They're Back!!!!

So, does anyone want to argue that the evidence doesn't suggest the Republican Party is completely off the rails? I mean, the guys who brought us Reaganism, Bushism and the even more objectionable ugh, Palinism could easily be argued to lack scruples, but this is just ridiculous. The John Birch Society is once again in bed with the GOP....stop and let that sink in...the John Birch Society...

A short history says the JBS was formed in the 1950's as a completely batshit-insane anti-communist group founded by Robert Welch. Ya know, the guy who called Eisenhower a commie...After the GOP ostracized them in the 1960's with a bitch slap of epic proportions they slipped mostly into obscurity with the exception of Ron Paul. As for today the equivalent of a political chemical unbalance has allowed them to return. If the recent development of the Republican Party embracing a group of gun-toting, white, mostly Southern teabaggers (Dick's Armey) was any indication of things to come this development is prescient. Oh sure the JBS has attempted to SOMEWHAT back away from their past as a bunch of racist, anti-Semitic WASPy twats; the lessons of their history remain. I guess Obama really has turned the Right into a crazed frenzy, or maybe they've just gone off their meds for too long.

Anyway, this shouldn't come as a huge surprise. Sarah Palin and Ron Paul both are known supporters of the JBS and god knows how many of those other groups on the fringe of the fringe will be next.

http://www.cpac.org/sponsors.html

Anyone interested:

A history of the John Birch Society