Are all right wingers paranoid?

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Are all right wingers paranoid?
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Wed, 10-22-2008 - 9:10am

What do you make of the right-wing paranoia? Is it pervasive enough to take seriously? How do you make sense of conservatives concerns about how to take care of their families if Obama becomes president?

As it becomes more and more clear that Obama is likely to win the conservatives are becoming more desperate. They need avenues to vent and a Conspiracy Theory feels that void.

But the whole idea is so implausible. Yet, somehow they are able to rationalize it by believing the conspiracy is real and anyone who doesn’t see it is blind.

Help me out here, is they any way to diplomatically and realistic address this stuff? Are they any conservatives out there who agree that it’s bunk?

>>By Klaus Rohrich Tuesday, October 21, 2008

In October 1962 the film The Manchurian Candidate was released to rave reviews. Directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Frank Sinatra and Lawrence Harvey, the film was about a nefarious plot that involved brainwashing, an assassin with a post-hypnotic trigger and a conspiracy to deliver the US presidency into the hands of foreign enemies whose plan it was to destroy the country from within. Eventually cracks began to appear in the plot and in the end the evildoers met their just rewards.

Fast-forward 46 years into this year’s presidential contest between Barack Obama and John McCain. Out of nowhere Barack Obama appears on the scene full-blown and manages to snatch the democratic nomination from Hilary Clinton, despite his complete lack of experience in both domestic as well as foreign policy. In fact, Barack Obama’s experience is so thin that it isn’t even possible to ascertain exactly what he stands for, given that he voted ‘present’ on over 130 Senate bills.

Yet the mainstream media have embraced Obama as the Messiah, the Chosen One, the One Who Will Bring About Hope and Change. No matter that there is no voting record or even a clear history of Obama’s activities since graduation, save and except that he was a ‘community organizer’. Most candidates for political office including those running for dogcatcher of Gnarled Gulch, Montana face close scrutiny by the electorate and especially the media.

But it appears that no amount of subterfuge and skullduggery with which Barack Obama is associated, is enough to raise any questions about his suitability to hold the highest office in the land. Call me paranoid, but suppose there is a vast left-wing conspiracy to take over the United States, there wouldn’t be a better time to do it than now and it seems that there’s no better candidate to do it than Barack Obama. << cont’d

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 10:49pm

>>> However, if this were to happen, I doubt very much that the identity (or party) of the president will make all that much difference as far as the motivating factor is concerned.

That's not what Biden said.

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 10:50pm
Exactly right!
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Thu, 10-23-2008 - 10:53pm
No one "tested" Bush...but he did respond decisively and with conviction when the nation was attacked.
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Thu, 10-23-2008 - 10:53pm

I believe I already answered this.


 

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 10:54pm
...and also that Biden said that Obama would "get it wrong" when he responded to the threat.
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Registered: 10-20-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 10:55pm
Except that it isn't "her" theory...it's Obama's VP who said it...after he said Obama was unqualified to be President.
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Registered: 10-20-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 10:57pm
Actually, it was more related to Clinton's incompetence...who refused to take OBL out even though he had around 8 changes to do it.
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Registered: 10-20-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 10:58pm

>>> Can't even decide which one of them would be worse - the pitbull or the 'maverick'.

The terrorist-loving, America-hating racist.

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Thu, 10-23-2008 - 11:02pm

<I don't think an experienced man as president would have to be faced with such a choice. I don't think that McCain is perceived in the world as young and weak. >


So how would you explain George H.W. Bush's having to deal with Saddam's invasion of Kuwait?

Sopal

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 11:04pm
Oh right, so that would be Palin. Who 'palls around' with secessionists.

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