Proof of Republican 'doublethink'. gotta love the brits

[spanone]

'Isn't the Democrat/Republican choice in the US really a choice between good and evil?" someone tweeted me during last week's Republican debate in Iowa. On the one hand, such a reductive perspective only exacerbates the dysfunctionally hyper-partisan current state of American politics, with the Republicans retreating to a wing so far right it would have given their beloved Ronald Reagan whiplash.

On the other hand, the message did arrive just moments after the morally repulsive Rick Santorum had finished explaining that abortions must be denied even to victims of rape and incest because the baby shouldn't be "victimised twice", concentrating so deeply on maintaining his sanctimonious facial expression that he hadn't the mental space to consider that maybe it would be the raped woman who would be victimised twice if she were to be denied an abortion if she wished to have one. But then, of course, it's hard to answer intelligently when one talks out of one's arse and the brain is therefore so far away from one's speaking orifice.

Anal vocalisation is not the only explanation for much of the Grand Old party's (GOP) behaviour and pronouncements in recent days: rather, it is, I can exclusively reveal, currently engaged in a mash-up of 1984 and It's a Wonderful Life, two pieces of fiction created over 60 years ago, which goes some way to explaining the distinct smack of irrelevance to the party today.

Despite having been written by one of those dreaded European socialists, 1984 appears to be the guidebook for today's Republican contenders. Even aside from the crazed fascination with sex some of them have (the Iowa debate also provided a platform for Santorum to explicate, again, his theory that gay marriage is the same as polygamy, having presumably decided that his worn-down-to-the-nub rib-tickler that homosexuality is analogous to bestiality needed a bit of sprucing up) which would impress 1984's Junior Anti-Sex League, the frank use of doublethink has been if not quite impressive then certainly unembarrassed.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/aug/16/republican-party-doublethink-hadley-freeman

[Greybnk48]

1. OMG! Bookmarking to enjoy again in the morning.

I wish we had journalists in the U.S. this candid. The brutal truth of the article is sooooooo refreshing.

[lonestarlib]

2. Hadlee Freeman, the author, is an American.

[paland99]

3. Fetus victimized twice?

I wondered about that statement when I watched the debate/ Even if you think like they do, then what was the first victimization? Insemination? Do these guys think that when an egg is fertilized that the egg was victimized?

It would explain one thing. They could now be justified to claim that they are victims. Sarah makes a living off of that claim.