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The “F” Word
The current Rovian crusade to justify the disastrous foreign policy releases the Idiot Triumvirate to appear before carefully chosen friendly audiences to invoke the F word: that is the so-called war on terror is now a war on Fascism, and the job is to link mid-eastern terrorists with Hitler and to equate Bush’s war with the efforts of the Allies against Nazi Germany, and to link anti-war attitudes with appeasement. You have to be an idiot to make that comparison, and you have to be an idiot to believe it. How ironic that the most fascist administration in American history should raise the F word in their own defense. [1]
You may have a parent, an in-law, a friend, a spouse, and (God forbid!) a child who is one. They can turn up most anywhere, although they are mostly in Red states. Republicans. And now the truth must be told: Republicans are idiots. Well, you knew it all along; even some Republicans knew it.
Let’s start with idiot George Allen, Senator from Virginia, who is running for re-election (and contemplating running for president in 2008). Here is a guy who is so freakin’ stupid that he singles out and makes racist slur at a cameraman (reputedly the only non-Caucasian face in the gathering) while the camera is filming and recording him! He wants to be president someday!
Even Georgie Bush didn’t have somebody film him boozing in Alabama bars instead of showing up for National Guard duty.
Even Trent Lott, when he publicly said at Strom Thurmond’s birthday party that the country would have been better off if the racist and segregationist had been elected president in 1948.
Even Bill Frist, who famously made a medical judgment (out of his field) about Terry Shiavo’s medical condition from a video tape, hasn’t diagnosed Floyd Landis’s urine sample by consulting a weegee board.
Even Dick Cheney, who publicly said “F**k you” (Cheney likes this F word) to a Democratic Senator didn’t add “and the horse you rode in on.”
Even Condoleeza Rice, who call a presidential briefing memo that had a warning of a terror attack with everything by the time of day on it “just historical background” is not that big and idiot (although George Alan would probably regard her as a “Macaca,” too).
Even Dick Nixon, who said “I am not a crook” knew better than to add “but I am a liar.”
Even Ronald Reagan, who claimed he didn’t know Iran-Contra, didn’t say that he could, however, know the “Macarena”.
Even “Duke” Cunningham had the sense to store his loot, from taking bribes from defense contractors, in another state.
Even John McCain, who defied Ho Chi Minh but kissed George Bush’s butt after Bush used a racist lie on him, and for good measure put his lips on Jerry Falwell’s butt, is not as big an idiot and George Allen.
But they are all idiots, and anybody who joins or remains in, or supports such a party is an idiot, too.
Do you have to take an idiot test to get into this political party? These are people who are called “dittoheads” by one of their talk show toadies, Rush Limbaugh, and “useful idiots” (see, you can’t blame me for this) by their own political strategists. And the idiots continue to be easily persuaded to vote against their own best interests, to support people who are responsible for raising the cost of the pharmaceuticals and gasoline, outsourcing their jobs, obstructing medical advances that would make them healthier, and abridging their rights. These idiots need help!
One could go on, but this should be enough. The one thing Republicans are not so stupid about is lying and stealing. They just don’t know when to stop. They may get their due this November, but remember that there are still a lot of die-hard Republican idiots out there ready to go the distance, er, “stay the course,” no matter what. A recent poll showed that 50% of them still believe Saddam had WMD. A majority still believe that it was Iraqis who hijacked the planes on 9-11. The rest believe that prayer will keep terrorists’ bombs from working—“faith-based homeland security.”
They are the idiots that ignored all the warnings of pre-9-11. They are the idiots who botched the response to hurricane Katrina, have cut funds for needed areas of homeland security, and squander them for political advantage by giving them to states and cities that no respectable terrorist would attacked because , like us, they can find them on a map either.
Mind you it is these idiots and their supporters who have put us at war with a country that never attacked us, killed nearly 3000 Americans and maimed 20,000 others, started a civil war that’s killing tens of thousands of Iraqis, and is responsible for making more new terrorists than McDonald’s makes fries, and made Americans the most vilified people in the world.
Now their mantra that their idiot supporters will repeat to you is that Democrats will not be willing or able to protect you as well as the people who have made us more unsafe—at home or abroad—than we have ever been in our history. These idiots want you to believe this even though they would be blathering their ridiculous mantra in German and Japanese were it not for Democratic administrations. They love to invoke their little loaded interrogative—What would the Democrats do (fill in the blank)? Implied negative. It’s a nice cover—if you’re one of their idiot supporters—for “What have the Republicans DONE?”
Beyond taking our country to the bottom in a very short space of time they seem to want to make us not only the evil, crusading, gas-guzzling imperialists to the rest of world, but to destroy any intellectual legacy we have acquired. They want our schools to be Christianmadrrassas that will have libraries full of The Left Behind series and the complete fallacious works of that psychotic, bitchy, bag of bones, Ann Coulter.
OK, I know, I know, this is all so illiberal, so unfair, so castigating of a huge cohort of people, of generalizing about Republicans. Surely there must be some Democrats that are idiots as well.
OK, OK, I’ll give you that. Take Joe Leiberman. The same Joe Leiberman who is a staunch supporter of Bush’s war and supposedly a supporter of Israel—except, when it comes to groveling for votes, he can say: “I have respect for him . . . I admire what Minister Farrakhan is doing.”
Like I said, take Joe Leiberman . . . Please! . . . Idiots.
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©2006, James A. Clapp (UrbisMedia Ltd. Pub. 9.2.2006)
[1] We have addressed Facism before in these pages, See, for example, 32.6, Fascism Creep and 17.6, Slouching Towards Fascism