“One must
place one’s heel upon the neck of the conservative and never let him up.”
----from The Quotations of Chairman
Joe
This, of
course requires eternal vigilance. To
cite John C. Calhoun, who wasn’t right about much, “power must be resisted with
power, and tendency with tendency.”
As the January
6th Committee was winding up it’s presentations this summer, putting
the forces of evil in full retreat, the Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee (DCCC), or “D triple C” as it prefers to be called, spent 425
thousand dollars in television ads supporting the primary opponent of one of
the ten Republican members of the House who voted to impeach the bastard “president”.[1]
Peter
Meijer, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, representing Gerald Ford’s old congressional
district, voted to impeach the son-of-a-bitch immediately after the failed coup
d’état in January of 2021.
Disgustus, ever the petulant juvenile, still claiming after nearly two
years the election a fraud, still trying to get state officials in Wisconsin to
decertify the results, has pledged to purge the party of those who still have
conscience.
So far, Disgustus
has succeeded. Congressman Fred Upton,
the other Michigan Representative who voted to impeach the scum, has already
faced a similar fate. Censored by the
Barry County ReSCUMlickan Party, and facing strong backlash, he too has been
driven from the field. Upton, a veteran
congressman found himself facing a spineless reprobate in the person of Dick
Huizenga, from Holland, Michigan who, after redistricting was to face Upton in
the primary. Upton, facing a fellow
incumbent, knew it would be an uphill battle and chose to step aside. Scum 1, decency 0.
That left
Meijer, who was the odd-on favorite to win renomination by his party. Meijer is a well-known commodity in
Michigan. The grandson and
great-grandson of the founders of the Meijer supermarket chain—an operation
copied by Sam Walton in creating the ‘big box’ supermarket—the name is easily
recognizable[2]. Meijer entered the voting last Tuesday facing
an opponent with little name recognition and even less money.
That is,
until the D Tripe C entered the picture.
Dropping a television buy equal to more than half of the entire sum
raised by his opponent, John Gibbs—having received the happy endorsement of
Caesar Disgustus—was suddenly given profile. Gibbs won by less than 4,000 votes out of 104,336
cast.
When the
press picked up upon the skullduggery, James Carville declared the strategy ‘brilliant’.
Carville claimed they were attack ads
aimed at Gibbs citing that the ads claimed Gibbs ‘too conservative” for the
district. Carville is being disingenuous. The ads also prominently cited tRUMP’s
endorsement of Gibbs; ads purposely designed to perk up the ears of the fascist
base of the party and jerk Gibbs from well-deserved obscurity. Carville, one may recall, was the strategist
who helped catapult the Bush-Lite Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and it’s
ReSCUMlickan agenda back in the ‘90s. It
was Carville who gave us the Clintons.
It was
Carville who took to the airwaves in 2016 and 2020 screeching like a Cajun
banshee at the prospect of a Bernie Sanders nomination. It was Carville who engineered the final
sellout of the Democratic Party to corporate greed.
So here
we have James back on the air touting the nefarious actions of the D triple C
as “a brilliant strategy”. The thinking,
if you can call it that, is that by boosting the candidacy of the most extreme ReSCUMlickan
the Democrats can pick up a seat as the electorate in the general election, being
larger, will reject the proto fascist.
This is a
dangerous game on several levels.
First, the
extremist by the very act of getting a major party nomination is thereby
granted a level of legitimacy. This was
the crime of the ReSCUMlickan Party in the nomination of tRUMP. Had he been defeated in the primaries and been
forced into an early exit from the contest, he wouldn’t have been even an
obscure historical footnote. By anointing
him at the convention the party, as it did in 1964 with Goldwater, bequeathed
political legitimacy to a movement that heretofore had no such claim.
Secondly,
there has been a lot of wailing about what happened to the Grand Old Party. Where are the Republicans, like Baker of
Tennessee, Scott of Pennsylvania, Griffin of Michigan, Percy of Illinois,
Javits of New York, and others who faced down Nixon and forced him from office? The answer is that what distinguishes that
time from this is that these people have been purged from the party. Now Upton is gone, Kinzinger is gone, and now
Meijer.
Third,
how do you build consensus with tactics like these? Here you have a congressman who consulting
his conscience decided to defend the republic instead of kowtowing to his
party. Instead of rushing to his defense
by encouraging Democrats to vote in the ReSCUMlickan Party if only to keep the
crazies at bay, the D triple C doubles the campaign spending of his idiot
opponent? Clearly, if Meijer had been
renominated by his party and re-elected it would have been embarrassingly difficult
to go to him with a straight face and ask for support on any Democratic
legislative initiatives. With Gibbs, it
will be impossible.
The Democratic
establishment thinks this is a brilliant strategy and, perhaps, it may well
be. They may pick up this seat. The district has been redrawn to encompass
most of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area and Muskegon. Grand Rapids votes mostly Democratic, as does
Muskegon. But the district is a good
one-third rural, especially is rock-ribbed Republican Ottawa County—one of two Michigan
Counties, Barry the other—to vote for Goldwater in ’64.
The
choice now is between civilization and barbarism. The barbarians are at the gates. In Georgia we’ve seen the establishment
defend itself, not so much in Arizona and in Michigan. This is going to prove a close contest. Closer than it should or has to be. Win or lose the forces of barbarism have now,
thanks to the likes of Carville, been legitimized.
[1] En.wikipedia.org/wiki2022_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Michigan#District_3
[2] To
all by Donald tRUMP, who demonstrating his profound ignorance consistently mispronounces
it at campaign rallies in Michgan.
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