman's rights to abortion, push creationism in schools and do away with the science stuff, they wanted less porn on the net and to pray away the gays. The right essentially made a deal with the moral police to get elected and then mostly snubbed them and ignored all their crazy ideas of what they wanted Bush to do.
Bush's own words..
"fool me once, shame on ? shame on you. Fool me ? you can't get fooled again.". Well Bush fooled them two times as he promised them all the same things again and they faithfully voted for him a second time only to be on the receiving end of more empty promises with the GOP once again ignoring their crazy ideals.
The next election the Religious Right was nowhere to be found but in entered a new movement full of many of the same crazy ideas, this time with a new name and their own politicians. The Tea Party is essentially the left over remains of the Religious Right repackaged and rebranded in order to appeal to a broader audience, this time they were successful in taking seats away from other Republicans and made a pretty bold power move for the Republican Party.
The problem is they just can't keep the crazy under wraps and it keeps sticking it's head out at every opportunity. The Republican Party is now scared of the monster they created because if they don't keep drifting further and further to the right to appease the loonies, the monster sets it's eyes on their own and they end up at the end of negative campaign spending spree from the big money tea party supporters,
The Republican Party is for the most part on it's dying last breath. The loonies have taken too much of their party support and that means any attempt at pushing the loonies out equals a even smaller support base and the loonies can't fully take over because the average person sees how bad they are. The only thing keeping the GOP alive is the big money supporters.
Once the big money starts to realize the GOP isn't giving them a good return on the investment, then it's gonna be lights out,