DeMint And Bachmann: It's Easier To Organize Liberals Than Conservatives

To which DeMint said: "Well, anybody who wants to be President doesn't know how much trouble we're in."

Gee, Mr. DeMint. And just HOW did we get in all this trouble? Last time I checked, the recession started over a year before Obama got in office, Obama didn't cause the failure on the Afghan front, Obama didn't leave Iraq unfinished after 6 years, Obama didn't ignore healthcare reform while it got worse and worse, Obama didn't de-regulate (and fail to uphold existing regulations) for the financial industry and let them go nuts, and ...

Maybe you should wait until 2016 to try for President. We might have cleaned up some the mess left behind by your party by then.

Hey Jim, not easy to organize conservatives? Not to worry you can always bamboozle them. Um, eaily, ask Vitter.

Not to mention needing all those weird right wing sources for money to rent Astro-turf!

As a member of The Family, Mr DeMint thinks, as they all do there on C Street, that God has chosen him to be in power. I'd think he'd be stepping up. After all, Bush thought God wanted him to be President and he became President. Just like that. Divine intervention - er - Supreme intervention, actually.

Conservatives by nature do not questions "their" leader. Admitting their leaders have faults would somehow be an admission they are not the chosen group with all the answers.
As an example, Evangelical Christians are taught not to question anything they read or learn. That mindset is why Bush/Cheney ran roughshod over the country for eight years without any sense of regret from the people who put them in office.

DeMint explained that conservative people are, by their nature, an independent-minded lot who value their personal freedom

No, Mr Dement. Your constituent are those people who most benefit from federal money yet (a) do not want to admit, or (b) are ignorant of, that fact. That we wouldn't call "independent-minded."

How much psychic energy does it take for Bachmann to willingly act that stupid? Tremendous message discipline.

Who are they kidding? In the words of Will Rodgers: "I belong to no organized political party, I'm a Democrat." Anybody who has attended a Democratic caucus knows the truth of this statement. There is a reason the R's could ram through legislation with a 55 seat Senate majority, but the D's can't with a 60 seat majority. When it comemes to goose steping in unison, the Republicans win hands down, every time.

No one should assume they're sincere. They're only saying their minions desperately need to believe about themselves. They are hardy, rugged individualists, who, true to the spirit of the Cincinnati, have set nobly aside the plow and, indeed, even their own cherished individuality, in response to a dire threat to their beloved freedoms. Yes, in response to the mindless orchestrated evil conspiracy of a disciplined foe leading a deluded, ignorant, lockstep horde, they are answering the call to serve, like the Minutemen before them.

It's pretty diabolical, but it's also authoritarian propagandist SOP. Project the thing about your side that's most disturbing onto your foes and you short circuit the possibility of the kind of introspection that would undermine your ability to control the deluded, ignorant, lockstep horde you've assembled. , N

We underestimate and ignore DeMint at our peril. He is running for president (did you notice he's got the obligatory ghost-written book out in the bookstore?), he's repeatedly shown himself to be the rhetorical vanguard for the coalition of extremists and authoritarians that have systematically subverted and taken control of the Republican Party over the last ten or fifteen years. He consistently telegraphs the next phase of whatever insanity they're going to be getting up to weeks before it happens.

It's really easy to project how bad things can get if he gets the GOP nomination just based on what we've seen in the last couple of years. Under him, the Republicans would get crushed in November, but only after the most insane, most dangerous, most frankly anti-democratic campaign in U.S. history. The angry hysteria we saw at Palin's events last time was just the disorganized, embryonic warm-up for DeMint's campaign. The militant gun-toting thuggery we're seeing now will be the norm--so much so that the MSM will just accept it as "the new normal" and cease to be disturbed by it.

And then, when a horrified nation hands them their asses on Election Day, they "ACORN will steal the election from us Real Americans" mythology they'll be pumping out could fuel an American version of the chaos we've seen supposedly "immature" democracies, except this time based on a delusion that will be immune to reason.

Yeah, increasingly, it's stopped being funny the way it is with Bachmann. This guy really freaks me out.