The Republican Mind

Recently I received an email joke from a republican friend. Yes, and I admit it upfront, I have a few. Republican friends that is. Basically the joke was about Hillary and Fred Thompson and their encounter with a homeless person on the street.

In the joke Fred gives the homeless person $20. and his business card to come see him, supposedly to seek employment. Upon meeting another homeless person, Hillary, apparently learning from this compassionate conservative gesture, takes another $20, only out of Fred's pocket, and gives the homeless person directions to the welfare office while keeping fifteen of the twenty bucks for expenses.

This is how the republican mind works, like my friend thought I would find this humorous while making a strong conservative point.

Normally I would ignore this shit for the sake of friendship, but this was so blatantly outrageous, so insulting and upside down to reality, that I decided to respond. Below is my response to him, and I even used his real name, Ron.

Poor joke Ron.

Fred's running for the party that created record deficits, attacked and occupied a third world country that was no threat to us at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars and untold tens of thousands of lives, not to mention alienating every other country on the planet.

Hillary's running for the party that balanced the budget, created a record surplus, and presided over this peace and prosperity for 8 uninterrupted years.

Bill can walk down any street on earth and will be mobbed with affection. Bush can't even vacation on his ranch in Crawford without protestors.

But....Bill lied about a blow job and every right wing nut, most of them religiously insane, have been in a frenzy screaming, "Clinton bad," every time Bush and his crew create another fuck up. Is this a good time to bring up the fact that every sex scandal the past six and a half years has involved republicans and church authorities?

No one gets killed lying about sex, but as we're finding out, way too many people lose their lives when we get lied into war.

Serious and intelligent conservatives are converting from the "dark side," and moving over. (check out Kansas). As a recovering conservative, I did. We all have choices and can make up our own minds, but the choice is not whether America is the greatest nation, the choice is are we doing the best we can. Clearly we're not because of prejudices and propaganda created by Fox News, Rush, Hannity, and the rest of the right wing noise machine.

You may not appreciate what I'm writing, and that's okay, but basically here's what happened; Rove and Bush gamed the political system to win elections. Where they went wrong is they didn't know how to govern shit. Katrina is a quick example. Meanwhile, Cheney and the rest of the neo-cons took advantage of 9/11 to push their PNAC, Project for a new American Century, ideological agenda, to imperially control the world as the sole-surviving super power.

Obviously this isn't going to happen and what's ironic is that America started out as a nation fighting against imperial control to escape a previous King George.

Ron, history does indeed repeat itself.