These Republicans
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 at 9:58PM | by Otter 
Fetching, with all the allure of amateurism. In the New Right Wing, uninformed is the new black. It goes with anything. So long as you're against abortion and taxes, the New Right Wing would love to go home with you.It's curious.
As election results roll in, I'm not terribly upset or concerned that Republicans are making gains. Good old fashioned give and take.
It's not that they're Republicans...
It's that they're these Republicans. You know the ones: the ones for whom opposition to abortion and taxes are a vague creed instead of a clearly articulated principle, and for whom amateurism is a recommendation.
These Republicans who traded in the intellectual, principled rigor of the William F. Buckley era for the religiously distorted political fundamentalism of the Moral Majority, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Bill O'Reilly.
These Republicans for whom Sarah Palin's winning smile and sexy can-win determination make her incompetence irrelevant.
These Republicans for whom David Vitter's pro-life credentials magically erase his moral failures. (Hey. Family values. In Louisiana, your prostitutes practically are family. Fi-Fi, pass the salt, please...)
These Republicans who run on Young Earth populism, anti-intellectualism, and denial of value of the Separation of Church and State.
They have a lot to prove to me. They've lost their soul, and will govern (I predict) with the soullessness they've cultivated. They don't know anything, so far as I can see, and what's even more frightening is that the things they think they know just aren't true.
Well, the public has spoken, so they get their shot.
And it isn't the first time this sort of thing has happened.
But it's depressing every time.
Otter
FOLLOWUP:
It looks like a lot of the crazies on the Tea-Party Right lost. The damage was limited.
Reader Comments (1)
**sigh** sadly I couldn't have said it better.