As the Republican Party dies an ugly, protracted, very public and long-overdue death, the Conservative elites and GOP nabobs who have scampered away from the flailing monster they helped to create now appear to be permanently stalled in "bargaining" mode.
This is a state of being in which Republican luminaries and message-makers who have hastily emigrated to a fairer shore will finally acknowledge that something has certainly gone badly wrong inside their former party, but would now like everyone to believe that they never had the slightest idea that the Republican Party was full of Republicans all along.
Men and women who have spent their entire adult lives behind a microphone or in front of a camera or tapping away on a keyboard spreading the Republican gospel of "America is being destroyed by godless Libtards and their army of welfare cheats" now desperately want you to believe that they weren't malicious or mercenary, merely naive.
The senior executives and decision-makers of a party which feted Rush Limbaugh with a plaque and a party a quarter of a century ago and explicitly praised Conservative Hate Radio for sweeping them into power now really want you to believe that they personally never had any idea that Rush Limbaugh and Hate Radio were ever anything but fringe loonies* --
Steele to Rush: I'm sorry-- who held no real sway over anything.
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says he has reached out to Rush Limbaugh to tell him he meant no offense when he referred to the popular conservative radio host as an “entertainer” whose show can be “incendiary.”
“My intent was not to go after Rush – I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh,” Steele said in a telephone interview. “I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. … There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.”
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On Monday night, DNC Chairman Tim Kaine called on Republicans to "stop following divisive figures" like Limbaugh.
"I was briefly encouraged by the courageous comments made my counterpart in the Republican Party over the weekend challenging Rush Limbaugh as the leader of the Republican Party and referring to his show as ‘incendiary’ and ‘ugly,’" Kaine said in a statement. "However, Chairman Steele’s reversal this evening and his apology to Limbaugh proves the unfortunate point that Limbaugh is the leading force behind the Republican Party, its politics and its obstruction of President Obama’s agenda in Washington."
In the interview with Politico, Steele called Limbaugh “a very valuable conservative voice for our party.”...
Whose continued professional survival depends on maintaining the fiction that somehow Trump used dark magic to transform their party of patriotic, Burke-loving yeomen into a mob of racist zombies overnight and that they just never saw it coming.
Or that none of that matters because...uh...because Donald Trump isn't really a Republican anyway!
But wait. If the guy who won more Republican primary votes than any Republican in history and enjoys the unwavering support of +90% of the Republican rank-and-file isn't a Republican, then what is he?
The answer may surprise you!
From a former Florida Republican congressman who has his own, 3-hour show every weekday morning on MSNBC:
JOE SCARBOROUGH: As Mika and I have said from the very beginning, one of those people it would annoy is Donald Trump who we've always said was a big government Democrat. He's proven that...But a bargain is fundamentally an "agreement between two or more parties as to what each party will do for the other" isn't it?
And I for one have no intention of being duped or pressured or proxied into letting the same trolls, ghouls and political contract killers who built the monster machine that begat Trump get away with blotting out their long list of crimes against our democracy.
* This citation from Politico is from more than a decade ago, back when Michael Steele was the hype man for the Party of Bigots and Imbeciles and not a respected MSNBC contributor who can count on his colleagues to never, ever mention his inconvenient past.
No Half Measures
3 comments:
How can we wrench open the msm's iron clad welded tungsten carbide locked entry to get you on a high profile media platform?
Just asking for atonement is not enough. making amends sometimes does not equate to automatic forgiveness.
Watching across the media spectrum right down to the old AM Joy on sunday as Caphart sat in as host. his segment on the disenfranchised republicans with the rise of Trump.
Can't the Affordable Care act cover GOP rehab? Treat it as an illness just as Alcohol and drug abuse?
Sure the 10 Commandments they preached did not guide them. Perhaps a 12 step program could heal the vacant souls of misery for everyone but me crowd.
FOX Chris Wallace interview with Trump Chief staff mark meadows. Asking Meadows if Trump will disavow the certified hate group and conspiracy illness of QANON. meadows could and would not answer but did make unfounded accusations, "But what about the criminal Obama who spied on Trump".
Of course Meadows was plucked from the House Republicans. He got there from being in a hate group called TEA party (republicans), promising to go to WASH. DC and put the black Muslim president who was not born in America in prison for being an illegitimate president.
To make his spiteful point, voted repeatedly to harm Americans so it would help America to fail and he could blame it on the Black guy.
It is just out of greed and desperate that they raped, pillaged and murdered to take what you have because republicans do not believe in socialism.
There is a massive infrastructure feat being employed to completely fortify the base of the GOP by giving sainthood to those who brought us all this rabble with the ill est of intentions and greedy profits. As if they should not have to roll up their sleeves, pull themselves up from their own boot straps and get back to work and get off their lazy asses off the couch, get their selfish play time off the golf course and actually do the hartd work to build or rebuild or create a entire new party if they want to be relevant.
Does America really need a two Party system?
What would be wrong with Democratic party and the Green Party. That is two parties?
What is coming out is that the GOP is an accumulated association of several groups and are not united even though they can all kneel and give a blow job to McConnell when he says he and he alone is the grim reaper and no one else elected has a say.
So republican Sea (White Supremacists) to shining sea (wealthy oligarchs who want to rule) and ever rotten thing in between needs their infrastructure base shored up. For some reason.
It is simple, you were wrong and invested in this failure for too long and it is time to let go and disavow. So they GOPers can place their time and efforts into something humanely beneficial.
But hey, what do I know.. The only let me be a spectator and a victim and they even choose that for me.
I suggest wearing a Newt Gingrich fat suit
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