(December 31, 2010 at 3:17 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I thought america had troughed with reagan but he seems iq laden next to the current crop of republicans and particularly that idiotic Palin woman.
I'm no expert but it seems like Dan Quayle in 1988 (the VP choice of Bush I) was the first politician who made it politically hip to be hick. He was ridiculed for his stupidity, complete with his own calender "I stand behind my mistatements." Instead of defending himself, he doubled-down and lashed out against the "cultural elite" saying he wore their scorn as "a badge of honor". Somehow, this struck a chord.
This was, probably not coincidentally, the same time the religious right began to flex its muscle in the Republican party. Its control from within would, from 1988 on, be overt. Reagan threw them some bones with his half-hearted "moment of prayer" in public schools (and didn't seem too disappointed when it failed) but he never let them set the agenda the way future Republicans would.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
