Bride of Rove

Some radio show host I never heard of registered the words “Tea Party“, which I always thought was a bad idea for a name if you were ever going to start a gang or a group, and is now suing ayone else using it to make them stop or pay him money. If you must smack a name on yourself that your parents or a preacher didn’t give you, make it one that is marginally feared and loathed and yet appropriate to your personality or modus operandi. Take Bride of Rove as an example. Has there ever been a name more feared and disliked and yet grudgingly respected than Rove?

Don’t answer that. It was rethorical. Just agree with me or we’ll never get to the point.

Would anyone, other than Rove himself, ever bother to take that and either sue me or try to use it themselves? Possibly not even Rove himself …

No. And why would they? That would be silly. The word Rove has so permeated the lexicon that it’s often used in behavioral context. Just as we use “machiavellian”, we also use “rovian” to describe a human behavior and with similar admiration, fear and a certainty that we would never be so ruthless. No one names their baby “Machiavelli” or “Rove” but I guarantee you there are babies being born out there who are named TP, short for toilet paper Tea Party because they were conceived in a recreational vehicle or empty conference room DURING a Tea Party event. PROVE ME WRONG. Some kids will unearth the acronym for toilet paper and some lawyer will be making money trying to unscrew that name: Tea Party. It’s just a name destined for trouble and that’s something no one needs … except lawyers.

Rove? Could most likely care less, may possibly be a little amused even, as long as I don’t turn this into a porn site – and what twisted men would visit a porn site named Rove? – and no one else is going to steal it because they couldn’t figure out how to make it into anything lucrative. So the name Bride of Rove, which was given to me by an atheist, socialist friend because I could take any topic she felt strongly about and twist it fifty-ways-come-Sunday, making her rethink her original opinion by, applying the rovian technique of spin with a little snark tossed in … THAT name? No one wants it. No one – hopefully – would ever sue me for it and demand that I stop using it. But more importantly, no one wants to join my “group”.

People don’t trust “groups” any more. They don’t. They are a necessary evil and by nature have become either lawless free-for-alls or dictatorships that stifle the flow of information and ideas. The instant you seek a name “people will be drawn to”, that people will “want to belong to” that isn’t regulated by the bible or something like it – and sometimes even the bible isn’t enough to prevent the badness from oozing out – you are done.

I propose that the Tea Party’s and 9-12ers spontaneously change their names once every six months because it is the only way to keep the “brand bandits” from swooping in and it will confuse the hell out of the Progressives trying to fight you and keep yourselves entertained and on your toes as you keep the super secret meeting places fluid and creative. Either that or find a name like Rove – if you have the balls to use it – *raised eyebrow* – which you don’t.

Bwahahahahahahahaha!

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