Posted on 11/05/2013 8:02:48 PM PST by Sporke
I apologize in advance because I am not overly educated nor well spoken.
I do NOT understand the national fixation with political families and cronies. The Bushes, the Clintons, the Kennedys, etc., and their "inner circle" friends.
Can someone educate me? Is there a reason we keep electing the same political class, in election after election? Both parties do it, and the people jump at the chance to vote for them.
I will never vote for another Bush, or Clinton, or Kennedy. I will never vote for their campaign henchmen either.
Am I just dumb? I want NEW people with NEW ideas, and with far less corruption in their pasts. There are Congressmen who have been in office since the SEVENTIES!!!! Really????? I do like Rand Paul, but at least he had a real actual JOB before he ran for office. So many of our politicians have NEVER had to deal with real life outside the beltway. I am honestly befuddled. :-/
Would an intervention help?
JMO, but I think it is familiarity. Sort of like name brand clothing or food.
You are fine. These are crime families embedded in a corrupt political crime circle. Your sentiments are correct.
Welcome to the last days of the Roman Republic where if you weren’t
from a handful of Patrician families you had no chance of election to Consul or any form of Magistrate. Personally I’m not not voting for any relative
spouse or in law of any elected official.
John Adams, John Quincy Adams.
William Henry Harrison (Tippecanoe) and Benjamin Harrison.
Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt.
Adlai Stevenson, Adlai Stevenson Jr.
Birch Bayh, Evan Bayh.
George Romney, Mitt Romney.
America has always had dynasties since the earliest days of the Republic.
That is my thought, too. We already know them and that both reduces uncertainty about them and lets us believe we can hold them accountable through their better known familial elder.
Kinda like a country I know.
It seems as if it’s some type of innate human trait.
I want new people with old ideas.
It is a near-fatal lack of imagination. With over 310 million people across the fruited plain the unimaginative in both major parties keep coming back to the handful of under-performers and their brothers, spouses or children.
Does Jeb ever help a conservative? I didn't see any Bushes try to help Cuccinelli today--and Cooch didn't do too badly for himself. He would have beat McCauliffe if he'd really had help from the RNC.
“I want new people with old ideas.”
You win this thread! :-D
The Obenshains may be a political dynasty on the rise. Dick Obenshain, a conservative, was elected lieutenant governor of Virginia in 1969 and his son Mark is currently leading his Democrat opponent by about 7,000 votes in his bid to become the Virginia’s attorney general. His sister Kate is a conservative activist with Young America’s Foundation and often appears on Fox News.
Don’t forget the Tafts, a dynasty that goes back to the eighteenth century.
Branding is very powerful. Howard Johnson made millions from it. So did Ray Kroc, Harlan Saunders, and Carl Karcher.
Ford, Chevy, we are constantly given lessons that if you liked something once, you will probably like it again.
Consider Billy Graham’s preaching, or the Catholic Church, both powerful brands. Republican and Democratic parties are also brands.
Seventy-five percent of the people never outgrow the ninth grade, with its cool guys and gals and in-groups and dorks - that about sums it up.....
JMO, but I think it is familiarity. Sort of like name brand clothing or food.
I tend to agree with you. It also has to do with looks. Kennedy was good looking and Nixon was not particularly and he was old. Clinton was good looking and kinda funny and Bush I was OLD and boring. Bush II was good looking and Gore nor Kerry are not and they are boring. I think it had a lot more to do with the person running against these Dynasties then the actual families actually becoming dynasties.
Welcome to the last days of the Roman Republic where if you weren’t
from a handful of Patrician families you had no chance of election to Consul or any form of Magistrate.
We must have been there for a long time. Political Dynasties have been part of America practically from the beginning. We are not Rome. If countries were going to go the way of Rome then Europe would be gone already. We are not Rome and I laugh when people say so.
You are right, sir. I could not agree more.
I still think mr Buckley was on the money when he said we could do better having a monkey throw darts at random pages of the phone book
No more Clinton’s. or bushes. Lets just start with THAT , ok?
NOT presidents. In the modern era
That is unacceptable. No father son brother crap no more.
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