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October 28, 2006
Double Secret Bush Agent Adam Ash and the Banality of Moonbats I do try so hard to accept that many people foolishly hold beliefs different than mine. This is a free country, so I must recognize that people have a right to be wrong.
But some of these ridiculous current day leftwing moonbats do vex me. See, I hate the damned Republicans. President Bush has done a half-assed job in Iraq, and has conspired with the Republican Congress to spend money in ways that would embarass drunken sailors. I would SO badly like to see this bunch of hacks swatted.
But the leadership and intelligentsia for the opposition Democrats and liberals has become so ridiculously awful in the last ten years or so as to make the Republicans look almost good. If the Republicans have been irresponsible with the purse, how much worse would the Democrats be? Also, if the Bush administration has done a half-assed job in combatting our enemies, that's one half of an ass more than most national Democrats would apparently be willing to commit.
On top of which, lacking significant alternative governing options to present the voters, Democrats have been reduced to sputtering hateful non-sequitirs and foaming at the mouth, particularly on internet sites like Daily Kos. I find it difficult to accept that even they themselves really believe most of the foolish stuff they say.
Funny that Adam Ash bases his main critique of Bush here on the idea that he's supposedly "unsophisticated," given the utterly dumbed-down Bush-BAD sentiment he always pushes. When the pigs led the residents of Animal Farm in shouting "Four legs good, two legs bad," they were showing more thoughtful, nuanced sophistication than this or other of Ash's anti-Bush rants. Mr Ash's writing displays an utterly unearned sense of moral and intellectual superiority that only a truly isolated and provincial person could produce.
Indeed, substituting the author's name for the presidents here makes a much truer statement: It's pretty easy to see how Adam Ash's "lack of sophistication breeds a bizarre and brazen ignorance of the real. This ignorance is thoroughly grounded in and Teflon-backed by a hard-core belief in the idea (ideal, ideology, religion, superstition) of the justice of his cause." Bush is BAD, so any kind of dumb crap you can come up with to say against him is cool.
What he's calling "sophistication" here is truly the opposite- merely the sophistic lawyerly ability to talk crap out of both sides of your mouth. Real sophistication would apparently consist of cleverly coming up with excuses to justify doing the left wing thing in the teeth of all apparent facts on the ground.
Thus, we've got sworn enemies plotting to kill US at every turn, busily trying to leverage their way into high-tech WMDs. Adam Ash would deny the obvious underlying point that we need to figure out who and where these people are and bash their heads in whenever possible. Instead, the sophisticated thing to do would be to hang out with Noam Chomsky making excuses for why it's all our own fault while dumbasses are blowing up our people.
Whereas an actually at least halfway normally intelligent person like President Bush understands the obvious limits of talk and diplomacy when dealing with murderous thugs.
Also, stupid Freudian psychological profiling of the president such as Mr Ash does here and in other essays is not any sign of sophistication, but only of cheap, self-congratulatory intellectual masturbation. I note that this supposed insight based on tired, cliched "dry drunk" psychologizing is utterly and completely arbitrary, made up whole cloth: "Changing his mind about anything is tantamount to falling off the wagon. It would be like forsaking Christ." Apparently, Mr Ash thinks he's Maureen Dowd- but this kind of useless nonsense was boring, predictable and intellectually disreputable even when she first started doing it years ago.
Rand knows I hate the damned Republicans. They're mostly just SUCH a bunch of cheesy, self-serving politicians. I'd love to see them get their hats handed to them.
But what are we going to do, hand the defense of our lives over to someone that the likes of Adam Ash would pick? Imagine his liberal wet-dream president attempting to deal with Iranian nuclear ambitions by mere sarcasm and mockery. Perhaps a scathing Freudian analysis of Kim Jong Il's relationship with his late father will get him to stop killing people. Maybe Ms Dowd can write something about Kim Jong Il dropping his Juicy-Juice box, as she did of W. Now THAT is sophistication and rapier wit. I bet that'll get his goat.
Left-wingers these days especially dig a good evil Republican conspiracy, so let me just clue you sheeple up to what's really happening behind all this craziness: Adam Ash, Daily Kos, Maureen Dowd and some other such supposed lefty types are obviously on George Bush's payroll. Isn't it obvious? Much as the cartoon figures on South Park pushing 9/11 conspiracy theories were Bush stooges trying to make him look omnipotent, cartoon caricatures of intellectualism like Adam Ash are just fodder to inspire the Republican base.
You have to think that it's a heller good investment. Karl Rove slips the likes of Adam Ash et al a few measly thousand bucks here and there, and Adam Ash and the Daily Kos fill their end of the bargain by talking such shrill foolishness as to drown out serious discussion of the Republican's terrible failings and positively generate sympathy for them to boot - while simultaneously casting a buffoonishly hateful stereotype that actual legitimate liberal critics of the administration have to overcome before they can even start making any actual criticism.
