It occurred to me today, while thinking about the latest Republican "trutherism" whine, that the modern GOP, the whiningest, cryingest, most self indulged, scared, hate filled group of people in American history, may have finally jumped the shark! (and yes, I am of an age to have grown up watching "The Fonze" every week!)
I mean it seems like every week we get an even crazier example of exactly how batshit crazy the Republican Party has become.
So I decided to make a list! But I need your help because I am of that age and I just can't remember everything. So jump in and add things I forgot. Make up new categories. Go crazy--in the spirit of the modern GOP!
Okay then, are you ready? Here we go:
Things that are conspiracies and/or biased against conservatives according to the modern Republican Party:
Polls that show Obama winning (but not polls that show the race getting closer)
Numbers that show the economy improving (but not numbers that show the economy getting worse or staying the same)
The Media (but not when it is savaging Bill Clinton or Barack Obama)
Science, particularly the following:
Evidence of global climate change
Evidence of evolution (those pesky dinosaurs were clearly out to get the republicans too, damn them!)
Evidence of corporate pollution killing and harming people (can't they just die quietly for the good of Exxon, damn them?)
The rest of the World outside America! (can't they just set aside their own self interest and just agree with us???)
(okay, next category....)
Things that are evil, wrong, or are destroying America, according to the modern Republican Party:
Contraceptives (yeah, I know, you couldn't even make this stuff up if you tried!)
Equal pay and opportunities for women
Equal rights for minorities
Equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans
Brown people making a dollar an hour to pick oranges and clean our hotel rooms
Asking the rich to pay even one dollar more in taxes
Evolution, climate change, and "embryology" ("lies from the pit of hell" according to a current Republican congressman)
Big Bird (come on, you know I had to go there!)
Any regulations on Wall Street or other big corporations
Health care coverage for ALL Americans (oh, that's right--Mitt said just go to the emergency room! My bad!)
Social Security and Medicare (it's all well and good to spend billions in Iraq and Afghanistan, but don't you spend a dime helping grandma you socialist bastard!)
Taxing the inheritance of trust fund babies (it's okay to tax every dollar you and I work hard to EARN, but don't you dare tax the money that Paris did nothing to inherit!)
(and my final category--but please add new ones!)
Things that are okay or even good according to the modern Republican Party:
Some forms of rape (you know, the illegitimate forms--hey, don't get mad at me, I'm not the one who said it, and I'm not the one fully supporting the guy either)
War everywhere, unless a Democrat is President (and no, I don't think Afghanistan is okay--we should be OUT!)
Pollution (hey, it's a by-product of business so get over it!)
Corporations having more rights and power than actual people (oh yeah, again I forgot Mitt--"Corporations are people, my friend!" Oops, my bad again!)
Billionaires paying lower tax rates than the rest of us (Mitt's 14% is significantly lower than what I pay every year!)
People dying because they can't get or afford health care (they should have worked harder and got rich, dammit!)
Okay, so that's what I came up with today. I know there's more! So what can you add?