njlauren
Posts: 1577
Joined: 10/1/2011 Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: Musicmystery quote:
ORIGINAL: RottenJohnny FR As far as I'm concerned, Karl Rove is the douche who's responsible for turning the Republican Party into the disaster it has become. Who cares what he says? Actually, that was Jerry Falwell in the 80s. Karl Rove is the one who makes slim ashamed to be seen with him. It wasn't Jerry Falwell, it was the GOP leadership and Saint Reagan who brought the bible thumpers onto the national stage and that turned politics into a Chautaqua tent and made conservative=dumbass shitkicker rather than a reasoned approach to governing. We went from the intellectual conservatism of Buckley and Goldwater (neither of whom I agreed with) to the shitkicker inspired idea that somehow being educated or thinking about issues are wrong. Both Buckley and Goldwater hated what they saw as the looney right, and 40 years ago predicted what would happen to the GOP if they allowed the evangelicals and the John Birch society (ie the Koch Brothers) and the anti intellectual rednecks to take over the party, and they were right, the GOP has become, to quote Bobby Jindal, the party of stupid. They spawned the tea party movement, that these days has the credibilty of the flat earth society, yet Boehner and the GOP leadership is still running scared from them. As far as the wranging over Hillary, Desideri and others can play semantics, but Karl Rove was using one of the dirtiest tricks in the books, using the common to throw doubt that something more serious is there. Are concussions brain trauma? Yes, by its very nature, but that is like saying someone in the military was wounded, and deserved the purple heart, and when you find out the wound was a paper cut from handling too many forms back in supply, them saying "but I was wounded". Concussions have varying levels, and most are relatively trivial, but by using the term "brain trauma" Rove is trying to imply it was serious, when many concussions are the equivalent of a paper cut compared to getting knifed. The problem with the GOP is they are so intellectually bankrupt they can't fight on issues, so they have to come up with spreading rumors that the president isn't a citizen, is a muslim, or with Hillary, that 'she done hit her head, clem, now she ain't raht, know what ah mean?"
|