If you ever were looking for evidence of just how far thru the looking glass we’ve come – see this clip from climate denier Rick Santorum. (see below)
“Smart People”, I guess, join Muslims, blacks, latinos, gays, women,union people, environmentalists, and scientists as being, sadly, ineligible for the republican party, at best, and at worst, members of a sinister global conspiracy – presumably aimed at “dumb people”.
Election years are bound to be bloggingly boring…
The only redeeming thing is, by November it’ll all be gone. Phew!
If that’s what you think, you’ve missed quite a few election cycles. If you’re specifically talking about climate change / environment / pollution / energy, you’re even more wrong.
Regardless of who wins, I expect the use of the Senate filibuster to reach unprecedented highs.
MorinMoss – the op-ed pages of the IHT (the international edition of the NYT) have been plastered since January with the same message: Republicans are bad, truly they are, did I tell you how bad they are and by the way, Republicans are bad.
Come mid-November, the barrage will die down as usual, with a timid remake in the 2nd half of 2014 until the new effort in Jan 2016.
I wish they would simply write it under the main banner, so that us readers might be provided something more interesting…
It’s funny that during his speeches about “Smart” people snubbing his group, he never mentions his own higher education. I guess he should just throw out all his degrees and join the working class.
What’s he’s really doing to attempting to appeal to people who just don’t know any better. He’s celebrating their ignorance because he thinks he can exploit it.
The reason smart or knowledgeable people ignore him is because they see right through the facade.
Perhaps he really meant to say “smah” people, not “smart” people?
After all, we’ve all misunderstood his verbal frothings several times before.
Haven’t the GOP candidates been pushing the message that Democrats are waging class warfare?
What about his assertion that the NAS’ position on AGW is not necessarily representative of most scientist’s beliefs? That was a new one on me.
While many, myself included, believe that the extremism on the right began under Reagan, a new book tries to show that it’s always been the case.
Check out interviews with Corey Robin, author of “The Reactioary Mind – Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin”
Hi Morin,
Re: “While many, myself included, believe that the extremism on the right began under Reagan,”
Don’t forget Goldwater, ’64.Oh, hold on a moment…. Second thought, Goldwater ’64 was totally forgettable.
Man, if that’s the type of 7th grade rationale that guy uses to inform his decision making at his job, he needs to be fired. If one would try to run a business using that level of thinking, they would more than likely go under and need a ‘bailout’.
Channeling Joseph Conrad, “Mistah Rick – he dead.”
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And one more story about a ghost…
In March, 2001 an elite of D.C. pundits gathered at their private Gridiron Club to fete the new President. During his dinner talk, one of the wags tossed Shrub a softball:
Q: “Mistah President, what your best strategy advice from your campaign?”
A: “You can fool some of the people all of the time,and those are the ones to concentrate on.”
that sounds like a distillation of the Romney strategy.
I just watched Real Time With Bill Maher’s Friday show. He’s going after Romney with full tongs and scimitar flailing.
It was fun to watch a grown Magic Pants Mor-man being filleted alive.
Maher declared this the week that little-thinker Mitt lost the election with his ill-considered midnight press release on Obama’s purported weakness regarding the tasteless yet too funny send-up to the the great prophet.
You can get a flavor for the affair with this Overtime” segment:
http://tinyurl.com/9537ng6
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Re: “that sounds like a distillation of the Romney strategy.”
Actually, this is Nixon’s Southern Strategy redux. One of the cutting lines in Maher show was about the old joke about Pennsylvania. “PA is a sandwich with Philly as one slice of (white) bread and Pittsburgh the other with Alabama in between.”
And here’s some GOP voters in PA out to prove this is true:
That is the most depressing 5 min video I’ve seen in a very long time.
I’ve said it before,
The rest of us on this planet out side the USA watch US politics with a mixture of disbelief and increasing dismay. It was once hard to believe anything could top the Bush Admin in insanity.
Scary place the USA, made more so because these deranged people might determine the path of the entire planet.
Hi Richard,
You wrote: “The rest of us on this planet out side the USA watch US politics with a mixture of disbelief and increasing dismay. ”
Speaking for myself as a U.S. citizen I can assure you it is exactly the opposite here.
First I was utterly dismayed. Then I was completely incredulous as to how idiotic this nation has become.
Who is “we” and “our side”?
Neil
Re: “Who is “we” and “our side”?”
In 1854, the “we” could have referred to the Know Nothing. Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing_Party
“The Know Nothing was a movement by the nativist American political faction of the 1850s, characterized by political xenophobia, anti-Catholic sentiment, and occasional bouts of violence against the groups the nativists targeted. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants, who were often regarded as hostile to republican values and controlled by the Pope in Rome. Mainly active from 1854 to 1856, it strove to curb immigration and naturalization, though its efforts met with little success.”
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It is no small irony that an ultra right wing Catholic like Santorum is now acceptable to the nativists who have move on to now ranting about “MOO-slimes”, “Diaper Heads” and “Sand Niggers”.
Isn’t it nice to see that in a century and a half that we can change our targets of hatred! 🙂
(Although “we” still don’t like that (n word edited out- peter) in the White House.)