In case you haven’t already seen enough evidence that Republicans are bankrupt as a party and as people, check out what Congressman Patrick McHenry said the other day:
“We will lose on legislation. But we will win the message war every day, and every week, until November 2010,” said Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., an outspoken conservative who has participated on the GOP message teams. “Our goal is to bring down approval numbers for [Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and for House Democrats. That will take repetition. This is a marathon, not a sprint.”
People of the Tenth District of North Carolina: Dump this loser! Do you want an elected representative who works to govern, or an elected ideological thug who works to play power games in Congress?
The first commenter at the link above had it right:
Wasn’t it Joseph Goebbels, the Third Reich’s notorious Propaganda Minister, who famously said (paraphrasing here) that a lie repeated often enough will eventually become “truth” in the minds of simpletons, the ignorant, the pre-prejudiced and the ill-informed? Great comeback strategery there, Mr. McHenry. You’re a gentleman and a scholar.
At least the dead hands of that other ideological game, after long afflicting our collective ability to reason, are loosening. Maybe soon humanity will finally wake up from its ideological dream-state and start thinking about reasoned solutions for actually living with each other, within the means provided by our resources.
What really frightens me is the brazen blatancy with which he makes these comments. They’ve abandoned all pretense here. Fucking scary.