On this anniversary of the London terrorist attacks — a day on which Rupert Murdoch may have received some of his just deserts — we cats are focused on mendacity.
And what is more steeped in mendacity than today's Republican Party? We cats are hard-pressed to think of a domestic example.
To wit: Here is today's story about Michele Bachmann's latest media buy. We have a few declarations about this Bachmann purchase.
It is NOT about the Ames, Iowa straw poll. In reality, it's about scaring Rick Perry (and others) out of the state. It's about giving all the Republican whackbags second thoughts about signing on with Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich — or anyone else.
Most of all, it's about sending a signal to the great, unloved Mitt Romney: that he can't skip the Iowa straw poll and then roll into the state for a couple of days and expect to be in the fight for the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination. And that — as the inadequate political media have started to realize — he has a lot of vulnerabilities in a national party that now has fully embraced racism, sexism and extremism.
Incredible as it seems, at this point in the clown college that passes for the Republican Presidential race, we cats think that the stars — and the states — currently align for the whacko woman from Minnesota.
Is that a bad thing? Oh, no. We cats PURR.
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