Letters to the Editor
david-smith
Published Letters: 121 Editor's Choice: 8
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Bullshit. They Have No God Problem.
[Read the article: The Democrats' God problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What the Democrats need to do is stop the goddamn self-flagellation.
Whispers puts it perfectly:
most Democratic "consultants" should be fired and sent to work in menial labor. Most of these losers have horrible track records giving bad advice to Democratic candidates. And the worst advice is "pretend to be Republican". Either fight for the ideals of the Democratic party or get out of the way.
Here’s a new flash, folks: the Democrats won the popular vote in 2000, and came damn close in 2004, given the relentless subversion of the electoral process by the most egregiously corrupt cabal of criminal thugs in American history. Accordingly, what the Democrats need to do most urgently is free themselves from the delusion that they must win the support of a single one of the racist, authoritarian religious fanatics that populate the Republican base. What matters isn’t converting the Republican right, but demonizing them among the rest of the country as a cancer that threatens the most fundamental values upon which our democratic institutions were founded.
That means securing, but needing no more than, 50.1% of the vote - not a single one more than 270 electoral college votes - and then governing without the slightest concern for the opinions and values of the 49.9% who lose. The effectiveness of that strategy requires implementing several vitally important steps. Most urgently, they need to pass both the Fairness Doctrine and media consolidation restrictions designed to break the media stranglehold of Rupert Murdoch, Clear Channel, and other key supporters of the Perpetual Republican Nigger Hunt. They need to fund their own media outlets in order to expose the fanaticism and ignorance of Rush Limbo, Michael Savage, and all the other grotesques of Republican talk radio. Lastly – and perhaps most importantly – they need to decisively rid the party of such loathsome crypto-Republicans as Harry Reid and Dianne Feinstein, by giving them the full "Lieberman treatment."
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Electro Robot, Your Haldol Injection Is Way Overdue
[Read the article: The Democrats' God problem]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here's what you get when you make the ludicrous mistake of imagining that Electro Robot may be remotely familiar with the experience the rest of us call "reality:"
THAT'S the problem the Dems have. They have a constituency that wants to trumpet some universalist aggressively atheist new world order, no matter who is pisses off no matter how many elections they lose as a result.
ER, just as break in your normal routine, you ought to consider a change of perspective, and take a look at how different the world looks when you make the courageous decision to pull your head out of your ass.
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Appearing On O'Reilly Is - At Best - A Necessary Evil
[Read the article: Hillary Clinton's big, brass ... fortitude]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Fox isn’t a “conservative new network,” it’s the house organ for Republican propaganda and a rancid cesspool of ignorance and fanaticism. Moreover, I doubt very much that there’s a single human being outside of the racist, authoritarian religious fanatics that populate the Republican base who truly believes that the Democrats’ refusal to appear on Fox has a damn thing to do with a lack of “courage." What it does have to do with is denying Fox the recognition it so desperately craves to establish its legitimacy as a genuine news outlet, rather than the sewer of Republican disinformation it’s widely perceived to be. Why do you think Bill O'Reilly and his fellow floaters in the Fox toilet are constantly harping on Obama's refusal to appear on the channel? Believe me, it's not so they can provide their viewers with a broader and more fully informed perspective on the issues facing this country.
No weapon has been more essential to the success of the rightwing campaign to subvert this country’s democratic institutions than the propaganda disseminated by Fox, and there is nothing more important to the effort of cleansing the stink of Republicanism from our political process than enforcing a total boycott of Fox by every member of the Democratic Party. Accordingly, while I can understand the inclination to appeal to the boobs and reactionaries who watch Fox by soiling yourself with an appearance on Bill O’Reilly – and perhaps even the wisdom of doing so in the context of a presidential campaign (though I’m deeply ambivalent about that notion) – there isn’t a damn thing courageous or commendable about it. It is, at best, a necessary – and profound – evil.
Oh yeah, one more thing: we should make abundantly clear that neither Democratic candidate better even entertain showing the “courage” to appear on Fox for a debate. Rupert Murdoch is a more insidious and substantial threat to American democracy than Osama bin Laden could ever dream of being, and he damn well should be treated like the monster he is.
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Another Republican Turd Floats to the Top of the Bowl
[Read the article: What's in John McCain's medical records?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]jpincus earnestly wonders “why Mr. Benjamin sought to besmirch a former POW,” and ingenuously declares his belief that McCain's "Vietnam Syndrome" has sensitized him to keeping America out of wars she can't win and out of wars she has no business fighting. If he has moments of anger, so what? The man has done great things since he crawled out of the Vietnam swamp. Why can't that be enough?
Why “can’t that be enough?” Because whatever his other egregious psychiatric deficiencies, McCain is willing to shamelessly pander to gaping assholes so deformed by Republican fanaticism that they regard the horror of Iraq as entirely consistent with “keeping America out of wars she can't win and out of wars she has no business fighting.” Not to mention that they use words like “besmirch” and call countries “she” when wallowing in the cesspool of witless and maudlin Republican propaganda.
On the other hand, the disclosure issue the Democrats should really be pushing – hard and relentlessly – is the refusal by McCain’s succubus of a wife to turn over her tax returns, thus contaminating him with the usual pungent stink of Republican hypocrisy.