The Republican party just can't seem to catch a break. Chicago not getting the Olympics is the only victory the poor Republicans have had in quite a while and they couldn't even celebrate that lone score without coming across looking like they were cheering against America. And then just a week after their celebration of our country losing the Olympics and that action "signifying that the world was rejecting Obama" those damn Norwegians have to go and give him the Nobel peace prize.
Lately I've started to realize that in their current form they are done. Every one of their leaders is a caricature of an actual person. It's like they are the bumbling villains in an 80's B movie. If our current political situation were a film people would be watching and constantly saying "oh comon, no one would ever do/say that in real life". Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, the Teabaggers. These people just aren't written realistically.
I think Alan Grayson is a wake up call for us all. It's time to start speaking up. It's time to stop trying to be polite, trying to argue with people who are yelling and screaming about things they don't even understand. They are bad for our country and they are still doing damage. It's time to start being honest. They are so oblivious it hurts (let's call ourselves the Teabaggers!), they constantly say things that make it clear they really have no idea what they are doing and they are incredibly ignorant regarding race and sexual preference in 2009. I got this domain name a while ago and kept feeling like I missed out. Each week I thought man I should have started writing about it last week because they just won't do something dumber than that. And still to this day they continue to take it up a notch each week and impress me.
Right now the favorability rating of the Republican party in the age group of 18-29 is at 8%. EIGHT PERCENT. With a +/- of 3. The MSM still books more Republican than* Democratic talking heads on the Sunday shows and anytime they bitch and moan they give them a medium to do it on. But next time you see one of them spouting off on some TV show or hear CNN talking about the "massive" teabagger party think about the fact that the Republican party is 8 (or possibly even just 5) points away from having a 0 percent approval rating from everyone in the country born after 1980. They are the party of fail, and they are done.
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*I asked a 4 year old, updated.
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How can you dissolve the only opposition to the democrats?
That's the problem I foresee. You're right though, ignorant people as a whole and dangerous to society.
The problems that plague the republican party are too vast to begin to cover. You just can't understand why they would take a bible, staple it to their forehead and still be a perfect example of everything their book tells them not to be.
I'm a complete athiest in the sense I can't buy any of religions stories without laughing. But is it really so hard to lay off the gay bashing, racism and adultery the Republicans are being put in the spotlight for every day?
How can we replace them? Push them off the shelf and stick a new party in there even more modern than the democrats.
Iam a Canadian. My country is tied to the USA. If u go down we go down. I can only hope that this is the first sign Americans are waking up from a 30+ year sleep. It will be a long hard fight as your system is so tilted to Corporate Rule. Your senate is easy to buy and the most powerful senators come from rural/backward states. Your court is packed with Corporatists and your Democratic Party has a hugh corporatist wing. The Republicans (thank God) are fast becoming a rump of the simple, elmer gantry christians and corporations bent on looting whats left of your country. The bottem line is either citizens take back the democratic party or take to the streets. Probably both will be required.
Learn the difference between "then" and "than" - failing to do so makes what is an otherwise intelligent article seem like iy was written by an idiot. Once is a typo, twice is ignorance. Basic, basic, basic stuff. If in doubt, ask a four-year-old.
Hmmm... I recall the same being said of the dems just prior to Clinton's election.
The Nobel committee is Swedish.
Political terminology fail: they don't call themselves "teabaggers." We do... to make fun of them. The term came about because of their tax-protest "tea party" events.
The problem is that while they are currently sailing in a definite head wind and are lead by absolute nincompoops, the American (or any other) people have very very short memories, not long ones. As soon as the Democrats - who, lets face it, are anything but unified or in some cases even competent - screw up and do something to anger the average person, they will start to think the Republicans might be a better choice. It may be something as simple as raising taxes to pay for the humongous amounts of debt the country finds itself in, for instance, and people will begin to balk right away.
Right now they are the party of fail, but historically the biggest fail comes from the voting public, and these things go in cycles. Hopefully the current debacle will lead to a backlash like the one around the great depression when Democrats managed to straighten the country out for some decades at least, but most likely this is just one more cycle in the string.
That makes me feel really good about the future of this country. People under 30 have completely rejected the politics of the right wing loons. And many of the older folks who voted for McCain/Palin won't be around next time... but there will be more people born after 1980 voting.
At this point maybe the GOP strategy is just to try to hang onto the south? They can at least be a regional party for another 20 years or so since that part of the country is so far behind the rest of it.
They will be done by 2016.
Yeah and those age braketers are screwed for life. The jokes on them.
They won't have their parent's wealth to bail them out now since it will all be gone by the time they inherit it. Social security is kaput.
The environment is cooked or so they believe, THeir only hope is that they are wrong.
They don't have any jobs. But they can twitter text and facebook each other ad infinitum with the most trivial details of their pathetic lives.
What dollars they do hae won't be worth a damn in the future after their messiah gets done with the economy.
They will have lost all their creativity and freedom at the hands of big brother.
I would say they are looking more done than the republicans.
This has got to be the funniest political perspective ever written implying that future votes correlate to those so young and with such little wisdom or life experiences from which to draw. Maturation will be real eye opener.
boom! headshot! you really nailed that one. dig this too -old age is going to really start eating them up 0 that is why they get so much tv time - they are trying to recruit.
Our generation will lead the great empire to its humiliating demise. I will stand upon a hill overlooking the stupid and exclaim I told you so.
That approval rating is hard to believe. The young Christians I know would certain prefer the Republican party to Obama. They actually think Palin is a good future leader. I find the large number of young conservative people to be fairly scary because their minds are easily shaped by the crap they hear on FOX, the scare tactics employed by the right, and what their preachers tell them.
"They are the party of fail, and they are done."
