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Date Posted: 06:27:48 07/08/09 Wed
Author: Paul Davis
Subject: Well, the Republican party as is, is no longer viable
In reply to: Shirley 's message, "Re: What do you think of the Palin bombshell?" on 11:23:43 07/07/09 Tue


Their problem is simply that they took everything to extremes. It's kind of the opposite of the Dems in 77, they were going crazy trying to be everything to everyone, and ended up appealing to nobody.

But you can't win elections with a platform built on family values when almost everyone you have as a known name has a major sex scandal. Crap, there are actually flowcharts and spreadsheets to help keep track of which Republican has been doing what to whom, there has been a major sex scandal among party leaders every five or six months for years now, and a minor one every couple of weeks.

If you are going to be the family values party, you can't afford the reputation of a bunch of "billionaire boys club" babies who are simply incapable of resisting temptation. And that's EXACTLY the reputation the Republican party overall has earned since they brought in sex as a major reason to vote/not vote for a candidate. Frankly, they'd have done better to have strangled Starr when he tried to bring up the whole Monica business, told him to speak to the DA who was over that case, and washed their hands of it as quickly as possible.

One shot in the foot.

Then they spent like drunken sailors on leave in the Phillipines, and the sordid tales of the war profiteering by KBR and Halliburton were pretty ugly. Honestly, voting down the war profiteering act, did they REALLY think nobody was looking?

Two shots in the foot.

Don't give a damn how much you deny it, if you are in charge of EVERYTHING for eight years, and the economy goes to hell in a bad way, you will get blamed. Especially if it was in decent shape when you started. Right now, this minute, we are perfectly on track to shed at least 1 and a half million jobs over the next four months. That will leave us with FEWER JOBS IN AMERICA THAN WE STARTED WITH A DECADE AGO. Naught for the naughts, as one wag has put it. The clear determination of the Republican Party to pile the pie higher on the plates of the already wealthy, and cut smaller slices for everyone else did not go unnoticed.

Third shot in the foot

There were others, but honestly, NOBODY wants to be a Republican now. I'd cut my throat before I'd vote for any Republican, period.

Am I happy with Obama, no, and that doesn't mean anything, I'll write in a dead man if I have to, but I WILL NOT EVER AGAIN vote for any Republican under any circumstance whatsoever, even if he's the only one running. Is that clear enough? The party made it's attitude very very plain, and that makes my attitude very very crystal clear, voting for a Republican is something done by people who believe the Bible is dead wrong, that leopards change spots with a little hand washing, and there is NOTHING AT ALL wrong with the massive graft and corruption of the Republican years, they'll fix it any day now, the party didn't mean it, their words always speak louder than their actions, and please don't judge us by what we've done, we'll be good, wahhhhh, and besides, Dems are worse, why, we might find one with 50K in the freezer again any year now, forget the billions and billions and billions and billions, 50K is a much bigger number. Did I mention they can't do math?

The Republican party is dead. Individual politicians may survive, and they m-i-g-h-t manage to salvage something in name from the ruin, but I doubt it. If so, it'll be about as related to what Republican means today as a bacterium is related to a dinosaur.

What's far more likely, IMHO, is that the moderate wing will ally with the Greens, and become the Republican Greens or possibly the Libertarian Greens, and win some elections. That's strongly possible, and we see some overtures to both groups being made right now.

The past does not predict the future, so the outcome is still unknown.




>I'm inclined the think it's all about money, not that
>the Vanity Fair article, the less than pleasant media
>coverage didn't play a part. But with a half million
>due in legal fees, the money has to come from
>somewhere. There are those who will shell out to hear
>her brash, dripping venom so there are selective
>places she make money on her speaking tours. There's
>also the matter of a book deal, estimated between $7-9
>million.
>
>The problem with that picture is that her appeal is
>strictly limited to the far right and evangelicals.
>Others might attend purely out of curiosity. No
>election can be won by only those groups. The
>moderate Republicans have abandoned her, hoping and
>praying she fades away and Independents don't hold her
>in high regard.
>
>I do find it hypocritical that she now compains of her
>family sagas drawing attention. She was the one who
>put them out there, taking them to every campaign
>appearance. It was she who put her teenage daughter's
>illegitimate pregnancy front and center and at best,
>that's become a soap opera.
>
>And then, there's also a hint that she'll try starting
>a new movement. Of what?

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