Will the Spiritual Leader of the Republican Party Please Stand Up?

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This guy has a nice contest. What person do you think represents the soul of the Republican Party? Rove, Mitch McConnel and his boyfriend? Larry Craig? Dubya?

Here's the link, followed by the first two paragraphs.

http://allspinzone.com/wp/2008/06/12/will-the-spiritual-leader-of-the-republican-party-please-stand-up/

Will the Spiritual Leader of the Republican Party Please Stand Up?


The Republican Party has lost its center, its soul. There’s really no doubt of that. They’ve had strong moral and spiritual centers and leaders in the past, though most of us progressives may have argued with whether those leaders were right. Reagan with his Morning in America was one strong spiritual leader for the Republicans, and Newt Gingrich with his Contract with America was another. Heck, Dubya, leading the party away from the moral decay the Republicans felt coming from the Clinton White House can even be seen to be a strong spiritual leader for the Republicans, until he actually had to lead, that is, and until the moral decay and dozens of Republican sex scandals forced them off of the moral high ground. No, there’s few candidates for a spiritual leader, a man of ideas who can lead the Republicans. They’ve lost Mr. Right, and I’m not sure they’re actually looking for him anymore. But I just might try to find out who the Soul of Republican conservatism is in a moment.

First, though, one more comment about the extreme condition the Republican Party finds itself in, when even Larry Hunter, one of the architects of that Contract With America, has something like this to say about the Republicans. From Bruce Bartlett at The New Republic:

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1. Satan? n.t

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2. Satan?

Will you take Rove instead?

[groovedaddy]

5. I believe Rove is a high ranking MINION n.t

And he can go straight to hell!

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3. The spiritual leader of the rethug party...............

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4. Too easy!

At least give us Rove's name, man!

[Double T]

7. beelzebub rove.

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9. Is that

Dubya?

Why coldn't he pose with his wife there?

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10. Cheap shot

I'm thinking a picture from the Murnau "Nosferatu" might be appropriate. Rove eating flies. God I wish I was good at photoshop!

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6. It's Rush Limbaugh. Don't you own a radio? Amidst his hate speech

he does articulate the essential themes for three hours every weekday.

All the other wingnuts acknowledge him as the king.

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8. Is he the soul?

I suspect that means their soul is corrupted no end. Not that it would be surprising or anything.