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A standard Republican line is that they are the victims of a biased media.

They seem to miss the fact that the bias, if any, is toward showing the world as it is rather than the world that the GOoPers wish it could be.

It is no news that there is bias in reporting. Duh.

But the Repubs have turned it into a stem winding talking point.

Why does this work?

I think it works because it hits right at the paranoia and personal discomfort of their audience.

I have known wingers since I was a young man. In the army, the rant and rave of a guy over the "reds" and so on.

They never seem to pause and think that the "bias" may often just be straight on reporting of the dither that they dish as their standard rhetoric.

Anger Over Debate Fills Iowa Republican Forum

Look. There he is, obese and gasping it out. Christie.

Do they ever consider that a lot of this is based on self hatred? The finger pointing out because they can't look at themselves?

He is a classic fat boy who has probably had a hard life because of it. He is not the only wounded boy now trying for the big prize. Carson's is obvious. Black and lost professional goals. Early retirement. Ted Cruz, a bastard for a father. And so on. Take a look.

Are Democrats neurotic? Sure. Bill Clinton is our poster child and Hillary his standard bearer. That is their story.

But, come on. I have a lot of shit in my history too. I am looking for recognition. I have always wanted to be "class president" just to "show them". Sometimes I succeeded. A lot of appointments, the easiest way to get power. One election.

Some think this is an easy road. It is not. Try driving past your monster campaign poster every day on the Boston SE expressway and see if it is not an ego boost and a simultaneous anxiety hit.

Politicians are like actors. Working through their shit the best way that they can.

More power to them. There are a lot of sick fucks on the sidelines who will never step out and take the heat. Their wounds are disabling. Their sourness is sad.

The politician works it out. Sublimates to do good works. Or at least works s/he thins are good. More power to them.

Oh. And, by the way, do you really think that we are going to elect an obese president? No way fat boy. You are a schmuck not because you are fat but because you can't see over it and look at yourself.

There. That is my bit of biased venom for today.

Labels: GOoPers, republican whack jobs