OT: Confessions of A Republican in Recovery

...you want to know why the Republican party is in shambles,
read this:


"Yesterday, in response to a question from a reporter suspicious
of why he wasn?t wearing an American flag pin on his lapel,
Barack Obama explained his belief that for some, the pins became
a substitute for ?true patriotism.? The senator said he would
instead ?try to tell the American people what I believe will
make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testimony
to my patriotism.?

I didn?t expect leading conservative voices to understand, but I
was a little surprised at the ferocity of the response. Jonah
Goldberg described Obama?s perspective as ?staggeringly stupid,?
and ?the single dumbest thing I?ve ever heard of him doing.?
Another prominent far-right blogger responded this way:

Seriously, you want this for President of these great United
States.This is how he catches the attention of a media aligned
with the terror force? This useful tool won?t wear an American
flag pin? Talk about pandering to the radical base, he ought to
run against Ahmadinejad. He is scoring points with Georgie
Soros, won?t be waiting long for his on his Soros stipend, I?m
sure. What?s Obama Hussein?s new campaign slogan, ?America
Sucks!? ?"


For starters, people got tired of being associated with these
drooling retards. Then, when they realized that these drooling
retards had ideological allies running the show in the Bush
administration and then began to experience their idiotic
policies, they moved from disgusted to outright hostile.

Like me. It had nothing to do with Burke [18th-century Irish
conservative theorist], and everything to do with what the party
had become. A bunch of bedwetting, loudmouth, corrupt,
hypocritical, and incompetent boobs with a mean streak a mile
long and no sense of fair play or proportion.

Seriously- what does the current Republican party stand for?
Permanent war, fear, the nanny state, big spending, torture,
execution on demand, complete paranoia regarding the media,
control over your body, denial of evolution and outright
rejection of science, AND ZOMG THEY ARE GONNA MAKE US WEAR
BURKHAS, all the while demanding that in order to be a good
American I have to spend most of every damned day condemning
half my fellow Americans as terrorist appeasers.

And that isn?t even getting into the COMPLETE and TOTAL
corruption of our political processes at every level. The shit
is really going to hit the fan after we vote these jackasses out
of power in 2008.

Screw them. I got out. They can have their party. I will vote
for Democrats and little L libertarians and isolationists until
the crazy people aren?t running the GOP. The threat of higher
taxes in the short term isn?t enough to keep me from voting out
crazy people and voting for sane people with whom I merely
disagree regarding policy. Hillarycare doesn?t scare me as much
as Frank Gaffney having a line to the person with the nuclear
football or Dobson and company crafting domestic policy.

That is why the Republican party is in shambles. The majority of
us have decided that the movers and shakers in the GOP and the
blogospheric right are certified lunatics who, in a decent and
sane society, we would have in controlled environments in
rocking chairs under shade trees for most of the day, wheeled in
at night for tapioca pudding and some karaoke.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=8799

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