Of course I am more of democrat than you are a republican, but still
these protestations that you are not really a republican, you just
happen to vote for them in every election, is awfully coy, a little too
cute by half (whatever that means, when did 'by half' become a
qualifier, and what exactly does it mean, but it has a nice ring, and I
know I will be the one to look it up because Beagles is mowing hay or
going fishing). You vote for them every election, you vote in the
primaries to choose its candidates, you have ideas on where the party
should go, you identify strongly with their most prominent faction, you
accuse others of being RINOs. So what did old Tail Gunner Joe so when
he was accusing people of being commies, if it walks like a duck etc.
So what should we call you Republican In Actions Not Name (RIANN),
Republicans For All Practical Purposes Who Pretend That They Are
Something Else (RFAPPWPTTASE)? You know maybe a third of the
republicans are like you, fuzzy headed libertarians who espouse some
pipe dream libertarianism, and are only voting republican until, I don't
know, the saucer people come and build your libertarian paradise, and
the other third are holy rollers who are only voting republican until
the second coming, and the other third are fat cats who actually run the
party and dupe the other two thirds with lip service while enacting the
only true purpose of the party which is tax cuts for the rich and no
regulations that might interfere with their businesses reaping huge
profits.
You say you didn't pass the law, the abortion clinic regulations law,
but you voted in the guys who enacted it, and surely, as an informed
voter, the bulwark of our democracy, you explored the issues before
casting your vote.
I expect you were just fine with the Defense of Marriage Act, and I
expect you would be just as fine if the supremes decided that gay
marriage was illegal throughout the country (you said earlier that it
defiled your own marriage), and if the court had ruled that abortion was
illegal everywhere, and you have no problem with us Illinoisans being
forced to tolerate concealed carry even if most of us don't want it.
You pretend it is the means that bother you, but actually it is the
actions that you are concerned with.
Well Hill is out now. I'm glad she is no longer pretending like she
just can't decide, that was way too clever by half for me. I did look
it up. Whenever things like that come up, I think maybe I won't bother,
or maybe I'll wait till the afternoon or evening when I am lolling
about and don't have paper to be converted into masterpieces to deal
with, but it burns inside me and I always end up looking it up before I
finish the paragraph, and in this case, even after reading like five or
six entries, which is pretty deep internet research for me, I really
couldn't find a definition or origin which was clear to me.
I think that 'too clever by half' means 'too clever,' or maybe more
clearly 'way too clever.' It has something to do with the way the
British, and the whole point of this is that it sounds British and
therefore intelligent isn't it, use the word half, where by half means
something like 150 percent, something to do one assumes with spooning
sugar into their tea.
Actually it is kind of Clintonian, not the half thing, but the way they
have with parsing words just a bit too cleverly (What 'is' is), so that
everything they say it sounds like they are lying, which is probably
true most of the time anyway.
See, Hill is a dem, and most likely the candidate of the party, and I
find her pretty shabby, and yet I don't act like I'm too good for her,
like she is some clown the dems will give the nomination to, and I don't
have anything to do with that because I live in my urban tower and have
these pure liberal/socialist ideals that are too sensitive for the
fingers of grubby pols, and I will probably vote for her, but only
because she will be running against some yahoo like Rubio, not that I,
high-bowed visionary that I am, am actually a DEMOCRAT.
I don't claim that because I am not too clever by half.
I was going to segue into what Juan Pierre had to say about her, and
then into how nutso you gun nuts are (not that you are a gun nut, you
just vote like one), but I think maybe I will give partisanism a rest
for the morn, and work on my latest masterpiece.
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