There are two small sub-groups we can quckly dispose of.
First,the current descendants of the retarded Juke and Kallikak families,whose paw and granpaw and great granpaw all voted straight Repulican from the days of Honest Abe, and they ain't about to change now. (Democrats have the same cerebrally-challenged lifers.)
Then you have the patronage beneficiaries. Congressman Dickhead got old Mrs Kelly's spastic grandson a job in the Federal Reserve, so Ma Kelly, Spassy Kelly and the whole Kelly Klan are forever GoPers ( or Dems).
But these retards and opportunists surely count for no more than 2 or 3 percent of the Misbegotton Twenty Seven.
Those folks are concentrated in two strong factions of the American Polit Scene: the Religious Right, and the Gun Lobby, the NRA.
These folks are the heart and soul of the Bush Believers.
Georgie didn't give the anti-abortion hallelujah chorus all they wanted, but he gave them enough to have them perhaps beliveing he is the reincarnation of John the Baptist.
In particular, he gave them a couple of Supreme Court jusices in whom they are well pleased. If he could run for a third term they support him again, as with a few more justices they may see Roe v Wade reversed.
And American woman, as of old, streaming down to Tijuana to terminate a pregnancy.
The Bible and Bullets Brigades are the foot soldiers of the 27 percenters. They don't much care how many Iraqis or Iranians, or even Americans are killed, as long the "slaughter of the innocents" can be legally reversed. (OK to slaughter those godless Muslims)
And the other foot soldiers of the greatest disaster this nation has ever experienced?
The stalwarts of the NRA.
I agree completely with defending the Second Amendment. In fact, at one time I was a member (but too busy even to read their magazine, so dropped out).
But NRA made a big mistake, IMO, in endorsing and helping to twice finance Bush.
I used to tell goodhearted but anti-gun folks that the Bill of Rights are a whole - if you support 8 or 9 of the first Ten, but oppose one or two, you help destroy them all.
They all reserve certain key powers to the people. Including arms bearing (tho the writers should have left out that stuff about a "militia.")
But the same goes for supporting an ally of the 2nd, if that guy is the president, and is busy destroying other Constiturional rights, like the prohibition agaisnt unreasonable search and seizure, habeus corpus,and the like.
If they go, and Bush and buddies have put them under attack, the 2nd also will be flushed down the drain.
NRA should support those sentors and congressmen who pledge defense of the 2nd,and refrain from endorsing prez candidates.
But they can't and won't. And so they take their place in the Ignominious 27.
The Bible Battalions and the Shotgun Soldiers - the 27 percent wall raised by these worthies have prevented GWB from righteously being impeached, and put on trial for all kinds of crimes and misdeamors, high and low.
End of rant.
First,the current descendants of the retarded Juke and Kallikak families,whose paw and granpaw and great granpaw all voted straight Repulican from the days of Honest Abe, and they ain't about to change now. (Democrats have the same cerebrally-challenged lifers.)
Then you have the patronage beneficiaries. Congressman Dickhead got old Mrs Kelly's spastic grandson a job in the Federal Reserve, so Ma Kelly, Spassy Kelly and the whole Kelly Klan are forever GoPers ( or Dems).
But these retards and opportunists surely count for no more than 2 or 3 percent of the Misbegotton Twenty Seven.
Those folks are concentrated in two strong factions of the American Polit Scene: the Religious Right, and the Gun Lobby, the NRA.
These folks are the heart and soul of the Bush Believers.
Georgie didn't give the anti-abortion hallelujah chorus all they wanted, but he gave them enough to have them perhaps beliveing he is the reincarnation of John the Baptist.
In particular, he gave them a couple of Supreme Court jusices in whom they are well pleased. If he could run for a third term they support him again, as with a few more justices they may see Roe v Wade reversed.
And American woman, as of old, streaming down to Tijuana to terminate a pregnancy.
The Bible and Bullets Brigades are the foot soldiers of the 27 percenters. They don't much care how many Iraqis or Iranians, or even Americans are killed, as long the "slaughter of the innocents" can be legally reversed. (OK to slaughter those godless Muslims)
And the other foot soldiers of the greatest disaster this nation has ever experienced?
The stalwarts of the NRA.
I agree completely with defending the Second Amendment. In fact, at one time I was a member (but too busy even to read their magazine, so dropped out).
But NRA made a big mistake, IMO, in endorsing and helping to twice finance Bush.
I used to tell goodhearted but anti-gun folks that the Bill of Rights are a whole - if you support 8 or 9 of the first Ten, but oppose one or two, you help destroy them all.
They all reserve certain key powers to the people. Including arms bearing (tho the writers should have left out that stuff about a "militia.")
But the same goes for supporting an ally of the 2nd, if that guy is the president, and is busy destroying other Constiturional rights, like the prohibition agaisnt unreasonable search and seizure, habeus corpus,and the like.
If they go, and Bush and buddies have put them under attack, the 2nd also will be flushed down the drain.
NRA should support those sentors and congressmen who pledge defense of the 2nd,and refrain from endorsing prez candidates.
But they can't and won't. And so they take their place in the Ignominious 27.
The Bible Battalions and the Shotgun Soldiers - the 27 percent wall raised by these worthies have prevented GWB from righteously being impeached, and put on trial for all kinds of crimes and misdeamors, high and low.
End of rant.
