Ned has intercepted a secret Republican fund-raising missive from an organization headed by failed Republican ex-House Speaker and self-styled "intellectual" of the Right Newt Gingrich. In it, Gingrich begs for money to "defeat the socialist agenda of the Obama-Pelosi-Read Axis". After chuckling over this, Ned read something even more illustrative of the nature of modern Republicanism. The organization listed as one of its "accomplishments" the election of empty-suit Bob McDonnell to the governorship of Virginia, in part by "successfully identifying his opponent as a tax-and-spend, Obama-supporting liberal."
Now this is perhaps the best example of the means by which Republicans seek to win elections: that is, by the lavish use of Orwellian Newspeak served with a generous dose of sanctimonious hypocrisy, all indicative of the utter contempt with which they view the average intelligence of their potential supporters. Because, friends. McDonnell's opponent was one Creigh Deeds, a right-wing Democrat from southwest Virginia, who, if Ned's memory serves, is a pro-life, pro-gun fiscal "conservative" and about as far from an Obama-lover as a Democrat can get. The fact that the Republicans were able to paint this hapless guy as a liberal is indicative of the lengths Republicans will go to win elections and seize power. It is also indicative of how utterly hopeless much of the Democratic Party is, since Deeds was about the only candidate other than perhaps Al Sharpton who couldn't beat McDonnell.
It is also, Ned regrets to say, perhaps at least a partial vindication of the Republican contempt for the intelligence of the average southern voter.
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