There's a fantasy brew over there, where the problem they have with their philosophical barker is somehow manufactured by President Obama. I would remind them of their own talking point: Obama came from nowhere four weeks ago. Limbaugh was manufactured what, twenty years ago? These thoughts can't be connected in a logical, linear way. One must be explained away, and then the other, as we teeter-totter back and forth instead of govern.

Reagan and Nixon can probably be reconciled as scions of small-government conservatism, rule of law and fiscal responsibility, but again: only if you make the whole thing up. Reagan gave us a generation of greedy little bastards who built a mountain of money from statistical tricks invented by wanna-be rich people who lived in a brick-and-mortar world undergoing miasma because real things and truth weren't growing the stock market. These tricks are used today to help get us all more time off by simply closing the companies we used to work for as those statistical tricks are reckoned against reality. Nixon, the original unitary president (L'etat, c'est moi!) was a thief, a liar, an ardent bigot. Reagan may have been doddering from 1982 on.

The RNC is right to practice this revivalism. The revisionism and relativism we see attempted here is perfectly in tune with the self-flagellating world of "We work hard because we do, and nothing in the world will ever make me believe we can all make the world get better for more than one of us." They are self-hating and narcissistic at the same time which leads them to believe they hate the rest of us. It's perfectly natural. It makes as much sense as Lee Atwater having brain cancer. It's right. Some have said that the hallmark of maturity is the ability to accept the truth of one thing and its opposite. 

I just want to hurry up and finish this short piece before I have to remind them that they really did put President Clinton on the rack for doing what they wanted (eliminate welfare as they saw it, balance the budget, grow the economy) and put Frat Boy in charge for 8 years, and that the past ten years of unbridled Republican libido have apparently fucked up the whole world.

Darn. Back to the point, the Grandiose, Belly-wielding (didn't he get his stomach stapled?) gasbag might help waken the latent contemporary homo sapiens in the registered Republican and give rise to something that makes sense outside the absurd global neuropathy of the Republican platform as expressed in what they have done when left alone in their room. Like your unsupervised kid might jab the dog with forks or burn down the neighborhood.