Tarbabies

Man buys ring woman throws it away
Same old thing happens everyday
I'm down (I'm really down)
I'm down (Down on the ground)
--I'm Down, The Beatles
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
'Cause the banners, they all flown in the last war
--Won't Get Fooled Again, The Who
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These are the people to whom Ann Coulter, witchy pied piper of that crew, says hopefully, Sarah Palin could be the next Ronald Reagan . “Raise your children so none of them turn out like Ron Reagan Junior, and be a good governor, and then I think she could be another Ronald Reagan..." (Ann Coulter: Palin Could be Next Reagan.)
So if she reads The Federalist papers for the next decade (saith the witch), Ms. Palin could be in league with The Gipper, becoming the Right's next know-nothing bauble-head. Just brilliant.
Yeah, but no Ron Reagan, Jrs., fer chrissakes. Bad enough Dick Cheney's got a lesbo daughter. Boys as ballet dancers = bad, unless of course, you're Mikhail Baryshnikov. One wonders how Reagan even became Reagan, saddled as he was with a prancing faggot for a son (I'd really like Ms. Coulter to explain that one.) Hockey's the thing.
And for them, the political philosophies of America are conceived, drawn and executed by Ivy Leaguers. In this way, George Bush was masterfully drawn, and his patrician background was subjugated to allow his ascendence to the position of Redneck in Chief.
The iconography was all right: ineloquent, tumbleweed mover, big belt buckles and boots, brother who ran for Florida Governor under the banner "JEB!" Those who do not hail from the swamps think it's a hoot, and understand that images must be tweaked in the name of expediency.
Similarly, Bill Clinton was drawn to ensnare the largest demographic, emphasizing the Good Old Boy persona over the Rhodes Scholar. Clinton (The First Black President), however, coming as he did from modest means rather than a dynasty, was the more authentic of the two men.
Now, we confront a change of administration, historic we are told in that the new President is a person of color. However, his $5,000 Hart Schaffner Marx suits belie the fable that he is one of us and might have people named "Pookie and Ray-Ray" living on a mattress in the back room who need to be kicked every four years into the voting booth. Obama is still an Ivy League man. The color may be new, but the song remains the same.
Ranger says this in the face of Obama's tapping Brent Scowcroft and Robert Gates to play on his team. They do not represent the change that the voters thought they would get. Both are George H. W. Bush's tarbabies, and they are being thrown back into this Democrat's briar patch
Scowcroft is a fine, intelligent and loyal American, but he is tarred and feathered by his former affiliations. If one were looking for geneological linkages, one might wonder if this is a way for Obama to embrace the H. W. crowd. Like in a game of basketball, Obama is picking up 41 as his mentor where 43 dropped him in favor of his Spiritual Father.
The redneckiness of America is assuaged by this unholy pastiche of Mr. Obama + Bush père. Every legitimate redneck family has one in the woodpile.
--Jim and Lisa
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