GOP v. Truth

Jump to Comments

We begin with the Weasel-in-Waiting, Mitt (“Unclean Hands”) Romney.

It seems that Romney continues his decidedly un-Christian “I will do ANYTHING to win” streak. The one that first surfaced in my awareness when he retroactively gamed the System to bald-facedly claim (as only lawyers can manage) that he’d ACTUALLY been living in Massachusetts during the period when he was living in Utah, paying taxes in Utah, driving with Utah plates, Utah drivers’ license, etc.

He retroactively “amended” his Utah and Massachusetts tax returns (and/or possibly his federal taxes, as well), and redefined himself ‘legally’ as a Massachusetts resident — so that he could run for governor, which he won with, I’m certain, the same sterling appreciation for “right and wrong”* that he had already shown.

[* In case you were wondering, the Massachusetts Democratic Party pussied out over Mitt's clear violation of the Mass. 7-year residency requirement. After all, the second stated "goal" of the Preamble to the Constitution has deteriorated into legal toilet paper that attorneys and judges regularly wipe their pustulent asses with.]

Ironically, the reason that the lying weasel was in Utah in the first place was to “save” the Utah Winter Olympics, which had been tarnished by the Mormon Church hierarchy’s involvement in a scandal involving bribery and hookers to land the bid.

Whoops.

Mr. “Clean” — the Duke of Dissimulation™ — responded by supposedly running a “clean” Olympics. “Clean” is in quotes because, given the Church’s weaseling, and Romney’s subsequent weaseling, only a rube or naif could seriously believe the media spin that Romney had “saved” the corrupt cesspool that the Utah Olympic bid ultimately became.

We know about his outright purchase of the Iowa straw poll in August. Now, using that weasel morality of “do anything/say anything” that the former pro-gay, pro-choice turned anti-gay, anti-choice candidate so successfully exploits while holding himself up as a bastion of “morality,” Romney stole the hyper-”Christian” straw poll.

What?

Jonathan Martin of Politico:

October 20, 2007
A tale of two polls

It could be an episode of Paul Harvey’s “The Rest of the Story.” Mitt Romney was announced from the podium Saturday afternoon as the winner of the Family Research Council’s “Values Voter Straw Poll,” narrowly edging Mike Huckabee.

But it turns out that the 5,775-vote total included thousands of people who had voted online, and could have become eligible by paying as little as $1 to join FRC Action, the legislative action arm of Family Research Council.

Although the audience at the Washington Hilton was not told, the crowd favorite among the 952 attendees who voted in person turned out to be Huckabee by a mile. He got 51 percent of the in-person votes, compared to just 10 percent for Mitt Romney.

This led one rival to suggest the headline, “Romney Win$ Straw Poll.”

Alas, this still hides the astonishing weasel-factor of Der Mitt (mit Gott, you know). The story shows the in-house poll, which is ASTONISHING, especially when you consider what the report is (”Romney wins ‘values’ Republicans straw poll”) versus REALITY and TRUTH (never mind about Mitt’s propensity for cheating):

And here are the on-site results:

Mike Huckabee — 488 votes — 51.26%
Mitt Romney — 99 votes — 10.40%
Fred Thompson — 77 votes — 8.09%
Tom Tancredo — 65 votes — 6.83%%
Rudy Giuliani — 60 votes — 6.30%
Duncan Hunter — 54 votes — 5.67%
John McCain — 30 votes — 3.15%
Sam Brownback — 26 votes — 2.73%
Ron Paul — 25 votes — 2.63%
Undecided — 11 votes — 1.16%

Kind of like Politico’s increasingly weaselly reportage. Supposedly the article was written “By Mike Allen” but followed immediately by “By Jonathan Martin 04:44 PM.”

At this point, I don’t even believe the time stamp. Since Martin is Politico’s designated GOP reporter, the mendacity may well have transferred by sheer osmosis.

And, from sheer osmosis to sheer chutzpah is but a short step, from Romney to Rush, the Crown Weasel of Defraudation™, the Peerless Prince of Prevaricators:

He sold the truth for $2.1 million.

Yup. That’s right.

