Ignoring, for now, the mental images evoked by the title, today we find that Governor Rick Perry has gotten on the Sarah Palin bandwagon to endorse uber right wing Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, who is running in a 3-way race against a Republican and a Democrat for the New York CD 23 congressional seat.
That’s right, Perry is doing his level best to mimic his gal pal supporters Sarah Palin, who was among the first to endorse Hoffman, and Cathie Adams, newly elected Chair of the Republican Party of Texas, who has made it her life’s work to identify and support “proper” Republicans to the detriment of “improper” Republicans.
Republicans like Dede Scozzafava, a longtime resident in New York’s CD 23, are not Republican enough for the likes of Palin, Perry and Adams (not to mention the baker’s dozen or so Republican leaders whose endorsements have relegated the only Republican in the special election to the lonely distant third place position).
Hoffman, who is not even a resident of CD 23, has become the golden-haired boy of the GOP rightwing. Hoffman, who pulled a Palin in his flubbed interview with a local CD 23 newspaper, the Watertown Daily Times, because he didn’t know enough about the pressing local issues, has the good will and wishes of the far right, even to the extent that the race, previously out of reach by any Democrat since 1871 has evolved to a possible Democratic win.
In times past, Republicans have bedeviled Democrats in their ability to unite in lock-step, to produce a voting bloc so daunting that Democrats have looked every bit like the disorganized array that they really are.
Not any more. As progressive liberal Democrats and conservative Democrats in DC find common ground in some form of a public option in healthcare reform, Republicans are getting ready to shred their platform, their party and their principles only to demonstrate who among them is the most conservative.
All of this under the misguided belief that America is truly composed of a majority of individuals who think just like them.
So as the sun slowly sets on the Republican Party, the Party of Reagan, the Party of Lincoln, let us all bid them a fond farewell and best wishes to our former foes in their new roles as street corner messiahs and radio talk show hosts.
Republican Party, it was nice knowin’ ya.
That’s right, Perry is doing his level best to mimic his gal pal supporters Sarah Palin, who was among the first to endorse Hoffman, and Cathie Adams, newly elected Chair of the Republican Party of Texas, who has made it her life’s work to identify and support “proper” Republicans to the detriment of “improper” Republicans.
Republicans like Dede Scozzafava, a longtime resident in New York’s CD 23, are not Republican enough for the likes of Palin, Perry and Adams (not to mention the baker’s dozen or so Republican leaders whose endorsements have relegated the only Republican in the special election to the lonely distant third place position).
Hoffman, who is not even a resident of CD 23, has become the golden-haired boy of the GOP rightwing. Hoffman, who pulled a Palin in his flubbed interview with a local CD 23 newspaper, the Watertown Daily Times, because he didn’t know enough about the pressing local issues, has the good will and wishes of the far right, even to the extent that the race, previously out of reach by any Democrat since 1871 has evolved to a possible Democratic win.
In times past, Republicans have bedeviled Democrats in their ability to unite in lock-step, to produce a voting bloc so daunting that Democrats have looked every bit like the disorganized array that they really are.
Not any more. As progressive liberal Democrats and conservative Democrats in DC find common ground in some form of a public option in healthcare reform, Republicans are getting ready to shred their platform, their party and their principles only to demonstrate who among them is the most conservative.
All of this under the misguided belief that America is truly composed of a majority of individuals who think just like them.
So as the sun slowly sets on the Republican Party, the Party of Reagan, the Party of Lincoln, let us all bid them a fond farewell and best wishes to our former foes in their new roles as street corner messiahs and radio talk show hosts.
Republican Party, it was nice knowin’ ya.
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