Republican Double Speak

The CPAC gathering over this past weekend provides perhaps one of the best real glimpses of what today's GOP has become - religious fanatics, intolerant, and down right crazy. And Rush Limbaugh is the true mouth piece for the Party no matter what double speak is put out by other GOP messengers. These folks would rather see the country crash and burn economically instead of seeing President Obama succeed because they realize that if Obama succeeds, the GOP days in the wilderness may be lengthy indeed. In my view one of the false messengers currently endeavoring to fool the public as to the true nature of the GOP is minority House Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia (pictured at left). Yesterday on ABC's This Week, Cantor put forth a picture of Republicans as agents of change. My advice? Do not believe a word of it. Until the GOP throws off the toxic control of the party by the Christianists - and in Virginia this means the demise of Daddy Dobson's Family Foundation - no real change is possible. In particular, do not believe a word of the party being more friendly towards gays. Here are some highlights of Cantor's disingenuous double speak via Rawstory:

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Eric Cantor used the language of change, positive alternatives, and unity in his dissection of what the Republican party needs to do to solve the financial crisis. . . . Cantor asserted. “They're not just Republican or Democrat problems; they are so big, so challenging [that] we all need to join together not only in Washington but around the country and to put the ideas forward.”

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Eric Cantor is not a politician who thinks that an Obama failure will be a GOP victory. As the 4th-ranking Republican in the House, Cantor distanced himself from Limbaugh's perspective.“So the Rush Limbaugh approach of wanting the president to fail is not the Eric Cantor, House Republican approach?" Stephanopolous probed."Absolutely not," Cantor said. "I don't think anyone wants anything to fail right now. We have such challenges.”

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But Cantor's most surprising moment on This Week came when Stephanopolous brought up the Republican stance on gay rights. “Governor Huntsman says that you’re not going to be reaching out to broaden the base of the party, reaching out to young people who’ve left the Republican Party in droves, unless you do have that positive agenda on the environment, unless you move to the middle on issues like gay rights. Are you prepared to do that in the House?” The minority Whip cautiously implicated that a shift to the middle on gay rights and the environment is inevitable. “There is no question the Republican Party has to return to be one of inclusion, not exclusion. And we are a party with many ideas.”

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My comment to anyone who believes a word of Cantor's statements is: I have some great ocean front property I want to sell you in Arizona.