Since the election of Barack Obama, the Republican Party has proved that one of its central intellectual arguments was right all along. They have long claimed that evolution is a myth believed in only by whiny liberals -- and it turns out they were onto something. Every six months, the Republican Party venerates a new hero, and each time it is somebody further back on the evolutionary scale.

Sarah Palin told cheering rallies that her message to the world was: "We'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way!" -- but that wasn't enough. So they found Michele Bachmann, who said darkly it was an "interesting coincidence" that swine flu only breaks out under Democratic presidents, claims the message of The Lion King is "I'm better at what I do because I'm gay," and argues "there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows carbon dioxide is a harmful gas."

That wasn't enough. I half-expected the next contender to be a lung-fish draped in the Stars and Stripes. But it wasn't anything so sophisticated. Enter stage (far) right Donald Trump, the bewigged billionaire who has filled America with phallic symbols and plastered his name across more surfaces than the average Central Asian dictator. A survey suggests he is the most popular candidate among Republican voters. It's not hard to see why.

Trump is every trend in Republican politics over the past thirty-five years taken to its logical conclusion. He is the Republican id, finally entirely unleashed from all restraint and all reality.

The first trend is towards naked imperialism. On Libya, he says: "I would go in and take the oil... I would take the oil and stop this baby stuff." On Iraq, he says: "We stay there, and we take the oil... In the old days, when you have a war and you win, that nation's yours."
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The second trend is towards dog-whistle prejudice -- pitched just high enough for frightened white Republicans to hear it. Trump made it a central issue to suggest Obama wasn't born in America (and therefore was occupying the White House illegally) -- even though this conspiracy theory had long since been proven to be as credible as the people who claim Paul McCartney was killed in 1969 and replaced with an imposter. Trump said nobody "ever comes forward" to say they knew Obama as a child in Hawaii. When lots of people pointed out they knew Obama as a child, Trump ridiculed the idea they could remember that far back. Then he said he'd "heard" the birth certificate said Obama was Muslim. When it was released saying no such thing, Trump said: "I'm very proud of myself."

The Republican primary voters heard the message right -- the black guy is foreign. He's not one of us. Trump responded to these charges by saying: "I've always had a great relationship with the blacks."

The third trend is towards raw worship of wealth as an end in itself -- and exempting them from all social responsibility. Trump is wealthy because his father left him a large business, and since then companies with his name on them have crashed into bankruptcy four times. In 1990, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Clay Johnson studied the Trump accounts and claimed that while Trump claimed to be worth $1.4bn, he was actually worth -$600m. That is, he owed $600m more than he owned. You and I were worth more than him.
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In America today, a janitor can pay more income tax than Donald Trump -- and the Republicans regard that not as a source of shame, but of pride.
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The fourth trend is to insist that any fact inconvenient to your world-view either doesn't exist, or can be overcome by pure willpower. Soon, the U.S. will have to extend its debt ceiling -- the amount of money the government is allowed to borrow - or it will default on its debt. Virtually every economist in the world says this would cause another global economic crash. Trump snaps back: "What do economists know? Most of them aren't very smart."

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Trump probably won't become the Republican nominee, but it won't be because most Republicans reject his premises. No: it will be because he states these arguments too crudely for mass public consumption. He takes the underlying whispered dogmas of the Reagan, Bush and Tea Party years and shrieks them through a megaphone. The nominee will share similar ideas, but express them more subtly.

In case you think these ideas are marginal to the party, remember -- it has united behind the budget plan of Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan. It's simple: it halves taxes on the richest 1 percent and ends all taxes on corporate income, dividends and inheritance. It pays for it by slashing spending on food stamps, healthcare for the poor and the elderly, and basic services. It aims to return the US to the spending levels of the 1920s -- and while Ryan frames it as a response to the deficit, it would actually increase it according to the independent Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/donald-trump-has-revealed_b_855278.html
В таком вот аксепте

Да все то же - "не все консерваторы дураки, но все дураки - консерваторы". И процент консерваторов-недураков, судя по реповским кандидатам, падает стремительным домкратом.

Это, мягко говоря, не совсем так. Далеко не все политики дураки. И даже которые да, делятся на скучное унылое г-но и феерических дол..бов слеш сказочных дур.

правда глаза колет ? :))))

Вы, Сандаль, не освоили даже главный мой тезис незамысловатый - что республиканская партия стремительно глупеет. Их умные люди вынуждены подстраиваться под уровень развития пламбера Джо. Такими темпами мы скоро получим не реп и дем партии, а партии очень тупых и так себе.

скажем так - серьезно увеличил вероятность выигрыша :)

вот уж Сталина тяжело назвать "умным". Выкосил пол-России, цвет нации, так, что до сих пор аукается.

