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Ramblings From the Ragged Crumbling Edge Of The Reality-Based Community

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Oh, Please, Lord; Let Me Live Long Enough 

...there is a simple primitive human fascination with watching things crash and burn. Aside from conjuring a sort of strange congratulatory sense of "there, but for the Grace of God, go I...this time", witnessing moments of violent destruction feed some sort of primal understanding about survival, impermanence, and failure. How else to explain the popularity of auto racing, professional wrestling, thousands of people flocking into cold Sunday morning streets to watch a building implosion, or "American Idol". We now can enjoy a new opportunity to indulge in our obsession by watching the train wreck that the Republican party is becoming, and the most recent chance to indulge in this dirty little vice of ours comes from Florida Governor Charlie Crist's announcement that he's going to run for the U.S. Senate...

Yes!1!@@! There will be a bitterly-fought Republican primary challenge over a shot at Mel Martinez's Senate seat, because the relatively popular governor (apparently with the general electorate, at least) doesn't fit the bill for the true believers of that much-to-be-cherished Republican base. This is great stuff, involving potential repudiation of the sitting governor by his famous predecessor, party intrigue, and the specter of party pack animals slashing at each other with glistening bloody fangs over the rapidly diminishing fate of the party. I can only pray that I live long enough to witness a primary fight to the death between a candidate who sufficiently appeals to state-wide voters in Florida to have won the Governor's seat against a guy who represents everything that the Club for Growth, FAUX news, Rush Limbaugh, the wingnut fringe "core", and the fadings edges of the anti-Castro vote simply cannot live without...

OK, so I'm not planning on checking out anytime soon and don't have any reason to expect any such thing, but things do happen (especially when you drive the road I do twice a day to get to work and back home again). Things happen, but I pray that they don't, because this upcoming Republican Senatorial primary campaign is going to be one for the ages, and I don't want to miss it (because of all the craziness that the contest portends) even from the entire otherwise uncaring other side of the country...

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