Reince Priebus — what, Thurston P. Howell III was already taken? — joins the lunatic fringe of the Republican party in using the most absurdly inflated and hyperbolic rhetoric to make the case against President Obama.
RNC Chair Reince Priebus framed the election in drastic terms Sunday morning, saying that another Obama term could put an ‘end to our way of life’ and that “liberty and freedom” are at stake in an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”
“The fact is, it’s not a question of whether can Mitt Romney win,” Priebus said. “The statement is, Mitt Romney has to win for the sake of the very idea of America. Mitt Romney has to win for liberty and freedom. We have to put an end to this Barack Obama presidency before it puts an end to our way of life in America.”
Because he’s a fascist! And a communist! And a Muslim! And an atheist! And he holds secret rituals at night to desecrate the bodies of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln (Peace Be Upon Them)!
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patrickashton
July 12, 2012 at 9:56 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
You should see what he does to Saint Reagan!
birgerjohansson
July 12, 2012 at 9:56 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Obama is just a foil to draw the attention from the real threat, vice president “Biden” (a.k.a. Kang) from Zeta Reticuli.
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“Mitt Romney has to win for the sake of the very idea of America”.
otherwise the North American continent is going to sink into the sea, just like Atlantis and Lemuria. Yes, those continents were also taken over by liberals from space!
uzza
July 12, 2012 at 9:58 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Because he’s
facistcommunistMuslimatheistblackholytape
July 12, 2012 at 9:58 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Obama will make baking apple pies illegal!!!1!!!
Dennis N
July 12, 2012 at 9:58 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Apparently we’re all living in an Alan Moore story, where ideas themselves can take body blows.
otrame
July 12, 2012 at 10:07 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
They just can’t STAND the fact that there is a nigger in the White House whose job doesn’t involve cleaning the toilets, can they?
Anri
July 12, 2012 at 10:15 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“I believe in the ideals of America, in which equality reigns supreme, and any man, regardless of his race, creed, or humble beginnings, can aspire to – GET THAT BLACK GUY DOWN OFFA THAT PODIUM!”
interrobang
July 12, 2012 at 10:18 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I know this is kind of a derail, but WTF kind of a name is “Reince Priebus” anyway? I mean, seriously, you have other politicians named Steny Hoyer and Young Boozer, where the hell do you find these people, and what kind of drugs were their parents on, exactly?
addiepray
July 12, 2012 at 11:16 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The best part was that this quote was immediately followed by him accusing Obama of running the most negative campaign in history.
Michael Heath
July 12, 2012 at 11:37 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I strongly identify with Barack Obama’s perspective of America, both his characterization of it and its current state, along with using the same general approach to identifying issues which I I think require government intervention and sometimes agreeing on the prescription. Not just because we’re essentially the same age, but also his embrace of systemic thinking which has him looking beyond mere symptoms and containment efforts, but instead often fixated on strategic corrective actions, e.g., his understanding that healthcare costs and climate change risk the viability of the American economy. I can easily see how Barack Obama’s character and approach to governance fits in with many of the Republicans I admired as a youth back in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
So Mr. Priebus and the other Republican leaders gross distortion of how Mr. Obama fits into America is perceived by me as a direct and personal attack on me as well. When they falsely accuse Mr. Obama of being an anti-American radical, they are accusing me of the same. I take at offense at that.
I’ve gotten to the point where the GOP’s dishonesty and partisanship at the expense of servicing the country’s even obvious needs has me concluding the GOP party is an effective enemy of the state. That they are projecting their own attributes onto people like me and the president who do not suffer from their worst attributes. I can’t imagine how the Republican party can recover from their current condition to ever become capable of not just good governance, but even being a helpful opposition party. They’d have to abandon conservatism and libertarianism when the party is dominated by the former with the worst aspects of the latter season that dish. Moderate and liberal Republicans are now effectively extinct, and even if they weren’t, those few have no avenues I can perceive to take the party back from the conservatives and plutocratic libertarians.
D. C. Sessions
July 12, 2012 at 11:40 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
This is the new theme. A recent Romney fundraising letter starts:
Pretty impressive accomplishment for one black dude in three years, isn’t it? From “Morning in America” to the end of the American Dream in three years?
