No, George W. Bush Will Not Be the Last GOP President
A few days ago Myra Adams wrote a piece at the PJ Tatler titled ”Could George W. Bush Be the Last Republican President?” Citing a list of ten reasons, Adams claimed she was forced to “conclude that President George W. Bush and President Millard Fillmore might just have something in common.” Fervently disagreeing with Ms. Adams, I would like to set her mind at ease with a much different reading of the facts.
For each bold-typed assertion made by Adams, I would like to offer my own response:
1. Rapidly changing demographic trends that favor the Democrat Party.
The deck of the article Adams linked to explicitly states that demographic trends do not necessarily favor the Democratic Party: “Millennials and minorities, who boosted Obama in 2008, are growing, while white working-class voters, Romney’s bread and butter, are declining. But those loyalties could shift in the coming years, analysts tell Eleanor Clift.”
The body of the piece explains that demographics, may, in fact, shift to the Republicans’ favor. Clift writes:
Confronted with all this data favoring Democrats at a discussion sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center, Sean Trende, a senior elections analyst at Real Clear Politics, cautioned against expecting current trends to last far into the future. … “The long-term trend is slightly toward Republicans,” Trende said. He noted that last year, there was net migration back to Mexico, a trend recently confirmed by a Pew Research Center survey that found immigration from Mexico “has come to a standstill.”
Moreover, the demographics debate, which claims that one group’s expansion will help or hurt Republicans, is founded solely on stereotypes and tends to be proffered by paternalist liberals (not that Myra is one of these people) who treat white people as if they are the only group made up of individuals. Everyone else — according to this idea — votes solely based on skin color, religion, etc. Conservatives do not need to fall for this trap: free markets, individualism, and economic empowerment generated from creating consumer choice in education, medicine, and other aspects of life work for the benefit of everyone. Conservative ideas — or at least classical liberal ones — have lasted for centuries. Liberalism, in its modern incarnation, has not.
2. An education system controlled by liberals that churns out young liberals.
Liberals have controlled the U.S. education system for decades. Since the founding of the Department of Education, only one Democrat has received a majority of the popular vote in a presidential election: Barack Obama. George Bush lost the youth vote in 2004, but he more or less tied Kerry among those aged 25-29. Furthermore, enrollment in public schools is trending down as the charter school movement has picked up steam.
3. A population with an ever-increasing dependence on government in the form of entitlements and subsidies.
You cannot outrun math. The current model is going to fail and everyone knows it. Steve Laffey, the former mayor of Cranston, RI, who saved the city from default, recently released the best movie no one has seen — yet. In Fixing America, he travels the country, showing how engaged and ready the nation’s citizens are to solve its problems. The Tea Party formed precisely out of this re-awakening.
4. A mainstream media that is overwhelmingly comprised of journalists who subtly and not so subtly spin the news in support of Democrats and liberal causes.
When hasn’t this been the case? Furthermore, the mainstream media is dying. The Internet is winning.
“Moreover, the demographics debate, which claims that one group’s expansion will help or hurt Republicans, is founded solely on stereotypes and tends to be proffered by paternalist liberals (not that Myra is one of these people) who treat white people as if they are the only group made up of individuals.”
I’d agree that Myra is not one of these people, However, I do beleive she is caught in that trap of trying to look reasonable to ‘these people.’ And that trap is exactly what gives us the Curse of the RINO.
What I would love for someone to explain to me is why, according to Charles Murray, College graduates are much more religious ond socially conservative (at least in the “white” population) than non-college-graduates.
I’d agree. Maybe Myra would have benefited from a reading of Murray’s Falling Apart, which I believe you may be referring to.
I gotta think too that eventually EVENTUALLY a charasmatic, cool, conservative black leader will come along who will put a dent in that 80-90% dem stranglehold on the black community. That would be a HUGE problem for the dems. Even just peeling 10-20% off could have a big impact in some swing states like NC, Ohio, Virginia, PA. And it would be a foot in the door to making it “OK” within the black community to vote republican. I’m sure that right now there are more than ten percent of the black community who see that all these years of democratic leadership have done nothing constructive for them. I hold out hope that the future of AMERICAN leadership is more like AlfonZo Rachel instead of past BLACK AMERICAN us versus them Sharpton nonsense. The inclusive conservative message will break through eventually won’t it?
That’s why the media and democrats had to stop Herman Cain.
Herman Cain stopped Herman Cain – and if he hadn’t the Repubs should have
Yep. Herman Cain ran for president, and the propaganda media went after him and condemned him without any evidence, just accusations. And a lot of people fell for this BS and didn’t even give him the benefit of the doubt.
All these years, after he ran for the Senate in 2004, after being a radio show host for several more years up to the point he announced his candidacy in January of 2011, and pursuing that campaign all the way through December.
