http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/01/29/hows-the-republican-party-doing Comments On: How's the Republican Party Doing? by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 18 May 2013 02:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
Maybe some thing will finally get done when the wacky and the greedy each go their seperate ways.
Posted by Frank Blethen's vodka distiller]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:42:13 -0800 The Stranger
Thanks for calling bullshit.
Posted by rob!]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:47:41 -0800 The Stranger
The current Republican party is a cultural party devoted to defending the American monoculture from encroaching multi-culturalism. They are an organization brought together to rally around and support a mythology best expressed in the television situation comedies of the 1960's like Father Knows Best and Leave it to Beaver.

They are the self-appointed defenders of Sarah Palin's "real America" - the American mono-culture of small towns in rural areas where everyone (or nearly everyone) in the town shares the same heritage, the same foods, the same faith, and the same social norms. Like any monoculture they believe that their way is the one and only right way. Like any monoculture they respond reflexively and defensively to anything foreign to their established model.

The party found the votes they need to win elections with their Southern Strategy and but the social conservatives they enlisted to bulk up their numbers have since taken over the party. They are no longer thoughtful conservatives with a legitimate perspective on the role of government. Instead they have devolved into sloganeering yahoos who rely entirely on a myth-based perspective instead of a reality-based perspective. They will make allies with any demon who will offer support for their pro-gun, anti-choice, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, racist, sexist, classist, free market worldview.

I suppose there are still a few Republicans who have well-considered principle-based policy positions on the proper role of government and how government should function, but by and large the party membership demonstrate little interest in governing, policy, or principles. They just want to preserve their myth of small town America as it was before 1968.
Posted by Charlie Mas]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:09:10 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:58:41 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Rotten666]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:57:58 -0800 The Stranger
The man's very name is a misrepresentation of himself.
Posted by rob!]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:06:33 -0800 The Stranger
This is all party positioning and brand marketing. Seriously: if you read a lot of political coverage, you can see these media events coming a mile away. I expect to see Rush dating Ted Cruz next week.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:59:53 -0800 The Stranger Posted by wxPDX]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:51:03 -0800 The Stranger