Der Spiegel on the "GOP Freakshow" - A Club of Liars, Demagogues and Ignoramuses

[FourScore]

Der Spiegel Online
12/01/2011
The Republicans' Farcical Candidates
A Club of Liars, Demagogues and Ignoramuses

Africa is a country. In Libya, the Taliban reigns. Muslims are terrorists; most immigrants are criminal; all Occupy protesters are dirty. And women who feel sexually harassed -- well, they shouldn't make such a big deal about it.

Welcome to the wonderful world of the US Republicans. Or rather, to the twisted world of what they call their presidential campaigns. For months now, they've been traipsing around the country with their traveling circus, from one debate to the next, one scandal to another, putting themselves forward for what's still the most powerful job in the world...

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...They lie. They cheat. They exaggerate. They bluster. They say one idiotic, ignorant, outrageous thing after another. They've shown such stark lack of knowledge -- political, economic, geographic, historical -- that they make George W. Bush look like Einstein and even cause their fellow Republicans to cringe...

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...Tough times demand tough and smart minds. But all these dopes have to offer are ramblings that insult the intelligence of all Americans -- no matter if they are Democrats, Republicans or neither of the above. Yet just like any freakshow, this one would be unthinkable without a stage (in this case, the media, strangling itself with all its misunderstood "political correctness" and "objectivity") and an audience (the party base, which this year seems to have suffered a political lobotomy)...

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...What a nice club that is. A club of liars, cheaters, adulterers, exaggerators, hypocrites and ignoramuses. "A starting point for a chronicle of American decline," was how David Remnick, the editor of the New Yorker, described the current Republican race.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,800850,00.html

[dembotoz]

1. as we profess to be the leader of the free world.....

[FSogol]

2. K & R because it is true. n/t

[LeftinOH]

3. Spot on. n/t

[Warpy]

4. Well, that's embarrassing

I was hoping to do some traveling once the eye surgeries are over (something I've never been able to do unless moving counts as traveling). Now I know I'll spend 99% of my time talking to people practicing their English by asking how crazy this country really is. I have no idea how to explain the Republicans to them except that it's an offshoot of the cult religions Reagan sold it to in 1980.

Yes, they're crazy. And stupid. And ignorant. And willing to do the unthinkable just because they've been given permission to by their AM radios. It's a cult and all cults end up being dismally the same.

[demosincebirth]

5. they say the cream floats to the top, but in this case...

[intaglio]

6. Surely the republicans are like a cesspit

the really big lumps float to the top

[eppur_se_muova]

7. ... we're looking at a septic tank here. That's not cream! nt

[demosincebirth]

8. Like after a barium enema.

[FourScore]

9. kick

[stlsaxman]

10. Man, Reince Priebus is doing one hell of a job!

:rofl:

[IDemo]

11. "A starting point for a chronicle of American decline"

These clowns are late to the dance:

[Douglas Carpenter]

12. indeed, the whole world is watching

[NNN0LHI]

13. they make George W. Bush look like Einstein

Truer words have never been spoken.

Don