Fat Bottomed Girls....

Laura Ingraham, who I respect as a pundit and speech writer, was knocked down a few notches. The toothpick queen of the far-conservative talk show cabal blasted the daughter of Arizona Senator John McCain as “a Valley Girl gone awry” and a “plus-sized model.”

Meghan McCain is my personal hero. Here is a young girl raised in the Republican Party who has the metaphorical balls to want to stay in the party, fix it, and challenge the orthodoxy. Her response to Ingraham... “Kiss my fat ass!”

Ingraham later stated that Meghan McCain needed to learn how to deal with “satire and Teasing.”

My Bullshit detector broke from that sentence. Lesson number one children, is the definition of the word satire. From Wikipedia

“Satire is often strictly defined as a literary genre or form; although, in practice, it is also found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humor in itself so much as an attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves, using the weapon of wit.

A very common, almost defining feature of satire is its strong vein of irony or sarcasm, but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. The essential point, however, is that "in satire, irony is militant". This "militant irony" (or sarcasm) often professes to approve the very things the satirist actually wishes to attack”

By Definition, Laura Ingraham did not perform satire. This woman, who has never been above a size 3 in her life, blatantly made fun of a young woman’s weight in order to bring her down personally and publically. While an effective tactic to the weak willed, and certainly not one a censure, it is only something left to those who have no other avenue of disassembling another’s argument. Meghan McCain’s mass is a red herring, and a poor one at that. Maybe I am alone here, but I prefer women who have shape to them. When placed next to conservative sex symbols like Anne Coulter and Laura Ingraham, I would want to hand a sandwich to these two old maids and tell them to have a beer or two on me.

Yet again I see this as a sign that Republicans need to move away from certain things. Economic conservatism is a great platform, and it has its place. But when religious and media Cabals sunk their teeth into the party, all it became about were guns, gays, abortion, with mere lip service to those core values. Now we find ourselves in an economic crisis because those core values were traded away, and it was one group of schmucks spending plan versus another group of schmucks spending plan.

Republicans need to learn to reap what they sow. What were sown was an economic collapse, and the people pulling hard enough in the opposite direction that this country will have to look like Sweden for a while in order for it to be fixed. In the meantime the party of economic conservatism needs to shed the religiously conservative values that have served as nothing but a distraction for the past twenty years. Do that and a good strong party will be ready to take on democrats, and the nation can be more balanced again.