Yes on the first part, no on the second part. Every party has been a fail, but they never go away.
agreed!
Sounds good. So we're stuck with TWO parties of fail, then. Great. Vote Green party?
The Republican party is correct in viewing President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize as a giant , international Fuck You to Bush/Cheney and their party.
Well said! Out with fear and hate, in with reason and logic. As long as we keep government transparent and stay focused on our domestic issues, we've got a bright future in America.
norwegians? seriously dude...
Agreed. I've been saying this for quite a while. One of the things that keeps me going is that these "conservatives" (I don't even think they know what that word means) are generally much older than the population average. The republican party as it stands now is literally dying off.
Well, I think it's a mistake to underestimate or write off one's enemy. I agree the poll is heartening, but let's call Republicans the Party of Ostentatious Fail (POOF) after they've been soundly beat in areas of healthcare reform, midterm elections, immigration reform, &c.
An animal is the most dangerous and resourceful when it is cornered and desperate. Don't forget that - forgetting it is the seed of 'misunderestimation.'
If the Democrats quit taking them as a serious threat, or, figure they have the power to steamroll over them without worry, they might receive a fatal blow from the least expected of situations and directions.
The GOP doesn't need anything real or substantial right now. They just need to confuse, delay, and sabotage.
"...[T]hey just won't do something dumber [than] that."
Well said. Now if we could just get the 18-29 year olds to go out and VOTE!
Keep it up GOP! The 2010 elections are just around the corner!
The problem is that a statistic like that doesn't mean anything to them. They think "well, those people aren't paying taxes/haven't been paying them very long. Once they turn forty they'll understand."
I mean, it's good news to hear, but it isn't going to provide any sort of impetus for them to change.
Look, there is no super awesome policitcal party. From where I sit looking at it all, it looks alot like one big puppet show. That's my perspective. There are a few voices of reason out there, some democrat, some republican, some niether!
Now, some chart [the one you refer to in your entry from Daily KOS] where they got thier stats by telemarketing [i would have hung up on them because i hate that telemarketing of any sort] doesn't really sell me on the idea that the republican party is fail/over/done. 2400 people were polled... That just isn't a big enough number of people to logically come to that conclusion for the whole of everybody, you see?
I was born in 1979, two weeks before 1980. Maybe that's why I see these things...? I'm kidding.
I wonder why Ron Paul wasn't on that list of people. Because he's registered as a republican and I love him!
take care & god bless!
-Kari Lyn
The MoE for that is 2%. Where did you get +/- of 3 from?
Notice it says:
Research 2000, MoE 2%, Sep 28, 2009 - Oct 01, 2009
Otherwise, this is a great post!
It makes you wonder if some of these "Republican characters" are just that -- characters. Some of the things they say and do make no sense and seem like they are taking the Britney Spears stance on publicity in that there is no such thing as bad publicity. Anything to get your face on TV and make a name for yourself even if it means you look like a spigot. I hope the Republican party does fail and the whole political system gets a makeover so that the government actually does what it's supposed to -- work for the people instead of the people working for the government.
Wow that actually makes sense to me dude!
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THAN Democratic
In the immortal words of Marge Simpson (and she's been quoted by so many), "well, duh."
The country's problem is generational. I know it. You know it. Obama knows it. Bob Dole knows it. Don't make me stab you with this pen!
The changes in the way information is handled is just too much for the Oldie von Moldie set, so it's all guns and such.
But no longer.
No one seems to agree with me when I have suggested that a new party will soon emerge to replace the Republicans. And by soon I mean liek 5-10 years. But there really is nothing left for them. Their demise will probably resemble the Whig party.
If this means 92% of them still believe in the FAKE left/right circus I'm not happy about it ^^^
wish you'd said more about Alan Grayson. he's doing a great job making Bernanke look like a lying fool, wish everyone knew what he was doing.
unfortunately the dems aren't doing mucg better, Obama isn't winning as many points with the 18-29 demographic as he should be. in 1980 he would have run on a republican ticket with the kind of policy he's passing...
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As someone who is in the 18-29 range and unfortunately lives in the South, I've developed a hatred those > 60 due to their political beliefs. I live in a town where someone will go to a bar and say 'nigger' 30 times, government conspiracy, 'the south will rise again' crap, and then try to pretend they are intellectually conservative. give me a break. The South needs to burn and the elderly need to hurry up and kick the bucket.
In 2010 we'll see if the corrupt Congressional taxocrats can hold on to the power they crave above all else. In the meantime, here's a Nobel Prize for your post. I got one just for reading it.
that is a sublime thought. thank you.
It's funny how you don't seem to realize that in America, we have a one-party system. The Democratic and Republican parties enact a melodrama in front of the media so that we can all take sides, but no matter who wins in the short term, it's the people who give up their freedom to the federal government in the end.
dumber than** that
Hi Politifail,
Ummm...
I did a bad thing.
I stole some of your lines and posted them at townhall.com.
(I just loved what you said, and how you said it.)
http://town hall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/10/10/in_defense_of_glenn_beck
(Remove the spaces between “town” and “hall”.)
Posts: The Party of Fail - Part One, The Party of Fail - Part Two
I deliberately changed the language a bit to keep people from tracing the words back here - in case they googled some of it
(You do NOT want those people here.)
The two comments I made there were "liberally" sprinkled through with both some of your thoughts and my own.
I should have asked your permission first - For that I apologize. That was plagiarism! I should have known better. I’m sorry.
I'll give full credit to you, if you wish, or whatever action you’d have me take.
Again, my apologies for my behavior, but congrats on your brilliant insights.
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WOW so the Kos kids don't like Republicans. What a stunning revelation.
Most elderly people in this country were bleeding heart liberals when they were young. Then they grew up.
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