DEGOP’s Cowardly Silence Continues
I’m not surprised Charlie Copeland has no thoughts in his head regarding the Republican engineered clusterf*ck the country just endured. All Greenville Republicans should be cowering embarrassed in the corner of their mansions. They let their party turn in to the party of lunacy. The party of climate change denial and default denial. The party of “We can’t win at the ballot box, so let’s fuck shit up.” It is natural and fitting that Copeland would have no comment to make on the latest Republican assholery. I suspect his next comment will be on how the ACA isn’t working as planned. That’s a nice safe position for Republicans to hold right now. There will always be anecdotes, carefully collected and distributed by Heritage Action, for them to shed crocodile tears over.
If he commented on the insane default brinksmanship, even with a meek, “both sides need to work together” statement he would only establish himself as a target for the Sussex County assholes that he ultimately works for. And yet, it is inevitable that he is going to be a target for the assholes. So what does he have to lose? Why not take this opportunity to try and educate the psychos – at least a little bit? A voice for the normal working of good government is exactly what the GOP needs right now. Not taking a principled stand on his party’s desire to court calamity only stalls the inevitable and reveals Copeland for the coward that he is.
Jason330 has a way with words.
I’m not sure about that. This guy sure does though:
“It happened slowly, didn’t it? The change in the Republican Party? I don’t know. Maybe it’s nostalgia. There have always been the wild, vicious voices of the right. The devil on the shoulder of the conservative movement that whispers in its ear, “burn it down, burn it down.” But those voices were to be ignored, humored, tolerated, placated, or just deceived. That was the way of things, and we were protected by the obvious: people who believe foolish things tend to be easy to fool.
Then it all changed. The Republican elite caught a ride on the tiger. But the tiger got sick of waiting for the gazelles it was promised, the gazelles that were always one election away. The tiger was hungry and angry and tired of being used and the longer it waited the more appetizing the elite on its back became. So the tiger got a radio station and a news channel. The tiger got organized and mobilized. And finally the tiger realized it didn’t need someone kicking its sides telling it which way to run and who to eat and when to eat and why it wasn’t time to eat and the time to eat would come, don’t worry, you’ll eat soon enough.
So the tiger ate its master and now here we are.
America needs a strong, rational, positive, practical conservative movement. It needs that bulwark against liberal delusion and hubris. It needs a voice that says we are imperfect, that life is complex, that government can create need even as it meets need, that you can’t fix everything and freedom is worth some danger and sorrow. And there are smart, honest conservatives at the ready to be that voice, to help govern practically and sincerely with that voice, but they are drowned out by the guttural scream of craven utopians raging against reality.
This moment in American political life is insane. That a group of narrow-minded zealots could push us to the brink of economic ruin, that they maintain a base of support in their frenzied, quixotic, incompetent gambit, that there is an apparatus that exists to defend this kind of nonsense—it came on us slowly but it is no less an emergency. This is broken. This cannot go on.
And if you can’t see that then it’s not just the world that’s gone mad. You’re crazy too.”
I quibble with the “bulwark against liberal delusion and hubris” line. Being right about everything is not hubris. Otherwise – spot on.
Allow me to pat myself on the back… I wrote this in November 2009.
For lazy clickers, here is what I wrote:
Damn, I’m good. So, for all those confused “Establishment” Republicans… told ya so! And for all those Republicans in 2009 who now call themselves Independents – I still blame you. The Tea Party is, and was, your creation. Own it.
Steve Schmidt knows what he did. Every time I see him on TV now, he looks like a man haunted by 10,000 bloodthirsty ghouls from the pits of hell. I see him being tormented and think, “Good”
Excellent and prescient blogging.
Thanks. My point is… all those RINOs, moderates and, as they’re now called, Establishment Republicans, as well as these “former” Republicans who now call themselves Independents are 100% to blame for this mess. I wrote that post 6 years ago (6 YEARS AGO), and I could have written it today.
So, spare me from these shocked RINOs, moderates, Establishment Republicans and bogus, newly labeled Independents. They own this mess. And I personally like many of them (Dave Burris, RSmitty, Maria and Dave – who comments on here often), but that doesn’t give them a pass. Meet your monster, Dr. Frankenstein(s). Yep, these people own the Tea party 100%.
I have a special contempt for the newly minted libertarians.
Earth to wingnuts, this isn’t a parliamentary system. Fix your lunatic party!
Oooh! I’d forgetten all the rats scurrying to call themselves Libertarians. Let’s not forget the newly minted IPods, either!
Every time I see one of these newly minted Libertarians I picture Steve Newton gnashing his teeth. 😉