One of the reasons this trickery goes on in S. Carolina is that after Iowa and N. Hampshire it can be a make or break state for GOOP, I mean, GOP, candidates. One Rod Shealy of S. Carolina said in the NPR article, seemingly with some pride, that political operatives like him were all protoges of Lee Atwood, the "great" GOP hatchetman. Mr. Atwater built a career out of destroying, or attempting to destroy, candidates' reputations.
These new wingnut weasels who are so happy with their work seem to have ignored Atwater's last days, when dying from a brain tumor at the age of forty, he repented of his former evil ways and sent letters of apology to those he had maligned.
A quote from the man in the February 1991 Life Magazine issue: "What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul."
You'd think that there would be an object lesson here for those who would follow his path, but that would assume they cared something for integrity as opposed to lust for power and influence.
I propose a solution: Pass a federal law that S. Carolina must be the absolute last state to hold a primary for the next ten years or more. Deprive the snakes of their source of sustenance.
(http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18227997)
Speaking of GOP primaries and candidates, how come every time I see Mitt Romney I think of that line from "Hannah and her Sisters" where Maureen O'Sullivan playing Norma, Hannah's mother, complains about her husband—"This…this haircut that passes for a man"
3 comments:
If America is fooled into believing that the Mittster, our 3 yr Governor, is the right man for the job, I'm packing up and going to Canada. The man was never here when he was Governor. He flip-flopped on important issues and stepped over his own prior decisions. He spent his last year in office campagning and left the State up to the Lt Governor. If he was never in Massachusetts when he was Governor, where is he going to be when the Nation needs him?
where is Mark Twain when you need him? or Stanley Kubrick, for that matter. Mr C, it's up to YOU -
(your fearless leader, aka Wolf A The Desert, giggling, in drag, in a fur lined robe - come to thank of it, where is Omar Shariff, when you need him.
OMG - this blus space monkey is buying property on the moon. . .
p.s. I mean BLUE, I am BLUE, for those of you who don't know me.
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