less 2008 and more 1800

[solarbird]

The McCain campaign really has gone batshit crazy. From this post over at jrittenhouse's journal, I give you some choice tidbits:

Townhall's Kevin McCullough is saying that Senator Obama will be America's First Gay President, tho' later he says he means it in the Clinton sense - or does he? Muah ha ha.

In Godwin news, the Pennsylvania state GOP sent out letters to Jewish voters in that state, and I'll let the New York Times take it from here, that "equated a vote for Senator Barack Obama with the 'tragic mistake' of their Jewish ancestors, who 'ignored the warning signs in the 1930’s and 1940’s.'" Yay! Nazis!

But my favourite of that set has to be this blogger over here who asserts in all seriousness that, and I am quoting, "life as we know it will end if Obama is elected."

Really, I wasn't sure whether to post this list or not, but then I got up this morning and nihilistic_kid had discovered Fox News political commentator James Pinkerton saying Senator Obama has ties to Satanists. Yes, really. He also points out Obama analogies to Jesus, here, at the New York Times, but that's part of making an analogy to calmness, rather than an actual allegation of actual chumminess with actual Jesus. Or Satan. Or at least Satanists, but, well, whatever. And he found this other Story From The Dystopian Obama Future, with tasty lulz.

And if you think this is awesome, just wait for the Republican civil war and the election of 2012! One of Bush I's White House aides, Jim Nuzzo, says that the "litmus test" for so-called Republican conservatism is going to be support of Sarah Palin. I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry or, well, really, laugh.

Meanwhile, back in the now, Sarah Palin recently called Texas "Alaska's little sister." Aw, isn't that cute? I wonder how many bar fights that'll start in Lubbock.

Comments

[flashfire.livejournal.com]

The GOP is completely falling apart left and right.

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Dear Ghu... The stupid... It burns...

[mundivagant.livejournal.com]

The GOP: Bringing together all the greatest minds of the 15th century.

*cough*

[firni.livejournal.com]

You owe me a new keyboard.

Re: *cough*

[mundivagant.livejournal.com]

Collect from nihil_duce. He's who I stole that from. (He was more generous and said 16th century, but I pointed out that the Inquisition actually began in 1478.)

Re: *cough*

[solarbird]

I'd have been less generous and said 12th, but I'm bitter.

[adularia.livejournal.com]

Dare I hope that Nuzzo is pronounced "nutso"?

[sarakate.livejournal.com]

Leaving aside the absurdity of the assertion that Obama's use and teaching of Alinsky's effective grass-roots organization methods constitutes an endorsement of every view Alinsky expressed -- and that is absurd, on a par with asserting that every high-school English teacher who teaches Alice's Adventures in Wonderland also espouses Charles Dodgson's rather shady views about proper behavior with young girls...

But leaving that aside for the moment, the mere fact that Pinkerton can read that Alinsky quote, and from there progress with apparent seriousness to the notion that Alinsky was actually himself a no-fooling Satanist, just goes to demonstrate something I've long believed:

Republicans have NO sense of humor.

I've often wondered if it's a cause or an effect. Does pre-existing humorlessness drive them into the arms of the party? Or does the mean-spiritedness of the GOP's platform grind it out of them bit by bit? More fantastically (but somewhat more interestingly), I sometimes envision a strike-team in Brooks Brothers suits, who show up at your house shortly after you've signed that first voter registration form with the R box checked, and surgically excise whatever sense of humor you previously possessed.