Oh, “leopards”, why was it I kept hearing “Lepers-Eating-Peoples’-Faces Party”?
Saint motherfucking Ronnie? Still? Naah, fuck that noise. Fucker was just as bad as Trump. Worse, even, since he has the extra term to fuck the world up in.
Was he the one who issued the edict “never speak ill of a fellow R”, or did he just firmly endorse it?
What’s the difference? I can assure you I know people who espoused exactly those views, 40 years apart, and would never have identified as anything other than conservative in that same span.
Maybe that’s because lepers were outcasts. Lepers, republicans, to-may-to, to-mah-to.*
*My apologies to anyone currently inflicted with Hansen’s disease. I’m referring back to the time when such sufferers were treated as outcasts.