Dondero makes my head itch

My girls caught head lice in elementary school. They had beautiful hair; ringlets down their backs. When they caught lice, I flipped out. I bought enough RID to sanitize a city block. I washed and dried their linens, teddy bears, and scrubbed their heads. I didn’t let them sleep anywhere but home, told them not to share jackets and brushes, and pulled a nit comb through their hairs nightly.

I was mortified when I couldn’t get rid of the infestation. My kids were clean, their sheets were clean, our apartment was clean, and I’d spent hundreds of dollars to rid our lives of the bloodsuckers. I finally bought clippers, the girls got crew cuts, and while they had ugly hairstyles for girls, we got rid of the problem.

You may wonder why I bring this up. If you came from this reason H&R thread, you might think that I’m on a parasite kick.

You’d be right.

I’m thinking of Eric Dondero types as parasites. He runs around, blog to blog, screaming that he (and Giuliani) is a libertarian. He meanwhile pounds upon the war drum, bastardizing the bedrock of the libertarian movement. My good friend, disinter, has come to think that Dondero is actually a hired gun for the Republican Party; that he gains his life’s sustenance by making ours miserable.

Disinter might be correct, I think.

There is talk about ignoring Dondero and letting him go about his bullshit. But lice hurt hosts. They are initially an irritating itch. But then they can make a person anemic and cause real health problems. They don’t know any better; it’s just what they are programmed to do. It’s how they eat and live. But, you know what I learned about lice? They attach themselves to the cleanest hosts-it’s a less troublesome road.

Our philosophy (read: platform) is good; parasites attach themselves, usually in great numbers, to the best feeding opportunity available. The LP message is strong and instead of ignoring those who misrepresent it, we should take them on. We must not allow them to misappropriate our message.

I don’t think purity tests should be decisive and I think that party purges seem so USSR, but if we want a free USA, we need to cut the hair.

Fortunately, the Dondero types are split ends.

~ by Miche on August 12, 2007.