ABC Republican Debate

Published: August 6, 2007, 8:51 am

Tags: right wing propaganda, power games, gop presidential candidates, gop presidential debate, political expediency, embracing wingnuttia, gop culture of corruption, gop wedge issues, john mccain, 2008, mitt romney, ron paul, rudy giuliani, politics

The comb-over caucus met again for another one of their unforgetable debates yesterday morning on This Week with Georgie the Greek. On display was the full panoply of GOP wingnuttia and delusional posturing on abortion, immigration, and the War in Iraq. It was truly not worth watching except that the applause of partisans cheering for their guy was totally unexpected. The buzz being generated on the right by Ron Paul is interesting. First, he’s foresquare against the war and they applauded him lustily for it. Second, he’s a former libertarian Presidential candidate and has generated fanatical enthusiasm from the small government and anti-tax zealots that dwell therein. Third, his fundraising is picking up substantially. His candidacy is harnessing the resurgence of far right wing extremism and in that respect, his candidacy is reminesent of Barry Goldwater’s in 1964. He is not a traditional Republican by any means. He’s too

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