Right-Wingers Seething over Election Outcome

While the rest of us celebrate the dawn of a new era, right-wing bloggers are seething with rage and nastiness.  Of course we expected nothing less - but still, a little dignity and grace would have been  appreciated.  On The Virginian, Moneyrunner takes the low road:  "There is an American habit of congratulating our opponents when we lose. And it’s appropriate when we have been bested in an equal contest. But when we have been cold cocked by our opponents and kicked to the curb by their friends, sincere congratulations are the actions of a whipped cur. For me, in this race, congratulations are bullshit. Moreover, I have no intention of being a good loser. Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser." (If conservatives have a reputation for obduracy, belligerance, and poor sportsmanship, this is why.)

In a post called Let The Backlash Begin, Van Helsing screeches on Moonbattery:  "Congratulations, moonbats. You finally have your revenge for being forced to look at all those flags after 9/11. This is a day of celebration for everyone hostile to America and the principles of individual liberty for which it stands. Enjoy it while you can... But an ultra-radical leftist like Obama could not be elected in a center-right country, or even a center-left country, without a great deal of deception. Thanks to a radicalized liberal media willing to sacrifice its own long-term credibility to put a leftist in power, Obama was never publicly vetted. Moderates did not vote for a real person, but for a two-dimensional phantom temporarily conjured into being by hype."  (This will be the justification Republican loyalists cling to.  Americans were tricked into voting for Obama!  They would never have voted against McCain/Palin without the media's dastardly deceptions. Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha.)

Over at Moms4SarahPalin, blogger John pushes the tired Barack-As-Antichrist button ("The scene of the thronging thousands, in adoration of the uplifted leader was, dare I say, almost messianic.") before launching into the predictable conservative gloomsday scenario:  "Ultimately, the middle class sacrifices the dream of upward mobility as a ceiling is placed on acceptable levels of success. This is the grey and dreary fairness of the welfare state... We will sacrifice national honor and security as Obama imposes his doctrines of retreat and appeasement. Our enemies will become emboldened and the Islamo Fascists will strike with renewed vigor. Men and women will pay for this naiveté with their lives. The lives of the unborn will be sacrificed. And, the liberty of the individual will be sacrificed, in creeping increments, to the tyranny of the many."  (Is John talking about that same "tyranny of the many" that resulted in discrimination being written into state constitutions in Florida, Arizona, and California?  Please.  Cry us a river.) 

One right-wing blogger at Little Green Footballs actually makes sense:  "If the GOP decides to go in the Bobby Jindal direction (fundamental Christianity, creationism, hard-line anti-abortionism, aggressively anti-gay rights), it will be committing political suicide. As much as anything else, this election was a referendum on the social conservative agenda, and the social conservatives did not win."  (Sanity from the right is so refreshing.)

Comments

[Sarah Palin]

Whew! I'm sooooo relieved! Now I can go back to Alaska, land of the totally weird and reactionary, and practice my meanness until I get it down perfect so I can be ready to ruin America in 2012! I was soooo not ready to be president. I have to tune up my knowledge. I think I still have my 8th grade World History text which I forgot to return to Wasilla JHS and if I actually READ it this time, I might have enought knowledge to impress Katie Couric.

And I've got to perfect my revenge skills so I can get folks fired and stuff, you betcha!

[Hanna]

Ironic story considering the worst racists and worst sexists in America reside on the left. The Democratic Party is, historically, the party of racism and, in the 1960s, it replaced racism against blacks with racism against whites (affirmative action), especially white males.

Before anyone accuses me of being a racist, my husband is black and I'm an American of Chinese heritage. Note I didn't use the politically correct term, Chinese American.

I left the Democratic Party because it's gone so far to the left and I'm tired of having my wealth confiscated by the government and given to people who don't deserve it. If you want to succeed in America, work hard, get a good education and obey the law.

[Amanda]

"it replaced racism against blacks with racism against whites (affirmative action), especially white males"

How idiotic. LOL - Yes, we definitely need more laws to protect all the poor mistreated white males who face discrimination. By the way, Han - Michelle Malkin is also Asian-American, and she's one of the most intolerant rightwingers around. Skin-color has nothing to do with bias, or the lack thereof.

[Hugo Hackenbush]

Hanna --

Get a good job and work hard? The gap between what normal wage earners make and CEO and executive level "compensation" has been steadily increasing. People who become rich in America do so off the backs of other people. Taxing the upper 2-5% at a higher rate seems only fair, considering that they have been usurping the pay which should be going to the people actually *producing* things.

If you don't like your wealth "confiscated" by the government, go move to some place with no police coverage, no fire department, no roads, etc. Sorry, there's no such thing as a free lunch.

I also take exception to your characterization of people who receive assistance as "people who don't deserve it." Should we also leave crippled children out in the wilderness, since there's no way they'll be able to contribute to society? I see how you fit in with "compassionate conservatives."

