A couple weeks back I flew out to Las Vegas and sat next to your basic winger (anti-gay marriage, wants bible story to stand next to the theory of evolution in science class, thinks it's more important to invest in Iraq than New Orleans, etc), who, amidst all his anti-this-that-and-the-other-thing rants, said something that sort of stuck in my head. He kept insisting that despite his viewpoints, he didn't identify as a Republican. He claimed he voted based on the candidate not the party(yeah right--if he's ever voted for a Dem then I'm Barbara Bush!), and that he viewed himself as a conservative.
And then for this past week of listening to The Majority Report, I've noticed that Sam Sedar has been driving home the same point. That's there's been a plethora of callers who say that the Republican party, as it stands, no longer represents them. That they consider themselves to be, you guessed it, conservatives.
So today I visited my favorite gossipnista, PerezHilton.com and low and behold,
Bruce Fucking Willis is crying about the same thing. Here's the quote from an Entertainment Weekly interview:
"I'm sick of answering this fucking question. I'm a Republican only as far as I want a smaller government, I want less government intrusion. I want them to stop shitting on my money and your money and tax dollars that we give 50 percent of... every year. I want them to be fiscally responsible and I want these fucking lobbyists out of Washington. Do that and I'll say I'm a Republican... I hate the government, OK? I'm a-political. Write that down. I'm not a Republican.
Couple that with Clooney's proud-to-be-a-liberal interview that Al Rogers posted in his diary this past Sunday and guess what people?? It's official!! It is now UNCOOL to be a Republican! And perhaps like leggings and platform heels, it's a little too soon to say, but I do believe that being a liberal is actually coming back into vogue. Lol--don't worry, Markos, we'll let you back into the fold without even once saying, "I told ya so!!"