Laugh, Republicans, Laugh!

I just signed up for Google+ today,  so far it looks a lot like facebook except I’ve only got about 20 friends and I know who they all are.

It’s one more site to touch base with,  one more site to show my blog on but those 20 or so friends probably see the link from facebook anyway, so i  don’t expect much out of that.  The one great thing about it is that it’s a start over, I know not to make the mistake i made on  facebook, which was adding anybody and everybody.

So, we’ll see how that works out.

For this evening’s liberal gloating and flat out hilarity, check out  this  article from over at Salon, a  magazine I should apparently read more often.  The gist of it is that Republicans need to reach out to youth  on the issue of abortion by making  more snarky comments on  social media sites.

First off, the idea “Let’s make a lot of sarcastic jokes about abortion, which we are against totally, absolutely, in all circumstances, because that will convince people to vote for us” is a PETA level of delusional.

Secondly, even if abortion was good for a snicker or two, which it’s not, Republicans don’t do comedy.  They can’t.  Their jokes are all Obummer this and Mooshelle that and that gets tired real quick.  So, even if it was possible, instead of gross, disgusting and offensively condescending, they wouldn’t be able to do it.

Now, I’ll admit, this was not an officeholder, this was not the RNC.  This was a fundamentalist Republican youth group. (oh, I feel sorry for those people – now that I am 59, I  am more and more pleased with the fact that my youth was generally without thoughts of religion, responsibility, or most other social restraints, actually.  Fundies are SO missing out.)

That’s the funny part, though.  Republicans cannot afford to ignore their youth groups, no matter what kind of drooling, inbred, snake-handling, church going, cousin humping holler dwellers they are.

They cut them loose, they lose, because that’s a significant part of their base.  They don’t cut them loose, they spread like a cancer and take over the body.