Erik Erickson of Red State: All these polls showing America hates the GOP are accurate

[cali]

Of course the piece of shit endorses keeping the gov't shut- not passing a CR, but he seems to scared as hell of what blocking raising the debt ceiling will do to rethuglicans.

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Extend the debt ceiling so the manufactured nonsense about defaulting goes away, then keep the fight on the continuing resolution about Obamacare.

The RedState contact email is now getting one anti-GOP email for every one anti-Democrat email. That has never happened before. All these polls showing America hates the GOP are accurate. Even Republicans hate the GOP and the GOP might have to learn that the hard way in 2014 primaries.

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http://www.redstate.com/2013/10/15/reject-this/

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1. They don't call them RED states for nothing

We often have to pay with blood for foolishness from such people. These disruptors are often undereducated and have never heard about the slow to anger but a monster to deal with after it has been angered. When these little groups that get together to extract from the majority of us they usually find out it's not so fun with Hell and Heaven knowing all along it often doesn't end pretty

[Fawke Em]

3. Except that they're not red states - they're states with more red areas.

Pennsylvania would be a red state without it's massive urban areas on either side of the state. Most states in the South simply don't have enough urban areas to counteract the rural Republican voters, even though the urban areas are just as blue as those in the Northeast and on the West Coast.

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5. And a donut is not a donut

Talk about messed up states, Pennsylvania? whoa, what the %$#@

The real problem after the paid for whores they call politicians, is how badly they all these places gerrymandered. If you go to these charts listed here at the bottom of this Wiki and if you could imagine evening out and equalizing just a few of these places we would be having REAL elections here in USA. We got to do it here in California by voter mandate and it turned way more blue overnight

Cook Partisan Voting Index
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Partisan_Voting_Index

[Laelth]

2. Interesting comment following Mr. Erickson's diatribe:

"The RedState contact email is now getting one anti-GOP email for every one anti-Democrat email."

What make[s] you believe Red State is representative of mainstream republicans? That is a majority of republicans?

To win your agenda you need a majority in the house, not a minority threatening republican representatives, win the senate and either get a super majority in the house & senate or also win the presidency.

Well, as one Erik Erikson was one of the signatories of the Letter coordinated by ED Meese, I'd have to say the crazies on the right and no coming home to roost at Red State.

The author of this comment blames Erickson for endorsing the shut-down strategy in the first place and then accuses Erickson of living in the right-wing, conservative media bubble.

Both of these accusations are on target.

-Laelth

[Oilwellian]

4. Erickson played a big part in the extremists agenda

I did a video about him when CNN hired his nasty ass. YouTube shut it down due to copyright use of Dylan's song. I do admit, I used a bit too much of it to claim Fair Use. I did however put it up on Vimeo and haven't had a problem due to its obscurity on a rarely used account. It captures Erickson perfectly and exposes his participation in the Tea Party's attempt to destroy our government.

http://vimeo.com/19115843

[Laelth]

6. That's an impressive piece of work.

Full disclosure: Mr. Erickson and I are children of the same city and the same generation. He has been vastly more successful than I. He's making money peddling hate and fear. I am not. I think that says a lot about the United States, at the moment, but the generations coming up after us hold views that will make Erickson an extinct anachronism. He's representative of the last, dying gasp of Reaganism.

What's frightening, at the moment, is that the money-bags on Wall Street have lost control of their beast, the Republican Party, and Erickson is partially to blame for that. The poster I quoted above lays the blame squarely where it belongs. That said, I do appreciate your artful way of demonstrating exactly what Mr. Erickson is.

-Laelth