When the going gets weird

“Every GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a wartime economic emergency. Richard Nixon comes quickly to mind, along with Ronald Reagan and his ridiculous ‘trickle-down’ theory of U.S. economic policy. If the Rich get Richer, the theory goes, before long their pots will overflow and somehow ‘trickle down’ to the poor, who would rather eat scraps off the Bush family plates than eat nothing at all. Republicans have never approved of democracy, and they never will. It goes back to preindustrial America, when only white male property owners could vote.”

- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

Holy shit! It’s an election year! I just realized that after seeing a VoteVets ad running against Roy Blunt.

I like VoteVets. They don’t play games. They like to go straight for a kick to the nuts without any pussy footing as it were. The first ad I saw of theirs was during the senatorial campaign between Jim “No” Talent and Claire McKasskill (no relation to Danny). Talent, a career Republican political hack and born again– with the usual social and genetic connections to sleaze and greed– eked his way to the Senate in 2002 after narrowly beating out Jean Carnahan. Jean Carnahan was appointed to the seat her dead husband, Mel, won not running against John Ashcroft, the only Senatorial candidate to ever lose to a dead man.

McKasskill got the Democratic nod against Talent in ’06, and VoteVets targeted Talent. The following video is theirs:

That was probably the most effective political ad I’ve seen since the “Daisy” ad in ’64 when Lyndon Johnson stomped Barry Goldwater like a cornered, drunken rat.

I was so excited by the VoteVets ad that it took about four viewings for me to realize that it wasn’t produced by McKasskill’s camp. It just kicked ass in general, and helped kick Talent’s in the general election.

The fact that this is an election year totally passed me by in the cancer confusion and brou-ha-ha. But I’m glad it’s upon us, because it’s an amusement, a distraction, and with the neo-cons temporarily out of power it’s always fun to listen to their paranoid rantings and ravings. It saves money on the LSD budget. If we had a budget. If we could find some decent acid.

Roy Blunt is another conservative, born-again career political hack. He’s a federal representative from Springfield, MO, area, which is the most conservative section of the state. Blunt’s been feasting off the public teat since 1972 at the county, state and national levels. His voting record is reactionary enough to garner a 96% approval rating from the American Conservative Union, a 92% approval rating from the Christian Coalition, and a 97% rating from the Chamber of Commerce, the last making him as anti-worker and anti-labor as one can get. He’s voted for a federal amendment banning gay marriage; is against gay adoptions; supports prayer in public schools, the No Child Left Behind Act, and school vouchers; opposes any form of public health care, including Medicare; opposes legal protections based on sexual orientation, and is a charter member of the Obama birth certificate conspiracy. I doubt I could split a pizza with him because there isn’t a thing we agree on.

All-in-all, Blunt comes across like a guy who’d fuck you in the ass and not even give you the courtesy of a reach-around. He’s running for the Senate seat being vacated by Kit “Bottled In” Bond. One thing Roy’s always been big on is defending the oil industry interests. As a result, big oil has been a big contributor to Roy’s retirement campaign coffers. And that’s what the VoteVets ad calls him on.

Tags: Hunter S. Thompson, Roy Blunt, VoteVets