As Republicans gather like storm clouds over Miami to
outline a plan to dismantle the social safety net, it’s important to point out
that the Republican Party has been taken over by the Christian right and other fundamentalist
fringe elements.
This is not the party of Lincoln or Goldwater or Reagan
or even Nixon. I think if Richard Nixon
where here today, he might say, “I am not a ghost.”
I miss the Republican Party of Richard Nixon when there
wasn’t a problem that couldn’t be fixed by a couple of Cubans.
Richard Nixon used to answer reporters’ questions, even
if the answer was, “Fuck you!” Whenever a reporter asks Mitt Romney a
legitimate question, his brain has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. Richard
Nixon…Now more than ever.
Republicans opinion of women seems to be based on a
religious fundamentalist belief in the subjugation of women, whose main purpose
in life should be to reproduce whether they like it or not. And they’d really
prefer to have sons. And don’t forget to cook dinner.
It’s the party of white men who like their white women
where they belong.
This is not your father’s Republican Party. This is the Koch
brothers Republican Party.
When Abraham Lincoln said, “You can fool some of the
people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot
fool all of the people all of the time,” I don’t think he meant it as a
challenge.
I’ll be tweeting the Republican convention
@thejamestripp.
Also, my novel, the Hierophant is now in paperback
and on Kindle and is available at Amazon.com and other online booksellers. It’s a good book. You could start a religion with this
book. Of course, it’s not one I’d follow.
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