EXTREME MAKEOVER (GOP TRAINWRECK EDITION)
Jun. 26th, 2013 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogAnd now, unnecessary political commentary from Team Frog’s Political Batshit Curator, Lucky Bensonhurst.
As you may know, the GOP can’t believe Mitt Romney is not POTUS. Certainly Mitt Romney can’t believe it. And it is killing him. Look what you’ve done America. You have HURT WILLARD’S FEELINGS. I hope yr satisfied.
Anyway, yes. The GOP is struggling to process this. How could you possibly run against a proven Muslim-Appeasin’ Benghazi-Cover-Uppin’ Economy-Ruinin’ Fiscal Irresponsiblin’ Gun-Stealin’ Thug 4 Life Socialist like Barry Hussein Obama and LOSE? Besides Obama buying a second term by giving the blacks and the Mexicans and the young people free stuff?
Inconceivable!
Hence all the mea culpas and ponderous commentary from various GOP brand names who feel the GOP probably shouldn’t be going out of its way to alienate women, black people, Latino people, and pretty much everyone else who isn’t a straight white guy making over $250K p.a. Also, it should probably stop encouraging people like Todd Akin to stop saying really fucking dumb things about rape.
Apparently that’s not going so well.
The GOP leadership has decided that the problem isn't their hardcore ideology so much as how they express it. “No, see, the GOP isn’t really a bunch of Angry White Guys – we just sound that way sometimes.”
The problem is that too many conservatives can’t seem to help expressing themselves in a way that sounds batshit crazy to the rest of us. Despite the GOP leadership’s acknowledgment of the need for a makeover, they keep kissing up to the same people that have gotten them in trouble in the first place.
And even discounting that, it’s hard to reinvent yrself as The Party Of Reasonable People when yr own members are blathering on about Obama’s dictatorship plan. Or telling women that the best way to avoid sexual assault in the Armed Forces is to not join the Armed Forces. Or inadvertently starting Facebook memes about illegal aliens invading yr office or masturbating fetuses.
Even Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal – the guy who has said the GOP needs to “stop being the stupid party” – seems to have given up.
In an editorial, Jindal blasted the GOP for sitting around navel-gazing over their 2012 losses, and told them to suck it up and start doing something about it.
That’s actually good advice. Only Jindal goes on to explain why the GOP needs to get over itself and get into gear:
Yes, Bob. That is exactly what the Left wants.
And so much for that.
Sure, you can say Bobby is resorting to comic exaggeration there. If that’s the case, he picked a pretty bad time to deploy it.
On the other hand, given everything I just typed – and given the tendency by both sides of the aisle these days to reduce each other to weird, demented, evil caricatures, which they will defend to the death with anecdotes as if that were the same thing as science – it’s not like it makes much of a difference at this stage.
– L. Bensonhurst
As you may know, the GOP can’t believe Mitt Romney is not POTUS. Certainly Mitt Romney can’t believe it. And it is killing him. Look what you’ve done America. You have HURT WILLARD’S FEELINGS. I hope yr satisfied.
Anyway, yes. The GOP is struggling to process this. How could you possibly run against a proven Muslim-Appeasin’ Benghazi-Cover-Uppin’ Economy-Ruinin’ Fiscal Irresponsiblin’ Gun-Stealin’ Thug 4 Life Socialist like Barry Hussein Obama and LOSE? Besides Obama buying a second term by giving the blacks and the Mexicans and the young people free stuff?
Inconceivable!
Hence all the mea culpas and ponderous commentary from various GOP brand names who feel the GOP probably shouldn’t be going out of its way to alienate women, black people, Latino people, and pretty much everyone else who isn’t a straight white guy making over $250K p.a. Also, it should probably stop encouraging people like Todd Akin to stop saying really fucking dumb things about rape.
Apparently that’s not going so well.
The GOP leadership has decided that the problem isn't their hardcore ideology so much as how they express it. “No, see, the GOP isn’t really a bunch of Angry White Guys – we just sound that way sometimes.”
The problem is that too many conservatives can’t seem to help expressing themselves in a way that sounds batshit crazy to the rest of us. Despite the GOP leadership’s acknowledgment of the need for a makeover, they keep kissing up to the same people that have gotten them in trouble in the first place.
And even discounting that, it’s hard to reinvent yrself as The Party Of Reasonable People when yr own members are blathering on about Obama’s dictatorship plan. Or telling women that the best way to avoid sexual assault in the Armed Forces is to not join the Armed Forces. Or inadvertently starting Facebook memes about illegal aliens invading yr office or masturbating fetuses.
Even Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal – the guy who has said the GOP needs to “stop being the stupid party” – seems to have given up.
In an editorial, Jindal blasted the GOP for sitting around navel-gazing over their 2012 losses, and told them to suck it up and start doing something about it.
That’s actually good advice. Only Jindal goes on to explain why the GOP needs to get over itself and get into gear:
At some point, the American public is going to revolt against the nanny state and the leftward march of this president. I don’t know when the tipping point will come, but I believe it will come soon.
Why?
Because the left wants: The government to explode; to pay everyone; to hire everyone; they believe that money grows on trees; the earth is flat; the industrial age, factory-style government is a cool new thing; debts don’t have to be repaid; people of faith are ignorant and uneducated; unborn babies don’t matter; pornography is fine; traditional marriage is discriminatory; 32 oz. sodas are evil; red meat should be rationed; rich people are evil unless they are from Hollywood or are liberal Democrats; the Israelis are unreasonable; trans-fat must be stopped; kids trapped in failing schools should be patient; wild weather is a new thing; moral standards are passé; government run health care is high quality; the IRS should violate our constitutional rights; reporters should be spied on; Benghazi was handled well; the Second Amendment is outdated; and the First one has some problems too.
Why?
Because the left wants: The government to explode; to pay everyone; to hire everyone; they believe that money grows on trees; the earth is flat; the industrial age, factory-style government is a cool new thing; debts don’t have to be repaid; people of faith are ignorant and uneducated; unborn babies don’t matter; pornography is fine; traditional marriage is discriminatory; 32 oz. sodas are evil; red meat should be rationed; rich people are evil unless they are from Hollywood or are liberal Democrats; the Israelis are unreasonable; trans-fat must be stopped; kids trapped in failing schools should be patient; wild weather is a new thing; moral standards are passé; government run health care is high quality; the IRS should violate our constitutional rights; reporters should be spied on; Benghazi was handled well; the Second Amendment is outdated; and the First one has some problems too.
Yes, Bob. That is exactly what the Left wants.
And so much for that.
Sure, you can say Bobby is resorting to comic exaggeration there. If that’s the case, he picked a pretty bad time to deploy it.
On the other hand, given everything I just typed – and given the tendency by both sides of the aisle these days to reduce each other to weird, demented, evil caricatures, which they will defend to the death with anecdotes as if that were the same thing as science – it’s not like it makes much of a difference at this stage.
– L. Bensonhurst
