The Bloomberg Subtext

[McCamy Taylor]

So, the most conservative Democrats (read corporate friendly) and the least God fearing Republicans (read corporate friendly) are backing the least evangelical former Republican they can find in a third party splitter presidential campaign.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/29/AR2007122901476.html?hpid=topnews

New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a potential independent candidate for president, has scheduled a meeting next week with a dozen leading Democrats and Republicans, who will join him in challenging the major-party contenders to spell out their plans for forming a "government of national unity" to end the gridlock in Washington.

The list of acceptances suggests that the group could muster the financial and political firepower to make the threat of such a candidacy real.

Danforth said he remains a Republican but finds little cause for optimism among the current GOP candidates. "My party is appealing to a real meanness," he said in an interview, "and an irresponsible sense of machismo in foreign policy. I hope it will be less extreme, but I'm an American before I'm a Republican." Danforth has also written critically about the impact of religious conservatives on the Republican Party.

There is only one reason why any group of major political players would make a big political announcement in the ultimate political paper, the Washington Post penned by known right wing mouthpiece and Bush water carrier, David Broder one week before the Iowa caucuses which anti-business candidate and former minister Mike Huckabee is expected to win with the help of the Religious Right, whose membership the GOP have courted for over two decades without actually delivering any payback. See if you can select the correct answer from the list of three possible choices below.

1. They were sitting around getting drunk on Peppermint Schnapps, and it seemed like a good idea at the time.

2. Their buddies at the Washington Post called them up and said "Hey, it's kinda slow over the holidays. You got any good stories we can use?"

3. They are attempting to put the fear of the Lord Our God Who Art in The Boardrooms of America's Major Corporations into all those uppity rank and file Republican voters who think that they are going to buck their party and vote for Huckabee in Iowa.


On its face, Broder's article appears to say that yet another New Yorker wants to run this country. However, looks can be deceiving. To all the Bible toting, white patent shoe wearing evangelical voters of Iowa, what it really says is "Go cast your vote for Huckabee and make him your party's anointed one, and we will give you a New York Jewish liberal for president. Or, you could make the sensible choice and vote for a nice, clean cut corporate friendly Mormon. Your call."

Broder's article contains more subtext than text, and the subtext tells poor, eager Republican voters who just want to follow their conscience that their consciences do not matter. Their hearts tell them that Huckabee is the candidate they have been waiting for. Broder tells them that the current candidates do not measure up, and worse, Christian voters are a threat to the Republican party. How ungrateful! After all they have done for the GOP. Why, he might as well call them an infestation or some kind of bug!

The subtext tells the reader that though the Christians may have the votes, all the money will be going to the Corporate Savior (aka The Evil Anti Huckabee ). All the corporate media hype and publicity that would usually be given free of charge to the Republican nominee will be heaped upon Bloomberg's head, while Huckabee will have to endure his own special version of "Gore is a liar" to be known as "Huckabee is a hick."

And for what, the subtext whispers? Billionaire third party splitter's accomplish only one thing in this country. They get Clintons elected.

"Get behind me, Satan," reply the up until now faithful Republican Party Christian Coalition members as they hold up their Bibles like shields against the web of lies being spun around them. They are filled with the faith that moves mountains. Christ was not swayed by the devil's temptations, and neither will they be. For two and a half decades they have been the faithful base of a party which has given them nothing but sex and bribery scandals.

Unfortunately for Broder and the corporate interests who are in the process of having collective heart attacks at the thought of a Mike Huckabee presidency, there is only one text that these people really care about, and that is the word of the Lord Their God Who Most Definitely Does Not Live in America's Boardrooms.

[Overseas]

1. Thanks for saying it so well

I have been curious about the Bloomberg phenomenon and you captured many of the angles of concern and yes indeed, the Lookie Here effect.

[madfloridian]

2. Well-said.

That faith still exists. They moved mountains in Ohio in 04...came from nowhere.

Nice post.