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This past week, two Kossacks speculated that if President Obama wins a second term, furious right-wingers might well respond with terrorist attacks and lesser mayhem. Another declared that he'd rather share a debate stage with Muppets than with conservatives.

As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.

What is conservatism? Who are conservatives? For serious answers, one might consult the work of Russell Kirk, Michael Oakeshott, or Jonathan Haidt. If you seek wacky, borderline-incomprehensible assessments, however, just look below for some of what Kossacks have come up with lately. 

As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.

There are plenty of reasonable explanations for why Republicans have a hard time winning over black voters. Leave it to a Kossack to offer an unreasonable explanation: that today's GOP "looks and acts like a white supremacist lynch mob." That blogger also likens Ann Coulter to a rabid weasel and presents her as one of the leading apologists for this violently racist party.

As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.

This past week's presidential debate put at least two Kossacks in mind of throwing punches and caused another to reflect upon which group Republicans hate more: women or those who pay no income taxes.

And why do leftists hate all the liberal debate moderators, like first-timer Candy Crowley of CNN? As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.

Kossacks notice things the rest of us don't, or maybe they just imagine things that aren't there. This past week, one picked up on the supposedly racist subtext of Mitt Romney's 47-percent comments, while another smelled a "fetid odor of fascism coming from Lord Romney's castle" (and also announced that he's "ready to compare Romney to Hitler").

As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym. Daily Kos Week in Review will return in two weeks.

This past week, Kossacks weighed in on the GOP presidential nominee's Libya/Egypt comments, reflected on the madness and/or fanatical religiosity of conservatives, and lauded a currently showless lefty cable-TV host.

As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.

Todd Akin may not know much about biology, but this week one Kossack sounded awfully uninformed herself on abortion and related issues. Another claimed that one of the major parties (hint: not the Democrats) is, in effect, pro-rape.

As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.

Some on the left have questioned the Catholic credentials of Republican VP-nominee-in-waiting Paul Ryan. Count on Kossacks, however, to allege that Ryan, and conservatives as a group, not only aren't Christians but are followers of Satan himself.

As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.

This past week, Kossacks continued to attack conservatives disappointed by the Supreme Court's upholding of the Affordable Care Act, but with an additional twist of the rhetorical knife: alleging that the real reason the right opposes the individual mandate is that a black president favors it. 
 
As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.

This past week, one Kossack argued that for conservatives, freedom of religion is not an end, but rather a means for them to limit the religious liberty of non-conservatives. Another admitted that analyzing right-wingers is, literally, a painful experience. 

As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.

Remember when conservatives didn't like or trust Mitt Romney? Well, that's yesterday's news, according to one Kossack, who opined that the right is warming to Romney because of his vicious, mendacious attacks on President Obama. Moreover, the same Kossack declared that righties find lies about Obama not only politically congenial but also sexually arousing.
 
As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.

Think back a decade, to eight and a half months after 9/11, to those "dark days when an oppressive and war-crazed administration suppressed all dissent as unpatriotic and treasonous." OK, that's not how conservatives remember the America of that spring, but it's how Markos Moulitsas felt, and that feeling led him, on May 26, 2002, to start Daily Kos.  
 
The big anniversary notwithstanding, this past week some Kossacks sounded pessimistic regarding not only the fall elections but also the effort to recall Scott Walker.  As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.

Though Kossacks detest the political beliefs of the Tea Party, they often acknowledge that they could learn something, perhaps related to organizational skills or enthusiasm or marketing, from tea-partiers' example. This week, however, one Kossack went whole hog and asserted that what the left needs is a mirror-image or Bizarro World Tea Party-like movement that stands for "truly egalitarian democratic communism."          

As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.

To the left-wing mind, conservatives' hatred of sex and minority groups is matched only by their love of war and, of course, the almighty dollar. This week, one Kossack opined that the GOP wins solely by offering "bribes" (i.e., tax cuts) to "degenerate" voters. Another argued that Republicans' advantage over Democrats is their "appeal to the basest of human instincts; greed."       

As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.

Kossacks seldom tire of declaring conservatives' alleged hatred of minority groups, and are especially energetic about doing so in the wake of racial incidents such as the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin. This past week, one even dared to assert that the right believes it's "a-okay to murder black children."

As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym. Daily Kos Week in Review will return in two weeks. Happy Easter!