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Saturday, September 13, 2008
The Will to Fail
The Id of the Democratic Party?
The Id of the Democratic Party?
LOOK... This is a wild hare of an idea. It's late at night and that's when odd notions strike. But I read this column by Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun-Times a couple hours ago and I can't get it out of my head:
Sarah Palin makes me sick. I hate that
she was able to steal Barack Obama's mojo just by showing up wearing
rimless glasses and a skirt.
I hate that she makes Joe Biden look like John McCain and John McCain look like the maverick he is not.
I hate that Palin reminds me of Susan Sarandon's feisty character in "Thelma & Louise." I loved Sarandon in that movie, yet I couldn't stand Palin's feistiness at the Republican National Convention.
Sarah Palin makes me sick -- not because she may speak in tongues -- but because she is a fast talker.
Not even ABC's Charlie Gibson can slow Palin's mouth.
I disagree with the people who claim Gibson caught her off guard during her interview when he asked her whether she agreed with the "Bush Doctrine."
"In what respect?" Palin fired back without so much as a stutter.
In fact, it was Gibson doing the sputtering as he pressed Palin to answer a question that he didn't seem to know the answer to himself.
I hate that she makes Joe Biden look like John McCain and John McCain look like the maverick he is not.
I hate that Palin reminds me of Susan Sarandon's feisty character in "Thelma & Louise." I loved Sarandon in that movie, yet I couldn't stand Palin's feistiness at the Republican National Convention.
Sarah Palin makes me sick -- not because she may speak in tongues -- but because she is a fast talker.
Not even ABC's Charlie Gibson can slow Palin's mouth.
I disagree with the people who claim Gibson caught her off guard during her interview when he asked her whether she agreed with the "Bush Doctrine."
"In what respect?" Palin fired back without so much as a stutter.
In fact, it was Gibson doing the sputtering as he pressed Palin to answer a question that he didn't seem to know the answer to himself.
More interesting than the column is the comments, which lambaste her for her malice and thank her for adding to Republican passion against the Obama campaign.
It makes me wonder. There's a school of thought among the frankly spiritual students of history that Hitler protected us from his madness by almost single-handedly losing his war of conquest at the brink of complete victory. Somehow, the argument goes, he knew the depth of his own evil and that it had to be defeated. So he, subconsciously to be sure, overruled the sage professional advice of his generals and contrived, through a series of fantastic errors, to ensure that his enemies would destroy him.
Is this what is happening with the Democrats? How dumb do any of them have to be not to realize that half-assed hateful smears of Sarah Palin are doing nothing at this point but helping the Republicans, feeding their passion and their coffers? Yet the bile keeps coming, so overblown that it's a fall-down laughing joke before it even hits the Internet. Mary Mitchell "hates that..." No. She doesn't hate THAT. She hates Sarah Palin. So much that she can't conceal it, finesse it, or downplay it even if the price she has to pay is the defeat of her beloved Obama. Does that make sense? Is it conceivable that a media-savvy journalist who makes her living by observing and analyzing politics would engage in such a suicidal tactic?
No. It doesn't. There are only two possibilities. They're crazy out of their minds. Or they're aware at some level that they're crazy and wrong. Tonight I'm playing with the second possibility.
It's not that far-fetched an idea. If they listen to their own policy prescriptions, they have to know that their party hasn't had a new idea in nearly fifty years. Obama is, however nouveau his appeal, the same old same old, a drab socialist who wants to grow the U.S. government and kneel to the governments of failing states in Europe who have already plighted their troth to demographic ruin. They can't abjure their tired and utterly refuted ideology, so they have to keep repeating the same stupid, counter-productive nostrums about government spending its way to paradise. But if, in some part of their psyches, they know their plans can't and won't work, they can still connive subconsciously at their own defeat.
This year there was almost no way they could have lost this election. People are mad at Bush, and eight years of MSM propaganda have convinced average voters that even if their own lives are okay, the country is heading straight to hell in a hand basket. Moreover, there hasn't been a time in the last quarter century when the Republicans were less articulate about their traditional principles of limited government, fiscal discipline, and tough foreign policy. But McCain is at least tied with Obama and possibly ahead in the polls. This isn't an outcome that could have been achieved unless the Democrats, despite all their arrogant fury, were hobbling themselves more effectively than the Republican Party is.
Think about it. The Democrats have had control of both houses of congress for the last two years, and the approval rating of Congress ranges from 9 to 15 percent positive. That's a polling impossibility unless the Democrats are somehow conspiring in the destruction of their own credibility.
I believe they are secret accomplices in the gathering storm of rejection that will hit in November. They know they can't be trusted even better than the Republicans know it. The most terrifying fact they deal with in their nightmares is that we've been a 50-50 country for at least eight years now. What could be worse than a third Bush term? Being responsible for growing the economy and protecting American citizens themselves. That's serious. And they know (deep down in the soulful places Chuck Schumer has never been) that they can't do it. Just as they knew Al Gore and John Kerry couldn't do it. They'd much rather be the superior minority, with no responsibility for outcomes or American lives, and they actually get sexually aroused by the prospect of being able to blame Republican control on racism and dumb, gun-toting, Bible-quoting hicks.
Do you have a better explanation for why they've apparently decided, en masse, that the best way out of the hole they've dug for themselves with Sarah Palin is to keep digging, deeper and more frantically, until we eventually lose sight of them in the hellish depths of their hateful id?
Sorry, Mary. I know this isn't the interpretation of your column you wanted or expected. But either you're the dumbest woman who ever lived, or you're absolutely determined to escape the responsibility that comes with winning the presidency.
Me, I don't care which it is. But this I know. I am sick to death to death of you. And we're going to find the cure.
