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Why The Voters Just Aren’t That Into You
By Nancy Greggs
Amazingly enough, you GOPers still seem to be astounded by the fact that you are in the minority – not only in your hold on government, but, according to the latest Pew Research survey, across the population identifying themselves as Democrats in far greater number than those admitting to be Republicans.
Even more amazingly, a lot of you still seem to be wondering why you are where you are.
Well, I know you don’t want to go there – but let me drag you over to the facts and rub your noses in them. Who knows, you just might learn something.
You campaigned hard for the Idiot who was later installed into office, and when he started behaving like the same incompetent thug he’d been when he was governor of Texas, you acted like it was a big surprise.
Even after you knew that the Idiot lied the country into war, you not only continued your support, you questioned the patriotism of those who asked all of the right questions – you know, like why we invaded Iraq in the first place, and what the consequences would be to our military, our world standing, our economy.
After the shock and awe, you sent our troops into harm’s way with a wave of your “Support the Troops” flag, and then set about gutting their pay and their pensions as you piled the taxpayers’ cash into the upturned palms of the no-bid contractors. No body armor? No exit strategy? No problem, you said. We all have to make sacrifices in a time of war – the all of course never meant to include yourselves.
You cut deals with Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Business, and if that meant screwing the very constituents you had sworn to serve, well, that’s the way the cookie – the one at the bottom of the cookie-jar you continually got caught with your hands in – crumbles.
When your Idiot-in-Chief said he wanted to spy on American citizens, put himself above the law via signing statements, bypass the FISA courts, and generally do as he damned well pleased, legal or not, you pulled out your rubber-stamps and went to work. Oversight was just another thing you couldn’t be bothered with – along with a failing economy, a shrinking job market, and rising national debt.
Your one and only priority was crystal clear: Allow the Idiot to do whatever he wanted. So what if he distanced us from our allies, sanctioned secret prisons, secret renditions, secret meetings, torture, rape, death – it was all good as far as you were concerned, and things like morality and the principles of democracy were just as dispensable as an American city, and the lives of those who once made it great.
You proceeded to break every promise you’d made to those who put you in office in the first place, from fiscal responsibility to smaller government. You betrayed everyone from the Fundies, whose narrow-minded positions on gay marriage you touted when you needed their votes, to the anti-choice movement you had once sworn to placate.
When the Idiot embarrassed the country with his behavior, when he acted like a buffoon in public, when he appointed incompetent cronies to positions of stature and importance, you cheered him on.
You rallied to his side when he was proven to be a liar; you sang his praises when he ignored not only the will of the people, but the advice of those who were far better equipped to put the country back on its rightful track than he, or his PNAC buddies, would ever be.
You looked the other way while your fellow citizens were deprived of their rights, while alleged prisoners were deprived of the dignities we, as a country, once held out as a moral compass we would never deviate from.
You looked the other way when the photos from Abu Ghraib were published. As the murder, rape and death of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were exposed to the light of day, you ran like so many cockroaches into the shadows of irresponsibility and claimed ignorance of the facts.
When our troops came home – wounded in mind, body and spirit – you shoved them under the carpet of indifference, blind to their plight, and only interested in what the glare of daylight would do to your political careers.
You bragged about personal responsibility while passing the buck, about the moral highground as you covered up the moral bankruptcy of your own party members, about witch-hunts as your fellow Republicans were called to account for their words, their deeds, their obfuscation of justice, in the name of maintaining power at all costs.
And now you wonder why the voters are just not into you. You whine and you plead; you backtrack, you revise your own history, you insist that you are merely victims of political payback now that your opponents do what you would not do, display the diplomacy you refused to pursue, undo the damage you have done.
And you wonder why no one is listening. You wonder why the people who once supported you now support your opponents. You wonder why the truth is overwhelming the deceit, why common sense is overtaking your mindless rhetoric, why the pursuit of fairness and justice are prevailing over the pursuit of self-serving political gain.
Honestly, you should have seen it coming. Americans can be very trusting people – too trusting at times, some would say. But in the end, they recognize the truth; they run to it, they adhere to it, and once in its embrace, they will not be moved.
You have finally been exposed as the liars, the traitors, the self-absorbed greedy bastards that you have always been. The majority of American people, regardless of party affiliation or loyalty, will, when all is said and done, invariably choose to support their country before they support individuals who so obviously do not have their nation’s best interests at heart.
The truth, as they say, always outs – and now that it is out, you have nowhere to hide. And we, the People, know it.
It’s about time you knew it, too.
Wake up, Republican powers-that-be. Your power is no more, and you are about to become the Permanent Minority.
Don't forget to thank the Idiot, his administration, the PNAC contingent, and Karl Rove et al, on the way out the door.
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