Flip-flopping to obscurity
McCain was for abortion before he was against it
© Bryan Zepp Jamieson
http://www.mytown.ca/zepp
5/9/08
ABC is reporting today that John McCain is considering changing his position
on abortion to embrace the party language that bans all abortions, including in
cases of rape and incest.
It’s pretty hard to imagine a flip-flop that is more blatant than that, but with
John McCain, it’s not really a surprise. This is, after all, a man who kissed up
to his mortal enemy, Putsch, and who bleakly sold out on his general stand
against the vitriolic maniacs at the fringes of religious nuttery, such as
“Christocrat” Pastor Rod Parsley, or the Rev. John Hagee.
It would destroy the GOP if McCain takes that final, unmistakable step, since it
will send a clear message to millions of moderate conservatives and formerly
mainstream Republicans that the party is still firmly in the control of right
wing maniacs.
And America is sick to death of right wing maniacs. They’ve watched those
bastards do what a huge civil war, wars against Japan and Nazi Germany, and a
30-year confrontation with the Soviet Union could not do: they weakened and
eventually humiliated America, and ground down the American people into, at
best, unwitting accomplices. With the exception of the 28% of Americans who are
hopeless party hacks who put the GOP ahead of America, there isn’t a person who
doesn’t realize by now that Putsch was an utter catastrophe for America.
I hope McCain sells out one more time. I’ve no use for the man, certainly don’t
want to see him in the White House, and don’t mind if he and the GOP shoot
themselves in the foot once again.
Will a weak and emotionally damaged clown be any improvement over a stupid,
insane and malevolent clown? That is the prospect the GOP voters have.
For the rest of America, fortunately, they can pick Obama. Or Ralph Nader. Or
they can write in the name of their garbageman if they want. They have options.
Putsch, segueing into McKook. Gads, what a progression. For the GOP, it seems
that their leaders, to quote Neil Gaiman describing Imperial Rome, “have been
successively mad, stupid, evil, and now, all three.” Gaiman had Caligula as the
trifecta Caesar; who came after him? Oh, right. Clav Divs. (Some people, with
limited imaginative reading skills, would call him “Claudius”) Weak,
ineffectual. Well, that would be McCain’s role. The lassitude following the
storm. Except that isn’t much help when the ship of state is sinking as badly as
America’s is now.
The blow-dried whores that have replaced reporters as America’s primary source
of news information are doing their best to push McCain, of course. To that end,
they are doing their best to pretend that Parsley and Hagee don’t even exist,
but that Reverent Wright, Obama’s pet religious fruitcake, is the only thing
that matters. The trouble is, Hagee thinks America deserved 9/11, and Parsley is
a Dominionist – one of those whacks who believes that America exists to serve
Jesus, and like most such, Parsley has a few modest suggestions to help
facilitate American servitude to his invisible sky muffin.
They always do have a few modest suggestions, don’t they?
McCain promises to maintain the status quo on the most disastrous of the Putsch
policies. Occupying Iraq? He loftily reckons it might take a hundred years for
the place to settle down, what with America protecting it from...well, non
Americans, I guess. Iraqis. Somebody.
McCain thinks he can save the economy by making Putsch’s tax policies permanent,
even though they took money from the middle class and gave it to the undeserving
rich, the greatest forced transfer of wealth in history. As a result, America is
headed for a depression, and the American people are at the mercy of their
creditors. Sure, they’ll be happy to accept slave labor in lieu of payment. Just
sign here.
Oh, wait. You already did. McCain thanks you on behalf of the GOP.
It reminds me of Hoover when he ran for a second term in 1932. He campaigned on
the notion that his (mostly non-existent) policies would work, and because the
business of America is business, the same people who plunged the country into a
rough patch would lead it right out.
After the election, he begged FDR, the President-elect, to agree to an interim
power-sharing arrangement because he knew what was coming, and wanted to share
the blame with FDR. I’m guessing George will be the least visible ex-president
in American history, no matter how the election turns out.
With the primary battle winding down, and a couple of House seats in hand that
seemed unthinkable just two years ago, the Dems are looking forward to firm
control of the Senate and the possibility of a supermajority in the House. And,
of course, the White House.
The Republicans will go down gracelessly, of course. The Swift Boat Veterans, a
monster that the GOP created, has turned in their hand and is now sliming
McCain. Rush and all the other right wing gasbags, never a pleasant lot, are
sounding shrill and even panicked. They will do everything they can over the
next seven months to tie the next president’s hands to their hated policies, and
continue to work feverishly to stack the courts and the judicial system with
their hacks and lackeys, pass whatever laws they can to ensure a smooth ride for
their rich owners, and maintain a constant, unending flood of propaganda. They
will rapidly convince themselves that 2008 was just an electoral aberration, a
dying twitch by the vestiges of America, and that they will be able to feast on
the corpse after 2012.
I suspect they are wrong, that, as in 1932, they will be destined for the
fringes of American politics for twenty years.
But not all is lost. There is already an ideal GOP presidential candidate on the
horizon. He’s a bit young for the 2028 election; he’s only 13, so he’ll have to
wait until 2032, but the kid has already shown that he has all the traits needed
to be a Republican presidential candidate.
13 Year Old Steals Dad's Credit Card to Buy Hookers
Ralph Hardy, a 13 year old from Newark, Texas confessed to ordering an extra credit card from his father's existing credit card company, and took his friends on a $30,000 spending spree, culminating in
playing "Halo" on an Xbox with a couple of hookers in a Texas motel.
Asked why he ordered two escorts, Ralph said he thought it was the thing to do when you win a "World of Warcraft" tournament. They told the suspicious working girls they were people of restricted growth working with a traveling circus, and as State law does not allow those with disabilities to be discriminated against they had no right to refuse them.
Ralph's ambition is to one day become a politician.:
Remember Ralph’s name. He’ll be the first viable GOP candidate since 1988, and
will lead the party back to its former glory!