Not So Fast, Madame Wishful Speaker

With but nineteen hyper-ventilation filled days left before the Burros’ Great Unraveling, we will now (again) pause to, fully and finally, elucidate why, Frank Rich’s uber-silliness notwithstanding, the 2006 Donkey Electoral Steamroll is the Greatest Story Ever Sold.

Nearly everyone is in on the hawking; certainly the Media, with its multicultural array of providers of its monoclonal, monomyopic worldview.

Elected Democrats are again reprising their timeless, tiresome role as unproductive haranguers. So comfortable in character are they that the Woman Who Would Be Speaker, Nancy “The Lift” Pelosi (D.- Bathhouse, CA), feels unfettered in uttering that her Party needs not a plan, for they are not the ones in power.

And no one, not even the Republicans who ostensibly stand opposed, feels the need to point out that she and they are running to be just that in but one score of the calendarial, and that some semblance of a proposal might be nice prior to We the People putting the new Pols in place.

The GOP establishment, if not the elective Elephants themselves (one in their position must emplace a brave face, no matter how dire he seems to find his circumstance), has already finished packing their trunks in preparation for the trip to Minorityville. All the Big Names are vigorously waving their blanched banners, anxious if not eager to cut and run from the ballotory fun well before the Motor Early Voter legislation even begins to kick in.

The Good Ship Loser

The worst of it is, this entire raft of loser-mentality self-defeatism is predicated in large part upon the opposition’s attempted conglomeration of the flimsiest bits of transitory flotsam ever endeavored to be transmogrified into a platform for political victory.

Never before have so many single shot self-inflictions been leapt upon by the antagonists for overreaching use as symbolic, associated parts of a broader, endemic failing.

In short, the Democrats will lose largely because they are singing a refrain of “The Culture of Corruption” on which the vox publi is not joining in.

For every time a Democrat cites a Republican for allowing their standards and our crests to fall, it is quickly brought to their attention that they have (or have had) in their midst someone who was just as good at bilking the system, and far better at beating it.

The GOP will see their Randy “Duke” Cunningham, who is currently a guest of the state of California, and raise them one William “The Refrigerator” Jefferson, who is currently running for reelection.

Keep Reading, Mister Speaker

The Republicans have Mark Foley, who wrote bad things to pages and was forced to resign the moment his penmanship was made public, and the Democrats have Gerry Studds, who whisked a page off to Portugal on Man-Boy Holiday, turned his back on the Speaker as his Almighty Censure was delivered, and was subsequently returned to Congress for an additional decade and named by his “disgusted” and “outraged” Donkey colleagues to serve as a Committee Chair.

And there is no even remote Republican parallel to the homosexual whorehouse antics of Massachusetts’ own Barney “Less Than” Frank, who, for his tremendous beneficence for the gay men of Washington, D.C. bereft of love and accommodation, but not of money, received another in a long line of meaningless Congressional censurial reprimands.

When Elephants Go Wild, they at least also go away; the Burros’ “Culture of Corruption” is far Wilder and comes with a universal Get Out of Jail (and Back into Congress) Free card.

This Democrat wishful misreading of the electoral tea leaves is the result of their (again) confusing their intellectual failings with those of the American people. The average Joe, upon whom the average Donkey looks down with such disdain, in fact knows better than to extrapolate the deviance of a few Republicans to a pox on them all.

Please Do Not Say That You Were Not Warned

‘Tis the Burros who engage in George Orwellian “group think”, not the Man in the Street.

So as much as the American people disdain the Republicans acting like Democrats (in every conceivable way), what they like even less is the Democrats’ acting like Republicans and suddenly discovering shame of the “diversity” they ordinarily champion, and proffering it as their sole and exclusive raison d’election.

When given the choice between a tenth of a loaf and the crumbs, the electorate will ensconce the bit of bread that is still left every time. Not a proud GOP victory, but a win nevertheless.

One the Current Wisdom is currently in the process of missing by a country-wide mile.