Some days its just good to sit back and take it all in. The Republican party, having imploded from within can’t decide whether to promote Sarah Palin to star status, or burn her at the stake for being a witch. Personally, I would think option #2 is out as Ms. Palin has been officially de-witched by her pastor.
After the resounding defeat comprising all levels of government, suffered by the Republicans in this last election, someone with some grasp of reality should take control. I don’t think its going to happen. Apparently there is one faction still wanting to promote the party as the embodiment of fringe religious beliefs, and another faction that has realized this is no longer a sustainable premise. Will rational thought and dialogue win out? Or, will the wing-nuts retain control of what is now a fractured and dysfunctional party system?
I tell ya…. It couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of fools. The Republican party defined itself with blowhards like Limbaugh, Coulter, Hannity and the bloated egomaniac, O’Reilly. To be sure there were other players who all spewed the same vitriole, the same misinformation, the same disinformation; all the while whining and crying about liberal bias from mainstream media. The problem with these icons of Republican hypocrisy is that they are..hypocrits. And that’s being kind. Limbaugh is a known junkie, O’Reilly tries to be a womanizer, Hannity is just loonie and Coulter…..we aren’t even sure whether thats a Ms. or a Mr., in my opinion. But these personalities along with others too numerous to mention were elevated to star status by those on the right, not because they had any truths to reveal; not because they were intellectually savvy or superior, but because they were for sale and would say or do the most horrendous things on behalf of Republicans.
While these media parasites babbled on incessantly about morality, family values, who loved God and who didn’t, several Republicans were caught with their pants down so to speak,…..and one was even caught in a bathroom doing things most of us don’t comprehend (and don’t want to) and we don’t know just where his pants were at the time.
For eight years or more we have been assailed by the right wing phobic, myopic, anti-everything crowd. The lock-stepping Republicans, who claimed to be more patriotic, to be favored by God, to be the emodiment of morality and virtuosity, who were, by their very existence as Republicans, more moral and family oriented than those liberals they castigated with such regularity…..showed us what they really were; and it had little to do with values or morality or even love of country. It was however, quite profitable for most of them, at the expense of everyday Americans now forced to suffer the long term affects of unmitigated greed, corruption and anti-American policies and actions. And every step of the way they were facilitated by radio and TV hacks who would otherwise never have been taken seriously by anyone.
Hopefully, enough of us have moved away from hate radio and faux news of any kind. As their audiences dwindle and the pool of recessive genes needed to keep them operational fades to a distant memory, we can only hope the Republican party reinvents itself, or that it dies a deserved death.
Of course if they want to rev up their [base] they could always declare Sarah Palin a witch and claim she put a curse on them….it would be just as believable as anything else they have told us.
(c) 2008 Marti Oakley
