When George Will threw up his hands in disgust…
@stanleybmanly George Will is an intellectual, like William Safire before him. Intellectuals are anomalies in both parties, mostly distrusted because they think too much, and can’t be relied upon to remain uncritical or to blindly tow the party line like good soldiers when the party finds itself in well-deserved shit—traitorous bastards. But they are useful when, during those rare moments when the educated, moneyed elite of America requires soothing and reassurance that the Party really isn’t all knuckle-dragging mouth breathers who just want the government to stay out of their Medicare. Intellectuals throw their hands up in the air all the time, especially at the collective willful stupidity of the great unwashed. It’s like their favorite thing. It’s how they get their physical exercise. When they do it, it’s never really taken seriously by anybody, because nobody really understands them. They’re intellectuals and this is America. They can’t be trusted.
The Republican Party tradition of pushing certifiable morons to the fore—(newer, better versions of the bouncy, rootin’ tootin’ Palin, and the Idiot Son with all his interesting strategerizin’ and his astute observation that the U. S. Constitution had been written on paper!)—is still alive and well. through the strategerical promotions by the still extant puppet masters Rove and Co, and their evil offspring. They are enormously successful to this very day Tea Party and fundi-backed candidates like Rubio, and last spring’s crop of nutcases form Arizona, Texas and Mississippi.. You just have to hang with the right demographic to see it. If you live in someplace nice, like northern California or anywhere else but the deep south I suppose, you might miss this show completely—until it rears it’s ugly head out of Orange County or some other wealthy Republican command and control center.
The pimping—no—the pumping of controllable and cerebrally deficient, blindly-loyal Republican candidates into the ocean of ignorance and apathy that is our society, sadly, is their best recruitment tool and vote getter. Their hook is taps into the latent angers and fears of this very angry and paranoid society and focusing it on every other political entity but themselves. It works and is working just fine at this very moment. Never underestimate the enemy, stanley. It gives them the element of surprise. Your optimism, although admirable, is premature.