Right Wing Going Crazy

We all have been seeing it and I think people are starting to realize the beast that the right is creating.

From Thomas Friedman: (picked up at Political Wire)

"I have no problem with any of the substantive criticism of President Obama from the right or left. But something very dangerous is happening. Criticism from the far right has begun tipping over into delegitimation and creating the same kind of climate here that existed in Israel on the eve of the Rabin assassination... Even if you are not worried that someone might draw from these vitriolic attacks a license to try to hurt the president, you have to be worried about what is happening to American politics more broadly."

The right is in a tizzy and I don't see any elected republican leaders try to squash their hate. The blow hards are fanning the flames and no leader is trying to harness the hate.

Right Has Only the "Bitter Rump" Left

While the right is still kind of a force, the reasonable people have been leaving in droves. What is left? Well, dailykos finds a good discussion about that over at Balloon Juice:

"And even then, the problem isn’t one nutcase. The problem is that you are whittled down to nothing but the bitter rump, and you are discovering that not only does the camera add ten pounds, but it also adds a heap of crazy. When you play back the nonsense you have been spewing for the past couple of years, you don’t like what you see. I guess you have something in common with the rest of the country."

The bold was mine and the line is amazing. 

The entry does a good job of basically saying the right has been spewing so much crazy for so long now that the rational people took off and what you have left are the crazies spewing the same crazy talking points of Oreilly, Beck, and Limbaugh. So, the crazies are getting more airtime and in turn, turning more people off the repub brand. It is starting to become a perpetual cycle and if left unchecked spells real trouble for the repubs. 

This whole situation the repubs face is like accidentally forgetting to turn off the heat in your boiling pot of rice. What your left over with is the hard crusty nastiness at the bottom of the pot. Because who likes burnt rice??? Crazy people