Posted on 03/10/2014 5:24:32 PM PDT by mandaladon
Root just doesn’t get it. Romney understood that the Republican way is to Reach Across the Aisle. If only we can find more effective, more creative, more 21st-Century ways of Reaching Across the Aisle—that’s what Republicans dream of.
I am betting on Jeb Bush to be the Republican Nominee. As for the Republicans doing anything useful I heard Levin last night talking about Mitch McConnell’s interview in the NYT. Levin didn’t say it or allude to it but I took the words of McC to indicate confidence that the primary vote was already determined. Soros already is in charge of the vote count for all the touch screen machines and that, I believe, guaranteed Obama in the present cycle. I had wondered how soon it would extend to Senatorial and Congressional races.I think maybe we have our answer. McC seems to think so.
Then the Republicans will lose.
Yes. The Republicans will lose. The Republicans are not actually interested in winning the Presidency.They thrive as junior players in Democrat regimes. When they are in the majority in Congress their leaders act as if they are still the minority party. In the Presidency they do not “clean house” in the bureaucracy and military as the Democrats always do. They tidy up a few ragged ends left over from Democrat administrations and- except for Reagan- pass their own Democrat legislation. The occasional Republican winner nowadays, the Bushes, probably didn’t really want to be there but got elected anyway. They certainly didn’t run campaigns that suggested they actually wanted to win.In office they used their clout as President to get more Socialist/Democrat legislation enacted than a Democrat might have been expected to do.Republicans generally believe that the legitimate ruling party in the USA is the Democrats and that Republicans exist to occupy the position of Opposition Party for so long as the Democrats need an apparent opposition. The Republican Party has functioned since at least the end of Bush I as the Republican Division of the Democrat Party and may well be consciously in that relationship now.
Fits hand-in-glove with my working thesis: GOPe does not want to win, for all the reasons you mention. They have their perks of the office, so they’re all fat, dumb and happy.
I am doing my share:
Hillary Clinton is an old worn-out drunk.
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