Saturday, July 03, 2010
Mostly right
RNC chairman Steele's comment is almost entirely accurate. Afghanistan was not a necessary war in the first place. It was a disingenuous displacement of military force that should have been used against Arabia. And we have exactly zero chance of 'winning' anything in Afghanistan. We can't even define what 'winning' might mean, let alone find a way to 'win' whatever it might be.
Steele's only inaccuracy is blaming Obama for choosing the war, which is weirdly stupid. Only a completely mindless R-bot, an Alzheimer patient whose sole mental input is daily RNC talking point memos, could show such wild ignorance.
But even there, his implication is valid in a backhanded way. You can properly blame Obama for seamlessly continuing such a self-destructive war; you can blame him for not choosing to end it.
Will Steele have to go? Of course not. Karl Rove won't let it happen. Rove grew up as a nerd, always wanting to be among the Cool Kids. In modern America, black jocks are the Coolest Kids of all, undisputed owners of all the chicks. Now that Rove has a black jock on his team, he's not about to let him go! Firing Steele would lose the huge number of black voters (approx. 0) who have flocked to the Republican side because of Steele. Worst of all from Rove's viewpoint, firing Steele might gain a tiny handful (approx. 10,000,000) of those white voters who are waiting to see just one itsy-bitsy sign of competence and intelligence from the Republicans. We can't have that, can we? We don't want any of those filthy uncool white votes; we only want the cool black votes even though we still haven't received any. ¶ 1:05 PM
Steele's only inaccuracy is blaming Obama for choosing the war, which is weirdly stupid. Only a completely mindless R-bot, an Alzheimer patient whose sole mental input is daily RNC talking point memos, could show such wild ignorance.
But even there, his implication is valid in a backhanded way. You can properly blame Obama for seamlessly continuing such a self-destructive war; you can blame him for not choosing to end it.
Will Steele have to go? Of course not. Karl Rove won't let it happen. Rove grew up as a nerd, always wanting to be among the Cool Kids. In modern America, black jocks are the Coolest Kids of all, undisputed owners of all the chicks. Now that Rove has a black jock on his team, he's not about to let him go! Firing Steele would lose the huge number of black voters (approx. 0) who have flocked to the Republican side because of Steele. Worst of all from Rove's viewpoint, firing Steele might gain a tiny handful (approx. 10,000,000) of those white voters who are waiting to see just one itsy-bitsy sign of competence and intelligence from the Republicans. We can't have that, can we? We don't want any of those filthy uncool white votes; we only want the cool black votes even though we still haven't received any. ¶ 1:05 PM
