Reply #4: Southern Strategy...Raygun Myth... [View All]

[KharmaTrain]

Actually you can trace this back to the McCarthyites and Dulles crowd of the 50's...the red baiters and commie haters that emerged out of the party in that era. This also became the start of the military-industrial complex...the financial alliance between the GOOP and defense and big money contractors.

Next throw in Nixon's Southern Strategy that embraced the Wallace "law and order" concept (translation: intolerance) that grew into the meme that only GOOPers knew how to keep our streets safe and tied that to the cold war boogie man.

Then came Raygun who played up the macho image...the "peace through strength" bullshit that many of today's wingnuts were weened on. It was exagerated and spun by Gingrich, Rove, Atwater and many others in the 90's (especially via hate radio) to make the lie the assumption...and when the lie is repeated enough, it became "conventional wisdom" that was used by the GOOP and the boosh cabal not only to insulate themselves from their real nature and to tar Democrats. For years the GOOP could blame a Democratic President or Congress...it wasn't until we had 6 years of one party rule that the entire myth has been exposed and now has exploded.

Cheers...