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roachboy · 10-13-2006, 12:34 PM

seems the conservative set is kinda testy about this one.
it wont help. all the whining about "witch hunting" is meaningless--and worse it is ineffective.

the problem the republicans face is simple: they chose for strategic reasons to route as much of their ideology as possible through the discourse of "morality" and now find themselves twisting in the wind because of it.

you would think that the conservative set would be better readers of machiavelli, who they seem to enjoy pretending they understand in so many areas---what matters is the appearance of consistency in political matters. they should have sucked it up and done a mea culpa right away, not because they believed in anything, but because the maintenance of their own ideology required it.

so this is a result of a strategic fuck up that then opened onto a whole series of ethical problems----none of which would have happened had there been any meaningful correlation between the right's claims to monopolize morality and the actions of foley, hastert, the conservative media apparatus, etc.

the right has no-one and nothing to blame but themselves for all of this.
squirm as they might, they are in a mess of their own creation.

what i do not understand is the relative significance of this mess when compared with the far greater problems that should have been created by the many other fiascos the bush people have engineered: this idiotic"war on terror," iraq, the problems associated with hurrican katrina, the new and improved north korea farce on and on and on.
why is this is issue that seems to damage the republicans more than the bigger, ongoing disastrous policy choices that they have made since 9/11/2001 at the least?
in comparison, this seems rather trivial, but this is the issue that gets traction.
go figure.

10-13-2006, 12:34 PM	#67 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	seems the conservative set is kinda testy about this one. it wont help. all the whining about "witch hunting" is meaningless--and worse it is ineffective. the problem the republicans face is simple: they chose for strategic reasons to route as much of their ideology as possible through the discourse of "morality" and now find themselves twisting in the wind because of it. you would think that the conservative set would be better readers of machiavelli, who they seem to enjoy pretending they understand in so many areas---what matters is the appearance of consistency in political matters. they should have sucked it up and done a mea culpa right away, not because they believed in anything, but because the maintenance of their own ideology required it. so this is a result of a strategic fuck up that then opened onto a whole series of ethical problems----none of which would have happened had there been any meaningful correlation between the right's claims to monopolize morality and the actions of foley, hastert, the conservative media apparatus, etc. the right has no-one and nothing to blame but themselves for all of this. squirm as they might, they are in a mess of their own creation. what i do not understand is the relative significance of this mess when compared with the far greater problems that should have been created by the many other fiascos the bush people have engineered: this idiotic"war on terror," iraq, the problems associated with hurrican katrina, the new and improved north korea farce on and on and on. why is this is issue that seems to damage the republicans more than the bigger, ongoing disastrous policy choices that they have made since 9/11/2001 at the least? in comparison, this seems rather trivial, but this is the issue that gets traction. go figure. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 10-13-2006 at 12:37 PM..