You have to admit, life is sure a lot more fun, if albeit often frustrating, with the GOP around. A band of merrier, crazier, loons cannot be found this side of the Rockies. I mean, if one were to start dividing them into their “groups” and proclivities, one might well end up with about 35 or so subgroups, many of which will not play nice with their inclusive umbrella fellow travelers the “GOP.”
I mean, there are the abortion groups which may or may not care about health care, the Neo-conians, whose bailiwick is foreign affairs and the dream to rule the world. There are the taxy folks, and the homophobes, the creationists and the libertines, the racists whose hate knows no bounds and will happily tell you that Obama’s tie color denotes his strong Communist leanings. All done with a straight face, and a ham sandwich in one hand and a can of Bud in the other.
They range in age and education from true knuckle draggers (of which most of the voting troops are drawn), to the little bit of education (just enough to sound intelligent all the while missing the real point of most everything), and to the actually educated (who are either true believers in whatever ideology they espouse, or merely using ideology to further their real goals).
Hucky is probably the latter, as he tries desperately to remain relevant in this season’s increasingly fun show of “who ya gonna nominate” Rethuglian politics. As they gather and perch across the land, ranting and jerking off behind podiums until a fever pitch is reached–orgasmic explosions of “take back our country” ringing in now spent bodies, one just has to wonder how all this will play out.
He has attacked Michael Steele (who doesn’t these days?), and Mitt Romney (oh how can I define Massachusetts health care as different than Obama’s law?), and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and for good measure, gays in general. A man who claims that creationism makes more intellectual sense than evolution, might just as well step out boldly I say.
Mikey seems to be worrying a good deal these days whether his political career can be salvaged. Witness the “pardon” problem of some months ago, and the fact that the former Governor seems to be packing on the pounds again, sure sign of anxiety.
Course, Huck is right on in condemning Romney care in Mass as identical with Obama care. Doncha just love it when the opposition party does your work for you? No matter that beyond slamming Romney, he does no more than parrot the usual Reuglican talking points about health care, none of which tend to resemble truth upon examination.
As to Don’t ask–well, being a good evangelical wingnut, Mike is agin’ it. He says the foot soldiers aren’t out there “demanding” repeal. Well, Huck, you guys that have never served, might want to take a reality check about just how freely the rank and file foot soldier feels to state his personal opinion about political goings on.
He calls equality within the ranks as a “social experiment.” Guess he might have said the same thing had he been around to advise Harry way back when, on the NEEgro problem in the rank and file sixty years ago. Just speculatin’ of course.
Additionally he will have no truck with them homos. Ya know it’s just wrong to pollute God’s union of marriage of course, but he is not for any of them civil unions either. Just a toe in the door as he sees it. It’s just like drug dealers, incest pushers and polygamists. Should we accommodate them too?
Worst of all, he supports denial of adoption to gays, claiming that it’s all about the kids (even though all the studies say that kids raised by gay parents are every bit as normal as other kids). He says that we would be engaging in that “social experiment” stuff again, and kids are not like puppies–everybody can’t have one for the asking. Course any woman, sans any examination of any kind, can birth litters or singles in repetition to her hearts content–regardless of her ability to raise in any rational manner, said offspring. That don’t count in the Hucky world of being highly moral you see.
This statement has me pickled and frazzled, trying to untangle it. Referring to having an atheist president:
“It’s better to have a person who says, ‘Look, I just don’t believe, and that’s where my honest position happens to be,’” he said. “I’m frankly more OK with that than a person who says, ‘Oh, I am very much a Christian. I very much love God.’ And then they live as if they are atheists, as if they have no moral groundings at all. That’s more troubling.”
I guess it means that atheists are not morally grounded, which no doubt comes as a surprise to them, and me for that matter. And, he has not explained just exactly how atheists live that is so very different from his “real” Christians.
It’s a fascinating read, this interview that Hucky gave. Tells you perhaps more than you wanted to know, but I’m not sure Mikey really realized just exactly how far out there he has gone. As Camus said, if you ain’t part of the solution, you are part of the problem, and the former Governor is definitely part of the problem.
Perhaps, in retrospect, Huck has given up any real belief that he can run in 2012, and so he’s just a lettin’ it all hang out. I can respect that, even when I find it utterly morally bankrupt and distasteful. But do spout on Mikey, it’s been too long since you ruffled feathers–and gosh Sarah, Michelle, Newt, and all the rest, well, we need a break now and then.
As Jon Stewart often says, “tell us mmmoooore.”
Existential Ennui 