THEN, in a matter of just 4 to 5 weeks, the media circus (from what I remember) went something like this:
-First it was one, two, three, no wait, four anonymous accusations.
-When that didn’t work, the first accuser shows up in a press conference with a big expensive attorney at her side (while she was being evicted from her apartment for not being able to pay rent…go figure).
-Then the next week, another one talking about a sexual harassment complaint while Cain was CEO of the National Restaurant Association, and the complaint was investigated internally (and we never really saw the results of that investigation, did we? Even though the Nat’l Restaurant Association waived the confidentiality agreement and didn’t have a problem with making the details public).
-Then a couple of weeks later came the last one claiming she had an affair with Cain for several years and she apparently had text messages from him (which nobody ever saw, so nobody knows what those messages said), and we were supposed to believe she was having an affair with him during the time he was diagnosed with cancer, going through chemotherapy, having his liver removed, and recovering from all that? How come nobody asked her any of that?
Nope, the propaganda media took all these accusers at their word, kept repeating the meme that “where there’s smoke there’s fire”, and it was up to Cain to “come clean” and “confess”…
This is precisely why there is something called cross-examination in a court of law. But unfortunately in the court of public opinion the propaganda media doesn’t really ask any questions because they’re busy presenting a narrative and shaping that public opinion.
As soon as Cain dropped out of the campaign, the accusations stopped coming.
By the way, anybody heard anything lately about any of the women who accused him?
Yeah, didn’t think so. They served their purpose. He ended his campaign because he had to spend more time defending himself from a new accusation every week than actually campaigning for president. Congratulations America, looks like you’ve been had.
Of course, there’s also that little thing about Cain’s deer in the headlights look when it comes to foreign policy.
Hey, the truth hurts.
I’ll tell you who doesn’t have such a look. Alan West. He rattles off country after country.
IF I could appoint a president by fiat….
“Of course, there’s also that little thing about Cain’s deer in the headlights look when it comes to foreign policy.”
Plenty of topics to debate him on and plenty of reasons to support someone else. And that 9-9-9 plan of his does not sit well with everyone.
But what narrative did the propaganda media pick on day after day to derail his campaign?
“This is precisely why there is something called cross-examination in a court of law. But unfortunately in the court of public opinion the propaganda media doesn’t really ask any questions because they’re busy presenting a narrative and shaping that public opinion.”
Doesn’t this sort of remind you of the Zimmerman case? And by the way, has anyone heard anything about THAT lately? It seems the court of public opinion is the only court in the land these days. Especially since we don’t even HAVE a Department of Justice anymore.
Young people are pretty stupid and narcissistic but even they are going to come to understand that they are being handed the brown and smelly end of the stick by the progressive nomenklatura.
A bit harsh and off the mark. The problem isn’t that the children are stupid, but, that, they don’t know, that they don’t know, what they don’t know. In other words they are ignorant of their ignorance. In time most will learn. I did. Did you?
Speak calm reason to the child’s nonsense.
Unless the genius of the GOP figures out a method to avert the disaster that will befall the GOP should Romney win, the 2014 elections will likely sweep the Dems back into control of Congress. We all know how Romney works with Dems. Ever heard of MA?
The scenario no one seems to be considering is simple: Harry Reid will, with 100% certainty, retain the filibuster. Likewise, it’s nearly 100% certain the Senate GOP will not move to simple majority vote. Put on your thinking hats and consider what that means for minor things like Obamacare, spending, the W tax rates, curbing the EPA, etc. After all, Start with the Boehner-McConnell great legislative victories of the last two years.
Then consider Bernanke. Who will renominate him? Before he returns to Harvard or Goldman Sachs or the ECB, he will give us the gift of increasing the interest rates…just in time for the 2014 elections.
For the Dems reading this, it means the economic kiting being practiced is about to go belly up should Romney win. The Dems would have found ways to kick the can down the road a few more years before the crash but with a GOP sweep, think how the 2008 collapse was engineered to timely fit into the election cycle.
And it will all be directed at the incompetents of the GOP. Heck, Hillary might even become Pres in 2016 or Obama playing the Grover Cleveland card.
Lambs to the slaughter.
I think it’s actually quite simple. Many Americans, especially those that survive on Government handouts, will vote for anybody that promises no pain. Look at Greece. Another reason many people vote for Democrats, is that their solutions are simple. Our country and society in general is very, very complex. This complexity is actually the reason Capitalism works best, but it’s too hard for most people to comprehend. It’s always easier to blame someone else for your own problems. I think this is another reason the left hates religion, especially Christianity, because it involves, self-discipline, humility, tolerance etc.
Executive orders. Lots of them. Of course, the press will suddenly decide they’re wrong, so it’s up to us to back him up.
“The coolest guy on campus is not Barack Obama. It is Ron Paul and his message of small government.”
