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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublican Theory meets Reality,and goes Splat. Again.
http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/republican-theory-meets-realityand-goes-splat-again/Snips:
"But then, it was Karl Rove who explicity pooh-poohed reality and extolled the virtues of creating ones own version based upon a theory. So the idea that Republicans cannot, and indeed should not, accept reality comes from the very core of their modern-day leadership. And so, it is not all that hard to believe that an entire party has chosen to live in a fairyland. And the fact that they choose to ignore the facts when they are not in compliance with their airy-fairy, fluffy-sparkly, unicorns-pooping-pretty -butterflies theory isnt all that hard to understand.
But regardless of the source of the unreal world or its theoretical underpinnings, that Theory is going to go Splat whenever it runs into Reality. And what gets hit by that splattering? You guessed er, Chester: its us."
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Republican Theory meets Reality,and goes Splat. Again. (Original Post)
riqster
Dec 2013
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So, in other words, their version of reality is still working for them.
Jackpine Radical
Dec 2013
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JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)1. Well,
I don't wish that splatter on me!
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)2. So, in other words, their version of reality is still working for them.
It's gonna take an overheated Earth, rising oceans, and peasants with pitchforks to fix that.
riqster
(13,986 posts)5. To ze lumberyard!!
Marr
(20,317 posts)3. Why should they care if their ideology doesn't align with reality?
They aren't selling solutions, they're selling candidates. If fantasy gets their guy elected, then it works, as far as they're concerned.
riqster
(13,986 posts)4. Oh, it's not them caring that matters.
It's the rest of us understanding. Then caring. Then de-jobbing the lot of them.