March 03, 2009
GOP: Not the Stupid Party?
Like Gerard Van Der Leun, weeks like this, which began with RNC Chairman Michael Steele and GOP House Minority Whip Eric Cantor appearing on Sunday morning news shows to denounce Rush Limbaugh and like-minded conservatives for daring to criticize Obama, leave me thinking I'm proud to not be a Republican.
However, where Gerard and I part ways is his belief that the GOP isn't the Stupid Party; rather, he thinks it's the party of ideological eunuchs and craven power junkies.
I have to admit it is getting to the point where I'm starting to believe the Republican Party is not at all stupid, but is just playing along with the Washington Game while making the minimum of grunting noises to keep what little funding left to them coming in.
How else to explain the party's continuing program of self-willed failure?
It is as if official Republicans believe that by continuing to self-Bobbitize their withering genitals they will transform themselves into people worthy, oh so worthy, to be put on the White House guest list for a few more years before their limp brains and organs are hauled out into the mass rubbish pit of history and covered over by the droppings of Democratic dogs. And without even the mercy of a reach-around.
The only thing more craven and cowardly than a self-satisfied and unregulated political elite is a self-satisfied and unregulated political elite without power but with a yearning for the conga line at White House parties. Steele seems to me to be a man who is about one inhalation shy of the full Colin Powell suckup. That wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that Steele also reveals himself as stupid in the bargain.
I think they're both stupid and venal, politicians and party hacks who believe in nothing more than gaining power and the approval of the Washington establishment, their constituents and base be damned. Men (and women) who want power, but not badly enough to fight for it tooth and nail, like the Democrats.
Read the rest of his "They're pathetic, not stupid" thesis here.
Posted by Mike Lief at March 3, 2009 07:44 AM
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Pathetic, stupid, self-aggrandizing, shallow, round-heeled . . . call them ANY name and it fits.
I am pleased to see that Cantor, who was riding a wave of good but undeserved approval among conservatives, has exposed his true colors as an appeaser and apologist.
Today I read that the Republican so-called candidate search committee has apparently mis-spent a million dollars on crap, that should have gone to identifying actual conservative warriors. Why, ever, should anybody donate to the national party?
Posted by: The Little Coach at March 3, 2009 11:10 AM