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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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 9:17am
Which side was it that you think is paranoid?
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Registered: 07-03-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 9:18am
Yes, I would say the Right wingers have pretty strong "feelings" about their precious money! The love of money is the root of all evil. Jesus threw out the money changers. Jesus commended the woman who only had a few coins to put into the collection plate.
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Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 9:21am
Look, I don't know what you are talking about or who "Mama Jane" is, but ANYONE can see the "witchdoctor" video is fake as a three dollar bill. They took out what the man really said, and put in a voice over that couldn't fool anyone except maybe the people who hate Palin so much they would believe anything.
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Registered: 10-08-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 9:21am

No more interesting than the fact that you think conservatives are more logical than liberals.

 

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 9:22am
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Registered: 07-03-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 9:23am

Actually, both sides are paranoid about their guy loosing. I have a lot of concern about McCain and him taxing Health ins! That is the most stupid idea he could do. I will hurt the Middle Class and poor more than the Wealthy. Plus, I'm so sick and tired of the "ones who don't pay any tax" Have you all personally seen their tax returns? You would think you have. wanna walk a mile in their shoes?

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 9:27am
Please do, before the election!
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Thu, 10-23-2008 - 9:27am

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I must say that I'm a little concerned about this. There are so many people who's fears of Obama are way over the top and many of these fears are totally unfounded. I wonder what the reaction/cooperation of these people will be should he win. Once a president is elected there has to some sort of coming together.....of acceptance. I don't think this will happen easily (if at all)....I predict that the greatest test that Obama will be facing if he wins will NOT be from abroad....but from within.

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Thu, 10-23-2008 - 9:29am

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You mean like "Bring it on"?

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Thu, 10-23-2008 - 9:33am
Whether you'll be better or worse off with John McCain's health care plan (which everyone except the people with the really expensive health care plans will be better off) loses its importance if we have a NUCLEAR CRISIS. There is not ANY issue that is as important as this one. If we have a crisis the magnitude of John F. Kennedy's crisis, as Biden predicts - should we elect the "brilliant 47 year old" then there isn't an issue out there than compares.

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