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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (69560)	2/18/2010 1:06:34 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

"all 613 laws described in the book of Leviticus" I love it. Y'all gonna be kosher Jews, or else. Lobsters and pigs will inherit the earth. Bar Mitzvahs for all the boys, who also got the tip of their dicks cut off when they turned 8 days old. Partial birth abortions will be required to save the mother's life. Downside is that I'll have to give up lobster, too.

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (69560)	2/18/2010 1:35:20 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Well meaning Americans need to stop looking at our history for some idea of what the future holds, and instead, look to Weimar Germany. "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis The winning candidate, Bob McDonnell, won the race against Democrat Creigh Deeds by 17 points. McDonnell is a far-right religious zealot, whose wacky 93-page master's thesis at Regent University, Robertson's school, contended that working women destroyed families; he even opposed a Supreme Court decision legalizing birth control for married couples. At the time The Washington Post surfaced the thesis last August, McDonnell's early lead had dwindled to a near tie. But McDonnell recovered by emphasizing pocketbook issues, sounding almost like a Democrat. In this supposedly blue-trending state, he carried young voters by a margin of 54 to 44. Watch for this man on the Republican national ticket. Like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, far-right politicians have gotten ever shrewder at the art of speaking to the base in a dog-whistle language that goes over the heads of moderate voters but that signals coded allegiance with the far-right family. Except that since the era of Reagan, the far right has become even crazier. In 1986, a young journalist also named Blumenthal published a prescient book titled The Rise of the Counter--Establishment. In that book, Sidney Blumenthal, Max's old man, wrote about the links that went from Russell Kirk and William F. Buckley's National Review to the neoconservatives who gave the intellectual weight to Reaganism and the modern conservative movement. That book was mainly about people like Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Nathan Glazer, George Gilder, David Stockman, and Jack Kemp. The volume, appropriately for the time, included just three pages on the religious right. The conservative cast of characters a generation ago was an intellectually serious and largely secular lot. At worst, they wanted to destroy the New Deal and the Great Society, not impose theocracy. Those were the days.