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Dad was a Republican. That’s probably where my antipathy took root. The daily news cycle cringes began with the Republican Revolution of ‘94, and the loathing was elected in 2000.
But with the present administration in full fiasco, who will point the way forward for the Grand Old Party?
Today, John McCain leads in the national polls. A Republican voting for John McCain would be like me voting for Joseph Lieberman. I’d do it with a very bad taste in my mouth.
Well behind him is Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and an ordained Southern Baptist minister. The Republicans have been unwittingly assembling their Christian fundamentalist monster for many years. He has now arrived in the form of this Creationist candidate, who speaks more proletariat than pro-business.
Then there’s Rudy Giuliani. He did a great job for our country on the Eleventh of September, 2001. But during those brief respites when he’s not still talking 9/11 7/24, the things he says sound so liberal even I’m appalled by them.
With his shifting positions on such hot button Republican issues as abortion and immigration, the only resemblance Mitt Romney has to the Perfect Republican is that fantastic hair.
Fred Thompson, an old-aged, tough-talking former-actor himself, hopes to invoke the party’s All-American idol worship, but even 91.6% of Republicans (as of today’s polls) aren’t convinced by those credentials.
And finally there’s Ron Paul. The few times this crazy Libertarian candidate makes sense, he makes a lot of it, so — as the polls currently confirm — he doesn’t have a Huckabee’s chance in Hell of winning the nomination.
I don’t really hate Republicans now. I want to pat them on the back and say, “Hey, we’ve been there, too, friends. I know things look bleak right now, but your world may be a whole lot brighter in 14 years or so, if we fuck things up as bad as you have.”
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