G.O.P.: R.I.P.

So there it stands: a naked, pigeon-chested old man, random strands of white hair on its boney shoulders; its swollen-knuckled hands clasped over its dead genitals, looking at once forlorn and menacing, shivering with self-loathing and xenophobia, raging pathetically at its timely and appropriate defeat at the hands of Reason.

Ladies and gentlemen: The Republican Party.

With every passing day, the people who stubbornly, maddeningly cling to an obsolete ideal and who stand in the way of the cultural advancement of this country, this America, spew the base reality of their caustic ideology into the air.

The Republican Party is like a dying tyrant, mad with syphilis, ironically like that very Stalin they would accuse their enemies of associating with. How else to account for their desperation to resurrect the wraith of Joseph McCarthy; the hammy and baffling utterances from high level party officials like Boehner and McConnell; the blatant desire on their part to let the country fail out of sheer resentment; the wanton sedition of Conservative shit-stirrers ranging from the quasi Madame Defarge Michele Bachmann to the porcine, pill-popping porcine propagandist Rush Limbaugh?

It is an all out assault on reason, on progress, on truth. What is the difference between the Republican Party and, say, the Taliban? A rogue by any other name would smell as rank. Their frantic accusations all churned out in a futile effort to explain their current pariah status is as pathetic and draconian as stoning a woman in the street.

I feel I must apologize for my own particularly febrile anger. It's unseemly and ugly. But finally, the enemy is clearly outlined. We can see it for what it is and what it always has been. It exists not in myth but in a reality which has plagued humanity for millennia: utter, hateful ignorance born from a fear of truth, indeed a fear of life itself; a mad and impotent pursuit of some long-forgotten ecstasy having spawned generations of paranoid power addicts who chase the past at the expense of the future, cloaking their real intentions in perfumed patriotism and the seductive swoon of religion.

It's so fitting that we are living in an age where beheadings, torture, piracy and now unbridled power mongering are all common place. Perhaps that element of humanity is going back into hibernation and is snapping at any and everything before its eyes finally close. In our lifetime the choice has never been so stark.

Don't be intimidated by that naked, pigeon-chested old man. His party's over.

Comments

[bigfated]

I for one am not at all embarassed to admit that I've been on "death-watch" for the GOP for years. I will be incredibly pleased when the beast breathes its' last!

[otiswaynehale]

"Unseemly and Ugly" or not, your anger is shared by a significant number of us. I have a tendency to let the slobber fly, myself, when I consider that agglomeration of filth. That sort will always exist, I`m afraid, but one should always strive to drag them out into the light that weakens and sometimes kills them. Keep it up, Stephen. You do good.

[allonfla]

where will we spread his ashes?

[clevelandchick]

Spread? I was thinking more along the lines of 'flush'.

[Democrab]

The republican party will reinvent itself and come back with some new Madison Avenue image, armed with cutesy slogans like "compassionate conservatism" and "family values." They'll conjure up some Ronald Reagan clone and parade him out there as the savior of Americanism and honor, and throw a few new promises to the Christian right. And they will attack, attack, attack anything liberal. They've won many times this way and we the people have suffered because of it. But we vote for them, well, not me, but I did vote for Billy Cohen once. See!

[melmoid]

Holy smokes. Right on! I couldn't have said it better myself.

[Freesia2]

I won't be sending flowers. And don't even think about asking me to contribute to a memorial fund.

As an Independent I do believe it's healthier to have a tension in government based on a good debate between liberal and conservative. But for conservative views, I think another party will have to exist. The current GOP ain't it. There's nothing conservative about them. Just petty, lying, racebaiting paranoia. I'd be embarrassed to cast a vote for a Republican now.