After Media Matters caught Rush Limbaugh accusing any soldier not supporting the war of being “phony soldiers,” he changed his story several times, with his satanic amenuenses in the blogosmear claiming that MM was “a Soros-funded operation,” an extension of “Hillary, Inc.” and every other dodge to distract from the forged-through-editing alibi that he played on his show.

The Democratic senators sent a letter to Clear Channel protesting.

The swine at Clear Channel GAVE the letter to Limbaugh, who then pretended that it was a “smear,” and he put it up on E-Bay to auction it for charity.

A right-wing zillionairess bought it for $2.1 million, and the screeching of the rightie blogosmear has been every bit as vituperative as towards Beauchamp.

Neglecting to mention that the original lie was a lie. That Media Matters were the REAL liars, and that the Senators had tried to “smear” Limbaugh, which was, itself, another lie.

It’s the old “put your fingers in your ears and go LALALALALA” method of drowning out “inconvenient truths.” Oh, and accuse your accusers of being the liars.

This is known as the “rubber/glue” defense.

Oh, and attack the Democrats. Never defend, always attack.

Facts don’t matter to the GOP anymore. Not at any level (unless, of course, they’re “convenient” facts, and often those are embellished).

Meantime, the “favorite” of the Values crowd in attendance likens abortion to The Holocaust,” which relies on the lie that a zygote is exactly the same thing as Mike Huckabee, or Albert Einstein. That an acorn is a mighty oak, in other words.

Forget the implicit insult to 12 million human beings murdered by the Nazis, and the 6 million Jews ruthlessly exterminated. No one will protest this horrific and lunatic statement from the REAL winner of the values conference straw poll. After all Mitt “beat” him fair and square, right? Focus on Mitt. Not the Baptist preacher, Huckabee.

Doesn’t anyone seemingly “get” the fundamental disconnect between cheating to stuff the ballot box at James “I’m a child psychologist, not an ordained minister” Dobson’s FRC “values voters” conference and well, the VALUES VOTERS at the conference? (I mean, it DID take thousands of them to stuff the ballot box for the Mittster.) Huckaby’s FULL speech is a lot scarier than the CNN sound bite, BTW.

If Sinclair Lewis ever prophesied a candidate with Buzz Windrip, surely it was Huckaby’s Corn-pone Christofascism on display in an horrific and xenophobic speech that implied an American theocracy as the means of combating “Islamofascism” (that Rovian bullshit construct of a term for radical fundamentalism … like Huckaby’s, come to think of it.) We must dismantle the IRS (with his FairTax - e.g. a national sales tax). There is a diabolical theocratic nuance slipped in here: Huckaby then adds, when we get rid of the IRS, there will no longer be any IRS threat/prohibition against ministers exhorting politics from the pulpit. It is couched delicately, so that journalists will miss it in their stampede to write about holocausts and hippies.

Think for a moment what that ACTUALLY means. Make no mistake, Huckleberry Huckaby lays out his credentials as a true believer in Dominion theology. While that may cut the cheese in Arkansas, it’s a lot more of a problem in presidential politics.

Huckleberry continues: We must BUILD the border fence. We must GET ANGRY because the government laws haven’t been enforced on immigration. (Ghod, isn’t it funny that the shredding of First, Fourth, Fifth Amendments and sundry other “rights” and massive lawbreaking in furtherance of same received not a WORD of condemnation from Mr. “Values” the Baptist Dominionist preacher Huckleberry Huckaby.)

You really need to listen to the speech, because, beginning with a “joke”:

Then he talks about baby boomers now entering the system and what’s going to happen when the hippies realize they can now get free drugs.

It doesn’t get much better. In fact, one wonders if it were a joke at all. WATCH it here. Press coverage, thus far, has been relatively KIND, compared with what Huckleberry Windrip actually said, an unholy melange of patriotism and Old Testament Southern Baptist Bible-thumping that evokes Jesus walking on water, loaves and fishes, Lazarus, Daniel in the Lion’s Den, and — I swear — Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. And then, without the sound of grinding grears, suddenly patriotism, Apple Pie, and building a Great Wall against Foreign Invaders.

So, GOP v. Truth? (Not of course, “God’s Truth” but actual “Truth,” as in facts.)

In GOP circles, Truth is the loser, hands down.

Courage.

1 Comment

Filed under Uncategorized