Comedy Tonight: Sarah Palin's Worst Nightmare

-by Noah

With the dawning of avowed teabag sympathizer Rand Paul, I can only ask myself "Where do the Republicans keep coming up with these people?" I mean, there is a seemingly endless pool of loons from which the Republican Party draws their parade of spokescreeps and each one seems to top the last! Now the Republicans are running a crazy for Senate who wants to do away with the Civil Rights Acts and the Disability Act, just for starters. To Rand Paul and the people behind him, if you are a minority or if you are crippled, tough shit. This is what Republicans really think and now they feel emboldened enough to have Paul to say it aloud for them. Now, we're even hearing that one of Rand Paul's closest aides once had a rock band that used full blown KKK outfits for stage costumes... and this worm is trying to say he's not really a racist. RIGHT. Of course, this isn't the first time and, sadly, it won't be the last time that Republicans express their inner cross-burning lynch mob. After all, this is also the party that gave us Jeff Sessions and Trent Lott. Usually, though, the Repugs do a better job of hiding their true feelings, if not as good a job as they think. When you're that far gone, it's hard not to be at least somewhat transparent.

I'm starting to wonder if the reason we keep hearing from the likes of sickos like Rand Paul is that we have way too generously tolerated the complete utter lunacy of people like the Evil Newt, Dark Lord Cheney, Jesse Helms, and Sarah Bendy Straw. In a better world, such people would be getting therapy in a home in the country somewhere. As long as we continue to tolerate, if not accept, these people, the Republican Party will just keep pushing the envelope. Do you doubt my theory? Let's just shrink it down to the local level in the great state of Kentucky (where, by the way, the biggest products seem to be bourbon and weed). Republicans in Kentucky accepted total nutjob Senator Jim Bunning as a suitable representative for years. So, now they are taking it further. God knows what they will come up with when Miss McConnell's end time comes! One thing's for sure, no matter how far the Republicans go with parading out goofballs, each stranger and more twisted that the previous, the media will be all too eager to play along and promote them. Where will it end? At least Rand Paul has made the teabagger and Fox News pundit claims of racism having nothing to do with their feelings towards President Obama a lot harder to deny without eliciting intense derision from even the most naive and gullible among us.

Andy Borowitz offers a nice take on the latest Republican Golden Boy. I like how he puts the emergence of Rand Paul as a threat to Sarah Dingbat. She was bad enough with her mindless 100 word vocabulary of nothing but catch phrases and a persona that came off as an eight grader trying to convince her classmates to give her a position on the student council. What little intelligence she has is of the cunning variety. Rand Paul may be smarter. He's certainly more dark, and Republicans obviously like that just fine.