Let's face it, Boys and Girls - today's "politics" are something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. And the ongoing - and rather boring - media "spin cycles" merely emphasize how well and truly f*cked we all are. It's hard for me to believe that the hilarious days of "Mad How," {former DNC Chairman Howard Dean}, "The Scarecrow On The Swiftboat," {Current Secretary of Idolatry John "Mr. Ter - EH - sa Heinz-Kerry"}, and the Great Fall of Dan Blather were some TWELVE YEARS AGO!!!! It feels more like a couple lifetimes......
Back in the day, I used to have quite a bit of fun flexing my writing {and satirical} chops on a weekly basis; gleefully ripping apart the latest fallacy to come from ol' addle-brained Howie, and his loyal army of oompa-loompas {remember Kerry's hideous "carrot - tan" from the first VP debate in '04?}. Hell, things escalated for me so much between '04-'08, that I wound up putting together the infamous "Ironmandean" video, and plastered it all over YouTube, Yahoo, and MySpace; as well as a couple hundred random chatboards and indie websites during the bitter end of the 2008 Presidential race. Which subsequently led to some freelance consulting for one former VP candidate I had become somewhat enamored with back in aught-four, as well as a few "chores" for the nascent Tea Party movement, all on the QT. No way in hell was I gonna do anything "official," even back then - I'd sooner volunteer to test the latest batch of anthrax, or ricin!
Today of course, my prescience speaks for itself. We've endured almost eight years under a Moslem "president." We've seen splinter factions of the DNC sprout up "spontaneously," and raise hell with everything from Wall Street to our police forces and public RESTROOMS, for crying out loud. Our economy is in shambles - we're still a "Class B Credit Risk," in the world's economic eyes, remember. We're still fighting "phantom" wars - with REAL casualties - that have little or no connection to sanity, let alone conditions for "winning," exit goals, specific purposes, etc.
Item - the one exception to all of this that, ironically, "proves the rule" as it were, has been the late, great, Andrew Breitbart's single-handed destruction of ACORN - and I don't need to remind y'all what the "payoff" for Andy's neat bit of true public service was now, do I? The poor lad, a year and a half younger than me, ups and expires of "natural causes," seemingly in the prime of his life, just after his big score? I didn't buy it in 2012, and I still don't buy it now. Exception just proved the rule, BTW.
Call me a cynic, call me a bitter old fart - hell, call me "out to lunch, and dinner as well." Guilty on every count - but only because I still have clear memories of happier times and I make the occasional visit to my conscience when the will is weak! You expect me to get all bouncy about an unconvicted, felonious shrew, who thinks we "owe" her the highest office in the land, rather than forcing her to EARN it the same way those of us on the opposite side of the aisle HAVE to do?? Say what you will about The Donald's big mouth - at least he doesn't have a BODY COUNT that trails back a good quarter-century, if not longer!! It's a perfectly straight line from Benghazi back to Vince Foster and Web Hubble, Cats & Kitties. And that line is indelibly etched in blood, dig?
Facts are stubborn things - but then, so are jackasses.
Oh well - my "Ironmandean" video still has clout, thanks to it making the rounds of The Donald's Facebook outpost this past spring. Knowing my luck, he'll win big in November, then immediately appoint me "Anti-Pundit {as in "Anti-Christ"} Czar," then ship me off to Lower Alcatraz, or wherever......
I ain't holding me breath!!
;^)
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