Now, I know what you're thinking: Aren't there NINE muses?
Yesterday's primary "results" have resulted in endless blather about a GOP race that has been, in the end, entirely predictable. Romney rolls on, with little "surprises" here and there, and ZERO discussion of the issues that the USA actually faces. The Republican field has been singularly debating a rhetorical world of their own devising, without bothering to actually offer solutions or a vision for the problem that We the People actually face.
And, in its way, that's what I've been leading up to in all of this. The artificial creation of rhetorical bogeymen is a very dangerous tactic. (And, like that GI JOE box, you don't need an actual action figure. You just need language to tell your voting audience what's IN the box. Which may not exist at all, or is merely a series of gut language conditionings attached to the "action figure" you've created.)
Somehow, the words "Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice" caused the elite of the Rightie Blogosmear to use their protean command of logick to formulate the logical statement (Low IQ) + (Conservative Beliefs) = Prejudice and instantly turn it inside-out into the strange self-insult (Conservative) = Stupid + Racist.*
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