Wow. Seriously? Small government is well and good. But you’re telling me Ron “photo ops with neo-Nazis, white supremacist newsletters, interviews with conspiracy theorists” Paul is the “coolest guy on campus”? How many times does this guy have to be caught with skinheads and Truthers before people realise he’s a skinhead Truther in a suit with a tie? This man is literally on the record suggesting that the United States of America should extend a hand of “friendship” to the Islamic Republic of Iran.
How much more condescendingly, sneeringly racist can you get–to think you can just wave your hand and do away with the entire belief system of a collection of fanatics who think your society is the sum of all evil? Hundreds of years of Muslim superiority complexes and anti-Western paranoia can be waved away with a hand by “extending your hand in friendship.” Yes folks, it’s morning in America again.
What evidence do you have, exactly, to found the assertion that Ron Paul is the “coolest guy on campus”?
Got a link to one of those “photo ops with neo-Nazis”?
Here’s a quick link to a photo, but you’ll discover a lot more information on the internet about the long and affectionate relationship between Neo-Nazis and Ron Paul if you do your own search:
http://newsone.com/1842275/anonymous-reveals-close-ties-between-ron-paul-and-neo-nazis/
I’ll raise your Ron Paul racism link with Obama’s 20 years of attending “Rev.” Wright’s sermons.
So…neither Paul or Obama? Works for me. ^__^
Obama and Paul are quite similar, and not just on foreign policy. Listen to the debates and how Paul evades a real answer when push comes to shove. Compare to Snatorum’s honest answers.
I think the point is still there even though Paul is, well, what you said. He’s like Obama, good at fooling people into thinking he’s not a politician and covering up the dirty laundry, like his statement defendig people shooting missles at Israeli schools.
If Myra is correct, the GOP will be replaced by a libertarian party. I’m not happy about that, but hopefully by then it won’t be Paul heading it, and perhaps it won’t be isolationist.
No wonder the GOP is losing supporters and outright alienating people. It’s because of posts like that. Ron Paul basically says if (insert x here) wants to give him money, then that’s fine by him and he’ll use it for a good cause whether they would have or not. And the “facts” article you linked to is unsubstantiated garbage.
Yeah, Ron Paul is such a racist that he specifically says the drug war hurts black people a lot more than whites and is one of the reasons it should be ended.
Yeah, Ron Paul is such a racist that he’s written 15 books and his speeches and interviews are plastered all over the internet, but so instead of finding “racist” stuff out of any of that, people dig up a dozen sentences from 20 years ago that he didn’t even write.
And anyone who doesn’t think Ron Paul is popular needs to watch some Massive Ron Paul Rallies videos on Youtube. Romney can barely get 1000 people at a rally and it will make the front page. Ron Paul gets 5000, 7000, 8500 people, and the media remains silent.
popular? sure – cool? not even close
Republicans are by no means finished, ESPECIALLY if more conservative Tea Party candidates win in November. Being a Democrat may have been “cool” and “hip” in 2008, but after four years of “hope and change” the people are desperate for something else and a revised conservative Republican party may be the answer to it. We should give people a clear choice in 2012 between left-wing socialists and conservative Republicans and let the people decide. If people honestly think that they are better off today than they were four years ago, then they will vote for Obama in droves. If not, Obama will lose in a landslide, just like Carter did in 1980. I think Obama will lose because the economy is just so bad and you can’t hide the fact that so many people are not only out of jobs, but have even stopped looking for jobs. That is NOT a happy place to be, and the American people know it. If the Republicans don’t mess it up and stick to a true conservative agenda, there could be a huge new awakening of conservatism in this country. I certainly hope so.
“…people are not only out of jobs, but have even stopped looking for jobs. That is NOT a happy place to be, and the American people know it.”
Sorry, I’ve got to disagree with you for once, L/S.
After three generations of 60s teachers, the “American People” don’t know ####.
Well, he sure dam well oughta be!
The snot nose Country Club Republicans need to get beat into the ground by the Gangsta Demogoguic Party, Communists and who-all else, because more than those thugs, the CCRP has failed America big time since Goldwater — Reagen being a sneaky mistake while they were snorting at the punch bowl.
Watch ‘em get slimed, mugged and even taken down by the Gangsta Commies from Chitown, while they play nicey-nicey like Lugar, Beaner and McDoody.
Go Paul or Go Galt.
There are no country-clubbers anymore. Paul is not a Republican at all; he’s aringer who belongs in the Libertarian party, and is almost as bad as Obama. He’s also even better at making people think he’s something he isn’t.
If Paul belongs in the Libertarian Party, then Romney belongs in the Democratic Party. …but all the big-government fake conservatives are going to vote for Romney anyway, aren’t they!
