Posted on 10/26/2015 8:13:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When The Post's front page declares: "Republicans are on the verge of ceasing to function as a national party," it's time to ask: How did this come to pass?
You can choose from a litany of insurrections, government shutdowns and other self-inflicted wounds.
But this year's carnival-like GOP presidential primary makes one event, in retrospect, stand out as a crucial turning point on the road to upheaval: the 2008 embrace of then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be a heartbeat from the presidency.
Palin's blatant lack of competence and preparedness needs no belaboring. What's critical is that substantive, serious Republican leaders either wouldn't or couldn't declare, before or after the election: "This is not what our party stands for. We can and must do better."
By the campaign's end, GOP operatives were shielding Palin from even the simplest questions. (She had flunked "what newspapers do you read?"). Barack Obama cruised to victory.
Palin became a Fox News fixture, reinforcing the newly formed tea party's "never compromise" demands. Bombast, not reason, reigned. Now the "settle for flash" aura of Palin's candidacy looks like a warning that the party was prizing glib, red-meat rhetoric over reasoned solutions.
Sadly, Palin owes her fame to 2008 presidential nominee John McCain, who is generally one of the party's more thoughtful and substantive veterans.
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They can’t get beyond her. They’re obsessed. Well, they’re crazy.
I got to “Palin’s blatant lack of competence and preparedness needs no belaboring.”, then I sat back and thought about Obama. Yea, he was a beacon of experience and preparedness. /s
Nothing but Liberal projection again. The downfall of the Progressives started in 2008 with the election of Obama.
Just staring at this headline trying to figure out if I even want to try to see if I can make grammatical sense out of it, never mind political sense
Then I see its from BI. Forget it
They’re also out today wringing their hands over the Navy being ‘worried’ about Russia cutting major communications cables.
Liberals loathe the military Who do they think keeps them free to do their antiamerican business?
Daley and the goons believe that el supremo Hillary is more capable than a governor.
He is worse than a moron, he is a delusional corrupt democrat
I would so love it if Sarah ran for the house or Senate, or accepts a cabinet position by Trump if he offered it to her!
Sarah would be a far more capable POTUS than anybody in their party, and that includes the incumbent.
As a one-term Governor she’s infinitely more qualified than he was.
Boom goes the Room ~ 🇺🇸
so.....the self-destruct button on the GOP was pushed by.....John McCain??
Irony: The Mark of Quality Literature.
She still lives rent free in the mind of the leftist.
Irony is simply the recompense to paying attention, politically.
The anti-Palin rage was exacerbated by the Romney people, but I believe McCain himself harbored resentment and envy in 2008 as well.
Because he KNEW that she was the life-blood of his campaign!
Until he brought her on, he was losing and looking like a complete WIMP!
So, when she skyrocketed to the front and he knew that SHE was the cause for his gains, he became resentful and envious!
Bill Daley, from Chicago, from Obama administration Chief of Staff. Gosh, it sure is nice of him to help us analyze the Republican party. I mean, I know he only wants to help.
Actually, it started with Nixon, Ford and GHW Bush.
What a load of intellectual nonsense.
The Republican Party controls more elected offices today than at any time since Reconstruction. They have a massive amount of high quality office holders. Their nominee for POTUS will come from a bench that is loaded to the brink with men and women of accomplishment. Every one of the people on the stage at the Republican debates have more true accomplishments than the most accomplished person on the Democrat dais. They are also far more diverse in culture and race than any field the Democrats have ever fielded, ever! There are white men and women, a Black man, an Asian men, Latinos, Catholics & Protestants, Conservative and moderates.
They also to a person are more educated, more experienced in more diverse areas of society and significantly younger, often by decades. Our oldest candidate would actually be the youngest Democrat candidate if he ran as a Democrat. Every one of the Demcorats is above retirtement age, all but oine above mandatory retirement age for many careers.
Yet, the Republican Party is falling apart?
The Democrat Party is the one that is seeing its’ hold on power through grievance politics go the way of the Dodo Bird. They are fast losing their ethnic majorities, particularly middle class Blacks. If they can not get more than 87% of the black vote, they can not win a national election. That is why they are hellbent on bringing in as many illegals as possible, getting them citizenship and the vote and keeping our borders undefended and wide open.
An informed Literate population only votes Democrat if they are Public Employee unionists. The rest of their constituents consist of the illiterate and ill educated rubes, mental defects and moral bankrupts!
Concern trolls... at best. Liars... more like it...
My take exactly... who are they trying to kid?
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