There had better not be a single GOPer that says a peep about Obama's war strategy in Afghanistan after they all blindly followed Bush to war in Iraq.
Not a single word from those morons!
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
GOP Turning Point
At today's rally against health care reform I was truly appalled.
Seeing the images of the piled up bodies from a death camp during WWII was disgusting.
Hearing the Republican leaders basically call for a revolt was truly unpatroitic.
And the pure "whiteness" of the attendees was telling in and of itself.
1 year from today, we will look back at this little rally and call it the day the GOP died as a national party. What this rally confirms is that the Republican party is no longer about governing, it is now about pure obstinense and fear mongoring. They are only interested in obstruction and stoking the worst type of anger for their petty political short-term gains. This is not patriotic and does not help America at all.
I know that many in the GOP and independents are thinking to themselves that they may not agree with everything the Dems do but they would like to have a say in shaping policy. They want their good ideas to be part of the country's agenda. Plus, it is also not like Obama isn't willing to compromise (as a Progressive, this often drives me nuts). Those that want to govern and have true conservative ideals are going to have their say, but I think it will be part of a third party or personality outside of the Republicans. The GOP will retreat further and further to ideological purity like a star colapsing on itself. As they continue to eat their young it will give room for this third party to grow.
This is more common then people relize. There were the Whigs, there was also Henry Byrd, George Wallace, John Anderson and Ross Perot in more recent history. All these people were able to take advantage of weakness in one of the two major party's platform. People that realize that their views are not represented WILL find a way to be represented. So look to 2012 and a big win for Obama as the GOP and the "yet to be named" third party candidate split conservative votes.
BTW- winning a governorship has zero to do with a president's popularity or even the party of a majority of the state's population. I live in Kansas, we have a Democrat for a Governor. Enough said.
Seeing the images of the piled up bodies from a death camp during WWII was disgusting.
Hearing the Republican leaders basically call for a revolt was truly unpatroitic.
And the pure "whiteness" of the attendees was telling in and of itself.
1 year from today, we will look back at this little rally and call it the day the GOP died as a national party. What this rally confirms is that the Republican party is no longer about governing, it is now about pure obstinense and fear mongoring. They are only interested in obstruction and stoking the worst type of anger for their petty political short-term gains. This is not patriotic and does not help America at all.
I know that many in the GOP and independents are thinking to themselves that they may not agree with everything the Dems do but they would like to have a say in shaping policy. They want their good ideas to be part of the country's agenda. Plus, it is also not like Obama isn't willing to compromise (as a Progressive, this often drives me nuts). Those that want to govern and have true conservative ideals are going to have their say, but I think it will be part of a third party or personality outside of the Republicans. The GOP will retreat further and further to ideological purity like a star colapsing on itself. As they continue to eat their young it will give room for this third party to grow.
This is more common then people relize. There were the Whigs, there was also Henry Byrd, George Wallace, John Anderson and Ross Perot in more recent history. All these people were able to take advantage of weakness in one of the two major party's platform. People that realize that their views are not represented WILL find a way to be represented. So look to 2012 and a big win for Obama as the GOP and the "yet to be named" third party candidate split conservative votes.
BTW- winning a governorship has zero to do with a president's popularity or even the party of a majority of the state's population. I live in Kansas, we have a Democrat for a Governor. Enough said.
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