Republicans: fairy tales, and an obsession with wolves

[highplainsdem]

http://www.texasgop.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5423


Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
by Tina J. Benkiser
Chairman, Republican Party of Texas

Once upon a time, a big bad wolf tried to blow a house down. In the end, he huffed and he puffed, but he could not blow the brick house down. Today, the brick house is the Republican Family that is the vast majority of Texans. The big bad wolf’s name, Ronnie Earle the Earle of Injustice aka Renegade Ronnie.

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You really have to wonder about the mindset of a party whose state chairmen invoke fairy tales to send messages. Of course, Benkiser might understand the typical Republican level of sophistication even better than we do.

Republicans seem to have quite an obsession with wolves. Few of us will ever forget last year's inadvertently funny campaign ad, "Wolves" (or the even funnier wolfpacksfortruth.org parody: "They told us we were shooting a Greenpeace commercial..."). And then there's Dubya's favorite hobby -- crying wolf -- which so many of his fellow Republicans also enjoy.

Benkiser's analogy reminded me, too, of what were hiding in the houses in that fairy tale -- pigs. Why do you suppose she didn't mention the pigs? Now there's an animal you'd think Republicans could easily identify with (even the ones who don't look like Karl Rove).

Unfortunately for the Republicans, that isn't a brick house they're pinning their hopes on.

It's a house of cards. And those tend to fall down all on their own, given enough time, and enough arrogance.

Not to mention enough self-deluding fairy tales...

[mitchtv]

1. Terra alert!!

look out in the subway!
they're commin a git us!
wolves fear terra



Chicken flu's a comin

[ThoughtCriminal]

2. Only Sheep Fear Wolves

It's their base.

[Oilwellian]

3. Wolves instinctively know to run from humans

Fairy tales have been cruel to wolves and unfortunately helped foster the fear most people have for them. It's actually the other way around, wolves fear man as a predator...and rightly so.

[awoke_in_2003]

7. Good point...

in fact, how few animals actually DON'T run from humans. Self preservation dictates that they get as far away from us as possible. There are odd instances, like never cornering a racoon, but for the most part, animals have the sense to stay away from us. Humans, the destroyers of life.

[Straight Shooter]

4. There they go again with the insipid name-calling

"The Earle of Injustice""Renegade Ronnie" Can we all please get off the elementary school playground now?

It also seems to me that the Republican house is in fact being blown down, by their own huffing and puffing.

[gratuitous]

5. Republicans are a "vast majority" of Texans?

Odd, that's not what Tom DeLay thought; why else would he illegally gerrymander Texas' House districts so that the Democrats were diluted out of representation? And he apparently thinks he can peg fortune's wheel, but smarter men than him have tried and failed.

[awoke_in_2003]

6. Unfortunately,

they only have an obsession with wolves when it come to advertisement. When it comes to protecting them, as the beautiful animals they are, then screw em. Wolves are always painted as evil.