establishment democrats are every bit as stupid as teabaggers

i know it's not right to pick on the stupid or ignorant--my daughter tells me that all the time--but this circle-jerk of ignorance and obama-fluffing is just too much to ignore.  over at ballon juice--the rosetta stone of rock-ribbed establishment democrats, right-wing democratic fools and third-tier obama fluffers--dennis g. loses shit and warns against participating in the political process beyond what he believes is appropriate because some americans like ralph nader and cornel west might just not be sufficiently worshipful of barack h. obama and his presidency.  he's actually absurd enough to use the word geniuses in the title of a post so littered with ignorance, misinformation and rampant asshattery.  it's sublime.  of course, imani gandy gets so wet and sticky that she jumps into the comments and starts biting at any ankles she can find while furiously rubbing herself in appreciation in a following post of her own.  this shit is so fucking pointless that i expect to see it crossposted on lawyers, guns & money.

i understand that dennis g. is an establishment guy.  low-level establishment guys--and balloon juice is about the lowest level you can get--do their jobs and don't ask any questions.  you're essentially a cheerleader for a team not many people like, but you get out there and flash some leg regardless.  dennis g. will support the team and the captains because that's just what he does; he's not capable of doing anything else.  he doesn't make value judgements or have his own opinions.  he knows that even the talk of primary could make his guy look bad, so the people talking primary get the screechy insult treatment.  he wants to seem so reasonable, so responsible that anybody who might object is clearly some sort of monster.  ralph nader is a bad guy because he might not love obama enough.  he's a bad guy because dennis g. says so.  he cost al gore an election because that's what the democratic party says, and dennis g. says so.  it's foolishness of the highest order, but it is the way our political system works.  in this country politics is intramurals.  the only dangerous opposition is anyone who doesn't want to play to dennis g.'s rules.  he's out there doing his best to keep the idiots in line, and he will lie and pout and cry like a bitch if they don't.

ralph nader didn't cost gore the election; that's a zombie lie that will never die as long as tools like dennis g. have breath in their lungs.  joe lieberman cost him the presidency.  bill daley did.  warren christopher did.  al gore did.  nader delivered votes in florida and took votes from bush.  without nader, bush may have actually won the election!

i've been on these assholes for a while.  it's politics as usual, but this politics is now plainly killing all of us.  sure, it was hard to see in the 70's, and dennis g. is no where near bright enough to have seen it then, but if he's still an establishment guy now, then he's every bit as bad as rick perry or the run-of-the-mill brain-dead, racist teabagger.  a primary may hurt obama, but obama has ignored a large segment of his 2008 voters.  he's governed as a hard-right corporatist, so it's not a stretch to say that ralph nader and cornel west have a point when they say that obama does not represent them and, except for empty campaign rhetoric, apparently has no intention of ever representing their interests or their political positions.

it was good to see some pushback in the comments.  of course abl and the barking morons were out, but that's their playground.  the irreparable fractures in the democratic party are a good thing, with the dennis g./imani gandy douchnozzles on one side and actual free-thinking liberals on the other who will eventually be in different parties.  the moderate republicans are welcome to obama and his acolytes while the liberals attempt to herd cats and form a true leftish (center-left) major party.  not a great outcome, but better than the solid right-wing (democrats) and far-right (republicans) parties we have now.

the fundamentalist republicans long ago abandoned the position of always voting for the republican; they put morons on the school board and worked them up the ladder to change the complexion of the party.  it took 40 years, but they self-selected for borderline-retarded jeebus-lovers, and now lunatics like orin hatch look like moderate republicans.  dennis g. doesn't want that to happen to the democratic party in the opposite direction with actual liberal men and women of ideas and principles taking over the party from within.  he wants you to vote only for the party pick because that is what keeps his people in charge.  if anyone actually votes their beliefs, at some point we could end up with a party that thinks jerkoffs like dennis g. are right-wing stooges.