I know that I'm usually the guy with the analysis and the logical arguments against the right wing. But I think I've just about had enough with the Republicans and the Tea Party today.
Yes, I'm done. Done with being logical, and done with lying down while the right-wing scream-roller rolls over me.
This is right up there with Reagan and Bush2 lying right in our faces, and the conservative media waving it away with things like "brutalized by the fact process" (a personal favorite) and "mis-stating the truth."
So, let's do away with the spin language and being nice for a minute. Really. Let's rant, get motivated and stop these freaks before it's too late.
Not to belabor the obvious, but - clearly - the vast majority of Muslims in this country and the world did not support flying planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The vast majority of Muslims in this world probably want to live, raise their children, eat, and sleep in a world that makes things better for their kids than it was for them. Shocking, huh? In fact, the vast majority of Muslims probably think that the people who committed those heinous acts of terrorism on 9/11/2001 weren't Muslims at all.
And now, here we are 9 years later, and some idiot, moron reverend is planning to burn the Koran to commemorate 9/11. I'm hoping most of us don't believe he's really a Christian. But there he is, Mr. American Taliban, and he's just the latest in a wave of stupid, UNACCEPTABLE behavior.
He certainly has a right to do it, thanks to our Constitution, which is what the terrorists hate. And when he burns this holy book, he's basically burning that Constitution, anyway. Nice job, Reverend Irony.
But let's not stop there: He feels comfortable because some drunken cretan in New York City attacked a cabbie for being Muslim, and because another group of fools in Kentucky (I think) took away the permit for a Mosque because they claimed there was a parking issue (nothing like intellectually dishonest bigotry), only to be outdone by the Grand-Dragon-fool who pushed for the decertification - who then went on local television and said that a church would be OK because "those people" know how to park.
These people all feel comfortable because the Republican party leadership (along with their right-wing propaganda allies) thought it was all right to not only support those decrying the construction of a Muslim-run community center relatively near Ground Zero in New York City, but to actually attack it (what 1st amendment?) and then make yoga-pretzel excuses about how it wasn't about bigotry, but just about being sensitive to the survivors and victims of the tragedy.
And - yes it's all connected - that politically tactical comfort zone designed to rev up the bigots, haters and fearmongers and get them to the ballot box in November (and that's totally what that was) was OK, because when the Republicans in Tea Party clothing rallied against health care reform last year they brought pictures of President Obama in a Hitler mustache, and went on and on about his lack of American citizenship and how he is a "secret" Muslim. I could keep going all the way back to the blatant racism from Republican officials during the 2008 campaign, but I won't. You get the idea by now.
And these were the same people who thought it was disrespectful to call "W" a "liar." And he really was a liar!
Make no mistake: This year's Republican election campaign is not about taxes, or the size of government, or jobs. This year's Republican campaign is about the war, and the President's non-white skin and funny-sounding name, and uncertainty about the economy, and scaring all of us into the idea that there's some liberal conspiracy to tank the country out there. And they are giving aid and comfort to the racist lunatics who used to quietly hide in the mountains to be crazy. And now they think America finds this UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR just fine.
And now I'm going to scold you. I really don't care anymore if your agenda item made it through Congress this year or not. I don't care if you're so left of center that President Obama looks like the Republican to you. And I really don't care if you think that your pet issue deserves more attention than it's getting.
This year's Republican campaign - both public and underground - is just so repulsive, so undemocratic, that I cannot even understand why Republicans are voting for them. Really.
So, if you aren't feeling motivated (or your friends aren't), or if you're thinking that you'll punish your party and your President for betraying your idealism by not voting, or voting for the Green Party, or writing in your dog, or whatever it is you're thinking of doing, just stop for a moment. Protest and you hand the true Dark Side the keys to the kingdom.
Stop and listen. The roar you hear is the sound of assholes in our country that vote, voting "yes" for all this unacceptable behavior and they already think they've won. And if they do win, not only will they undo every step forward that President Obama and the Democratic Congress has made, but it will be signal that the repulsive actions work. That they are effective. And that they are acceptable in our society.
Please vote and vote for your Democratic nominees. After the GOP loses, maybe they'll burn their campaign strategy documents instead. And that's a bonfire I really hope to see.