Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Just beautiful

I came across this tidbit while checking some of the essential blogs tonight. At some point, the notion that people who are virulently right-wing should have their firearms confiscated begins to make sense to me.

The governor of South Carolina (or South Caroliney, as they say in Texas) is a dude named Mark Sanford, and I've read that he's one of the brighter stars in the stormy skies over Republicanville, maybe even a presidential candidate in a few years. Now the news is breaking that, like so many other prominent politicians, he's been getting his doorknob polished on the side. With luck, that'll be the end of his big plans for the future. I'll be the first to admit there are some scumbags among the Democrats, with John Edwards being the name immediately coming to mind, but I really love it when Republicans get caught with their pants around their ankles (literally or figuratively). Especially the ones who are always hugging their bibles and whining about the decline of family values and the sacred institution of marriage.

Added 12:06 pm, Thursday 25 July: The Mark Sanford scandal has blitzed the internet since last night, and as is usual when a Republican gets caught with his zipper down, other rightwingers drag out their comparisons to Bill Clinton and Monica. This is supposed to shut up the Democrats, but it never does because for all his weaknesses, Clinton never looked like a goddamned hypocrite, preaching one thing and doing another. Clinton never pretended to be anything other than a horny bastard -- even when he denied fucking around, he never pretended it was beneath him, only that he hadn't done it lately. When his dalliance with Monica hit the headlines, many of us sighed and said, "That's just Bill Clinton being who he is."

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