From the Washington Post, 18 June 2011:
Cassi Creek:
The season is officially open. The cheer leader/beauty queens are prancing around, tossing their hair, and trying desperately to attract the teavangelistic male voters. They are both comfortable with using physiology and physiognomy as campaign tools. They will ramp up the intensity of this attack plan as the need emerges.
The GOP/teavangelist rally in New Orleans, much as the CNN sponsored GOP/teavangelist “debate,” consisted of sequential hopefuls and tokens loudly proclaiming what we’ve all recognized since the final votes were counted in 2008. The presence of an African-American in the White House is not acceptable to a party and its segments that has used racism, separatist theocracy, and other forms of bigotry and hate mongering to attract and hold voters since the Nixon era. Since 2009, they have done everything that they possibly can to defeat and prevent Obama’s efforts to find a means of economic recovery from a GOP –created depression that may yet eclipse the Great Depression.
Teavangelists and the GOP seem quite willing to shove the country off any path that may lead to the smallest chance of recovery. They are objecting to the presence of U.S. troops in two wars that Bush started. They are currently opposing Libyan intervention but would have been just as rabidly for it if Obama had delayed our participation. No matter what his decision, the GOP will oppose it and block it.
It seems easy to use such obstructionism, then to make it a propaganda tool aimed at the growing number of unemployed, whose’ GOP sponsor-owned jobs are being off shored while the GOP Congress eliminates their unemployment benefits in order to shift focus and blame onto Obama. It isn’t hard to misdirect a voter base that knows, and cares, more about television talent contests than about American government and history.
If that sort of propaganda machine is not sufficient to twist reality, enter Palin/Bachman. We find middle-aged mouthpieces for fundamentalist religion. We see two women who play at patriotism but collectively know very little about then nation then or now. We find two candidates who make up statistics and invent history, then lie about it when called on the truth. They fit the pattern for the GOP/teavangelist candidate already.
However, they are also capable of playing a sexism tool. They are willing to use their appearance to appeal to male voters. Middle-aged men seem to find in them, a trip back to middle school and high school. They stand there in the mob, or watch the women on television, and seem to believe that they are somehow attractive to these women in some manner other than as numbers in a voting machine.
Self-delusion now becomes a political tool. The middle-aged teavangelist fails to recognize that the girl who wanted nothing to do with him at age 13-18 still wants nothing to do with him. She wants the vote he can cast. Otherwise, he is not a member of the clique or gang, and as he never was, so will never be. They’re lying to the geeks and non-jocks, just as they did when they wanted to make a jock boyfriend mad. The outcome will be the same. The political nerd will act against his own self-interest yet again.
Take away their esthetic/cosmetic surgery, take away their donor-bought clothing, take away weekly hair appointments, dye jobs, underwear that tries to erase gravity and parturition, and they approach the reality of middle age. They lied to boys then, they lie to men now. See them and hear them for who they really are. If ever we need truth in advertising, it is now. If ever we need men to think instead of respond to biology it is now. Palin and Bachman are engaged in sexting to a large portion of the male voter pool. Unlike Weiner, they don’t need to send pictures or use their smart phones. The dummies do all the transmission for them.
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