Larry Rasczak
Feb 19, 2008 02:21 PM
Geez Larry, well said.
I don’t know what to add to that.
I suppose that Hugh Hewitt was the biggest disappointment of them all. Over the span of a week he went from mocking them to placating them to being their moderate face.
You give the closely analogous example of the California GOP. I had the miserable experience of watching the Illinois GOP, in a feat of “true conservatism” over decency and reason, fuck everything up in such a way that I’m embarrassed of it still. That was when, in 2004, the “true conservatives” asked Jack Ryan, a young, dynamic Republican Senate candidate who was popular and promising and who could have easily defeated Barak Obama, to step down over probably the only sex “scandal” in history to involve not having kinky sex with one’s own wife.
That was stupid, but they decided it wasn’t enough to be stupid. They had to show that they were racist too. And so they shipped in a shrill, incompetent and risible fool solely on the basis of his black skin. It was disgusting.
Republicans can never have it so good that they can’t find a way to utterly tear it down. In 2004 we had about 40% of the latino vote. By 2006, we had 16%.
Even if discussing the racist nature of their passions were “avoiding” the issue rather than naming it, we’d still be better off if all we did was mock, deride and alienate them from our party, because if the catastrophes they’re visiting on the party were merely the result of dumb misapprehension of what sorts of themes they’re playing with, we’d still be f***ed by having them around.