Gimme a break… Ron Paul is more of a Republican than most of the yahoos in the party. Big-government fake conservative Paul Ryan and the supporters of his budget plan can’t even be bothered to cut actual spending and so they can’t be bothered to balance the budget for 30 years. 30 years! Wow, what a great “fiscal conservative!” Paul Ryan is!
Oh yeah, and he’s also for TARP, the Patriot Act, NDAA, and policing the world. There’s nothing conservative about those things.
Ron Paul is the most small-government guy in Congress, has the record to back it up, has never voted for a tax increase, wants to cut actual spending of a trillion dollars his first year, balance the budget in three years, etc, etc, etc. But all the fake conservatives just pay lip service to that stuff and to the Constitution.
Btw, Ron Paul is a paleoconservative, or simply a constitutionalist.
This article and the one by Ms. Adams literally ignores the elephant in the room – the greatest threat to the Republican Party is the GOP Establishment. George “I must destroy the free market in order to save it” Bush and the GOP-controlled Congress presided over the largest expansion of government in modern times. The GOP lost control of both Houses of Congress in 2007, not because of any 10 points of irrelevant balderdash, but because they were only marginally distinguishable from the Democratic Party. They broke faith with the base and the base said “we didn’t elect you to implement the other team’s agenda”.
No where in this article or in the previous one did I find anything about governing principles. No where did I find mention of Conservatism. All I found was “in order to win the GOP must play games with the electorate”. We’ve already got a party of phoney platitudes, why do we need another? Why can’t the GOP actually stand for something and attract voters? Oh, right, ideology must never be discussed prior to an election lest the voters gain insight into the politicians true intentions.
Frankly, these articles are why Romney will lose. There’s nothing in them to attract voters to the party, there’s nothing in them that separates Democrats from Republicans (or, more accurately, Communists from Socialists) and it’s a repeat of 2008 with a cool hip young Black guy running against an old white guy who only disagree at the margins. Romney repeatedly says “Obama is in over his head” which largely means “I agree with what he’d doing but he’s failing at the implementation”. What do Conservatives gain by replacing Obama with a better Obama? How does more of the same with a 3% efficiency improvement help the Country?
Bravo!
Here are five words that explain why Romney will be different from and better than Romney:
“Supreme Court Justice Eric Holder”
“Frankly, these articles are why Romney will lose. There’s nothing in them to attract voters to the party”
Then I guess it’s a good thing that attracting voters was not the point of this article then huh?
“Romney repeatedly says “Obama is in over his head” which largely means “I agree with what he’d doing but he’s failing at the implementation”.
You state that Romney agrees with what he is doing? Do you actually believe that Romney is a dedicated Marxist like Obama? And that Romney actually believes that he can improve upon the implementation of Marxism relative to Obama’s efforts? We are going down to defeat if the general perception of Romney is as absurd as that.
When Romney states that Obama is in over his head he is making about as strong a statement as can be made and accepted by the general public. If Romney were to state the fact that Obama is a very effective con-artist Marxist, which is a more accurate view of Obama, he would spend the rest of the time from now until November trying to defend his observation against a hostile media and uninformed public as not being over the top. Simply being “over his head” is about as strong and accurate a criticism that will resonate and not backfire. It sure isn’t an indication of “I agree with what he is doing”. That’s over the top. I wish we had a strong and clearly identified conservative candidate but painting Romney as something he is not (an aspiring Marxist) is a sure way to acquire defeat in November.
“Romney repeatedly says “Obama is in over his head” which largely means “I agree with what he’d doing but he’s failing at the implementation””.
On what nature of reasoning do you base this conclusion? Saying that someone is in “over his head” typically illustrates the notion that said person is incompetent & is not adopting the right approach. Thus would indicate that Romney does not agree with what the Obama administration is doing. Romney, of course, is putting it in the gentlest terms possible to avoid being accused of being “racist.” See what AA does here? Everyone has to tiptoe around on eggshells with regard to Obama & his approach to things. Romney & the other pols simply would not be able to get away with being too blunt, saying Obama is doing all these things on purpose because he’s a fricking pinko Marxist ideologue who has it in for the country because he hates it.
You and Yooper might have pointed out just how someone gets in over his head. That would be to jump into water, not knowing it’s very deep, while not knowing how to swim. If that doesn’t describe Obama, I don’t know what would!
How quickly we forget. GB would not have put out OBama’s executive orders, or taken the wrong side on Honduras. Remember “Bush tax cut”? How about missile defense? Letting Lehman go bankrupt?
The tea party changed the agenda. Before that, this was as far as one could go. Heck, Milton Fiedman proposed a negative income tax.
Now, if you want a libertarian, I believe there’s already a party by that name.
