QUOTE OF THE DAY
“To vote for a Republican means, now, to vote for a plutocracy that depends for its support on anti-government forces like the tea party, Southern racists, religious fanatics, and war investors in the military-industrial complex. It does no good to say that “Romney is a good man, not a racist.” That may be true, but he needs a racist South as part of his essential support. And the price they will demand of him comes down to things like Supreme Court appointments. (The Republicans have been more realistic than the Democrats in seeing that presidential elections are really for control of the courts.)
The independents, too ignorant or inexperienced to recognize these basic facts, are the people most susceptible to lying flattery. They are called the good folk too inner-directed to follow a party line or run with the herd. They are like the idealistic imperialists “with clean hands” in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American—they should wear leper bells to warn people of their vicinity.”
Gary Wills in a piece in the New York Review of Books titled, The Curse of Political Purity.
June 20th, 2012 at 6:50 am
It feels like David Sedaris’ opinion on the undecided voters of 2008 is more true with every election.
‘To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat.
“Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?”
To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.’
From here: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2008/10/27/081027sh_shouts_sedaris?currentPage=all
June 20th, 2012 at 1:32 pm
Scott, any comment on the Lady Macbeth Queers, also known as “GOProud”, who are raising money for Romnent? They are never gonna wash away their inner stain at being Gay, even with all the perfumes of Arabian Oil money.
June 20th, 2012 at 7:11 pm
I moved from Salt Lake City to Houston about 8 months ago. I have been just flabbergasted at the racial troubles down here. In my opinion, racism is a “stealth plank” in the GOP platform. Disenfranchising minority voters is part of their electoral strategy. Eliminating, to the greatest degree possible, equal opportunity in education, is part of their domestic platform. I’m sure that, if they get much more of what they want, formal Jim Crow laws will be reinstated in the deep south, including probably here. (Anyone who tells you Houston is a “blue dot” because we’ve got a lesbian mayor, forget about it. She was elected because she was a competent comptroller and the guys who ran against her were soooooo bad.)
Basically all they need is one, maybe two more Supreme Court justices from these parts, and they’d probably decide Dredd Scott again.
June 20th, 2012 at 9:47 pm
Scott, thank goodness you insert all that azzzz, in your posts, I couldn’t take the rest of the reality otherwise.
god, I love this blog.
tim