The decline to moral bankruptcy of the GOP

The somewhat sobering thing was the end of the town hall. After listening to his constituency repeat conspiracy theories and unwavering devotion to our dear leader, he quoted Franklin’s famous “a Democracy, madam; if you can keep it” and then implored his constituents to be better citizens (more or less), and his fear that after 230 year anniversary of the Constitution we may be in danger of losing our democracy. I was kind of stunned, though i doubt anyone else picked up on it, too busy hitting refresh on Infowars to notice. If you see your job as representing a bat-shit crazy constituency, what exactly are you to do?

Resigning in disgust sounds morally acceptable.

Resigning in disgust results in one of those batshit crazy asshats taking your place. The morally responsible thing to do is remain where you are and attempt to govern responsibly in the best interests of your constituents, even if they don’t know their own best interests.

I absolutely LOATHE where the GOP has gone this election cycle, but even so, there are still a few Republican representatives out there who could turn things around or at least act as a roadblock to full insanity. (Susan Collins seems to be doing the right thing for example) We need them to stay where they are, and we need Republicans who are sick of Trump and the idiots to vote more of these sorts of people into office in places were Democrats don’t have a prayer of winning.

We need a non asshole conservative party to replace the GOP.

Or even just a conservative one.

Yeah, I mean, “non asshole” and “conservative” are a little at odds ;-)

The problem is that the definition of “conservative” used to be someone interested in smaller government, less direct government influence in people’s daily lives, and balanced, responsible budgets with departmental accountability. With that might have come a healthy side of military hawkishness, or a touch of isolationist foreign policy, or a good dose of “that’s not how things were done in my day”.

Today, Conservative basically means a combination of one-issue political blindness, Christian religious fanaticism and general racist misogynistic asshattery.

What is needed is a Republican party devoid of Conservatives. Or better yet, an America devoid of Conservatives.

Wow, FOX news should be first against the wall then…

Here is the link to the actual poll for those of you who are suspicious of stuff on twitter.

Not only has the Republican party become unrecognizable to me, but Republicans have also become unrecognizable. Truly depressing.

There is also a congressional push to muzzle the CBO because it gives the “wrong” answers. They should not do their own analysis, but focus on collecting and regurgitating the combined views of the right-wing thinktanks.

The other thing that you are missing is that so many of the self-styled conservatives see this as religious dogma and are zealots about their issues/fighting liberals and not the Constitution.

See no new taxes pledges, restrictions on a fully-legal per the Supreme Court medical procedure, religious freedom (to discriminate), teaching evolution (still!?!?), climate change (who gives a rat’s ass if it’s anthropomorphic if it’s threatening our environment), drill baby drill, etc. The list goes on and on as to what must be dogma, and what can be compromised on gets smaller and smaller (pretty sure it’s almost zero now).

Hell, Liberals are a bigger enemy than the Russians now. There’s no room for accepting that maybe the dogma is wrong (or that there’s room for compromise).

Just x heard this quote from Gingrich in the 90s.
“Think about a party whose last stand is to frighten 85-year-olds, and you’ll understand how totally morally bankrupt the modern Democratic Party is.”

Frightening old people is the fundamental core of the modern GOP.

Ummm… I’m just going to go with Reinhold throwing shade.

But Obama death panels!

Muslim refugees, Obama Obama Clinton, socialism.

Also this:

lolz

Mitch McConnell is unleashing the full force of his political machine in an all-out push to stop two far-right conservatives who threaten to make his life miserable in the Senate.

The Republican leader is aiming to thwart Rep. Mo Brooks and former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore in a special election in Alabama next month. Both men are campaigning against McConnell as a despised symbol of the establishment — and both would exacerbate his already stiff challenge wrangling his GOP Conference.

Tough dilemma: hope for more far right wingnuts to be elected in red States in the short term, to make McConnell’s life harder for now, vs. the risk that those far right wingnuts might actually get strong enough to be able to pass something down the road.

It feels a little like the “Vote for Trump in the primary” advocates, and we all see how that turned out.

Ya, don’t support crazy fucking imbeciles, ever.

McConnell is responding in kind. His super PAC is set to spend much as $8 million to boost his favored candidate, recently appointed Republican Sen. Luther Strange.

SUPER NOT A SUPER VILLAIN.