Here's Earl.
Posted on 05/11/2011 1:34:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
GOP strategists and analysts sounded desperate, even panicked, when they implored Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels to toss his hat in the presidential rink. Their panic to get Daniels in the race has less to do with any special magic that they think he’ll bring to a campaign to oust President Obama then their mounting horror at how the best known potential GOP presidential candidates have turned the party into a three ring circus. The would-be candidates that have snatched the most media ink and public attention typified the clown lunacy that GOP regulars shudder at.
One (Donald Trump) was still musing over whether the birth certificate Obama released was really the real deal and whether Obama’s college performance was fake. One (Sarah Palin) was going through back flips to not even mention Obama’s name in praising the bin Laden take down. One (Michelle Bachmann) was rambling on about Obama’s teleprompter. One (Herman Cain) virtually demands that the government get out of the business of taxation. And Ron Paul back at it again, claiming that he’d back legalizing marijuana. It was beyond laughable. It was pitiable.
Meanwhile, the supposed serious GOP candidates might as well be on the far side of the moon. They have virtually no name recognition, no program, little money, and busily trash around trying to find something, anything, to get some attention. None have stirred a faint pulse among GOP voters, let alone moderate and conservative independents. Not that it would much matter, it’s still Palin, Bachmann, Trump, and Paul that the public knows best, and, to the terror of the GOP establishment, believes define who and what the GOP is and represents.
Daniels fever is simply the GOP’s front door way of saying that the party is desperate to wipe the bile in the mouths of the electorate from the clownish antics of their media known notables. But how can the GOP do it? Even if Daniels ultimately decides to go for the White House prize, Palin, Bachmann, Trump, Cain and Paul still speak for a big swatch of GOP voters, the likes of Tea Party activists, and leaders, anti-gay, anti-abortion, gun toting, chronic tax protestors, and Christian right hardliners, neo-Confederates, and assorted racist kooks, crackpots and loons. This is the bunch that bring passion, fervor, and energy to the party. They can’t be ignored. A major reason GOP presidential candidate John McCain committed what many GOP insiders still consider presidential candidate political suicide and picked Palin was because he thought that she could fire up the hardliners in a way that he couldn’t hope to. The bitter truth for the GOP is that not much has changed since then.
Palin, Bachman, Trump, Cain and more often than not Paul’s mug are seen round the clock on Fox, on web sites, blogs, and social media, cheered by the pack of rightwing talk show hosts, and Rush Limbaugh. They are heroes, even icons, to the Tea Party throngs, and they know that any utterance no matter how silly and irrelevant will be picked up, played up and endlessly talked about in the mainstream media. Their idolatrous followers love every word from them.
Palin, Bachmann, Trump and Cain could never have gotten non-stop media and public attention from their inane and outrageous quips alone. The media would have quickly grown tired of that and them and moved on to the next salacious, gossipy, trashy, celeb story. Their staying power is based squarely on their ability to stoke popular rage at and frustration with tin ear politicians among Democrats, but especially within the GOP, who’ve turned voters into invisible men and women. This translates to millions of disgruntled, frustrated voters who will be sorely tempted to push, prod and hector the GOP to give Palin, Bachmann, Trump, Cain and Paul their due. Many will be just as sorely tempted to vote for them as the maverick candidate who poses a credible alternative to Obama, and the GOP mainstream. And since there is virtually no chance any one of the media grandstanding candidates will get the GOP nomination, the fear again is that their frenzied backers will stay at home on Election Day. This would be tantamount to a vote for Obama and would be an even bigger disaster for the GOP in 2012 than 2008.
The clownish sideshow ring mastered by the fringe GOP candidates is a textbook Catch-22 for the GOP. If party leaders publicly badmouth, marginalize, or ostracize them than that almost certainly will blow the very slender chance they already have of making Obama a one term president. This would be the GOP’s nightmare and Obama’s dream. The GOP thankfully is stuck with its clowns.
And thanks....
Okay, five people, one clown. Earl, that’s a solid FAIL.
I don’t know, the biggest clown is residing in the Whitey House.
The GOP folks sound like a breath of fresh air.
Looks like the enemy is trying to make Daniels odious to the Right. WHO “implored” him to get in the race? WHEN did they “implore” him? WHERE did they “implore” him?
Answers: No one; at No time; Nowhere.
I am not a big fan of Daniels but compared to Urkel he is Lincoln, Washington and Reagan rolled into one.
They (the Dems) only want what’s best for the Repubs. They want the strongest candidate out there that has the best possibility of beating Obama. Yeah right. Well this is one Repub that isn’t urging Daniels to enter the race. He may be an accomplished governor—don’t know a whole lot about him, but he has presidential bid dud written all over him if you ask me.
Here's Earl.
Well, if anyone would be an authority on clowns, it would be “Dr.” Earl Ofari Hutchinson. The irony is beyond parody.
Many are, but many are not. One more cycle like 2010 and things will be different. Not perfect, but better.
They never do. GOP voters make that determination every time even in 08. This article is designed to poison the well for Daniels with the Right.
____________________________________________
From the Daniels is the devil posts here over the past week, I'd say it, and others like it, are working.
Your literary standards are much lower than mine. This crap does not even rise to the level of competent.
The issue is in the Senate. The percentage of GOP liberals there is at times inflated by Republicans who are willing to cross the aisle for the sake of bipartisanship. In the House, the problem rests more with a few leaders than with the rank-and-file.
Backhanded compliment, at best....at least it can spell....
Clowns! You want to talk about clowns! The whole Democratic Party is a rogues gallery of demented, sadistic clowns!
Too bad, silly liberals idiots. Joe and Jane America only see two clowns on that list of yours.
Not gonna click the link. Jerks like this are looking to be incendiary as a way to get attention and therefore some level of fame/infamy.
Besides, we’ve all heard their garbage before. Is the clown worth paying attention to? Nope. On to the next story down the line...
LoL NO! Mr. Cain, though a wonderful man, couldn’t even get elected to the Senate in Georgia. Urkel has no fear of him.
When are people going to realize that one does not step up into the Big Leagues without extensive experience in the minors? We see this recurrent fascination with non-politicians and unknowns/newbies: ala Keyes, Hunter, West, Cain, etc. I suppose it is just a measure of frustration and desperation.
You don’t become President without having won prior political offices (with an occasional military leader being the exception.) And it has ALWAYS been that way in America. Look at the long and deep political experience of an Adams, Washington, Jefferson all of them.
Lincoln only had one term in the US House before the Mexican War defeated him but he was instrumental in state politics and the formation of the Republican Party, 2d incarnation. Actually, truth be told, he was defeated for a Senate seat after the Lincoln-Douglas debates so I guess Cain is not utterly dead, lol.
There is a political science which Socrates called “the highest art” which leaders of men must understand particularly in a representative democracy. This understanding is generally best learned by becoming a professional politician. Here is the weakness of the GOP it pretends this is an amateur game and it is constantly being tripped up by a mendacious and dastardly media. Running against government only gets you so far since there is a basic philosophical contradiction in it.
LoL, how dumb does one have to be to misspell something today?
Mr. Hutchinson’s vocabulary needs work.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.