It is easy to observe that normally elections are not won or lost on issues of this type, therefore, the passivity of the Republicans is not at all surprising. This is not what grabs Joe sixpack and sends him to the polling stations. Yet, if the tables were turned and the Democrats, educated as they are in Alinsky School for Radicals, would find a way to exploit these real outrages committed by Holder and Obama. Alinsky has taught them that they should personalize the issue. Find some person who has been individually damaged by these policies and make him or her into a martyr. Next, find an individual on the other side and demonize him or her.
I see no disposition among Republicans to exploit these issues in this manner. Please do not offer lectures about the seriousness of the issues and our responsibility to take the high road. There is no high road unless it leads without detour to victory at the polls because there is no justice otherwise. This administration has demonstrated by the particulars for which it is being indicted that it is not constrained to operate within the rule of law. Nothing could be more serious for the health of the Democratic Republic but, alas, very few things could be less of motivating election issue.
There are other ways besides personalizing and dramatizing the actual human cost of these policies. It is conceivable that there are law professors at Harvard or elsewhere who might, who just might be inclined to act the Alan Dershowitz against the Justice Department even as Dershowitz has indicted George Zimmerman's special prosecutor. If a luminary of the established legal elite could be induced to speak truth to power it might begin to undermine the legitimacy of the Obama administration in academia. The surprising example of Alan Dershowitz speaking out on behalf of justice in a racially charged case is perhaps very instructive here. The Obama administration and the Holder Justice Department have been shielded from criticism within the legal community, the media, academia, and, yes, even Republicans themselves because of their skin color. Dershowitz has run counter to type. Might it be the beginning of a trend?
I understand that the capacity of our academic elites to commit political correctness and rationalize almost any grotesquerie by this administration approaches the infinite but there is always a chance....
I am of the belief that middle America in this election is about to take control of the nation away from the elites. As that becomes more evident even to the faculty at Harvard, the defections against Obama, not just among Democrats like Gov. Rendell, Mayor Booker or former President Clinton, but among liberals in academia and elsewhere should begin and swell. If we can appeal to the intellectual vanity of this group, we might just make headway.
There is much that could be done but I agree with the sentiment of this board that very little likely will be done.
In Romney and Behner we hardly have charismatic men of courage to ride against the hosts as our paladins. 0h for Newt Gingrich! So we must do it ourselves. I hope the Tea Party takes up the cause.
