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From RMoney to Drumpf
Author: Raine    Date: 03/03/2016 14:13:09

This tweet says it all:




Mitt Romney to Eviscerate Donald Trump as 'Phony' and 'Fraud'
He called Trump a "phony" and a "fraud" making "worthless" promises.

"His domestic policies would lead to recession. His foreign policies would make America and the world less safe," Romney will say. "He has neither the temperament nor the judgement to be president. And his personal qualities would mean that America would cease to be a shining city on a hill."

Major Republican donors convened a conference call Tuesday afternoon to convince fellow donors to fund an effort to cripple the front-runner.

Romney barely energized his party 4 years ago and now he is their great hope.

Truth be told, Nothing Romney says will change the minds of the front-runners supporters. The damage is done.

The writing was on the wall in after Reagan was elected, according to this historian. Once elected the slow creep rightward started reaching a faster speed,
After World War II, President Dwight Eisenhower and men like New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller led the Republican Party with policies based in reasoned argument. They used the government to regulate the economy and to promote social welfare, much as Democrats did, although with a philosophy that emphasized social unity rather than class conflict. The policies of these “Me Too” Republicans infuriated Movement Conservatives on the far right, who insisted that all government activism was communism. In 1964, Movement Conservative spokesman Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater won the Republican nomination when Rockefeller’s womanizing spectacularly imploded his candidacy. Movement Conservatives used their hero’s nomination to advance a new kind of politics. (snip)

It did. And so, after 1968, Republicans increasingly relied on their apocalyptic redemption story. America was in terrible trouble, because grasping minorities, women and workers wanted government policies that would suck tax dollars from hardworking white people. Democrats backed those policies because they would do anything to buy votes. It was up to Republicans to restore America to its former glory. In a time of dramatic economic and social upheaval, this story reassured voters left behind in the new conditions that the answers to their problems were simple, and that coming up with those answers required no great education or thought. It simply required the right principles.

The Movement Conservative story was never based in reality. Facts repeatedly gave way to the narrative that America was on the ropes because of Democratic social welfare policies that sucked tax dollars and threatened the nation’s safety. Ronald Reagan’s Welfare Queen represented the misuse of tax dollars for lazy African-Americans, for example, but he also incorrectly insisted that President Carter had slashed the nation’s military budget, and warned in his inaugural address that the nation was in a crisis that rivaled the Great Depression, a crisis created by government activism.

To avoid niggling fact-checkers, in 1987, President Reagan’s FCC abandoned the Fairness Doctrine, a decision that meant that public broadcasters were no longer required to provide their audience with opposing viewpoints. Within a year, talk radio had taken off, with hosts like Rush Limbaugh hammering home the vision of a nation gone to ruin, awaiting redemption from the latest Movement Conservative candidate. In 1992, Limbaugh began to broadcast a television show, produced by Roger Ailes, to take the story to viewers. By 1994, the show was carried by 225 television stations. Two years later, Ailes would become the CEO of a new media channel, Fox News, which used the same formula—albeit updated—that Ailes had used to package Nixon’s story almost 30 years before.


This is a sickness that started long before the Tea party metastasized it.
 

16 comments (Latest Comment: 03/03/2016 20:22:16 by Mondobubba)
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Comment by BobR on 03/03/2016 14:39:24
Gingrich and Luntz pushed the rhetoric further into the toilet in 1994 with the GOPAC list of words

Comment by Raine on 03/03/2016 14:49:07



Comment by Raine on 03/03/2016 14:55:43
Comment by BobR on 03/03/2016 15:22:31
This is teh awesome!



Comment by wickedpam on 03/03/2016 15:51:37
Morning

Comment by Scoopster on 03/03/2016 16:14:22
Mornin' all!

Man, I feel like the primary this year is a mirror of 2008, with the only difference being the "Hillary is 44" idiots have been replaced by the Bernbots blowing lame GOP talking points out of proportion to make their own points. A good friend of mine was dragging up the Clinton Foundation again claiming it was campaign contributions from a foreign government, and I felt like slapping her for being nonsensical.

Comment by BobR on 03/03/2016 16:22:52
Quote by Scoopster:
Mornin' all!

Man, I feel like the primary this year is a mirror of 2008, with the only difference being the "Hillary is 44" idiots have been replaced by the Bernbots blowing lame GOP talking points out of proportion to make their own points. A good friend of mine was dragging up the Clinton Foundation again claiming it was campaign contributions from a foreign government, and I felt like slapping her for being nonsensical.

I have found the level of acrimony from supporters of both candidates to be aggravating. It seems a little more aggressive from Sanders supporters and more taunting from Clinton supporters, but it's really disappointing in any case.

Comment by TriSec on 03/03/2016 17:06:50
I like Bernie. I don't like Hilary; never did.

But vote 'R' out of spite? Or worse, not vote at all?

Well then, we deserve what we get. See you at the camp.

Comment by Will in Chicago on 03/03/2016 17:20:53
Quote by TriSec:
I like Bernie. I don't like Hilary; never did.

But vote 'R' out of spite? Or worse, not vote at all?

Well then, we deserve what we get. See you at the camp.



I would vote for used kitty litter over a Republican.

The current crop of Republicans seem to have escaped a farcical movie into our world.

I support Bernie, but I can work with Hillary - providing persuasion and support or criticism and pressure where appropriate. Donald Trump would no more listen to progressives than he would to a stone.

Comment by Will in Chicago on 03/03/2016 17:47:37
I am stunned by the racist who called into Thom's program.

I find it disgusting that there are so many Americans who still hold that man's attitudes. I am not shocked that this man and his friends are Trump supporters.

Comment by Raine on 03/03/2016 18:37:34
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG


I did nopt want to like this when I heard about it, then I was quite interested in the casting, but the trailer!

WOW!

Comment by wickedpam on 03/03/2016 18:46:03
Quote by Raine:
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG


I did nopt want to like this when I heard about it, then I was quite interested in the casting, but the trailer!

WOW!



I'm kind of looking forward too it - I really loved the original movie :D

Comment by Scoopster on 03/03/2016 19:37:26
So Romney's basically telling people to vote for whoever has the best chance to beat Trump in a given state and force a contested convention eh?
I suppose it could work...

Comment by trojanrabbit on 03/03/2016 19:47:07
Wonder if Drumpf will again threaten to go 3rd party during the debate tonight. I might even have to lower myself to record this thing.

Comment by Raine on 03/03/2016 20:19:27
Quote by Scoopster:
So Romney's basically telling people to vote for whoever has the best chance to beat Trump in a given state and force a contested convention eh?
I suppose it could work...
IT's going to be an open convention. The brokering will not be happening.

and I predict riots in the conventiona hall.


Comment by Mondobubba on 03/03/2016 20:22:16
Quote by Raine:
Quote by Scoopster:
So Romney's basically telling people to vote for whoever has the best chance to beat Trump in a given state and force a contested convention eh?
I suppose it could work...
IT's going to be an open convention. The brokering will not be happening.

and I predict riots in the conventiona hall.



It will be both frightening and hilarious to watch.