As usual, I'm politically where the action is, and my conservative "friends" - as usual - are stuck out there putting lipstick on a pig again:
"Today, we’re reminded of why [Rand] Paul will never be able to gain much traction outside the libertarian-right without a big change: His shocking blind spot on race."
Oh, don't I know it. Notice my little racial tirade over the weekend? It was in response to Rand Paul supporters. Those people Public Enemy's Flava Flav should've been talking about (instead of just feminists) when he said, "You're blind, baby. You're blinded by the facts, of who you are, because you watching that garbage - straight garbage!"
And yes, I include libertarian Glenn Reynolds' "advice" as a big part of that ugly, useless package.
Worse than a bunch of Romney-backing clowns now trying to tell my black ass what to do, is the realization these conservatives obviously have no clue what they're doing politically (after - based on Reynolds' wrong-headed assessment of a Romney win - they'd smugly told me "We don't need your vote!") They're now so ideologically driven they have totally forgotten how to win elections.
Get over it, guys - reality's against you.
"Libertarian populism won't save the GOP."
"Romney to NH GOP: Don’t vote in anger in the 2016 primaries and nominate someone who can’t win."
"Rasmussen poll of Republican voters: Christie 21, Rubio 18, Jeb Bush 16"
I mean, Duh-and-Double-Duh. You know how this round is going to go:
They've got a winner in Christie (who they blame for Obama's win, instead of themselves, for backing Romney) but, rather than taking the win, they're going to embarrass themselves further by bashing their own heads in. Then they'll bash in the heads of anyone who doesn't agree totally with everything they demand (that's what they did with me) and then they'll lose. Again. Without honor or even a smidgen of hope for success.
That's crazy.
Like the last man I voted for, George W. Bush, I like being right more than being popular.
"His aides wanted to delete it from his speech, and President George W. Bush was mocked by ESPN and Meryl Streep for it afterward. But when he used his 2004 State of the Union address to raise the issue of steroids in baseball, it boosted the issue to the top levels of politics.
Nine years later, analysts say Major League Baseball may never have reached the point this week where it issued the biggest suspensions in 90 years had official Washington not turned the spotlight on performance enhancing drugs (PEDs).
Matt Welch, editor in chief of Reason magazine, who has written on baseball and the government, said the government made a point of going after high-profile end-user players — an important strategic decision.
“That really showed this was about making examples. That was explicit in George W. Bush’s State of the Union address. This was all about making examples,” he said."
I wrote about the need for shaming just this morning. Now it's evening, and I've got another message for my conservative "friends":
If you're as resistant to it as liberals - along with the need to apologize when you're wrong - then I hope you like nature, a lot, because you're going to be wandering in the political wilderness for years, and possibly decades, to come.
Know who your real friends are, people - this time it's really real:
And all yours to lose,...
Heh, shit yeah, welcome aboard. The Democrats have been playing the race war game for some time now...and instead of sidestepping it the Republicans have jumped right in too.
ReplyDeleteThe Democrats have been playing the class war game for some time now...and again, step right into the middle of that pile with an aww shucks grin on their faces.
Republicans have forgotten that the duty is to all Americans, not your particular vote cattle (and they do have them, even if the cattle don't know that they are cattle yet)...not your own little brand of the pure, good, hip, and deserving; not your target market.
And on top of that, they have less practice at it, so they'll lose on points as well. Couldn't happen to a more deserving group (unless maybe Democrats; if they both could lose I'd cheer...and that goes for idiot, unreality smoking libertarians too).
Rand's a losing ticket; I can see that (have seen it for a while) -- and I'm not so sure I'd want him winning anyway (even though I do hate Hillary)...he may not be just a losing bet, but bad news.
PW
And for every somewhat smart thing, worth consideration thing, some of these "conservative/Republican" media types say...why do they then turn around and do 5 dumb things (Reynolds was right about the whole pro-confederacy dumbshit...but then he goes right ahead and supports the people connected to the people; Althouse had a point about the player lifestyle being a bad one...but then she goes on to support the people who help make it our sad reality now...I think it's because these mofos don't get directly hurt by it; as long as it's the poor damn saps, the riff raff taking the hit they'll sit and judge and laugh at their kids saying "die of beaties" (and they get that wrong too -- it isn't a race thing; it's a country wide thing, and these bastards would rather point and laugh or sniff and wipe their fingers of it on the fine linen)...not yet anyway
Like my dad said: do this to people, take their thing away from them, there will be consequences eventually