Right Wingers Will Be Unable to Resist Defending Cheney

By John O’Connor

Steve Benen writes on the jabs that Bill Clinton and Dick Cheney traded this week:

Even putting aside questions about foreign policies and the public’s war weariness, Bill Clinton vs. Dick Cheney is the kind of match-up that Democrats welcome.

Love him or hate him, the former Democratic president is enormously popular. A recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found Clinton is easily the most admired president of the last quarter century. Whatever one might think of his presidency, Clinton is one of the most well liked figures on the planet.

Dick Cheney is … Dick Cheney. The man’s name is synonymous with violence and failure. Outside of far-right circles, Cheney enjoys little credibility, even less respect, and is more often seen as a punch-line to a painful joke.

The more Cheney rears his head and reminds the country of what it mean to put the reins of power in the hands of lunatic war mongering extremist Republicans, the better. And I agree with Benen’s conclusion that Cheney, who should really be in jail, picking very public fights not just with Obama but also with Clinton is not good for the Republicans.

Hell, even Laura Ingraham gets that.

But what will be especially damaging is that some of the rank and file right wingers as well as pundits and politicians will loudly and emphatically defend Dick Freaking Cheney.

Many will simply not be able to help themselves. The tribal knee jerk reaction will set in and will have to be expressed. Cheney’s reference to Clinton’s sex life, coupled with the reactions of liberals, progressives and Democrats, will make silence impossible.

I share Booman’s skepticism about the good electoral results the GOP is supposed by some to be guaranteed this time around.

Cross posted at Daily Kos.

Teabaggers Set to Educate ‘Murica about Why Black People Voting Is Illegal

By John O’Connor

Mississippi is burning with white hot teabagging rage.

The despicable racists who make up the vast majority of the “tea party” faction of the crazed extremist right wing GOP are poised to educate at the rest of us. They have gazed upon the country and, as always, they have found the rest of us sorely in need of being educated by them about just who in the hell can cast legitimate votes and who steals democracy when they vote.

This time, as always, it’s black people voting that is breaking the constitution.

But they see this as a golden opportunity to make the rest of us less ignorant while also being electoral and PR gold. These people are so wrapped up in their racist worldview that they are quite incapable of seeing how such unabashed retrograde bigotry looks to the rest of us.

Chris McDaniel is not at all happy that African Americans were able to play a — completely legal — role in the election:

When Cochran was named the winner, McDaniel himself openly questioned the results, and said “there is something a bit strange, there is something a bit unusual about a Republican primary that’s decided by liberal Democrats.”

“Before this race ends we have to be absolutely certain that the Republican primary was won by Republican voters,” McDaniel also said.

This means we’ll have the neo confederate and white supremacist schmoozing McDaniel to educate at us why only white people should be allowed to vote.

Please proceed, ragebaggers. Please proceed.

Cross posted at Daily Kos.