On the heels of yesterday's post re: the phenomenal level of subtlety among right-wingers, I present some comments from our Vice President.
He offers his standard homage to tax cuts, a warning about how terrorists are still trying desperately “to cause mass death here in the United States” and a derisive cataloging of the various “Dean Democrats,” congressmen including Charles B. Rangel of New York, Henry A. Waxman of California and Barney Frank of Massachusetts, whose influence would grow if the apocalypse came and Democrats took over Congress.
The crowd boos. “Don’t hold back,” Mr. Cheney urges.
The crowd laughs.
For those of you who aren't familiar with these more-obscure members of Congress, let me summarize what just happened here. The Vice-President, who I believe is a white guy, stood up in front of a room full of white Christian rednecks in Kansas and told them that if the Republicans lose control of Congress it will hand the nation over to Rangel (black), Waxman (Jewish), and Frank (gay).
Once again, so subtle! Too subtle! Stop with the subtle, it hurts! And so plausibly deniable! "What do you mean? I just picked those three names at random!" There was no intent on our Vice President's part, of course, to gain any mileage from rural redenecked Kansans' feelings about blacks, Jews, and homosexuals. None. In fact, the Vice President isn't even sure how Republican Kansans feel about those groups. Do they dislike them or something?
I can't tell if this is a 2006 midterm election or the 1952 Alabama governor's race.
Scott says:
Well, I think you're giving the rural rednecked Kansans too much credit. Do you think they know who Rangel, Waxman and Frank are, let alone that they are black, jewish and gay, respectively.
I think they booed simply because they are all Democrats and Democrats use the blood of infants in their mystical rituals – or so I hear.
Ed says:
Oh, the crowd may not have known. But Cheney knows.