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"Right Wing" blogger unloads on "anti-reason conservatives"

November 05, 2009 10:43 am ET by Eric Boehlert

Rick Moran at Right Wing Nut House, unloads on what he sees as the increasingly deranged push by right-wing bloggers and others in the far-right media to turn the GOP into a permanent minority status party by purging all but the true believers from its ranks.

Moran's post from earlier this week--a must read--opens with a bang:

What is it that possesses certain conservatives to fool themselves so spectacularly into believing that they can create a majority out of a minority?...In the case of far right conservatives who think that they can turn their meager numbers into a ruling majority all by themselves, the disconnect from reality would normally call for an intervention - except they reject anything from anybody who doesn't agree with them 100%.

Moran's description of anti-reason conservatives is priceless, as well:

Those who reject reality in favor of persecution complexes, wildly exaggerated hyperbole, and a frightening need for vengeance against their imagined "enemies."

Psst, Michelle, I think he's talking about you.

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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (November 05, 2009 10:48 am ET)
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      It's looking like Rick is going to get a spanking very soon.
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    • Author by wookie (November 05, 2009 11:00 am ET)
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      He's right but I prefer that they continue to fool themselves. More Palins and Hoffmans, please.
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      • Author by Conchobhar (November 05, 2009 11:09 am ET)
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        "He's right but I prefer that they continue to fool themselves."

        Don't worry, they will. Their response will be, "What a moran."
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      • Author by Handsome Pete (November 05, 2009 2:12 pm ET)
           
        He is right, and he will be ignored by the people who need to listen to him the most.
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    • Author by eweston8542983 (November 05, 2009 4:20 pm ET)
         
      Always good to see a little self examination in the wingnut world. I'd think the response in wingnuttia will be a bit raw.
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    • Author by steeve (November 05, 2009 7:18 pm ET)
         
      MMFA probably just wants a civil war, but it sounds like they think there's such a thing as "real conservatives".

      There aren't. Conservatives who rebuke the lunatic fringe still think that tax cuts for the rich creates jobs, still think that government never did anything right, and still think that private health insurance is proven to be the best in the world. They're just as fact-adverse and stupid as the fringe they decry.
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