Six days out of seven much of the “left” is either OK with what Obama is doing, understands or accepts his compromises, or is more preoccupied with the right wing’s dishonest and ignorant attacks on Obama.

The left’s complaints about the continuation of Republican Bush’s policies can be read online, heard on the radio, and watched on TV.

Even I’ve posted several long complaints about Obama’s continuation of some of Republican Bush’s policies on Oliver’s blog.

And if right winger “Jay” actually read Krugman, he’d know that Krugman’s been a consistent critic of Obama for over a year.

“Jay” is either being dishonest or isn’t paying attention.

Don’t see how any wing-nutter can deny this.

“Picking a few dorky comments here and there” from “Sonia Sotomayor and using them to smear” her very long and commendable career “is par for the course” for right wingers.

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You’re a vicious little pervert who hates America. That’s your identity. It’s also your politics.

Sorry to tell the right that their constituency is getting smaller and smaller…and Mayberry will be paved over in favor of a strip mall featuring a yoga ashram and a juice bar.

I don’t deny liberals said some crazy things during Bush’s presidency, but we had the good sense to not have the party chairman, senators, etc. saying those things.

You guys really have no idea what he’s taking about do you?

But look at Krugman’s argument…what’s driving the right wing insane is that their identity politics no longer work. Because the identity politics used by conservatives today lack nuance and reason, and in many cases lack support.

The right’s current attempts to label Democrats “socialist!” relies on (a) people not understanding the full breadth of socialist thought, and (b) people still caught up in Cold War fears of the commie threat. This fails in large part because the evidence doesn’t completely support the case.

Attempts such as “fascist!” or “baby-killers!” or “anti-Amercan terrorist-lovers!” fail because they’re over-the-top. Most reasonable people don’t demonize as such even those they disagree with.

The label that the Dems have thrown at the Republicans has boiled down to one thing: “Wrong.” After eight years of Bush, this is a label that the GOP built for itself, and is going to struggle to get out from under as long as their efforts consist mostly of saying “Nuh-UH.”

You want to shed the label of being the racist, homophobic bigot party? Rein in your racists and homophobes. This is not rocket science.

And talk about crazy. The guys at Oracle and Microsoft would shudder at having to catalog the list of left wing moonbattery craziness that existed between November 2000 and January 2001.

Heal thyself, please.

Also, Sheriff Andy is against warrantless wiretapping and for the rule of law.

Obama supports warrantless wiretapping. How about that contradiction? Of course, the left burst blood vessels when Bush did the wiretapping. Obama not only continues to the practice but EXPANDS the legal defense of doing it to shield people from lawsuits and the reaction from the bots is a collective shrug.

Shrieks over military tribunals when Bush does it. Obama does it? Shrugs.

In fact, there’s a number of policies that Obama is continuing that were started under the Bush administration. Of course, all we ever hear from Obama supporters is that every single thing Bush ever did was bad, so why would Obama continue such policies?

Picking a few dorky comments here and there about Sonia Sotomayor and using them to smear all conservatives is par for the course.

So they try these identity politics just KNOWING that they’ll work on these low-educated, racist, “christian”, “real Americans”. That’s who Sarah Palin was talking to back in the election.

But the truth is, those whites are only about 22%-25% of whites in this country. THAT’S their “base”. Everyone else just simply isn’t like that. Then of course, them using all of their coded language is pretty much cutting minorities off from their “big tent”.

The Republican party is a walking-dead party.