The TEA Party changed the agenda… under 2007 under Bush! Sorry, folks, the Tea Party didn’t magically start in 2009 due to Obama. The Tea Party was started in 2007 by Ron Paul supporters. And anyone who thinks otherwise, just put Tea Party 2007 into youtube search and see what comes up.
The Tea Party came to be mainly because Bush and the establishment Republicans were big-government screwups. And the Republican Party currently continues that tradition with fake conservatives like Paul Ryan. …a budget plan that doesn’t balance the budget until the year 2040? My, what a “conservative!” *eye roll*
If people go down the list, Obama and Romney are on the same page on so many big issues. When a candidate’s main pro is “he’s not Obama,” that’s pretty sad.
Meanwhile, Ron Paul gets either ignored or trashed in the media, including around here, yet he’s the most small-government candidate, the most constitutional candidate, and the most HONEST candidate. He actually wants to cut actual spending out of the budget! Crazy idea, right!? It apparently is to big-government fake conservatives like the ones that hijacked the Taxed Enough Already Party.
Ron Paul: “I’ve never voted to raise taxes. I want to cut real spending, balance the budget in three years, and eliminate the entire income tax and IRS.”
Taxed Enough Already party: “Nah!”
The battle between Ds and Rs is so 2004, today it is coming down to producers and takers. Today we have more takers than producers and we are mortgaging our children to pay for it. In the 90s we joked about Russian trophy wives after the fall of the Soviet Union, it won’t be so funny when China is joking about American trophy wives.
American political parties are like a combination of cockroaches and corporations.
The republican party will evolve with the times, maybe beyond all recognition, but it most certainly will survive.
After the Civil War and WW II, the Democratic Party was marginalized a very long time. We will need some disaster like that to do it again. The slippery slope is too subtle, too slow moving for young people to even perceive it exists – it is like watching a glacier for anyone much under 55 or anyone who simply ignores history or where the things they most enjoy in life actually come from. But in those instances, you didn’t have a bureaucracy dedicated to the nation’s own destruction as it existed at the time.
Hip-hop’s culture of music is transmitted across multi-media platforms hip-hop culture cannot produce. OWS wears stylish clothes on their bodies they deny with their minds. Latinos agitate politically against and in a system they cannot create for themselves. Devout Muslims despise and covet the West at the same time they line up outside of American consulates throughout the middle east to leave their beloved Islam, in the belief they can have their cake and eat it too, once here, oblivious to the failure they carry with them in their own Old World attitudes of feud and hatred and intolerance.
Like the paradigm of Martin Luther King and Gandhi, who otherwise would have disappeared in a truly oppressive state, these entities are an affirmation of the very thing these entities profess to hate the most, and they simply don’t get that – or they have no problem with living a lie in the name of faddism and a good job.
We can have Republican Presidents for the next 50 years and it won’t make a difference. The political correctness that is destroying America is not at the top but at the bottom, in our bureaucracies. Those bureaucracies operate independently of congress and the Presidency, and the SCOTUS goes here and there unpredictably, faddists one day, ivory tower morons addicted to unreal academics the next day, with the occasional nod to reality thrown in by accident.
Political Correctness is like The Blob: people warn of it and scream, but not enough people can see it. And, increasingly, there are more and more people who dont’ want to see it – The Blob makes their life better.
They get free cell phones and free health services. They get the gov’t to pay for their transsexual operations and fund their race-based construction business. They get welfare and special laws, they get slots in acting gigs in TV and movies, they get free food and free this and free that. A tipping point has been reached where more people benefit than can be fought.
A line from Jane Eyre goes “…offering a premium on incapacity, I shall now endeavor to fail.” Even Republican President’s dare not even hint they would end immigration and the more immigrants come the more they dare not hint it. Besides, even Conservatives have businesses that benefit from low wages and illegal workers.
This problem is systemic and has a life of its own. All the President’s you want can’t put this one back together again. Even being bombed by our own airplanes only convinced the PC crowd that the old foe was actually at fault, old white Americans. The mad Wahhabi’s were avengers for all the faults of America. Even if an atomic bomb goes off in Chicago no one will be able to touch immigration and, not touching it, a much slower and much more dangerous atom bomb will explode, bankrupting us into the stone age with failed social liberal policies that see failure as simply more evidence of where in fact that failure doesn’t reside, and so more money is thrown into a black hole. Common sense is dead in a political sense, and so is an instinct for self-preservation. The fulcrum that will undo this quite literally no longer exists.
The immigration thing is a difficult thing to shake for many reasons but the key one being based on the fact that welcoming immigrants is among the founding principles of our country. Now, it thrives as the modern-day slave trade. I don’t know what it’s going to take to change that.
Backlash against Democrat and union excesses turned the Congress over to the Republicans for a brief period after WWII, ’48-50, IIRC, but beyond that, and those years were significant, they held power in Congress until the Gingrich Revolution of ’94. The Republicans have done OK with the Presidency, but basically the Ds have owned Congress since the New Deal because even when the Rs had Congressional majorities, they couldn’t do much with them.
