It's been a quiet few days, and for some reason I found myself typing the words "Evil Republicans" into Google earlier this afternoon. Maybe that's because I had just gotten done talking to some people who absolutely DESPISE George W. Bush, the Republican Party, and everything they stand for? I don't know, but in my Google search I quickly came across this site. That's right, it's none other than www.evilGOPbastards.com, dedicated to "Exposing the ugly truth about the Republican Party's diabolical plot to replace constitutional democracy with an oligarchic fascist theocracy..." Ha ha; some snarky, bloggy goodness for the day after "Black Friday!" Anyway, here's what "www.evilGOPbastards.com" has to say about the Republican Party:
Since the New Deal, Republicans have been on the wrong side of every issue of concern to ordinary Americans; Social Security, the war in Vietnam, equal rights, civil liberties, church- state separation, consumer issues, public education, reproductive freedom, national health care, labor issues, gun policy, campaign-finance reform, the environment and tax fairness. No political party could remain so consistently wrong by accident. The only rational conclusion is that, despite their cynical "family values" propaganda, the Republican Party is a criminal conspiracy to betray the interests of the American people in favor of plutocratic and corporate interests, and absolutist religious groups.
Ha. The scary thing is, it's hard to find anything wrong with this analysis, except I'd definitely amend "since the New Deal" to "since 1980." (For those of you who don't know, I was a Teenage Republican until 1980, when I cast my first Presidential vote for Independent/former Republican John Anderson. What happened in 1980? The Pat Robertson right wing took over the party, along with the flat earthers, flat taxers, trickle downers, and nuclear warriors. No thanks.)
Even scarier, I also agree with much of site owner Jack Hughes' critique of the Democratic Party:
When you still haven't figured out what you're up against after more than three decades, you deserve to be the minority party. As [Bill] Clinton, the only multiple-term Democratic president since FDR, once said: "When someone is beating you over the head with a hammer, take out a meat cleaver and cut off their hand."
Yep, good ol' Bill Clinton. Now that's MY kind of fighting Democrat!
Or, there's always Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as quoted by www.evilGOPbastards.com in their prescription for a modern day Democratic resurgence:
If ever there is to be a Blue Restoration, the Dems will first have to take to heart FDR's exultant fighting spirit. Of his adversaries, history's most successful Democrat said, "They are unanimous in their hatred for me, and I welcome their hatred. I should like it said of my first administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master."
Now, where's the Democratic leader today who would say THAT?!? Any way we can resurrect FDR, Harry Truman, JFK, LBJ, and RFK from the dead? Even better, how about a new generation of leaders like those guys? For my money, I'd love to see what a modern day LBJ would do to GWB; something tells me it wouldn't be pretty!
Can the guy write, or what!