Best Description of a Republican I've Ever Read

[specimenfred1984]

This is from RollingStone, 3/24, so I'm sure it was posted here on DU long ago but I didn't read it until today.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9519825/meet_mr_republican_jack_abramoff?rnd=1144952282375&has-player=true

--- Meet Mr. Republican: Jack Abramoff

...One of the ugliest developments in American culture since Abramoff's obscure Cold Warrior days in the Eighties has been the raging but highly temporary success of various "smart guys" who upon closer examination aren't all that smart. There was BALCO steroid scum Victor Conte ("The smartest son of a bitch I ever met in my life," said one Olympian client), Enron's "smartest guys in the room" Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay, and, finally, "ingenious dealmaker" Jack Abramoff. Somewhere along the line, in the years since the Cold War, Americans as a whole became such craven, bum-licking, self-absorbed fat cats that they were willing to listen to these fifth-rate prophets who pretended that the idea that rules could be broken was some kind of earth-shattering revelation -- as though they had fucking invented fraud and cheating. But to a man, they all turned out to be dumb, incompetent fuckups, destined to bring us all down with them -- not even good at being criminals. ---

[underpants]

1. Throw the "genius" Rove into the mix

Taking advantage of the rules, decorum, and basic human civility does not make you a genius it makes you a sociopath.

[Vickers]

8. Agreed! I just about shit a chicken every time that assclown is described

as a "genius."

Any-fucking-body can appeal to the lowest common denominator and the basest instincts of the dumbest strata of society and be wildly successful, DUH!

[saltpoint]

2. Works for me.

The bluer the better in 06.

[Maven]

3. Also from the article:

"Jack Abramoff -- right-wing megalobbyist and great feckless shitwad of our new American century"

:rofl:

Good read, thanks. :thumbsup:

[reichstag911]

4. Matt Taibbi's stuff is always scathing;...

...no wonder I love it!

[applegrove]

5. Agree! Nothing earth shatteringly novel about people who break all

the rules and think they are geniouses. HEY ASSHOLES & FREAKS.. THAT BOX YOU ARE THINKING OUTSIDE OF IS HUMANITY. HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH INTELLIGENCE. JUST A LACK OF BOUNDARIES ON YOUR PART.

If you want to think all day about living in a world outside of human norms.. great. All sorts of people live in worlds outside. They play great music, they plant great gardens, they usually do something amazing for humanity. Except for you. You are not even up there with idiot savants!!!

You are just ugly.

[Supersedeas]

6. several Pubby scumbags fit this category

[Blue_Tires]

7. well said n/t

[Lexingtonian]

9. smart rarely means wise

And fervent Pubbies are the epitome of clever idiots. Intelligent enough to see what can be done, but largely unwilling to work out the long term consequences.