GREAT ADVICE FROM KRUGMAN....
THE REPUBLICANS ARE STILL IN THE PRE-CRASH LALA LAND OF "WEDGE ISSUES"....
AND BULLSHITTING STUPID PEOPLE WHO ARE THEIR "BASE"...
AND LOBBYING WITH LIES LIKE THE HARRY AND LOUISE ADS THAT TRASHED THE CLINTON HEALTH CARE PLAN...
IF OBAMA TRIES TO INCLUDED THESE SICK AND DEGENERATE REPUBLICANS ON IMPORTANT ISSUES...OBAMA WILL FAIL MISERABLY....
REPUBLICANS TODAY ARE THE THE RED BAITERS AND MCCARTHYITES OF PRIOR GENERATIONS....
REPUBLICANS NEED TO BE HELD UP FOR PUBLIC CRITICISM AND CONTEMPT...NOT PRAISE OR INCLUSION...
REPUBLICANS NEED TO BE MADE THE BUTT OF JOKES...TO BE LAUGHED AT...TO BE RIDICULED CONSTANTLY FOR THEIR GREED...THEIR OBVIOUS HYPOCRISY...
AND YES...EVEN THE "PURE EVIL" ....THAT THEY CAN REPRESENT AT TIMES...
WHY FOR EXAMPLE ARE REPUBLICANS "ALLOWED" TO LIE OUT RIGHT...IN WAYS THAT NO DEMOCRAT COULD EVER GET AWAY WITH...
WHY ARE REPUBLICAN "MANTRAS" ALWAYS ACCEPTED AS "STARTING POINTS" FOR A DEBATE...WHEN THE MANTRAS ARE CLEARLY UNTRUE...OR AT BEST HALF TRUTHS...?
REPUBLICANS ARE ALLOWED TO MAKE THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS CHARGES...AND THAT'S OK...BECAUSE THEY ARE "CONSERVATIVES"...AND THEREBY HAVE THE SUPPORT OF THE ELITES....
ALL OF THESE THINGS HAVE LEAD TO SOME VERY BIZZARE OUTCOMES...
THE BEST EXAMPLE IS THE ABSOLUTE "FREAK SHOW" OF FOX NEWS....
THE FOX NEWS CONSTANTLY APPEALS TO LOW BROW THINKING....WITH HATE, FEAR AND LIES... NOT A GOOD COMBINATION FOR PUBIC POLICY DEBATE!
THE JOE THE PLUMBERS AND SARHA PALINS OF THE WORLD...WHO THINK "DUMB LIKE ME" IS A LEADERSHIP QUALITY...!
OBAMA HAS A CHANCE TO PUT "BRAINS" BACK INTO THE LEADERSHIP MIX IN AMERICA....
BUT OBAMA NEEDS TO BE MUCH MORE CRITICAL OF THE REPUBLICANS CRANKS AND CRACKPOTS THAN HE HAS BEEN....
CLEARLY...THE MSNBC EVENING "RATIONAL DISCUSSIONS" HAVE ONLY LIMITED EFFECT...
THIS TYPE OF "RATIONAL" PROGRAMING DOES NOT APPEAL TO LESS INFORMED AMERICANS ...WHO NOW WANT THE FREAK SHOW STYLE "INFO-TAINMENT" OF HANNITY AND O'REILLY....THAT IS A FOX SPECIALTY...
I WOULD ADVISE OBAMA AND DEMOCRATS TO USE SHARP HUMOR AND RIDICULE AGAINST THE REPUBILCAN FREAKS...LIKE RUSH, HANNITY, OREILLY ...AND EVEN NEWT AND SOME OF THE CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS ... WHO CONSTANTLY GO THE LOW BROW...OR SPECIAL INTEREST GREED ROUTE...IN POLICY
AS OBAMA HAS DONE LATELY BY POINTING OUT THE INANE AND INSANE REPUBLICAN MANTRAS FOR WHAT THEY REALLY ...
WHAT HAS BEEN THE LIFE BLOOD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY .... NAMELY...BULLSHIT! TOTAL BULLSHIT!
BUT ....AT THIS POINT IN TIME... MORE BULLSHIT IS SIMPLY NOT AN OPTION... THE US ECONOMY IS TOO FAR GONE FOR THAT ...
THE DAZE OF GOVERNMENT BY INSANE MANTRAS OR HALF BAKED CONSERVATIVE SLOGANS....IS OVER!!
GET OVER IT ...!
