It’s only a paper moon, hanging over a cardboard sea, but it wouldn’t be make believe if you believed in me.
While it’s probably somewhat redundant at this point to pile on poor Michael Steele for his brand new but flabbergastingly idiotic “What Up (!) ?” web site, I still feel a need to do so, because such an epic and public failure is, as it has ever been, something they frankly don’t give a damn about. They obviously know by now that no minorities, young people, or anyone with the scantest degree of tech savvy will ever vote Republican… The whole idea behind this hilarious debacle was just another misbegotten but ostentatious gesture on top of the million other misbegotten but ostentatious gestures that preceded it, to convince people too stupid to know better that the GOP is, well, “all that.” (And more, I’m sure.) You see, Steele’s very elevation to his purportedly vaunted position in itself is a slap in the face to actually qualified African Americans, and his perpetually embarrassing presence is widely understood to be a stunt to convince the “base” that supposedly normal people can be made to think the party has a future in an inexorably more diverse America, whether or not it actually does.
On some level, the GOP now plainly accepts the fact that to those outside the Fox/Limbaugh vortex, such lame and shoddy horseshit as, say, declaring Jackie Robinson a posthumous admirer of Boner and McConnell isn’t going to fly with the sentient, but since it’s sure to fool such simpletons as David Gregory and Cokie Roberts, why not? Alberto Gonzales “proved” they loved teh Mexican, Harriet Miers “proved” they loved teh broad, and Mary Cheney “proved” they loved teh gay; It’s true because Bill O’Reilly said so… or was it Hannity? Maybe it was feminist icon Sarah Palin that set everybody straight. (No pun intended, but that family could use a well-timed shift to less procreative sexual activities…) At any rate, when the GOP pulls a stunt like this, it shows that there’s only one class of Americans that really support them, teh stoopid. And without that bunch, they’d be getting poll numbers that would make Dick Cheney look like Pope John Paul II.
As the teabaggers thus encouraged start to go native and begin harassing and denouncing such leftist commies as Lindsey Graham, Arlen Specter, and Charlie Crist, you really have to wonder where this is all leading… do these guys even care that anyone with a functioning brain is laughing uproariously at the spectacle? Alas, I think not. They may not have the people, but they’ve got a “news” channel, all of talk radio, and a hell of a lot of corporate moolah (Abramoff’s term, but so perfect I had to use it…) behind them.
Good luck with that.
