The Republican Women of Anne Arundel County
It keeps getting more clear why there are no Republicans from New England in the House of Representatives.
Last week, a news story reported how the Republican Women of Anne Arundel County in Maryland had posted a commentary on their website that compared Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler.
(It said that both men worked fast -- a quality they share with Domino Pizza delivery guys. Left out was exterminating six million people.)
The organization chose to remove it, posting instead a simple explanation:
The article put on our web site by Joyce Thomann was done solely by her. Our Board of Directors never saw the article and would never have approved it. We are not in support of Mrs. Thomann's personal thoughts ot [sic] opinions.
This seemingly was the end of the story. But it shouldn't have been.
You see, after reading the explanation, I kept staring at it. Not for what it said, but what it didn't.
It didn't say that Joyce Thomann was the president of the organization. And how she actually does speak for the organization when writing on its website.
It also didn't say why the Board wouldn't have approved it. For all we know, they were upset that she didn't make the comparison for genocide. Admittedly, that's not likely -- but you'd think that if they were deeply mortified, as most reasonable people would be, they would have said so. Like, "We were aghast at the mindless, hate-filled and insane rant written by our organization's president, Joyce Thomann."
And it didn't have an apology, either. Yes, we know they wouldn't have approved it. What we don't know is whether they're sorry about what she wrote. Maybe they just think she should keep her spot-on personal opinions to herself, and not use the Republican Women of Anne Arundel County's website for them.
What they also didn't have any word about was if Joyce Thomann had been removed as president of the Republican Women of Anne Arundel County. Or that she has at least had her posting privileges revoked for a week. Maybe an explanation that she's been ordered to enter a rehab clinic. But all they did was take down a web article, and it's business as usual with the Republican Women of Anne Arundel County.
None of that. You get the impression that the Republican Women of Anne Arundel County wasn't really much bothered by their organization's leader comparing the president of the United States to Adolf Hitler. Just slightly embarrassed that they got all this attention for it.
But the thing is, for all the national attention that the Republican Women of Anne Arundel County got last week -- that's not what I was referring to about how this shouldn't have been the end of the story.
You see, an even bigger story was missed right there on the same homepage of the Republican Women of Anne Arundel County. The story that got attention, sure, that was pathetic, but it only shows either blind, irrational hatred of either liberals, Democrats, black men or people from Chicago. (Speaking as someone from Chicago, I'm really hoping it's not the latter.)
But this other item offers a deeper insight into Republican politics, and a hypocrisy that informs a way of thinking that allows wrongs to be committed while pretending to wave a faux-banner of patriotism.
For there on the homepage of the Republican Women of Anne Arundel County's website was a slogan emblazoned for all to see:
LIBERTY ONCE LOST IS SELDOM, IF EVER, REGAINED
It sounds great, it sounds patriotic, it sounds noble. But mostly, it's just pompous and hypocritical.
Never mind Joyce Thomann's hypocritical claim that President Obama has destroyed the U.S. economy -- ignoring that the economy had long-since been demolished by George Bush.
No, this banner is specifically about unnamed lost liberties, and how we must fight for them, lest the evil Obama takes them away. Whatever the presumed "them" is.
Yet if one is seriously interested in looking at liberties taken away, far more appropriate is to look at actual, real liberties taken away. Real liberties lost, like in the Patriotic Act. Like warrantless wiretapping. Like holding prisoners without habeas corpus. Like accepting torture as permissible.
Any outrage about that? Any moral anger at those, very real liberties being taken away?
No, just close a blind eye to them, and try to pretend that you're patriotic about liberty.
If someone doesn't like the policies of the current administration, fair enough. If someone wants to truly fight when any liberty is lost, fair enough. But if you are actually interested in protecting liberties...
...then yell at the top of your voice when an administration actually creates a $900 billion debt and collapses the American economy -- even if its your party's administration. Bellow vociferously when an administration actually strips about the liberties you say you care about. Even if its your party's administration.
Because otherwise, you're nothing more than a pandering, small-minded, hate-filled hypocrite who is not illuminating the problems America faces...but are the very problems.
Yes, this is just the Republican Women of Anne Arundel County. But it's the same hypocrisy and tone-deaf, self-inflicted blindness that has mired the entire Republican Party into a leaderless ship adrift without forceful ideas and without a clear future.
Loading comments…
Want to reply to a comment? Hint: Click "Reply" at the bottom of the comment; after being approved your comment will appear directly underneath the comment you replied to
I grew up in Anne Arundel County. I vividly remember when my twelth-grade English class had to stop reading George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" because a classmate's parent object to it.
Frankly, many of the people I went to high school with couldn't think their way out of an open paper bag, and apparently at least one of them belongs to the Republican Party and has access to a computer.
I have scary Republican family members in Idaho who LIKE Hitler.
IF not Eva Braun, how about Ilse Koch? Now that would have the RWAAC running to Google.
No, just close a blind eye to them, and try to pretend that you're patriotic about liberty.
__________
It sounds like these women all attended the Peggy Noonan "Just Keep Walking" workshop for Patriotic Republican Women.
Once again "The Sound of One Hand Clapping"
The non-apology continued.
"In the future, we have requested that Joyce Thomann restrict her hate speech to private emails and speaking engagements with no recording devices. We deeply regret that people found out that we tolerate this sort of thing. Going forward, we promise to be more subtle and discreet."
It goes to prove how pathetic the Republicans have become, having their women do their dirty work for them. The Republican women, the brain washed wives of Archie Bunker types, are truly ditto heads, parrotting what Archie Bunker and Rush Limbaugh tell them to think.
They have no concept of the realities of life on the streets of America today. They have to cower and hide in the mansions instead, living a false reality paid for by the corrupted capitalist cronies.
Power to the People! Down with the ditto heads!
Robert: You did the right thing. You called attention to a wrong perpetrated by ditto heads. It probably made Rush proud. These Republican women are listening to Palin or Rush, the two greatest hate mongers of our generation
It is hard to believe that in 2009, anyone would compare anyone to hitler. I guess there are still some really stupid, ignorant, ugly and hateful people in this old world.
I don't know why it is so hard for some people to do the right thing, after they have learned they made a mistake.
I would like to find out how many people these women help each day in their lives or is their life full of spewing hate and violence?
"Left out was exterminating six million people."
11 million, at least, why is that always left out?
GOP always classy ;~|
That from thr great actress Angie Harmon LOL
This is the new Republican Party. It is no wonder that they are suffering a lost of constituents and voter base.
I find it so very hard to fathom the thought processes that are promoting hate and derogatory lies against everything that the President of the United States stands for in serving the people of America.
These women compared Obama to Hitler.
And the SarahPac.c
You read it right. Google it, if you have the stomach for it.
Sarah Palin and her rabid pitbull supporters disgust me.
I wonder what the Republican women of Anne Arundel County would feel if someone compared them to Eva Braun? Just a thought.
They wouldn't know who Eva Braun is. "Maybe the guy who invented the missile????"
But to confuse Eva Braun with Wernher von Braun assumes they've heard of the latter.
Probably flattered. After all, Eva Braun was an attractive blonde who followed blindly where her man led.
and i thank you for the update!
You must be logged in to comment. Log in or connect with