In the long-term the Republican party — as we’ve known it — is ultimately doomed.
Mass Third World immigration is drowning the Republican base. Soon the GOP will be irrelevant, a permanent minority & there will be a one-party system in this country. Due to their changing demographics Texas, Florida, Georgia, Arizona etc. will soon flip over to the Dems. The GOP will never win another election for the rest of the century. We will have a one-party system. The GOP will be irrelevant, a permanent minority. Goodbye America.
It is now estimated that the U.S. will flip to “majority minority” in 2041, meaning Americans of European ancestry will make up less than 50% of the population — it may come even sooner. In at least 10 states, the share of children who are minorities has already passed 50%. They include Mississippi, Georgia, Maryland, Florida, Arizona, Nevada, Texas, California, New Mexico and Hawaii.
90% of the GOP’s votes come from Americans of European ancestry. But by 2050, Americans of European ancestry will be only 46% of the U.S. population. The GOP faces an existential crisis.
The Euro-American share of the electorate has plummeted in the last few decades.
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In 1980 – 88%
In 1984 – 86%
In 1988 – 85%
In 1992 – 87%
In 1996 – 83%
In 2000 – 81%
In 2004 – 77%
In 2008 – 74%
In 2012 – will probably be around 72%
In the long-term the GOP is doomed. The Immigration Act of 1965 destroyed the Republican Party.
We are living in the last great days of the Great Republic of the United States of America.
Perhaps secession will occur before it’s to late.
And what would radicalize Americans to do that? We are sheep. I think we should split the country between the GOP and the Dems. Let the Dems bask in total power, and in total failure. I absolutely guarantee you, that if such a thing happened, all the very Rainbow groups that profess their hatred of the GOP would come and live with them – in a sane and peaceful society. In how many years would a satellite map of the U.S. come to look like Haiti/Dominican Republic?
The amazing irony to me is that people of color would do far better in a Rep country if they were not coddled as people of color. Unless you believe pets growl at people based on color, in the end, it doesn’t mean a thing. Saying it does because the other guys don’t like you is, with racial institutions of old America gone, utter hogwash. The Left makes up excuses for failure. Faced with a stark choice in a GOP country, people of color would make up excuses for success and either achieve it and enjoy it, or not and come to grips with it.
No, birth control destroyed the Republican Party. Third world immigration would not be a problem if we were reproducing like our grandparents. The demand for third world immigrants comes from a shortage of young people born in America, and policy shift comes from the fact that they are coming faster than they assimilate AND they are not being diluted by natural born citizens. Forget this two kids per family nonsense; we need at least three per family, on average, in order to maintain our society.
Hogwash – we have so many millions unemployed do tell me the need for ANY third worlders……
That’s nonsense: immigration exists for this incredible reason: it always has, as if that in itself is an argument, and which ignores us reaching and settling Calif. a long time ago – it’s mindless bureaucracy enabled by a false notion that skin equals diversity – a self-contradictory idea. We don’t need more people, we need less.
The Japanese are lucky, even with all their troubles. They have kept out outsiders that would’ve destroyed their successful and orderly culture. They are now shrinking their population. They will be around to watch American turn into a Third World polity unable to compete with Japan itself.
While we’re hand holding our least successful sectors of America, we’ll lose our edge, our exceptionalism. If I’m wrong, show me innate exceptionalism in one single country in the Third World. Exceptionalism doesn’t need to be uplifted, but uplifts itself. That’s the whole point.
Unless the GOP starts to appeal to the new latino immigrants. I live in Spain and I was talking to a real lefty here and they (the lefties) are deathly afraid that once all the South American immigrants can vote, they’ll vote for the conservatives (because, in the lefty mind, they have been “brainwashed” by the Catholic Church.) Whatever. But it is true that Mexican/Central Americans are pretty socially conservative on the whole. At least many of them are. Yes statistically they have high teenage pregnancy/poverty/etc rates but many many are hard working, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, family oriented, church going folk. There is no guarantee that they’ll all fall in line with the dem agenda.
They’ll fall in with their own agenda – and in the end it’ll be the same as the black agenda: an inability to compete and so Fed. aid spent by the billions to compensate egos and offset the white racism that will be invariably blamed. Even in Latin America they still blame the West for their troubles. It never occurs to any of these politicized sources of failure that their problems don’t lie in the stars. They’ve been taught otherwise and are eager to believe it.
Forest and trees – if these cultures are so bright, they would then shine brightest in their own countries, wouldn’t they?
The big question is how we got to this point, where the end of the Republic Party is being put to serious discussion.
