Posted on 02/05/2008 10:31:17 PM PST by americanophile
Tonight’s Super Tuesday Primary leaves little to be positive about, even for McCain supporters. Tuesday merely proved the degree to which the GOP is fractured, unenthusiastic, and weak.
Romney and Huckabee still have life in them, but McCain was the night’s big winner. November is well off, but at this stage the fall forecast is dim. The Republicans will be entering the race with a 72 year old Senator, despised by large swathes of his own base, sluggishly propelled by a divided and deeply demoralized GOP electorate that is likely to produce an anemic campaign war chest.
By contrast, the Democrats, feverishly enthusiastic and rabid for change, will enter flush with cash, and led by either the Nation’s first woman nominee - backed by her husband’s famously formidable political machine or the Nation’s first black nominee - a hollow but undeniably charismatic candidate.
From here on out, we can likely expect a dramatic shift to the left. Either of these Democratic candidates will significantly raise our taxes, fling open the doors to our borders, enact economically crippling environmental policy, stack the Supreme Court with leftists, attempt to impose socialized medicine, and force a humiliating and ignominious withdrawal from Iraq. In the view of many conservatives, Senator McCain would only be slightly better on many of these issues, save the War.
No matter how you cut the cake, 2008 is shaping up to be a big Democratic year.
Whether anything can be done to mitigate this impending disaster remains to be seen, life has a way of changing the calculus suddenly and unpredictably, but at this stage, prudence demands that we prepare those tax shelters and buy an extra rifle while we still can.
An inglorious day for the GOP; all the signs point to a gathering storm.
toga, Toga, TOGA, TOGA!!!
The titular head of the Republican Party wanted to govern, but not hold together and build the party that put him into this governance. He couldn't care less.
He influenced the placement of dopes into the RNC, like Martinez.....and politically-correct ignoramuses into cabinet spots, like Gonzales. He surrounded himself with magnificent bastards that encouraged him to remain above the fray when his enemies trashed and slashed him and by extension, our party.
Anything he did for party-building is a mystery to me.
As for his appointment of two good justices.....what hath it availeth us?
They will soon become two blips on the radar screen when Hillary or Obama appoints three or four leftist powerhouses. Our Constitution will become a "living document", subject to trashing on the political whims of marxist justices.
GW never nipped open borders in the bud.....therefore, the invasion continues, amnesty will be granted and the twenty million will forever vote themselves the "free" benefits and handouts of the socialist state.
This true Republican conservative (moi) will not judge him kindly at all on a political level.
He had everything going for him when assuming the office.....the Republican brass ring was his. However, he never could quite grab it, nor do I think he ever really wanted to or maybe he didn't know how.
At any rate, he leaves with his party in ruination. There's plenty of blame to go around for this fix, but shiite happens when there's no leader and the troops mill around helplessly or fighting with each other even while the enemy is at the gate.
What did the famous sign in Harry Truman's office say?
Let's not blame Romney, nor Fred, nor Rush, nor an amorphous "them", nor ourselves, etc. for the collapse of the Grand Old Party. The blame belongs to those Republicans starting from the top who had the power, drive and the means to hold it together if they really cared about it more than themselves.
We did everything we could here in the hustings, unselfishly and for the good of the Republic.
Leni
Not to mention he speaks like he’s a month away from a nursing home.
Great candidate there, ex-Party!
... and if Rush tells us again today how much “fun” this is... I’m tuning out.
Rather than making infantile accusations of drug abuse, consider my pathetic senators and especially your pathetic senators. One of your senators sells the nation out on a daily basis, and the other one just might be the next President and get us all killed.
So before you rant on posters for illegal drug use because you haven’t bothered considering the option that a GOP-controlled legislature as in my state or others just might do a better job than say the city of Detroit in electing them in the first place, and removing them as well.
These senators are perpetually re-elected and use that power base to screw the nation on one hand and on the other utilize that same pulpit as a launching pad for presidential runs among the masses of the ignorant, see McCain.
You don’t have to agree since the people in your state are so much smarter than the rest of the country, after all they after think having Durbin and Obama is a good thing. At least here there would be the removal of uber-entrenched Levin under that scenerio.
