FreedomWorks' Matt Kibbe said, "It's sad to hear that GOP insiders are disparaging the freedom community behind closed doors..."


Yes, they should be doing it publicly.

It's like these people are just now realizing that capitalism is amoral and doesn't give a fark about your ideology as long as they can profit from it.

Aarontology: It's like these people are just now realizing that capitalism is amoral and doesn't give a fark about your ideology as long as they can profit from it.

BEWARE! Liberal elements have infiltrated the republican party and are working to destroy small business owners whose only crime is informing you about LIBERAL THREATS TO YOUR FREEDOM!
HELP US FIGHT BACK AGAINST THESE RINO TRAITORS BUY DONATING $5, $10 OR $25 TO THE PURITY FUND NOW!

My mother constantly gets mail at her house begging her for money to fight the good fight. More often than not, the groups begging her for help have "Tea Party" in their name and they are all scams.

Don't you hate it when other con artists con your own marks?

impaler: My mother constantly gets mail at her house begging her for money to fight the good fight. More often than not, the groups begging her for help have "Tea Party" in their name and they are all scams.

Don't you hate it when other con artists con your own marks?

I like the audacity of declaring what are "real" Teabagger groups when they constantly insist it is a grass roots organization with no structure.

STOP TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OUR GULLIBILITY!

Conservative media had a tendency to shoot itself in the foot by focusing more on generating outrage than on finding facts. "We do our cause more harm than good if we get outrageously outraged over every slight and grievance," Erickson said

I agree with Erick Erickson?!? Hold me.

vernonFL: Conservative media had a tendency to shoot itself in the foot by focusing more on generating outrage than on finding facts. "We do our cause more harm than good if we get outrageously outraged over every slight and grievance," Erickson said

I agree with Erick Erickson?!? Hold me.

That would mean a lot more from him if he wasn't doing plenty of the outrage over nothing himself.

Poopspasm: But without irrational fearmongering bullshiat, where will the Republican Party be?

Referenced only in history books.

A very interesting read is one of the article's linked by Rick Perlstein on The Baffler:

http://www.thebaffler.com/past/the_long_con

Basically an in depth takedown of the whole conservative lying paranoid rumor machine.  It is over half a year old by now though so obviously focuses on Romney, but the lessons it teaches are timeless. (Republicans depend on Base Republicans being ludicrously gullible and uninformed.)

GAH WHY DID I PUT THAT APOSTROPHE

FORGIVE ME LORD

FORGIVE

Arachnophobe: Esc7: GAH WHY DID I PUT THAT APOSTROPHE

FORGIVE ME LORD

FORGIVE

Grammar Ashley isn't mad, she's just disappointment.

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I'd disappointment her...

vernonFL: Conservative media had a tendency to shoot itself in the foot by focusing more on generating outrage than on finding facts. "We do our cause more harm than good if we get outrageously outraged over every slight and grievance," Erickson said

I agree with Erick Erickson?!? Hold me.

He sure has a lot of nerve saying that as one of the major perpetrators within "the conservative media". Maybe he finally hit his threshold but I am not going to hold my breath.

MisterRonbo: Two of the GOPs Presidential contenders were in it only to generate book sales.  Gingrich even managed to "campaign" in Hawaii for his anniversary.

Anonymous needs to get some of these groups' mailing lists and give them to someone who will run a troll campaign. Solicit money for "freedom!" and give the proceeds to Planned Parenthood.

I have given some consideration to running a fear-based campaign to advocate the restoration of "traditional marriage", and then using money generated either to advocate legalized polygamy, to advocate, through public advertising, laws requiring female rape victims to marry their rapist or to advocate a Constitutional amendment prohibiting miscegenation.

Doing so, however, would require any produced advertising to conclude with, either spoken or in text, the one-word question "Problem?"

I know a guy, 69, who was in the banking industry, educated, seems sane, not senile, but he believes every ridiculous claim from the FW FW FW FW world.  It doesn't matter how patently laughable.  Believes 'em all.  Forwards 'em all.

There is a sizeable minority of people who will believe anything about Obama.  So long as it's bad.

Watching the Republican party eat itself alive from within is just making my entire life worthwhile at this point. You so rarely get to watch a vicious rabid animal eat its own entrails while at the same time snarling at you that it's totally enjoying it's meal and you should just back the f*ck off. This line was priceless:

Shields is dangerous. He has no internal compass, and his political mentor is Congressman Dave Reichert. Reichert is probably the most liberal Republican in the House. He has never had a job in the private sector. (This from an "anonymous Republican source")

It's reminding me of the "I love the Constitution more than you!" that we were getting a few years back--only x3 and outer-directed this time. The Night of Long Knives, only in slow motion. Hitler must be loving it.