| Given the fact that the Bush Administration and the Republican Party orchestrated the worst foreign policy debacle ever in recent history, the worst domestic and global financial calamity ever in seventy years and its eight year reign of horror which, only a few days ago, culminated in a resounding and cataclysmic rejection, one would think the GOP realizes a need for a karma reuptake and a total makeover.
The brainy wing of the Party seems to get what has hit it but this group apparently represents a very tiny minority.
Who would be astonished to learn that most of the Republicans don't get it?
Big money in Texas supports candidates who will serve as pimps for its interests. Democratic candidates simply cannot raise the money necessary to compete with their Republican opponents who willingly serve as pimped out whores for their big money sugar daddies.
The pimped out whores have big bucks in which they can purchase numerous media ads and distribute massive amounts of propaganda through the mail. Sadly many voters are woefully uninformed and the pimps will take full advantage of them.
And so the ill-informed voters are easily pliable.
Such yields eight years of a nightmare called W.
The time has finally arrived when the big moneyed interests and its enabling pimps in Austin and Washington will be put under intense national and netroots scrutiny.
Moving along in the realm of netroots scrutiny...
During her debut on the Presidential campaign trail Sarah Palin, the Party's New Hope, fired up the so-called Party's base. Sarah preached from a platform based on intolerance, hate, fear and narrow mindedness. Liddy Dole of N.C and Michele Bachman of MN echoed Palin's hate talk. Liddy has been kicked out of her Senate seat and Michele had to fight for her House seat. She barely won her re-election.
Palin and her Party's hate talk pervaded every city and state in the U.S.
On Friday in the Letters to the Editor section of the Houston Chronicle a mother expressed her alarm at hearing 5th graders at her child's school talk gleefully about "assassinating Barack Obama." As the deeply concerned writer wisely pointed out, the 5th graders in her affluent and nicely landscaped neighborhood in Houston are not thinking up this stuff on their own. What is going on around the kitchen tables and in the living rooms of these homes, she asks.
The parents of these fifth graders might want to remember that thanks to their beloved W., they can be legally wiretapped and videotaped for potentially encouraging domestic acts of terror.
According to recent reports 62% of Republicans want Palin as the Party's leader. That is right, folks, sixty-two percent. The woman who is calling some of McCain's campaign staff "cruel," "mean spirited" "stinkers" and "jerks" (she must be upset over returning the clothes) is the fresh new face of the GOP.
Given what we've been through since 2000, who on earth could embrace Palin's anti-democratic message in which we are divided up among the pro-Americans and anti-Americans, the real states and the fake states? Who among us actually enjoys being afraid all of the time? Do these poor souls even know what they are afraid of? Do they thrive on hating others who are not like them? Would the fearful and hateful care to know that they very likely have more in common than they think with those they fear and hate? Why do they choose ignorance over knowledge? Don't they realize empowerment resides in knowledge and information?
We know evangelical Christians like Sarah because she sold herself as a religious ideologue. But I wonder what Jesus would think of one's taking advantage of a generous donor's gesture of good will by indulging in drunken spending sprees for oneself and one's family? It's funny how certain Christians have instant apologists on hand 24/7 who will justify potentially amoral or criminal acts when committed by one of their approved members or politicians. The donor offered Palin a gift of three suits. The rest of the story is old news.
I guess it is also OK for certain Christians to preach hatred, too. You see, Sarah Palin has fired up one of the most dangerous human elements in our society.
According to the UK Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
Sarah Palin blamed by the US Secret Service over death threats against Barack Obama
Shopaholic Sarah Palin's potential lynch mob scenes and hate fests have yielded consequences.
But it has now emerged that her demagogic tone may have unintentionally encouraged white supremacists to go even further.
The Secret Service warned the Obama family in mid October that they had seen a dramatic increase in the number of threats against the Democratic candidate, coinciding with Mrs Palin's attacks.
And
Details of the spike in threats to Mr Obama come as a report last week by security and intelligence analysts Stratfor, warned that he is a high risk target for racist gunmen. It concluded: "Two plots to assassinate Obama were broken up during the campaign season, and several more remain under investigation. We would expect federal authorities to uncover many more plots to attack the president that have been hatched by white supremacist ideologues."
The McCain campaign and even the brainy wing of the Republican Party failed to stand up and put a stop to Palin's hate fests. I was so disturbed by Palin's rallies that I had written to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. I implored her and her more moderate colleagues to prevail upon John McCain to put an end to the dangerous and irresponsible rallies. Sadly, the potential lynch mob scenes continued unabated.
Although the UK Telegraph may have overstated some of the claims made by a Newsweek article, there is no doubt in my mind that Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters have incited a very pathological element in our society. The fact that 5th graders in an affluent neighborhood in Houston can openly have casual discussions on the assassination of a U.S. President alarms me.
If 62% of the Republican Party support Sarah Palin's ideology they must also bear full responsibility for whatever her and the Party's reckless, irresponsible and vile words engender.
Fortunately, Sarah is back in Wasilla, at least for now, and the Republican Party is slowly becoming an irrelevant blast from a horrible past. Check out the working class folks, some of whom are admitted former racists. They got over it. Read how this Election has transformed the electorate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11...
From Levittown PA, written by a journalist who grew up there:
I traveled again to Levittown on Election Day to see how people would vote and how they would respond to what looked like an imminent Obama victory. The contrast from the spring - and, in fact, this new vision of Levittown compared with what I had known in my childhood - was almost breathtaking.
"Obama," said the ironworker, when I asked how he'd be voting.
"Obama," said the plumber.
"Obama," said the chef.
And on and on. Military moms. Vietnam veterans. Abortion opponents. College students and retirees. Bank tellers, pipe fitters, officer workers, machinists, meat cutters, boilermakers and carpenters.
"For a long time, I couldn't ignore the fact that he was black, if you know what I mean," Mr. Sinitski, the heating and air-conditioning technician, told me. "I'm not proud of that, but I was raised to think that there aren't good black people out there. I could see that he was highly intelligent, and that matters to me, but my instinct was still to go with the white guy."
Mr. Sinitski said what pushed him toward Mr. Obama, more than anything, was McCain's vice-presidential choice of Mrs. Palin....
Fortunately Mr. Sinitski, his friends, neighbors and the vast majority of Americans have chosen hope over hate. So, when are some of the folks in the affluent and nicely landscaped communities in Houston going to do the same?
On November 4, 2008 the majority of the people have spoken. We don't do hate anymore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
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