skippy the bush kangaroo: from howie's blog to god's ears, as they say

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

from howie's blog to god's ears, as they say

we can only hope that howie klein’s assessment of bob “i may be a traitor but i’m an old feeble traitor so don’t pick on me” novak’s latest essay is accurate:

republicans are praying that they only lose 4 senate seats next year-- novak's wishful estimate. less optimistic republicans foresee half a dozen seats going blue and democrats with vision feel that if the republicans keep up the blatant obstructionism, something they clearly intend to do, they could lose between 8 and 10 senate seats.

and what makes all this all the most intolerable to the gop roots are what newt gingrich derisively dubbed the "pathetic bunch of pygmies"™ (aka- the republican presidential field). the 8 or 9 or 10 clowns who wish to personify the concept of a third bush term are all regularly beaten by "none of the above" in every poll that allows "none of the above" to participate.

the party's presidential candidates pretend bush doesn't exist, not mentioning his name during debates. but none has inspired the party faithful. front-runner rudy giuliani is anathema to social conservatives, the core of republican success for more than two decades. this situation explains the interest in fred thompson as a possible savior, although he has not fulfilled lofty expectations prior to his official announcement of candidacy.

mitt romney approached the calamitous atmosphere by asserting that craig, until last week his idaho state chairman, is part of washington corruption that only a true outsider-- specifically, the former governor of massachusetts-- can cure. past candidates have succeeded in pointing to corruption in washington, but always by the opposite party. the republican party's next leader faces a more complicated problem.

novak's column was entitled, grim old party, which, at least to the base, is probably better than what many people have been calling it: the gay old party, thanks in part to the incredible work of progressive blogger mike rogers. longtime readers of dwt know which closeted republican hypocrites we've been trying to bring to the public's attention. i've spoken with mike and he has many more-- many, many more-- than i have never mentioned. (dwt can be discrete.) anyway, if you like what mike is doing and want to see bob novak's party turn a lot grimmer, you can give mike some help here; he's earned it.

update: who's next?

michelangelo signorile is wondering if it'll be miss mcconnell, lindsey graham, david dreier... but, of course, those 3 queens are so outed it's hardly fair to even count them. the real action, of course, centers around lil' north carolina congressman patrick mchenry, whose boyfriend's corpse just turned up in orlando with the dead bodies of a couple other republicans, one of whom was the gay ex-chairman of the george republican party (as well as ralph reed's old squeeze).

Labels: gop, right hypocrisy

posted by skippy at 8:03 AM |

2 Comments:

I prefer the term: Gross Old Perverts...

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SB Gypsy, 12:36 PM PDT

As for the repub candidates for prez. They really do remind me of a sideshow at the circus. Each one has his own weird thing that draws attention but upon closer inspection is repulsive.

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pissed off patricia, 7:27 AM PDT

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