This memo is for the wingers out there. If I lurk on Free Republic to see what people are thinking I bet there's a few doing the reverse.
First, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/...
It worked for awhile. A long while. It scared the hell out of people, it won elections, made political careers.
Is anyone now afraid of "The Jackal Pack" of communists lurking among mild mannered college professors and movie studio execs and whatnot? Nah. Even in the late 50's that had run its course.
Let's watch a few of your greatest hits like these:
http://www.youtube.com/...
http://www.youtube.com/...
There's half an internet full of this junk floating around.
Here's the thing. You guys have been fighting the last war. The next war started and your got your ass severely beaten down.
* You called Democrats pussies. People realized that was high school bullshit. And Rush Limbaugh and Bill Kristol weren't exactly the ones running the playground if you know what I mean.
* In 2004 you took a vet who could take apart an M-16 and put it back together and served in Vietnam, in combat, and made him the weakling. Meanwhile you painted the coddled rich Andover kid with a powerful daddy and a movie-set ranch as the swaggering tough guy.
* You called democrats fags, and supporters of fags. You always do.
* You called Obama a muslim, a racist, a terrorist or sympathizer, a radical, a mobster.
* You brought up the spectre of scary brown people in every way you could think of. Some are scary ragheads that want to blow you up and establish a caliphate in Pennsylvania or some such thing. Some are just fat black women content to take your tax money and sit around spitting out babies.
But you know what? This time the public didn't buy it. You can't run the same play forever.
Try it in sports, try it in business. Try jumping out from behind a bush 5 times in a row and shouting "BOO!"
Try it anywhere. People do figure it out eventually.
Americans saw people go on TV and talk about how we just can't afford to pay for health care, while they themselves had sick family members. But the same people had 700 billion for Wall Street. In a week. They smelled a lie. It wasn't hard you know.
Americans saw a progression of oddly adamant and single minded people talk about the threat of gays, naming them one of our greatest threats. They also noticed a propensity for the most adamant among them to get nabbed IM'ing with underage boys, practicing unusual moves in airport bathrooms, and making a lot of round trip drives to Denver hotels late at night.
Americans heard you tell us we could invade a country and be done in weeks. Literally. They heard you say our country was the greatest on earth. That no country could compare to ours, that we could move mountains. But one thing we cant' do is get a container or so worth of bottled water to the Superdome in 4 days.
And most of all Americans might have started to pick up on the fact that the people spouting all this bullshit were the ones profiting from it. And they had no intention of fixing it, and no intention of solving the problems.
Why should they? They don't believe in the philosophy of even trying. It's been used as a cliche often around these parts, but that's not a bug, that's a feature.
Most of all guys, you Republicans made the fundamental assumption that Americans were idiots and destined for ignorance. Americans could be scared and terrified if you kept trying to do so. They could be taught to vote based on the rawest of emotions and the most superficial tribal identification markers.
And for a time -- quite a long time -- they were. Perhaps they will again one day.
But for now that playbook is over.
Obama took every single thing you could dish out. He took more than Kerry or Gore combined, in my humble opinion. He brushed the dirt off his shoulders, stayed incredibly organized, patient, and competent.
And guess what, he's about to be the motherf-cking President Of The United States.
Back to the drawing boards guys. You had a good run. It's over.
Game, set, match.
Over and out,
Commandante El Flailey
Hasta La Victoria Siempre