When I saw this article on Sunday, I was so outraged about it that I thought about blogging about it here, but I'm sorta mentally drooping from following Iran, and I honestly thought the blogosphere would be all over this. (Apparently the political blogosphere has been.) But this morning Tim looked at me like somebody had slugged him and said, "Did you hear what that blog was saying about Malia?"

Tim's usual response to ill-done deeds by the rigid right is snarls, roars, and sallies onto the Internet to rend some pixelated flesh. I've never seen him as hurt as if someone had deliberately injured one of our friends, and there was nothing he could do. He was shocked, and hurt for Malia Obama's sake, and he had never thought even those he commonly calls "Rethuglicans" could sink this low. (And he thinks they sink pretty low.) My anger roared up all over again, and I knew I'd never feel I'd at least tried to deal with it if I didn't write about it.

They were talking about a girl. They leveled the old canard of "monkey" against her and her mother. They predicted a streetwalker's life for her and an inevitable abortion. And why? Because these lazy, foul-mouthed bum-suckers, none of whom have probably achieved anything in their bloated-tick lives, don't like her parents. Don't like her color.

I think the people who wrote these things, and the blog host who reviewed the entry and thought it harmless the first time around, are vicious, flea-brained, canker-covered, dung-wallowing, pus-sipping bedsores of the type best found in hospice garbage bags marked for sterilization, but I would never say as much to their kids, let alone make remarks like these about their kids. It takes a special sort of lowlife to attack a kid.

It didn't help that last night (July 13, 2009), Rachel Maddow made the point with video clips that each of the Republican Senators on the Judiciary Committee, knowing Judge Sotomayor would be approved for the Supreme Court, regardless of how they voted, chose their moment in the camera light to talk about her being unduly influenced by her . . . race.

Have I been sleeping for forty years? Has the Republican party granted asylum to the spiritual heirs of Bull Connor, Governor Lester Maddox, George Lincoln Rockwell, and their ilk, giving them etiquette and voice lessons, makeovers, and computers?

Come on, folks! It's time you renamed yourselves the Racist Party! You're barely trying to keep that mask of equality on anymore--it's just getting tiresome, when you keep getting caught like this! Come on, stop wasting our time pretending that you actually give a shit, and just open that crate of nasty that you've kept under your desks for so long. It's like having a black candidate, and then a black president, has given you people long-withheld permission to hold the "Happy Days Are Here Again" parade for good ol' Jim Crow! Why, look at you--some of you were already looking at Malia, in her Peace symbol shirt (heh heh--you know them colored gals are advertisin a different kind of piece!), wonderin what she charges. I bet you were nudgin your buddies and talkin about changin your luck!

I remember you disgusting fuckheads. It's just that when I heard this, I didn't realize you were talking about kids the ages of my sisters.

As for those of you who claim to be "good Republicans?" If you don't want the bigots' shit all over you, I suggest you form yourselves a new party, quickly. These people are dragging you down with them, in case you didn't notice. It doesn't matter if they're wearing white sheets or raw silk suits in committee rooms, they are all talking about race and how it drags White People down. They are calling intelligent, well-educated girls "hos" and telling a female Latina judge that wealthy white men are more objective, while she is biased due to her race. (White people don't have race, only race issues.)

Smug Racist Party folks, it is not the educated, gracious, cosmopolitan Obama family who draws the world's derision and horror. It is the naked, slime-dripping, bottom-feeding mouthings of you, who call yourselves "real Americans." That's just what the world is afraid of.

A number of posters in the first post reminded me that when David Letterman chose to flap his mouth in saying of the attendance of Palin, her husband, and one of her daughters at a New York ballgame: "during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez." (No, I didn't like it, either.)

When Palin fired off that it was disgusting for a 62-year-old man to make remarks of that kind about a 14-year-old girl, the daughter who was with her (and it is), Letterman replied that he was actually talking about 18-year-old Bristol, who had recently given birth. Then came the whole Palin call for battle, and Letterman's grand and carefully thought out apology in which he acknowledged how inappropriate the material was, no matter how old the teenager was. (No, David, ya think? Just because it's female doesn't mean it's a sex vessel to be hooted at wherever you may be. Yay, you apologized. You did it because you had a clusterfuck on your hands that would leave a stain on your career, not because you evolved to a higher plane of mental function.)

Where does this bring me to "brutes among us"? Who rose up crying "Foul!"? Who came to the defense of the wronged females, mother and daughters? Who called out Letterman on charges of smarminess, Palin attackage, and child defamation?

Why, the Republican Party, of course! The same Grand Old Racist Party that embraces members who trash-talk eleven-year-olds in hot weather outfits, referring to them as prostitutes! The same people who speculated on that eleven-year-old's first abortion made the Internet, radio, and television airwaves clang with their righteous indignation over Letterman's cheap shot at two white girls.

See, I wouldn't put it past Letterman to speculate about Malia's sexual existence in another eight years. He is mean and small-souled to everyone.

So the Racist Party will defend white girls and vilify girls of color. And Letterman will imply girls of all colors are hos if they're old enough. (He says he won't. We'll see.)

You know, maybe our Victorian ancestors were right, and politics really is too filthy for decent people. It certainly seems to bring out the sewer rat in some of them. And you notice how the person who gets the brunt of their trash rhetoric always turns out to be female?

Don't tax me on Palin. You know she trashes other women worse than she trashes men.