fat chance

I admit, I was hooked on the auditions for American Idol. I had to see the promising stars and starlets of the 2011 season and pull out my Kleenex as they rambled about their lives so sordid, sad and saturated with sorrow. I had to hear their pleas and promises of how they should be the next Idol. It will be a bumpy road ahead for the Idol viewer getting past the novella type stories and trying to figure out who is the one who REALLY has the talent, not the hype, marketing or hearsay…

And with the same hesitation to become involved with the lackluster talent of Idol, the back stories, the hyperbole and hype I watched the Republican/Baggers take the stage as the 2012 race for the White House begins its new season of slander, silly and surreal surprises. The slew of wannabe’s pretending to be the real thing is amazing.

The oldie but goodies filled with virulent religious hatred for those not praying to the God of their choice, the Christian God who fought with the colonists during the Revolutionary War, the God who only loves you if you are not Gay, or considering an abortion, or of a certain darker shade of color like Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum are lining up or is it piling up to consider a run for the Republican/Bagger ticket in the 2014 presidential race.

The holier than thou, lets pretend facts don’t count, if I said it and you misunderstood what I meant and heard what you want and misquoted me even if it was on tape cause you are the liar not me like Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Haley Barbour are gearing up or is it gyrating up for a run at the White House from the Republican/Bagger ticket.

The, I am a business man, free markets reign, just like the free markets during the Bush/Cheney dynasty, who needs regulations or rules because Capitalism runs regulation free, money can and does buy anything in this country, wealth is good poverty bad, and if have to I will fire you, even if you are a citizen Mitt Romney and Donald Trump are greasing the wrists, stuffing the pockets of the Republican/Baggers for a bid as the top executive of the US.

We hear from Governors Tim Pawlenty, Mitch Daniels that states rights are what matters so any issue from taxes to marriage, to abortion, to poverty and education must be settled by the states. States rights are the centerpiece of individual rights so if we want to use assault weapons, deny equal pay for women, slash the cost of living standards, deny unions any rights and stop this silly health care for all, we can do that, (just like the Southern states did during the Civil War) so give us the nod for the run for presidency from the Republican/Bagger ticket.

We hear more and more about denying rights, moving more to the edge than the center, exclusion as a Constitutional right. We witness comments and commentary derogatory and degrading and denials by these Republican/Bagger candidates when accused of stating them. We are told the bottom line of corporations is what makes America great and that once the rich are as wealthy as they need, the rest of the nation can bask in some success but to ask for their fair share prior to that happening makes you a Communist.

We see hero’s arise within the Republican/Bagger party like Glenn Beck with his apocalyptic ruminations of socialism, Nazism, Demonology…like Rush Limbaugh laughing at journalists beaten and hurt if they are not from FOX, stating that the most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down and beating his chest shouting, Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream…like Pat Robertson who blamed the blizzard in New York city on Gays who needed to be stopped who wanted to leave the city to spread their evil Gay ways…like Dick Cheney who had his staff “out” a CIA agent, pretended there were weapons of mass destruction leading to the murder of over 4000 Troops.

The CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) 2011 Conference, the Oscars of the Republican/Bagger political world is in session. It is the showcase of people crawling from under the rocks of bigotry, bias, bogus-try, using the American Flag, God and Apple Pie as permission to hate, harangue, and halt progress. It is the epicenter of those ideas, those ideals, those ideologies everything conservative. It is the first entrée to the American public of the new batch of conservative Christian culturally correct who want to make America in their mold. In making that mold this breed of CPAC darlings want to make sure difference is bad, consensus evil and lemming like response mandatory.

Like American Idol we get to see the talents and the talons of an aspiring class of performers hoping to win the number one spot. We get to hear snippets of how they will guide this nation to fame and fortune, as long as we provide them with fame and fortune. We hear their sob stories about how bad America is currently, (as if they had no part in making it that way), and how being new to the scene they will make it better. (Three fourths of this group have been around way too long.)

Listen closely all of us out there who stayed home during the 2010 elections, keep an ear to the tracks cause the next speeding train is coming soon and it might just run us down, like it did in the 2010 elections. Look to the light of redemption as explained by the CPAC crowd forgetting any history they made, any errors in judgment on their behalf, any foibles or falsehoods they presented and vote away change Obama promised and settle for fat- chance they propose.