See? The real problem this country has is that you ideologically intransigent fringe extremist Biblehumping redneck mouthbreathing hicksticks — when you aren’t not busy acting like terrorists, holding your assault weapons to the heads of American seniors or children with autism or loving loving gays or all those hard working undocumented workers who just want to pick beans and melons and live the same American dream your dumb hillbillies asses were born into — are far too vociferous in your denunciations of this Historic First Black President.
And that’s unhelpful, politically speaking.
— Whereas these constant attempts to delegitimize you as ideologically intransigent fringe extremist Biblehumping redneck mouthbreathing hicksticks who — when you aren’t not busy acting like terrorists, holding your assault weapons to the heads of American seniors or children with autism or loving loving gays or all those hard working undocumented workers who just want to pick beans and melons and live the same American dream your dumb hillbillies asses were born into — are far too vociferous in your denunciations of this Historic First Black President?
That’s just what sober, realistic, pragmatic would-be leaders of the proper breeding do. They take the high road, you see! And if that happens to help the Democrats, because it plays into their persistent narrative parameters of current Beltway politics — which allows them to attack at will, but insists any counters by those on the right are terribly uncivil — well, so be it.
Which is why we have Jeb Bush and John Huntsman — along with many of the the GOP establishment types (who don’t actually exist, I realize, because George Will’s told me so; but for the sake of argument, stick with me here) — seemingly more intent on doing harm to conservatives and classical liberals than they are in helping to point out Obama’s own ideological intransigence. (Or is “intransigence” suggestive of a motive — and we’re not allowed to speculate on Obama’s “fundamentally transformative” motives, despite his willful lies, and his continuing efforts to double down on policies that have demonstrably failed, policies that even his own followers have admitted didn’t work?)
Yet again, let me repeat: this is no longer about party affiliation. What we are engaged in is a war between the ruling class and those they believe it their right to lord over — between an entrenched, permanent governing elite and the very idea of legitimacy and viability of the will of the governed in what is becoming an increasingly post-Constitutional country.
If what it takes to win over “moderates” is to agree to hand over guardianship of our liberties to a presumptuous set of would-be elites whose sole motivation is to fortify their own power, then I’d just as soon not win over the “moderates.”
And if that means I’m forced to survive in the political wilderness, I’d rather do that then consent to be a slave to the government. Because eventually, the pushback pressure will build up enough that the center won’t hold. And I’ll be able to live with myself when that happens, content to know that I wasn’t part of the complaint Eloi of big government client-citizens, and that I never agreed to have my country enslaved, or my liberties taken from me by various and predictable usurpations of the terms of the social compact as outlined in our founding documents.
When the endgame is centralized government control of every aspect of our lives, decided upon and administered by a permanent ruling class, any “compromise” toward that end is anathema — and any move toward the “center” of that reworked spectrum is actually a move further left.
It’s time we insist that any movement we consent to takes us back toward our founding principles. Otherwise, recalcitrance is an act of unbridled patriotism.
So, then. Stick a feather in my cap and call it macaroni.
in this case it’s actually some propaganda cunt producer at Fox News what seems to be most responsible for putting this message out there
what Jeb doesn’t understand is that the people Barack Obama rapes most brutally and viciously and uncaringly are the children
Noting that a desire to “fundamentally transform” the country doesn’t jibe well with constitutionalism is the same as blaming Obama for the common cold, you see.
And that’s unhelpful.
OT: Happy 112th Birthday to the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, whom Google honors today with a cool pic.
Borges is one of the few hispanic authors worth reading, especially if you like encyclopedic meditations and brain-twisters.
If I want advice from Jeb Bush I’ll ask him. And I haven’t asked him.
I’m reading A Tale of Two Cities right now. If I were a better knitter, I’d volunteer to be Madame Defarge.
Perhaps I’ll have to settle for Madame la Guillotine.
“The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges. One of my all time favorites.
There is something here. Buried in Jeb’s general conciliatory tone is an idea that counts to me, whatever the ends chosen by the particular candidate, and Bush broaches it, then returns to it at least once (I’ve not listened to the whole segment yet).
Anyhow, that idea is about campaigning forthrightly on the plans of the candidate’s choice, an idea that came up in the Daniels kerfuffle over the right-to-work statute Daniels opposed, and also came up in the context of Walker’s proposals in Wisco. And more, it’s an idea that stands in stark contrast to the empty campaign of utter bullshit run by Barack Obama in 2008. Empty hope and change, signifying nothing, in other words, questions never posed by the press and never answered on the campaign trail by the liar Obama.
But this idea isn’t so much a question of content (on Bush’s part) so far as I see it, but a question of process in a sense, or of honesty to put it in simpler terms.
