From the comments in my FoxLand post from last week, Rex has this to say:
Logic 3? Not even logical, unless the balloon family is Republican. If the right was so ‘crazy’, why are Dems scared they’re about to lose governorships in both VA and NJ?
This one may be the worst of the recent troll comments. It’s in reference to the widespread craziness that the right wing has engaged in recently, going back a few years, but really taking off at the start of the 2008 primaries — although to be fair, it’s been there for a long time. Like I said in that comment, it is demonstrably true that the right wing is going crazy. I’ve started cataloging the craziness and I’ve so far included links to more than 200 incidents and I have more than 500 more to add that I just haven’t had the time to add. The fact that I can easily find more than 700 incidents — and dozens more emerge each week — shows that there is a serious problem on the right.
The “balloon family” remark is actually quite ignorant. The balloon family story has nothing to do with politics. Even if it did, and you could clearly identify them as liberal — which as far as I can tell, you can’t — that would still be a ratio of more than 700-to-1.
Finally, governorships have little to do with national politics, of which the comments were in reference to. And in Virginia and New Jersey, it’s clear that neither Democrat lost because of Obama or even their own Democratic-ness. Creigh Deeds lost because he ran as a conservative Democrat, opposing Obama and the public option. In reality, the Dems only lost because of the one-term limit that Virgina has — if Tim Kaine was running again, I’ll wager he would’ve won. John Corzine lost because he didn’t do a good job of fixing the economy in his state, he was unpopular and made fun of his opponent’s weight. Deeds and Corzine lost because of the details of elections in their own states and because they each ran bad campaigns. In the two national elections this year — NY23 and CA10 — Dems won by bigger margins that anyone predicted.
Wow, KQ and I are on a real roll with his rightwing trollwatch and my Democratic Party insane clown posse.
I’ve been watching John Adams. Highly recommended for us political junkies. There were the same kind of vicious, crazy personal attacks, smears and lies and nonsequitors back then too, so I feel a little better that we’re just dealing with the long river of human nature and America isn’t really going down the tubes. I hope. Gulp. Alexander Hamilton was a real asshole character assassin, pre-corporate, Goldman Sachs imperial warmonger .
And don’t forget John Boner reading the start of the Declaration of Independence and claiming it was the Constitution. He’s either stupid or knowingly did that because the Dec language suited his manipulation of the audience.
Yeah, people don’t realize that even venerated people like Franklin and Jefferson were not above slinging the mud and insults in their time. And let’s not ignore the fact that we had a vice president and a secretary of the treasury in a fatal duel over such insults.
I think your approach and mine compliment each other, even if we disagree at times.