Dr. Frankenstein, meet Monster.
Starting in South Carolina, it started getting feisty both in the air wars and in the debates, and in Florida over the last week it has deteriorated from feisty to primal.... We’ve seen enough, let’s turn back to the issues.
Thus spoke the head of the American Conservative Union. Added Florida's GOP chairman:
The idea that we would attack each other like this is frustrating and painful. My face was red with anger when I watched one of these discussions on television because this is not what Republicans are about.
Perhaps these gentlemen have been too close to their party's laboratory experiments, conducted since the late 1970s, in the manufacture of mass rage to objectively comprehend the final, diseased abomination that they -- as well as all of us -- are now witnessing. Their immediate predecessors thundered disingenuously about school prayer and busing and women's rights so as to stir the irrational fears and bigoted passions and therefore the votes of unsettled millions; while the New Right's descendant leadership has, with equal disingenuity, resurrected race hatreds and fanned acute sexual prejudice and stoked resentments against the poor and blathered endlessly about a utopian anarchy of government-less, untaxed perfection.
They fired all these white-populist vulgarities to a boil, and now they're "red with anger" over a Promethean party unbound by any restraints, any decorum, any simple dignity. They ask to gently "turn back to the issues"; to proceed as though it -- all of it, excepting the vote-loyalty -- never happened.
Well, boys, I and anyone else who's bothered to study the uncontainable self-destruction of hate-inspired, race-based political movements have got news for you. It's going to get a helluva lot worse for you and yours, before a smile ever comes to that red face.
May they experience many sleepless nights, consume tons of antacid, and LOSE, LOSE, LOSE as penance for creating the monster!
Posted by: Ansel M. | February 01, 2012 at 08:11 PM
The republicans never, ever imagined that all of the vicious attacks they've launched at PBO for the last 3 years would ever "infect" their own party. What I find particularly ludicrous is that Palin, the 2008 GOP attack dog, is now calling for the candidates to stop the vicious attacks on each other. It's too late for that. All of the 2012 GOP Presidential Candidates have forgotten about Reagan's 11th Commandment. Palin, Krauthammer, Limbaugh, Kristol, Will, etc., were intimately involved in leading the GOP along the path that led to its present set of circumstances, and if they say that they didn't consider the possibility that their actions would diminish the party, they have no business being involved in politics. I view this as another example of a group of people who scream about personal responsibility but eschew taking any responsibility for their actions. The piper is demanding payment, and they'd better start counting their money.
Posted by: majii | February 02, 2012 at 09:07 AM