http://www.texasgop.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5423Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
by Tina J. Benkiser
Chairman, Republican Party of Texas
Once upon a time, a big bad wolf tried to blow a house down. In the end, he huffed and he puffed, but he could not blow the brick house down. Today, the brick house is the Republican Family that is the vast majority of Texans. The big bad wolf’s name, Ronnie Earle the Earle of Injustice aka Renegade Ronnie.
<snip>You really have to wonder about the mindset of a party whose state chairmen invoke fairy tales to send messages. Of course, Benkiser might understand the typical Republican level of sophistication even better than we do.
Republicans seem to have quite an obsession with wolves. Few of us will ever forget last year's inadvertently funny campaign ad, "Wolves" (or the even funnier wolfpacksfortruth.org parody: "They told us we were shooting a Greenpeace commercial..."). And then there's Dubya's favorite hobby -- crying wolf -- which so many of his fellow Republicans also enjoy.
Benkiser's analogy reminded me, too, of what were hiding in the houses in that fairy tale -- pigs. Why do you suppose she didn't mention the pigs? Now there's an animal you'd think Republicans could easily identify with (even the ones who don't look like Karl Rove).
Unfortunately for the Republicans, that isn't a brick house they're pinning their hopes on.
It's a house of cards. And those tend to fall down all on their own, given enough time, and enough arrogance.
Not to mention enough self-deluding fairy tales...