Well, the video is interesting but I don't think his comparing Welch to Beck, Limbaugh, or Palin makes a lot of sense. I think the big difference is Beck, Limbaugh, and Palin are creations to a great extent. Wingnut inventions for the purpose of keeping the general populace enraged. Beck, Limbaugh, and Palin say things with the specific purpose of getting people (on both sides of the aisle) all riled up, they are cogs in the Animosity Machine. Welch was a true believer. I think if we had a time machine and we could transport Beck, Limbaugh, and Palin back to 1974 they would be reviled and laughed at, even people like Welch would think they were total loons. Of course in 1974 idiots like Beck, Limbaugh, and Palin would have no platform to rise to superstar status and flog the happy horseshit they spew...nobody would or could take them seriously in 1974.

I think it is obvious that Beck, Limbaugh, and Palin will steal from the Robert Welch/Joe McCarthy playbook and work some revisionist history on who these guys were...cranks and crackpots in their day, great American heroes now who were only trying to "sound the alarm of the coming communist takeover we now see has succeeded with the election of Barack Obama!"

Yeah, ok, "Where are Welch and McCarthy when we really need them!" is the battle cry in the heartland.

I am getting to the point where I'd be ok with giving them the state of Texas, letting them secede from the United States, arming every last one of them as they flock there, and funding two thirds of the 80 foot concrete barrier that they will desire to separate them from New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. They can pay for the wall on the Mexican border which they really won't need 'cus they will immediately institute the death penalty for illegal immigration and since they are all armed they will be free to carry out that penalty at the drop of a cowboy hat.

They won't need to hold any more Tea Party rallies because there will be no taxes in the new nation of Texas and the "guvmint" will consist of one guy named Jimmy Ray that anybody will be able to find at any point in the day sleeping in his dusty sun dappled office with his boots up on the well worn walnut desk. They will only need to rouse Buford,um, I mean Jimmy Ray, from his slumbers to approve a public execution, caning, stoning, or amputation of a finger, toe, hand, or foot depending upon the severity of the charge. He'll do this by drawing an 'X' on the form with a ridiculously oversized pencil he bought on a trip to Disney World before visiting the United States was deemed "evil."

It will of course be legal to carry a gun anywhere you go. All citizens will be permitted to "shoot, shit, spit, piss, cuss, fart, belch, pray, display the ten commandments, beat their wives or children, have sex with their livestock, and keep any illegal immigrants that they don't kill as slaves, anytime or anywhere they damn well please" and all disputes are considered resolved by whomever survives the gun battle or dies last. The survivor or person who dies last will be considered to have been in the right and justice will have been served.

John Wayne will appear on all currency which citizens will be permitted to print themselves (or draw if they don't have a printer or it runs out of ink as long as the likeness of Wayne is not just a stick figure). The bible will be the only textbook issued at all schools and also serve as the law of the land in any legal matters which have not been previously resolved through gunplay.

Of course the great nation of Texas ( flag of the great nation of Texas- http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s74/baliand/TX-DontMess.jpg ) will be short lived and we'll know it has ceased to exist when folks in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana report the gunfire has petered out and all has gone quiet behind the wall...probably in less than 5 years at which point Mexico and the United States will argue over who now inherits what was once the great nation of Texas because neither will want it.

I am losing it...