Too Many Kooks Spoil the Broth

[ProSense]

Too Many Kooks Spoil the Broth

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And being ten more or less highly-placed Republicans, perhaps they were privy to Time’s upcoming list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World and the increasingly irrelevant Bush not being on it or the Newsweek poll results showing that Dear Leader’s approval rating is now down to an alltime low of 28%.

But let’s not be fooled by this brave defection, people. Republican repudiation only goes so far and the appearance of trying to crawl away from the nest fouled by the Bush administration is more than counteracted when it was obvious from the gitgo that not a single one of them repudiated Bush’s largest, bloodiest, most massive and expensive failure: Iraq. Not a single one of these Republican clowns came out and said that Iraq was a mistake from the gitgo. About the most damning thing that any of these idiots at the Reagan Library said last Thursday was that the illegal and unnecessary invasion and occupation of Iraq should’ve been managed better.

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These ten political bowling pins still have not hit onto the idea that it’s still theoretically entirely possible to espouse true conservative ideals that can legitimately challenge any Democratic contender, especially the core conservative ideals of Dwight D. Eisenhower.



Yet they continue to embrace the rotting corpse of both Reagan and Iraq. That would be the very same Ronald Reagan who’d sent Don Rumsfeld to Iraq in December of 1983 bearing gifts such as poison gas and intelligence on the Iranian army to the very same tinpot dictator who served as the 9/11 scapegoat of the Bush administration. In fact, it’s now common knowledge that, if anything, Reagan helped Saddam survive the eight year-long Iraq-Iran war in the 80’s.

The very same Ronald Reagan who continued the proud legacy of Richard Nixon by shrinking the middle class and hitting on the supply side economic idea of making the bloated even more bloated so that maybe a little largesse would dribble out of their distended mouths and into the waiting mouths of the poorest 20% way down below.

The very same Ronald Reagan who pulled us out of Beirut when the terrorists made things too hot for us when they killed over 240 Marines in a suicide truck bombing because he was too busy chasing Communists that barely existed and conning the Russians with a Star Wars missile defense system that, to this day, still isn’t workable.

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[Cleita]

1. Funny, the first time I ever heard the name Osama bin Laden

was in an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times maybe more than a decade ago repudiating the SDI as outdated and unnecessary. The author (whose name I don't remember now) said that the real threats to our country weren't those like Russia who migh lob nukes at us, but guerilla terrorists who had a gripe with us and he specifically mentioned bin Laden and his group of Islamic radical cells among others scattered througout the world and among other idealologies.

[pinto]

2. Haven't heard of this blogger before, but this piece is a hit, imho. Right on target.

Thanks for bringing it over here.