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| Let's Worry About the Important Issues |
| Posted by: dever on Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 01:31 AM |
I just want to make sure I understand this clearly. The media continues to control the dialogue on Iraq – portraying it as an abject failure and beating the entire GOP over the head with it at every opportunity. Iran is advancing their nuclear ambitions pretty much unabated and we’re offering them technology to continue to do so. Congress continues to spend money like a drunken sailor in a whorehouse. Oh, and for all we know, Osama bin Laden could be living in a shack in Arizona and we wouldn’t have the foggiest because, apparently, the only people who don’t get to illegally enter the United States are those who die while making the trip.
So, what is the GOP worried about? Gay Marriage…. Excuse me… Sorry, I was looking down the list of priority issues the federal government should be addressing. There it is - “Gay Marriage” - on page 47, just after “Regulating the allowable distance between barbs in a barbed-wire fence.”
Welcome to today’s Republican Party. After the 2004 elections, the rhetoric coming from the religious wing of the Republican support base made it very clear that they felt solely responsible for the favorable outcomes. They’ve successfully turned this fiction in to political capital and are using it to control the agenda of the GOP - in short, the people who don’t believe in evolution are finally calling the shots – and are successfully alienating the other factions of the party.
I’m just waiting for the TV ad: “We know we’re fucking up every issue that really counts. Uhm…. God God God God. Vote Republican.”
Frankly, unless they find a way to turn things around overnight, the GOP deserves the quiet time sitting in the corner they have coming to them this November, having spent the last two years alienating the sizeable socially moderate wing of the party worrying about issues like Abortion and Gay Marriage. It’s been a steady two years of appeasing the couple of million evangelicals that give the party enough votes to win – well, just barely… and assuming the rest of us get motivated enough to show up on election day.
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