Compassionless Conservatives ("at least the Bushies bothered to pretend")

[pampango]

Remember when George W. Bush ran as a "Compassionate Conservative?" ... at least the Bushies bothered to pretend (but only pretend). With the rise of the Tea Party, those good old days of feeling the need to fake some sense of humanity are far behind us, and a new breed of openly Compassionless Conservatives has come to the fore, both among politicians and the general public. Their undue level of influence in today's "dialogue" makes us wonder what kind of country America is actually becoming.

The most recent foray into Compassionless Conservatism was Tea Party Majority Whip Eric Cantor's insistence on finding federal spending cuts to offset aid to victims of the recent natural disasters. But I feel like there's no real need to cite the legion of examples of Compassionless Conservatism in the backlash since President Obama took office; my mere coining of the pithy two-word phrase is enough for you to get the picture, since Compassionless Conservatism rears its ugly head pretty much every day in federal, state, right-wing blog and viral e-mail assaults on seniors, students, gays, immigrants, the poor, the unemployed, teachers and so on. I'm sure some of them have at least a tiny level of human decency left, but they all sure want those Compassionless Conservative votes.

The establishment Republicans like Willard "Mitt" Romney know there just aren't enough CEO's in America to elect him to do big business's bidding and screw the little guy for their short-term gain even further than they have already. The plutocratic Romney knows he needs the seething, angry haters and the bigots to even have a chance in these primaries and this democracy where there just aren't enough CEO votes, dammit. So he stood silent (as did all the others).

Finally, in their most authentic moment of this Florida "debate," all the Compassionless Conservative candidates performed in perfect lockstep by standing silent once again when the audience booed a soldier for serving his country while being gay. That was Compassionless Conservatism at its clearest, a chorus of bigoted haters safely unleashing their loathing in a friendly room where none would dare risk losing all those hate-filled votes. Well done! In the 2012 elections, every American should ask him or herself if a country dominated by this kind of assault on the social contract is the ugly kind of country that they want. If your answer is "no," please don't sit this one out like November 2010. Because the Compassionless Conservatives have got this voting thing down and will be waiting at the ballot box when the doors open!!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-bowzer-bauman/compassionless-conservati_b_987130.html