Glenn Greenwald: The Real Reason the GOP Primary Is a Pathetic, Incompetent Clown Show

[tabatha]

21. Well, I have to give Greenwald a few points for the following:

"In a desperate attempt to find someone less slithery and soulless (not to mention less Mormon), party members have lurched manically from one ludicrous candidate to the next, only to watch in horror as each wilted the moment they were subjected to scrutiny."

"Because Obama has governed as a centrist Republican, these GOP candidates are able to attack him as a leftist radical only by moving so far to the right in their rhetoric and policy prescriptions that they fall over the cliff of mainstream acceptability, or even basic sanity."

Although I don't agree with the voluntary "centrist Republican" governing - because of the GOP obstructionism, Obama has been unable to get anything too much left of center done, except for a few issues, where he had some GOP support.

"The core problem for GOP challengers is that they cannot be respectable Republicans because, as Krugman pointed out, Obama has that position occupied. They are forced to move so far to the right that they render themselves inherently absurd."

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My take is that the right wing (Fox News, Rush Limbaugh) has been brainwashing those who swallow the hype for so long with lies and propaganda, that to be elected by the brain-washed people, they have to make ridiculous claims that echo the lies. And as far as claiming that Obama has the moderate Republican position occupied, there are still dolts in this country that will ignore that and vote based on him being a muslim or some other lie.