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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe 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 were losing badly. Were 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.
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Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)This popped into my mind as I read that.
RC
(25,592 posts)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)... what our party leaders wish they could. (Actually, they could, leaving out the expletives, but won't.)
Rock on, RP.
porphyrian
(18,530 posts)existentialist
(2,190 posts)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.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)DCKit
(18,541 posts)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.
otohara
(24,135 posts)thanks RP
gateley
(62,683 posts)socialindependocrat
(1,372 posts)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.
Jessy169
(602 posts)XemaSab
(60,212 posts)I need one for my feminist lair.
rjlobo422
(29 posts)You go Rude...a colorful and totally accurate analysis of the Republican Party and its asshole presidential candidate. An election classic.
They needed that. Now let's see if they'll listen, my guess will be no.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)Biggest landslide in US presidential history.
NYtoBush-Drop Dead
(490 posts)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)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.
diane in sf
(3,913 posts)ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)I still think it was too much. Just my opinion.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)It's the hook. I think it's hilarious.
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)Hutzpa
(11,461 posts)nt
CrispyQ
(36,457 posts)That's the best bumper sticker of the season!