Return to Right Wing Happyfunland — election edition

November 11, 2006

Guest Post by Morbo

A few weeks ago, I wrote about Right Wing Happyfunland, that magical place where far-right wishes supplant reality.

What is it like there these days, in the wake of Tuesday’s elections? I can assure you everything is just peachy-keen, as is always the case in Right Wing Happyfunland.

In Right Wing Happyfunland, Democrats never get a mandate, no matter how large the electoral tsunami they create. Likewise, any Republican victory, no matter how small, is a clear mandate for the most repressive, sweeping and far-right policies imaginable.

Let me explain to you how things work in Right Wing Happyfunland by offering these two examples:

1. Your presidential candidate loses the popular vote but manages to squeak by with one vote in the Electoral College thanks to efforts by his brother, a plethora of corrupt party hacks and the Supreme Court to steal the election. Result: Broad, sweeping, incredibly powerful, so-obvious-it’s-painful MANDATE.

2. Your party, after 12 years in the minority, sweeps the midterm elections and takes control of both chambers of Congress (one by a healthy margin) after voters repeatedly tell pollsters they are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country and desperately want a new direction. Those same voters believe that your party, and only your party, can deliver that change. They are, in fact, looking forward to your party taking control. When you win, the electorate breathes a sigh of relief. Result: Absolutely, positively, clear-as-a-bell NO MANDATE.

Have you go that? Good. Enjoy your stay in Right Wing Happyfunland and don’t forget to visit the Temple to the Deified Ronald Reagan.

Mandate? Is that what Haggard took to the fun park?

It’s the power. Mandates are for people who actually think beyond the raw power. And that ain’t Repubicans.

  • Actually, they didn’t claim a “mandate” in 2000 – they committed that error in 2004, when he was re-elected by the slimmest margin of any re-elected president in history, and right after they did, the nosedive started over Social Security, followed by the Schiavo Circus.

    Not arguing the point, but rather saying let’s be the truly reality-based community and use the right facts. 🙂

    And many of the posts at the various RightwingHappyFunLand sites clearly show that some people have definitely not “gotten it” for the past 40 years of the success of various social movements. The wacko view of Nancy Pelosi could qualify for the most “chauvinist” of “chauvinist piggery” from 1970.

    Of course the biggest “we would have won the war but we were stabbed in the back by the Jews and Socialists” myth currently making the rounds in Moronville is that they weren’t “conservative enough.” As Krugman pointed out yesterday:

    “I have a vision —— maybe just a hope —— of a great revulsion: a
    moment in which the American people look at what is happening, realize how their good will and patriotism have been abused, and put a stop to this drive to destroy much of what is best in our country.”

    And that’s what happened: the American people took a look at the troglodytes and walking nightmares and said “No!”

    The truth is, these morons have suffered the greatest repudiation of any party in our history.

  • Rumor has it that the ninnyhammers over at Right Wing Happyfunland still don’t believe that they lost the election, because their Dear Leader is still in charge of everything, and their Saddamesque statue of “Unca Ron” is still standing.

    On a side note, one good point is that the primary school for the freakaziod bizzaro indoctrination of small children—a.k.a. “Jesus Camp”—is going out of business. What can I say? Throw some Republicans on a sacrificial bonfire, and all kinds of good things begin to happen….

  • Shouldn’t it be: Right Wing Happy FUND-land?

    And Dale, I’ll remind you that Mac keyboards are *bloody expensive*

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