What's that you get when you cast your old style fishing rig, and the reel suddenly binds up and runs backward and leaves you with this god awful mess of string loops and knots?
Oh yeah - backlash!
I mention the word 'backlash', although it is not precisely correct, because it is what came to mind when I saw the latest Slime-O-Gram from the Republican Party in response to Joe Biden's selection as Obama's running mate.
Backlash? No, rather backfire..
Have you noticed how so many of these shoot from the hip responses end up with the shooter accidentally discharging his Colt into his scrotal area?
The latest stupidity from the Republicans is to try to play back Biden's less than supportive responses about Barack Obama, during his own failed presidential campaign. All in the same theme of "Obama's just not qualified to be President!". This from the people who brought you George W. Bush, easily the most unqualified, unprepared, ignorant stooge to ever hold the office. Tell us now, what it takes for someone to be qualified to be President? A rich, rich daddy?
Naw, what is really at the heart of this "blow your own balls off" feature of the current Republican Party politics is a fundamental ignorance - you arm your opponent by such stupidities. Now it is certainly fair game for the Dems to play back all those prime examples of Republicans Eating Their Own. Think about those looks of disgust and ire from McCain when Mittens was trying to slime him. Heheheh.
Periodically, I tune into alt.fan.rush-limbaugh just to see which little cesspool the hard core right wing extremos are wallowing in that day. And I see one of their more naive posters going full tilt boogie, try to defend McCain's gaff on not knowing how many houses he owns.. One cretin is trying to defend John McCain and impress us all with just what a prosperous Republican he is, talking about his THREE properties, not knowing if the condo rentals are considered houses or not.. Uh huh. I'd bet the guy is a pure poser, living at the dorm without a pot to piss in, and living out his fantasies as a prime capitalist and free enterprising Republican tycoon..
I have to admit here that my little black liberal heart gets a tug periodically, just enjoying the delicious situation of the same guys who were crapping in their palms and flinging it at McCain only a while back now having to come up with some excuse for his ineptitude. It's sweet irony. Time wounds all heels.
And I savor seeing Fox News having to piss backwards as well, trying to somehow defend the GOP at all costs. Now if only we could have a pay per view event with Bill O'Reilly matched up against his arch enemy, the man whose name cannot even be mentioned by the bully Bill - Keith Olbermann. I'd pay $29.95 to see that one, even if Keith had to pull a few punches to keep it alive over 3 minutes. In case you hadn't noticed, Bill O'Reilly's shtick is being the compleat ignorant right wing turd. Without that, who would watch him? His programs provide an endless source of material for all the "left wing" (librul) media efforts.
Because the plot demands.. an EVIL MAN! Don't you ever die, Bill O'Reilly, you magnificent self-righteous ignoramus.
The thing that is so often forgotten or at least ignored is how virtually every syllable or grunt emitted by anyone of consequence (and many of little consequence as well) is that they are RECORDED. Permanently. And featuring New! EASY ACCESS! We can all tune in to YouTube and actually SEE a rerun of Bill O'Reilly being called out on his racism and stupidities, for example, by Geraldo on the subject of illegals driving drunk. Again and again, without a NUANCE missed. It gets funnier each time, it's the equivalent of a found half empty bottle of Ripple, aged!
And the Republicans, in their continued general lack of hipness, their supreme squareness, their precipitated simplistic stupidity - well, they're simply wonderful targets. A guy like Jon Stewart can (humorously!) destroy a stuff shirt like Bill O'Reilly in minutes. Less than minutes.. Delicious.
So, back to my original contention - backlash. That expected simple act of tossing out the fishing line, and the damned reel is all screwed up. After picking at it an hour, you'll finally just get out the knife and cut the mess away. Is 10 feet enough line to fish with?
Every time the Repubs get some bright idea of how to slime Obama, it seems to backlash on them. Here's hoping they keep doing it; I never tire of watching their boomerangs conk them.
L.