PS: I’m a bit closer to the “worked hard, seized opportunities, etc.” thing than a dude who grew up rich. My grandfather was a freaking sharecropper, and my father was a field hand before WWII and the GI Bill (note the socialism?) who went on to teach school until the year he died. My mother, until her death last week, drew those horrible Government pensions (Air Force, Social Security, and State teachers’ retirement) while on Medicare. My brothers and I are all doing quite well, in large part because Arizona forty years ago offered postsecondary education at rates that a pair of teachers could afford for the four of us.
None of which are all that good a bet for my children, nieces, or nephews. Especially if Mitt gets his way.
D. C. Sessions
July 12, 2012 at 11:45 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
No, Michael, they’re not. They’re just a case of mass Stockolm Syndrome. They’re loyal to the Party, no matter where it goes.
arakasi
July 12, 2012 at 11:53 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I wonder if anyone has pointed out to these people that if Obama was as much of a tyrant as they claim, they would already be locked away in Gitmo. It isn’t like Priebus would be all that difficult for the FBI to track down.
dingojack
July 12, 2012 at 12:16 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
OK I haven’t done this for awhile:
Intrade today
Winner of the Presidential election 2012
Individual
Obama: 57.07% (up 1.607% since 8 June 2012)
Romney: 42.93% (down by 1.607% ” ” ” “)
Obama leads by 14.139%
Party
Democratic: 56.08% (up by 2.1726% since 8 June 2012)
Republicans: 43.216% (down by 2.3751% ” ” ” “)
other: 0.704% (up by 0.205% ” ” ” “)
Democratic party ahead by 12.864%.
Dingo
caseloweraz
July 12, 2012 at 1:20 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“We have to put an end to this Barack Obama presidency before it puts an end to our way of life in America.”
It all depends on who “our” refers to.
Modusoperandi
July 12, 2012 at 3:12 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
interrobang “I know this is kind of a derail, but WTF kind of a name is ‘Reince Priebus’ anyway?”
It’s a spell you learn at Hogwarts, in Defense of the Dark Arts class.
Michael Heath “So Mr. Priebus and the other Republican leaders gross distortion of how Mr. Obama fits into America is perceived by me as a direct and personal attack on me as well. When they falsely accuse Mr. Obama of being an anti-American radical, they are accusing me of the same.”
To be fair, you do hate America and everything it stands for.
shockna
July 12, 2012 at 3:16 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@ Patrick @ #1:
I think just “Saint” is a bit of a weak term for conservative veneration of Reagan; I think he’s more of an archangel at this point.
Obama at times does appear to have abandoned us progressives, and I’ve little hope for anything better next term, but it’s sure as hell better than giving the very essence of the entitled rich guy the Presidency. I’m looking forward to seeing wingnuts and fundies everywhere if Obama does get a second term.
D. C. Sessions
July 12, 2012 at 3:51 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
That depends, Mr. Heath. What color is your skin?
slc1
July 12, 2012 at 4:04 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Re D. C. Sessions @ #18
AFAIK, Heath is a honky.
Modusoperandi
July 12, 2012 at 4:12 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
slc1, he’s extra honky. Practically transparent.
D. C. Sessions
July 12, 2012 at 5:05 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
… and therefore not a threat to the country. In fact, if he were still a registered Republican (aside from the whole “RINO” thing) his positions would be admirable.
d cwilson
July 12, 2012 at 5:44 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
After all this doomsaying, I can’t wait to see how the GOP is going to top their current hysteria when the next democratic president is elected.
dan4
July 12, 2012 at 9:40 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@2, @3, @6, and @7: Enough with the race-baiting. This kind of rhetoric derives from Obama being a Democrat, not from being (half) black. I’m old enough to remember similar apocalyptic rhetoric from Republicans/conservatives about Bill Clinton during his presidency….and last time I checked, he’s Caucasian.
Also, otrame, was it really necessary to spell out the full “n” word? You couldn’t have written something like “ni**er?”
Modusoperandi
July 12, 2012 at 10:05 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
dan4 “Also, otrame, was it really necessary to spell out the full ‘n’ word? You couldn’t have written something like ‘ni**er?’”
Yeah! I mean, there could be rational adults reading that! Oh, won’t somebody think about the rational adults?