Last night I was watching MSNBC to see how the netties played the post Hillary win. I like the MSNBC panel because Rachel Maddow is on it and because of her ongoing love triangle with those two Obermensch Joe (the Killer) Scarborough and Pat (Dr. Strangelove) Buchanan. While Rachel was trying to make a reasonable point that losing in PA to Clinton in the primary did not equate to losing to McCain in PA in November, Herr Fossil let slip a nasty snide.
He cut her off with "hold the Marxist Dialectic". It was one of those bizarre Goldwaterian nonsequiters that made me nostalgic in a stupid way for the gop of the 1960's. Rachel shook her head, saying "Whhhaaa?" She kind of looked over toward Gregory to see if it registered, but Buchanan was fully launched into this odd dramatization of how the Clintons have to be talking to the super delegates. It was quite a performance, one that might win the Operation Chaos best performance by a leading wingnut.
Now I know Pat is supposed to be the old, tried and true conservative that we are supposed to regard with the same kind of aw shucks good ol' days sentimentality as Hillary did the other night when referring to our 25,000 nuclear warheaded deterrence of the Soviets as the "bi-polar" world. But I realized something...republicans have been bat shit crazy ever since the McCarthy era, whether you want to call them neocons, Goldwater republicans, free market friedmanites...whatever...or now, it would seem, Clintonistas....
I love the fact that they have Rachel sit right next to Pat, it probably makes his skin crawl.
But why does he call her a Marxist? Is that an old rigt euphemism for well informed, highly articulate, lesbian with a penetrating intellect?
The rest of them just sat there like warts on a dead frog.
Maddow could out talk any of them, cept for maybe Eugene Robinson, who would never put himself in the position of anyone feeling they needed to because unlike any of the other men on the panel, he actually has class.
So....I guess this means Obama gets the Marxist vote, eh? Swear to god, you can't turn on any of these cable shows without witnessing the worst kind of mindless word drool.