I enjoy it when I agree whole heartedly with a beast such as rush. I get my biggest response when I play with a known fascists own language.  Most of the time I not only quote word for word, I even provide the proper context for the statement I am analyzing. The beasts would not agree with my self assessment but I am pretty comfortable with it.

My own writing is self taught. Pretty sloppy at times. I get lazy in my editing. And I lose some information when I cut and paste from WordPerfect to the blog. But WordPerfect has been my writing instrument for twenty years. I can work on something for a couple hours, sometimes twice that long and then I am just to excited after I have the info on the blog site. So I push submit when I should work on it another hour.

But I really enjoy it when I read a 'perfect' piece. Or even a perfect paragraph. That is why I started my somewhat egotistical award presentations. I love singing the praises of the bloggers at my own site.  Which is why it is my site anyway.

Poems, essays, studies and even reference blogs. Any one of them may contain a gem that can and will not be ignored if I have my say about it. Even some rants. Curt or Quinn or Oleeb sometimes start of flow that really should never be taken apart. It is almost as if three or five pages have been written in one breath.

But, ever so often, a professional from the dark side just hits it out of the park. Writing, message and form. And it is fun to present it here.  I would not cut and paste the entire piece, of course. Out of respect and because no one would read it.

I came across such a piece today at The Daily Beast by Conservative radio host John Batchelor. It is so well written that I can give away the conclusion first, in his own words:

We few Republicans with long memories wander around the cemetery admiring the tombstones and enjoying the rain. I can hear you doubting that this could truly be the end. The final stage of grief is acceptance.

I have never seen this sentiment so beautifully put by a Dem or so-called independent thinker. Wandering around a cemetery in the rain. You ever do that?  I have.  For at least five thousand years, urban homo sapiens has created dead zones. We somehow need them.  Oh, cremation has always been an option and we may build great monuments in remembrance of our dead.

But there is nothing like a cemetery, to evoke those emotions. Remembrances of things past.
    
"GOP is a mummy-wrapped skeleton sitting in its own chilly mausoleum of bilious resentments and creepy sentimentality."

See the good metaphor. Alliterative s's. The juxtaposition of resentments to sentimentality. This writing does not grow on trees.

Our radio host begins with the election of FDR.  See, I may have been born seventeen years after Roosevelt took office; five years after his death; but I listened to repubs damn his legacy as a tot. And it never stopped. George Will today still damns FDR.  As a smear campaign against Hoover. 76 years after the event. George Will repeats the garbage spewed for 76 years.  Batchelor is not full of hyperbole here. No, no, no.  And he tells us that this is one reason his party is dead, dead, dead.

From Herbert Hoover to Robert Taft, from the Bush clan to the ridiculous Tom DeLay, not one note of grace, not a convincing moment of understanding that the Republican Party is about honest liberty for honest, laboring people--not about Wall Street, the tax code, chasing Reds, or bullying the lonely.

If this is what a conservative thinks of his party, Jesus (blesses himself).  Not a convincing moment.  Honest liberty for honest, laboring people. Come on lefties. We have to learn to write like this.  

Batchelor goes on to deny that Ike ever gave a whit for his party, and that that was why he did such a fine job as a president who appeared to play golf all day while he initiated and completed a splendid highway system, protected social security and attempted to keep an eye on the pentagon.

Nixon was really a liberal who just hated the 'Eastern Liberal Establishment'.  I am skipping a discussion of Reagan here out of pure disrespect.

And the 'revolution of 1994' where Scarborough and Newt saved the country from welfare queens driving over white people in cadillacs on the government dime?   

What about 1994? Georgia's Newt Gingrich (born Newton McPherson in Pennsylvania to teenaged parents whose father immediately scrammed) was a gifted opportunist and compulsive gabber who asserted before the 1994 election that "Clinton Democrats" were "the enemy of normal Americans." Gingrich made other heated claims that left no Yankee Republican in doubt that this was a man who dreamed to be either Jeff Davis or his butler. The Gingrich-led takeover of the House, matched by the cranky Bob Dole's suzerainty in the lifeless Senate, can now be regarded not as a Republican comeback but as a transitional blip in which the baby boomers and Gen Xers established a new leadership of the Democratic Party.

As Speaker of the House, Gingrich wasted four years talking aimlessly about "normal Americans." Then, after he failed against Bill Clinton with the silly ploy of using Monica Lewinsky and her Inspector Javert, Ken Starr, Gingrich fled to Fox TV to ramble harmlessly about "moral tone" and his enemies, "the very small counterculture elite." Gingrich's talking points have attracted imitators over the last decade, chiefly the Gingrich mini-me Karl Rove and Rove's carny creation of George W. Bush.

This is as good as any lefty I have read.  I mean 'Gingrich min-me Karl Rove'.  I really cannot relay my indignation over the fact that I did not come up with that description of turd blossom.
Or Newt as a gifted opportunist and compulsive gabber.  Come on, this is good stuff.

So, evidently our radio host has little love for w.

There is much to explicate about Rove and Bush in the White House--their fearful temperament, their petty theories of governance, their inability to shoot straight so that, at firing at the lunatic bin Laden, they hit the cretin Saddam Hussein.

The cretin Saddam Hussein.  The gang that could not shoot straight.
Jesus I love this stuff. (Blesses himself)

I have already cut and pasted too much. But I will end with a direct quote anyway.

What about the Republican Party right now? Isn't it on radio and TV claiming to be the party of fiscal responsibility and American power? Bypassing the stupidity of these claims, I am on radio, on what is called right-wing radio, and it is easy for me to see that my loudest colleagues, who compulsively repeat the cant of Conservatism for Dummies, are not sincere students of the Republican Party but rather barkers, hookers, establishmentarian jesters, cultists, and, in the worst instance, just thatch-headed whiners