Stupid is as stupid does
Well, well. It’s certainly been awhile. I’ve missed you.
Truth is, I had nothing to say. Now I do. So here goes.
The one thing that scares Republicans more than anything else in the world is the thought of a Democrat in the White House. The one thing that scares Democrats more than anything else in the world is the thought of a Democrat they don’t support in the White House.
What’s wrong with this picture? Tell me it’s not true. You know damn well it is.
Read the “progressive” blogs where Barack Obama has practically been anointed the second coming or the feminist blogs where anything less than total support of Hillary Clinton is proof of a misogyny worthy of the most regressive society imaginable.
On the former, Obama can do no wrong while Clinton can do nothing right. For the latter, the reverse is true.
Meanwhile, the Straight Talk Express gets the radioheads and my colleagues in the Mainstream Media to do their dirty work for ‘em. Hey, it works — Radiohead goes all Hussein on Obama, McCain “repudiates” the comments, and my colleagues talk about it for the next week. Mission Accomplished. The bullshit is out there, and it stays out there. Dirty work done by surrogates, St. John’s hands are clean.
And before you accuse my colleagues of Republican bias, let me let you in on a little secret. We’re not biased for anybody. We fall for any good trick of manipulation, and the Republicans are masters. Democrats? Not so much. Democrats don’t have the stomach for it, really. They think all they have to do is tell the truth and the day will be won. Wrong. Ya gotta cheat. And, again, the Republicans are masters.
See this picture of Obama in traditional Somali garb, we’ll say, showing the picture — John McCain says its wrong to use it to denigrate Senator Obama. And Senator McCain also says he won’t be using Obama’s middle name, which is Hussein, to denigrate him either.And we’ll do that for hours, days even.
The targeted voters get the picture, excuse the pun, and we helped.
Sounds pretty obvious, of course, and because of that, it’s no wonder some of you think we’re pro-Republican. But again, that’s not it. Wave a shiny object in front of our faces and we’ll salivate and jump all over it.
At this very moment, some Michael Bloomberg flack has floated the idea of the New York mayor being Obama’s VP pick. Never happen, not in a million years. But that isn’t stopping our pundits from drooling all over the idea, wondering how much money Bloomberg could pour into the campaign and how they’d reconcile their very different views on certain issues.
Earlier, it was the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue demanding that John McCain disavow televangelist John Hagee’s endorsement because of Hagee’s anti-Catholic views. Interestingly, Donohue didn’t appear concerned about Hagee’s anti-gay views, go figure.
Donohue is a shiny object. He squeals, and we give him a microphone. Even if he’s dissing John McCain. And besides, it’s only fair after we covered the heck of the Obama-Farrakhan shiny object.
See, it’s just that the Republicans are better at manipulation than the Democrats. And we really are that stupid.
I’m just beginning to wonder if an awful lot of Democrats aren’t that stupid too. The last time they got all huffy over what “liberal” to support for president, we ended up with eight years of George W. Bush. And don’t blame it on the Supreme Court either — honestly, it never should have been that close.



