“When Reagan was elected in 1980, whites were 80% of the population. Today, it is down to 66% and falling rapidly. In about 20 years, it will be less than fifty. Those that have come in recent years do not have the same longing to be Americans that previous immigrant classes had. A new generation of big government welfare state Americans will see out our nation’s declining years.”
This says more about the future of conservatism in general, and the Republican party in particular, than most posts here. A good post.
The “color of politics” in America is changing, right along with the “colors of the population”. Once so changed, it will never return to the America “that was”. Indeed, that America - the “traditional America” that we older folks knew in our youth - will be gone, and gone forever.
In conversations with a friend, I proffered to him what I call “The Titanic Theory” about the future of America, along with my place in it as a conservative and “traditional” American who wants no part of the America that’s coming.
Recall that after it hit the iceberg, the Titanic sank “bow first”. It was obvious the ship was going down; yet it was also obvious that the stern was going to be the last place above the water line.
Personally, I live in a blue state that could already be considered “below the water line”. Once a stalwart traditional New England state known as “The land of steady habits”, Connecticut now elects only one Republican to Congress, and he will almost certainly be gone after this next election. I have personally witnessed my city go from “the number one city in America” (Money Magazine, 1985), to an illegal-infested hellhole (I was attacked on the street here last month, still recovering from a dislocated jaw). The house next to me has been tripled in size, the entire property paved over and converted into a “Mexican hotel”. There can be no “going back” here, to things that once were. To believe so is to be dreaming.
There is only one choice left: get out, to somewhere that WILL continue to resemble old America - if not forever, at least for a longer period of time (hopefully till the end of MY time), until there, too, slips below the waves.
There ARE places - entire states - that continue to remain livable, where conservatives and traditionally-minded Americans can live in peace, at least for a while. I’m considering my options after retirement (2 years hence).
But I see the future, and it ain’t great.
Having said that, I WILL vote for McCain if he gets the nomination. No apologies and no regrets. In my opinion (and I realize it’s only one person’s opinion), not to do so would be akin to opening a BIGGER hole to let the water into the sinking ship. I’ll keep a-bailin’, for now!
- John
Well.... I guess we learned our lesson then didn't we?
“I’m thinking that what with Sen. McCain’s advanced years and questionable health, if he gets the nomination, the VP nominee might be more important than ever before. A good pick in my mind would be Michael Steele. Whatdya think”
I think you better think harder.
Steele - a black - lost in his OWN, heavily-black state. It is well-known that “blacks vote for blacks”, and if Steele couldn’t win there with a sizable black electorate, where ELSE is he going to win?
- John
That comment you replied to shows how out of touch we are. The media has done their best demonizing the right. It’s going to take a long time to undo the damage. We’re just not the majority in the party anymore, and the sooner we accept it, the sooner we can regroup and restrategize.
In Re: Bush’s legacy, I cite:
the tax cuts
the Supremes he appointed
his holding the line on pro-life issues, esp. stem cell funding
his prosecution of the war, which I think has been exemplary.
These are major, long lasting issues where he has done very well.
Additionally, he has not made an ass of himself with his personal life and has restored some of the dignity to the country.
Leni
“....or that Romney would drop and endorse Huckabee.”
You can’t be serious.
“GOP...RIP”
I am old enough to remember the aftermath of Watergate, when the topic on the political talk shows was whether the Republican party would survive.
This, too, shall pass.
Why not? By the exit polls, the Huckabee voters will move to McCain in much greater numbers than to Romney. Are Romney's voters going to do the same? Without Huckabee in the mix yesterday, McCain would have 800 delegates rather than the under 700 he has at the moment (it is still going up for both him and Huckabee as the results are processed.)
Aside from that, I would trust Huckabee nominating judges far sooner than McCain or (shudder) Romney. The track records of those two are abysmal.
I like Bush as a person and I agree with him on a lot of issues.
I also think that lately he has been dragging the party down. I don’t think that John McCain would even have a chance in hell if Bush wasn’t so unpopular.
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