
This photo titled "Tea Bagger Dickhead" pretty much sums up the truth of the attached article
This excellent article by John Avlon, exposes the tactics of William Gheen and ALIPAC as well as others of the lunatic fringe.
NEW YORK (CNN) — We are witnessing a wingnut war break out in American politics, organized on the Internet and fought out in airwaves and in town halls, wingnuts firing their shots from the outer reaches and strafing the common sense center.
Look beyond the sober skeptics and the principled opposition to President Obama, and you’ll find an ugly fringe festival cultivating the wounds left by the 2008 campaign and pouring gasoline on the embers of the culture wars.
As the two parties become more ideologically polarized, the fringe is now blurring with the base while the moderate majority feels increasingly politically homeless.
A culture of extremism is in danger of gaining acceptance.
We’ve become almost used to the escalating tone — comparisons of the president to Adolf Hitler now seem unremarkable, part of the contemporary political scenery.
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