L.A. Times: Election laws tightening in GOP-run states an essay by Publius

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-vote-florida-20111031,0,…

Should we be at all surprised about the stance of The Republican Party and their need to demonize their opposition, by useing the crudest of tactics of undemonstrated election fraud and the menace of Acorn? The political thuggery of notorious Right Wing hacks is the sum total of the politcal menace of ‘election fraud’. The need of a Party, that has surrendered to manufactured political hysteria, that has been it’s hallmark, since the rise of benighted Mr. Nixon has ,in fact, become the captive of the No-Nothings, the political nihilists, and the Neoconservtive zelots. The Noble Lie is its singularly usable idea, it can in its desperation,posit no other concept of its operational politics than the friend/enemy of Carl Schmitt and his sub rosa ally Leo Strauss. The Modern Republican Party has lost its way. When the icon of post war American politics, Dwight D. Eisenhower is judged to be too Liberal, too allied to the New Deal, we have reached a point at which we must enuciate, in all candor, that the leaders of this Party are menacing political psychotics, capable of all manner of destrutiveness, including the usurpation of Constitutional governance,in service to a ruthless power seeking.That is a regrettable but necessary, even bitter, conclusion.

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