Tristero, today:
Once again, I am amazed by the Republican propensity for elevating genuine weirdos into high office. Ashcroft, whose father anointed him with Crisco when he was made Attorney General. Frist, who tortured cats, and despite a medical education, refused to say that AIDS could not be spread by kissing. Santorum, and so many other GOPers who have an obsession with man-dog sex. Evolution deniers. Racists. Homophobic homosexuals. Scalia, who simply can't read the very clear Declaration of Independence without serious misunderstandings. Twisted New Age flakes like Newt Gingrich, now an elder statesman. Boykin, a general who's lost his mind, sees Satan hovering over battlefields, in charge of the hunt for bin Laden. A serious contender for the GOP nomination who once released a serial rapist just to get back at Bill Clinton. The current GOP nominee who thought it was funny - ah, ha ha ha! - to sing "Bomb Iran!" to the tune of the Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann."
In my America - which includes Greil Marcus's Old Weird America AND the modern art scene in New York City - it just isn't that easy to find people as bizarre - and as tawdry - as these. The Republican party is one very, very strange gaggle of geese.
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