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Late Night: Republicans Are So Totally Over Republicans
Republicans are trying to break up with Mitt Romney, but the pre-nup was pretty intense:
Until you started losing elections, you didn’t have a problem with any of this at all.
Until it started costing you at the ballot box and the piggy bank, until people started to cross the street to get away from you, you were absolutely fine with being the party of racists, sexists, general jerkbags, warmongers, vulture capitalists, ignorant-ass ‘necks and everybody who’s vaguely creeped out every time they overhear someone speaking Spanish in the grocery store.
That’s your base. It’s been your base for four solid decades. Mitt Romney ran an entire convention appealing to exactly those people, and you said dick. You were fine with it as long as he was gonna win the election according to Karl Rove’s super-secret math. Then he went out there and lost, and was pissed about it, and said slightly more bluntly that I BUILT THAT, and magically it was beyond the pale and demeaning to the future of your magnificent party.
Considering you made your bones penning mash notes to Ronald Reagan, who had zero problems pointing out classes of people to be despised, this is a bit rich, George. But Reagan was charming when he did it, unlike glum old Mitt, and he won elections, so that makes it okay.
http://firedoglake.com/2012/11/19/late-night-republicans-are-so-totally-over-republicans/
“It’s nuts,” said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on ABC’s “This Week.” “I mean, first of all, it’s insulting. … The job of a political leader in part is to understand the people. If we can’t offer a better future that is believable to more people, we’re not going to win.”
Until you started losing elections, you didn’t have a problem with any of this at all.
Until it started costing you at the ballot box and the piggy bank, until people started to cross the street to get away from you, you were absolutely fine with being the party of racists, sexists, general jerkbags, warmongers, vulture capitalists, ignorant-ass ‘necks and everybody who’s vaguely creeped out every time they overhear someone speaking Spanish in the grocery store.
That’s your base. It’s been your base for four solid decades. Mitt Romney ran an entire convention appealing to exactly those people, and you said dick. You were fine with it as long as he was gonna win the election according to Karl Rove’s super-secret math. Then he went out there and lost, and was pissed about it, and said slightly more bluntly that I BUILT THAT, and magically it was beyond the pale and demeaning to the future of your magnificent party.
“It’s been well said that you have a political problem when the voters don’t like you, but you’ve got a real problem when the voters think you don’t like them,” said conservative columnist George Will on ABC’s “This Week.” “Quit despising the American people.”
Considering you made your bones penning mash notes to Ronald Reagan, who had zero problems pointing out classes of people to be despised, this is a bit rich, George. But Reagan was charming when he did it, unlike glum old Mitt, and he won elections, so that makes it okay.
http://firedoglake.com/2012/11/19/late-night-republicans-are-so-totally-over-republicans/
