And so another professional victim joins Sarah Palin on the right wing of the political stage. The article Doug Hoffman Officially Unconcedes in Special House Electrion, Blames ACORN caught my eye this morning. Basically, this rather weak character was further victimized by Glenn Beck of Fox News into un-conceding his defeat.
Will Republican extremists ever find a “manly” leader like President Obama who is daily inundated with lies, virulent hatred and death threats yet focuses on what needs to be done instead of whining about perceived slights?
I doubt it. Extremists are, by nature, professional victims united by fear and hatred as Eric Hoffer pointed out over 50 years ago in his classic “The True Believer”. So long as the Republican party is dominated by extremists, we will be inundated with whining from its leadership on talk radio, on FOX news, in political battles and in Congress. Whereas Huffman and Palin are primarily whining for political power, Beck, Limbaugh, etc. are whining for dollars.
Whining is like radiation in a nuclear reactor, without the stabilizing element of moderates in the Republican party this chain reaction of whining will accelerate until the party fails…. hopefully it wont be “too big to fail” by the time its whining reaches critical mass.
Until last year I was a moderate Republican; in the spirit of Nelson Rockefeller. The extremists would classify me as a RINO. Were I still a registered Republican, I would wear that label with pride.
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