The Right Wing: Delusional, Out Of It, And In Denial

This past week, there’s been three really stunning examples of just how completely divorced from reality the wingnuts are these days.

First, you have Glenn Reynolds’ nutball fantasies of an al Qaeda-Saddam alliance:

OBAMA RESPONDS TO MCCAIN: “There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq.” The problem with this statement is that, although it’s an article of leftie faith, it’s not true.

Why Reynolds considers the 9/11 Commission, the CIA and Colin Powell "lefties" is anyone’s guess.

Next, you have W. expressing surprise at the price of gas.

"Wait, what did you just say?" the president interrupted. "You’re predicting $4-a-gallon gasoline?"

Maer responded: "A number of analysts are predicting $4-a-gallon gasoline."

Bush’s rejoinder: "Oh, yeah? That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard that."

I’m guessing most working people wouldn’t use the word "interesting" to describe what gas prices are doing to their already stretched-thin wages.

But Mary Matalin, on "Meet The Russert" this weekend, had an answer for them, too.

MATALIN: Well, there’s an element of cognitive dissonance there, because if you ask them how their own personal finances are going, those numbers completely switch. Yes — he’s looking around. Those numbers are completely true. They absolutely switch on their own personal finances.

SHRUM: I think most people are getting very insecure about their personal finances.

MATALIN: That’s because they’re berated with these numbers.

Here’s hoping St. McCain uses all of this great material and runs on Saddam’s ties to al Qaeda, the great economy Americans don’t appreciate because they’re brainwashed by the media, and gas prices…what gas prices? I’m sure all three will be big winners for him in November.

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