It was the middle of a tough primary contest, and Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) had convened a small meeting with donors who had contributed thousands of dollars to his previous campaigns. But this year, as Inglis faced a challenge from tea party-backed Republican candidates claiming Inglis wasn't sufficiently conservative, these donors hadn't ponied up. Inglis' task: Get them back on the team. "They were upset with me," Inglis recalls. "They are all Glenn Beck watchers." About 90 minutes into the meeting, as he remembers it, "They say, 'Bob, what don't you get? Barack Obama is a socialist, communist Marxist who wants to destroy the American economy so he can take over as dictator. Health care is part of that. And he wants to open up the Mexican border and turn [the US] into a Muslim nation.'" Inglis didn't know how to respond.
via motherjones.com
The fear, anger and paranoia on the Right is clinical. "The bigger the lie, the more believable it is". Wonder who aid that? The German dictator who was its most cynical practitioner attributed it to the goodness of most people. Since they would be ashamed to tell big lies themselves, it doesn't occur to them that anyone else would.
How much longer can they spin these distortions? At what point do they feel like the jig is up on them? We have always had crazies in America, it just that Republicans started electing them that sucks.
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