сужу по результатам.

Раисся - вперде.

Быть вперде - это не то, к чему стоит стремиться, Сандаль.

Ну что, одним клоуном у республиканских кандидатов стало меньше.

BREAKING: Trump not running for president

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/16/breaking-trump-not-running-for-president/?hpt=T1

В последнем плейбое интервью с Lawrence O'Donnell. Умный мужик. Про Сарочку нашу Палин сказал - moneymaking machine, и никуда она в жизни больше не собирается выбираться, что стало абсолютно ясно после ее ухода с поста губернатора. Сарочка будет мутить воду до последнего, поскольку как только она скажет "я не выбираюсь в Президенты", в следующую минуту пресса и ТВ переключатся на Pawlenty, и время собирать бабки для Сарочки закончится. Так что потянет она кота за яйца еще полгода - и сплывет с нашего горизонта, надеюсь, навсегда.

вся политическая обочина засыпана обломками старых манимейкед машин.

А вот про эволюцию Обамы. Ну и про репов, естественно.
Вкратце - в 2012 году схлестнутся Обама АКА реп до-2008 года выпуска vs придурок, выбранный чаелюбами.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/24/carville.obama.mideast/index.html?hpt=T2

Obama is looking like a 2008 Republican
By James Carville, CNN Contributor

(CNN) -- As I sat watching the hysterical and apocalyptic reaction to President Barack Obama's speech addressing the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, in which he endorsed a position that was previously advocated by George W. Bush, Tom DeLay, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, opposition leader Tzipi Livni and even Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, it got me thinking about the other vicious attacks on the president's previous policies.

Let's start with the president's decision to continue George W. Bush's TARP -- the successful program that averted a financial collapse and bailed out the automotive industry.

I've always wondered why Bush didn't try to lay some claim to the successful outcome of that situation instead of expecting to be credited with the downfall of Osama bin Laden, which he actually had very little to do with.

The fact that Obama promoted the individual mandate health-care plan previously endorsed by Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty had the GOP up in arms.

But boy, what really got the boys on Fox News, talk radio and the Tea Party gassed up was when Obama praised Pawlenty, McCain and Romney's cap-and-trade carbon-control plan. And I almost forgot his stimulus program was attacked by John Huntsman for not being large enough.

But then again, it's hard to to top the doomsday predictions that resulted when the chairman of the Federal Reserve (who, by the way, was appointed by George W. Bush) instituted a program that was advocated by Ronald Reagan's favorite economist, the late Milton Friedman, who is universally acknowledged to be the most influential conservative economist of the 20th century.

n 1992, Bill Clinton famously proclaimed himself to be an Eisenhower Republican. By that measure, I'd say President Obama is a pre-2008 John McCain Republican.

But this much is sure: The policies of the eventual Republican nominee, that is, anybody left running for it by the time of the vote, will be right in line with those of Sarah Palin. It's pretty remarkable that the next election is going to boil down to a competition between the 2008 Republican presidential candidate and his vice presidential nominee.

Для тех кто в америку не ходит, я в двух строчках написал главный тезис по-русски.

ну привычка такая, за базар отвечать ссылкой. Можно без копипаста, но тогда наш деревенский дурачок не поверит, а по ссылке не пойдет.

Ну че - Ти-парти, похоже, получила в пятак неожиданную отдачу от избирателей ?

Democrat Wins G.O.P. Seat; Rebuke Seen to Medicare Plan

Democrats scored an upset in one of New York’s most conservative Congressional districts on Tuesday, dealing a blow to the national Republican Party in a race that largely turned on the party’s plan to overhaul Medicare.

Two months ago, the Democrat, Kathy Hochul, was considered an all-but-certain loser in the race against the Republican, Jane Corwin. But Ms. Hochul seized on the Republican’s embrace of the proposal from Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, to overhaul Medicare, and she never let up.

On Tuesday, she captured 47 percent of the vote to Ms. Corwin’s 43 percent, according to unofficial results. A Tea Party candidate, Jack Davis, had 9 percent.

Voters, who turned out in strikingly large numbers for a special election, said they trusted Ms. Hochul, the county clerk of Erie County, to protect Medicare.

“I have almost always voted the party line,” said Gloria Bolender, a Republican from Clarence who is caring for her 80-year-old mother. “This is the second time in my life I’ve voted against my party.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/nyregion/democrat-capture-house-seat-in-special-election.html

Похоже, либо репы уберут свои грязные ручонки от здравоохранения в целом и медикара в частности, либо их ожидает сокрушительный разгром в 12м году. Все, что Обаме надо для победы - это рассказать электорату в доступной плоской форме что Obamacare это те же Medicare, вид в профиль.