R.E Vamp has just shown me one of the aptest demonstrations on why the Republicans are faring so badly at present. Have a look here.

As you may have noticed, it’s utterly self-satirising. However, as it’s just too tempting for me to miss, a prompt Fisking will follow.

First, the name. “Hussein Obama.” Now, has there ever been such a blatant attempt at trying to tar someone’s name with an incorrect association? Of course, what’s he trying to say is:

“He’s called Hussein! Hussein! You know who else was called Hussein? Yes, that’s right. Saddam. He was a dictator. A Hussein is a Hussein. He must be a muslim, or a dictator, or a terrorist. Or, as in our view, the same thing! QUICK, HANG HIM!”

What sharp analysis of his character there. I’d never have known him for one of those damn islamo-fascists if it hadn’t been demonstrated so aptly. To think I’d missed it! Just another example of his eastern cunning, no doubt, hiding his true nature by…being a Christian, or, you know, having another name he uses on a day-to-day basis. How could I not have seen straight through that?

Now, for the first of the really stupid sentences:

“Hussein’s exotic mixture of radical liberalism, Kwanzaa Socialism, antipathy towards the unborn, and weakness against his jihadi brethren will all come back to destroy him against almost any Republican opponent, even the snake-grope from Hope.”

In this list, the poster manages to fit in the following:

- A political oxymoron, linking radical liberalism (that is, a deep antipathy to the state inspired by a fanatical belief in individual liberty, which will ultimately lead to a support for free-market capitalism) with socialism (that is, in most context, an ideology primarily concerned with creating equality, usually through the state, and usually through limiting capitalism). Even accepting the American definition of liberalism the inclusion of, “radical,” before it suggests something closer to classical, laissez-faire beliefs. So, that’s quite the oxymoron.

- Racism. What’s the poster trying to say with the phrase, “kwanzaa socialism”? That Obama is black and thus - horror - must be a socialist? That Obama, because he is black, must be culturally African rather than American - despite being bought up by largely white American grandparents? Or simply that said poster is an idiot?

- Islamophobia. Isn’t the inherent suggestion in, “jihadi brethren,” that all muslims - and people of even partially muslim parentage like Obama - must be terrorists? Yes. And isn’t that one of the most insulting suggestions made so far?

- Appeals to a distinctly Republican group, in a piece where he claims that this will put non-Republican voters off voting for the Democrats. Aside from the suggestion that Obama enjoys murdering little children (Yes, they’ve always looked like strangler’s hands to me too…), the poster’s claim that Obama’s, “antipathy to the unborn,” will lose him pro-life votes seems weak, given that most hardcore anti-abortionists may well already vote Republican. Certainly, given that all of the major Democrat candidates are declared pro-choicers at the moment, I don’t think Obama winning the nomination is going to change anything.

- Insulting his own side’s voters - because that always works well. Given that the Iowan Republicans actually chose Huckabee as their nomination, and thus that some of them presumably like him, I’m not sure calling him the, “snake grope from hope,” is really going to go down too well…

Clearly, a man of great insight and common sense there.

“I think we as Republicans should be celebrating tonight at the coronation of Hussein, in whose presence millions of Democrat women, from elementary school teachers to journalism majors to law school grads to dykes on bikes will go weak in their knees.”

Let me translate that:

“Hey girls! I think you’re all a bunch of weak kneed airheads who swoon in the prescence of a man I think is as low as it gets! Oh, and if you even think of stepping out of the kitchen and having any aspirations - or an education - then YOU MUST BE A LESBIAN!”

The poster doesn’t seem to think that the Republicans need the votes of women, or blacks, or non-Christian, or moderates, or the fundamentalist Christians who like Huckabee. So, in essence, he doesn’t think they need the votes of anyone but White Anglo-Saxon conservative males. And yet he’s looking forward to an election victory?

“As defenders of this great Republic, and of the pinnacle of Western civilization that it represents, we should all come together tonight and agree on a common strategy that will keep the White House from becoming a madrassa.”

Hang on…only a moment ago, he was celebrating a certain victory. And now he wants a strategy to stop the black/communist/liberal/freemason conspiracy from taking over the White House? It takes quite something to be incapable of maintaining the same argument over two sentences…

“God Bless America, Land of the Free.”

The free WASPS, that is…

This Republican blogger appears to be utterly convinced that the Democrats will lose. That twice as many voted in the Democrat primary in Iowa than in the Republican one - in a traditionally Republican state - doesn’t bother him. That these MidWesterners turned out to vote for the black man of muslim parentage advocating reform doesn’t bother him either. That the facts prove him utterly wrong doesn’t bother him. Then again, judging by the post, the facts usually don’t…