The End of Conservatism
By Larry Johnson on January 21, 2012 at 12:41 PM in Current Affairs
Conservatives have lost their minds. Some on the left would assert that conservatives never had a brain, but that’s a topic for a different time. By rallying around Newt Gingrich and embracing the fantasy that he is a true-blue conservative then conservatives expose themselves as simpletons and rubes. Although I am getting old I have not forgotten the conservative vitriol spewed at Bill Clinton for his outrageous sexual behavior. For conservatives it was the simple fact that Clinton was using his position to get laid. It was “unbecoming” and tarnished the holy office of the President. OH JESUS SAVE US.
But thank God (and Allah) that we had righteous souls like Newt Gingrich to lead the charge in attacking Bill Clinton for his immoral, anti-family behavior. But now we know the truth–Newt was as busy fucking around as Bill Clinton. Unlike Bill Clinton, who remained married to his first and only wife, Newt was going thru wives like a menstruating woman thru tampons. He used them and discarded them.
I understand the fury of many Americans and the skewed, duplicitous press. It is in effect just another high school clique for cool kids and, whether it is FOX or CNN or MSNBC or the New York Times or the Washington Post, the media decides what is and is not worthy of being considered important.
But the conservatives in South Carolina the other night, when Newt went medieval on John King’s ass, displayed a level of mindless emotionalism. We have seen this kind of emotional embrace of a gifted orator before–just watch some of Leni Riefenstahl’s, Triumph of the Will. What are conservatives thinking?
Conservatives claim to embrace Chrisitian family values. That means they eschew divorce and adultery. That’s one reason they hated Bill Clinton. And now? They ejaculate praise over a twice divorced serial adulterer and, with a straight face, claim Gingrich as their moral leader.
Conservatives claim to embrace smaller, honest, competent government. And they want Newt? The guy whose unethical conduct and hubris while Speaker got him dumped–not by those dastardly Liberal Democrats–by conservative Republicans.
Newt is not Hitler. He does not want to exterminate Jews. Let’s get that straight up front. But he is playing the same kind of political game. American people are angry. Hitler tapped into the anger of the German people. The Germans were furious at the bankers and politicians who betrayed them. Hitler offered the Jews as a convenient scapegoat.
Newt? He blames the media and Wall Street. He denounces Mitt Romeny as a vulture capitalist while hiding the fact that he was taking money as a consultant from a Wall Street vulture capitalist firm.
Democrats are pissing themselves with glee. You doubt me? I happened to tune in to MSNBC’s Hardball yesterday. Chris Matthews and his team of uber Democrats and liberal pundits were extolling the virtues and miracle recovery of Newt. If Republican voters board the Newt train they are signing their political suicide note. I am old enough to remember clearly the debacle that was Newt Gingrich as Speaker. He claims he is a new man. Bullshit. The man who sat with Nancy Pelosi and shilled for action on Global Warming? Same guy as the Speaker. The man who launches a Michael Moore style attack on capitalism? Same dude.
If Newt remains a viable candidate then the Republicans will get four more years of Barack Obama. Take that to the bank.
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