Cleaning Their Guns and Getting Ready for the Big Show

For quite awhile on this blog, I have been talking about how the conservative base of this country has essentially gone off the deep end. This troubles me because they are well organized, well funded, far more numerous than the left's loonies, and most assuredly have a much greater supply of armaments. I mean...seriously...what's a far left winger going to do...throw a granola bar or radio tuned to NPR at you? That's, of course, if you can find one. Yesterday's post regarding the Congressional Black Caucus proves that Maher was right...the Democrats are now the party the GOP used to be (corporate owned and bought) and the Republicans are...well....

THIS

In Indiana, Richard Behney, a Republican Senate candidate, told Tea Party supporters what he would do if the 2010 elections did not produce results to his liking: “I’m cleaning my guns and getting ready for the big show. And I’m serious about that, and I bet you are, too.”

Folks, these are not isolated loonies anymore. Read the whole article. This is officially a very large movement of well armed people spend their days like this:

Pam Stout wakes each morning, turns on Fox News, grabs coffee and an Atkins bar, and hits the computer. She is the hub of a rapidly expanding and highly viral political network, keeping a running correspondence with her 400 members in Sandpoint, state and national Tea Party leaders and other conservative activists.

Mrs. Stout forwards along petitions to impeach Mr. Obama; petitions to audit the Federal Reserve; petitions to support Sarah Palin; appeals urging defiance of any federal law requiring health insurance; and on and on.

I'm trying to get my head around the mentality of someone who thinks like this and I just can't do it. Anyone out there want to help me out? I have no doubt that, if there was a way, this woman would love to see President Obama ousted and Sarah Palin immediately installed as president. Don't think she is serious?

Not long ago, Mrs. Stout sent an e-mail message to her members under the subject line: “Revolution.” It linked to an article by Greg Evensen, a leader in the militia movement, titled “The Anatomy of an American Revolution,” that listed “grievances” he said “would justify a declaration of war against any criminal enterprise including that which is killing our nation from Washington, D.C.”

Remember, these are the same people who accuse liberals of harboring unrepentant domestic terrorists. As I have said many times, listen to the words of the base and how they characterize the left. Almost always, they are talking about themselves.

I've said many times that the fringe has now become the base. Here what Richard Mack, conservative activist, had to say about this movement.

He said he has found audiences everywhere struggling to make sense of why they were wiped out last year. These audiences, he said, are far more receptive to critiques once dismissed as paranoia. It is no longer considered all that radical, he said, to portray the Federal Reserve as a plaything of the big banks — a point the Birch Society, among others, has argued for decades.

People are more willing, he said, to imagine a government that would lock up political opponents, or ration health care with “death panels,” or fake global warming. And if global warming is a fraud, is it so crazy to wonder about a president’s birth certificate?

“People just do not trust any of this,” Mr. Mack said. “It’s not just the fringe people anymore. These are just ordinary people — teachers, bankers, housewives.”

Here we have confirmation from a member of the movement themselves that proves everything I have said all along. It's mainstream now to accept all of this nonsense. And it's growing.

I posted this link on the FaceBook page of a conservative friend of mine. He compared these folks to Cindy Sheehan, the anti war protester who referred to President Bush as Hitler. He then wondered what was going on with her as we never here about her anymore in the media (would that be the "liberal" media?).

I thought of his comparison. Cindy Sheehan's son was killed in Iraq, a war which clearly was not one vital to our national security and was, in fact, waged purely for profit. No one has died in regards to the "government takeover" of our lives and yet these people are "bracing for tyranny."

It's absolutely insane. There's no way to sugar coat it. They have lost their fucking minds.

Oh, and Cindy Sheehan? She was arrested on October 5, 2009 for protesting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She also protested President Obama in Oslo when he received his Nobel Peace Prize. Anyone see this on the news anywhere? The liberal media? Anyone? Bueller? Must've been a huge crowd of crazed leftists!

She said:

I think the mood of the country and the mood of our movement is getting a little bit more desperate, and (that) this will be the time to be able to translate our tireless activism and work for peace.

Unrepentant liberal commie terrorist.