Let's Reintroduce Quickies. Or Something Close to That. Almost Maybe.
There was the writer over on Huffpo (an ex-evangelical) who was nervy enough to say That Horrid Palin Woman would never be elected.
I wish I could say that I respect his high hopes. I still do not want to seem negligent on the need to keep a careful watch on her and her Extremist Right Wing Horde. But on the other side, seeing the press conferences and interviews with her? I am in mind of the quote from the late Supreme Court Justice, about how sunlight is the best disinfectant. I think the more the Horrid Woman talks, the more she seems mad as a hatter. But still . . . in a nation of more than 300 millions, there has to be a market for that.
Next, I direct your attention to Frank Rich's insightful and somewhat chilling (even if you knew it for truth, beforehand) The Moose Stops Here. This piece is his entry on the topic of (as he calls it) "The Conservative Crackup." The chilling yet known part, concerns the Right Wing Extremists clinging to their culture war fetish, their bigotry, their hate mongering, and their racism. Here is a taste:
John McCain also might have held Florida had he prevailed with his first choice of a running mate, the pro-abortion-rights Joe Lieberman, but G.O.P. ayatollahs scuttled both him and the abortion moderate Tom Ridge, who might have helped win Pennsylvania. Not that McCain was innocent in these exclusionary escapades. He strenuously sought the endorsement of the Rev. John Hagee, even though Hagee had blamed gays for Hurricane Katrina, referred to the Roman Catholic Church as “the great whore,” and theorized that Hitler came about because God’s “top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel.”
The icing on this rancid cake was the race-baiting of Obama and the immigrant bashing by G.O.P. hopefuls who tried to outdo the nativist fringe candidate Tom Tancredo. Yet Republican denial is unabated. In an interview with Palin the weekend before the election, a conservative Wall Street Journal editorialist asked whether “the G.O.P. doesn’t in fact have a perception problem, that it is no longer viewed as a big tent.” A perception problem? Hello — how about a reality problem?
Yet the G.O.P. really does believe that it’s all about perception. That’s why its 2000 convention offered a stage full of break dancers and gospel singers, wildly outnumbering the black delegates in the audience. Bush and Karl Rove regarded diversity as a public-relations issue to be finessed with marketing. Round up some black extras! Sell “compassionate conservatism” by posing Bush incessantly with black schoolchildren! Problem solved!
I agree with Mr. Rich, when he says it is a reality problem. Speaking of problems with reality, I will just sort of mention (again) the lunatic rantings of the lunatic Republican Extremist Wing. It was bad (and baseless) enough, when they were keeping it down to the slur about PE Obama being a Socialist, but now he is (depending on which loon you read/hear). Honestly? The slurs are too ugly to repeat. These people need medication; perhaps a great deal of it.
Lastly, this week, the Jonestown horror has been in the news for the past week.
Now, the more I think of that singularly worst example of religious psychosis, turned religious mass murder? Well, the more I think of that, the more that people like that Horrid Palin Woman alarm me. Did you see the vid of her talking about God showing her doors?
Some will criticize me for suggesting it, but to my mind the Palin's of the world and the Jim Jones' (and his followers, to be more inclusive) of the world are perhaps NOT one badly firing synapse away from each other, but they are way too close to call. I mean really? Jim Jones and his followers certainly did not start off totally out of their damn minds. They started off a little goofy, and off the main track. Then they got a little further off the main track. And then before you know it, they were killing "the outsiders," and after that, themselves.
Personally, I did not watch any of the full hour specials. I merely caught the summary, and the shots of Jonestown taken from the plane, after the murder/suicide, all those bodies all over the place.
Ya. If you want to understand why I distrust people who claim to get messages form God, just think of the Jonestown Horror.
I wish I could say that I respect his high hopes. I still do not want to seem negligent on the need to keep a careful watch on her and her Extremist Right Wing Horde. But on the other side, seeing the press conferences and interviews with her? I am in mind of the quote from the late Supreme Court Justice, about how sunlight is the best disinfectant. I think the more the Horrid Woman talks, the more she seems mad as a hatter. But still . . . in a nation of more than 300 millions, there has to be a market for that.
Next, I direct your attention to Frank Rich's insightful and somewhat chilling (even if you knew it for truth, beforehand) The Moose Stops Here. This piece is his entry on the topic of (as he calls it) "The Conservative Crackup." The chilling yet known part, concerns the Right Wing Extremists clinging to their culture war fetish, their bigotry, their hate mongering, and their racism. Here is a taste:
John McCain also might have held Florida had he prevailed with his first choice of a running mate, the pro-abortion-rights Joe Lieberman, but G.O.P. ayatollahs scuttled both him and the abortion moderate Tom Ridge, who might have helped win Pennsylvania. Not that McCain was innocent in these exclusionary escapades. He strenuously sought the endorsement of the Rev. John Hagee, even though Hagee had blamed gays for Hurricane Katrina, referred to the Roman Catholic Church as “the great whore,” and theorized that Hitler came about because God’s “top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel.”
The icing on this rancid cake was the race-baiting of Obama and the immigrant bashing by G.O.P. hopefuls who tried to outdo the nativist fringe candidate Tom Tancredo. Yet Republican denial is unabated. In an interview with Palin the weekend before the election, a conservative Wall Street Journal editorialist asked whether “the G.O.P. doesn’t in fact have a perception problem, that it is no longer viewed as a big tent.” A perception problem? Hello — how about a reality problem?
Yet the G.O.P. really does believe that it’s all about perception. That’s why its 2000 convention offered a stage full of break dancers and gospel singers, wildly outnumbering the black delegates in the audience. Bush and Karl Rove regarded diversity as a public-relations issue to be finessed with marketing. Round up some black extras! Sell “compassionate conservatism” by posing Bush incessantly with black schoolchildren! Problem solved!
I agree with Mr. Rich, when he says it is a reality problem. Speaking of problems with reality, I will just sort of mention (again) the lunatic rantings of the lunatic Republican Extremist Wing. It was bad (and baseless) enough, when they were keeping it down to the slur about PE Obama being a Socialist, but now he is (depending on which loon you read/hear). Honestly? The slurs are too ugly to repeat. These people need medication; perhaps a great deal of it.
Lastly, this week, the Jonestown horror has been in the news for the past week.
Now, the more I think of that singularly worst example of religious psychosis, turned religious mass murder? Well, the more I think of that, the more that people like that Horrid Palin Woman alarm me. Did you see the vid of her talking about God showing her doors?
Some will criticize me for suggesting it, but to my mind the Palin's of the world and the Jim Jones' (and his followers, to be more inclusive) of the world are perhaps NOT one badly firing synapse away from each other, but they are way too close to call. I mean really? Jim Jones and his followers certainly did not start off totally out of their damn minds. They started off a little goofy, and off the main track. Then they got a little further off the main track. And then before you know it, they were killing "the outsiders," and after that, themselves.
Personally, I did not watch any of the full hour specials. I merely caught the summary, and the shots of Jonestown taken from the plane, after the murder/suicide, all those bodies all over the place.
Ya. If you want to understand why I distrust people who claim to get messages form God, just think of the Jonestown Horror.
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