Why The Republicans Lost

I am struck by the abundance of analysis in the after math of the 2008 election. None has been more fascinating to me than the Republican Party's own suspect attempts at introspection. What is truly amazing is that their are clueless as to their own foibles. Their new website, (ideas.rebuildtheparty.com/), is asking for suggestions and ideas as to why they failed so miserably and how they can regain power. There is already a long list of reasons why they failed, and what they should do, but, none of them is remotely close to being true or accurate.

My favorites are:
we need a new logo and slogan
stop reaching across the aisle
fight appointment of liberal judges
say thanks but no thanks to AARP

Here's my list for why you lost: Your party is:
imperious
amoral
cynical
superior
unscrupulous
deceptive
devious
Machiavellian
ruthless
slanderous
murderous
jingoistic
intolerant
self-righteous
Orwellian
brutal
exclusive
bigoted
prejudiced
close minded
mean
small minded
petty
vindictive
power-hungry
authoritarian
dictatorial
theocratic
anti-democratic
un-American
anti-constitutional
extra-constitutional
repressive
secretive
arrogant
ignorant
smug
intellectually stunted
uncurious
stagnant
unfair
elitists
opportunistic
cheating
lying
back-stabbing
belligerent
bellicose
bombastic
demagogic
fraudulent
blundering
buffoonish
underhanded
fear mongering
divisive
hypocritical
backward looking
reactionary
knee-jerk
an unending source of false accusations
bearing false witness
hate-filled
hateful
unchristian
uncharitable
unkind
unconscionable
exhibits barbarous international thuggery
breeds and promotes selfishness, greed and corruption

I could go on, but I am sure none of this will register with you or make the slightest bit of difference in anyway, as to you, making positive changes in your dismal party, you have embraced some of the worst aspects of human nature and enshrined them in a misguided wrong headed ideology that looks for the worst in others while ignoring your own glaring, grotesque deficiencies. You are bankrupt morally and spiritually.

Through your malignant foreign policies you have murdered millions of innocents while weeping disingenuous, pro-life tears, for the unborn. You have squandered this nations wealth on needless wars while denying basic social needs of its citizens.

You have allowed oil conglomerates to suppress and crush green car technologies in favor their continued pollution of our planet.

You cry freedom and deny freedom to others. You sing America's praises of freedom and deliberately undermine it's Constitution and in secret take away American's freedoms.

You have brought great harm to this nation and the world and and you deserve to be thrown into the ash heap of bad political ideas, like Communism and National Socialism.

You deliberately polished a political turd like Palin and served her with smug self assurance that the American people are stupid and will buy anything.

The spontaneous joy you saw expressed on the election of Barrack Obama was the expression of pent up hope that you and your party have repressed with your exaggerated fear mongering for eight long years. People gravitate towards ideas and hope you are bereft of either.

And last but not least, you do not govern as servants of the people, as the Constitution requires, you rule as an elite class of aristocrats with a smug sense of superiority and entitlement. You have even stooped so low as to steal elections through the suppression of peoples right to vote so that you can retain power. You are despicable and un-American in the extreme sense of the word. You are fascists to be exact. A remnant of Tory seed that sees itself entitled to a life of privileged ease at the expense of others, taking everything and giving nothing back. You despise the idea of a democratic republic, and are trying to create a theocratic, oligarchy that dictates and rules by fiat, guided by your narrow views and twisted philosophies.

In short you lost because you are out of touch and you suck.

Damn you and your party.

© 2008 by Michael Weber