Republican Russians?

I've always assumed that Republicans scorn anything new. They tend to like things the way they were, occasionally the way they are, but never the way they could be.
But an incident on August 6 is making me rethink my assumption. A massive internet attack on a lone writer from Georgia (the country, not the state) overloaded the computers that serve Twitter and Facebook, two social networking web sites only recently used for political discourse instead of vacuous announcements of little concern to anyone but the willing participants.
The purpose of the attack was clear. The writer, who calls himself Giorgy is a 34 year old Georgian refugee who blogs about his country and it's fight to remain independent.
And someone doesn't think that's the sort of thing people need to know about.
On August 6 a massive attack on his Twitter and Facebook pages literally shut down their entire websites.
Republicans, generally the last to consider new ideas, were impressed. At the very time they were struggling to stifle debate over any changes to America's health care for the rich system, drowning out the voices of others was something an organized minority could do. Intimidate the opposition and drown out debate. Carry guns to town hall meetings and hang legislators in effigy.
The facts are, however, that over 50% of Americans favor reforming our health care for the rich system. Some pollsters put the number as high as 70%.
So ultimately the intimidators will lose.
But in the meantime, I'm watching the loud mouths on web videos. Most of them are older than their hero Lou Dobbs, meaning they're on Medicare benefits. No wonder they don't want any changes...Medicare is affordable and works really well for them and they never worry about arbitrary or unfair health insurance cancellation.
Even as old as they are they remind me of playground bullies who ran the playground with the loudest voice and clenched fists but never got past the first round of the spelling bee.
It's widely suspected that the cyber attack to silence the Georgian writer was officially (or probably unofficially) instigated by Russians who believe that Georgia needs to rejoin mother Russia and begin rebuilding the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Who knew the right wing was so open to ideas from Reagan's "evil empire"? Then again, when your idea account is bankrupt what have you got to lose?