Dear Kathleen Parker: You Could Have Stopped It Anytime

[Are_grits_groceries]

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From Parker's column:
"The curious Republican campaign of 2008 may have galvanized a conservative Southern base -- including many who were mostly concerned with the direction Democrats would take the country -- but it also repelled others who simply bolted and ran the other way."


You think it was just 2008 that freaked people out? Really? Not 2003, or 2004, or even 2006? You think it all turned on a dime in the past three years or so? SERIOUSLY? Good people have been fighting this racist shit for decades, Katiekins, while you and your Republican garden party pals pretended you weren't sleeping on a bed of bones. The only sin the birther nuts have committed that's new is being a little louder about their crazy than you can convince people to politely ignore. Those of us who didn't get to the party yesterday have noticed for a while that the tipping point was coming.

For YEARS now, for fucking years, Republicans and Southern Republicans particularly have been playing on the inherent, not to mention outright, racism all over this country in order to hold on to power. They called it Law and Order and they called it States Rights and they called it the War on Terror but basically what it's all about is making people vote their worst suspicions about their fellow Americans.

In 2001 it was assholes painting their chests red, white and blue and beating up Arab and Sikh cabdrivers. In 2003 it was assholes pouring French wine down the storm drains and breaking windows of French laundries. In 2004 it was assholes tossing around the implication that John Kerry shot himself in the leg so that 30 years later he could run for president. And during NONE of that did you ever stand up, Katie, and say Republicans had better repudiate this insane horseshit once and for all, before they destroyed themselves.

It was the same couple thousand dickheads, spurred on by the same five rich pricks who wanted to feed off the mob to line their pockets. You think it's a coincidence that the Swift Boat fuckers are speaking at the tea parties? You think they just kind of show up there? You think there's not a bus that takes them from one shop in the Mall of Crazy to another? Come on.

Jude wrote this in the comments to the Orly Taitz post:

I don't like it.

Sure, it's good to see a ridiculous idea being met with ridicule.

But I get the feeling that if she didn't sound like a squeaky Natasha Fatale, she wouldn't be getting filleted on TV. I mean, Newt says crazier shit than that, and no one calls him on it. Ditto Ann Coulter and Michelle Malkin, so it's not just a sexist thing. And Limbaugh? Please. This shit is just a crazy hors d'oeuvre for him.

No, she's committed a grave sacrilege; she isn't One Of Them.

If she had some Villager Cred, all the Serious People on TV would be solemnly discussing the need for the President to address the controversy.

I mean, I'm glad that she's being dismissed out of hand. But it's the why that gets to me.

THIS IS WHERE YOU EAT, Kathleen. These are your people and I'm sorry you don't like it but you don't get to pretend you got here yesterday. You've been heading for this for years, and it roiled and bubbled beneath you while you sipped your wine and nibbled your canapés. These are the people who make what you do possible. I'm sorry they gross you out but they've always been there and you don't get to act like you had no idea gambling was going on in this establishment, you selectively self-aware, morally dsylexic enabler.

By the by, Kates, leave Harper Lee out of it. She's got enough to deal with without being saddled with the entirety of the Southern worldview, and she was arguing against the very things you were lionizing for decades in the guise of sensible Republicanism. Why do I have a feeling Lee was the only Southern writer whose name Katie could pull out of her ass on deadline?

A.

http://www.first-draft.com/

Word!
Parker is not even fit to talk about Harper Lee!

[Richardo]

1. That....is a great rant

K&R

[cliffordu]

2. Excellent work. K&R

[Enrique]

3. Parker used to feel different about the South

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/kathleen/parker050102.asp

(...)

When it comes to this little bit of Washington "process," red states, Southerners and Texans get it. They know that a truck isn't just a truck, but a statement that says a number of critical things about the driver. For instance:

He likes dogs; doesn't mind getting his hands dirty; sweats; knows a few bird calls; prefers open spaces to urban settings; makes eye contact easily; eats what he kills; ain't a snob. Oh, yeah, he can probably shoot a gun, too, and - relax - has taught his children how to use the safety lock.

In other words, he's a man whom other men recognize, relate to and embrace psychologically. Seated side-by-side in a truck with a vista ahead and a dust cloud behind, such men just might be able to sidestep the trail droppings and reach an understanding. At sundown (that would be "at the end of the day" for you city boys), it's harder to shoot a trusted friend in the back, which is not a bad place for diplomacy to begin.

[malaise]

4. Fabulous rant

K & R

[Are_grits_groceries]

5. "morally dyslexic" is a keeper! nt

[Berry Cool]

6. Lovely rant, K&R!!

[rhett o rick]

7. "The curious Republican campaign of 2008 ..."

Ms. Parker doesn't have a clue.

The curious Republican campaign of 2008 truly reflects the "curious" state of the Republican Party. They are the party of the teabaggers, the birthers, the crazies that are shooting and killing people, the adulters, and the "whatever Larry Craig and David Vitter" are, and lets not forget or overlook, the war mongers, the torturers, and war profiteers.

The Republican Party is openly sponsoring disruptions of Democratic town meetings, and Republican Congress-critters are openly lying in a desperate attempt to appease their masters.

[Are_grits_groceries]

8. Bet they can't hear that noise too well either. nt

[Orsino]

9. Well-skewered.

The GOP hate profiteers should not escape responsibility.

[progressoid]

10. But but but, Kathleeeen is a moderate,

She to me so.

[Paladin]

11. Well Done, AGG. (n/t)

[Are_grits_groceries]

12. I have this printed out.

I read it every now and then to lower my blood pressure.

[DCKit]

13. I think we're on the same page.

From an email I sent to a sister who's gone over to the dark side:

"And, no doubt, when Obama gives his fireside chat after he's completely taken over the world, he will reveal his true, demonic form to us all. Then the Negroes will rise up and enslave the White Race. Bwahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!"

Seems everything was fine and dandy for them - until the scary black man took over the WH. NOW they're interested in politics.

Guess the only thing we need is a distraction. How about prosecuting BushCo? That should keep them occupied while we're busy fixing what's broke.