As you know, I subscribe to Birther Central, World Nut Daily. I do this to keep track of the conservative mindset. The results are usually nauseating, as you might expect — thus far I have read not one, not two, but *three* different “origin” stories for President Obama there, of which two of them would make Obama both 100% American and eligible to be President, and a liar — the latter of which doesn’t disqualify you from being President by any means (mushroom clouds if we don’t invade Iraq, guys?). They also have a strange obsession with Obama’s college grades (unless one of those classes was called Being President, why should I care about his college grades?), and spin a myriad of conspiracy theories about all the evil things Obama will do if re-elected — it appears that the only reason he hasn’t banned all guns, seized all major industries and put them under government management, etc. is because he’s just lulling us, he’s just pretending to be an Eisenhower Republican to get enough votes to be re-elected, and if he gets re-elected he’ll do everything the right wing predicted that he’d do if elected the first time and impose a left-wing socialist dictatorship like in Castro’s Cuba.
In short, I haven’t previously noticed any real standards from World Nut Daily. They’ll say anything and everything, though of course their real objection to Obama is that he’s a Democrat (they were just as deranged about Bill Clinton). Until Todd Akin’s nonsense about “Legitimate Rape”. I watched for a couple of days, and silence from World Nut Daily. And then today… editor “Crazy Joe” Farah apparently uttered, Unleash the Coulter! and whadya know, that skank in her stanky black cocktail dress let loose with all the bile in her bitter venomous little mind against Todd Akin.
I guess evil has standards, after all. Either that, or the Republican establishment is scared that if this Akin thing hangs around, someone will remember that Paul “Crazy Eyes” Ryan, Rmoney’s VP pick, has exactly the same beliefs as akin. Hmm, but that would mean that it was just self-interest on the part of Republicans to condemn Akin. And that never happens, right? Right?!
- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
the Republican establishment is scared that if this Akin thing hangs around, someone will remember that Paul “Crazy Eyes” Ryan, Rmoney’s VP pick, has exactly the same beliefs as akin.
Call me cynical, but I think the typical factional follower of the Repubelikkkin Party doesn’t care about remembering ANYTHING. Not in this time of “choose your own reality.” Facts, science, the things you said just yesterday — none of that means squat in the era of instant forgetting. It’s just a matter of what side a person has chosen in their mind.
“I’m a conservative! I hate those liberals! That guy says he’s a conservative. I’m for him!” There are people on the liberal side operating under the same dynamic, especially with black folks regarding Obama, although probably not as many and as fervently as the true believer kkkons. And there’s the inert mass in the middle that doesn’t even think about politics and current events all that much, can’t be bothered to vote on anything but “Dancing With the Stars” and fuck them because they’ll go along with whatever they’re told.
But statements like Akin’s don’t matter unless they’re constantly harped on by the meeja that SUPPORTS the stupid-statementer. MSNBC et al can rail about him all it wants, but the “R” people in their separate universe will never hear. Just as people in “D” world no longer give a shit about Eric Place=Holder being cited for contempt of Congress over “Fast and Furious.” A lot of sound and furiousity signifying nothing after last month’s news cycle.
So why should the R’s care that the zombie-eyed granny starver believes the same bullshit as Akin? Who’s going to inform their acolytes about that? Will the cult members remember for more than two minutes after they turn off the TV? It takes more than one step of a logical progression to remember: “Akin said something dumbass. Ryan believes the same as Akin. (This presumes the average “R” voter knows anything about where Ryan stands, which is far from a given.) Therefore, the Repiglikkkan Preznitial Ticketeyboo believes something dumbass!” That requires too much complex thought.
Lest I pick solely on the Regressives, I could make the same rant with “D’s” when it comes to assassinating unpopular American citizens with robotic death planes, or failing to jail a single big-time banker for their financial fraud. Too many Merkins have a perceptual depth of a paramecium. They choose sides in their mind, and the one they picked is all that matters.
Evil doesn’t have standards. It’s just that the Repugnicans have decided the smart thing to do is (temporarily) publicly distance themselves from Akin. They’re going to do a lot of public ranting about how they all disagree with him in hopes of conning independent voters in states other than Missouri, but at the same time they’re keeping that plank in the party platform calling for a constitutional amendment that would ban all abortion under any circumstance — because they definitely love fetuses a lot more than they like women. The sad truth is Missouri is full of fundamentalists who agree with Akin so he’s still quite likely to beat McCaskill in the general election, especially when there are so many backdoor channels for funneling money to his campaign. The RNC may not give him any more money directly, but what about all the deep pockets right-wing billionaires? The GOP is doing its usual hoping no one thinks too deeply about the political calculations and inherent contradictions, and, based on the MSM stories I’ve seen and heard, they’re succeeding.
A small digression. I’ve noticed a number of people lately using the term “Merkin” to refer to we denizens of the U.S. When did we all become pubic wigs?
A small digression. I’ve noticed a number of people lately using the term “Merkin” to refer to we denizens of the U.S. When did we all become pubic wigs?
It’s not just recently. As far back as 2006 when I’d be reading left-wing blogs, there would be people using “Merkin”. Along with Amerikan, and Duhmerican, etc. Just a way of epressing scorn with the stupid, sheep-like but still obnoxiously aggressive creatures that a kkkritikkkal mess of Amerikkkans seem to be.
I must have missed that variation. I see a lot of “Murkins,” though, which is close.
You see the problem is that Republicanism is not “evil”, not in their eyes. They have the most respect for “life” and “freedom”. It just dosen’t happen to be the respect of the living american. They talk of voter rights, and supress them, by law, they talk of the “rights of the unborn” and make sure there are wars to kill them in, after they make sure there are no jobs that the teens can fill, and that the teen is hungry enough to kill for food. They blame the democrats for killing business by loosening the requirements on business to be honest. they kill religion by making sure religion is occupied by the looniest of leaders. leaders that have forgotten the words of the prophets and founders of the groups. In effect they hate america for being america, a land where well regulated commerce created a rising society to carry us all forward. Not just a few. And their vision is to stop it.
On the topic of Republican standards, here’s a new one so far out there I haven’t seen it anywhere else yet. I can only dream that they would be deranged enough to amplify this on on their disinformation wurlitzer.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/08/22/bitches-just-want-to-be-dominated/
I found the link at Balloon Juice, so am sending the link through them.