Zombies have been a big deal in popular culture for a few years, and, according to a Sunday post on Daily Kos, in politics as well. Blogger JBtakenote declared that Republicans have morphed from a political party into a racist, plutocratic “zombie cult army” that Kossacks need to vote against in the midterms, even if they feel like sitting the election out to punish President Obama and other Democrats for being insufficiently liberal.
“Today's GOP sees our democratic system as a toy,” opined JBtakenote. “And that -- more than anything else -- makes the entire party disqualified for office.”
From the post (emphasis added):
[T]he Republican party - by virtue of their behavior over the past 6 years alone - should be disqualified from holding any office, anywhere.
Honestly, this is not a political party - not any more. They are a zombie cult army, and they see us as an enemy, not political opposition…
This political "party" thinks that it is OK to use the law to deny people the right to vote so they have a better shot at winning...And when the courts say "no" to the new Jim Crow, they send intimidation squads into polling places to try to cut off votes that way…
This is the GOP that decided…to demean [Obama] with a wink and a nod to the crazy (and racist) birther people…How many news stories have we seen of GOP operatives sending around emails that show watermelons growing on the White House lawn, and the like?...
The last Republican to publically tell a racist to STFU was John McCain during one of his campaign rallies in 2008 - and that was before President Obama won the election. Since then - birthers, Tea Party and Donald Trump speak? From the GOP leadership we hear crickets, and watch them wink and nod at the lunatics they have no business cavorting with - because they know those are guaranteed GOP votes…
And I haven't even mentioned the American Taliban, the war on women, the monstrous way they view gay people and latino immigrants, or the Koch Brothers and their oligarchical pals…
Today's GOP sees our democratic system as a toy. And that - more than anything else - makes the entire party disqualified for office.
So maybe your Democratic candidates are not your favorites ever. Or maybe you think the President could be better on some issue. Or you think Harry Reid needs to learn a lesson. Do you honestly think any of that is worth the damage the GOP can do? Did the last Bush administration teach you nothing?
