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Photographer

(1,142 posts)
Sat Jul 2, 2016, 01:58 PM Jul 2016

The GOP is becoming "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."

Vince Foster, Whitewater, Obama's a Muslim, Obama not born in the U.S., Benghazi, EMails...

Don't these people even fucking notice that all these alarms are false? I guess someone gave them the old marketing adage "you throw enough spaghetti against the wall, some of it's bound to stick." Trouble is... You keep doing that shit and even the stupid must begin to notice...

Right?

right?

Oh, fuck.

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The GOP is becoming "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." (Original Post) Photographer Jul 2016 OP
Oh god. I got crickets... Photographer Jul 2016 #1
The tin foil hat party 4139 Jul 2016 #2
That's been their tactic since at least Reagan - but that's not what has really worked for them. forest444 Jul 2016 #3
+100 Photographer Jul 2016 #5
Sad, isn't it. forest444 Jul 2016 #6
Good to see you take it back that far. n/t Photographer Jul 2016 #9
I'm afraid not, for some. Ready4Change Jul 2016 #4
They never notice because they believe everything that confirms ThoughtCriminal Jul 2016 #7
Back in the 90s they refined the formula... JHB Jul 2016 #8
it's not just the GOP Skittles Jul 2016 #10
Right? Turin_C3PO Jul 2016 #11
they don't even realize how stupid they sound Skittles Jul 2016 #12
Which is precisely why we need to stop pretending ... surrealAmerican Jul 2016 #13

forest444

(5,902 posts)
3. That's been their tactic since at least Reagan - but that's not what has really worked for them.
Sat Jul 2, 2016, 02:27 PM
Jul 2016

It was the clever positioning of themselves since 1964 as "the white man's party" that has gotten them this far.

They can lie - and even commit treason - with impunity because to many white voters, "they're with us (and protect us against minorities)."

Same trick all fascist parties have used through the ages.

forest444

(5,902 posts)
6. Sad, isn't it.
Sat Jul 2, 2016, 02:49 PM
Jul 2016

If only more white Republicans realized that to the Panama Papers crowd that owns the GOP, we're all "minorities" in that we're all disenfranchised - and more so all the time, it seems.

Ready4Change

(6,736 posts)
4. I'm afraid not, for some.
Sat Jul 2, 2016, 02:33 PM
Jul 2016

They reflexively declare they are all about preserving Constitutional rights, and then freely abandon the concept when applied to liberals.

In this case, they believe constant accusations=guilt, regardless of any convictions, presumption of innocence be damned.

ThoughtCriminal

(14,047 posts)
7. They never notice because they believe everything that confirms
Sat Jul 2, 2016, 02:56 PM
Jul 2016

their world view, long after the accusations have been debunked.

JHB

(37,158 posts)
8. Back in the 90s they refined the formula...
Sat Jul 2, 2016, 03:03 PM
Jul 2016

Throw turd ball after turd ball of bullshit, horse shit, elephant shit, mouse shit, etc., in hopes that some fleck of it would stick so that they could play out a 'wrath of the righteous' drama show for their base.

And until some fleck sticks, all those balls will pile up at the feet of the target, so that they can point to the fogbank of steam rising from it and say "You know what they say, 'where there's smoke....."

Turin_C3PO

(13,964 posts)
11. Right?
Sat Jul 2, 2016, 09:59 PM
Jul 2016

It's sad that 25 years of GOP shit slinging and propaganda has even seeped into the left wing of the spectrum.

Skittles

(153,150 posts)
12. they don't even realize how stupid they sound
Sat Jul 2, 2016, 10:02 PM
Jul 2016

there's plenty of legitimate criticism (IWR, for example) but when they talk about Whitewater and Benghazi and emails, jeez

surrealAmerican

(11,360 posts)
13. Which is precisely why we need to stop pretending ...
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 08:20 AM
Jul 2016

... that wolves are all mythical creatures.

Tune out the Republicans and keep our own look out.

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