IF THIS IS WHAT WINNING LOOKS LIKE, WHY PLAY THE GAME?
The GOP base is cracking wide open----
I had to drive around town for much of the day yesterday and had a chance to sample various talk radio shows. The Republicans are in deep doo doo. The actual anger at the Congress is all over the dial. Spending is the main topic, followed by the phony border patrol, then Bush's failure to defend himself drew more than a few phone calls. Nobody is fooled by the "Bridge to Nowhere" sleight of hand in which the funds were merely transferred to the state. This disgust with the party is real. It is happening, and more than just a few callers and hosts allowed that they didn't care at all if the Republicans lost both House and Senate----"they have forgotten what they were elected for" was the most articulated complaint.
Many hosts, agreeing with the callers, pointed to the upcoming "baby boomers" hitting retirement age and basically sacking the entire system for their final desires in life. A local pair was lambasting the pension fund wipe out as something the government will have to take care of too. As all of you know, none of the shows are known as anything other than Right Wing, and if these guys are on the hunt there's trouble.
Again, if this is what winning looks like, why play the game?
Posting the same POV: Ankle Biting Pundits; then James Lilekis is quoted
They need it. They need asbestos litigation, so that they can pack it in their jackets to make sure they don't catch on fire, from what I presume will be a base that like me, is throwing up their hands and saying what's the point?over at Radio Blogger. Then further down John McIntyre of Real Clear Politics lays into the Republicans too. Finally this quote from Mark Steyn is to good to pass up
I would be in favor of wrapping virtually every Republican Senator in asbestos, and using them to insulate my attic.Mark's site is Here, but he refers his asbestos commentary over to Radio Blogger. I'll stop now, but you get the picture: Everybody is fed up. Everybody.
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Many hosts, agreeing with the callers, pointed to the upcoming "baby boomers" hitting retirement age and basically sacking the entire system for their final desires in life.
We're counting on you to set the example, Howie: still working full time when one is eighty years old.
-- david.davenport.1@netzero.com
You might look at the Canadian Political Landscape for an example, in order to feel some sense of what the answer to what I might say is a rhetorical question.
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (slightly less left and closer to the centre than the actual Liberal party) in this country gave up the farm, became as arrogant and dumb as the Repulicans you now have, when elections came, they lost and the Liberals have never looked back.
In-fighting, various forms of conservative ideologies and parties have errupted and vote splitting was the course de jour for years.
We have kept a corrupt and now impossible to remove Liberal party in power for 13 years. Conservatives here are looked on as racist, knuckle dragging homophobe religous zealots
here now, thanks in large part to anti-Americanism.
An outsider to your politcal system I may be, However, I see all to clearly Republicans are going to implode and as spooky as it may seem you'll look back to these days and shake you head, and think "wow the good ole days".
You're in the frying pan now Howard, better get used to the heat, the next step is the fire...
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