They want a living incarnation of the party (Jesus, maybe, if he hated racial minorities and liked torture and tax cuts.)For a double dose of Digby, there's this:
The problem is that it's not easy to find a walking incarnation of a party based entirely on a dissonant image of narrow regional folkways and aristocratic privilege. Now that the Bush political franchise has been permanently tarnished, you can't just pull one off the shelf.
Here's a little story from a book called "The Genius of the Jewish Joke" by Arthur Asa Berger:Three Jews were going to be executed. They were lined up in front of a firing squad and the sergeant in charge asked each one whether he wanted a blindfold or not.That's the Democratic electoral strategy in a nutshell.
"Do you want a blindfold?" he asked the first. "Yes," he said, in a resigned tone.
"Do you want a blindfold?" he asked the second. "Ok," said the second.
"Do you want a blindfold?" he asked the third. "No," said the third.
At this point the second leaned over to the third one and said "Take a blindfold. Don't make trouble."
Who will rid us of these ineffectual pols?
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