The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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Help Wanted: De Facto Leader of the Republican Party

Seeking qualified candidates for leadership role with a top American political party who will:

  • Distance the party from unsuccessful policies of the past
  • Promote the party's free market, supply-side, militaristic ideology
  • Expand the party base beyond undereducated, white, Christian men
  • Continue policies that appeal to anti-intellectual, xenophobic, misogynistic prejudices among the party base
  • Communicate the party's profound intellectual tradition
  • Invent fun jingles, e.g. "Drill, baby, drill"
  • Marginalize popular media stars who make the party seem in intolerant and extremist
  • Appease popular media stars who appeal to intolerant extremists
  • Establish a reputation for big ideas and can-do ethic
  • Obstruct, obstruct, obstruct

Requirements:

  • Charisma
  • Marketing savvy
  • Ruthlessness
  • Familiarity with hip-hop music and urban slang
  • Ethnic and/or female attributes a plus

Compensation:

  • We offer competitive salaries, benefits, and raw power

Homosexuals, Muslims, atheists, and Bushes need not apply

Topics: 
Politics
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Comments

Praise the anti-lord, I'm disqualified!


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