Posted on 05/09/2011 10:17:05 AM PDT by RogerFGay
Byron York wrote a good article for the Washington Examiner titled 2012 and the Republican rescue fantasy. The sense among South Carolina's Republicans is that the current field of presidential candidates is poor. I could say, Well, DU-UH! but feel no urge to treat the writer disrespectfully. Someone did have to report it after all, and it is at least half my intention here to repeat it.The “Republican rescue fantasy” York refers to is that of “a superhero candidate will swoop down out of the sky and rescue them from their current lackluster presidential field.” After reviewing the usual suspects and some dropped names of “unattainable” candidates, he concludes that “One thing is certain: No previously-unknown savior is going to descend from the sky to save Republicans. If they are to defeat Barack Obama, they'll have to do it with someone from their extended field today.”
Well, OK. Given that ending, York's piece can be classified as commentary and I'm free to rag a bit.
If the analysis is to be a serious one, it must first be recognized that the Republican difficulty in defeating the most overtly corrupt president in the nation's history is totally pathetic. The Republican mid-term success was due to a simple promise to fight back. The new House of Representatives opened with a dramatic historical event; the first time the House read through the U.S. Constitution. They won because they told us they'd do everything they could to see that government began playing by the rules.
That in fact was the Republican fantasy; one hypocritically aimed at the voting public. Once seated, it soon became clear that they preferred to take the quickest route back to “business as usual.”
I do not think that a superhero candidate is needed. He or she need only be better than the opponent. I do not agree with York that Republicans need to pick someone from the current extended field. That seems the worst possible course. The Republican problem is one of credibility, making any established Party operative a liability. It's difficult to believe, for example, that anyone thinks Mitt Romney will ever win the presidency, even if he runs against the Devil who declares actually being the Devil and runs on a platform assuring that everyone who votes for him will go to Hell.
Republicans have said they'd be better many times, but then when it's time to deliver – they aren't. Instead they merely present a different set of excuses, lies, and arguments for compromise that lead to the same sort of corrupt policies, growth of government, and centralized control. The credibility problem has become critical, producing the pathetic difficulty they now face. In the hearts of voters: Fool me once, shame on me! Fool me a few hundred times … well … dude, you've got a serious problem.
The place to focus for 2012 is back on the promise of 2010 and what they actually need to do (talk is cheap) to improve the Party's credibility enough to raise them from their pathetic status.
I sure hope you are still here if she decides NOT to run. But if she does(decide to run), I believe that can only strengthen the field. There are not enough conservatives currently running and I look forward to seeing her debating Cain, Santorum and Bachmann and yes even the back benchers, Paul, Johnson, Pawlenty, Romney, Gingrich and Daniels.
No one suggested McCain.
Run a leader who has the balls to fight and beat the limp wristed president Obama.
That’s all.
Not complicated at all.
I agree on the Christie thing, but Kasich has enough history for me. Kasich proved himself long before he got elected Governor. Christie on the other hand needs a full term as governor to prove he is worth his salt.
I saw that when I went back and reread the post. I thought for one second and typed for two, instead of thinking for two and typing for one. The gentleman from Illinois withdraws all post suggesting McCain. Sorry
I saw the head of the RNC on TV this a.m. - how much worse can it get???
Sarah already said that she will not form a exploratory committee, she will just jump into the race....second of all, why did she hire Michael Glassner to organize her campaign and get a new adviser on foreign affairs from the Hoover Institute? That doesn’t sound like a person ramping down to sit on the sidelines this fall..she’s running alright
As a supporter of Herman Cain, I take any inferences to the jackass from Arizona seriously. My apologies if my post to you seemed harsh.
Hard for Republicans to do. In the last presidential election, Bammy got away with running as a Ronald Reagan candidate by delivering it in the voice of a well-practiced Martin Luther King imitation. His defense on his strange ramblings regarding defense in the televised debate was that his positions were no different than those recommended by Republican advisors. Republicans get dumb-founded because they know they’re only fooling us when trying to differentiate themselves from Democrats. None of them are smart enough to deal with it.
Amen, brother.
Now, who is the one candidate from the current extended field who holds true to their conservative values, gets elected and does exactly what they say they are going to do, who doesn’t back down from a fight, will even challenge corruption in their own party, and who ignites the conservative base like no other?
I think we have our superhero!
The one thing that is going to be a BIG positive in the Republican primary is that the subject matter is going to be what we should be focusing on. Whoever wins will certainly know what the voters of the party are looking for.
Hopefully then, the candidate won’t pull a McCain and spend the entire general campaign trying to woo Hillary voters and others on the far left. Not only would such a candidate not get my vote, but I’d campaign against them. It’s been a few years in fact, since I’ve accepted the “lesser of two evils” BS. I’m back where I should be on the subject of evil. There are no degrees of evil. Evil is just evil.
I would be worried if I was a Obama lover,it is early and every GOP is better than him.
Kasich is a great governor, but he suffers from the horrendous chronic affliction of foot in mouth disease. He would never get through a presidential campaign without “Howard Deaning” himself.
See post # 55.
Rest assured. Come November 2012 I will dutifully mark the ballot for the presidential candidate mostly likely to succeed in ending the Obama Insurgency (OI!). And when she is sworn in come January 2013, I am sure all my fellow FReepers will be glad they helped make it happen. :)
I’ll wait to see how much they rely on canned applause machines.
NObody never toaught you how to read no good either...
there be a VERY BIG difference between Cain and McCain
I think Palin/Bachman is a GURANTEED win
un-beatable
You got 100% of the republicans (no complaint with these two)
and from the middle you get ALL the wimmin vote
and the men in the middle are probably done with obambi- how many of them feel stupid now for having fell for his BS
the libtards- forget them. We wont get them anyway, but I see a 60/40 vivtory for Palin/Bachman no matter how you slice up the demographics.
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