http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clown_college

When did Repubs gets so damn whiny about everything? Take away their waterboards and all of sudden they’re a bunch of little children who’ve never gotten a fair shake in life… awww, did your fiscal policies get refuted? Poor little babies… it must be so hard, now that people don’t care about your knee-jerk social policies based on obsolete mythologies and superstitions…

This also reminds me of the film, “Clown At Midnight.” A clown at noon is there to entertain your children. A clown at midnight has a different agenda. While in reality these people don’t have the makeup, they definitely do have a different agenda.

Mostly what I’ve noticed is that both sides complain that the other is full of whiny babies with childish knee-jerk reactions who get butthurt over the stupidest issues. Oddly enough, meanwhile, both sides are whipping themselves into equally whiny, childish, butthurt frenzies about the silliest of issues–liberal bias in the media, the evil scourge of Fox News, the “War on Christmas”, the personal beliefs of some random Miss America contestant whom no one would remember had we not made such a big deal over so little, the creationism vs. evolution debate, the evils of nuclear power, the evil-evil Bush administration, the antichrist-esque Obama administration–whatever is the hot issue of the moment is.

Both sides are guilty of butthurt childishness, and it rather bothers me when people declare that it is solely the purview of one side or the other.

Not that I’m saying that both sides are filled with nothing but childish, whiny crybabies. Considering the fact that most of those I know on both sides of the issue are perfectly capable of sitting down together and discussing their political differences in a calm, mature manner (at least, most of the time), I would rather submit that it’s just that the only people we really hear about are the screechy, obnoxious, nonsensical ones. It’s the trainwreck factor. I mean, which is going to attract more disbelieving stares and attention (and therefore more money for the media outlets): adults calmy and respectfully disccusing their differing beliefs on gay marriage, or gay rights protesters interrupting a random church’s services because a state halfway across the country voted gay marriage down? people calmly and rationally discussing the issue of abortion, or a traditionalist Catholic group staging prayer sessions 24/7 outside of a local Planned Parenthood?

Probably any liberal can name dozens of crazy conservatives, and conservatives, vice-versa. I think it’s really more of an issue of the squeaky wheel getting the grease more than a significantly larger proportion of crazies on either side.

Examples of whiny republicans:
Anything that comes out of Limbaugh’s mouth. Ever.
“tea parties.”

And Fox News, considering it supposedly purports to any kind of evenhanded journalism, is a fairly good source of evil, considering how many people blithely believe anything the talking heads tell them without thinking twice.

If the left is overdoing it now, its mainly because we’ve spent the past 8 years getting more angry, bitter and horrified at what Bush and his minions were doing. Now we’re just blowing off steam. :)

http://www.ratemyeverything.net/image/8881/0/Chewbacca_Loves_Ron_Paul.ashx

Nowadays, I do my best not to identify as anything… but no matter how nuanced my political beliefs become, no matter how often I agree or disagree with the Democrats, one thing never changes – Republicans are morons. They pay lip-service to a few things I care about, but ultimately they are the party of corporate control and religious ideologues. No thanks.

If only I could get them to quit voting for clowns….

you ain’t think up this horrors show
what’s next, what’s comin, what’s around the corner?
you want to see the real wicked shit, where the wicked at?
channel 2, 4 and 7, they be kickin that news!!

As for the appropriateness, it doesn’t hurt that there is some serious infighting in the Republican party right now. The politicians that form the public face of the party being particularly comical. I’ll refrain from ranting about it, but it is safe to say that this is not surprising in a party that just lost the presidency and is having serious image problems. Serious image problems. It’s not a big leap to clown makeup.

See: The 1/2 Hour News Hour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQDiKGRut80