DIOGENES LOOKING FOR REPUBLICANS

The Rev. Dana Prom Smith, S.T.D., Ph.D. (1/18/08)

Although I don’t live in a tub, I feel like Diogenes of old, only I’m not looking for an honest man, but for a Republican. I hear they are around with their customary squeaks and jibbers. However, I have yet to find one even though I’m told they’re still 32% of the population, that is, the Republicans who support President Bush.

Now, some of them have gone underground either out of shame or until the storm blows over. They are the ones who called everyone who opposed the folly of Bush’s Iraqi War cowards and unpatriotic so they’ve gone cowardly into hiding. I assume that they are the ones who prosper in a housing crisis, which was largely the making of their allies on Wall Street and the failed politicized federal regulatory agencies. They certainly are the ones who relish a health care system in crisis, one in which everyone else, the poor and middle classes suffer from a lack of proper medical care.

The 32% of the Old Guard Republicans must be in favor of a worsening economy as long as they can enjoy their own luxuries. They are surely in favor of open borders as a source of cheap labor. However, the real heart of the Old Guard is their endorsement of a war without purpose because it ramps up their dwindling testosterone. Unmindful of the dead, the wounded, and the maimed, they speak of victory, but never answer the question: Why?

No wonder they can’t be found.