Ironic — class warfare within the Republican party. ( It will interesting to see what Ms. Palin does now.).Face it, both parties milk new slogans and ideas from factions within their membership, suck the juice out of the ideas, pasteurize it, homogenize it, put in artificial flavorings, then market it. Then they forget where they got it from. Why buy the cow when you already have its milk?
The GOPs self-inflicted in-house carnage will continue all summer and fall. By the time November gets here, the GOP landscape will look like a killing field.
I guess the Republicans are driving away the fringe right as well as the moderates….. They have been dependent on the fringe for the past several election cycles. How are they going to muster enough votes to get anything done? To bad they abandoned fiscal responsibility years ago so they could chase all these right wing social issues (which they needed to do to woo the fringe).
For at least the last 40-50 years, the Republican party has relied on the Right Wing Religious types to be the energy of their party. The party consisted of them and some Rich Guys who used them to do the work in their campaign offices and run their propaganda machines. (There were ordinary people who voted Republican, but they didn’t run the party).The Rich Guys accomplished this by telling the RWR types that they agreed with them on the issues that mattered to them— birth control, civil rights, abortion, conspicuous exercise of Christian activities ( Christmas displays, public prayer, etc). However, once they got elected, they forgot about those things until the next time they needed the RWR to show up and run the campaign offices, since their actual agenda was to improve conditions for Rich Guys. It took a generation or two, but eventually, the RWRs figured out that they were getting shafted on a regular basis and decided to take over the party and run RWRs instead of the Rich Guys. The Rich Guys responded by forming superpacs and trying to put enough money into the elections to buy them. That worked for a while, but then the RWRs wised up and formed the Tea Party, which made enough noise to get the Rich Guys candidates to have to actually look like they were trying to do some of the stuff they had been promising for the last 50 years. They have actually accomplished pretty much none of it on a national level- the Supreme Court is the only body that has given the Republicans any relevant victories- but they had to step up their game from just saying they would do something and start just losing every attempt.Problem for both sides is that the RWRs don’t have enough people to win a national election. The Tea Party has a negative rating of around 65%. And, the RGs don’t have enough money to buy enough votes to win an election without them. There is no point in broadcasting an ad 50 times if the majority of voters didn’t believe it the first time they heard it. So, much as they might not get along, have entirely different agendas, and a history that both sides try to ignore, they have no chance of surviving at all without each other. Consequently, the Republican party will try to patch up their differences and present a united platform, the contents of which is despised by both sides. And, no one voting Republican will be happy with the cobbled together agenda their candidate professes, but they simply have no other choice.
What? Was it copy each other’s homework week or something? Can’t a few Progressives come up with an original conspiracy theory rather than all of you fixating on the TEA Party?Pulleessseee, do some other material.
Enoki: instead of “Benghazi, Benghazi” how about considering the Bush security failure in “New York, New York”! Hmmm, no conspiracy that Rumsfeld in just two hours began screaming “Bomb Iraq!”, but they had to wait until they could fail to get the guy actually responsible, and spend over a decade at it.
Dtroutma almost 10 years ago
It appears the “mainstream” has become a sewer.
emptc12 almost 10 years ago
Ironic — class warfare within the Republican party. ( It will interesting to see what Ms. Palin does now.).Face it, both parties milk new slogans and ideas from factions within their membership, suck the juice out of the ideas, pasteurize it, homogenize it, put in artificial flavorings, then market it. Then they forget where they got it from. Why buy the cow when you already have its milk?
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member almost 10 years ago
He should be carrying an assault rifle and a briefcase full of money.
Vermont Premium Member almost 10 years ago
The GOPs self-inflicted in-house carnage will continue all summer and fall. By the time November gets here, the GOP landscape will look like a killing field.
moderateisntleft almost 10 years ago
I guess the Republicans are driving away the fringe right as well as the moderates….. They have been dependent on the fringe for the past several election cycles. How are they going to muster enough votes to get anything done? To bad they abandoned fiscal responsibility years ago so they could chase all these right wing social issues (which they needed to do to woo the fringe).
magicwalnut Premium Member almost 10 years ago
I wonder if it’s a coincidence that “TP” also is used to refer to toilet paper? Just wondering…..
Diane Lee Premium Member almost 10 years ago
For at least the last 40-50 years, the Republican party has relied on the Right Wing Religious types to be the energy of their party. The party consisted of them and some Rich Guys who used them to do the work in their campaign offices and run their propaganda machines. (There were ordinary people who voted Republican, but they didn’t run the party).The Rich Guys accomplished this by telling the RWR types that they agreed with them on the issues that mattered to them— birth control, civil rights, abortion, conspicuous exercise of Christian activities ( Christmas displays, public prayer, etc). However, once they got elected, they forgot about those things until the next time they needed the RWR to show up and run the campaign offices, since their actual agenda was to improve conditions for Rich Guys. It took a generation or two, but eventually, the RWRs figured out that they were getting shafted on a regular basis and decided to take over the party and run RWRs instead of the Rich Guys. The Rich Guys responded by forming superpacs and trying to put enough money into the elections to buy them. That worked for a while, but then the RWRs wised up and formed the Tea Party, which made enough noise to get the Rich Guys candidates to have to actually look like they were trying to do some of the stuff they had been promising for the last 50 years. They have actually accomplished pretty much none of it on a national level- the Supreme Court is the only body that has given the Republicans any relevant victories- but they had to step up their game from just saying they would do something and start just losing every attempt.Problem for both sides is that the RWRs don’t have enough people to win a national election. The Tea Party has a negative rating of around 65%. And, the RGs don’t have enough money to buy enough votes to win an election without them. There is no point in broadcasting an ad 50 times if the majority of voters didn’t believe it the first time they heard it. So, much as they might not get along, have entirely different agendas, and a history that both sides try to ignore, they have no chance of surviving at all without each other. Consequently, the Republican party will try to patch up their differences and present a united platform, the contents of which is despised by both sides. And, no one voting Republican will be happy with the cobbled together agenda their candidate professes, but they simply have no other choice.
Enoki almost 10 years ago
What? Was it copy each other’s homework week or something? Can’t a few Progressives come up with an original conspiracy theory rather than all of you fixating on the TEA Party?Pulleessseee, do some other material.
Dtroutma almost 10 years ago
Enoki: instead of “Benghazi, Benghazi” how about considering the Bush security failure in “New York, New York”! Hmmm, no conspiracy that Rumsfeld in just two hours began screaming “Bomb Iraq!”, but they had to wait until they could fail to get the guy actually responsible, and spend over a decade at it.