GODP?

The Grand Old Delusional Party has been in touch with me again, via its propaganda unit Nutsmax (the media empire that can proudly boast it's saner than WorldNutsDaily, One Nuts Now -- although this is borderline -- Townhall and Accuracy in Media).

This time they've sent me a personal email promulgating a deliberately misdirecting conspiracy theory about George Soros, plus an appeal for funds so that I can add my painfully extracted penny to the unprecedented billions being donated to the GODP's midterm campaigns by the likes of the American Chamber of Commerce and almost every multinational corporation you choose to name . . . all permissible thanks to a Supreme Court stacked with rightwing activist judges and those judges' recent Citizens United decision, which essentially permits corporations to buy elections.

Seems to me the corporations have bought the judges, hm?

Whatever, this particular email is signed by someone claiming he's "Senator Norm Coleman."

I've checked, and so far as I can ascertain there is no "Senator Norm Coleman."

There is, however, this guy.

He's called just Norm Coleman, not Senator Norm Coleman, and the footnotes of my consciousness reveal to me that he's the dim bulb who in 2009, despite for months exploring extensive legal chicanery in an attempt to subvert the democratic process, got beat by the person who is now Senator Al Franken.

I also remember him saying some abominably stupid things about George Galloway, who's hardly a moral exemplar but at least on occasion has aspirations higher than shilling for corporate masters, which at the time seemed a certain Senator's aim. And, to judge by this email, still is.

But only someone seriously delusional would try to pretend in a fundraiser that Norm Coleman is still a Senator. Whether the GODP likes it or not, Coleman lost. Trying to pretend otherwise is extraordinarily delusional.

Is it not time the GODP sought counseling?

Any hope they might start telling us the truth is, of course, beyond forlorn.