Every election cycle, the framework of the country’s public discourse — the perceived responsibilities of demographic groups, what policy alternatives seem viable, what’s ok to say and think and what’s unacceptable — moves further to the left. Time after time, the basis of the debate inches closer to to unabashed socialism. As mentioned in this essay, the “educators” (nearly all of whom are union brothers & sisters) churn out fresh new liberals by the millions. Maybe that’s explains our inexorable incremental drift to the left.
And, every time, every election cycle, the RINOs without question or complaint aim squarely to the middle of each newly repositioned debate frame.
This was a well written, cogent, sound and rational response to Myra’s article.
It does not defeat it, nor the reasoning behind her logic in many cases. In some, it leaves room for hope.
1. Rapidly changing demographic trends that favor the Democrat Party.
… “The long-term trend is slightly toward Republicans,” Trende said. He noted that last year, there was net migration back to Mexico, a trend recently confirmed by a Pew Research Center survey that found immigration from Mexico “has come to a standstill.”
This, of course…is a fallacy. ILLEGAL immigration has fallen, because we don’t have jobs to steal. Once the economy turns around, the motivation to crash our borders will rise again. The long term problem of having 13 million border crashers ALREADY, their growing families, the money being siphoned off to go back to the homelands, the impact on schools, roads, law enforcement, hospitals and insurance will keep dependency at back-breaking levels.
Taking a snippet of time so small and making a judgment about its impact on the future is the work of a rank amateur. Our economy recovers, the sieve borders will be leaking bodies at flood levels again.
Moreover, the demographics debate, which claims that one group’s expansion will help or hurt Republicans, is founded solely on stereotypes and tends to be proffered by paternalist liberals (not that Myra is one of these people) who treat white people as if they are the only group made up of individuals. Everyone else — according to this idea — votes solely based on skin color, religion, etc.
Adam Sandler used to do a bit on this. No, blacks will not vote for Obama in staggeringly high numbers, we know this is a fact, right…because people don’t vote on skin color. Look, nobody wants to be a bigot about voting trends. But, let’s be real here. Ignoring the reality of how people vote doesn’t help advance the cause of eradicating small c communism.
The false, fake, distorted narrative has groups of people believing that they are oppressed and have grievances. This warfare put out by the small c communists is effective and we are damn fools to suggest that it is not and that it won’t continue to be.
Hiding our eyes and averting our gaze, pretending that this 45 year old assault on the reputation of Republicans and conservatives, the south, Judeo-Christian adherents, white males, IS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED IN THE CULTURE.
It doesn’t matter that you and I don’t fall for it, the masses have been impacted. Lying to ourselves about that is nothing more than denial. We can’t cure what we refuse to acknowledge.
2. An education system controlled by liberals that churns out young liberals.
Liberals have controlled the U.S. education system for decades. Since the founding of the Department of Education, only one Democrat has received a majority of the popular vote in a presidential election: Barack Obama. George Bush lost the youth vote in 2004, but he more or less tied Kerry among those aged 25-29. Furthermore, enrollment in public schools is trending down as the charter school movement has picked up steam.
This argument seems to argue for and against itself. LEFTISTS control the indoctrination of our youth. (not liberals, we should make the distinction). To suggest that it is not having an impact…when it has CLEARLY had an impact in every election, is a sleight of hand trick. Goldwater was savaged, Nixon was savaged, Ford was savaged, Reagan was savaged, Bush was savaged, McCain was savaged, Romney is being savaged. The constant, unrelenting drumbeat that Republicans are dumb, clumsy, corrupt, greedy, homophobic, racist, has an impact. Again, denying the impact is whistling past the graveyard.
It doesn’t matter if Reagan OVERCAME it, or Bush squeaked out an election in spite of it. It is getting more and more cemented into the public consciousness. When Myra points at it….denial isn’t the appropriate response. Acceptance and then a battle plan to combat it is the appropriate response.
3. A population with an ever-increasing dependence on government in the form of entitlements and subsidies.
You cannot outrun math. The current model is going to fail and everyone knows it. Steve Laffey, the former mayor of Cranston, RI, who saved the city from default, recently released the best movie no one has seen — yet. In Fixing America, he travels the country, showing how engaged and ready the nation’s citizens are to solve its problems. The Tea Party formed precisely out of this re-awakening.
The weakest of Carl’s generally cogent and sound arguments. Greece has tried to outrun math and got crushed, crumpled, folded, spindled and mutilated in the process. Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland…now France…continue their death spiral. NO worse than California…$16 billion dollars in debt.
To suggest that small c communists won’t keep doing TO us what they are doing all over the world, is wishful thinking at best, myopic and dangerous. The conspiratorial Propaganda and Lies Ministry has destroyed whole continents. We should not be so arrogant as to suggest they can’t…and aren’t…doing the same here.
You can’t outrun math, but you can be destroyed when it catches up with you.
