Too Weird to Support Any Longer

Writer Michael Fumento, someone who has written many pieces and books (including the much-criticized The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS), has decided to break with the far right because it is too unpalatable for him.

A cynic could say the right is so far out there, the Democratic Party could veer much further to the right than it has done since the Jim Crow days in search of more supporters and ultimately get the support of Republicans and mainstream "conservatives," whatever those are these days.

Fumento:

No, I’m not cherry-picking. When I say “regularly referred to,” interpret literally. Polls show that about half of voting Republican buy into the birther nonsense (one of the more prominent hysterias within the hysteria). Only about a fourth seem truly sure that Obama was actually born here. In her nationally syndicated column Michelle Malkin wrote regarding Limbaugh’s slut remarks, that “I’m sorry the civility police now have an opening to demonize the entire right based on one radio comment.” In a stroke she’s expressed her disdain for civility and declared the new right’s sins can be dispatched as an itsy-bitsy little single faux pas, “one radio comment.”

No, Michelle, incivility – nay, outright meanness and puerility – rears its ugly head daily on your blog, which as I write this on May 23 has one item referring in the headline to “Pig Maher’s boy [Bill Maher]” and another to “Jaczko the Jerk,” [former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko]. She calls Limbaugh target Sandra Fluke a “femme-agogue” and her supporters “[George] Soros monkeys.” Pigs? Monkeys? Moonbats? It’s literal dehumanization.

Honestly, that's all the right has these days because the neolibs have cast so much of their lot with the Democrats, thus tarnishing the Democratic Party name.

The Democratic Party is not the same party I grew up with.

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