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.
The author asserts that the GOP establishment is imploring Daniels to run to thwart the influence of Palin et al. He also says that Fox News and Rush Limbaugh push Palin et al. incessantly.
The WH and the left have claimed that Fox News is nothing more than an arm of the RNC/GOP and that Rush Limbaugh is the defacto leader of the GOP and gives them their daily marching orders and talking points.
So how is it that the GOP “establishment” cringes at Palin et al. when Fox News and Rush Limbaugh promote them?
Either Fox News and Rush Limbaugh are in control of the GOP or ... not. Either conservatives are mindless zombies obeying Rush and Fox News or ... not.
Can’t have it both ways, libtards.
This guy is all over the place answering his own questions. The ‘three-ring-circus’, he admits, is because the middle ground offers nothing attractive to the people of the US. I just spent 3 minutes I will never see again.
If you want to talk about clowns and asshats, you need to look no further that that picture that was taken in the White House Situation Room a week ago this past Sunday.
I really had a hard time trying to figure out just who was the designated pivot man in that circle jerk.
Children. Can we spot that two of the co-called “clowns” are not like the others? Sure we can.
A huge love of the Media Lie expressed in that article. Lumping in people like McCain with people who have actually accomplished something, explains the abject pants wetting fear held by the left. The “clowns” are the leaders the political establishment fears most. By election time with thanks to these phishers, the people, may have sufficiently tired of the Cabal and the Progressives, to turn on them and the media. It happened peacefully in Canada. I hope the crushing of the left is as peaceful here, but I expect they will turn violent and throw tantrums.
“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.” Saul Alinsky, “Rules for Radicals” (Obozo’s playbook)
Republicans should take a page from this playbook. Obama makes an easy target, he’s done so many stupid things. Trump showed Republicans they have nothing to fear if they wade right in and go on the attack. Rush Limbaugh makes a living at making fun of liberals in general and Obama in particular!
Republicans need to go on the attack to expose and humiliate Obama.
I will if I can. Sounds good. But I am done with these Dork Conservatives. They would not know free enterprise if it ran over them.
remember “homey the clown” from in living color?
Republicans need to go on the attack to expose and humiliate Obama.
What enrages the rat left is the Tea Party can keep secrets. Ha ha.
Clowns! You want to talk about clowns! The whole Democratic Party is a rogues gallery of demented, sadistic clowns!
Every traveling side show no matter its composition needs a few clowns to entertain the crowds along the way.
Mrs Bachmann give any hint that she will indeed run?
well he got one of the clowns right . . . .
I guess the lefties are so frozen with fear and loathing when they hear the actual truth, the REALITY of what is going down, that their only defense is to attempt to moot it out with words like 'clown' or 'idiot' or whatever in order to disparage truth talkers.
She didn’t say no. I told her to run and she lOoked me in the eye and smiled and people were giving her money.
Stink bombs are what the progressive media need in their work spaces.
Be care full and don’t get caught.
“Obama’s handlers have determined that Mitch Daniels is the candidate he can beat. Don’t let the MSM and the Demon Rats pick our candidates.”
They did with the idiot McAmnesty and look where that got us!
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