Editorials & Other Articles

babylonsister

(171,104 posts) Tue Aug 14, 2012, 04:42 PM Aug 2012

NanceGreggs: Ah, the Smell of Desperation!

http://www.democratsforprogress.com/2012/08/08/ah-the-smell-of-desperation/

Ah, the Smell of Desperation!
By NanceGreggs, on August 8th, 2012

I admit it. When it comes to politics and the GOP, I love the smell of desperation. And of late it is a scent that wafts from every pore of the Republican Party and its cheerleaders, a distinct odor that permeates the air, as well as the airwaves.

The GOP powers-that-be, along with the bobbleheads at Fox News (aka the propaganda arm of the party) are already at the point of grasping at non-existent straws and feigning outrage with a ferocity that is at once as amusing as it is pointless – and we still have three months to go before the election. I suspect the stench of flop-sweat will be so overwhelming by November that even the staunchest Republicans will be unable to take a breath without a gas-mask.

But this was inevitable. Now saddled with Mitt Romney, a man who will probably go down in history as the worst candidate to ever run for the presidency, the Republicans have no choice but to defend the indefensible, and do so in a way that smacks more of Pee-Wee Herman movie dialogue than a proffering of persuasive political realities.

snip//

It’s not easy to come to the defense of a presidential wannabe who is running for office on the basis of his business acumen, his experience as a governor, and his alleged “saving” of the 2002 Olympics, when none of the above can be discussed nor assessed – hard-drives having been erased, records having been expunged, and tax information being stubbornly withheld from view. While the Etch A Sketch theory may hold some sway with the bobbleheaded among us, the average citizen tends to view such obfuscation as just that – an obvious attempt to keep the truth hidden, and the facts dispensed with as an easily erasable inconvenience.

So what the Republicans are left with is an inarticulate, nonsense-spewing empty suit, a candidate who can’t open his mouth without confirming his own idiocy, a job-outsourcing draft-dodger whose allegiance to his country’s financial well-being is tucked away in tax-free offshore bank accounts, a man who doesn’t have the common sense to avoid bragging about how he enjoyed firing people from their jobs in a time of high unemployment, a car elevator-owning rich man’s son whose only source of income has been the inheritance of wealth and the misery of hard-working Americans – and little in the way of anything that can remove the stink of all of the above.

Well played, Republicans! After eight years of an intermittently sober ne’er-do-well like Dubya, and the debacle that was Sarah “Tundra Trash” Palin, we salute your ability to sink even lower in your choice of a candidate. God knows it wasn’t easy – but the bottom of your political barrel has now been officially scraped.

So don’t blame we Democrats for enjoying the smell of your desperation – or the scent of sweet victory in November.