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meegbear

(25,438 posts)
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 12:04 PM Sep 2012

The Rude Pundit: No, GOP, It's Not Us; It's You

Oh, boo, oh, hoo, the whiny bitches of the Republican party are weeping like desperate middle-aged closet queens who badly want to get ass-fucked by one of the ripped leather dudes in lower Chelsea but suppress it so much that they mix sadness, rage, and unfulfilled sexual urges into a miasma of tears and snot and gasping sobs of self-loathing. Which, of course, brings us to South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham.

Regarding Mitt Romney's sinking chances of winning the election, Graham told reporters yesterday (and you should imagine Paul Lynde playing a Confederate general in a sketch on The Dinah Shore Show speaking this), "There's a reason no president has ever been reelected with an economy like this...It would tell me that it's more of a demographic race for president than it is a performance-based race. And that may be where we're at as a nation, and maybe where we are as a party, and we just don't know it."

So, according to Graham, the problem is there's too many non-white people voting. No, that's not an extreme interpretation. Graham himself said in August, "The demographics race we’re losing badly. We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term." But now Graham has taken it to another level; it's a polite way of saying, "The stupid niggers and spics are fucking up this nice country for the rest of us. And they're gonna reelect that nigger president."

Unlike Graham, other Republicans know that the problem ain't just demographics. Sure, that's always an issue, but you don't see Democrats saying, "Shit, if there were fewer white people, we'd be golden." You don't see them trying to actively suppress white people from voting. "Demographics" as an excuse is just so much self-pity. If you haven't cottoned to the fact that there's less white people as a percentage of the voting population, then you are a stegosaurus with one foot in the tar pit.

What other Republicans understand is that the problem is that they nominated an unlikeable jack-off who has all the compassion of a sack of shit, who is an awful candidate, who can't reasonably explain his plans, who constantly says things that demonstrate he gives less of a fuck about the average person than he does his manicure. Mitt Romney is losing because he's Mitt Romney, and even NASCAR fans see that.

Another way to look at this is that maybe people aren't as stupid as Republicans need them to be. Oh, sure, most of the population is a fickle bunch of assholes who are exactly as dumb as you think they are. But you don't have to be a New Yorker-reading dilettante to get that Republicans are a craven bunch of motherfuckers who are either trying to protect the rich or enforce their Christian extremist morality. You don't need to have a Rachel Maddow poster on your bedroom wall to get that it's Republicans who have blocked nearly everything the President and Democrats have tried to do for three years. You don't have to get Media Matters updates on Twitter to get that Mitt Romney's calculated emptiness is frightening.

So, hey, Lindsey Graham, no need to get down with the darkies. You'd just look pathetic doing so. No, what the Republicans need to do is take a long look in the mirror and say, "Wow, we really are unmitigated dickheads." Or you need to admit, "Yeah, we are simply the party of the greedy and the crazy, and we don't know how to change that. Time to give up."

It's the first step back to some self-respect. Or you could just keep blaming those different than you. It's worked before for you guys.

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/

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The Rude Pundit: No, GOP, It's Not Us; It's You (Original Post) meegbear Sep 2012 OP
k&r for some spot-on rudeness. n/t Laelth Sep 2012 #1
I couldn't help myself Gregorian Sep 2012 #2
I gotta question... RC Sep 2012 #16
The Rude Pundit, saying out loud... 99Forever Sep 2012 #3
. n/t porphyrian Sep 2012 #4
I read Graham's comments first elsewhere (not sure where) existentialist Sep 2012 #5
That first paragraph is golden. n/t ellisonz Sep 2012 #6
Spot-on, too. DCKit Sep 2012 #7
This Prompted Me to Call Lindsey Graham otohara Sep 2012 #8
"Which, of course, brings us to South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. " gateley Sep 2012 #9
Yes, the Republicans are responsible for the economy - so we're not reelecting them! socialindependocrat Sep 2012 #10
Rude Pundit NAILS it again! Jessy169 Sep 2012 #11
There are Maddow posters? XemaSab Sep 2012 #12
You go Rude! rjlobo422 Sep 2012 #13
Ouch Caeser67 Sep 2012 #14
1936: Unemployment was 16%; FDR 523 Electoral votes vs. Landon 8 votes. ErikJ Sep 2012 #15
RIGHT ON RUDE!!! NYtoBush-Drop Dead Sep 2012 #17
While I agree with the sentiment... ohheckyeah Sep 2012 #18
The Rude Pundit is always over the top--it's his thing. diane in sf Sep 2012 #20
Okay - ohheckyeah Sep 2012 #22
Thus the "Rude" in "Rude Pundit." Arugula Latte Sep 2012 #21
Different strokes. n/t ohheckyeah Sep 2012 #23
This. Hutzpa Sep 2012 #19
"Mitt Romney is losing because he's Mitt Romney" CrispyQ Sep 2012 #24
 

