As a compliment to my earlier post, ‘Psychologists Say Conservatism is a Mental Illness‘, and to be as informative as I can be in this election cycle, I offer up the following for your reading (dis)pleasure. (If you’ve voted Republican in the past and are considering doing it in again in the near future, for the love of God, please continue reading!)
From ArmChairSubversive:
Republican Congressman
Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after
“sexually explicit” emails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year old boy.
Republican executive
Randall Casseday of the conservative Washington Times newspaper was arrested for soliciting sex from a 13-year old girl on the internet.
Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition
Lou Beres confessed to molesting a 13-year old girl.
Republican County Constable
Larry Dale Floyd was arrested on
suspicion of soliciting
sex with an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won
elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.
Republican Party leader
Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.
Republican petition drive manager
Tom Randall pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of them the daughter of an associate in the petition business.
Republican County Chairman
Armando Tebano was arrested for sexually molesting a 14-year-old girl.
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Found this (dated) juicy tidbit and just had to share…
Study of Bush’s psyche touches a nerve
Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday August 13, 2003
The Guardian
A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in “fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity”.
As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report’s four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.
All of them “preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality”.
Read the rest here
Hammer and a nail-head anyone? *SNORT!* 
(crossposted at Vagabond Scholar)
Continuing this week’s examination of faulty argument patterns, we turn to today’s Washington Post. Some readers offered some splendid examples of the slippery slope, which The Non-Sequitur site describes succinctly as “alleging that accepting the conclusion of an opponent’s argument will invariably lead to an increasing series of dastardly consequences.”
Eugene Robinson’s column today was ‘Values’ Choice for The GOP, focusing on issues of GOP moral hypocrisy raised by the Mark Foley scandal. Among the other points he makes, Robinson observes that:
The culture war is supposed to be about morality, but really it’s a crusade to compel Americans to follow certain norms of private behavior that some social and religious conservatives believe are mandated by sociology, nature or God. Republican officeholders have paid lip service to this crusade, all the while knowing that the human family is diverse and fallible. They know that the gravest threat to marriage is the heterosexual divorce rate. They know that Republicans drink, swear, carouse and have affairs, just like Democrats. They know that homosexuals aren’t devils.
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