(Sorry, Elvis; had to do it.)
As we pick our way through the landscape of rubble, failure and debt that 30 years of Conservatism has left in it wake -- pushing our brooms and shaking our heads -- it is important to keep our sense of humor. And I gotta tell you, other than, say, Bill Kristol cranked to the gills on X trying desperately to lick peanut butter off of Bill O’Reilly’s bald spot, there is nothing funnier than watching a recently apostatized
One such
Oh my, but theirs is quite the six-hanky tale of woe my friends.
Larry is all a-weep and bewildered, having discovered that his beautiful, sunlit
who view him less as a brother in arms and more as a yummy-yummy
pig in a blanket.
Jiminy-jillikers, Radioactive Man, if only someone hadda told Larry sooner!
Larry picks up his own, private trail of tears here…
Sunday, October 19, 2008“Until eight years ago…”?
Will the Republican Party Survive--And Does Anybody Care Anymore?
…
After hearing Powell, I immediately switched over to Fox News in time to get their reaction which was entirely critical and dismissive of Powell. One "analyst" speculated this was Powell's way of getting even with McCain for not selecting Powell to be his running mate. Another focused on how unfair it is for anyone to criticize McCain or his campaign since McCain is honest and righteous and Obama is so much worse. No one mentioned the merit or accuracy of Powell's statements. Later on MSNBC, Republican Pat Buchanan speculated that Powell picked Obama because he was just anxious to endorse a fellow Black guy.
Meanwhile, the Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved, Dennis Prager radio crowd has gone non-stop venal and ballistic over the airwaves this month. Their entire programs are filled with lies, distortions, and partial truths about Obama and his positions. He is freely and constantly called anti-American, a traitor, a socialist, a terrorist, a friend of terrorists, a liar, a thief, a criminal, and a "bloodsucker" who wants to take every hard-working citizen's money--all of it--and distribute it to his liberal, radical, good-for-nothing friends.
This is not just about politics or an election. This has become a Holy War with these guys. My longtime friend Dennis Prager told me last year that unless I had learned to loathe the Left, then I had learned nothing from him in the 20 years I have regarded him as a teacher. He recently wrote a column on townhall.com in which he explains the difference between people on the Left and people on the Right. Apparently being a pluralist or an independent--trying to learn from all people--is no longer an option.
This latest descent completes the utter destruction of the Republican party as a force for good in this country. Until eight years ago, Republicans had a deserved reputation for being more socially and fiscally conservative and responsible. When the party culture became infected with the Bush/Rove/Cheney virus, it began to morph into a divisive force that possessed none of those qualities.
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Bwahahahahaha!
You know, “independent” probably used to mean something once upon a time, but for the last few decades, “independent” has been nothing more than a smelly little grotto carved out of thin air by Cokie Roberts, David Broder, Joe Klein and a hundred others for the comfort of smug, gutless, closet Conservatives who wanted to play “Maverick – The Home Game” in public and masturbate to Rush Limbaugh in private.
An intellectual sniper’s nest for the craven and the clueless knocked together with little pundit hammers, bangbangbanging away morning, noon and night that both sides are equally wrong about everything all the time.
Actually, in a strange way, I almost of sympathize with the “Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved, Dennis Prager radio crowd” contempt for people like Larry.
For 30 years the Party of God has been winning elections by pandering to the scum of America, and they have always been
Absolutely
Unambiguously
Crystal-Fucking-Clear
Unambiguously
Crystal-Fucking-Clear
what their objectives were.
Some of them want Jesusland. Some want “The Handmaid’s Tale”.
Some are sitting on an arsenal and a year's supply of pemmican, praying for a race-war.
Some want the Rapture.
And some just want a nice, tidy, White Christian feudal state.
And we crazy, Socialist, America-haters?
We want our country – our beautiful, tolerant, raucous, vigorous, flawed democracy – back.
