Conservatism won! NOT

Get ready for this.  The Vichy Republicans and fifth column talk show hosts are now trying to claim that this was a Republican/conservative victory.    You just have to give these guys credit.  You could disembowel them and they'd still try to tell the American people that they had guts.   Their phony claim is based on a few isolated victories by moderate Democrats over far right Republicans, but in almost every case the winning Democrat was more liberal than his defeated Republican opponent. 

 

The people in South Dakota, a purported Conservative string hold, rejected a referendum that would have banned abortion for nearly every reason imaginable, including rape and incest. The People in Arizona (a border state)  not only proved surprisingly opened minded when it came to immigration, they also voted down one of those foolish marriage protection amendments.  If you want to see how the conservative virus has failed to infect the younger generation, just go to the most conservative area of the country and look at how young people dress.   This may come as a shock and a revelation but they aren't dolled up in school uniforms.   Ask them how they feel about mixed race relationships.  Ask them how they feel about Gays and Lesbians.  Ask them about the music they listen to and the TV programs they watch, and I can almost guarantee you that they are not watching reruns of the Lawrence Welk Show.   Despite a higher birth rate among religious conservatives, the truth of the matter is that those children are leaning towards  cultural liberalism.  

 

The fact of the matter is that the past twelve years have been an aberration in an otherwise progressive history.  America has accepted liberalism, and the irony is that it not only happened during a conservative hay day, it may well have happened because of that conservatism heyday.   By any standard this election was a repudiation of the conservative agenda.   First and foremost it was a rejection of a sociopathic administration that led us into an occupation of choice, a war that left us with more than 2,800 dead and more than 20,000 wounded/disabled.  To make the situation even worse, the reasons for going to war kept changing--as did the reasons for continuing the occupation.   The American people are not stupid.   They know a series of lies and excuses when they see one.   Secondly, the Republicans reverted to their true form.  Not only did they side with the upper classes and corporate masters who routinely fund their campaigns; they essentially declared war on the middle and lower classes--not to mention several laws--to guarantee that their corporate masters were paid back in full and with interest.  The voters figured out that while you may come across individual corrupt democrats the Republican party had in and of itself become a culture of corruption, from the financial to the sexual. 

 

I also suspect that one some level Americans rediscovered the concept of morality.   You can't claim to be a moral country--or a moral party--in one breath and then turn around and support sexually sadistic torture in the next breath.   Note that running a series of pedophiles, racists, homophobes,  wife beaters, adulterers, and corporate criminals didn't help the conservative cause either, but as we have said many times before, by transferring so much power to corporate interests while trampling over our Constitution, this country came as close to fascism as it has ever come.   So in a very real sense of the word, the elections of 2006 were not only a rejection of the Republican party--they were a rejection of totalitarianism in red, white, and blue clothing. 

 

As I mentioned before I suspect that the American people realized that there was a lot more to an expanding economy than an inflated stock market, an increase in service sector jobs, and low wages.  Health care and economic security became key issues.   When you're working two jobs, and trying to live within a budget and still struggling to keep your head above water, you know on a very real level that something has gone terribly wrong with the American dream.   As if that was an accident.   The current batch of conservatives view social mobility as an objective to be overcome, a trend to be crushed.  To some extent they really do believe that they are superior to others and deserve a disproportionate piece of the American pie.  But on a deeper level they view freedom and the middle class as the enemies of stability, and if these people believe anything they believe that a thriving middle class demanding equal opportunities and constitutional rights is a threat to the excessive stability to which conservatives are so hopelessly addicted.

 

All in the elections were a repudiation of conservatism, incompetence, corruption, and repression.   And if the Republicans can't leave their delusion based "reality" long enough to "get it" then I hope you won't mind my stifled laughter as they wallow in their own ignorance and self-deception. 

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REPUBLICANS Think Our Troops Are Stupid

Will someone please tell me why John Kerry didn't behave as forceully in 2003 as he did at the press conference that he called yesterday?

