I think of GWB and BO as a pair.
Posted on 12/14/2009 3:21:31 AM PST by rabscuttle385
You described the problem in a nutshell. For some reason, a huge portion of our population seems to think that no matter who gets elected, the U.S. will just go on as before with only a few minor changes of course. I can’t tell you how many people have told me, “I’m just not interested in politics,” but I can tell you that every last one of them is lamenting their situation today, from loss of job to inability to sell their homes for the prices they paid for them. I like to remind them: their state is the RESULT of not only politics, but of too many people not being “interested” in politics.
What a government will do while the people are otherwise occupied has filled history books and libraries, with Hitler and Pol Pot being only among the more recent cases—but not at all isolated.
“What a government will do while the people are otherwise occupied has filled history books and libraries, with Hitler and Pol Pot being only among the more recent cases—but not at all isolated.”
Next time ask them if “Dancing with the Stars” will cure their notice of default?
“Yep, I despise the fact that W considered it beneath the office to actually defend himself and his policies from the lies of the left.
He and this attitude are 80% responsible for the election of 0bama.”
Don’t forget BBB....Bush Butt Buddies....
McCain
Graham
et. al
By the way, good post.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, and I’m going to keep on saying it. The Tea Partiers are the last chance to save the Republican Party from itself.
The Tea Partiers need to flood Republican caucuses at the grass roots and outvote the RINOs. They need to get their candidates nominated, and then they need to support them with the hard-earned money and valuable time.
As sympathetic as I am to a third party, there is no realistic chance of that happening because when all of the people willing to attend protests sit down in a room to hammer out a platform they’ll have so many differences and so little experience in how to resolve them that they’ll fracture into a dozen cliques and never accomplish anything. Furthermore, even if that hurdle could be overcome, building the machinery for a third party from the precinct to national level and everything in between is a monumental task costing tens of millions of dollars.
It would be far, far better to take over the machinery of the Republican Party, and that really wouldn’t be all that difficult. All it would take is for several million people to get up off their butts, resolve to be committed to the task of changing things, and go to every party meeting that exists and outvote anyone else there.
I think of GWB and BO as a pair.
A pair of idiots!
Interesting analogy. The GOP's promise and failure to get Washington spending and corruption under control is akin to Lee Iacocca promising better quality, then delivering the K-car.
Romney will try to purchase the Tea Party movement.
I believe the purpose of the Tea Party is to wake the GOP up and convince it to align itself with the conservative principles that are supposed to be the GOP’s platform. Either the GOP has to represent conservatism, or another party must take its place. The GOP sans conservatism is impotent.
That was extremely well done.
Not quite true. It looks like "for Obama care" is the worst thing you can say right now. Republican incumbents aren't facing defeat in 2010 (except for Joe Cao).
It's clear to path to victory for Republicans is to become the Tea Party so to speak, not just pay lip service. They better listen.
The only real danger is Socialist, Communist, and the Nazis of the DEMS.
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