Posted by
skep41 on Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:05:19 PM
This
morning I was reading an article on Real Clear politics entitled 'Where
Have All The Republicans Gone?' by Gary Andres. Its the usual
collection of demographic tables that essentially misses the forest
because it is studying the trees too intently. The most egregious
mistake that all these Inside-The -Beltway types are making is the
decline of registered Republicans and a consequent rise in the number
of Independents, and thinking this represents people drifting left
towards the Democrats. That mistake underlies the entire premise of the
McLame campaign; he thinks he will drift left with the electorate and
score big. Just the fact that McLame and his advisors are so completely
WRONG about something so
fundamental underlines what a completely unqualified candidate for the
presidency he is. The rise in Independents is a result of conservatives
being appalled and shocked time and time again by the drift by the
Republicans toward facilitating big government as the solution to every
problem and the unwillingness of most Republican office holders to
oppose or even debate the Democrats on any issue. As soon as there is a
confrontation the left-wing media publishes a bunch of polls and the
Republicans run and hide like a bunch of whipped little sissies. A
large portion of the blame for this has to be laid at the feet of the
party's so-called leader. Bush has spent his entire time in office
being 'non-confrontational' to people who were calling him a homicidal
retard. He didnt push ANWR or offshore drilling and his reward from his
Democratic party-pals was to be called a tool of Big Oil. Now that we
have a petroleum crunch and gas prices are rising it is, of course,
Bush's fault! You can go down the line on issue after issue where Bush
has turned his back on the people who elected him and sought comity
with his sworn enemies. He has actively favored opportunists and
non-ideological types in his appointments, and in fact left almost all
the Clinton appointees in place in the CIA and State Departments,
ensuring leaks and betrayals aplenty. He could have realized the
destructive results of a McLame nomination on the party and recognized
McLame's total unfitness both as a candidate and a president. McLame
hated Bush and did everything he could to sabotage him and his fellow
Republicans in the Senate. But did Bush openly or tacitly support any
one of the much more acceptable and qualified candidates who were
available or groom one of his own? No, the head of the party sat
silent, just as he did while Dummy Hastert and Spending-Bill Frist
turned the legislature into a welfare office for crooked corporate
donors and a halfway house for closeted deviants.
None of it
matters. This is going to be a Dem tidal wave. The crooked corporate
donors and the closeted deviants are all solidly backing the Dems. All
this fighting and tearing on the Dem side wont hurt them a bit; they're
not arguing about the issues but about personalities and it seems
certain that Obama has it locked up or will shortly. A damaged Clinton
with an alienated black vote might have been a contest for a
REPUBLICAN
candidate, but for a sawed-off, superannuated, ultra liberal,
hot-tempered aisle-crosser? Either of these extremely flawed,
incompetent militantly left-wing Dems could beat McLame. What liberal
in their right mind is going to vote for a liberal McLame when they can
vote for a liberal Obama? Even a lot of Republicans will be voting for
Obama or some looney Bob Barr third party candidate just to send a
message to the arrogant hacks who promoted McLame's takeover of the
party.
See you on the bread lines!
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/04/where_
have_all_the_republicans.html