Message #17347

[uselesslegs]

It is amazing to watch him look put off and somewhat shocked that his constituents reject a rational, compassionate path to citizenship. When as you said...he, as well as Fox, Rush, Malkin, Hannity, Savage and the rest...have subtlety and overtly pounded the anger and fear of the cosmos into these rubes heads about not just illegal immigrants, but even legal ones.

It was an election game/acting to him.  Of course, he can't say that to his constituents who are too dumb to figure it out for themselves.  He can turn the partisan and bipartisan off and on. He's not Santorum, West, or Rand Paul.  He's an old man, often out of touch, yelling from his front porch...but he's not bat shit crazy like the TP thinking people in that room with him, or in congress. 

For him, he just turned off the partisan, because he sees the bigger picture.  He and the other actors in his party FINALLY figured out running the "straight white campaign" will relegate them to 3rd party status.  But the problem is, hes not appealing to the moderates in his party that perhaps bought into Rush and Foxs' crap for a time. Those people can probably be deprogrammed...but you can't deprogram the fuck'in lunacy they invited to their folds. Those fuckers he entertained didn't need to be sold, they were already whack-a-nut, fearful, nationalist, bigots...who got friggin super charged with all the incendiary shit. He's not going to change their minds, or give them something rational to ponder...because that would actually involve them having the ability to amp down and entertain other rationals.