Why doesn’t the GOP just change its name to the KKK?

[Cyrano]

Let’s face it. The base of today’s Republican Party would be comfortable, not just with Jim Crow, but a return to slavery. And this time, they’d include Latinos, Muslims, and assorted “others.”

I don’t believe this a view held by the majority of Republicans. But the “not crazy” members of that party who, by having kept silent while the crazies took over, are culpable.

Winston Churchill said: “Tyrants ride to and fro on tigers that they dare not dismount.” The sane Republicans who have ridden that tiger into control of the House of Representatives are now screwed. They know how insane their party looks, but they also know how hungry their tiger is. They know that teabaggers, Jesus freaks, Faux “News” and hate radio will combine to primary them out of office in a heartbeat. Such is the price of making a deal with the devil.

It’s easy enough to say “screw them all,” but they’re screwing all of us. They’ve brought social progress and equity to a standstill and they’re not about to relent. The states they’ve gerrymandered are safely in their hands and there’s not a damn thing we can do about it until the next census in 2020.

Given their new voter suppression laws in many states, there’s a possibility that the crazed minority can keep hold of the House and may even take over the Senate. And let’s not kid ourselves about the next presidential election. They can’t win it. But they can steal it.

The power held by today’s Republicans is something that the KKK could only envy.

[TexasTowelie]

1. Because the members of the party would get the

KKK confused with the XXX that they use as their signatures.

[meow2u3]

6. DUzy!

[Katashi_itto]

23. Because the KKK is to respectable in comparison.

[roguevalley]

26. copyright infringement. :D

[n2doc]

2. Copyright infringement

They would have to pay the KKK for the use if their name! And that costs money that would otherwise be spent paying RW bloggers and the children of RW pols!

[Baitball Blogger]

3. It certainly would make things easier, so our more moderate Republican acquaintainces can

understand why we can't be in the same room with them when they start to regurgitate the right-wing talking points.

[Xyzse]

4. I'm sorry but

They are great at marketing themselves. Bad product, but great marketing strategies.

I have to give them that. They are awful at governing, empathy and such things. Running a business and marketing is not the same as running a government and taking care of people.

They have captured more or less half of the American voting block. They are able to sell things that are ultimately bad to their consumers, and make them ask for more. They are pushers, and know enough to try to improve their brand and build acceptance first before pushing crazier things.

Maybe one day.

[Cyrano]

12. Yep. They're brilliant hucksters.

However, I don't think they've captured about half of the American voting block. Their voters just turn out more than others. Especially in primaries. (That's why the clown car is filling up again for 2016.)

The last election showed the power of the Dems when they get pissed off and show up at the polls. And I believe that Obama's margine of victory would actually have been much larger if it had not been for the voter suppression tactics, and "lost" and uncounted votes.

Nonetheless, far too many fools consistently cast their votes against their own interests. They are people who can't tell the difference between filet mignon and pig dung.

[Xyzse]

15. I sure hope you're right

In regards to not capturing half of the American voting block..

Just hoping 2014 is better than 2010.

[gopiscrap]

5. no kidding the only thing missing with a

republican is the white sheet

[meow2u3]

8. The white sheet isn't the only thing missing

Republicans also are missing the points on top of their heads.

[gopiscrap]

11. good one, you made me laugh!

[uponit7771]

16. +1

[hughee99]

7. Because the name is already taken and they don't want to get sued. n/t

[Auntie Bush]

9. Maybe everytime we say GOP we should add (aka KKK)

[napkinz]

10. sounds right

[Cyrano]

14. Exactly!

Too bad Chris Hayes or Rachel Maddow can't flash this on the screen. I doubt if the owner's of MSNBC would allow it.

On the other hand, Fox could always put it up as their "Mission Accomplished" banner.

[COLGATE4]

13. Because the KKK are too moderate for them. nt

[uponit7771]

17. +1

[uponit7771]

18. In practice the GOP is doing no different than what the KKK was initially organized for...

...they wanted to stop blacks from voting republican after slavery and did all they could to stop them.

There's very little different today except now they want to stop balcks from voting dem

[Ganja Ninja]

19. At least the KKK was up front about their racism.

I don't even think the real traditional GOP is all that racist. They just adopted a not so closeted racist agenda to appeal to racist yahoos. Now they're overrun with them. They are fakes through and through. It's all about power for the rich elites with them. They will do or say anything no matter how low, no matter how despicable, if they think it will scrape together a few more votes for them. To them (the rich elites of the GOP) racism is just a tool to divide people.

[Cyrano]

20. Then there's the likes of

Steve King, Lois Gohmert (the idiot from Texas), Rand Paul, and many others of their ilk in the House, the Senate, and in state houses throughout the country, who are true believers.

You almost (almost) have to pity someone like Boehner who is just in it for the power, yet is the total captive of the inmates.

Google the klansman David Duke. He was a state house member in Louisiana who, back when, was in the Republican presidential clown car and ran for the U.S. Senate. He was before his time. If he'd run in the last four or five years, we'd probably have a Senator Duke.

[AlinPA]

22. I disagree that "this is not a view held by the majority of Republicans"I know a lot of republicans.

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Every single one is a dirty goddam racist. IMO, most republicans are racists.

[Cyrano]

24. I don't have any statistics

It was probably just wishful thinking on my part in the OP.

[uponit7771]

25. lol

[Jamaal510]

27. The "Anti-Everything" Party

is what my name suggestion for them would be. Many of them are anti-women, anti-gay, anti-minority, anti-health care, anti-moderate, anti-Jew, anti-Muslim, anti-education, you name it. They oppose and obstruct, but offer no fresh, new ideas.