Taibbi
on Rush Limbaugh
P.
Schultz
December
3, 2012
Here
is some insightful analysis of Republican angst by Matt Taibbi of Rolling
Stone.
“There's
been a lot of hand-wringing among conservatives of the Rush/Hannity school in
the last few days, a lot of concern about this outreach question, and honestly,
the tone of the discussion is beginning to sound like the last days of a failed
1950s marriage. The husband who's gone all day at work comes home and throws
his hands up in the air in mock frustration: what do you want from me, another
Cadillac? Another fur coat? I just got you new shoes last week!
“And
the wife, who's loved this man for 20 years despite his abject stupidity, just
sighs. All she wants her husband to do is listen to her, or take a day off work
sometime and take her for a drive in the country, or make some spontaneous show
of affection, maybe popping home for lunch like in the old days – just some
evidence that he's even faintly aware of what's going on in her head. But when
they try to talk it out, things just get worse, because in his very manner of
asking her what's wrong, all hubby does is reveal that he thinks of his wife
entirely as a nagging, financial parasite who's always on his ass about
something.
“Similarly,
the fact that so many Republicans this week think that all Hispanics care about
is amnesty, all women want is abortions (and lots of them) and all teenagers
want is to sit on their couches and smoke tons of weed legally, that tells you
everything you need to know about the hopeless, anachronistic cluelessness of
the modern Republican Party. A lot of these people, believe it or not, would
respond positively, or at least with genuine curiosity, to the traditional
conservative message of self-reliance and fiscal responsibility.
“But
modern Republicans will never be able to spread that message effectively,
because they have so much of their own collective identity wrapped up in the
belief that they're surrounded by free-loading, job-averse parasites who not
only want to smoke weed and have recreational abortions all day long, but want
hardworking white Christians like them to pay the tab. Their whole belief
system, which is really an endless effort at congratulating themselves for how
hard they work compared to everyone else (by the way, the average
"illegal," as Rush calls them, does more real work in 24 hours than
people like Rush and me do in a year), is inherently insulting to everyone
outside the tent – and you can't win votes when you're calling people lazy,
stoned moochers.”
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