A new Daily Kos/Research poll, conducted among 2,000 self-identified Republican respondents nationwide, gives an interesting peek into the psyche of the minority party’s base. Kos has not yet released the full numbers, but here are some early results:

• 39% of Republicans want President Obama to be impeached.

• 63% think Obama is a socialist.

• Only 42% believe Obama was born in the United States.

• 21% think ACORN stole the 2008 election — that is, that Obama didn’t actually win it, and isn’t legitimately the president, with 55% saying they are “not sure.” This number is actually significantly lower than it was in a similar question from Public Policy Polling (D) back in November, which said that 52% of Republicans thought ACORN stole it. So does this mean Obama is gaining ground among Republicans? As it is, only just over 20% of Republicans will say that Obama actually won the election.

• 53% think Sarah Palin is more qualified than Obama to be president.

• 23% want to secede from the United States.

• 73% think gay people should not be allowed to teach in public schools. This position puts the GOP base well to the right of none other than Ronald Reagan, who helped defeat the Briggs Initiative, a 1978 referendum in California that would have forbidden gays or people who advocated gay rights from teaching in public schools.

• 31% want contraception to be outlawed.

Source: TPM

Conservative critics have begun a new chapter in film review: Ignoring the merits of a great film and ridiculing the incidental political landscape of the film itself. According to the Los Angeles Times, right-wing commentators have been lining up to slam Cameron’s film as a soiled, suspect product of Obama’s America. Have they forgotten that Avatar has been in the making for past 4 years? Last I checked, Obama was elected just over a year ago. Well played critics.

Through their polarized spectacles, they stared at the faraway planet of Pandora and perceived a dubious pro-environmental message and a thinly-veiled onslaught against American imperialism. And they do not like what they see.

Armond White of the New York Press claimed Avatar “misrepresents the facts of militarism, capitalism and imperialism” and described it as “a guilt-ridden 9/11 death wish”. This view is echoed by John Nolte on his Big Hollywood blog, who dubbed it “a Death Wish for leftists; a simplistic, revisionist revenge fantasy”.

Based on their behavior and their motives, the characters that died or lost the battle in the end deserved it, and I’m not sure that’s really up for debate. When has killing natives for resources and land ever been acceptable? Oh yeah.

According to John Podhoretz, the film critic for the Weekly Standard, the film “asks the audience to root for the defeat of American soldiers at the hands of an insurgency”, which makes it “a deep expression of anti-Americanism”.

While the corporation did seem to speak American English, what facts do we have to show that the group was in fact American, and not just an Earth-borne directorate? Regardless, the audience didn’t seem to have a problem with it either way, and the “expression of anti-Americanism” is complete bullshit, conservative or liberal. And just for fun, I’d like to point out that this insurgency (an armed rebellion against a constituted authority—in this case, natives attempting to protect their homeland from destruction) doesn’t seem to be all that different from what happened in Iraq over the past 8 years.

However, Govindini Murty, a writer on the conservative website Libertas, offers a crumb of comfort. “Even though Avatar has an incredibly disturbing anti-human, anti-military, anti-western world view, it has incredible spectacle and technology and great film-making to capture people’s attention,” Murty writes. “The politics are going right over people’s heads.”

There’s a big difference between the message of a movie “going right over people’s heads” and the audience basically agreeing with the movie wholeheartedly. In fact, if you actually watched the movie, and thought about it, these left-sided critics are playing out the role of the corporation and military from the film pretty well I’d say. Bravo!

Our political system has come so far in the past few years. By prime example, compulsive conservatives are attempting to turn a movie that’s earned $1b+ at movie theaters, using the term ‘propaganda’ no less, into a political javelin. No shame whatsoever. And clearly, the public is appalled as well. Rebel!

Sarah Palin may or may not run for president in 2012, but she is already the overwhelming favorite in the Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck primaries.

Almost half of all Republican and GOP-leaning independents alike said they think Palin has had a good effect on their party, compared with 20 percent who think she has had a negative effect. Eighty percent of Limbaugh listeners and 70 percent of Beck viewers said she has had a positive impact.

Nearly all Republicans have sympathy for Palin for the treatment she has received from the news media since she burst onto the national stage as John McCain’s vice presidential running mate last year. Overall, 87 percent said the media have treated her unfairly.

There is, however, no middle ground for Palin. As much as she is liked by many Republicans, she is disliked almost as strongly by many independents. In a pair of focus groups conducted in Aurora, Colo., recently — one with Republicans and the other with independents — Palin provoked strong and conflicting opinions, as she does in national polling.

I’m not really sure if this news or not… but it’s definitely something we already knew. Regardless, the outlook for Palin isn’t exactly bleak, but it’s also not very good. And I can’t say I’m upset.

I’m just happy the crazies are constistent and we can generally classify them together. It’s a full moon tonight!

This is not about the NFL. It’s not about the St. Louis Rams. It’s not about me. This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democratic party, or wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative.

Therefore, this is about the future of the United States of America and what kind of country we’re going to have.

Rush Limbaugh’s response to being dropped from group bidding to buy the St. Louis Rams

This wonderful new website takes a look at all the [absurd] reasons why we should impeach President Obama. It makes a point to call him “Barrack Hussein Obama” in every mention of his name. It makes claims the Obama has “unabated malevolence toward this country, which is unabated” (a ridiculous quote in and of itself), is going to “change our country into a third-world nation”, that he will “bulldoze our great nation”, and “construct a totalitarian regime… fascism, socialism, Obamaism.”

The website goes on and on with different examples of great humor, telling us what Obama has done to this country, what he will do if left in office, and how he is a muslim in office turning the American people over to the powers in the Middle East. The author even manages to take a Reagan quote and use it against Obama. Fantastic!

Check it out for a good laugh.

A must watch for anyone interested in the town hall bullshit that’s happening.