clipped from: www.salon.com   
A fair portion of the Republican Party seems to think that the way out of the ditch is to close its eyes and pretend super-hard that the year is 1954. Hence, it seems, their attempts to explain patiently, again and again, that there is a socialist in the Oval Office.

It seems hard to imagine that the best use of Republican National Committee members' time is

pressuring their chairman, Michael Steele, to adopt the following resolution

RESOLVED, that we the members of the Republican National Committee call on the Democratic Party to be truthful and honest with the American people by acknowledging that they have evolved from a party of tax and spend to a party of tax and nationalize and, therefore, should agree to rename themselves the Democrat Socialist Party.


in addition to seeming a little bit like absurdist theater, Cold War-style red-baiting just doesn’t seem all that effective

it's possible that the GOP is just making “socialism” more popular by identifying it with a well-liked president