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Palin's Peasants with Pitchforks

 
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994

PostPosted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:48 am    Post subject: Palin's Peasants with Pitchforks Reply with quote

A bunch of conservative intellectuals are fleeing the sinking Republican ship like really smart and articulate rats. This right wing nerd herd thinks the Republican party is dead in the water. But it�s alive! It�s alive! Everybody knows I�m a big fan of mobs. For me, there is just no more flattering light than 10,000 torch-wielding peasants. McCain/Palin rallies have become haunted houses of tales of terror about Barrack Obama. But now, conservative intellectuals like David Brooks, Peggy Noonan and David Frum have begun to publically distance themselves from the McCain/Palin campaign, which Noonan callsed �A symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics (Oct. 17, �08 ). A new vulgarization, madam? Excuse me, some of us have worked hard to vulgarize politics for years. David Brooks is even more out of line, calling Palin �A fatal cancer to the Republican party� (Oct 6, �08 ). Excuse me. Excuse me, David. I believe you meant to say �a fatal cancer to the Republican Party with pizzazz�. And David Frum, a recovering Canadian neo-con, who authored President Bush�s axis of evil speech, last week said this on Steven Colbert�s show: �If my party says we are going to be the party of Sarah Palin, we are going to be the party of a rural white rump. We don�t have much of a future.� For the record, Mr. Frum, the rump of a rural white is the tenderest part. And while these boo�hoo-ocrats hold a pity party over the state of the Republican body politic, they seem to have forgotten just what the Republican Party�s body was made of. We know it is many different body parts stitched together: fiscal conservatives sutured on to Christian fundamentalists, held together with a patchwork of neo-con foreign policy hawks. Then in 2000 they bolted George Bush�s head on and brought him to live with 10,000 volts of gay people want to marry your baby. Now, for the record, I�m not saying the intellectuals like Noonan and Brooks and Frum are Dr. Frankenstein. No, Dr. Frankenstein is not even in the Republican Party�anymore. No, they are not Dr. Frankenstein. I am just saying, and I mean this in the nicest possible way that they are hunks of dead flesh sewn into the walking corpse of the Republican Party. Think about it. It could not have lived long without them. They were vital organs. Noonan was the larynx. She has long given voice to the monster. Who can forget her 2004 column �Fire bad, Bush good�. Brooks was, let�s say, the kidneys because he processed the creature�s waste into New York Times editorials. And Frum, based on this quote from 2005, �Karl Rove was right when he charged: Conservatives see the United States as a great nation engaged in a noble cause; liberals see the United States and they see�Nazi concentration camps. (June 27, �05)�, I would have to say Frum was the balls. Now maybe these turncoats just don�t like who the monster has chosen for its bride. But the point is they have known the score all along. They are happy to use fear to convince the villagers to giving tax cuts to the guy who owns 7 castles. And they would gladly go along with creation science as long as it would help them create a new regime in Iraq. But now they are rejecting this thing that they have long helped exist. Whatever the reason, they are suddenly afraid.

(Thank you Steven Colbert)


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caniff



Joined: 03 Feb 2004
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice use of the Frankenstein analogy (or was it an allusion? Anyway...). That show is one of the bright spots in the murkiness of television programming.
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moosehead



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PostPosted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I saw that show - it was hilarious!!!

my supervisor came over and was staring at the screen - she needed to ask me something - I was suppressing major guffaws (watching it at lunch time as I do every day now) - just when they were showing the clip with palin dressed as the Bride of Frankenstein - funny stuff!!! Laughing Laughing
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