I find it all too satisfying
watching the republican party
scramble for an identity.
It's no wonder they got spread a little thin:
trying to preach less government
while invading others;
pretending to be the protectors of freedom,
while imposing an archaic moral agenda;
imposing an archaic moral agenda,
but not living by it;
promoting guns but not drugs,
while popping pills;
promoting marriage but not for gays,
while seducing pages.

but what caught me most off guard
was colin powell,
one of the most striking emblems
of the casualties of integrity
inflicted by the last administration,
insightfully observing the shift towards
a willingness to pay taxes
for a good government.

either that,
or everybody likes a free lunch.
so while the originality of the observation
reminds me why CP's so respectable,
reducing the obvious hate-monger problem
will probably bring in a lot more votes than
rooting for taxes.

For optimistic liberals,
it's only a matter of time,
before hyped-up prejudices,
become unacceptable barbarisms,

but with the economy on its ass
and capitalists begging for socialist salvation
the moral fundamentalists are fortifying themselves
as the core of the party, while financial libertarians
are still scrambling for any coherent platform.

you'd think that these moral fanatics
would have to go the way of the buffalo,
the caribou, the polar bears, but with
Bristol Palin working as an advocate
for abstinence, I'm suddenly reminded,
that there will always be parents who
try to prohibit their kids from being as stupid
as they were, like they're all drug addict
alcoholic sodomite adulterers, but they're
gonna try to pretend to the kids that
the world is really this nicer more innocent place.

I can even respect deception in this form,
but it's just too exhausting to lie all the time.