The best line of the whole article -
So why choose her? Because they’re the Republican Party. Sucking is what they do.
Left it 16 years ago...
Polticians hate populism, it’s govenement for the people, rather than for the politicians. So, whenever populism pops up, in any party, the politicians fall all over themselves to try ro stomp it out.
The other matter is corporatism. The pubs used to be for corporations, while the dems were for grass-level graft.
Now that the Dems have fully embraced corporatism, there is no use for the “old” Republican party, but the ‘pub red meat of being for America and patriotism created a space for Trump’s populism to take hold.
And since nature abhors a vaccuum, take off it did.
The GOP: the Conservative party that has conserved nothing.
The republican party sucks, no doubt. But to place the blame in the beginning of the suck on Bush I is just wrong.
Bush did not push America into the Persian Gulf war. Rather he won that war rather handily in six weeks. Resulting in an approval rating of 90%
GHWB had a lot of faults, to be sure. But he is not the reason why the republican party sucks.
What many here STILL do not get is that while today’s Republican Party does suck*, the opposition no longer just disagrees with us, but they want us re-educated, or if not possible, dead. The people who sit out elections to, you know, ‘teach the GOP a lesson’, are enabling this. They’re welcome to bitch all they want about Republican traitors, etc., of which there are many, but even those traitors don’t want us dead (or re-educated). So, I guess, by enabling the Democrats, those people intend to have us killed (or forcibly re-educated), and then, after that, we’ll rise up and fight back!
Right?
*by the way, it is sucking less and less with Trump taking over.
Trump showed what a decisive leader is and they despise him for it. He made them all look bad.
Excellent article, well written. The author has a keen eye.
Sad but True.
The only reason anyone votes for the Republican Party is that they are the lesser of two evils. If not for that, no one would vote for them because they have nothing to offer — except for their legendary capacity for appeasement and their continued expansion of big government.
Unlike the Dims, seldom is the GOP one party.
To say the “Republican Party” sucks, to me always throws out too much of the baby with the bathwater.
To me more accurate criticism would not aim like a blunderbuss at everyone, but at the specific GOP members the author is REALLY critical of.
To say the “Republican Party” sucks could only be “true” if the author had not one single GOP member they liked.
I seriously doubt that is true for the author, and so I find the author’s criticism childish and dishonest.
To me the GOP does “suck” but where it sucks most is in how it is always so ineffective at communication. Then again, the GOP does not have ABC/CBS/CNN/MSNBC/NBC/NPR et al working 24/7/365 as their own virtual state media.
Yes they do
Mel Brooks ‘History of the World’. “...they stink on ice”
This isn't on Bush. It's on Bill Clinton and Jamie Gorelick, who installed the infamous "wall of separation" between the intelligence agencies to keep them from finding out about Clinton's campaign funding violations with the Chinese.
They also didn't discover the terrorist cells who, for two years, were practicing flying, but not landing, airliners.
-PJ
It sucked under Ford, too.
Republicans might suck but Democrats are. Communists nowadays. They’re not Bill Clinton’s Democratic Party of the ‘90s.
Bush I didn't make things better by any means, but those trends had been going on before he took office. Industry was already in decline before GHWB. The country let down its guard before he took office. Deindustrialization was already a topic in the Eighties and even in the Seventies. There was some enthusiasm for a borderless world among people who called themselves conservatives, so you can't blame everything on some elitist establishment.
Any party is a coalition and will contain some people you disagree with. If you can't handle people of different views you lose elections. And the thing about purges is that the next time, you may be the one who gets purged.
Tal Bachman is a writer, Sirius XM host, and musician best known for his 1999 hit, "She's So High."
I guess that's why he knows so much about sucking.
Without a Republican Party the regressives gain power through the Dem party
I agree with the basic premise. The Republican party is “mercenary” and can be bought, that they lack principals (McCain, Bush H and W. proved that) and will throw anyone and any value under the bus... Only a hand full have any moral/value based courage and the majority is inconsistent, flopping all over the place like a self professed conservative but big government Romney with his health care...
At first I thought maybe this was a bit of a smear job on Elise Stefanik
Sadly, the article is accurate. They replaced Cheney with someone even more liberal - worse.
Fact: some of the greatest expanse in government manpower, budget and scope of powers has happened under Republican rule.
Two major things the article did not mention and why the Republicans really do suck - these not only grew the government, but they led to the biggest violation of basic Constitutional rights:
1. Bush H. and under his tenure the interpretation that anything over IP is considered in the public sphere. The once former director of the CIA was very supportive of the IC and he ensured that the legal framework for the complete loss of any semblance in privacy was created by essentially allowing the government to decide this issue outside the public forum, legislatures, or judicial review. Federal bureaucrats essentially told the public what their rights are and how to interpret the US Constitution.
2. Bush W. and the Patriot Act and the creation of the DHS. Bush W. post 9-11 oversaw the most massive and rapid expanse of government intrusion in the privacy of the lives of average Americans. The Patriot Act aimed a massively expanded (and bloated) IC largely inward instead of the pre-911 outward orientation.
Todays Republican party is a big government party, just like the Democrats. Only they have different financiers in the private sector and abroad that will benefit when they are elected. They use other themes to push their big government ideas: national security, crime, bla bla bla; whereas the Democrats sell egalitarianism, social justice, bla bla bla. Very few are true conservatives like Reagan or Trump were.
Looks like to me that Trump believes that he is taking over the Republican party. And that he's now removed Cheney.
So in that sense, Canadian Tal Bachman, with his hipster haircut, doesn't know what's going on.