Originally Posted by cheapseats

I take it that "ALL Aboard" is not the secret password? No two-by-two-by state scripture? You'll want a SOME of those unwashed masses, I'll wager. You'll not want to sail without a servant class. While the unwashed masses are...well, dirty, they are more compliant and grateful than former members of the middle class who tend, almost without exception, to have an Attitude.

So...for whom do I speak? The unwashed masses...or all the dock workers and road workers and sanitation workers and maintenance workers and store clerks and luggage manufacturers and waiters and gardeners and teachers and firemen and policemen and nurses and everyone else you'll be leaving behind right along with the unwashed masses?

Funny in a not-funny way that you should elect for the alternative spelling of get-go. Gitgo...like Gitmo, but with a 'g' like God instead of an 'm' like Money.

But we aren't at the get-go. Just like a Fake Conservative to belie his label by rushing headlong into confrontation. I draw attention to your haste...note the fast in Fast One...and suggest that 'relaxed' is open to some interpretation.

Tell the muscled wetback peasants who stand ready to heave coal into your mighty engines, and their exotically alluring women who ready to shoo flies from your rich soups, to stand at their ease...down in steerage, where the deviant and gluttonous among you can sneak during the night for physical and pharmaceutical pleasure from around the globe. The ship will have to wait awhile in port...pretend it's a terrorist alert.

If I understand correctly, we pigeon-holed you as one of the new Relaxed Republicans who never quite nail the jeans thing...a hail-fellow-well-met, which you can afford to do because

A. you have money, and
B. you spend other people's money, and
C. you replace that by taking more money that isn't yours

A phony. Remember in Breakfast at Tiffany's? The mercenary agent...A.J.=Fred Baby, I think. "Yeah, but is she a REAL phony, that's what I wanna know."

You're a Real Phony, am I right? A Great Obfuscating Republican, G.O.P.

That will serve our fiction better than NeoNazi=HardRight anyway. I'll have a field day with HR, for starters...His Royal This and His Royal That, to say nothing of Herr Republican.

More importantly, Hard Right is Fringe. Countrywide, the majority of the People, Average Americans should not give a shit about the fringe...except as they may break the law in the extremity of their positions, QUICKLY qualified by declaring that there are some laws that a just society is entitled and obliged to erase right off the books.

We need to quit playing to the Fringe. They are loudest and creepiest, and loud and creepy=scary...AS WE ARE SEEING. But seriously, we as a country do not want what they're having. Even so, it bears reminding that Fringe also has rights to be and do as they please.

But we are far from there, debate-wise.

In the same way that it will not be instructive or constructive for you to pose as HardRight, you cannot mean for me to be some pie-in-the-sky moonbeam wingnut tax'n'spend Democrat who is afraid of their own shadow. That would be uninteresting and wasteful, no? You seem already to have them well in hand.

Shall I be a an AWOL Republican with a Progressive Agenda, or a die-hard Democrat with sound economic sense and fierce anti-establishmentarianism?