For those of you who missed this--and you were God awful unlucky if you did--John Kerry cracked an off the cuff joke about how young people should study hard and get good grades or they might get stuck in Iraq.   Of course the comment was directed at our combat-dodging president who hated studying,and who got by on a C average--the implication being that George W. Bush was so stupid that he didn't bother to study what might happen in Iraq if we were to launch a war of choice. 

 

Of course that was the intended meaning.    Deputy Propaganda Minister, (i.e. Spokes Liar) Tony Snow had  other ideas and decided it would be a really nice idea to suggest that Kerry was calling our troops ignorant and undereducated.  

 

Do you remember a point that I recently made about the Republicans?   How everything they accuse other people of doing is in essence a form of projection, a twisted form of confession in which they project their many sins and twisted beliefs onto others?   Well, I have a felling that this is exactly what the Republicans--Bush and his inner circle in particular--really and truly think about the troops.   We have already seen how Republicans present friendly images of themselves to the people they are manipulating and exploiting.   Witness how Bush, Rove, and their ilk played the Christian Right for what it was worth and then referred to them as nutty and difficult to handle.   We've seen how Rove praised his gay step father and then used gays as whipping boys to energize the Christian base of the party--only to ridicule those same Christians when he thought no one was listening.   And let's not forget that sick "comedy" routine" in which George W. Bush made a mockery out of American troops by creeping around the Oval Office looking for the missing weapons of mass destruction.   Trust me.   We've seen it time and time again.   When these lying sons of bitches accuse someone else of doing something it's usually to smear an innocent victim and to cover up the fact that this is what Bush and his cronies have been doing or thinking themselves.  Translated into the every day vernacular, when Spokes Liar Tony Snow accused John Kerry of mocking the troops, Snow was actually admitting that this Administration has manipulated and exploited the troops, only to believe that the troops were foolish for allowing themselves to be deceived by the Greedy Old Perverts in the first place.   Or to be succinct:  George W Bush, who truly is of limited intelligence, believes that the troops are as stupid as he is.

 

Personally, I rather liked John Kerry's comeback at yesterday's press conference:

 

"If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they're crazy. This is the classic G.O.P. playbook. I'm sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did.

I'm not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq. It disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country lie and distort so blatantly and carelessly about those who have.

The people who owe our troops an apology are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who misled America into war and have given us a Katrina foreign policy that has betrayed our ideals, killed and maimed our soldiers, and widened the terrorist threat instead of defeating it. These Republicans are afraid to debate veterans who live and breathe the concerns of our troops, not the empty slogans of an Administration that sent our brave troops to war without body armor.

Bottom line, these Republicans want to debate straw men because they're afraid to debate real men. And this time it won't work because we're going to stay in their face with the truth and deny them even a sliver of light for their distortions. No Democrat will be bullied by an administration that has a cut and run policy in Afghanistan and a stand still and lose strategy in Iraq."

 

To that I would only add the following.  For some reason John Kerry felt that he had a reason to apologize when no reason was required in the first place.   If anyone owes the troops and their families an apology it is George W. Bush and his chicken hawk cabinet, which have never looked upon our young men and women as anything except disposable cogs in a machine.   More than 2,800 dead; more than 20,000 wounded or permanently disabled.   Somewhere in the neighborhood of 600,000 Iraqi casualties and more than a million Iraqis displaced.   A police force which is saturated with militiamen and insurgents who take the training skills they receive from American soldiers and then use those skills to--you guessed it--kill American soldiers; stop loss measures which keep American soldiers on duty for however long this President and his puppet masters think it is necessary, ad nauseam.

 

Of course I would never expect an apology from Bush nor any of the thugs and Brownshirts who dominate this Administration.  That might be a human thing to do, and as we have all learned during the past six years, at least 28 percent of the Republican Party is incapable of anything which even remotely resembles a loving, compassionate thought for anyone or anything.

 

And they have the audacity to go after John Kerry?  What can I say?  George W. Bush and his supporters are without honor.