Trembling, unhinged hatemonger wrestles his personal demons
Wherein The Last True Conservative loses it completely, frothing that Karl Rove and Dick Cheney are America’s versions of…wait for it…wait for it…
Ahmadinejad’s bag of tricks is eerily like that of Karl Rove – the constant use of fear, the exploitation of religion, the demonization of liberals, the deployment of Potemkin symbolism like Sarah Palin…
Think of this regime as Cheney and Rove in a police state setting, and you see what’s been going on. (Of course, Rove and Cheney live within a democratic system utterly unlike Iran, and there’s no evidence they would violate democratic norms as Khamenei just did. But their demagoguery, abuse of the state, dedication to conflict abroad, co-optation of the armed forces, and manipulation of rural and religious voters all have parallels in Red State Iran.) We keep expecting to see some kind of shame or some attempt at rational dialogue. They have nothing but contempt for that kind of talk. If they’re going to lie, it’s gonna be a Big Lie. Like this sham of an election.
My God. “Red State Iran.” Reading this lunatic’s deranged swill is now tantamount to watching a slow-mo mental breakdown. There is simply no smear too outrageous — or absurd — for him to fling at his erstwhile heroes, no analogy too twisted for him to employ in demonizing the objects of his irrational hatred. Their perceived betrayal of him and the hobgoblin pet issues of his narcissistic little mind is more than politics, and more than personal, even; to such a one, their every move and machination can only be seen as premeditated acts of absolute evil, perpetrated against everything that is good, decent, and just, and therefore any comparison to actual, quantifiable evil — ie, evil that doesn’t really require lengthy explanation (or whackjob conspiracy theorizing) to understand as such — is germane, reasonable, and appropriate.
For progressivist psychotics like Sullivan, anything and everything can and shall be blamed on their unholy triumvirate of Rove, Cheney, and Bush — forever and ever, amen. Meanwhile, the person who truly did betray the spluttering buffoon gets a pass, presumably because he’s still, I dunno, a “person of good will” or something.
Update! This spot formerly contained a link to Totten’s latest update, which on reflection I saw no reason to sully by association with a post on Sullivan’s ravings, and so split off into its own post. I’ll replace it with this observation: when some Lefty nut gets around to attempting to assassinate any or all members of Sullivan’s Unholy Trinity, will his outrageous slanders be denounced as “incitement?” Just askin’.
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