GOPer Gawk

The only way to view GOPer politics these days is with your mouth hanging open.  This stuff makes Barry Goldwater in 1964 look like a socialist, a real one.  But don't let the far far far far far far far far right cast of the remaining presidential candidates who are given any chance at the GOPer nomination for (gulp) President obscure what they really have in common: they are liars.  Maybe ideological liars or tactical liars or religious zealot liars or stragetic political liars.  But just about everything Boogieman, Wrongney or Cowboy Rick say of attempted significance is a lie.

Lying has been successful for GOPers, so why not?  G.W. Bush lied his way into the White House, and promptly abandoned his center-right "compassionate conservative," Climate Crisis affirming campaign statements for his centralized and militarized right wing agenda.  All those GOPers who won in 2010 on platforms of job creation haven't paid any attention to jobs, but a lot to stripping union rights, voting rights, women's right and minority rights, slashing support for education and the poor, and giving more tax breaks to their corporate and super-wealthy masters.

His first day out, Cowboy Rick tried to modify some of his most outrageous stands, but old habits die hard, and by calling the chairman of the Fed a traitor, he showed his true colors as well as getting the Bushies to show their cards.  He was immediately castigated by Karl Rove, who also desperately suggested that other candidates could still get into the GOPer race.  The Bushies aren't letting Texans bygones be gone.  Before Cowboy Rick gets to Washington, he's going to have to escape ambush by the Bush Gang first.

GOPers may seem hard to figure out, but I've got some suggestions for what their political calculations might be.  Obviously they're going after public sector unions to cut off funding for Democratic candidates, and they couldn't more obviously be going after minority voting rights because minorities vote Democratic (Scott Walker rammed through a law in Wisconsin that says voters must have drivers licences, and then he closed a bunch of places that issue drivers licenses--in minority areas.)

But they haven't written off minorities entirely.  There are fundamentalist Christian zealots in all races and nationalities, and in particular, homophobia remains to a greater extent in minority working classes.  By the way, cutting money for education, which GOPer governors are doing, has several political effects for them: corporations are called upon to take up the slack and they inject their own agendas along with their "help;" and they help keep people ignorant and out of college, which lessens the likelihood that they will choose to become Democrats.  When your strategy is lying, it's important that people not be likely to know the truth.