Conversatives Go Tribal Over Powell Endorsement
19 October 2008 5:24 pm by Taylor Marsh
BY TAYLOR MARSH
Rush Limbaugh teased what wingnut radio will sound like all week today through Johnathan Martin of Politico.
George Will opined that being black will put Obama over the top.
But it was Patrick J. Buchanan on “Hardball” (link added) who gave Chris Matthews his second WOW! wingnut in just three days, the first being Michele Bachmann, whose over the top Investigate the un-American Congress now! screed even made it into Powell’s post “Meet the Press” interview where he continued to hammer his own party.
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On a special edition of “Hardball” Buchanan basically said that Powell stabbed the political party who made him in the back by accepting “trivial” issues as the foundation for endorsing Obama. You know, like those swiftboating robocalls, the mailers, the ad nauseam Ayers association attacks, along with Bachmann’s nonsense, all of these amounting to nothing in Buchanan’s eyes. For a man who sure gets it right on foreign policy, especially on Iraq, when it comes to ethnic arguments and tribal associations, Mr. Buchanan can’t shake his southern strategy roots and the reactionary old time Nixon bigotry that oozes out when discussing cultural matters. He at least had the presence of mind to applaud Powell’s eloquent story of the Muslim soldier who died. But it hardly made up for the rest his heinous harangue.
Joan Walsh, from Salon, and someone I’ve come to know a bit over the election season, was on with Buchanan. It was clear she couldn’t believe her ears, breaking into Buchanan’s barrage several times, while giving him a lot of leeway, saying “you’re better than that” at one point. Of course, Buchanan has been leveling this type of tribal bigotry going back to Nixon, so, no, he’s not “better than that,” because he sees nothing wrong with the fight he wants to wage. Having read all his books, I can say with certainty that the America Buchanan is fighting for is old western European stocked America, not the melting pot that includes brown and black immigrants we are becoming. Trying to throw him a lifeline, Walsh was clearly stunned, as was Matthews.
So, get ready for the conservatives, those far right-wing reactionaries to rise up, with the help of people like Rush and Patrick J. Buchanan, trying to stir up an Obama backlash in the last two weeks of this election. Coupled by a little white guilt and a little smearing of shame for any Republican not supporting the war hero. Ahem, sorry, the white war hero.
Powell’s going to reap the wingnut whirlwind, but he’s clearly ready for this fight. Just make no mistake about it. Colin Powell is a Republican through and through, and the fight he’s waging is to change his party. We won’t find ourselves on the same side with him very often going forward. See Jack Danforth if you don’t believe me.
