The real GOP threat

The Tea Party types and far right GOPers keep insisting that liberals are wrongly painting their movement as violent, insisting that they're just concerned citizens who want to rein in an out of control government. Hard to keep making that argument when their Congressional GOP candidates call for an armed revolution if they lose at the ballot box.

Republican congressional candidate Stephen Broden stunned his party Thursday, saying he would not rule out violent overthrow of the government if elections did not produce a change in leadership.

This brought the obligatory "refudiation" from the county GOP head, but one can imagine he might well be congratulating Broden in private for his "courage." [Think Progress has video.]

This comes the day after a serious threat to a Hispanic Democratic Congressman:

Police locked down the Tucson congressional office of Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) on Thursday afternoon after staffers received a package containing a “confirmed” toxic substance, a Grijalva spokesman said.

A suspicious package with swastikas written on the envelope was mailed Thursday to the Tucson office, where about a dozen staffers work. Upon inspection, it was found the package contained a white powder authorities later determined to be toxic, said Grijalva campaign spokesman Adam Sarvana.

And then there was the apparent intimidation of voters in minority districts of Houston a couple of days ago by Tea Party trained poll watchers.

This is what they're doing before an election that the media keeps telling them they're going to win. With early voting numbers suggesting they may not see that sweep the pundits are predicting, I don't even want to think about what they might do if they lose big.

[More posts daily at the Detroit News.]