It's hard to observe the growing and comical chaos in the GOP without thinking of B movie icon Ed Wood and his Plan 9 From Outer Space, wherein space aliens resurrect dead humans as zombies and vampires to stop evil men from creating the 'Solaranite' bomb. With the Republican circus trying to breathe life into mouldering, uncouth candidates reciting ancient and eldritch formulae to fight the evil Bill of Rights, secularism and the Obama Bomb, it's harder and harder to avoid the suspicion that this is only a movie.
With the economy showing signs of recovery and the ability to substantiate the hysterical portraits of Obama as a Kenyan Communist, Indonesian Socialist ally of big banks, Wall Street and the World Caliphate fading, the GOP must feel like Ed Wood trying to piece together a movie with $273.50 left in the checking account and an unwritten plot. The rising star candidate and the great white hope is making such a fuss about the need for a gospel-based theocracy with sex by permission only that any platform they can cobble together at this point would be so far beyond city limits and so rickety it can't support itself much less a coherent and discernable political position.
Whispers are being heard, CNN.com writes today, about coming up with a new candidate for the GOP ticket and ditching the Chameleon, the Worm and the cut-rate Rasputin. Finding any brand new candidate with any potential of being passed of as sane or decent (if not quite qualified) is remote, as the Tea Party element and the Holy Rollers simply won't accept him any more than they did Huntsman. The rest of the black-hearted Plutocrats aren't going to support Ron Paul and even if they could bring back Reagan from the dead, he wouldn't pass muster as a Conservative in today's party. Who ya gonna call?
The prospect of an open convention with desperate delegates acting like football hooligans in Tampa this August must have Republican strategists doubled over with cramps trying to come up with a plan B before the Grand Old Barrel goes over the falls in November.
With an inability to field a credible candidate so late in the game, the voters are going to have to reconsider a blind allegiance to a party that can't run itself much less a complex 21st century superpower.
Given how easy the simple minds of the right are to manipulate, coming up with a new "savior" will actually be pretty easy.
ReplyDeleteThese nuts think Reagan was a genius and great American not because he was either of those things, but because they were conditioned to believe that nonsense.
They have Mitch Daniels or Mike Pence and plenty of others they can create an image around. Righties are loyal as all hell. they will vote en masse and they will vote for whomever they're told to vote once the primaries are settled.
Capt. Fogg,
ReplyDeleteYes, it's hard to keep up with the back-and-forth between the parties working towards their own demise; it's like watching a ping-pong match. After 2010, the Dems were thought to be on the ropes, but now the Republicans seem to be down and out and thrashing about. But I think they really are going through something serious here: the old model of Republicanism is virtually dead, with almost all the sane people being by now driven out of the ranks. What's left is religious whack jobs and semi-fascists or feckless, lying-sack-of-shit candidates willing to pretend they're one or both of those things just to impress the right-wing rabble. Either way, they're all promoting the modern GOP formula: government should always tell you what to do but never help you in any way; they're for a toxic mix of utter incompetence, mean-spiritedness, and authoritarianism. Honestly, it's enough to make a simple lizard's head spin.
At the bottom of their angst has to be -- at least amongst those who are capable of thinking strategically -- the basic fact that the country is changing demographically. The kulturkampf bull they've been pushing isn't going to cut it in a future America in which old-guard white folk are only a plurality and not a majority. And their current "solution" is simply to veer even further to the right of insanity, but that's an obvious loser of a proposition.
But, but, but - knowing Republicans as excellent scoundrels - Plan B is too diabolical to be implausible. Of course, Plan "B' is code for the other Bush. You know, Brother Jeb, the one the family really wanted for Prez but couldn't because there were too many skeletons in his closet. Just think: Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Bush. "Jeb, Jeb to dirty ears" O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag, that bongo beat. Goonight Mitt. Goonight Newt. Goonight Ron. Ta ta. London Bridge is falling down, falling down ...
ReplyDeleteSomeone further into Byzantine political paranoia might speculate that this was a setup for a longer con - putting us in a place where even Jebush looks good and I have to admit, although I hated him as governor, he looks better then all the other issue of Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory.
ReplyDeleteIt's not ever a smart thing to think the Bush crime family hasn't been circling our bonfire like a hungry wolf pack. Has the stink of George faded away enough? Could be and Little George has certainly been absolved of his sins once again. If the BCF could make his desertion from the Armed Forces to never have happened, perhaps they can rinse Jeb clean again.
CAN YOU PROVE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN?
ReplyDelete...God help us in the future.
The plan has worked. Don't know who thought it first, doesn't matter. It's called mutually assured destruction. Perhaps an anarchist?
ReplyDeleteLike I've been saying about my party of old... Many have their heads way up where the sun don't shine and yet the proclaim they see light.
Go figure...
Hmmm -- light at the end of the colon. That's a very disturbing metaphor.
ReplyDeleteThe republicans would be wiser to not run anyone at all if their only goal would be to oust the president. The resulting excitement might bring them exactly what they want for Christmas. Of course, the emergence of a viable third party which could result would spell the doom of their own party.
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