The Perot Option [Left's Strategy to Divide Us and Keep Power]

NYT ^ | January 28, 2010 | David Brooks

[cmj328]

There is a specter haunting America: the specter of a saner, updated version of Ross Perot. He is lurking out there, ready to ride the free-floating anger and distrust of Washington. He is out there now in one of his homes or private jets, getting madder by the day. He is large of ego, full of money and cranky in mien.

When he enters the arena, he’ll say that Washingtonians, all of them, are a bunch of failures. Over the past five years, Washington has tried to reform Social Security, immigration, health care and energy policy. All of these efforts have either failed or are close to failure — thousands of people working millions of hours and in all likelihood producing nothing.

[cmj328]

They have outlined their strategy. Let's not fall for it.

[Dem Guard]

This is what he has been doing all along. We have his number, and he isn’t running for president anymore, he is the president, and this crap is going to stick to his shoes whether he likes it or not!

[GQuagmire]

I wish I had those three minutes of my life back after reading that crap.

If I read that right, the author wants Obama to campaign instead of govern for the next three years?

[henry_reardon]

the gop had better get their act together and fast or this will happen. maybe they want this to happen?

[SmokingJoe]

“He’s out there — that saner Ross Perot. He’s a-comin’. The country would be better off if it were you. “

Final proof (if any more proof were needed), that David Brooks is indded a stark raving, lunatic.
Quick, bring on the men in long white coats.

[liberalcide1]

They have outlined their strategy. Let's not fall for it. ................. I agree, lets make sure a real conservative is nominated and not another John McCain.

[DeusExMachina05]

David Brooks, so in love with Obama that he just cant help himself. They both had wet dreams reading Nebur, the well known German philosopher, dont ya know.

[ronnie raygun]

The strategy is not to let them know you have one. I’m sure the blow will come last minute right before the election in november when the rats are reasurred they have divided us.

[omega4179]

The Teas already fell for it. We must support conservatism not parties!

[SmokingJoe]

There is zero chance that its going to happen.
Heck, the Tea Parties strongly backed Scott Brown, and Tea Partiers sent him so much money in online contributions, that he ended his campaign with $4 million in the bank. And the guy is not even conservative in everything. We backed him in order to stop 0bamacre and remove the 60 seat Democratic super majority in the US Senate.
The last thing the Tea Parties are going ton do in 2012, is vote for some Ross Perot. The overriding objective will be to remove 0bozo from power.
David Brooks is simply nuts.

[SmokingJoe]

“The Teas already fell for it.”

When was that?

[counterpunch]

0bama will try to employ someone to split the vote against him as Bill Clinton did.
The only way to get him out of office will be for the GOP to nominate a candidate who is not out of touch, old guard, or doesn't inspire broad-based confidence in their own abilities. That means we cannot afford another Dole, McCain, or for that matter Palin.

I think Bob McDonnell is one to watch. We still have some time to figure it out and get it right.
 

[ricks_place]

Ah yes. Perot initiated the era of Democrat Rule. Perot could never be elected yet managed to convince frustrated people that the Reform Party was viable. Clinton won a plurality of the public in his first run. Smart move by the Obambots to divide the non-left voters. Spin the Tea Party; cultivate division with Astroturf; obfuscate a Republican message.

[tanknetter]

The Teas already fell for it. We must support conservatism not parties!

Nope. We must support Conservatism through parties.

The organizational challenges of being truly effective, politically and ideologically, across all levels of government are daunting - to say the least. The GOP has the organizational apparatus in place to do that.

The best way of advancing Conservatism is to take the reins of the GOP from the grassroots and lead it in that direction. Not to go out and support a candidate who we may think is ideologically acceptable but who's first vote each Congress is for Nancy Pelosi to be Speaker or Harry Reid to be Majority Leader.

[BornToBeAmerican]

Thank you. The Teas were never about R and D's. Just Conservatism. You are right about Scott.

[GQuagmire]

That means we cannot afford another Dole, McCain, or for that matter Palin.


We can afford Palin, my FRiend.....

[SmokingJoe]

“0bama will try to employ someone to split the vote against him as Bill Clinton did.”

Yeah. Like how that tecnqiuque worked for the Democrats in New Jersey and Massachusetts. Not!
The independents in both NJ and Mass, who were supposed to take votes away from the Repunloican candidate, ended up getting clobberedd but good. The independent candidate in New Jersey, Daggett, who was polling as high as 18% just a few weeks before the elections, ended up getting only 5.8% of the vote, and lost most of his supporters to the Republican Charlie Christie, who won by a solid 4.3%.
This is not 1992.
Voters nowadays, are not as stupid as you think they are.

[patriot preacher]

First, who is the “us” they are dividing? If it’s a reference to Republicans vs. Tea Party Conservatives, they are already quite divided in general. Republicans need to decide if they will be Conservative or not.

On the other hand, it only takes a few hotheads like I’ve seen on other threads that want to throw Sarah Palin under the bus for campaigning for McCain to sink our efforts before we even get started good.

Allow for some disagreements and differences, without compromising your pivotal values. The principles are the key, but insisting on perfect conformity will short circuit all we want to accomplish. The Leftists KNOW this.

[Altura Ct.]

Blah blah blah. He say ‘us’ like there is some commonality between RINOs/Republicarats and conservatives. Not hardly.
This anything but Clinton mantra that the GOP has been spouting for 20+ years to scare the rank-n-file is one of the reasons we are now in the shape we are and one of the reasons we end up with GW and MCCain.