Rick Davis, John McCain’s Campaign manager on the speaking lineup for the Republican convention:
“I think one of the things that is important, especially for John McCain, as unique a politician as he is, is to demonstrate the diversity and differences of ideology I would say of our party. I think one of the things that people forget about is we are not a very monolithic as a party. We really want to show some of that.”
As a political junkie I read a lot of bullshit, but this utter nonsense is particularly enraging and driving me to strong drink and harsh words.
Webster’s Dictionary defines diversity as: the condition of being diverse: variety; especially: the inclusion of diverse people (as people of different races or cultures) in a group or organization.
Key speakers for the convention are as follows: GWB, vice president Dick Cheney, Laura Bush, Joe Lieberman, Rudolph Giuliani and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Diversity? Well, they do have women speaking, never mind that one holds no political office and happens to be married to the maligned president (Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina will also speak) And they have foreigners too – just look at Arnold, the pure (except for all the steroids) embodiment of the American dream. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal will also speak and his skin color is almost the same as those ‘islamofascists.’ Nothing reeks of diversity quite like Joe Liberman. I mean he used to be a democrat right? Never mind that he was embarrassed by being beaten in his own primary by a fellow democrat, had to run as an independent and win over conservatives to save his Senate seat, and is now attached to John McCain at the jockstrap – the John McCain who is poised to be the most powerful Republican player in the coming future. Naw, that couldn’t have anything to do with political posturing, obviously Lieberman is speaking at the convention to express the “diversity and differences of ideology” (and probably not talking much about being Jewish). Throw in token black guy (former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele) and gee, that’s one hell of a diverse party!
Diversity people! A few of these people have different skin color; a few have vaginas and one’s even a Jew! Does it really matter that all of them believe in an all powerful and singular god who is the direct creator of the earth and whose morality is based on ten rules written on lost tablets of stone – the first of which are such bedrocks of democracy as: not believing in other gods, not making yourself an idol, not using Gods name in vain and keeping the Sabbath holy? (I wonder what those CEOs say to their workers about keeping that Sabbath holy) Does it matter that all of them support a war which has killed over 850,000 civilians, cost US taxpayers 560 billion dollars and resulted in the death of 4,145 American soldiers? Does it matter that all of them support an outdated Chicago School model of economics that stifles our economy and funnels money to the richest of the rich? Of course none of this matters! These similarities pale in comparison with the vast “differences of ideology” in the Republican Party – just how high should we build that wall? Just how much torture can we get away with? Should we cut taxes even more? Which social programs should we slash?
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“I think one of the things that people forget about is we are not a very monolithic as a party.”
Websters Dictionary defines “monolithic” as: constituting a massive undifferentiated and often rigid whole: exhibiting or characterized by often rigidly fixed uniformity
I can’t even come up with any sarcasm for this. Is there a less apt word in the English language for the Republican Party than monolithic? If the just god of the Republican right does exist then I’m convinced that Dick Cheney’s name will forever be followed by the phrase “monolithic asshole” in the annals of history.
Monolithic. John McCain certainly knows what this word means. He knows ‘maverick’ is a distant antonym to this word. Yet the Maverick has aspirations. Mono. One. One voice. The voice that says drill, drill, drill, even though the Maverick had opposed offshore drilling. The voice that says we should keep Bush’s tax cuts in place even though the Maverick saw long ago that handing more money to the rich was absurdist. The voice that says “I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned,” even though the Maverick once said “certainly in the short term, or even the long term, I would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade.” (for a complete list of the Maverick vs. the Monolith see - “How insane is John McCain”)
John McCain is a smart man. He knows his party has been hijacked by draft-dodging neo-conservatives with Machiavellian taste, religious hacks (or “agents of intolerance” as the maverick might call them), and armchair radio talkers with the objectivity of obedient hunting dogs. And so, for his greatest of political ambitions, the Maverick must swallow his pride, bend over, and take one giant monolith in the ass.
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Rick Davis’ statement extolling the diversity of the Republican Party, and his denial of the very edifice upon which that party is built, is the embodiment of absurdity. How long can these sycophants keep swindling the American people? How many people really believe that Obama, who lives on the south side of Chicago, is ‘elitist’ while McCain prances around in private jets to his eight homes and sinks his shriveled dick into a 100 million dollar wife? How many people are really fooled by the false dichotomy that McCain wants to ‘win’ the war and Obama wants to ‘lose’ it? How many blue collar people continue to go to the polls and vote against their best economic interests because a monolithic party of big business continues to pimp them on the basis that they are on the losing and outdated side of unsubstantial moral arguments? How many people truly believe that the Republican Party is diverse and pluralistic?
I hope not too many. Hell, I’ll even pray - not too many.
