So the Southern Strategy stopped being so damned effective over the last few years, and some Republicans actually noticed. Two recent moves are especially hilarious. To make it seem like they aren’t generally sexists, the Republicans put a women on the ticket. With typical ham handedness and tone deafness, they picked Caribou Barbie, an insult to any thinking woman out there who saw right through their cynical ploy. But now they’re stuck with her. And you know their increasingly cretinous base will make her a contender in 2012. And she stands zero chance of winning in the general election.
Next, to counter four decades of perceived (and actual) racism and perhaps dull the pain of a popular, though rather dark hued for their tastes, Democratic President, they put Michael Steele in change of the Republican National Committee. Somehow they managed to forget that the guy running the RNC actually gets to make decisions and might even speak to the press. They also managed to forget that African-American Republicans tend to have, shall we say, quirks? It takes a lot of self-loathing or just plain confused thinking for a black man to work for the party that has won elections by yelling “Nigger!” since the 1960’s.
Anyway, now that Mr. Steele has stated a few opinions that stray from the ideological party line, they’re calling for his scalp. There are calls for the Republican Party to stop funding their own national committee. So now they get the added bonus of beating up on the Negro in the house. That’ll go over big in the hip-hop culture that is young America.
If they hadn’t so trashed this country that I love, you could almost feel sorry for them. Almost.
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