One of the falsely claimed articles of faith of the Republican Party is the old "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" dictum. No governmental handouts. Rugged individualism. That kind of crapola.
So why, pray tell, do Republicans fly en masse into a hysterical bout of hissyfits when an upstart bootstrapper team like Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton challenge the totally non-bootstrapped Bush Royal Dynasty?
I can think of no one who is further divorced from ever having to use bootstraps than one George Walker Bush.
Every breath he breathed was and is watched over by a herd of nursemaids hired precisely to watch over him and cosset him, coax him into the proper schools with promises of treats, keeping him out of the real military by discreetly contacting the right people, nicely cleaning up after him when he made messes, my goodness, no wonder the man is like an unschooled puppydog who never learned to relieve himself outside a house.
Surly, but charming as hell when he had to be to cozen his way out of a mess, nasty as hell in real life, but his busy nursemaids always put screens up around him so no one would ever know what the real Dubya was like.
So, this totally uncharming pile of guck was elected because a bunch of damned fools thought he would be just the man to sit down beside in a bar and swill a beer and enjoy some friendly banter.
In a flea’s eye! But Karl Rove fell madly in love with His Supreme Surliness and orchestrated a cockamamie Kool-Aid swilling so-called "liberal media" support team (including the New York Times, CNN, NBC, ABC) which swooned to suck the unmentionable member of one Rupert Murdoch and helped to bring the utterly unboostrapped GWB into power.
Ironically, the Republican Party is once again aswirl in a whomping bout of hysterical hissyfits because John McCain, kind of one of those boostrappers, who is stomping on the moneyed heir apparent Mit Romney.
With virtually no money!
No money! Heresy! Burn the heretics at the stake! And grab that populist sunnuvavitch Mike Huckabee while you’re at it.
Bring on the tranquillizer guns. We’ve got a rough political season ahead of us.
Oops! And did I mention how much the old "bootstrap" Republicans suckle off the governmental teat?
Ala Halliburton? Bechtel? Parsons? Logistics Health Inc. which royally shat upon our returning vets seeking services from the VA? Et al and et al? Speaking of your Royal Welfare Queens. Thanks, Cenk Yugar.