GOP: A Party That Divides, Which We Cannot Stand

By Baxter

We cats had absolutely no intention of blogging about Jeb! Bush again so soon. But he's on this silly book tour, begging people to buy his latest gobbledegook so he can pay for his daughter Noelle's rehab. Which means that when he goes on all the talk shows, he has to get attention by saying something provocative.

The latest: President Obama won the election last year by "dividing the country." Opined the porcine former Florida Governor, "I think [Obama] ran a campaign of them and us."

Oh, be still our little feline hearts. A campaign of "them and us"? Does the brother of The Worst Person Who's Ever Lived have the vapors?

What did Jeb! think back in 2004, when his brother's "re-election" campaign was based on these selflessly unifying themes?

• If you vote Democratic, your kids will go gay. But if you vote Republican, you will save the institution of marriage.
• If you vote Democratic, you will die. But if you vote Republican, that means you love America. You're either with us, or you're with the terrorists.

Not to mention the fact that in 2012, the Republicans — including Mitt Romney, their standard-bearer — made it very clear that if you're not a wealthy, white, Christian, male voter, you don't count.

Jeb!, in other words, is all a-flutter about a tactic that Obama and the Democrats did not practice, but which the Republicans have honed to perfection. In fact, they've done it since the days of Richard Nixon. So forgive us if we do a massive eye-roll over this faux GOP outrage now.

Finally, will anyone in the press call Jeb! out on this silliness? We cats aren't holding our breath. But in the meantime, we HISS.