The GOP's obsessive authoritarianism was catapulted when they duped 50-100 million American rednecks into the party using hot button issues like gay rights and abortion. I was raised by these know-nothings and their primary instinct is to obey (preferably them) and he/she who does not obey is ruthlessly bullied and even killed. In fact, Texas gives you a pretty good picture of what these people have to offer the country. JFK, LBJ and now Bush all exemplify the Texas and American redneck's view that the answer to anything is to KEEL IT!

I was just in Europe and the front page of one German newspaper examined the American redneck as the world's biggest circus freak. I guess you have to go out of the country to learn that our own Surgeon General reports that one-third of the population of red states is morbidly obese, something never heard of in the world before, since not even a pig will eat itself to death. I see this when I visit my hometown and the average weight is 300-500 pounds. You will often see these morbid monsters having to prop two restaurant chairs under their titanic waddlers. They blather on about what a good Christian George Bush is as they stuff 2-3 slices of pizza in their face at a time.

I remember when I was in college and we were watching the movie "Carrie" and a girl in my suite could not believe that there were actually people like Carrie's mother. I told here there were three on my block alone when I was growing up. So there you have it: homocidal, religious mentally ill, morbidly obese ignoramuses preening over what a good man George W. Bush is, the very death of America in all of its fat hideous glory.

Like Camille I have monitored right wing talk raido for 20 years, during which time it took over and wrecked my country. It has always been such a transparent dirty tricks operation that it was originally staffed by many of Nixon's dirty tricks squad. By using such a Kmart forum, they were able to reach the great American redneck Bubbacracy which is so willfully ignorant it will revel in righist lies and catapult them like pigs in Zen.

The Annenberg School studied in depth right wing talk radio for 15 years, finding that it had duped 50 million listeners with utter "false certainty" on almost every issue, swinging the past 5 of 6 elections. It has not waned in the slightest and in fact will continue to roll over every progressive issue and candidate absent a total Perfect Storm of scandal, failed war and coming economic blowout as was seen in 06. Other countries have taken notice and now teach in their schools that willfully ignorant, racist American rednecks killed their own country by acting as witless dupes to rich corporate interests. Without these hick dupes, corporations could not rise to this level of power and completely decimate the middle class.

Listening closely to the one Dem challenge to talk radio rule, Air America, I heard many Dem Congressional leaders acknowledge these facts in toto and promise hearings if Congress was retaken in 06. Then they did absolutely nothing. Even the one remaining Dem FCC Commissioner pleaded with them to at least hold hearings to bring pressure on AM radio ownership, but all the right had to do was scream "Fairness Doctrine" and Dems folded like scared little girls. The issue is bringing sufficient pressure on ownership to bring some balance back to the public airwaves. This is not rocket science. By failing to do even this, the Dems sealed their own fate and there is literally no hope now as the right controls the frame and the debate itself.

"She [Nancy Reagan] was escorted out of the hall by Frederick J. Ryan Jr., chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation, and president and CEO of The Politico"

When Glenn revealed this last year, it should have put to rest any idea that the Politico was anything other than a right wing hit tool.

It isn´t that good, either. The hottest topics are always piggybacking on the big news story of the day, or some other better blog´s actual reporting. Then you have to slog through a squatter´s nest of commenters lying in wait to call you a liberal, while taking up most of the comments space with vapid chitchat that sounds like wingtipped Repuke flirting.

There are a lot of 700 pound hick red(state)necks waddling around this board today.

Hope they included my favorite and surely the ugliest scene from the coup. A disgusting fat pasty sweaty slob shambled into the Dade County Elections Board screaming like a mental patient: "I´m from the Bush campaign and I´m here to stop the counting." He was waving a court document that later was proven to be unrelated. The Sheriff was called and he was preparing to detain the guy for psychiatric evaluation when it was discovered he was top Bush campaign official, and soon to be the most despised U.N Ambassador from ANY country EVER in history, John Bolton. This began the parade of hideous porky pigs that sowed our country´s destruction.