And I’m not alluding to their sexual orientation and Walmart-sized sexual closet. (The DailyKos list of Republican sex scandals covers this just fine at www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Republican_Sex_Scandals.)
I’m referring to Republicans liking violence both ways.
They love it when big media emphasizes violent crime in the U.S. and parrots concocted military threats about weak foreign oil targets. This hardens them. Yet at no point in the last 25 years did Republicans even murmur about big media continually ignoring the very real 30-year steady decline of violent crime in the U.S. Instead, Republicans profited from that perversely unbalanced reporting and encouraged it (e.g., Willie Horton* in 1988 and numerous other belches of fear mongering).
Republicans now whine and throw hissy fits about media reports of mass violence in Iraq and plead with the media to show the happy times there. Many formerly hardened Republicans now realize their mojo is flaccid, and some of them will no doubt take drastic measures to revive it, perhaps tapping big media’s foot under the table or bathroom stall.
Maybe one day Republicans will realize the danger and cruelty of living double lives, married to the specter of violence at home while trying to hide it abroad.
* It’s an exaggeration, even a myth, that Al Gore started the Willie Horton fear mongering: www.slate.com/id/1003919/