Shazaam! Likely candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination Mike Huckabee gets to pitch his Gomer Pyle shtick the year-round thanks to his Fox News Channel gig.
Meanwhile, for his part, News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch has denied any political motivation for the cash donations. "We made them because we decided they were in the interest of our company and our country," Murdoch asserted in an October 16 Wall Street Journal article. In alluding to the interests of "our country," perhaps Murdoch could have been a bit more precise. Although he is a naturalized U.S. citizen; Murdoch is a native of Australia.
Nonetheless, all this unchallenged media access and bags of suspect loot serve as the lifeblood of the GOP's brutal "perpetual campaign" modus operandi which has long characterized its general approach to politics. Republicans seem to view politics not as a test of one's governing skills but as an on-going war of attrition with the specific goal of achieving and maintaining power. While progressives perhaps figured they had a moment or two to celebrate and re-group after their political gains of "06 and '08, the Republicans exercised seamless maneuverability in going right to work on the remnants of their base, cultivating the primitive emotions of the loudest, kookiest bottom feeders riled up by Palin during John McCain's presidential campaign.
And it may now just be coming to the point of bearing fruit - at least in the short term - by way of the GOP's political resurrection on the back of the Tea Party movement. This time it's done not just by means of its traditional strategy of rote, echo chamber recitation of falsehoods and distortions virally disseminated through its own well-established media network, but also with an abundance of mystery money provided by special interests whose "interests" in some cases lay far beyond America's shores.
Send in the Clowns
The GOP/Tea Party's access to this funding to subsidize - by way of its use of Fox and a debilitating national political ad campaign - its mastery over most things Orwellian, has been the key to their apparent success in re-inventing to the point of electability, some of the oddest of oddball candidates. They include individuals who believe, as does Tea Party-endorsed Republican California congressional candidate John Harmer, that public schools represent "socialized education" and therefore advocates the abolition of public education. As of October 13, Harmer was considered the front-runner.
It's helped propel CO2 debunker Bachmann to the precipice of her re-election in Minnesota, and made a surprise primary winner out of Paladino, the rough-edged, Tony Soprano-wannabe turned-wannabe governor of New York.
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