There are certain things you just don’t think you’ll live to say, like, “Another tour de force from Charlie Sheen” or “A vocal performance of stunning technical brilliance and subtle power by Britney Spears”. Well, 2008 has been a pretty weird year in many respects, but I just didn’t think I’d ever see the day where I said, “Kathleen Parker makes another good point in her column today”, but whaddya know?
As Republicans sort out the reasons for their defeat, they likely will overlook or dismiss the gorilla in the pulpit.
Three little letters, great big problem: G-O-D.
I’m bathing in holy water as I type.
To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn’t soon cometh.
Simply put: Armband religion is killing the Republican Party.
*spit-take*
WTF? Is someone spiking her bottles of Bombay Sapphire with sodium pentathol? Unlike Peggy Noonan, who had occasional moments of lucidity during the Democratic primaries, but then disappeared back into her foggy netherworld of Reagan-worship and Xanax spritzers, Parker seems to have read the writing on the GOP’s wall and taken its meaning to heart. And she’s kind of funny in the process. It’s downright disconcerting.
So it has been for the Grand Old Party since the 1980s or so, as it has become increasingly beholden to an element that used to be relegated to wooden crates on street corners.
Uh huh. They even made one of those street-corner shouters into their VP nominee.
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With the exception of Miss Alaska, of course.
Even Sarah Palin has blamed Bush policies for the GOP loss. She’s not entirely wrong, but she’s also part of the problem. Her recent conjecture about whether to run for president in 2012 (does anyone really doubt she will?) speaks for itself:
“I’m like, okay, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I’m like, don’t let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is…. And if there is an open door in (20)12 or four years later, and if it’s something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I’ll plow through that door.”
Let’s do pray that God shows Alaska’s governor the door.