[Dr. Grumpus]

You know, this whole "people don't deserve it" meme is based on, in part, a fundamental ignorance of the economic systems in place in this country.

Let's presume that those "who don't deserve it" is a code word for those who are not working.

Interestingly, our economic policies (via the Federal Reserve) deliberately seek to prevent everyone from finding a job. Indeed, the notion of structurally ensuring that at any given time, approximately 1 in 20 people do not have a job (aka ~5% unemployment) is accepted as economic gospel.

And the reason? To keep inflation in check, since too much job-creating economic growth would reduce the pool of available labor and drive wages up, thus creating inflation.

So, to frame it another way, those 19 out of 20 who have jobs benefit economically, and directly so, from keeping 1 in 20 from working.

And, to be honest, on an economic basis, I can appreciate the logic in the Feds using unemployment rates as a factor in adjusting the prime rate.

What I don't appreciate is those know-nothings who do not understand the institutional nature of the classism, and then stigmatize those that are disproportionately affected by the economic policies that have helped them develop their wealth.

It is either ignorance, fear, or just cold-heartedness. My guess? A bit of all three.

[gordie]

Hanna - the demographic that benefitted the most from afirmative action was the white female wives of those distraught white males you speak of, sorry, damn historical facts keep getting in the way.

Finally after 28 years working fire and EMS I have yet to have a family tell me I could have performed my life saving interventions on their family member more efficiently and we could fire those extra guys that were there helping. Complaints about taxes are usually done without thinking about the returns you actually get.

[Leonel]

Hanna has left the building.

You know what I am really, really worried about? That almost half of those US citizens who were able and/or bothered to vote, would rather go for a 72 yrs old, cancer surviving, 'my fellow prisoners' minded, flip flopper and hate consenter, with no honor left and the shadow of Sarah 'Africa is so a country' Palin hanging over the 3000 plus pages of his medical records, than with Obama and Biden. A country to feel sorry for, Obama or not.

[morethanthis]

I guess the Wing-Nuts just dont know what to do when it come's to
living in a world without there Talking-Points.
It will be hard for them live in the real world where the US.IS
actualy Respected again. Thank God for Democracy even if it
came eight Years to late.

[Just Beginning]

I expected the wingnut-o-sphere to go godwin immediately and begin screeching about stocking the bunkers with canned goods.
I've never seen so much raw, visceral hate toward a presidency that hasn't even STARTED yet.

Geez people. At least wait until President for Life Obama the baby eater starts putting the white folks into those camps before you pull the "shit your pants" button, mmmkay?
LOL!! :D

I'm sorry I can't help it. They're all just so damned funny.
Like watching your three year old fall apart in one of those earth ending tantrums only a child can have because his favorite toy got broken.

[Max P]

I appreciate all of your thought-provoking comments. And Hanna... well, thanks for your comment too.

[Ricky]

While I would enjoy watching the right implode in the fight between fiscal and social conservatives, I think the nutjob at LGF is wrong. The Republicans lost this election in large part because the fiscal conservatives crashed the economy. Prop H8 and other anti-gay initiatives passed in both liberal and conservative states. Ok, SD again didn't pass their anti-abortion law, but this was a wingnut's law not a center-right law. I think the social conservative position is where the GOP will end up with a slightly more populist economic bent. Social conservatives are the voting base of the GOP and if their reps (Huckabee, Palin et al) can get them to tithe to the party they might not rake in the money they could from the pro-business wing, but it could be enough to keep them viable as a party. The corporate wing of the party lost this election and they just have to hope that their years of making low-taxes and no regulation a part of the fundamentalist religion continues to give them a voice in the party.

[Snarki, child of Loki]

Just Beginning:
"I've never seen so much raw, visceral hate toward a presidency that hasn't even STARTED yet."

Too young to remember when Clinton took office? I recall seeing an "Impeach Clinton" bumpersticker just about exactly 16 years ago. About a week after the election.

and that was just the beginning of the incoherent, irrational wingnut rage.

[NoOneYouKnow]

Well, this is how wingnuts do. They're always the victim, no matter what the facts might say, they're always right, anyone with a different opinion is a traitor, the scary brown people want their daughters and cornflakes, etc. etc. They put the 'nut' in wingnut. It just means we have to keep pushing back. Our self-congratulatory respite is just about over; time to get back to work.

[Howard Hussein Beale]

A scene cannot be messianic. But if you connect enough perjoratives together with verbs and shit, stupid people will think you can write.

"The scene of the thronging thousands, in adoration of the uplifted leader was, dare I say, almost messianic."

[scott]

I was actually quite enjoying some of these wing nut Doomsday musings.
If you cut and paste it all together you have an interesting Dystopian Sci-Fi novel(although admittedly not a particularly good one)
Still,I'm a sucker for this kind of bleak,paranoid Orwellian schtick.
It's also pretty amusing that a hopelessly moderate Pol like Obama can generate such a frenzy of weak kneed yellow backed moaning.