Barry’s Rant

Okay, so today Senator John McCain "repudiates" the horrendous statements made by the so-called "Reverend" John Hagee about how the LORD Almighty, in his wise beneficience, decided that Adolf Hitler was just the kick in the pants the Jews needed in the !930’s to get on with the business of getting the fuck out of Europe and building Israel . Furthermore, he now rejects the endorsement of this mental midget with the moral compass of a stray bullet, and Hagee withdraws said endorsement shortly thereafter in a show of redundancy.

Mr. McCain has had some experience with rattle-brained preachers (sorry, repeating myself) endorsing him and then making statements, or having them revealed, much to ol’ John’s chagrin. Take the Reverend (cough) Rod Parsley. Please. Sorry, Mr. Dangerfield. Anyway, he endorses McCain which gives our "presumptive Republican nominee" a huge hard-on I’m sure, until Mr. Parsley turns out to have said that Islam is "an antichrist religion that intends through violence to conquer the world." Ignoring the fact that I happen to agree with an evangelist pinhead for once other than the "antichrist" bit (since the term would have to have some relevance to me), Mr Parsley was making statements that are just not said here in the US of A. See, if something is a bona fide  religion, then you simply cannot point out how dangerous and full of shit it is, or you are a "bigot". Last I checked, ‘bigots’ are unreasonably biased; that is, they have no rational basis for their views. Think Archie Bunker. If you actually research something and observe it and read it’s history, and then say it’s a violent insane piece of shit and here are the reasons why, then that really shouldn’t open you to charges of bigotry. I digress. Mr Parsley was embarrassing, and costly to the McCain campaign’s crucial moderate Muslim vote (like that? I do), and so McCain dropped the dude like a hot rock.

So the end result is that the candidate rejects the endorsement of the pastors because he doesn’t endorse them. Excuse me, but exactly how does that make a shit? Our Holocaust apologist asshole buddy saw something in McCain that he liked, and said so. Our Christo-centric, non-ecumenical asshole also saw something in McCain he liked and said so. So, now shouldn’t the issue be what the fuck do asswipes like this see in McCain to gravitate toward him, and shouldn’t we be concerned if, in a weak moment, we say to ourselves "well, yeah, he’s a Republican, but he isn’t like those other guys"? Maybe he’s exactly like those other guys, just packaged a little differently, but still full of the same intellectually bankrupt nonsense that I’ve heard conservatives of both parties spew all my adult life.

I read an op-ed piece today that asked "where have all the thoughtful conservatives gone?", making reference to some GOP hack who kept comparing Obama to Neville Chamberlain and then was unable to say what, exactly, Chamberlain did that was such a big deal other than parroting "appeasement!" to the host. I wasn’t aware that there had been a plural number. I would pretty much have to give William F. Buckley credit as having been an intelligent conservative, as confusing as that sounds, but I can’t think of any others offhand, and certainly not in any of the 3 branches of the Federal Government. Well, right there are what serves the role - the 2 shitheads and the candidate trying to scrape them off his shoe and distract us from asking why would they endorse him in the first place? Maybe because they smelled a fellow shithead? …. Just a thought.