Impressions of the GOP
The GOP’s decision to guest-star Max Headroom as Mitt Romney was as hilarious as it was insane. Mitt simultaneously chided the “liberal” Roberts/Alito/Scalia/Thomas Supreme Court for giving constitutional rights to Gunatanamo detainees, while proclaiming our need to continue to protect our civil liberties. He said we need to stop being the country of “Big Brother”.
Rudy 9iu11iani did his “boogedy boogedy 9/11 9/11″ routine, which was entertaining enough. He has a real future ahead of him if Hollywood films a remake of Nosferatu. he would also do well as the Penguin.
Then there was the star of the show: nasty, sharp-tongued, Sarah Palin, who is guaranteed to be spoofed on Saturday Night Live. And why not: she looks like Tina Fey, meets the Church Lady, meets Sally O’Malley Except evil. Completely evil. While she called out her family, she never once dealt with her pregnant, unwed teenager, the girl the GOP would ordinarily be calling names and smearing if she were black or a Democrat’s child. Sweeping it under the rug seems to be SOP in the GOP.
All told, it was a remarkable exercise in mendacity, dishonesty, and selling snake-oil. All of the old white people who attended the Convention (I swear, the average age was 70 and there was like one black person in the whole crowd) really liked it, proving that you can fool some of the people all of the time.
September 4th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
My favorite Mitt Romney line was where he said that Obama had “no clue about how jobs come and go.” Because Romney, as a serial CEO, has a huge clue about how jobs come and go.
October 5th, 2008 at 5:02 am
[...] – Impressions of the GOP saved by ferlachat2008-10-03 – If you haven’t been to a Cabella’s you’re missing Bazooka car [...]