Wednesday 3 September 2008

Against Convention

They roared in welcome for George and Barbara Bush, which former, at least, those who now attend Republican Conventions utterly despised and utterly despise.

They gave Fred Thompson his biggest cheer over abortion, about which McCain would do the same as Bush, and the old Bush, and Reagan, and Ford, and Nixon: absolutely nothing.

Then, ever so tastefully in the present circumstances, on came this:

Way down Louisiana close to New Orleans,
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens,
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood,
Where lived a country boy name of Johnny B. Goode.
He never ever learned to read or write so well,
But he could play the guitar like ringing a bell.


After which, the "Loserman" in "Sore-Loserman 2000" came on to praise Bill Clinton to the skies.

What is the Republican Party for?

5 comments:

  1. Primarily it's for rich people - and for people who are good at winning wars (from the War of Northern Aggression to Iraq).

    McCain will (probably) continue to put forward conservative judges for the Supreme Court to replace the liberals put there by Nixon and the Democrats. Obama would (almost certainly) do the oppposite.

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  2. "McCain will (probably) continue to put forward conservative judges for the Supreme Court"

    No chance. The things that such judges' absence guarantees are the things that keep non-rich people, of the kind whose sons and (tellingly, increasingly) daughters are actually sent off to war, voting Republican, thereby enabling the Republicans to win anything, ever.

    "Continue" the practice of whom? Not of either Bush, not of Reagan, not of Ford.

    If so, then show me the reversal of Roe v Wade, or the striking down of same-sex "marriages", or the restoration of school prayers (not that I'm a fan of them as advocated in America, but even so), or, well, anything at all to prove that I am wrong?

    There is nothing. Absolutely nothing.

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  3. Why is same-sex marriage anti-family?

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  4. If you have to ask, then there is no point telling you.

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  5. Well I want a same sex marriage and I come from a family!

    A family that believes in staying together, children in wedlock etc. for that matter!

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