GOP Candidate: Gays plot to recruit and sodomize kids

[uebermann]

[eynon81]

1. what is he running for?

2. in 500 years students of history will marvel at the most powerful civilization in history at the moment of its decline had an obsession with butt-secks.

3. gay men don't like boys....pedophiles like boys.

[Philly]

Homosexuality probably does cause depression and other mental/emotional health problems in certain areas. The gay people I know in New York do not seem very depressed.

[John Galt]

[uebermann]

[uebermann]

[John Galt]

[Indy]

Uebermann, you certainly know what kind of posts are catnip for me at this point.

It certainly is relevant to politics and it raises a point I've been revisiting since... 2012.

I will never forget the day after that driving around in Texas, of all places, and listening to the different reactions. It so happened on NPR they had two GOP strategists and they basically said this is a wakeup call for the GOP--that their failure to appeal to non-white voters was killing them and if you needed any more proof, here it is.

You'd think losing two elections in a row would shake the tree but, amazingly, the GOP has doubled down on alienating anybody but their "core" (white, older, male, evangelical, anti-gay, pro-gun). They blow the dog whistle even louder than before, and it's like they can't run out of new groups to offend. What has always been non-stop ranting about "the left" has mutated now into Alex Jones-land, where any wingnut (your example above, for instance) can rise to prominence by ratcheting up the insanity and the attacks on everybody from the usual suspects (black people) to new favorites (suck this machine gun, Honduran homeless teenager!). And of course gays.

I have no idea what they think the end result will be, unless they believe their shriveling minority will somehow carry them to the White House (or wherever) if everybody else decides to stay home.

I guess it's understandable on a local level, where you just have to appeal to the local mentality. But on a larger scale, the only thing I can fathom is that the right wing media apparatus is SO pervasive and so LOUD, that it gives the illusion of representing a big majority in this country. So as long as the candidate takes positions that he knows will play well in that circle, this convinces him that there's nothing askew in taking or vocalizing the positions that he does.

I think it goes without saying that there's a segment of the population that would rather see America burn than have it be anything other than what they want. Just look at the insanity of the past few years--talk of secession, another impeachment, endless calls for armed citizens to... do something. And that may well be the mentality: defiant to the end, because I'll go down shooting before I'll ever let one of them queers eat in my restaurant.

The near future is not promising. Already on board for the 2016 White House run: Rick "Mannin' the .50 Cal at the Border" Perry, Rick "Why?" Santorum and of course the now-inevitable Michelle Bachmann. It's "I Love 2012! The Reunion Special."

And yes I think you may be right: it may be they think that if they simply obstruct every single initiative/policy/idea by Dems or the president that people will get tired of the inaction and vote for them just for a change, any change.

The other dark side to all this is that the Dem party at this point is basically "Hey We're Not Them." When you only have two parties to begin with--which is bizarre--and one of them has no competition that party is going to get fat and complacent and useless. Yup, sounds like the Dems.

[Dylan]

At least he's honest. This is how most republicans think they're just savvy enough not to be public about it.

[uebermann]