Uh, the Problem Here, John ... - Democratic Underground

NanceGreggs

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Wed Feb-27-08 08:17 PM
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Uh, the Problem Here, John ...

… is that you’re a Republican. And that fact alone will be your undoing.

I know, I know – you have other problems to deal with as you head into inevitable coronation as your party’s nominee, other obstacles to be overcome in a race that has you situated at a starting line that is miles behind your opponent’s.

There’s your flip-flopping (God, don’t you regret that your own party members coined the very phrase that’s now biting you in the ass?). First you hated the Fundies, now you love ‘em; then you were the maverick decrying Bush’s policies, and now you’re just one of the gang, even bragging about how you’d love to have Mr. 19% out campaigning for you.

I guess you haven’t figured out that voters might question the wisdom of a guy who, trying to survive the sinking of the Ship GOP, passes over the flotation devices and grabs for the anchor instead.

In a time fraught with fear over devastating economic news, you talk to the masses about continuing the country’s prosperity, never considering the fact that the average American Joe is worried about losing his job, his home, his savings, his health coverage – in fact, the only people Joe Average sees enjoying any prosperity of late are the billionaires your party handed tax-breaks to, and the corporations that are posting record profits at his expense. And of course, mentioning that the economy is something you know very little about at this juncture doesn’t instill a lot of confidence in the citizenry.

Then there’s the Iraq War, which the majority of the populace now recognize as a money-sucking quagmire they want out of yesterday – while you talk about a hundred years of tomorrows. While you're out there talking about the continued victory in Iraq, the caskets are arriving home daily - along with wounded vets who have a very different story to tell about what victory actually looks like up close and personal.

And pointing to the fact that you were able to walk safely around a Bagdhad marketplace (surrounded by well-armed troops who had already cleared the area of anyone who looked remotely ‘suspicious’ before your arrival) just ain’t gonna cut it, sir – and all the $5 rugs in the world aren’t going to change anybody’s mind.

Now you have this lobbyist thing hanging over you, with all kinds of questions being asked about who you’re in bed with (no pun intended, but if the shoe fits …), and God only knows what other nastiness is bound to rear its ugly head between now and November.

But the fact of the matter is, John, you’re a Republican, and that’s where the real problem lies.

You represent a party that has lost all credibility, along with a substantial portion of its adherents. The Party of Fiscal Responsibility has run up the country’s debt to unprecedented heights. The Party of Moral Values has given itself over to the Duke Cunninghams, the Foleys, the Neys, the Noes, the Craigs, the Vitters, the Abramoffs, and the Jeff Gannons. The Party of Smaller Government has emptied the nation’s coffers into the bank accounts of war-profiteers, Big Oil, Big Business, and Big Pharma.

The Party of Lincoln is responsible for missing emails, erased videotapes, outed covert CIA operatives and political infiltration of the Department of Justice. The Party of the People has shredded the Constitution and hidden its nefarious doings behind invocations of ‘executive privilege’.

The Party of Christian Ethics is now the party of torture, rendition, secret prisons, Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis and US troops.

You’re a Republican, John – and at a time when Americans have had their fill of corruption, greed, hypocrisy, obfuscation, mis-information and out-and-out lies, that’s just not the thing to be. It’s as simple as that.

So you’ll do your little campaign dance; you’ll hold your head up high and talk the talk. You’ll speak eloquently about the need for staying the course while the country cries out for change. You’ll steadfastly avoid discussing the disaster your party’s support of an ill-begotten buffoon of a president has created.

You’ll address the crowds that aren’t there, pretend the problems that are there don’t exist, and act like you actually have a shot at winning a prize that’s already been won by your more than worthy opponents.

I realize that your party is taking some small comfort (as delusional as such comfort may be) in the fact that the Democrats are currently engaged in in-fighting over which of our current candidates will ultimately become our nominee. But you also should take notice of the fact that while we are arguing over who the BEST nominee is, your party is arguing over which scapegoat will ultimately be blamed for the GOP's inevitable downfall in November - and guess what, John? Looks like you're it!

You’re a Republican, John, and that will be your undoing. And after the last seven years - don't you think that's just as it should be?