RC

(25,592 posts)
16. I gotta question...
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 02:52 PM
Sep 2012

How do you post images from your mind?


If that's an example, maybe it's best I don't know how to do that after all.

99Forever

(14,524 posts)
3. The Rude Pundit, saying out loud...
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 12:31 PM
Sep 2012

... what our party leaders wish they could. (Actually, they could, leaving out the expletives, but won't.)

Rock on, RP.

existentialist

(2,190 posts)
5. I read Graham's comments first elsewhere (not sure where)
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 12:40 PM
Sep 2012

First, Lindsey Graham is wrong about no President being re-elected with an economy this bad. FDR was re-elcted in 1936 when the economy was worse.

Then, as now, the electorate seemed to sense that the economic mess was not the President's fault, and that is, in fact, largely the fault of Republicans.


Second, The Rude pundit, with all due respect, could be read to be blaming all the Republican problems in this election cycle on Mitt Romney. Romney is a contributing factor, of course, but Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham and John Boehner, and the Kock brothers and the Tea Party are contributing factors too, and so is the ideological discord within the Republican party that contributed to Mitt Romney's nomination.


Third, and this was actually the hopeful part of Lindsey Graham's statement was an acknowledgement that if Obama won, and particularly in the Democrats also held their Senate majority, and even without Democrats winning a majority in the House the remaining Republicans in Congress would have to quit playing obstructionism for the sake of obstructionism, take a sober look at what the country needed, and make some compromises--including raising taxes on billionaires.

That I found encouraging.

 

DCKit

(18,541 posts)
7. Spot-on, too.
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 01:48 PM
Sep 2012

I've always been of the opinion that SC keeps sending him back to DC to keep him as far away from their boys as possible.

socialindependocrat

(1,372 posts)
10. Yes, the Republicans are responsible for the economy - so we're not reelecting them!
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 02:29 PM
Sep 2012

I've been asked, on surveys, about whether my financial situation is better or not.

I answer - no it isn't

Then I watch TV and they blame President Obama.

I scream at the TV - No, you idiots - It's the Republicans who are blocking all the progress!

They are such assholes!

They take a poll and then interpret the results based on their misperceptions
regarding the motivations of people in our society.

rjlobo422

(29 posts)
13. You go Rude!
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 02:39 PM
Sep 2012

You go Rude...a colorful and totally accurate analysis of the Republican Party and its asshole presidential candidate. An election classic.

 

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)
15. 1936: Unemployment was 16%; FDR 523 Electoral votes vs. Landon 8 votes.
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 02:51 PM
Sep 2012

Biggest landslide in US presidential history.

NYtoBush-Drop Dead

(490 posts)
17. RIGHT ON RUDE!!!
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 02:53 PM
Sep 2012

oh, Lindsay! Are you saying that from your knee pads? As your blowin' Koch? The problem is you, Lindsay. And not until you and your party are so buried in the garbage you create will the rest of us be free.

ohheckyeah

(9,314 posts)
18. While I agree with the sentiment...
Tue Sep 25, 2012, 02:56 PM
Sep 2012

I think the way this was written is over-the-top offensive.

Reminds me of a kid spouting obscenities to see what he can get by with.

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