The Famous, Big Time( one time ) Cantor/Bush/Romney Talking Tour.
Posted on 07/11/2010 1:28:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The prospect of the November elections becoming a replay of 1994 has Democrats running scared everywhere except, apparently, the White House, where the famous Obama cool keeps everyone’s emotions in check. Sure, losses are expected in the first midterm of a new president, but let’s not lose too much sleep over it. Indeed, some of the president’s allies think all the attention on the Democrats is misplaced, that the real replay of ’94 is happening on the Republican side, with a new generation of self-described young guns maneuvering to topple the old guard.
In this scenario, Republican whip Eric Cantor is the new Newt: substantive, focused, and with a plan, although the intervening years haven’t been kind to the GOP gene pool. Cantor can’t hold a candle to Newt Gingrich when it comes to brain power and the ability to sway an audience with grand political theorems, and I’m not even a fan of Gingrich. Still, everything is relative, and in today’s dumbed-down GOP, Cantor is what passes for an intellectual.
Republican leader John Boehner, the Dean Martin of the GOP, tanned and ready for a game of golf, is today’s version of former GOP leader Bob Michel, a congenial moderate from Illinois who was pushed aside and retired to make room for Gingrich and his band of conservative revolutionaries. Boehner messed up when he said the Democrats’ plan to rein in Wall Street was “killing an ant with a nuclear weapon.” Highlighting the GOP love-in with big business is not in the Republican playbook for this fall when the party wants to portray itself as fighting for the little guy against the excesses of big-bad-government Obama.(continued)
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Let them believe what they will, and let idiots like Eleanor Clift encourage it. All the better for us...
The Famous, Big Time( one time ) Cantor/Bush/Romney Talking Tour.
“Elderly lady”? I think “old bat” would be permissible in this case.
Here’s the statement that infuriated me this time: “... in today’s dumbed-down GOP, Cantor is what passes for an intellectual...”.
More arrogance from the nation’s self-appointed “intelligensia”!
Maybe GOP leadership is “thin”, but what’s really infuriating is the “southern gentlemen” who keep ending up as Senate minority/majority leader over the years. Mc Connell, Trent Lott, Bill Frist, etc. are all too polite to go up against the street fighters on the other side, such as Harry Reid, Tom Daschle, etc.
The Dems leaders are as vicious as can be, but our side plays nice, actually wanting “bipartisanship”, etc. When we do have power, we cede it to the dems, but when they’re in power, our side gets streamrolled at every turn.
Boehner is much more of a fighter than any of these “nice guys” the GOP has had in the Senate as of late! But no more. We need a “bad guy” from WWE to defend our side!
When was she ever out of it?.....:)
Geez, that is being awfully gratious. Boehner has only been seen from time to time to take politically safe pot-shots at Obama. Where are these guys on a daily basis taking the Dems to the fire like say someone in the vane of Beck, Church or Limbaugh? Boehner is Newt's big establishment pal and as far as I'm concerned, if Boehner listens to us like Newt did with Scuzzy, Adios chump.
I agree; Boehner is certainly not an ideal leader! But he’s better than anything going on in the Senate.
“I agree; Boehner is certainly not an ideal leader! But he’s better than anything going on in the Senate.”
Can you name one ideal congressional leader in the past fifty years? Either party? I can’t. Everett Dirkson came close, but he was in the minority.
There is no fighting in Congress. It is a struggle of ideas and communication. The left come from the media arts and take in school complex and deep classes in various leftism.
Republicans don’t. They don’t do theator, media, art. They don’t do philosophy, Marxism or even much free market ideas either. By and large they are uneducated, pleasent, hacks.
And, rightly, they get their butts kicked and will continue to do so.
However they represent by and large Republican voter, whom also disdain political arts, philosophy.
A single House ‘Great Leader’ isn’t going to do it.
Gingrich in '94. He took the reins away from the dems with a dem president.
He would have loved to have left Netanyahu wandering around the White House basement again, but suddenly, he's Oy'bama with an unBarackable bond to Israel. They saw through it, and that ain't cool.
Too bad he burned out so quickly and has left nothing but the occasional ash smear on the party ever since.
Anyone got any links to Clift's snarky comments about Obama's golf game? What? There aren't any?
Clift, along with execrable pantywaist Carl Leubsdorf, have been reduced to playing the 'GOP in turmoil' card four months before the election. Even true believers like these two have NOTHING to promote (or lie about) where the current administration is concerned.
Newsweek.
The magazine of dentists’ offices and little else.
Inside Eleanor’s shriveled brain their is a shadow battle between her two remaining functioning brain cells. Her gray matter has transmuted into doesn’t matter.
I was pussyfooting around that!
If it was Newts ‘leadership’, what happened to him?
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