What in the living heck did Republican elder Haley Barbour mean when, discussing his party's recent electoral disasters, he announced that "we’ve got to
give our political organization a very serious proctology exam. We need
to look everywhere”?
I've got to guess that he "misspoke." Surely he didn't mean to claim that GOP office-holders have their heads so far up their own asses that it's going to take a proctoscope to locate them?
Maine's Republicans Charlie Webster was astonished to discover that black people and Asians were voting in his state. It must be, he guessed, voter fraud (although a better guess would be that his neighbors of color have always been invisible to him). "We've got to nip this in the butt," he told a reporter for TPM.
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