NEWS: The Frankenliberal

POLITICS: The Frankenliberal

For years I have listened to right wing lunatics, like Rush Limbaugh, describe a liberal who does not exist. Right wing radio is full of non-stop blathering about what Liberals think and say, usually without documentation of any sort. Basically, the right wing has created a Frankenstein type monster, made of up liberal parts. It is the Frankenliberal and it serves one function: To keep the right wing hordes afraid and active, always working against their common enemy.



The Frankenliberal wants to abort all babies three days before they are born, and then toss them in dumpsters. He wants to lose the war because he hates the troops and loves the Iraqis. He wants to hug and talk to al Qaeda, instead of fight them. He hates America. He lives to slander America. He will do anything to make sure the Palestinians destroy Israel. He wants to teach sex education to children. He wants gays to be able to have sex anywhere, anytime and probably in front of children. He believes that most people are stupid and should be cared for at all times. He wants the government to do everything, except go to war. He thinks illegal immigrants should be able to do whatever they want. His taxes can't be high enough. He has no morality. He is a socialist. He hates all religion, but especially Christianity. He wants to take away everyone's guns. He wants to discriminate against whites to help minorities. He hates all rich people and wealth.



On and on the list goes. If you are a liberal, think of the most insane position you can, and Limbaugh has probably told his audience that's what you believe. That's all they do on AM radio.



O'Reilly

Hawkins.

Limbaugh.

Savage.

On and on they go. Blah blah blah, day after day. Never mind that this person they so fear does not exist. They've taken some random person's opinion here and some random person's opinion there and placed them altogether in the Frankenliberal; a giant, scary monster to terrify their right wing audiences. And it's very effective.



But there is no liberal politician that holds those beliefs. You won't find one. The collection of accusations is so insane or fantastical it is amazing anyone actually believes it. Of course, that appears to not be true for the right wing. They appear to have found a person who embodies the most frightening ideas the left can conjure up: Sarah Palin.



Over and over again, I have heard right-wingers say they love Palin because she makes liberals crazy. Wow, great reason to support a candidate. You must be proud. Of course, they have their own beliefs explaining why we hate Palin.

The right wing blogs are littered with that kind of simplistic and juvenile thinking. But I won't disagree with them on this point: I am scared shitless of Palin ever becoming president, because she is the Frankenright-winger. She is the exact opposite of everything I believe - to an extreme.

She believes we are fighting a religious war in Iraq.



She doesn't believe in abortion, even in cases of rape or incest.



She wants to expand the powers of the Vice Presidency.



She does not believe man is responsible for global warming.



She received a church blessing to keep her safe from "witchcraft."



She believes in religion over science.



She was raised in a church that takes the book of Revelations literally and believes the endtimes will come during our lifetime.



She puts special interests (Oil) before the environment and sound science.



She believes in book banning.



She tried to have the polar bear removed from the endangered species list.

I mean, come on, the fucking polar bear. She is literally the right wing lunatic we fear in our worst dreams. A religious lunatic who appears to make decisions based on what she thinks God wants and seems to have an aversion to any book that is not The Bible. After years of running around making shit up about what liberals believe and what they don't', the right wing has chosen a woman who is cartoonishly conservative. And it is quickly becoming a major anchor in their campaign.



Imagine if the Democrats had chosen an equally extreme candidate? The right wing would be losing their minds. That Frankenliberal they so love to talk about has never, and will never, be chosen as a Democratic candidate, mostly because he's not real. But also because the Democratic Party wouldn't stand for a lunatic as their VP. Unfortunately, the right wing nuts seem to be using liberal's fear of Palin to continue to Frankenliberal myth. On and on it goes….



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If the Dems do get into power, I'm pretty sure they won't make us pay for the rape kits.

It helps to realize that the GOP seduces voters by playing to their hopes and dreams. By that same token they maintain their followers with the threats of fears and nightmares (imagined or not) from the opposing party. They will take a single obscure example and skew it into some unimaginable false reality then unleash it to their flock. However, it all really is just preaching to the converted. I like to imagine the GOP camp as people still inside Plato's cave. Everything else just falls in place according to the allegory from there. . .

