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Is the Modern GOP "Mainstream"?

No. In many ways, they're insane. I don't use that term lightly either. It just happens to be the truth. Kevin Drum at the Washington Monthly has this:

Click the link to read a summary of the Texas State Republican platform for 2000, the one they passed after six years with George Bush at the helm. Like so many revolutionaries before them, they're perfectly happy to proselytize their plan to the world openly with no hemming or hawing. You don't have to guess what their goals are, you just have to read what they themselves say they are.

The South has always been with us, but it's the Texas strain of militant conservativism that's made the South so toxic in recent years. If the country is finally starting to tire of their messianic insistence that you're not a real American unless you worship at their churches, watch their sports, and raise your family the way they tell you, it's not a moment too soon.

If you think the elimination of the separation of Church and State, abolishing Social Security, and taking back the Panama Canal sound like conspiracy theories; think again. Go ahead and click the link in his post (it's actually one of my favorite blog posts ever).

Howard Dean's 50 State Strategy has never looked smarter.

posted by FuzzFinger @ 12/01/2006 06:13:00 PM