Mar 04 2009
That Proverbial Straw
This is long, and far from charitable, so it’s beneath the fold.
It wasn’t the breaking point, but it’s just the latest: the favorite to run in 2012 at CPAC was Romney. I like Mitt, but he didn’t have a chance last time. What makes these dolts think he will in 2012, especially since his socialist medicine program is bankrupting Massachusetts?
That’s why CPAC is irrelevant. That’s why I energetically avoided any article having to do with CPAC. That’s why CPAC should be disbanded.
I am alternatively so astounded and disgusted with the sheer stupidity of so-called conservatives that I cannot pen an article without descending into a tirade (and I don’t mean like this, which is gentle by comparison). And that — that, and Lent — is why I haven’t blogged much lately. I won’t blog if I can’t be civil, and these idiots don’t deserve civil.
There’s a reason they call us the stupid party. After the election, the big McCain list rebranded themselves, and the once sane, once intelligent people on the list have gone off the deep end. They’re still slobbering at the mouth about Obama’s birth certificate.
Then there’s the Steele-Limbaugh bitch fight. Sure, Steele made a stupid statement, but Rush could have sucked it up and talked about something important, but no, he had to defend his injured ego. Could we find some less wasteful way to spend our time? Strike that. It isn’t merely or primarily wasteful: It’s self-destructive.
I don’t even know why I read blogs anymore (I may resurrect the grey list because a lot of the blogs on my blogroll are just depressing). I saw one today — no, I don’t remember which one, and it doesn’t make much diffference — with an article about the recovery logo (it’s all over the dextrosphere), but this one ominously reported that the logo looked like an O. Oh no! A circle that looks like an O! And Obama’s name begins with an O! It must be a conspiracy! Then Fiano had some idiotic article about how Rent (the musical) was a plot to destroy our civilization. Dear God, is it any wonder we lost the last two elections, if these represent the “base” of our party?
And on the blogs I do (and will continue to read), all too often the commenters need to be in straitjackets. Pick nearly any Hot Air article, read the comments, and be amazed at the depths of sheer stupidity there — and I’m not talking about left-wing trolls.
It’s the same thing we see every time we lose an election. The nutjobs come slithering out from under their rocks, and what were once sane human beings howl at the full moon with them. When Clinton was in the White House, it was Vince Foster (the Clintons murdered him!), and eeeeeeeevil black UN helicopters coming to occupy us and set up the NEW WORLD ORDER ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT! (not to mention how price tags and other labels on street signs were actually code for the coming UN troops). In 2006, it was the Pan-American highway nation, or whatever the name of that particularly idiotic conspiracy theory is called, which is just a reworking of the NEW WORLD ORDER ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT! conspiracy. The howling at the moon is starting all over again.
I’ve just had it. I’ll get over this current phase, but right now, I’m just too appalled to address politics, and I’m just as appalled by my own as Obama and his fan club, maybe more so.
5 responses so far
“It’s the same thing we see every time we lose an election. The nutjobs come slithering out from under their rocks…”
Yes, they thrive in a negative atmosphere.
Well, I could call this “Reasons I am not a conservative.” I’m not a liberal (in the euphemism-for-Marxist sense) either, but we saw the same thing from them in 2000. with the “selection” etc. What’s largely missing is a sense of proportion. Obama’s constitutional eligibility to serve is relevant, but it needed to have been settled before the nominating convention. We could find a smoking gun tomorrow proving without doubt that The Won is not a native-born citizen, and he’d still hold the office until 2012, because possession is 9/10 of the law. And _Rent_ is a symptom of the decadence of our civilization, but certainly not a cause.
Republicans have no immutable principles (unlike Democrats, whose principles are evil), so it’s inevitable that the power-fight turns to poo-flinging. If they could say “Here are the problems; here are the solution,” without wading into horse-trading, they’d have no problem winning elections. But AFAIK, only one Republican has consistently done that, and it did him little good in his Presidential run, mostly because if Ron Paul was right, then the rest of the party was wrong. That’s another reason for Obama Derangement Syndrome: it’s easier to get personal, because if the Obama bailouts are wrong and counterproductive (and they are), then what was the Bush bailout?
5 years from now we will be amazed that we ever had the luxury of arguing about Limbaugh v. Steele. It’ll be dictatorship or anarchy.
I know what you mean, one comment I got the other day told me I was on the right track but really the illuminati were behind everything that was going on. They are a secret society who are so good at being undetectable that people just have no idea that they exist. If you Google them you will only find 6,770,000 references to them, and God forbid, no homepage.
Just a tip; your Penguins and Steelers logos could be taken for that suspicious “O.” LOL
Was it the UN that was supposed to invade?
I thought it was the all-conquering Canadian army.
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