From the title, I thought this was going to be about Al Franken, who might actually win his campaign in Minnesota. Wouldn't that be both great and hilarious? (And it would drive Bill O'Reilly even more insane than he already is).

I thought the same thing. A lot of people have gripes with Al Franken, I wouldn't have been surprised to see one crop up here.

As for the article, though some of FTR's points on Palin are overstated (ie, she does not believe global warming is man made, which she didn't say in her Couric interview or the VP debate) the fundamentals of the "Frankenliberal" are noteworthy. How did progressive, liberal ideas get marginialized to be ineffectual and dangerous?

Same here.

Don't get me wrong, I don't share any love for Limbaugh or the jackasses on the far right, but this is really just as true for the Dems. I'm voting for Obama flat our, but the Dems are just as bad about propaganda as the right is, that's the reason everyone here keeps imagining toothless rednecks and bible thumpers whenever you bring up the right; its a biased audience. Its about as true as the image of the tofu gobbling,baby killing, pussy liberal.

And now to make sure no one tries to come after me for supporting those dirty asshole Republicans, OBAMA-BIDEN '08 THE ONLY TICKET ON THE MARKET WITHOUT 80 YEAR OLD OUT OF TOUCH SKEEVES AND SHORT-BUS VPs! There, go Obama.

What the fucking hell is Hillary then?!?!? Sticking by Bill has cost this woman dearly. It's the first thing women bring up as to why they hate her. It haunts her and will be a source of criticism from both sides for the rest of her career. The term "Marriage of convenience" makes me sick but I hear it from liberals and conservatives alike.

No, no, no. When I think of FrankenRepublicans here, I'm thinking of a short list of members. The most prominent one doesn't even live in America, one of the others is a person who survives because of free handouts from his home state. There is no need to imagine these people, some of them even have pictures.

I agree entirely.

I never got that idea from any of the liberal propaganda you're talking about, I got that idea from the people I interact with on a daily basis. I don't even dare put an Obama-Biden bumper sticker on my car because I may wake up one morning to a trashed car and 'Niger Lover' or some other crap painted on it or my front door. My mother was shocked to find out I was voting for Obama and is worried about my soul. Not to mention the fact that I was one of those psycho right wingers years ago, and a licensed minister no less. And with my personal experience I can tell you that the right winger's world view is totally fucked up. If that's biased, I've earned the right to be.

That race is turning vicious. You should see some of the ads Coleman is running. They're all the things FTR describes above, and then some. It's reached the point where Franken is satirizing the the opposition's ads; his latest states he kills puppies.

I agree with Sen. McCain in one thing... Palin is an idiot!!!! She is a lunatic that was brought on board to feed this fear of the liberal boogie man, that mythical creature they have missled people into believing in. McCain knows that she is just a "Hollywood type star" who is helping him try to hold his base together. (I mean, she found out about the campaign pulling out of Michigan from the morning paper, he didn't even think of including her in any strategical decision) All McCain is doing is setting out his Pitbull out to bark up and freak people out so that they may loose sight of the real issues that face our nation today, we can't just turn the page on issues like our economy...

...what?

Is that even possible? I mean .. Bush - Cheney ... Isn't the vice president sort of the boss allready?
Like: There are 4 branchs of government authority: judiciary, legislative, executive and the power of the president aka presentative.


mindseye: So you are saying, the republicans present a moderate, obvious disaster to conceal a hidden, serious disaster?

That's what she said in the VP debate.

You misunderstand the point of this article.

It's that the right wing nightmare liberal doesn't exist as a human being. They managed to set up a massive, frightening straw man to scare their listeners away from the entire left wing.

Meanwhile, the left wing nightmare conservative does exist and is running for vice president.

I saw like a quarter of an hour (two questions each) of it on BBC.
It was very much like you expected in "Biden Palin I", that she managed to avoid even a single number.
Other then that I only understood/remember that they both support their candidate in some kind of question I did not really understand.

(I guess I like politics but I don't really get it, I'm dumb)

Where the hell are her dreadlocks? Hey? Hey?

Well, they're not on her head...

See you say that, bt you don't make with the photoshop. How did I offend you?

I thought the mental image was bad enough...