Posted on 05/26/2005 6:08:38 AM PDT by Cacique
I've been lurking, you could say.
:)
I like those editorial cartoons, especially the last one, which I think encapsulates my sentiments perfectly.
After hearing Voinvich's pathetic, lachrymose lament the other day, I'm pretty sure that he would feel at home wearing a colorful beanie with little propellers attached to it.
I have a link to Tony Blankley's column on my homepage, and it's posted here on FR, and it is the best column on the whole subject I've seen so far.
I never was all that impressed with the man on McLaughlin, but he is rapidly rising to a Steyn level of respect with me for his writing. While Steyn is always great, and in my eyes the best political writer today, for his ability to see through the bullshit and catch nuances, I don't think you can beat Blankley.
Well. I guess it's one of those times when I get to wade in as one of the few unzotted Democrat FReepers.
To use a poker analogy, the Republicans were holding a straight. But rather than play their cards, they folded.
It's times like this when I'm actually somewhat at a loss for words. I mean what do you say? I'm sorry. The Republican party base and my fellow conservatives deserve better.
Much as my Democratic party makes me want to gnash my teeth at times, I can say that at least I have some sense of being represented by my party.
Blankley has always impressed me, whether it was as a chief aide to Newt Gingrich or as an editorial columnist for the Washington Times.
We could definitely use more people like him on Capitol Hill.
I don't know what the world is coming too when states like Ohio and South Carolina turn out the type of milquetoast, feckless, Rockefeller Republican retreads that have-for some inexplicable reason-been able to colonize the Republican Caucus in the U.S. Senate.
(Sigh of exasperation.)
South Carolina has been the limp wrist of the South for decades. That lazy, effiminate accent [shudder] and crappy college football are tipoffs that the state ain't got something quite right going on. Their richer neighborhoods tend to harbor the carpetbagger/scalawag sort. If Fritzy Hollings didn't make it obvious, Lindsay Graham sure does.
Ohio, on the other hand, that state ought to have been electing good men. Bob Taft the Elder was far better than what they seem to elect nowadays. Maybe Blackwell will do something to make a difference there, dunno.
The Ohio Republican Party is following the lead of Texas, where, after Tom Pauken assumed the state leadership, the mushy moderates were flushed out of the corridors of power.
In Ohio the Christian conservatives and tax-cutters are gradually-but inexorably-supplanting Robert Taft III cronies, and yet those two dopes in D.C. think they're going to ingratiate themselves with ordinary voters by bartering their souls over to the Dem. Caucas?!
It defies reason.
Unfortunately Bubba Taft has done more damage than good. Blackwell needs to run and run strong. Ohio can be a conservative state so long as the conservative candidate gets the message out there. Otherwise, it is a very purple state, so to speak.
But unlike South Carolina, our college football is going to be great this year :)
Even if the Democrats manage to defeat Blackwell, I have the sneaking suspicion that it will be a Pyrrhic victory for their party.
I believe that what occurred last year-when those hapless out of state organizers were left befuddled by the surge in Republican party registrations-was just a foretaste of things to come.
bring back trent lott
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