With 2,116 of 2,129 precincts reporting, angry, racist, arrogant, anti-intellectual, authoritarian, bi-polar, half-man/half-pig mutant hybrid zoophilic microcephalic psychopath and sneering, preening, self-aggrandizing, all pie-in-the-sky and no follow-through, manic-depressive, ethically-challenged, spendthrift, open-marriage advocate and perennially unfaithful serial husband Newt Gingrich swept to a stunning victory in yesterday’s South Carolina primary, with 40% of the vote, to Mitt Romney’s 28%, Rick Santorum’s 17% and Ron Paul’s 13%.
There is little surprise in these results. South Carolina’s Republican Party is made up virtually exclusively of white antebellum racists for whom the issues that sparked the Civil War — a war whose tyranny began in South Carolina, and didn’t end until Sherman ripped the state in two — are still unsettled. And of all of the candidates before this ugly, bigoted crowd yesterday, only Gingrich can speak with both the eloquence and the coded language of racism and authoritarianism that causes these folks — who were lynching black people on a regular basis just two generations ago — to swoon.
If any state in the union is representative of current Republican Party thinking, it is South Carolina. Openly defiant, rigidly uncompromising, and focused on only one objective: to get that n-word out of the White House. This is actually the litmus test that the voters were applying to the candidates in the run-up to the voting yesterday — which of these men could defeat President Obama in the general election.
Not which one of these men can turn back the tide of unemployment. Or can get the economy back on its feet. Or can thoughtfully deal with potential nightmare scenarios in Iran and North Korea. Or can help repair the educational system. Or can provide quality health care for all. Or can help reverse the cycle of poverty in our inner cities. Or has ideas to repair a system of government so paralyzed by partisan gridlock and special interest lobbyists that it no longer serves the needs of the people.
The voters of South Carolina were simply not interested in voting for a candidate who might be able to address any of those issues, not that they had the opportunity to actually choose someone who might be able to, given the slate of candidates before them. No, all they cared about was defeating President Obama, an objective that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell made clear was the primary objective, for the US Senate at least, and which has now apparently been fully embraced by the party faithful.
They’ve learned the lessons of 2008 very well. Many of these same people were as luke-warm to John McCain then as they are to Mitt Romney this time around. And while firebrand Sarah Palin may have made the ticket a bit more palatable to them, it still wasn’t enough to get them to come out en masse to ensure a McCain victory. And just look what happened. There’s a n-word in charge.
So there’ll be no repeat of last time. No milquetoast like Romney will do when there’s a fire-breathing, bone fide racist like Newt Gingrich, a man who can make moronic ideas sound truly inspired, who hates all of the things that they hate, and isn’t cowed by the tsunami of political correctness that has turned this country into a bunch of limp-wristed faggots. No sir, Newt is a man who has principles and who isn’t afraid to blame others when those principles shift, as they so often must when the press keeps hounding you with your own words that completely contradict, well, … your own words.
This is what Newt brings to the table. Newt has just enough eloquence to make completely insane ideas sound not only plausible, but desirable, especially to an audience that can’t read. He is fluent in that obscure and wonderfully coded language of racism that only its practitioners recognize and understand. He’s angry, just like they are, and while he may be morally flawed, that’s par for the course these days. And besides, all this “family values” stuff only applies to those people who are living their lives in defiance to God and Jesus, not those whose mission it is to do God’s work in smiting the bastards.
Newt understands this. And so Newt Gingrich has become the pied piper of all of the ignorant racists in America who are now waking up every morning to that n-word in the White House, and who are looking for someone — anyone — even someone as clinically insane as Newt Gingrich, to lead them out of the darkness and back into that black-and-white world of old, filled with crew cuts and bobby sox, and n-words had their own drinking fountains, and were well-behaved, and knew who’s boss — a world that existed before those damn Kennedys took over the country, and made everything about sex and drugs and loud music.
Mitt Romney enjoyed “front-runner” status only as long as the opposition was divided against him. At one time there were six candidates — Michelle Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Herman Cain, and Ron Paul — who effectively divided the anybody-but-Romney vote between them. A portion of potential voters that totaled around 60%, as we noted in a previous column. Now that three of them — Bachmann, Perry, and Cain — are out, Newt seems to have been the major beneficiary of their support. The campaigns of Ron Paul and Rick Santorum are only treading water at this point, and after Florida, at least one of them, if not both, will go belly-up. Based on the profile of the average Paul and Santorum voter, only Newt stands to gain. The anybody-but-Romney vote, the largest voting block in Republican circles, has found their anybody-but candidate.
The reasoned, logical argument that Mitt Romney stood the best chance of defeating President Obama this fall has been blown over by the sheer force of the wind at Newt’s back as more and more angry imbeciles have decided that the only way to win is to speak to peoples’ anger, hatred, bigotry — something of a specialty of Newt Gingrich.
But while hatred and bigotry are slow-burning embers, anger is an incendiary emotion. And like most incendiary things, it flares up brightly, only to die down very quickly to virtually nothing. It takes a lot of energy to sustain a bright flare, just as it does to sustain anger. And while the faithful may have enough fuel on hand to carry them through to election day, we doubt that Newt has. Newt’s fragile psyche will probably crack long before November 6, and maybe even before the convention. He’s got a history of mental breakdowns, with manic-depressive features, and this victory in South Carolina may end up doing him more harm than good. He’ll be on the news shows later today, probably making reckless statements in that grandiose style of his, painting a picture in colors way too psychedelic to be considered reflective of realism. And now that he’s the front-runner du jour, the press will begin their relentless hammering. And while Newt has some anti-press chops that have sustained him well in terms of gaining votes, now it’s the press’ turn. We don’t think they’ll be treating Newt too kindly.
Although, a responsible press has been completely absent throughout this entire process, so we won’t be surprised of the guardians of our democracy take a powder on this one either (you see, there’s hatred for the press on both sides of the political spectrum).
So now the great death-watch begins. Newt is at the high end of his manic-depressive arc right about now. And the thing about these kinds of peaks is that they inevitably lead to troughs so deep that they make Death Valley look like Tibet. The dark, ugly side of Newt’s psyche, the mirror image of what we’re being treated to right now, is lurking in the shadows. There’ll be setbacks to come, and if they start to pile up, Newt’s fragile defenses will start to break down. It would be better for the party if this happens before the convention.
But for America, it’s best if he has his public meltdown after Labor Day. Because when Newt Gingrich is forced to suspend his campaign in October for medical reasons, it won’t just be the candidate who will be going down in flames. It will be a party, intoxicated by the poison of its own bigotry and hatred, that will take the biggest body blow.
After 2012, the Republican Party will have to decide whether it’s going to reform itself into a legitimate political party, or continue its descent into becoming a fully-fledged terrorist organization, bent on the subversion of our democracy into a pseudo-Christian, authoritarian dictatorship.
Newt Gingrich has visions of Mussolini dancing in his head.
We wish him Mussolini’s fate.
Like I said, tell us what you really think of newt !!
Wow. My compliments.