But at least the Bushies bothered to pretend. With the rise of the Tea Party, those good old days of feeling the need to fake some sense of humanity are far behind us, and a new breed of openly Compassionless Conservatives has come to the fore, both among politicians and the general public. Their undue level of influence in today's "dialogue" makes us wonder what kind of country America is actually becoming.
During the 2008 campaign when some nutcase yelled "Kill him" at a Sarah Palin rally while she was attacking then-candidate Barack Obama. Palin clearly heard him, and just smiled, making no comment.
Fast forward to last week's Republican "debate" (all of them are more like fawn-offs to the far, far right) and the crowd reaction to the question of whether a hospital should treat an uninsured patient in an emergency. "Let him die?" "YEAH!!!" And all the candidates stood silent again, just as Palin did before.
Finally, in their most authentic moment of this Florida "debate," all the Compassionless Conservative candidates performed in perfect lockstep by standing silent once again when the audience booed a soldier for serving his country while being gay.
That was Compassionless Conservatism at its clearest, a chorus of bigoted haters safely unleashing their loathing in a friendly room where none would dare risk losing all those hate-filled votes.
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