That’s what the Culture Wars have been about, Larry, or weren’t you paying attention?
Of course, as long as the Pig People were helping Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich win, “independents” like Larry were perfectly content to warm their little hands on the bonfires onto which their culture and country were being tossed. But now that its all going to shit, and the “independents” want to get off the merry-go-round, the devil wants his due.
Of course, the Larrys of the world couldn’t be bothered to read the fine print on the infernal contract they were signing because…
First Atwater came for Reagan's "welfare queens"Sorry Larry, but the 40 million of us who have spent a considerable fraction of our lives trying to warn people like you this day would come will never be the slightest bit interested in your outrage or your regrets until you start beginning every sentence with "I am so fucking sorry that I had my head up my ass for the last 30 years."
- but I was not a welfare queen so I did not speak out.
Then Gingrich came for the Liberals and the Unions,
- but I was taught to call everyone who disagreed with me a traitor, so I did not speak out.
Then Falwell and Robertson came for the gays,
- but gays are icky, so I did not speak out.
Then Limbaugh came for the Feminazis
- but strong, smart women terrify me, so I did not speak out.
And when they came for me, I had the fucking nerve to pretend to be Shocked!Shocked! that my Party was being run by degenerate lunatics.
Or, to quote Rick Blaine from “Casablanca:
“I don’t mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one.”
12 comments:
I have to thank you for this, dg.
Even as I steal a bit of it...
"but strong, smart women terrify me, so I did not speak out"
The misogyny of Plastic Jesus himself, and his horde of chicken-hearted rowdy male followers, all of them adolescent-minded regardless of their number of completed solar orbits, has shown dismally that this particular sort of mental illness is not confined to Elephascists.
A plague on both the major parties, I'm voting Green this time.
@Monster of ID... a wasted vote no doubt, but yours to use as you wish.
@drifty... brilliant post on the so-called independents. I particularly liked the way to parsed and refuted their hands off views on the coming political storm and how they're now seeking shelter. Fuck 'em I say. Let them get soaked.
I refuse to reward either the Elephascists or the Demagogues for their thuggish behaviors.
Then I suppose you won't mind 4 more years of republican rule, but this time with more potential for The Rapture, especially if McGrumpy croaks in office. God knows that wouldn't be any different than what Obama would have served up, right?
A plague on both the major parties
I believe we've covered this many times in previous installments. But "oh, well."
You post like that AND mention a Margaret Atwood novel?
Bastiid. (Love on ya Drifty it's sa'wesome as usual.)
i could have written that, if i had a 100 monkeys and a 100 years.
thanks for shortcutting it, driftglass.
Stringonastick: I do not like the idea of more Elephascist rule, but neither am I terrified of it. I remember people saying "OMFSM Ronnie Reagan's gonna blow up the world OHNOES OHNOES OHNOES" aaaaand--he didn't. I have no use for Prez Bonzo--may Cthulhu excrete on his grave--but I survived him, and I can survive Prez McCain or Palin, if either happens.
I will not reward the GOP for their bad behavior by voting McCain/Palin, but neither will I reward the smirking misogynist Obama and his horde of rowdy "young" men [quotation marks because while they all have adolescent minds, not all of them are literally young] for THEIR bad behavior. I was a young man once, but I don't recall that I was ever rowdy, or disrespectful of women, so I have scant patience at best with those who are. Indeed, this election has planted a loathing of Young-And-Dumb-And-Full-Of-Shit male talking apes in my soul that I suspect will last the rest of my days, and I will likely vote for whomever promises to keep the YADAFOS rowdies in line.
stringonastick - The only wasted vote is the one cast in support of the past.
brilliant Drifty. Larry can only lift the blindfold high enough to see the recent past, but if he acknowledges conservative failure any further back, how will he mend his broken heart?
...masturbate to Rush Limbaugh
There is not enough bleach in the world to cleanse my brain of that visual! (Runs screaming into the forest...)
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