![]() ![]() In theory, Santorum has so remote a chance of even winning the Republican nomination for president that Markos Moulitsas called on the millions of liberals who read his influential website, Daily Kos, to vote for the antigay ex-senator. Maddow, like many on the left, saw Santorum as a weak opponent against President Obama. “They’re about to nominate Rick Santorum! Don’t move a muscle!” Don’t make a sound,” Maddow joked days later in a mocking whisper. MSNBC hadn’t even staffed the night with live coverage. Once again the former Massachusetts governor appeared to be a lock for the nomination until Santorum shocked the political establishment by winning all three races February 7 in Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri. In a wave of spending that led to Romney accounting for 61% of all ads during the primary season’s first eight contests, according to a count by Kantar Media, his campaign regained the lead after back-to-back wins in Florida and Nevada. Two weeks after the caucus, Santorum was declared the winner in that state by 34 votes. But “front-runner Rick Santorum” was too absurd a notion to contemplate. The leader status had already been conferred upon every passing non-Romney fad from Donald Trump to Michele Bachmann to Rick Perry to Herman Cain. senator from Pennsylvania Rick Santorum as the one GOP presidential candidate who would never experience 15 minutes of glory as the front-runner. A thinking person might ask, WTF is wrong with us? How can anyone in good conscience continue to support this horror show? Continued.For months before the Iowa caucus in early January, MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow had dismissed former U.S. We have environmentalists turning their backs on climate change, Quakers supporting the war machine, 'liberals' voting against healthcare as a human right and 'progressives' supporting Wall Street and the Henry Kissinger crowd. Have we just given up? Or are we seriously too stupid to see what's been done to us? What's being done to us? ![]() Has the DLC/DNC succeeded in perverting the once noble ideals of 'the people's party,' sold off enough of its high-minded principles to trick us into embracing the suck that we have fought against for over a century? They've tried mightily to turn us into the republican party. Have they deprived enough people of a quality education? Have they confused the public mind sufficiently, muddied the waters thoroughly enough, deprived the cultural mainstream of enough important information, replaced it with enough nonsense, distractions and disinformation for the great pall of stupid to prevail? Have the neoliberals made us believe it's impossible? Much of the rest of the world doesn’t seem to think so. When 'progressives' turn against healthcare as a human right, you have to wonder. Of course he does, they're his base.ĥ0 years or more of intentional dumbing-down of the American people by choking out public education, killing journalism and corrupting the airways with propaganda and bullshit may have done the trick. With so-called progressives backing the establishment they once opposed and republicans on the verge of nominating Hitler Mussolini, one might be forgiven for reaching such a conclusion. "ARE WE TOO STUPID TO SAVE OURSELVES?" By One Pissed Off Liberal, March 17, Daily Kos
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