Today a friend of mine sent out a joke to his mailing list about GM's new car, the Obama. It was typical Republican hype, like "This car runs on hot air and broken promises." I'm not going to reprint it in its entirety. You can get an idea of how not funny it was.
But for once I wasn't angry about this claptrap polluting my inbox. In fact, I want every Republican I know to keep circulating these jokes and I'll tell you why.
In November:
32% of Americans identified as Republican
39% of Americans identified as Democrats
29% of Americans identified as Independents
A month ago:
21% of Americans identified as Republican
35% of Americans identified as Democrats
39% of Americans identified as Independents
Since the election, a time when people tend to identify more strongly with a political party, the Democrats have lost 10% of their support. The Republicans have lost a whopping 34% of their support.
Time and time again, the credit for the huge losses in support has gone to the abrasive ideologues who have been taking control of the Republican party. Limbaugh, Cheney, and their ilk have been compared to GOP Neros fiddling while the Republican party burns.
And that's why I encourage the distribution of these unfunny jokes. These ideological rants, thinly disguised as humor, are helping liberals accomplish a lifelong dream: the marginalization of the Republican party. So please keep distributing them guys. Nothing better than watching a political party self-destruct.
I can already envision my Republican friends (you know who you are) responding by posting comments about some sin they believe the liberals have committed.
I'm going to cut you off right now. That doesn't matter. That's a deflection. Nancy Pelosi's statements about the CIA have nothing to do with why over 34% of the people who called themselves Republicans in November have defected from the party, why you're down 16% from just two months ago. Nancy Pelosi's mistakes, Obama's mistakes, and Harry Reid's mistakes can't explain why people don't want to call themselves Republicans.
If anything, mistakes by the liberal side should be increasing your numbers. The more convincing your arguments for why the liberals are screwing everything up, the worse you look. If all your rhetoric about the bad liberals is right, how freakin' lame are you that your numbers are dwindling at a time when potential converts should be flooding your way?
So please, keep sending out these jokes. Please keep drilling the talking points on Fox News. Please keep putting your feet in your mouths with veiled racial slurs. Please keep doing all the obstructionist stuff you accused Democrats of when you held majorities, but doing it more blatantly and obnoxiously so it's really easy for the media to show you doing one thing and then quote your condemnation of the very same thing from a few years ago.
Stay the course, guys. It's working so well for you.