GOPs Obama Is Just Brown
The Republican self-destruction has transitioned from amusing to completely ridiculous. Id like to say Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindals response to Obamas speech is their bottom, but I really dont think it is. Republicans appear to be a rare type of animal that have no ability to learn and adapt. Its not often you get to watch people run into a burning house, but that is exactly what they are doing.
It is, quite simply, amazing to watch.
For those of you who missed Bobby Jindals epic career ending speech, take a look.
This is the guy Republicans decided was going to out Obama Obama. Maybe Republicans havent noticed, but Obama is pretty good with words. Jindal speaks like hes meeting each word for the first time. But thats not even the most disturbing aspect of this mess. The content is the problem and its something Republicans still dont get.
For quite a long time, I thought Republicans like Jindal were members of the Reagan cult. But they are not. It is now clear they are members of the George W. Bush/Karl Rove/Rush Limbaugh cult. This speech was littered with lies, spin and shockingly outdated ideas. Its as if they havent learned a thing since 1992. They came to power during a time when the press was, quite simply, not doing their job. Republicans were free to do as they liked, without any sort of pesky oversight. Now these clowns are attempting to operate in the same manner and they are being eviscerated as a result.
Bobby had no idea his remarks would be picked over and analyzed, (because he doesn't know how the Internet works), so he lied. He lied to make Republican policies fit reality. Heres a tip: If you have to lie to make your policies seem decent youre not doing so well. Heres another tip: Just because a guy has brown skin, it doesnt mean hes the answer to the new black guy.
The fact that Republicans chose this awkward man to make their rebuttal speech is quite sad. This is supposed to be their new shining star. This was the guy who was going to hit it out of the park. Why? Because he is clinging to the same ideas that lost Republicans control of the House, the Senate and the White House. Not only is he sticking with those failed ideas, but hes also brown. What's not to love? He's saying stuff old white guys say BUT HE'S BROWN. It's like God gave the GOP a gift basket, except when they opened the gift basket, they discovered it was full of turds.
Jindal is far from the only Republican who doesnt realize its not the '90s. The new Republican Party leader, Michael Steele, explained to the faithful at CPAC this week that the GOP made some mistakes.
Tonight, we tell America: We know the past, we know we did wrong. My bad. But we go forward in appreciation of the values that brought us to this point.
My bad? Really? Well, I guess were going to act like were surfers who just fought over a wave. Yes, your bad with the whole ruining the economy and lying us into war. And in true Republican style, Michael then decided to keep on keeping on.
I am here tonight to reject the idea that defeats of the past are a repudiation of core conservative values and principles. Nor do I believe that those defeats are a sign of things to come.
Good. Keep it that way. CPAC is a disaster for the GOP. Every year, conservatives get together to watch their leaders give speeches they can masturbate to. And the press goes and they report back on the insane, completely out of touch nonsense that has taken place. The GOP's rhetoric and fear-mongering about socialism is a classic example from this years cult gathering.
DeMint, a fierce opponent of government expansion, told the CPAC crowd that conservatives might have to take to the streets to stop Americas slide into socialism.
"We now have moved a major step in the direction of socialism," Rep. Ron Paul said Friday, adding: "We are close to a fascist system where the government has control of our lives and our economy."
Representative John Boehner, the Republican leader in the House, called the budget proposal and recently passed economic stimulus plan "one big down payment on a new American socialist experiment."
"Lenin and Stalin would love this stuff," Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told a packed ballroom.
Totally. Stalin would probably have voted for Obama. Stalin was super into Universal Health INSURANCE. Historians say that each day upon waking, Stalin would say to himself, How can we get more insurance up in this bitch? Stalin was all about keeping private businesses, which people need to survive, alive and kicking, instead of replacing them with government run healthcare. If anything, he is best known for working with private companies to implement national health INSURANCE. Oh, and he killed 20 million people.
Every time these idiots open their mouths, they show themselves to be extremists. The last thing Americans want is extremists running the show. We sort of had that for the past 8 years and it didnt go too well. Republicans should be taking things in a new direction. Thats what anyone with awareness would do after two brutally devastating elections in a row. Instead, they have decided the best thing to do is go full steam ahead, deeper into the valley of lies and insanity.
The conservative activists are hardly hangdog, however. Feisty is more like it. Some openly embrace the moment as purifying, an opportunity to get back to basics after years in which elected Republicans have strayed from what many here see as the righteous path.
"A good number of them forgot what their original position was and became part of the problem. And you have to cleanse that," said David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union and one of the conference leaders.
Totally. Get back to calling Democrats Socialists. Go backwards. Way, way backwards. To a time before the Internet, when one could blatantly lie during the State of the Union rebuttal. Constantly throw the term socialist around, even though most people under 30 could give a shit and dont see it as the terrifying threat the old folks do. Why dont they see it as a threat? Well, probably because you clowns have been calling people who are not socialists, socialist for so long, the true meaning of the label is gone. Poof. You ruined your own boogyman, idiots.
Sure, some of you tools will say that liberals do the same thing. You are right, many liberals called Bush a fascist. Many. Just not THEIR FUCKING LEADERS. Not the people running the party. And they certainly didnt do it when Bush was insanely popular after 9/11, mostly because they have a brain in their head and the tiniest bit of political awareness. People love Obama. His ratings are very high. Which means the way to beat him is not to attack him and call him names, but to come up with what you consider to be better ideas. By attacking him, you are attacking the majority of people who support him. Thats obviously a FAIL.
But Republicans have decided the way to go is in the direction of willful and blustery ignorance. Those arguing for another way, well
Carlson got in a bit of a dust-up with the audience when he spoke Thursday. Arguing that conservatives need to put more effort into digging up facts and rely less on opinion and punditry, he noted that The New York Times, a favorite target of conservative wrath, at least cares about spelling people's names right.
"NOOOOOOO," arose a moan from some in the crowd.
"I'm merely saying that at the core of their news-gathering operation is gathering news."
"NOOOOO . . ."
You're not in good shape when Tucker Carlson is the voice of reason. But that's their answer. No.
No to reality.
No to facts.
No to a future.
FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. Check back each Tuesday and Friday for more from FearTheReaper
PAGE:
1 | 2 | 3
Comments
poeticdesires
Baltimore, MD
June 2005
MAR 13, 2009 11:12 AM
PAGE:
1 | 2 | 3