Scramble For A New Identity
Ever since the McCain/Palin ticket tanked and the GOP found itself out on its ear, there has been shifting ground. Mark My Words: we'll be seeing a parade of 'dusky', 'non-white minorities'-- and more women being courted by the same behemoth political machine that back in the 80's seized upon religion to grab votes. But now, the big old bullmoose elephant is nursing a broken tusk....
...for the time being.
Oh, you better believe they're crunching numbers-- and they see the American demographics changing from 'white, male' to 'non-white', and maybe even 'non-male'-- and being the crafty sons of bitches they are, they'll be foisting many a face that's a tad south of tan in the coming four years. Hell, they've already recruited what they consider to be their best shot-
That's right- Rhodes scholar, Louisianna governor Bobby Jindal. ("Hey look! He's non-white! He's smart...maybe we can use him!")-- and the courtship's begun.
Most distressing to me is the OTHER new kid on the block....black South Carolina Senator Robert Ford. Here he is, passing out his petition to make it a state law to commemorate the CONFEDERACY as a paid holiday be signed onto the books so Southerners can better 'appreciate their heritage'. (Why not a day to celebrate Jim Crow laws....the Ku Klux Klan?? ... that's southern history too.) CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? LOL!!!
And LOOK! --he's passing his leaflets out to fella's in wheelchairs. Oh, that's rich....another demographic to woo.....'disabled Americans'. Gotta be millions of 'em.
When will folks learn that Republicans wedding themselves to causes like the 'Religious Right' was simply grist for the mill and a way to get a groundswell growing for VOTES, and that once those votes had secured Republican control of government, it was only the RICH WHITE GUYS - most of 'em AS HEATHEN AS THEY COME, who kept making the big bucks while raping the economy practically to death. (Ah, but she was askin' for it, right?)
During the Bush presidency there was lip-service-only, and photo ops... and soundbytes given to 'GOD AND COUNTRY', all well-used by the Republican party: no conviction at all. (If there had been, we wouldn't have such disparity between the rich and the have-nots in this country... so the church mice were duped...and a lot poorer now as well.)
My thoughts are that the only true believer was Bush himself-- a born-again alcoholic whose sobriety is held intact with slogans and the personal walk he once took with Jesus and Billy Graham: The Power of Three. (Cheney and his ilk secretly laughed at him-- just as the powers-that-be privately snickered at their assembled 'Christian advisory panels', but use them they did)- and the full force of the mindless Reborn Army followed wheresoever they pointed, and that was wherever 'abortion' or same-sex marriage raised its godless head.
Look. Here's the thing. President Obama just happens to be black. The key points that assured him the presidency were his talents as a negotiator who listens to opposing viewpoints, and the fact that he's more of a centrist than anything else, and someone who will not further divide us. (But the chief reason is that he's bright as hell, and THAT'S why he was elected, you morons.)
The man made sense when nobody else did. He inspired confidence by force of character while Republicans were falling to personal scandals and the disillusionment of a country that had seen too many years of Republican monarchy strung together. Quite simply: we chose the guy least likely to let us sink, and we knew that in our hearts.
So go ahead and revamp yourselves by stupidly copying the obvious, racking up non-white politicians and totally missing the point.
You guys are good at that. The difference is that now we know it. We're ready for ya.
...for the time being.
Oh, you better believe they're crunching numbers-- and they see the American demographics changing from 'white, male' to 'non-white', and maybe even 'non-male'-- and being the crafty sons of bitches they are, they'll be foisting many a face that's a tad south of tan in the coming four years. Hell, they've already recruited what they consider to be their best shot-
That's right- Rhodes scholar, Louisianna governor Bobby Jindal. ("Hey look! He's non-white! He's smart...maybe we can use him!")-- and the courtship's begun.
Most distressing to me is the OTHER new kid on the block....black South Carolina Senator Robert Ford. Here he is, passing out his petition to make it a state law to commemorate the CONFEDERACY as a paid holiday be signed onto the books so Southerners can better 'appreciate their heritage'. (Why not a day to celebrate Jim Crow laws....the Ku Klux Klan?? ... that's southern history too.) CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? LOL!!!
And LOOK! --he's passing his leaflets out to fella's in wheelchairs. Oh, that's rich....another demographic to woo.....'disabled Americans'. Gotta be millions of 'em.
When will folks learn that Republicans wedding themselves to causes like the 'Religious Right' was simply grist for the mill and a way to get a groundswell growing for VOTES, and that once those votes had secured Republican control of government, it was only the RICH WHITE GUYS - most of 'em AS HEATHEN AS THEY COME, who kept making the big bucks while raping the economy practically to death. (Ah, but she was askin' for it, right?)
During the Bush presidency there was lip-service-only, and photo ops... and soundbytes given to 'GOD AND COUNTRY', all well-used by the Republican party: no conviction at all. (If there had been, we wouldn't have such disparity between the rich and the have-nots in this country... so the church mice were duped...and a lot poorer now as well.)
My thoughts are that the only true believer was Bush himself-- a born-again alcoholic whose sobriety is held intact with slogans and the personal walk he once took with Jesus and Billy Graham: The Power of Three. (Cheney and his ilk secretly laughed at him-- just as the powers-that-be privately snickered at their assembled 'Christian advisory panels', but use them they did)- and the full force of the mindless Reborn Army followed wheresoever they pointed, and that was wherever 'abortion' or same-sex marriage raised its godless head.
Look. Here's the thing. President Obama just happens to be black. The key points that assured him the presidency were his talents as a negotiator who listens to opposing viewpoints, and the fact that he's more of a centrist than anything else, and someone who will not further divide us. (But the chief reason is that he's bright as hell, and THAT'S why he was elected, you morons.)
The man made sense when nobody else did. He inspired confidence by force of character while Republicans were falling to personal scandals and the disillusionment of a country that had seen too many years of Republican monarchy strung together. Quite simply: we chose the guy least likely to let us sink, and we knew that in our hearts.
So go ahead and revamp yourselves by stupidly copying the obvious, racking up non-white politicians and totally missing the point.
You guys are good at that. The difference is that now we know it. We're ready for ya.
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