My response to a Maine right-winger ha-ha-ing me about how we are going to lose in 2010.

[RBInMaine]

Below is my email response to a Maine right winger I know who is ribbing me about how the RePUKEs are on their way to "return the country to reason" this fall.

MY RESPONSE:

"You just don't get it. The trend for now is that the minority usually gains seats in midterms, especially recession cycles. Whether the Repugs can actually assume the congressional majority remains a very big 'if'. Nonetheless, the Repug Party, once indeed a relatively 'reasoned' party (i.e. Lincoln, TR, Ike, Rockefeller), is now the party of the ultra-right and the ultra-white, and notwithstanding any electoral dynamics in this one recession midterm cycle, its favorability at last check was at 24%, and the medium and long-term outlook for it nationally is extremely grim as it insists upon crossing the bridge over to the crazy land of the very racist and radical TeaNut wing of the party (i.e. Angle, Paul, Miller, LePage, love of BachNut, PalinTheNutballQuitter, Beckerhead, HeadRushDruggyMan,...).

So please, kindly enter reality and see the real writing on the wall. Your actual party base is shrinking exponentially as the national demographics continue to broaden ethnically and culturally. With record national turnout in '08 McCain received the same percentage of the white vote as Reagan did in '84, and he was beaten soundly. You may be of the shortsighted mind, for example, that the relatively narrow defeat of the gay marriage bill here in Maine was also some great 'return to reason.' But imagine even ten years ago such a bill receiving 47+% of the popular vote in the oldest-aged state in the country. Unthinkable. And in another ten years, it no doubt passes. Maybe sooner.

The dark ages are over. You and your party should realize that dinosaurs did not live 6000 years ago, that global warming actually is occurring and that human activity has something to do with it, and this actually is an ethnically diverse country with many religions (and plenty who choose no religion).

So when I say I LOVE the crazy direction the Repugs are taking, I mean exactly that. Please keep crossing the bridge to ultra-right-wing nutville. Regardless of one recession cycle, the 'reasoned' majority are going to be blowing up that bridge, and your sad party base of red-neck pot-bellied cement-headed old angry white-haired crackpots are going to be waving their confederate flags and racist signs on NutJobIsland permanently."

[NJmaverick]

1. K & R

[IndianaGreen]

2. GOP is even more clueless as to how to deal with Great Recession

Their standard recipe of shifting more money to the wealthy and cutting public services will plunge the nation into another Great Depression, and this time there won't be an FDR and a New Deal to save capitalism.

[RBInMaine]

7. And this is a KEY point that must be SHOUTED in a Dem narrative of economic populism this cycle.

[tigereye]

3. yeah Palin, Arizona gov, et al are going to "return the country to reason!"

Their racism, isolationism, and basic intolerance (they seem to have forgotten that the "white, older, and still living in the 50s" portion of the electorate will continue to decline.) I'm really not sure where their votes are going to come from! :shrug:

That's just hilarious! :rofl:

[NC_Nurse]

4. The last paragraph is hilarious! Nice one.

:-)

[ocd liberal]

5. The more they talk

reveals their fear. I only hear a lot of noise from GOPs when they are in big trouble.

[monmouth]

6. Truly a thing of beauty to read...K&R...n/t

[jenmito]

8. K&R! n/t

[Sheepshank]

9. well that was a fun read

and seemed to satisfy some inner need :)

A well earned rec from me.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

10. I've stated this many times, but I find it incredibly disingenuous that the M$M continues this

narrative--even LIBERALS have bought into it--and yet, not a single word about how badly the Republicans are faring.

Sure, Democrats are not as enthusiastic.

Sure, Democrats are angry at some in the House and Senate.

Sure, Democrats are angry at Obama.

Sure, the Democrats are losing support from Independents.

But, what the so-called pundits are refusing to report is that Republicans aren't faring better. Yes, there's the recent Gallup Poll 10% advantage that Repukes have over Democrats. However, as a whole, the Republicans aren't doing better. Indeed, their approval rating are lower than that of the Democrats.

That said, the Democratic Party needs to get its act together. Nancy Pelosi needs to start running on all the accomplishments coming out of the House in the last two years.

Instead of going on Faux News and licking asses, Tim Kaine needs to be *kicking* asses and taking names!

Van Hollen. He's my congress member from Maryland. But, he needs to kick it up a notch.

All of us--every, single one of us--needs to get out and help with the vote. I will be traveling to PA to stomp for Sestak, even though I live in MD. My district is quite safe for Van Hollen, so a bunch of us are doing canvassing in PA. We'll do some phone banking, too. Anything to help.

I'm not ready to just sit back and allow the Republicans to destroy this great country! No way, no how!!

[RBInMaine]

13. AWESOME ! Thanks. You should OP this. Please do.

[Cosmocat]

17. THANK YOU!

Toomey is an absolute lunatic, while Sestak is a darn good man ...

I felt the joy of giving Santorum the run two years ago, I don't want to see a good man like Sestak fall short to an unabashed corporatist like Toomey ...

I am doing what I can in central Pa, and am VERY grateful for your helping out on the cause ...

[BootinUp]

11. pretty good response! K&R

[opihimoimoi]

12. KnR 22 :o)

[spartan61]

14. Glad you included LePage in your list of TeaNuts.

[lunatica]

15. Good response.

Keep him up nights in a cold sweat by reminding him of the Browning of America and the social justice that will be addressed and the profound changes it will bring. Instead of reasoning with him, push his fear buttons and tell him he best start making friends with people who are not white, just so they won't do to him what he is so willing to do to them.

http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=16385

Ronald R. Sundstrom
The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice

Ronald R. Sundstrom, The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice, SUNY Press, 2008, 190pp., $24.95 (pbk.), ISBN 9780791475867.

Reviewed by Lucius T. Outlaw (Jr.), Vanderbilt University

The United States is undergoing the most profound demographic changes in the country's history so that in a few decades, if not sooner, persons identified (and identifying themselves) as white and tracing their ancestry to Europe will have become part of the nation's racial and ethnic plurality, no longer its numerically dominant racial group. This historic development portends others equally historic and transformative, among these the gradual -- possibly even dramatic -- displacement of white people as the dominating group politically, economically, socially, even culturally.

more at the link...

[hwmnbn]

16. OUCH, that had to leave a mark!!!

Nice comeback. K&R

[Jensen]

18. That was excellent !!n/t

[MadMaddie]

19. Did he have a glazed look of confusion in his eyes

I mean you used reason, facts and data and basic knowledge to explain it to him?