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.
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Needs repeating,.....often and loud.
We needed to reexamine our warts and flaws several years ago and send a message to the RAT lites running the GOP that we will not tolerate their constant move to the left. It is too late for this year but true classical liberalism (total opposite of what we call liberalism in this country) will arise again.
So many optimists seem to think that McCain can not lose with the split in the RAT party. Let me quote the present odds on the Iowa Electronic Market, Democrat victory 59% and rising almost daily as the discontent with Bush and McCain rises
Because much of what informs their opinions come from MSM. How many hours are they in front of the television hearing how bad Bush is, how there is a ground swell of hatred rising against him since he first stole the election, and how great Obama is. The implication is come on board the Bush bashing wagon, everybody is here.
Sure the main stream media is against Bush, they want socialism and I can tell you with the failures of Bush and associates, they are going to get it. The failures of Bush has made the MSM look good. Bush failed not because he was pursuing conservative policies (as the MSM media suggested) but because he was not.
Well do the Doomers have any answers to the Gloom?
Peggy needs to go do some shoe shopping.
Peggy Noonan has gone over to the dark side. I don’t even bother reading her anymore. She actually has a lot in common with John McCain, they are both thin skinned, vindictive Bush haters, who feed on the compliments that they receive when they agree with their liberal friends.
Noonan is so enthralled with Obama’s oratory skills that she fails to notice that he no original thoughts of his own. I bet she hopes to sign on to his campaign as a speech writer. What do you want to bet that she volunteers?
Well, its that reach out across the aisle thing, which is like reaching in to pet an vicious tiger — you’ll get mauled. Appeasement didn’t work, so much for compassionate conservatism. As far as the spending, maybe there was a tradition of that going back a ways — as Noonan states, these people are working out of an 80s mindset. I know Bush has vetoed pork filled bills and called for restraint but, maybe, it is too little too late. Still, it’s an uphill battle for him which should have been engaged earlier, rather than let the MSM define him.
“We can’t let them pretend to be conservatives,” he continued. Why not? Republicans pretend to be conservative every day.”
Ooooh, Good one!
“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.”
Davis is almost entirely correct.
I know the GOP is heading for ‘hell.’ I’ve said it myself many times. I’ve already awakened to that.
But this “antipathy” is because they have been nonstop force-fed this brainwashed view against the President, the war, the economy and so forth by the MSM (which includes the Wall Street Journal) and by RINOs (which includes Davis). Our only hope is a purge of liberals and RINOs from the media and academics and government bureaucrates, but these past few years have proved that they’re so entrenched I honestly despair of how we could even get started.
But this “antipathy” is because they have been nonstop force-fed this brainwashed view against the President, the war, the economy and so forth by the MSM (which includes the Wall Street Journal) and by RINOs (which includes Davis).
It doesn’t matter why.
Great post. Bravo.
(You know your party’s in trouble when it’s Tom Davis that’s the one making sense....)
And yet, here we are, with the same lackadaisical attitude from far too many Republicans in congress. Many of which are about to suffer the same fate as the elder Bush. And they deserve it.
Maybe Noonan keeps thinking of agents Ramos and Compean.
Excellent point, but the American people are simply incapable of understanding this truth. Part of it is a lack of education.
2 million large is 2 billion dollars. ;^)
Ah, and this is the crux of it:
They are totally concerned with the other parties failings and faults instead of their own.
Put another way, focusing on your opponent's actions and reacting to them is not the best way to achieve success in any endeavor.
Focus on yourself and build on your own qualities and strengths to win or prevail at any challenge.
McCain is a swiss cheese of weaknesses, and we had best understand that this is not invisible to others.
Should he not have the strength of quality needed to win on itself, then perhaps he does not deserve to win.
Our candidate should stand on his own merit, not on the weaknesses or lack of merit of another.
Thank you for your post.
Cease to be ruled by dogma and authority.
Look at the world and think! - Roger Bacon
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