Projection Much?
by digby
I’m fairly sure this fellow thinks he’s the Tea Party’s Stephen Colbert. He’s posing in the Washington Post as a “Hollywood Liberal” giving advice to the Tea party on how they can beat back the liberal onslaught and the corrupt GOP:
1) Principles, not programs. Stick to your guns: lower taxes, less regulation, less government. Imitate your hero, Reagan (Ronnie, not Tommy) and leave the social issues alone; after all, if you win, they’ll take care of themselves. Do not get into the weeds with us: as the products of prep schools, think tanks, the Ivy League and Morning Joe, we know everything there is to know about programs except why we should have them in the first place.
2) Treat us with the same respect with which we treat you, which is none. Our “fairness” mask slipped away some time during Bush’s second term, to reveal the absolute contempt in which we hold you. We are angry, unhappy people, at once at war with God, truth, justice, the American Way, and pretty much the entire Constitution, so why should we give you suckers an even break? We think lawyers are the solution to all life’s problems, since there’s always gotta be an angle somewhere, whereas you think God, four aces and a loaded .45 will pretty much see you through any eventuality, including us.
But, of course, you won’t. Your basic desire to beat your swords into plowshares and go back home to Cincinnati always takes over. Your appetite for the Fight – and, as Hillary Rodham entitled her Wellesley Alinskian thesis, “There is only the fight” – will wane.
Your innate craving to be loved instead of feared will kick back in and before you know it, John Boehner will be slapping Barney Frank on the back and heading off on a fact-finding junket together to Chris Dodd’s Countrywide-financed “cottage” in County Galway. By the time BO2 heads into the primaries against Evan Bayh and Dennis Kucinich, the entire RINO caucus will be cheering him on – anybody but Sarah!!
It’s written in the stars: Betelgeuse, to be specific. Because you’re never dead until you’re buried, and even then…
I don’t know about you but he just made me feel a whole lot better. Liberals are badass! Hoo-ah!
That’s not an excerpt by the way. That’s it. Why the Washington Post thought that was fit to publish I don’t know — the whole Evan Bayh, Dennis Kucinich RINO conspiracy is mind bogglingly weird — but there it is. I guess it just shows how darned lonely it is to be a teabagger in these troubled times.
Keep the faith kids. I promise we won’t be too hard on you in those FEMA camps. Because you’re never dead until you’re buried … uh, whatever.
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