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I am struck by the abundance of analysis in the aftermath of the 2008 election. None has been more fascinating to me than the Republican Party's own laughable attempts at introspection. What is truly amazing is that they're are clueless as to their own foibles. Their new website, (ideas.rebuildtheparty.com/), is asking for suggestions and ideas as to why they failed so miserably and how they can regain power. There is already a long list of reasons why they failed, and what they should do, but, none of them is remotely close to being true or accurate.
My favorites so far are:
we need a new logo and slogan
stop reaching across the aisle
fight appointment of liberal judges
say thanks but no thanks to AARP
Here's my list for why you lost: Your party is:
imperious,
amoral,
cynical,
superior,
unscrupulous,
deceptive,
devious,
Machiavellian,
ruthless,
slanderous,
murderous,
jingoistic,
intolerant,
self-righteous,
Orwellian,
brutal,
exclusive,
bigoted,
prejudiced,
close minded,
mean spirited,
small minded,
petty,
vindictive,
power-hungry,
authoritarian,
dictatorial,
theocratic,
anti-democratic,
un-American,
anti-constitutional,
extra-constitutional,
repressive,
secretive,
arrogant,
ignorant,
smug,
intellectually stunted,
uncurious,
stagnant,
unfair,
elitists,
opportunistic,
cheating,
lying,
back-stabbing,
belligerent,
bellicose,
bombastic,
demagogic,
fraudulent,
blundering,
buffoonish,
underhanded,
fear mongering,
divisive,
hypocritical,
backward looking,
reactionary,
knee-jerk,
an unending source of false accusations and character assasination,
hate-filled,
hateful,
unchristian,
uncharitable,
unkind,
unconscionable,
guilty of barbarous international thuggery that passes as foriegn policy,
breeds and promotes selfishness, greed and corruption,
the epitomy of hubris.
I could go on, but I am sure none of this will register with you or make the slightest bit of difference in anyway. As for you, making positive changes in your dismal party, you have embraced some of the worst aspects of human nature and enshrined them in a misguided wrong headed ideology that looks for the worst in others while ignoring your own glaring, grotesque deficiencies. You are bankrupt morally and spiritually.
Through your malignant foreign policies you have murdered hundereds of thousands of innocents all the while you are weeping your disingenuous, pro-life tears, for the unborn. You have squandered this nations wealth on needless wars, for cheap oil to enrich the few, while denying basic social rights of its citizens.
You have allowed oil conglomerates to suppress and crush green technologies in favor their continued pollution of our planet.
You cry freedom and deny freedom to others. You sing America's praises of freedom and deliberately undermine it's Constitution and in secret take away American's freedoms.
You have brought great harm to this nation and the world and and you deserve to be thrown into the ash heap of bad political ideas, like Communism and National Socialism.
You deliberately polished a political turd like Palin and served her with smug self assurance that the American people are stupid and will buy anything. Afterall we bought Dubya twice right?
The spontaneous joy you saw expressed on the election of Barrack Obama was the expression of the pent up hope that you and your party have repressed with your exaggerated fear mongering for eight long years. People gravitate towards ideas and hope you are bereft of either.
And last but not least, you do not govern as servants of the people, as the Constitution requires, you rule as an elite class of aristocrats with a smug sense of superiority and entitlement. You have even stooped so low as to steal two elections through the suppression of peoples right to vote so that you can retain power. You tried again this time, but we got wise to your game and cut you off at the knees. You are despicable, and un-American in the extreme sense of the word. You are fascists to be exact. A remnant of Tory seed that sees itself entitled to a life of privileged ease at the expense of others, taking everything and giving nothing back. You despise the idea of a democratic republic, and are trying to create a theocratic, oligarchy that dictates and rules by fiat, guided by your narrow dogmatic views and twisted christian philosophies.
In short you lost because you are out of touch and you suck.
Damn you and your party to hell.
© 2008 by Michael Weber