What Bush doesn’t seem to realize is that, in the absence of some pie in the sky scenario in which a candidate does campaign forthrightly, something must be done to combat the lies coming out of that lying candidate’s pie hole. And that is often best achieved by pointing the lies out as lies, lies that, in the case of Obama, he has been routinely corrected on but that he nonetheless keeps repeating anyway in an effort to sell those lies — with a lying and complicit media at his back helping every step of the way.
Playing in the left’s sandbox may be, for Bush, one of the “realities” of being a GOP candidate. But only because he continues to lend such a reality aid and comfort by agreeing to live within it.
the chief whore of whoreville still ain’t nothin but a dirty whore
Yeah, I wasn’t so much concerned for the moment with what Bush doesn’t realize as what I do realize. It’s self-centered of me, I know.
What’s a Jeb?
See there is a reason why British High Command was able to send the Aussie Expeditionary Force blindly charging Turk machine gun nests at Gallipoli. Over and over again. For King and for the Empire, you see. The willful subdigation of street smarts to the refined thinking of the elite.
Bush did the same to conservatism during his presidency, sending his initiatives, war effort, foreign policy to be cut down by the disinformation, lies and sedition employed by the DNC, media, Code Pink, the CIA, the anti-war, etc, etc. Seems like they think that the same tactic is the honorable way to proceed in 2012. Stuck in a time warp of futility, they are.
This is survival mode now. The gloves should be off and brass knuckles on.
Further in the lane of self-centeredness, let me blurt that I find listening to Neil Cavuto high torture. Probably it’s just an irrational loathing of the glottis.
“You can’t just be against the president.” — Jeb Bush
Why not? Being against George W. Bush worked for Barack Obama in 2008. Hell, Obama’s still relying on being against George W. Bush to win in 2012.
JEB = John Edward Bush. Makes “Jeb Bush” kinda, fittingly, redundant.
The Bushies should resign themselves to selling advance information from CIA briefings to the Saudis, via the tentacles they operate (Carlyle et. al), and be glad that they are allowed that much.
Advice, spilling over from an outside field, which could be helpful in the run-up to and aftermath of the 2012 election. Especially for those who are wedded to Obama and his kingship of the ruling class.
“I do. I think when you start ascribing bad motives to the guy, that’s wrong. It turns off people who want solutions
We are not “ascribing bad motives” to Barack Obama. We are ascribing different motives than the one he professes. Barack Obama professes to be a Progressive, a Democrat, a post-partisan common sense compromiser. Barack Obama is in fact a lying socialist. Helpful?
Something or other about advertizing and product meet the world.
An asshole is an asshole – the exact shade of it’s color is really beside the point.
Mr. JEB, sir? Respectfully…sod off. When we decide to value your opinion, we’ll let you know. Don’t wait up too late tho’.
Bush also misses a free kick into an open net by failing to mention the vast sums spent in tax preparation now which would presumably diminish under a simpler tax scheme and therefore be available to be put to more productive use.
Jeb is officially old news now, if he wasn’t already. Hopefully he will dry up and blow away, along with the rest of the statists.
And if we have to have four more years of the Good Man so that the Legacy can continue, so be it.
here’s photo to brighten your day
thunder thighs michelle o
Somewhat on topic, I saw my first Huntsman for President bumper sticker at lunch today. Fittingly, the vehicle on which it was affixed was a gigantic SUV BUT a hybrid SUV. Pretty much Huntsman in a nutshell.
This:
Must be the crux of the message next year. There is, indeed, a need for some good old-fashioned class warfare in this nation, alright, but rather than being between the “wealthy” and the “working class” (where does the “unemployed, government-dependent class” fit into that continuum?), it must be directed against those who have deemed themselves kings and fought by those who have been branded serfs.
Jeff, I’ve lurked and commented in years past, seen the blog go through lean times, and relatively fat seasons, but I’ve never agreed with you more than right now, as you’re keeping up the mantra that we must not cede any ground whatsoever (and indeed should be willing to die to regain lost ground) in the arena of language, and the control thereof. We absolutely must be bold, unapologetic, and ruthless.
Keep up the fight…there are more of us than they realize.
pic perry/baracky @ 22 yo
Whoever put that one together with Baracky and Netanyahu was a genius, at least for a moment or two. As memes go, that’s a keeper.
Caveat humptor.
*thhhhhhhhwp…*
mr. pablo the SCOAMF for the win
There was a time when I would hit that, but that time passed a few dozen all-you-can-eat champaign brunches ago.
“mojo posted on8/24 @ 11:36 am
An asshole is an asshole – the exact shade of it’s color is really beside the point.”
Exactly.