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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.
Great article.
The House should attack the Obamacare repeal and elimination of several federal agencies to any and all legislation then go home.
I’d hardly call Sarah Palin “lackluster.” She has more fire and energy than any other potential GOP candidate since Reagan back in 1980.
Run Gingrich for P; McCain for VP. In this case, I believe "anti-synergy" would operate (1+1 = -6). This team would lose every state and capture absolutely no electoral votes at all.
Then...increase control in the House; take control of the Senate...and for the ensuing four years, hope for the best.
Wanted: Pro-life, pro-Family, pro-Liberty, pro-America patriotic conservative supercandidate for president. Must have gun, boat and motor and be willing to drill, baby, drill. Please send picture.
Palin/West...that's what we do.
Palin/Bachman
Or Cain/Bachman
She is not in the race.
One thing that team would do....it would END RINO’s.
Cain/Bachmann and I pretty much pass out from happiness!
Conservatism, smaller government, liberty, fiscal sanity, real energy development, jobs, American greatness are the things Americans will get energized for. A Washington insider, compromiser, go along—get along, good time rockn’ rolla’, Potomac sipping, media hound won’t inspire squat. Long Live the Tea Party!
Problem with plan:
Many will stay home. We will lose the Senate again in a year when we have a good chance to take it back. (Most seats up for election this cycle are held by D’s.)
This is an opportunity cycle, not a try-and-hold-on cycle.
Get behind Michelle Bachman, GD-it, that’s whats needed.
I love my Bachman, but I think she needs to stay where she is to help us push the “GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR LIVES’ movement.
However, with that said, I do believe Sarah will chose whom she thinks is best for the job.
I do not trust any politician; however, Sarah is not one. She is a “love America” and will do her all to save it.
Whom ever she chooses, I will back 1000%, as long as she is #1 on the ticket.
Proposed Addendum: Hockey moms with gubernatorial and extensive energy sector experience invited to apply.
In your dreams. lol.
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