There were all kinds of things I could
have posted about today – Obama, the economy, the GOP campaign, and
so on. In fact it is one of those things that caused an incident at
our local general store this afternoon. For this, I must take some of
the blame, but only part of it.
I had stopped by the store to make my
twice weekly purchase of a few lottery tickets. I am by no means
obsessed with winning “the big one”, but I will throw a couple of
dollars down.
It was after my purchase that I started
talking with the clerk, a friend named Sean, about some of the local
goings on and, of course, the ongoing political campaign season. It
was while we were discussing the recent slam of Ann Romney by Hillary
Rosen that we started talking about how family was supposed to be off
limits during a campaign, and at one point brought up the travesty of
the character assassination of Sarah Palin's kids. It was at this
point one of the local unthinking political morons walked in, already
looking angry at the world, and then started chiming in that “Palin's
kids deserved it because she's an idiot!” He then went on, ranting
about how the HBO movie proved she was an idiot, a liar, and mentally
ill.
It went down hill from there.
I won't go into too much detail, but as
this guy yelled, screamed, and shouted obscenities in front of a
couple of the local kids in the store, it became ever more apparent
that this guy hadn't had an original thought in years. Everything
political comment coming out of his mouth was right off the DNC's
talking points memo. It was verbatim, every slur, every slanderous
utterance, every libelous thing ever printed about Sarah Palin, the
GOP, and how Obama was our savior. As he went on he got angrier and
louder. He didn't want to know the facts, couldn't be bothered by
evidence, didn't care what was true, he just wanted to tell the world
that he and his DNC puppet masters were right and everyone else was
wrong.
As he was leaving, he turned in the
door and said something along the lines of “You better watch your
ass because Romney will lose by 30 points and then we'll see who's
controlling things!” At that point he finally left, probably to
have his empty cranium refilled with the invective and rage that is
mistaken by the Left for 'debate' these days.
As the door swung closed, Sean made a
rather astute observation.
“If 'his' party is going to win, then
why is he so angry? He was acting more like a sore loser.” (I have
to explain that Sean is a Democrat, but as he's said more than once
he's thinking about changing that because, to paraphrase Reagan, “I'm
not leaving the Democrat Party. It's leaving me.”)
Unfortunately I have come across more
than a few Obamabots just like this jerk, all emotion, all
pre-programmed 'talking points', and all higher brain functions
disabled so they won't have to think for themselves.