Sixteen years ago, South Carolina gave The Worst Person Who's Ever Lived a lifeline to the Republican nomination — after his campaign destroyed John McCain with race-based personal allegations. Big surprise after Willie Horton, right? Right.
But maybe the arc of history truly does bend toward justice. Because Jeb! Bush just dropped out of the 2016 Republican race after a poor showing in... wait for it... South Carolina. Wow! Lee Atwater's home state hands Little Jebbie his death sentence. We cats couldn't think of better symmetry.
Gosh, how insulting is this? We cats have to wrap our heads around it, because we are Democrats and have to get into the Republican mindset. We're thinking that even though we know that the Freeps and the teabags and the religious nuts have despised Bush for years, it's still a massive humiliation — especially since the Republican establishment couldn't josh the base along and make them believe that Jeb! would make their dreams a reality.
Ya know... maybe the Schiavo case was a decider in 2016. Normal Americans saw that as as unwarranted governmental intrusion into a family's personal medical decision. The teabags and the Bible bangers, on the other hand, thought that Jeb! should have sent the FDLE into Terri's hospice and kidnapped her. We're thinking that perhaps Jeb!'s lukewarm reception in the GOP primaries was due to that after all.
Well — whatever. We cats despise Jeb! and all Bushes. And although we wish he'd had the moxie to stick it out longer, we simply have to PURR.
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