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Monday, March 12, 2012

The GOP: Going The Way Of The Whigs?


Dear John,


Thanks for your email.

Personally, I want Rush to keep broadcasting.

And I want Santo to be the Republican candidate.

If American women get any more pissed off, The Republican Party will never win them back. 

"In a New York Times/CBS News poll last month, the president finished ahead of Mr. Romney among all women by 57 percent to 37 percent. He held much the same advantage over Mr. Santorum." http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/us/politics/centrist-women-tell-of-disenchantment-with-gop.html

Oddly, the Dems may not even need The Women's Vote... 


Listen to this remarkable NPR report about the growing Hispanic vote and its dominant fondness for the Democratic Party - http://www.npr.org/2012/03/11/148415479/who-will-win-over-americas-latino-voters

Political fortunes come and go. But The Repugnican Party is in serious danger of going the way of The Whigshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)#Death_throes.2C_1852.E2.80.931856 hx

Notably, The Whigs dissolved into two parties - The Know Nothings and The GOP

The Know Nothings dedicated themselves to slagging foreigners - particularly immigrant Catholics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_nothing 

On the other hand, The Party of Lincoln set about the abolition of slavery.  In the following article, notice that Know Nothings are referred to as being "briefly popular." In my view, the poisonous lunacy that hijacked Republican policy will soon be purged, and in the process the GOP will be seriously diminished. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)#History

Despite the fundamentalist uproar, The Republican Party is bent on suicide.

The last gasp is often the loudest.

Pax on both houses,

Alan


PS Imagine the state of the GOP if McCain is telling the truth: "Sarah Palin was the best qualified candidate." As often happens when pondering conservative America, I don't know wether to shout "Jesus Christ!" as an expletive... or as prayer.   


On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:58 PM, john tarantino <john_tarantino@bellsouth.net> wrote:

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Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 7:33 PM
Subject: Jane Fonda, Steinem Want Rush Fired

Newsmax.com


Breaking from Newsmax.com
Jane Fonda, Steinem Want Rush Fired
Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem, two icons of the feminist establishment, are taking aim at Rush Limbaugh in a bid to end the career of America’s leading conservative talk show host.
In an op-ed written for CNN on their website, the two, joined by Robin Morgan, liken Limbaugh to Nazi propagandist Josef Goebbels because, they say, he labels all of his enemies as “sub-human.”
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“Limbaugh doesn't just call people names,” they write. “He promotes language that deliberately dehumanizes his targets. Like the sophisticated propagandist Josef Goebbels, he creates rhetorical frames - and the bigger the lie the more effective - inciting listeners to view people they disagree with as sub-humans. His longtime favorite term for women, "femi-nazi," doesn't even raise eyebrows anymore, an example of how rhetoric spreads when unchallenged by coarsened cultural norms.”
What do they want? The three are calling on advertisers and listeners to bring pressure on Limbaugh’s syndicator, Clear Channel Communications, to fire him. Moreover, they’re interested in having Limbaugh banned from the airwaves by the Federal Communications Commission after branding his show, easily the most popular and lucrative talk show on radio, as hate speech.
“If Clear Channel won't clean up its airways, then surely it's time for the public to ask the FCC a basic question: Are the stations carrying Limbaugh's show in fact using their licenses "in the public interest?"
“Spectrum is a scarce government resource. Radio broadcasters are obligated to act in the public interest and serve their respective communities of license. In keeping with this obligation, individual radio listeners may complain to the FCC that Limbaugh's radio station (and those syndicating his show) are not acting in the public interest or serving their respective communities of license by permitting such dehumanizing speech."
But the three conclude by saying “this isn’t political.” Rather, they say, Limbaugh is supposedly so toxic that the actual fate of American society is at state.
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