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bedsitter23 ’s post-mortem of the election. It’s here, and it’s good.
One point he raises that’s worth highlighting here is: whither the GOP?
Before the election, I was struck by both Chris Buckley’s reasons for supporting Obama, and also an editorial from Radley Balko at Reason, in which he said he would vote against his own party because, in essence, the GOP needed to lose. It needed to be told in no uncertain terms that (1) it had a chance to run America and blew it badly, and (2) Americans, conservative and liberal, will not tolerate Junior Bush’s example that presidents are above the law and can do any fool thing they like. Put country simple, the GOP had lost the plot, betrayed its core values, and the only way to get it through their thick skulls was to clean their clocks.
We’ll see how that goes. A key issue – whichbedsitter23 brings up – is who will lead the GOP from this point on. Much of the Old Guard has been either defeated, discredited, indicted or convicted. Or, in the case of Jesse Helms, they're dead. Ideally, it would be someone who at the very least refuses to return Jim Dobson’s phone calls, or is prepared to admit that Milton Friedman isn’t as smart as he thinks he is.
Whoever it is, it should be someone who can steal a page from the Demo playbook – someone younger (well, younger than McCain) who's a dyed-in-the-wool Republican and stands up for core party values, but without getting sidetracked into a Jesus morality trip (which rules out Chuck Norris), especially when it leads to willful ignorance of science and reality (which rules out Sarah Palin, theoretically).
Someone who can really motivate a crowd and generate some genuine excitement.
Someone who can play a bad-ass guitar solo.
Hmmmmm ...
No. No. They’d never go for that. Would they?
"This State Of The Union Address is dedicated to all that Nashville pussy!"
Why not?
Wang dang sweet poontang,
This is dF
bedsitter23 ’s post-mortem of the election. It’s here, and it’s good. One point he raises that’s worth highlighting here is: whither the GOP?
Before the election, I was struck by both Chris Buckley’s reasons for supporting Obama, and also an editorial from Radley Balko at Reason, in which he said he would vote against his own party because, in essence, the GOP needed to lose. It needed to be told in no uncertain terms that (1) it had a chance to run America and blew it badly, and (2) Americans, conservative and liberal, will not tolerate Junior Bush’s example that presidents are above the law and can do any fool thing they like. Put country simple, the GOP had lost the plot, betrayed its core values, and the only way to get it through their thick skulls was to clean their clocks.
We’ll see how that goes. A key issue – which
bedsitter23 brings up – is who will lead the GOP from this point on. Much of the Old Guard has been either defeated, discredited, indicted or convicted. Or, in the case of Jesse Helms, they're dead. Ideally, it would be someone who at the very least refuses to return Jim Dobson’s phone calls, or is prepared to admit that Milton Friedman isn’t as smart as he thinks he is.Whoever it is, it should be someone who can steal a page from the Demo playbook – someone younger (well, younger than McCain) who's a dyed-in-the-wool Republican and stands up for core party values, but without getting sidetracked into a Jesus morality trip (which rules out Chuck Norris), especially when it leads to willful ignorance of science and reality (which rules out Sarah Palin, theoretically).
Someone who can really motivate a crowd and generate some genuine excitement.
Someone who can play a bad-ass guitar solo.
Hmmmmm ...
No. No. They’d never go for that. Would they?
"This State Of The Union Address is dedicated to all that Nashville pussy!"
Why not?
Wang dang sweet poontang,
This is dF
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on 2008-11-06 06:52 pm (UTC)