Posted on 01/25/2008 12:49:01 AM PST by Aristotelian
Declarations: The primary campaign is tearing the Democrats apart. President Bush already did that to the Republicans.
We begin, as one always must now, again, with Bill Clinton. The past week he has traveled South Carolina, leaving discord in his wake. Barack Obama, that "fairytale," is low, sneaky. "He put out a hit job on me." The press is cruelly carrying Mr. Obama's counter-jabs. "You live for it."
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As for the Republicans, their slow civil war continues. . . . The rage is due to many things. A world is ending, the old world of conservative meaning, and ascendancy. Loss leads to resentment. (See Clinton, Bill.)
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It will all come down to: Whom do Republicans believe? Mr. Romney in spite of his past and now-disavowed liberal positions? Or Mr. McCain in spite of his forays, the past 10 years, into a kind of establishment mindset that has suggested that The Establishment Knows Best?
Do conservatives take inspiration from Mr. Romney's newness? Or do they take comfort and security from Mr. McCain's rugged ability to endure, and to remind?
It is along those lines the big decision will be made.
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Many of us thought we did in the 2000 election, but we were deceived and used.
More's the pity.....I belive all is lost, less God intervenes.
I pray for mercy, yet I fear it will be judgment.
Amen... brother!
Thanks for this terrific analogy and “measured response” of your own. I’m clearly in the camp of voting for the better of two ‘lessor’ choices, if for nothing more than SCOTUS appointments ...
What does “anethmatize” mean? It’s not a word I’ve ever heard.
Both father and son spent their Presidencies wasting hard-won, conservative, political capital! No more RINOs!
Hey feller, you think this is a mess? Compare Bush to Ford or Nixon.
And guess what?? We could have had McCain, the worthless, lying sack of sh*t liberal instead.
As much of a disappointment as Bush has been, I’d take him for 8 more years over any for the flip flopping backstabbers running now (the ones left).
The GOP is in trouble alright, but kneepadders like Hannity, Noonan, Medved, National Review, the WSJ etc etc supporting liberals instead of conservatives are also at fault.
“Living in a blue state, I am inclined to say pass the popcorn while we watch the ship sink. Unfortunately I am on the ship.”
Leaves only one question.
Where do we place our deck chairs?
You and Peggy need to back off Bush.
He has saved our country and always was totally honest about his stands on everything.
He was certainly a universe above what we would have gotten with Gore (the idiot) or Kerry (the french-looking idiot)
I resent the attitude around here that he is fair game to be an object of scorn.
It is already a foregone conclusion. If you think the current candidates are capable of turning out the base, you've another think coming.
Who did you support eight years ago?
Maybe so.
There are a lot of stupid people out there, too. Just look at the crowd at any Clinton rally.
Ignorance can be fixed through education, but stupid is permanent and can't be fixed no matter what you do.....sorta like "beauty may be skin deep, but ugly cuts to the bone"......
Noonan writes “
“Do conservatives take inspiration from Mr. Romney’s newness? Or do they take comfort and security from Mr. McCain’s rugged ability to endure, and to remind?”
and,
“It is along those lines the big decision will be made.”
I think she may be on to something there.
What split up the Reagan coalition was the collapse of the Soviet Union. When Roe is overturned you will see a further split. When we start allowing school prayer and Bible readings you will see a further split. I call that progress.
There isn't a non-conservative running for the GOP nomination.
The best we can do is to try and stop the pendulum from swinging all the way to the left.
1. A plurality of "Fiscal Conservatives", were nothing more than corporatists willing to follow whichever party would cut their taxes, provide subsidies, allow hirings of illegal aliens, reduce regulations, etc., etc, etc, to quote the King of Siam.
They are the military-industrial complex whom President Eisenhower warned about and Nikita Kruschev mocked. There is no allegiance to the Republican Party, only to the greenbacked dollar.
2. Then there is the Evangelicals as So-Cons myth. Those folks who show up with their list of demands and threats of sitting home on election day, if those demands are not met. The Dobsons, The Bauers, The Robertsons, etc,, etc, etc., to quote the good King again.
Again a plurality show their lack of conservative credentials by following the Pied Piper of Hope, blindly casting their votes for a socialist in conservative clothing.
3. The Law and Order or Defense volken. Seeking their piece of the pie without seeing the big picture. Probably the most dependable over all of the constituency, yet more easily frightened than a babe in the woods.
It's time for a realignment of the parts or to die.
Ah... I was not talking about that case at all. But since you brought it up, would this situation be better if there were two people GORE had appointed on the surpreme court? Heck we might lose the 2ndA entirely if that had been the case.
Bush has left a mess....a disjointed fractured party and an abandoned base.
If he had not had 9-11 to pivot off of he’d be even less regarded.
He has been a poor lightship for the right.
In 2000, I was in Florida (which had a late primary that year), and Forbes had already dropped out by that time. Would have supported him nonetheless had he remained in.
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Nothing wrong with reduced taxes and regulations. I have a BIG problem with subsidies and will not accept a laissez fair immigration policy without a repeal of the welfare state (including Publik Skools).
As far as those high on the Jesus Juice are concerned (the preachers and their acolytes), my main problem is that they act as though they are a majority, and that the "majority rules." They are wrong on both points.
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