I have no idea what you mean.
Me neither. In this metaphor, who is the fox and who is the rabbit?
Yes you are correct, I was just making a point of how hateful the politics has become in some people. These tea-baggers use much the same rhetoric as the Cesspool crowd and with many threads on antisemitism I wanted to educate myself about the David Duke mindset by monitoring their blogs and pod-casts.
It is really morbidly fascinating, they have their own alternative history where the Jews are literally behind every evil in Western history. What bothers me the most is the convergence of some of their views in the mainstream conservative circles or at least what passes for it nowadays.
Ah, my apologies then.
Capitalize “fox” and you may get an idea. 
Is the rabbit Air America?
Is one of them Hitler and the other Obama?
I’m confused.
I dunno. Brer Rabbit always gets the best of Brer Fox.
I’ve never figured it out, to be honest, but the English seem to really love the things…
-XT
I am going to puke. When will I learn to not click you people’s links?
Honestly, with a lead-in like “Jugged” it could have been a lot worse.
When has this happened to the left?
And practically every socialist party ever in America.
Of course, some of these have won some elections – even the Socialist Party of America did, in its day – but none have ever seen even a glimpse of major-party status on the horizon.
I would be willing to bet if you added the attention that all these leftist parties had over the last 50 years, it wouldn’t come close to matching what attention the Teabaggers have gotten in the past six months. Nobody takes these third parties seriously and they draw a statistically insignificant number of votes.
Nothing like the power of the NDP, huh? 
The NDP in Canada has been a major party, controlling provincial governments at some periods and always maintaining a significant presence in Parliament, but has never gotten close to forming a national government – not even as a coalition partner, AFAIK. But left-wing third parties in America never get even that far. In fact, the last third-party movement of any kind to achieve that in America was the Republicans, and they were founded in 1854.
Once again, if you don’t like that, support FairVote and proportional representation.
I seem to have to say something like this every time I post to a thread that’s remotely close to a controversial issue: When I claim that certain parties were too far to the right or left to be electable, I’m not asserting that their opinions are utterly repugnant to me. I’m saying that they are unelectable, that’s all. I have no intention of discussing the quallity of their positions.
And that craven need to keep the voters in the fold actually makes this tactic more dangerous in a two-party state, not less. In a proportional system, the Tea Party (or its like) would get the votes of those to whom they appeal. In a two-party system, they can pull a party with a slim majority toward them to some variable degree, or even gain seats to them alone in districts where their “fellow traveler” party is dominant enough. And that could be just dominant enough to need [del]Nazi[/del] fringe votes,[sup]*[/sup] or so dominant that the fringe is a serious part of the conversation–a majority of the majority of the voters though not the majority.
[sup]*[/sup] Well, that’s sort of like what the Nazi’s did…
The Tea Party was never intended to be anything but a way to rally people of a certain stripe into the GOP while ensuring that the GOP did not compromise in a moderate direction to gain votes. There is no betrayal in Sarah Palin taking over. It was founded by movement conservative former GOP congressman Dick Armey.