Posted on 07/11/2010 1:28:52 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The prospect of the November elections becoming a replay of 1994 has Democrats running scared everywhere except, apparently, the White House, where the famous Obama cool keeps everyone’s emotions in check. Sure, losses are expected in the first midterm of a new president, but let’s not lose too much sleep over it. Indeed, some of the president’s allies think all the attention on the Democrats is misplaced, that the real replay of ’94 is happening on the Republican side, with a new generation of self-described young guns maneuvering to topple the old guard.
In this scenario, Republican whip Eric Cantor is the new Newt: substantive, focused, and with a plan, although the intervening years haven’t been kind to the GOP gene pool. Cantor can’t hold a candle to Newt Gingrich when it comes to brain power and the ability to sway an audience with grand political theorems, and I’m not even a fan of Gingrich. Still, everything is relative, and in today’s dumbed-down GOP, Cantor is what passes for an intellectual.
Republican leader John Boehner, the Dean Martin of the GOP, tanned and ready for a game of golf, is today’s version of former GOP leader Bob Michel, a congenial moderate from Illinois who was pushed aside and retired to make room for Gingrich and his band of conservative revolutionaries. Boehner messed up when he said the Democrats’ plan to rein in Wall Street was “killing an ant with a nuclear weapon.” Highlighting the GOP love-in with big business is not in the Republican playbook for this fall when the party wants to portray itself as fighting for the little guy against the excesses of big-bad-government Obama.(continued)
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She's just smart that way.
Frum?
Will Blog For Food?
I would not give this schlub a crumb.
A gaunt and ragged Frum -- sprawled in some anonymous gutter, soundlessly mouthing the word "food" over and over again while passers-by resolutely ignored him -- WOULD be the best case scenario, yes. ;)
Duncan Hunter?
No offense, but your premise is bilge. The average GOP voter understands plenty of political philosophy, especially where the rubber hits the road.
“A Communist is a person who has read Marx. A Capitalist is a person who understands Marx.”
Yeah, you and Eleanor Clift. Cute couple.
Sorry. We’ve got nothing in common. Not even sure we’re the same species.
I don't like Republicans in Washington because they're way too liberal.
How about it Mr. Silverback, do you agree with Clift, with me, or do you think they're just right?
Right, sure. The majority of Americans have never, outside of leaving school, ever again read a non fiction book. Not one in a hundred Republicans know who Burke, Locke were, have read the Federalists, the Anti-Federalists, Tocqueville, Machiavelli. That’s why we have such a rip roaring book review posts on Free Republic, and of course consider that often the difference between a Democracy and a Republic has often to be explained here.
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