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Screw the GOP. I am done with them.
Given the way the party elites have behaved in recent years, I no longer care. Sure an Obama re-election irreparably wrecks the economy and brings about economic collapse, but a Romney Presidency probably does the exact same thing just at a slightly slower pace.
This country isn't serious about reform. Might as well go ahead and have the total collapse now and get it over with. Sure there will be a tremendous amount of pain and suffering, but we will have brought it all upon ourselves as a nation.
If we can hold off the Chinese and other potential scavengers, then perhaps we can start rebuilding from the ashes. Who knows? Maybe then common sense conservatism can at long last prevail.
Perhaps.
But the Democrats have clearly become the Communist Party, and that seems to have worked out quite well for them.
Yes, very well indeed.
To be among the Ruling Class is to be a creature of government or else firmly attached to one of its multitude of nourishing teats. Those of us desirous of a more anonymous and privately remunerative life must compete with them not only for political influence, but increasingly, for a right to the fruits of our own labors and to make even minute decisions about the course of our own lives.
In such a parlous state, no nation can long endure. Things eventually do fall apart. And presently, they are.
In 1852 the Whigs nominated an old war horse who lost to a political newcomer. A new party was in power 8 years later.
In 2008 the Republicans nominated an old war horse who lost to a political newcomer. Will we have a new party in 2016?
Everything seems to be falling apart at once.
Not quite, but I guess it's kind of in the ballpark.
About the present: Parties out of power exaggerate their positions, and parties in power tend to moderate them. So the Republicans of 1994 were different from the Republicans of the Bush years. So the Democrats of the Bush years made all kinds of claims about foreign policy that weren't supported by the actions of the Clinton or Obama administrations. So the next Republican President isn't going to have the level of tea party sentiment to deal with that was present in 2010. So will the party be as split as he claims if we win?
The other factor is that parties can get serious after a loss. If we lose this time, won't we get organized enough to do it right next time?
Slavery, by contrast, was an issue that didn't go away. You could be say that the Whigs didn't get a chance. They lost in 1852 and the Democrats started to set the scene for civil war.
If the Whigs had won that election, would they have coped better with sectional divisions and not let things decay as quickly as they did? I guess in the end, though, the Whigs did fail, whether they had a chance or not.
There is no Tea Party candidate in the race.
I listened to Newt’s speech last night and he almost sounded like he was campaigning as a third party candidate. Several things he said made me immediately jump to the idea of ‘third party.’
PING!
Very good article. We’ll see how it all plays out probably by Super Tuesday. If Gingrich takes the lead the Republican party might continue on... and if Romney wins, there will be a split.
>>Northern Whigs were industrial gurus who hated slavery.
They were gurus? Poor word choice, and a bad editor.
The GOP has failed to achieve its animating purpose. In the US, there is a Leviathan party, which comprises most of the Dem party and about half of the GOP. There are a few doctrinal differences within the Leviathan superparty, but there were also discussions and squabbles in the USSR or China under communism.
The GOP died when Reagan left office. The two Bushes buried it.
The GOP died when Reagan left office. The two Bushes buried it.
To Hell with the Neo-Whigs and Vichy Republicans if they select ORomney.
I think Rockefeller Republican is the worse pejorative I can think of for the establishment.
In other parts of the world, the fight continued as one between Whigs and Tories. Tories today continue the fight by trying to rewrite history by making the great Republican Cromwell into the villain and the Cavaliers into the heroes. Tories tend to look down on Americans and their revolution as unjust and sneer at Whigs as anti-democratic and freedom loving. Tories claim they tried to preserve the moral order that Whigs tore apart, which is laughable since Tories were the favorite of the Hollywood elite of their day (Shakespeare and the playwrites).
Canada produced a great Whig Prime Minister in Wilfred Laurier who was probably more of a classical liberal in his day that his American contemporaries.
Today Canada produces the likes of David Frum, advisor to GW Bush, and great apologist for milquetoast anti-Tea Party conservatism.
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