Better Than Drive-In! Six Zombie Republican Candidates In A Circular Firing Squad Armed W/ Shotguns!
Q: How is a Republican presidential candidate different from a zombie?
A: Trick question. He isn’t!
I have to admit, that I have had more than a few chuckles over this year’s Republican presidential primary. The circular firing squad is a delight to watch. The candidates have killed each other so many times now, that every one of them is a dead man walking, propped up only by the seemingly unlimited amounts of good money that Super Pac donors are willing to throw after bad to some really bad candidates.
Recall that in 2008, the corporate media under the direction of the RNC borrowed from the dirty political tactics of CREEP, the infamous committee to re-elect Dick Nixon. The CREEP playbook was written by a then not-yet-senile Pat Buchanan.
Karl Rove and others cut their political teeth in the 1972 campaign, when false press releases were sent out from one Democratic primary candidate sliming another candidate and the front runner, Ed Muskie was slipped a tab of acid, if Hunter S. Thompson is to be believed.
In 2008, we saw right wing webmaster, Matt Drudge, publish a photo of Obama in a dress---and claim that he got it from Hillary. We had mainstream media correspondents claiming that Clinton called Obama a Muslim when she said the exact opposite. We saw Edwards called a loser and a racist for running for president. We saw Rush Limbaugh praying for a repeat of Chicago, 1968----
And instead, we saw Democratic unity, as Clinton hopped aboard the Obama campaign train and later join his cabinet as Secretary of State.
There is some very satisfying karmic justice being handed out this year. All thanks to the Supreme Court of the United states which ruled that anyone in the world has a Constitutionally guaranteed right to pump as much money as he wants into any election in the name of freedom of speech.
All that cash works exactly the way that brains do for a zombie. Say, one candidate manages to get ahead in Iowa by airing a bunch of really nasty attack ads on his opponent. Does his opponent lie down and die from his mortal wounds? Hell, no! He gets handed a few million dollars and he is back on his feet again, launching his own attack---
I haven’t read what the corporate media pundits have had to say about tonight’s New Hampshire campaign. Because their opinions don’t mean shit. Yes, Romney shot himself in the head with a loaded double barrel shot gun.
“I like firing people.”
Political death, like Muskie’s tears? I don’t think so. Just stuff a few million in cash in that big hole in the back of his skull, and he is ready to hit the campaign trail again. Same for “I don’t want to improve the lives of Black people” Santorum and “I agree with what Rick said” Newt. These guys have tripped over their own tongues so many times that it is a wonder their handlers even let them out to speak. And why do they bother? Why get on national television and make fools of themselves for not knowing the names of the cabinet positions they want to axe? All they really need to do is hold out their hands as they shuffle through the crowds and mutter
“More brains. More money. More votes. Arrrr!”
