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Republicans, when you wake up on Nov 7, 2012 wondering how you could possibly have lost to a President as unpopular as Obama, refer to this as your official warning:
Yet it’s telling that that movement has failed time and again to produce even a remotely credible candidate for president. Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich: The list of tea-party candidates reads like the early history of the U.S. space program, a series of humiliating fizzles and explosions that never achieved liftoff. A political movement that never took governing seriously was exploited by a succession of political entrepreneurs uninterested in governing—but all too interested in merchandising. Much as viewers tune in to American Idol to laugh at the inept, borderline dysfunctional early auditions, these tea-party champions provide a ghoulish type of news entertainment each time they reveal that they know nothing about public affairs and have never attempted to learn. But Cain’s gaffe on Libya or Perry’s brain freeze on the Department of Energy are not only indicators of bad leadership. They are indicators of a crisis of followership. The tea party never demanded knowledge or concern for governance, and so of course it never got them.
Republicans, when you wake up on Nov 7, 2012 wondering how you could possibly have lost to a President as unpopular as Obama, refer to this as your official warning:
[Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson]...both men took the moral high ground and decided against running for a new term as president. President Obama is facing a similar reality—and he must reach the same conclusion.
This paragraph is why i always tell Conservative Republicans to stop flattering themselves about their taxes and their views on entitlement programs....they're the recipients of most of it:
"Conservative constituencies already see themselves as aggrieved victims of American government: They are the people who pay the taxes even as their “earned” benefits are siphoned off to provide welfare for the undeserving. The reality is, however, that the big winners in the American fiscal system are the rich, the old, the rural, and veterans—typically conservative constituencies. Squeezing the programs conservatives most dislike—PBS, the National Endowment for the Humanities, tax credits for the poor, the Department of Education, etc.—yields relatively little money."
I'd say when they turned their back on GHWB because of the "read my lips" proclamation. Seems as if they've gotten nuttier ever since then.
Or maybe when Reagan picked HWB as VP, when HWB thought Reagan was selling 'voodoo economics.' Remember in 1980, Reagan was considered 'nutty' too. It's too bad Daniels decided not to run--I bet he would be on his way to nomination and then to the WH.
It's unfortunate that the GOP has not produced any great options for 2012, but that happens. The D field in 2008 was pretty bad too, if you think back. Even Obama was underqualified with only a couple years as US Senator under his belt. The rest were god-awful--Edwards, Richardson, Dodd, Biden, even Hillary had little qualification beyond being the wife of Bill.
Frum is too smart for the Republican Party. There are few thinkers left in that party, they are all Tea Party types now or those who are cowed by the TP and follow meekly.
Huntsman is also a liberal, just like Perry and Newt.
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