Gone Gaga

The Republican Party Has Lost its Mojo and Gone Gaga

Lady GaGa is up front about it when she sings, “I hate truth!” Republicans, by contrast, are sneaky liars as you can quickly discover by examining the recent Fox News - Tea Party slander of a U.S. Department of Agriculture employee, Shirley Sherrod. Using a video tape doctored by a “Conservative” blogger, they make it appear that Ms. Sherrod, a black woman, was neglecting her duties to a farmer because he was white. An Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter exposed this devious, high tech slander of Ms. Sherrod by simply interviewing the alleged white victim, Roger Spooner, who turned out to be a very grateful admirer of Ms. Sherrod for saving his home from foreclosure, “If it hadn’t been for her we would’ve never known who to see or what to do.”

In a part of the video edited out by “Conservative” blogger Andrew Breitbart, Ms. Sherrod speaks a truth Republicans try to hide, but need to take to heart:

“they could be black, and they could be white, and they could be Hispanic, and it made me realize then that I needed to work to help poor people.”

Ms. Sherrod, of course, is intended as a symbol for President Obama, and the black racist charges against her are an opening gun in a Republican campaign to recapture control of Congress in midterm elections this fall. Republican candidates will undoubtedly piously deny knowledge or participation in such slanders and pretend they are not racists.

The magic Republican mojo charm, dishonestly named "Conservative" ideology, fosters status quo bigotry while sheltering decaying industries, incompetent “good old boy” leadership and short sighted greed in financial institutions. It began to fall apart in the early days of the Bush Administration, was briefly rescued by stimulus spending on Iraq, and tanked in 2008 with an endless series of catastrophic economic consequences.

Republican ideology had no answers for the resulting millions of unemployed, millions of homeless, collapsing government services and poisoned natural environments other than old-fashioned bailouts of its traditional industrial and financial institution patrons.

The magic of their “Conservative” mojo charm no longer working, Republicans turned to slandering everything they did not understand.

Unlike Lady GaGa, Republicans lie to hide their real beliefs and purposes, but Republicans are more than a match for Lady GaGa in putting on absurd spectacles. The Fox News - Tea Party attack on Shirley Sherrod is part of a grand plan for:

A Right Wing, Racist March on Washington!

On August 28, conservative talk show host Glenn Beck will commemorate the anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King's famous "I have a Dream'' speech with his own march.

Don’t forget to bring your gun!

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