Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Party like it's 1964

One can only hope that the GOP gets as big an ass-whuppin' in 2008 as Goldwater got back in the day. In the meantime, Bush sucks and people die.

Harold Meyerson - Return of the Goldwater GOP - washingtonpost.com
Today's Republicans seem determined to re-create that magical Goldwater self-marginalization. Opposing the provision of health care to children because it conflicts with one's faith in an economic future (capitalism insures everyone) that capitalism itself does not really share (or it would insure everyone) is the same kind of theological nuttiness that led to the Goldwater debacle. In the name of attacking socialism, what Republicans are really doing is affronting the empiricism and the pragmatism, not to mention the decency, of the American people. At, one need hardly add, their own risk.
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