Posted on 05/16/2008 12:44:36 AM PDT by Irish Rose
Pity Party
Big picture, May 2008:
The Democrats aren't the ones falling apart, the Republicans are. The Democrats can see daylight ahead. For all their fractious fighting, they're finally resolving their central drama. Hillary Clinton will leave, and Barack Obama will deliver a stirring acceptance speech. Then hand-to-hand in the general, where they see their guy triumphing. You see it when you talk to them: They're busy being born.
The Republicans? Busy dying. The brightest of them see no immediate light. They're frozen, not like a deer in the headlights but a deer in the darkness, his ears stiff at the sound. Crunch. Twig. Hunting party. ...
"This was a real wakeup call for us," someone named Robert M. Duncan, who is chairman of the Republican National Committee, told the New York Times. This was after Mississippi. "We can't let the Democrats take our issues." And those issues would be? "We can't let them pretend to be conservatives," he continued. Why not? Republicans pretend to be conservative every day.
The Bush White House, faced with the series of losses from 2005 through '08, has long claimed the problem is Republicans on the Hill and running for office. They have scandals, bad personalities, don't stand for anything. That's why Republicans are losing: because they're losers.
All true enough!
But this week a House Republican said publicly what many say privately, that there is another truth. "Members and pundits . . . fail to understand the deep seated antipathy toward the president, the war, gas prices, the economy, foreclosures," said Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia in a 20-page memo to House GOP leaders.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Wow. Your screen name really fits.
Noonan is delivering a heaping serving of harsh truth and you Republicans would do well to listen up. As for me I've left the party and am looking elsewhere for a political home. Most of the GOP in Congress are (with several notable exceptions) a bunch of whiney, stupid political carreerists who are comfortable in the minority as long as they get to keep their perks and priveledges. They lack courage, imagination, and fortitude because at their core they are hollow and unprincipled.
Not widely reported but two days ago Sen. Clinton told a crowd that people who have voted for her would be wrong if she loses if they did not cast their vote for Sen. John McCain. I mean Sen Obama.
Her columns for the past year have been so adoring, I thought she had endorsed Obama?
Sounds like she will soon enough, real men are not her cup of tea.
et tu, Peggy?
Bush when on a drunken spending spree.
He doubled the size of the Department of Un-Education
God only knows how large he helped make the Federal govt.
However, Who knew Hastert had a chuck of land that he owned where an exit ramp was to be to be sold for highway improvement that put 2 mill large in his back pocket.
I trusted them, that was a mistake, but it is sad that I have to be so cynical that from now on, they are all this way.
Who among us hasn't that voted for him both times? We forgave him for a lot of things he pushed in his first term and voted for him a second time because Kerry wasn't even a consideration. What did it get us? The second term has been a DISASTER. I don't know about Peggy, but I'm not suffering from BDS, I'm just looking at the past 8 yrs., not just wasted, but what was the conservative party, completely destroyed and conservatives without even a home.
I love these threads. Loon magnets.
Peggy 'sour grapes' Noonan has become a one-note-samba. Regardless of her subject, she comes to this conclusion: "It's Bush's Fault".
She has BDS squared. Pure and simple.
Poor soul. For all her efforts, things will come down just the opposite.
As a Republican who pays attention, I have heard nothing from McCain that leads me to believe he'd be an inspiring leader. He states how he would appoint judges but lacks passion and the explaination of why. He wants to protect against terroism, good, but how? He's blah, like Dole. As frightening an almost unvelievable as losing to an inexperienced racist left wing senator like Obama, McCain very well could lose. Whar republicans lack is a visionary conservative who can explain his vision, like a Gingrich without the baggage.
This isn't a "great challenge," this is idiocy. Anyone who can't slap down -- and mock, to great effect -- this argument just isn't trying. For starters, McCain can point out that an Obama victory would be nothing more or less than Jimmy Carter's second term.
Noonan's obvious (but puzzling) personal hatred for Bush blinds her when she hops on this topic. She loses all perspective.
Buchanan had it right when he saw what was coming and left the Bushlican Party before they threw conservatives under the bus.
She’s become such a groaner and whiner. It’s disappointing to see her become a democrat...smile.
She sounds like a woman scorned....
You nailed it!
Your screen name is fitting.
At least the polar bears are safe.
At least the polar bears are safe.
"I think Peggy Noonan has contracted BDS."
I think maybe you're right, but not because of any real belief she holds dear, but rather it reflects the fashionable tone heard in her salons and saloons.
In this respect, I suppose I was thinking more of our Senators, most of whom are multi-millionaires with electoral advantages that frequently amount to lifetime sinecures.
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