John Hawkins, of the very fine Right Wing News, asked a bunch of bloggers who their least favorite people “on the right” were. The list, I think, is pretty interesting.
Villanous Cassandra saw the list and asked her readers to list their own Righty Rogues Gallery. I put a comment there, but, as I think of it, my comment would make a fine blog post. So, without further embellishment, here are my Ten Least Favorite Righties.
10) Bill Frist – Grow a backbone, will you?
9) Dennis Hastert – The most invisible Speaker of the House ‘ve ever seen.
Michael Savage – Man, did he lose it somewhere along the line. Can ranting about liberals actually drive someone insane?
7) George Voinovich – If there’s anything I hate worse than a squish, it’s a crybaby.
6) Andrew Sullivan - Flip one day. Flop the next. Can we grant him a one-time exemption to marry whoever or whatever the hell he wants so he’ll JUST SHUT UP?
5) Colin Powell – Never met a leak he didn’t like. Sold our foreign policy for cheap, especially in Iran.
4) Lindsey Graham – Way to hand the Democrats a big ol’ steaming pile of victories, you dope. I nearly wretched when I saw you chumming with your newest Guantanamo=Nazis buddies on the other side of the aisle.
3) Chuck Hagel – Dude, just become a Democrat and get it over with, would you? Oh yeah, and stop hacking your own party on Meet the Press every freaking chance you get, okay?
2) Pat Buchanan – Okay. We get it. You’re an isolationist. Join that militia you’ve been eyeing out in the west and leave us alone.
1) John McCain – You spent how many years being tortured in a POW camp in Vietnam and you couldn’t muster one minute of righteous indignation to combat the Guantanamo BS? Not one minute? Some patriot you are. Oh yeah, when the MSM calls you a “maverick” they really mean “the guy we’ll back until it looks like he’s pummeled all the other Republicans, then we’ll stab in the back so our Demcorat can win”. They don’t love you, John, no matter how much they tell you they do. They’re just using you. Just about any woman alive knows that play. How dumb do you have to be not to notice it yourself?
You’ll probably notice that I didn’t put Ann Coulter on my list. Tell you the truth, I kind of like her. I think each idological side needs a bomb-thrower and, on the right, Ann’s it. What I like is that she uses some of the snarkiest humor you’l lever want to read and takes herself much less seriously than the left’s grenadiers. You have to like someone who can mix derision, scorn, snark, and the occasional gut-busting laugh in the same column.
LaShawn Barber has an interesting partial list. She’s catching heat for putting President Bush on her list, but I can definitely see the reasoning behind it. I nearly put him on mine as well. For someone on the right, he sure seems to have embraced the spending habits of the left and the love for Big Daddy Government that is anathema to the conservative way of thinking. The only real difference I can see between the President and most Democrats is that he wants to spend money on different social programs. That’s not a good thing.
Armstrong Williams very nearly made my list also, for his stunning ethical lapse in taking money form the administration and not being in the least bit upfront about it. Bad form – and it really put a huge black mark on all conservative commentators.
Also among my Honorable Mentions are Jerry Falwell (who is an excellent pastor and a spiritual role-model but a lousy political figure and a prime example of why religious leaders ought not get out front on every political issue they see), Arlen Specter (who should never have been given the Chair of the Senate Judicial Committee – not after his scurrilous betrayal of Robert Bork), and Michael Bloomberg (look, “nanny state” is as unconservative as it gets and as anti-freedom and liberty as nearly anything Soviet Russia produced).
Who would you put on your list?
