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by Lester The Nightfly » Sun May 08, 2016 2:03 pm
I think a better car analogy works like this:
The GOP owned a big old Cadillac, nice ride for some, but not what you're going to find in most people's driveways. The car is a little older, doesn't have GPS navigation, Bluetooth, that sort of thing (too progressive and newfangled) but the bigger problem is maintenance. The thing hasn't had an oil change, new 'points and plugs', tires and tuneup for years. Why? It costs money. So the gas mileage is horrible and it generally doesn't run as well as it once did.
One day the GOP's is out driving the Cadillac around and run into some Tea Party folks looking for a ride. The Tea Party people can't stand Honda's or Toyota's (damn foreigners) and don't have the means for anything else but something like a Chevy Spark, so tooling around in a Cadillac seems like a pretty sweet deal. The GOP loves it too because they've got the Tea Party paying for the gas (Never buy something you can get someone else to pay for). So far this is working out well enough, but the Tea Party now wants to drive by and pick up his brother-in-law. The GOP thinks this is fine (another person to kick in gas money), so off they go. When they arrive it turns out the brother-in-law is a 300 lb. racist. The GOP is not thrilled but hey, more gas money. Pretty soon the GOP is carting around an entire brood of lunatics from the Tea Party's family, the car is getting zero gas mileage, the interior is geting torn apart and its so overloaded that it can't even be steered.
The GOP is clearly not happy, but still and all, they they haven't had to pay a dime or do any work to keep the thing on the road until one day the engine blows up, the wheels fall off and it catches fire. Everyone is left on the side of the road until one of the Tea Party folks realizes that with all the money they saved by not having a Cadillac they can now afford an used Econovan of their own. They ask the GOP if they want a ride and the GOP says "Are you kidding? I own a Cadillac".
OK kids Uncle Lester says story-time is over, time for bed. Sleep well, sweet dreams.