You Stay Classy, Republican Party

Glenn Beck, for whom the phrase "falling upwards" was invented, yesterday managed to, in one radio shift, call for the assassination of Jimmy Carter and say Hillary Clinton can't be elected because she's the "stereotypical bitch." Quite the exacta. Today, he claimed isn't a bitch but just sounded like one, which is an enormous difference that explains everything.

Then there's Fred Thompson, who has decided that a great way to kick off his Presidential run would be to make a play for the anti-Gandhi vote. Jon Swift does a good job applying the rapier wit to that, so I'll go no further.

Gandhi might be a hero to some people, but not to Fred Thompson. "When American's [sic] think of heroism, we think of the young American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, risking their lives to prevent another Adolph Hitler or Saddam Hussein." By opposing the war in Iraq liberals are, like Gandhi, on the side of Hitler.

Mark Noonan at Blogs for Bush lines up with Thompson as well, bringing the number of those on the side of the British Empire against one guy who went on a hunger strike and became the world's greatest symbol of peace and nonviolence in history to, um, two.

I'm really not offended by a whole lot that a conservative can say, other than the fact that the likes of ABC and CNN will dutifully pay money to broadcast it, and the entire conservative movement will support a candidate who spouts it. The point, as made by Hughes for America, is that this is the face of the Republican Party in 2007. This is pretty much who they are and what they believe. It's worth not forgetting.