The Egregious Right in the USA

At least the red neck Right in the USA doesn't bother to hide what it thinks - unlike it's poor cousins in Australia - "I'm not Right", one said recently", I'm a conservative!"

Bill O'Reilly, along with his stablemate, Sean Hannity, is the worst offender.

I can't bear to watch Hannity any longer, but there's certain entertainment value in O'Reilly he's such a phony but ever so dangerous.

Before I go on - it's come to my attention that during the 2008 race to the White House, the Republicans rejected outright two men John McCain wanted to sound out as a possible running mate - Joe Liberman , a Democrat and Mike Bloomberg, a Democrat turned Republican. Both are Jews, both gay friendly.

That's the Right of America for you.

So who got the nod - none other than the the Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin.

She is now of course hailed as the savior of America by The Tea Party, a gaggle of Right Wing nutters so beloved by O'Reilly and Hannity.

So let's have a look at this incredile woman , who, if McCain had beaten Obama, would have been a heart beat away from becoming the leader of the free world - and who the Right are currently considering nominating as its candidate for for the 2012 run to the White House.

McCain had met her only once briefly when her name was put forward by two of his advisers - Steve Schmidt and Rick Davis.

He remembered she was "dam impressive" but that was soon forgotten as she became public property.

At 44, she was an ex beauty queen,; pro life, anti abortion,anti stem cell research. Her teenage daughter was pregnant out of wedlock,she'd never travelled abroad; in fact she was deemed so unsuitable a seasoned Republican strategist told a reporter: I'll be she's off the ticket inside of ten days!

She was so off the planet she was considering, when Governor of Alaska, making it mandatory for rape victims to pay for their own pregnancy tests.

In spite of a myriad of rumours about her her husband and one of her sons, inspite of her making an absolute idiot of herself in TV interviews she perservered and the Republicans warmed to her; well some did.

Dick Cheney told friends: McCain has made a reckless choice.

The rest is history and the Right of the USA is floundering in a sea of irrelevance and racism.