Republican friend with GOP leadership cred says his party is "deep in the wilderness"

[zulchzulu]

As I have mentioned before, I work with someone who syncs up with GOP/RNC "leaders" to discuss strategy, develop talking points and other crap these asshats do when playing golf at Myrtle Beach and chasing skirt on the 19th Hole later.

Having a beer with the poor sot (actually he's a millionaire), he was whimpering about some meeting he has to attend this weekend in DC with the usual muckety mucks.

He knows them all. He thinks Steele is " a pussy" as well as nearly all the others because they don't finally tell Rush Limbaugh (who he hates) to fuck off. He's met Newt... the guy's breath smells like a trashcan. Who woulda thunk. Bill Bennett... so fat that he has actually broken chairs when he attended meetings. Boehner... a fucking drunk. McCain... he met and was surprised what a limp wrist handshake the guy has.

On and on he went. I couldn't stop laughing!

I interjected that the GOP is going the way of George Wallace's party, which I was surprised was mentioned by KO. Like minds...

He basically said that the GOP in his state (Wisconsin) and in the nation "is in the fucking wilderness" and the Teabag "movement" was more concrete on the shoes to go jump in the lake. "The GOP is deep in the wilderness", he muttered.

I told him that the more people like the Cheney Family and their ilk on are the tube and under the fat thumb of Rush Pole and representing the GOP, the more they are destined to die a slow death. He agreed. I asked him why he is still a Republican. "It pisses off my sisters!", said my friend.

I'm trying to get my brain around a bumper sticker... anyway, the GOP friend is a good guy, a damn good golfer and an expert on media relations. I almost feel sorry for him.

[w4rma]

1. If he's such a good guy why would he help the Republican party to spite his family? (nt)

[zulchzulu]

2. He likes the parties and golf junkets... that's my guess

The guy is a smart guy... actually if you'd pin him on where he stands politically, he's a moderate Democrat. But he knows the angles and can run laps around other GOP media relations types with ways for them to chisel away at their all-thumbs analysis.

He has friends like me, a pony-tailed Berkinstock-wearing blue-jeaned liberal, and then people who look like they just got off a time machine from the Jurassic Period show up and want to chew the cud. He fucking has Ted Nugent on his Blackberry and gets calls from him about "what to say..." His favorite idol is Hunter S. Thompson ferchirssakes...

Simply put, he's on the wrong team.

[ShadowLiberal]

4. I've heard studies show as much as 20% of the nation votes against their beliefs on issues

On Meet the Press sometime before the last election there was a guy there who once mentioned a recent study about how people vote. The study came to the conclusion that based on how the people they interviewed felt about all the issues that 20% of them regularly voting the wrong way, against the party they actually agreed with on more issues.

I'm not sure how the study weighed stuff like issues people care about more, and issues they say they don't care at all on even though they favor one side of the issue over the other, I only heard of it on the show.

[Catshrink]

3. Boner's a drunk? I never would have guessed.

:sarcasm:

[pscot]

6. Doesn't antabuse turn you yellow

if you drink while you're taking it?

[AspenRose]

8. For real

It's pretty obvious. Hope he considers AA. Then maybe he will grow a conscience.

[Uncle Joe]

5. I wouldn't

underestimate Steele, zulchzulu.

I don't agree with his policies or ideology and he definitely had an assist from David Gregory at critical moments, but nonetheless, he seemed more aggressive and with less reason to be so than the Democrat; I forgot his name on Meet the Mess yesterday.

We should have had that program on substance but I couldn't tell it from the Milquetoast demeanor or presentation by said Democrat.

[Twillig]

7. So, the blue-blood and the wannabes

wanted to ride their canoes down the banjoland river to political power and victory but, in the end, they wound up squealing like pigs.

Hunter S. Thompson said that the repugs were the party of the rich and the ignorant brutes.

The brutes have prevailed.

SQUEEEEEEE!!!

[Uzybone]

9. "He's met Newt... the guy's breath smells like a trashcan"

LOL. Thats a shocker. Not.