Wonderful post!
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Mac Johnson might also want to consider the impact this is having on the body politic:
Too much hesperophobia (http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=131210) abroad, too many sell-outs at home. O' Lord, come to our aid, for we are beset on all sides.
The party is already quite broken.
I applauded loudly at the news that Shawn Hannity is switching to Independent because I believe he epitomizes today's reality in the uber conservative wing of the party and a sign of things that are sure to occur.
For those in Rio-Linda, that means I am convinced that by the close of 2008, the Republican party will have shed it's detractors and can get back to business from the minority, as we will have squandered our power.
This is nothing but a repeat of the Buchanan defections and will be historically repeated, over and over again if the big picture continues to be ignored, in favor of single issue politics and blind advocacy.
Conservative activists have totally screwed the pooch again and ruined our chances of keeping the majority through 08. I don't know what our holdings will be after the blow out and cleanup, but it will be a miracle if we can even keep the Senate. The rest is likely to be handed on a silver platter to the Dem's.
I plan to watch with amusement but with a very bitter aftertaste.
But frankly speaking, it needed to happen, because since the debacle of the Trent Lott, be have been consuming ourselves with gusto and misguided belief that doing so was good for the party. That it is a crack down and not a crack up.
By the end of '08 you will see what a crack up looks like.
Unfortunately, the Democrats being as stupid and disorganized as they are, will not be enough to keep this from happening.
History will rate the Bush presidency as being one of greatness and tragedy, but it will show what a moronic general public and faithless, selfish, and myopic supporters can do to a country and political party.
We will survive it , but at great cost. By 2025, we could find ourselves on the road to number two as a power on this planet, and I doubt military families will want to continue providing their sons and daughters to protect a public that cannot stay the course during a time of war and are so terribly vain as to put minor domestic issues ahead of fighting a war for our very survival.
Of all the shameful things done by conservatives in this party, the worst one is this recent attack on a wartime president and head of the Republican coalition.
Yup.......Just a Bush bot ranting........
After you get done throwing rocks at this vet, take a look in the mirror and see yourself in the way that I see you. It might help. But I doubt it.....
Once again, AWESOME piece. And it is THE TRUTH over, above, below, behind ANY AND ALL entirely partisan interpretations and rationalizations for it that now issue forth from "both sides of the political aisle".
This piece was THRILLING to read, This guy is GREAT!
Do either of you two know anything about this?
Truer words were never spoken. One sees this on FR, where the OB crowd and "put America last" group always love to call their fellow conservatives names.
"They are sick of hearing that America is just an economic opportunity zone and not a distinct nation, a culture—their home. They are sick of being told that human beings are interchangeable parts, that the nation-state is passé, that there are some jobs that Americans just won’t do, that there are some contracts that Americans just won’t bid, and that any cost that cannot be measured in money cannot be very important. They are sick of having the world purposely knit together in a tighter tangle everyday and then being told we are so entangled that America must now run the whole world and solve all its problems. And they are sick of being called ignorant and racist and xenophobic just for having the temerity to raise questions when abstract trade theory conflicts with their common sense."
He's giving the free traders a pass here. The reason they screech "racist" and 'xenophobe' is $$$$$. Most of Wall Street would sell this country to the ChiComs for 10% return on investment.
Not sure current economic free trade models adequately account for so-called exogenous factors. Like tort, red tape, corruption, safety regs, etc.
Wonderful post!
Pinging.
Mac Johnson might also want to consider the impact this is having on the body politic:
"pinstriped pundits" = RINOS = Country Clubbers = the Rockefeller wing = those who hated Goldwater and Reagan. SOSDD....