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One thing nagged at me as I watched the stellar nonperformance of Alberto Gonzales testifying before congress, the fog of amnesiac Kyle Sampson, the catatonic performance of the republican aspirants in the debate..... it all finally came together in my mind.
The paralysis of talking points
In the body politic, as the Rovian mimeograph of synaptic tendrils reached ever wider and ever tighter in the republican organism, the need or even the ABILITY to think independently or beyond the scope of the current talking points atrophied.
The talking points became the heroin, the meth, the crack of the republican animal. "Just repeat these mantras and ultimate power will be yours" the talking points whispered seductively. "Just surrender your reason, your critical thinking, your ability to discern right from wrong. Be part of the collective ROVEBRAIN and be included in the powergrab. Keep repeating ad nauseum, and ignore your own gag reflex. Let the propagand catapult through your epiglottis like projectile vomiting, until the public is drowned in our manufactured bile"
seemed simple enough. Seemed to work. Until people started demanding answers.
Then, something weird happened. The bushbots, having heaved their humanity overboard to make room for talking points geas, having emptied their souls of anything NOT ROVEBRAIN, found themselves unable to recollect anything. Nervously, you see them collapse within themselves. They can repeat the crack-addled talking points, to be sure, but when they are dragged or pulled off the reservation, you see the same confused and doubtful looks that appear on the faces of crack whores being asked to balance a checkbook.
Atrophy. Political hardening of the arteries. Ethical Alzheimers. Rove and the neocons have starved the brain cells from within. Never again can the republicotans be rewired to achieve thought. reduced to ants who can only tread where a trail has been blazed before them, but if cut off they are lost, dazed and confused.
McCain tries to out bush Bush, spouting Rovisms like an epileptic sycophant with tourette's syndrome.
Guiliani tries desperately to recall the glory days of when his city was attacked and he did basically nothing.
The rest of the group, like starving dogs with a bone, worry the relgious right by plying them with rhetoric proving that they themselves, at least, are unevolved.
I realized something fundamental: Rove has INTENTIONALLY stunted the republican party, drowned their independence and enslaved their minds in order to better control them. But the more perfect you make your slave, the easier it is for them to follow ANYONE who overthrows you.
I say, take down the head of the chicken politically. I say indict Rove for treason. I say eliminate the bread crumbs he lays before the pigs to lead them.
The, sit back, pop your popcorn, and watch the braindead try to revive themselves.
Lerkfish
btw: I might not be able to get on as much as I used to, so I'll call this my swansong post for a while. I cannot guarantee how much I'll be able to contribute consistently, but I"ll still be reading.
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