The media likes to pretend that there are "3 wings" to the Republican party -- The "social conservatives", "fiscal conservatives", and "national security conservatives." These frames are bogus and we should NEVER concede these frames. Indeed there are 3 wings to the Republican Party. They are the Taliban Conservatives, the Halliburton Conservatives, and the Country Club Conservatives. We should be using frames just like this ALL the time.
Most Republicans represent all 3 extremist wings of the GOP. However, even if you combined all 3, they are still a small minority in this country. Here is what each wing of the Republican Party stands for.
1. The Taliban Conservatives
These people are similar to the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden (The guy Bush and McCain gave a free pass too for their war of profit in Iraq) except that they use a different religion and different bible to justify their social fascism.
They desire a police state, lack of due process, wrongful incarcerations, government ownership of woman's wombs, government intrusiveness into people's most intimate privacy areas, the power to retaliate against and falsely imprison those that stand in their way, the denial of liberty, the elimination of freedom, and a fundamentalist imposed theocracy on all our citizens. They hate freedom, hate liberty, hate our Constitution and seek to render the Bill of Rights obsolete.
2. The Halliburton Conservatives
Most conservatives are anti-military, weak on national security, weak on national defense, and disastrous on foreign policy issues. I call these people the Halliburton Conservatives.
Halliburton Conservatives simply believe in making money in the name of national defense. It's that simple even if it means war instead of peace, no bid contracts instead of open contracts, dead soldiers instead of living soldiers, fraud instead of honesty, etc...
To Hallibruton Conservatives, soldiers are simply staff pukes who are used as cheap labor in order to create profits for the military industrial complex. Halliburton conservatives do not care that they weaken American national security. Halliburton conservatives do not care that they endanger the lives of people in the military. Halliburton conservatives simply care about money and they use the military to make money. That's why I call them anti-troop, anti-military, and even unAmerican. You might even call them treasonous.
3. The Country Club Conservatives
Country Club Conservatives have a very simple philosophy. They simply believe that government exists to line the pockets of the top 1%, even if that means everyone else has crummy schools, no health care, foreclosed mortgages, high energy prices, crippling student loan debt, a polluted environment, unaffordable college tuition costs, crumbling roadways, etc...
Country Club conservatives are class warfare elitists who seek to make money for the top 1% at the expense of everyone else, including future generations which is why they borrow and spend.
On spending issues, country club conservatives simply want government to spend for the programs they want and spend nothing on programs that other people need. They believe govt should be used as a piggy bank to write special laws which exempt them from contributing while crushing the average man and woman.
If the agenda of the three wings of the Republican Party is exposed, they become 4th party gadflies. John McCain represents all 3 wings of these wings of the Republican Party. The American people deserve to know this.