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Take no quarter, give no quarter...CHARGE!!
“The epicenter is the Republican Party.” Well Craig I have to hand it to you, you see the light. The target is the good old boy RINO establishment. No more of doing business as usual and calling all the shots. The people are on the rise lead by the Tea Party in case you have not noticed. We have not gone anywhere. GO NEWT GO!
I love that term hoi polloi.
It is the title of one my favorite Three Stooges episodes where the stooges start a food fight among high society types.
Terrific analysis. Bravo.
Do not show yourself until he is in range. Operate in total stealth mode. Crush the enemy when he is the weakest.
Remember San Jacinto! 18 minutes that re-shaped a continent.
An arguement only used by men who never bother to ask. (Kinda like getting directions...)
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Getting a little pedantic here, but given that 'hoi' means 'the' in Greek, it's just 'hoi polloi,' not 'the hoi polloi.'
'The hol polloi' means 'the the many.'
One of those things that irks me. Like when people say 'hoist on his own petard' instead of 'hoist by his own petard.' A petard is a small bomb. Ask Shakespeare.
Miss Bessie Smith, God rest her soul, would pause during the middle of Advanced Grammar, and wax eloquently on these pressing topics. And I paid attention.
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I've referred to those folks before as "The Kenosha Crowd". Romney has his roots in that same tight class of owner/investors. (and no, they don't all live in Kenosha, or even the MidWest, but they exist).
Barry went out to campaign knowing that there was NO BROAD MIDDLE. There were NO INDEPENDENTS. There were, in his mind only two political poles in American politics ~ that we call Democrat and the other we call Republican. Each pole was made up of a number of factions ~ income level, class, education levels, ownership prerogatives, social beliefs, customs, geography ~ and occupations with union membership a subset of that structure.
He also knew that each pole was operated differently. If you wanted to climb through the chairs in the Republican party you could start as a precinct worker, then chairman, then to the county, to the district, to the state, and maybe even get selected for the national committee.
If, perhaps, you wanted to climb through the chairs in the Democrat party you could do pretty much the same thing but you'd need to simultaneously climb through the chairs in your own faction. Union guys didn't just jump into party politics. They had to go up through the union for example. In some groupings, e.g. lawyers, you'd need to do good deeds for various sorts of lawyer associations.
It's not terribly different now, although our newly arrived formerly Democrat Southerners and Roman Catholics might think some of those Democrat party organization and management practices might do those of us who are counted as Republicans a world of good.
Obviously we don't want to do things that way, so as a sop the TEAParty is offered as an alternative ~ an honest to goodness broadly based FACTION in tune with the ambitions of those who'd like to climb through the faction rather than through the party apparatus.
Back to Barry. Right as he was Lyndon Johnson was of the exact same perception as Barry. He realized that if he promised MORE CIVIL RIGHTS LAWS he could rip the black faction away from the Republicans, and he did so.
Even if Barry had kept the Rockefeller Republicans in his stable, Barry would have still lost.
By the time Richard Nixon came along it was doctrine that you win by protecting your voting base and ripping off a faction from the other party. Nixon chose to pull in white Southerners from the Democrat coalition. He succeeded. Later on Ronaldus Magnus took the opportunity to bring in church going Roman Catholics to the Republican coalition.
One of the dicta of the single member district driven bi-modal saddle our political picture has become is very simple ~ for every action there is a reaction. At the local level one party might over-dominate politics, yet at higher levels there is resentment elsewhere and those people will shift to the other pole if there is the slightest advantage to doing so. The consequence is you get a remarkably even balance between the aggregate voting power of one pole and that same power of the other pole.
You end up with LANDSLIDES with as little as 5% difference.
Politico doesn't read my stuff. I doubt they can understand it. They've been wrong many times this election year. I fully expect them to continue to be as wrong as they've been all along. If they're listening, did you know about Pelosi's "love chil"?
NOTE: During the Roosevelt Regime blacks were presumed to be voting for FDR ~ but, of course, they were being "voted" by precinct captains and ward-healers. By the time Ike came along it was pretty clear there was a Presidential wing among black voters ~ this was a fairly large faction and had enough votes to swing an election against a weak Republican ~ JFK's crowd had alienated them in the 1960 election, and later in the early '60s he dwadled ~ Ike had federalized the Arkansas NG at Little Rock high.
That election was virtually a dead heat ~ Nixon with his 5 o'clock shadow almost beat the Lord of Camelot ~ actually did if they'd counted the votes right. LBJ used a different tack in 1964. As did Nixon in 1968/1972, and everybody else from then on.
Today the faction Newt Gingrich will need to pull in are the 26 million unemployed, mostly young people.
Regarding this evening's STU speech, Obama offers citizenship to Illegal Aliens which means More Unemployment for Unemployed American youth.
That unemployed and young crowd is out there ready for Republicans to pick like overripe fruit hanging on a low branch! Obama is giving them the election.