Sweet Apathy

Oh Apathy—you are looking so sweet .

It seems the Libertarian Party may choose to go mainstream --- flush principle down the crapper, and nominate one of the biggest douche bags on the D List Politco circuit--committed racist, homophobe and public boob licker Bob Barr—which means I burn my LP card.

(NOTE--today Bob Barr made it official and threw his A cup jock strap into the ring--my salute is in a postscript to this post).

And John McCain—sorry old pasty face. You are truly a hero and a decent guy, but the tag McBush is not really inappropriate, except if the past is any indication, the maverick stew will be spiced with a few harebrained (most likely unconstitutional) liberal-lite tid bits.

If only I could join the in-crowd and just be an Obamite. All the cool kids are doing it. Red-State-Blue State, Black-White, Rich-Poor,Conservative-Liberal,Male-Female, Queer-Breeder----none of it matters anymore—its a transcendent moment and a new age in America—skeptics like me are just old cranky bats, soon to be left in the dust heap of history by the Age of Obama.

I sure hope I am not becoming one of those people who gets a kick out of stepping on other people's dreams. But to me, Barack Obama just seems an ordinary liberal, albeit refreshingly intelligent, successfully dished up to a competence-hungry nation by the leftist royalty of Chicago, where the weather is always fine since Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn reign supreme.

However, I am not sure anyone really cares about the thoughts of Obama—the adoration of the adorable, but vacuous headed, Amber Lee Ettinger , is really not atypical. The dude is the thinking person's Dubya—he's just one heck of a good guy.

I ask my friends why they like Barack—and there is a gleam of orgasm in their eye. I get it-- we all know that mixed race people are by far the hottest. At least , unlike the last two general elections, the personal attraction is not accompanied by rebel yells, jubilant demonstrations of our second amendment rights and numerous toasts of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Of course, I have to admit the inner Trailer Park Tramp in me likes all that stuff— but we should have learned by now that the best-guy(gal)- to-pal-around-with is not a good way to pick the Leader of the Free World. Besides, with politicians, it's always a falsie, which our personality-obsessed culture is all too eager to swallow.

Sonny turned out to be a preppie drug store cowboy in the worst way, and an actor that makes John Wayne look good.

And Hillary—she is not going to lose the nomination as a result of sexism, but those who deny the sexism and say:" its not all women, just THAT WOMAN"—just don't get it. As I discussed a while back, the sexism she endured was glaringly apparent to almost all women.

Even though I don't like Hillary Clinton as a person, or her politics, I admire the fight she put up against insidious misogyny. And because she kept fighting against the sexism, her gender is NOT the reason she is going to be denied the nomination. For that she is hero to me, and to a whole lot of women.

It's just like Obama is a hero to almost all blacks, regardless of whether they will vote for him or not, or are Democrats, Republicans, libertarians or just apathetic (yes, just like lesbians--- African-Americans are far from being some homogeneous group that necessarily supports all aspects of the “black agenda” and can be perpetually taken for granted by the Democratic Party).

I know most of my lesbian pals are disappointed. But even in the recent Rambo-chick days, before the campaign steamed full speed ahead into the state of denial, I still could not picture Hill comfortably outfitted in a rainbow chocker, bullet proof corset and pleated khaki shorts.

However, the whole Clinton thing is now sadder and more disturbing than the Lewinsky humiliation.

Maybe if the pant suit doll had smartened up and strategically kicked Bill in the nuts, I could choke back some Hillary Honey tears. There was certainly ample reason to finally put an end to the dysfunction . The final straw should have been the pathetic bombastic attempt, as an offensive ward captain, to make up for a lifetime addiction to chubby interns and horesy faced hussies.

Bill and Hillary Clinton have successfully surpassed the TomKats as the creepiest couple on the planet.

Now if Chelsea would only try on that corset...



P.S.--

Today Bob Barr, author of the Defense of Marriage Act, supporter of the Patriot Act and the Iraq invasion, and overall sleazeball, officially announced his candidacy for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination.

Since he lost his Congressional seat four years ago, the guy has done a flip flop that makes Mitt Romney look like a straight shooter, and now professes to be a libertarian (though his views on the immigration issue remain openly and proudly antagonistic to the Libertarian Party platform).

The racist and homophobe hopes to take advantage of the Ron Paul rEVOLution--as well as siphon off some paleoconservative and social conservative support from John McCain.

If he gets the nomination in two weeks, the Libertarian Party will probably score a one time, all time, vote record in the general election--since Barr is a star, though a dim, slimy tarnished one.

It will also mean the end of the party as "the party of principle", my association with it--along with throngs of other libertarian minded people--and insure that it will never ever be any kind of force in American politics--not even as a nominator of candidates, who may not win, but whom at least some of us could vote for with a clear conscience.

When it comes to Bob Barr, I can not simply be apathetic.

I like Christine Smith, but will go along with any of the other libertarian candidates who are sincere, and have tirelessly worked the bake sales, backyard barbecues, gun shows, peace marches, talk radio circuit, and primaries.

In other words ANY real libertarian.

Oh, and Mike Gravel is not one of those either. Most of his political positions are not very libertarian at all--but, at least he is not the hypocritical offensive asshole that Bob Barr is.

Even John McBush is a superior candidate, and a much higher quality guy, than Bob Barr.

~Becky

NOTE: Christine Smith turned out to be an uber-disappointment. She made a total ass of herself at the Libertarian convention, and with her weird performance, proved the old maxim "with enemies like that who needs friends"--and actually contributed in that way to the Libertarian Party sell out and the nomination of non-libertarian douche bag Bob Barr.