December 2011. Surely you have see at least one episode of “CSI” or “Bones.” If so, you are aware that the gag-inducing corpse, one in a heightened state of putrefaction, is almost always used as a prop, an introduction to the crime. It is a sufficiently grotesque cadaver with a rotted, maggot/fly-infested face, and stomach contents of the consistency of aged vomit...a cadaver resembling the current state of the Republican party. The Republican party has become a collection of moral and intellectual stiffs, a political cadaver farm. It began with the loathsome, neocon-run Bush administration, an administration which gave America needless war and casualties, and debt; it continued with the addled John McCain, who gave us the dolt known as Sarah Palin (Whatever happened to her, anyway?); Then came Donny “Comb Over” Trump, an odious buffoon; And then Bachmann, a silly thing; finally the rhetorical weathervane and cardboard cutout known as Mitt Romney, who has recently been eclipsed by the malodorous cadaver of the zombie Newt Gingrich, exhumed and brought to the fore. And, of course, one must not ignore the triumvirate which serves as the brain trust for today’s Grotesque Ol’ Putrfaction: Rush Limbaugh, a corpulent demagogue, who sits behind a microphone issuing hate and ludicrous drivel as he enriches himself by exploiting the ignorant and likewise hate-filled. And then there is Rupert “You’ve been hacked!” Murdoch and his carcinogenic News Corp. empire (FOX non-news, Wall Street Journal, NY Post...). Finally, we have the aforementioned Donny Trump, or Karl Rove (Your choice!), either choice ensures you have chosen a slimy character.
Since the modern Republican party was founded in 1854 it has fielded for America a wide spectrum of individuals, from the laudable to the loathsome, but since being taken over by the neocons (false conservatives) it has become a slough of death, debt and, finally, despair for those of us who would have rational governance.
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