The GOP and Loyalty
February 23rd, 2006 | by Paul Merda |I made a comment earlier on this blog that the 39% who support Dear Leader would still support him if he executed a puppy on National TV. Well, it just has to be true. This peice from Paul Waldman at tompaine.com describes the exact same scenario only with regard to the VP, ya know the man who got apologized to for shooting a man in the face! Loyalty is prized above all else in the GOP. It doesn’t matter what crime you have committed or what horribly unpopular deal you have made, the 39% are there for you. Look at “you should throw every drug addict into prison” Rush Limbaugh whose ratings went unscathed after his drug charges. This would never happen and hasn’t happened on the left. Moral Relativism indeed!
5 Responses to “The GOP and Loyalty”
By Jet on Feb 23, 2006 | Reply
I thought the part about how W’s job with the Bush 1 campaign was “Loyalty Monitor”. More like loyalty enforcer, it sounds like.
By tos on Feb 23, 2006 | Reply
How Liberal of you. You’re concerned more about a drug addict that goes around killing and stealing to support their drug habbit but you want to throw Rush Limbaugh in jail who had back problems and got hooked on pain killers. Remember he got fired for making a comment about a black football player which was thrown way out of proportion from its context.
Do you want to throw all the Hollywood drug addicts in jail too? They have money nad they are Liberal and they don’t get sent to jail either. Even for DUI’s. See it does happen on the left.
By Ditto on Feb 23, 2006 | Reply
Back problems? Sheeeeeeit. That’s rationalizing. How many was (is) he taking a day? Between 20 and 30 pills daily according to authorities. That is a drug problem akin to a crystal meth head snorting himself to death. And this COMMERCIAL ENTERTAINER is the voice responsible for more hatred and intolerance in this country than any movie or rock stars, ever.
I was almost crippled from a motocross accident twenty years ago. I still suffer bouts of debilitating pain and lower back muscle seizures to this day. I was on strong pain pills for a couple of months. I guess I had better doctors… since they didn’t let me get addicited.
How many different doctors was Rush seeing to get his fix? Not enough… that’s why he had others help with his ‘procuring’. That is illegal.
I’ll take a cold Bud anyday.
By LiberPaul on Feb 23, 2006 | Reply
TOS,
I was using Rush as an example, if you read the article I linked to you will see that there are many more examples to be had. As to the rest of your rant, I never mentioned that we should put drug abusers in jail, Rush was the one who said it, not me….
By Tom Harper on Feb 23, 2006 | Reply
My favorite example of blind loyalty was when Bush was governor of Texas. There was a woman on death row who became a born-again Christian AFTER she was imprisoned. Hundreds of thousands of Bible Thumpers tried to get her death sentence commuted, not because they were against capital punishment, but only because she was one of them. Everyone thought Bush would derail his political career by pissing off the Far Right if he didn’t commute her sentence. (She was executed.)