4. A mainstream media that is overwhelmingly comprised of journalists who subtly and not so subtly spin the news in support of Democrats and liberal causes.
When hasn’t this been the case? Furthermore, the mainstream media is dying. The Internet is winning.
Ok, I lied. THIS is the weakest argument Carl put forward. The magnitude and fearlessness with which they now lie with impunity, the way they photoshop pictures, redden the eyes of our candidates, stage events, edit out material information to distort the narrative, forge documents…this is a new, ugly, despicable traitorism that cannot be denied.
Conspiracy isn’t a theory, it’s a crime in this instance.
The Propaganda and Lies Ministry has sunk to depths heretofore unimagined.
And no, the Internet (Al Gore’s invention) is NOT winning. It’s catching them in these lies and exposing the propaganda…SOMETIMES. All the things we don’t catch, all the subtle and even overt acts of treason often go out to the masses in full JournOlistic deceit.
The erosion of truth and honesty in our information stream is now at crumbling levels. To suggest that this doesn’t have an impact on voters is beyond ridiculous …beyond sublime…beyond subliminal. Denial is a disease of the mind. We must fight it and the complacency that comes with it.
5. The influence of Hollywood, which makes it cool to be a liberal Democrat..
The coolest guy on campus is not Barack Obama. It is Ron Paul and his message of small government.
Ron Paul isn’t our candidate, Mitt Romney is. So that makes the answer a non sequitor. The influence of Hollywood (a division of the Propaganda and Lies Ministry) makes AMERICA uncool. Makes business owners uncool. Makes the south uncool. Makes Judeo-Christian adherents uncool. Makes our military uncool. Makes law enforcement uncool.
Ron Paul is more isolationist than Obama and is further LEFT on that issue. Suggesting that LEFTISTS aren’t having an impact is not advanced by the Ron Paul argument.
Myra’s point stands. Untouched.
6. The growing power concentrated in local, state, and federal government worker unions, whose members actively campaign against Republicans on the taxpayer dime. (See WI Governor Walker’s upcoming recall election for an active example of this.)
Adams references Walker’s recall, but she fails to note that his Democratic candidates are not even running against his reform of public sector unions. They can’t — his policy worked. Besides, Walker is more than ready to stand his ground, and polling shows a tight election much like the one he experienced in 2010.
The Workers Party division of the small c communists is in a fight for their lives. The assault on Walker is evidence of that fight. I don’t agree with either Myra or Carl. They ARE having an impact on Walker, his recall election, blocking him at every turn. However, they are also at risk of being crushed themselves. They are irrelevant in today’s society, have NO business being in the government (state or federal) and should be exposed for what they truly are. (Zombie does a great job of this)
Carl’s argument misses the point. ACORN/SEIU are arms of the small c communist movement and the Workers Party is going to fight…with the assistance of this administration…to seize back power they have lost. It’s not a shoe-in which side will win. Walker’s situation is the canary in the coal mine…and…he could lose. The Propaganda and Lies Ministry is not on his side. This is a tough fight.
7. A culture where non-traditional social and sexual behavior has become mainstream.
This was said in the 1960s. Since 1968, Republicans have controlled the White House for 28 years to the Democrats’ 16. Eight of those years resulted from Bill Clinton winning the presidency without a majority of votes.
I don’t have much to say on this…it’s kind of off the theme and I don’t like either argument for these purposes.
8. A hatred for Republicans in general and a tendency to blame the party for “the mess we’ve inherited.”
This is the weakest of Adams’s arguments. Democrats used “the mess we’ve inherited” line throughout the 2010 midterms. The result was one of the largest congressional defeats in history.
I won’t rehash my prior points. The Propaganda and Lies Ministry has kept Obama’s numbers at a level where, if the truth was being told…would collapse to near single digits. To suggest otherwise is simply foolish. To suggest that Republicans would not fare far better, if the truth was being told…is simply blind arrogance.
To try to win on thin margins and merely accept that…when the Propaganda and Lies Ministry is an open conspirator now utilizing the most despicable of methods and has not an ounce of morality or ethics…is a surrender to evil.
9. A Republican Party that is growing increasingly white, old, southern, and male, while alienating majorities of younger voters, Hispanics, African Americans, gays, teachers, young professionals, atheists, unmarried women, and even suburban married women.
If Mitt Romney doesn’t beat Obama, the following people will most likely consider running for president in 2016: Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal, Nikki Haley, Susana Martinez, Chris Christie, Allen West, Condi Rice, Sarah Palin, Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Rand Paul, Brian Sandoval. That is a diverse list of gender, religious denomination, ethnicity, and regional background. The only people currently over the age of 55 — the average age of previously elected presidents — are Condoleezza Rice and Jeb Bush. Most of these possible contenders are under the age of 50.
In 2016, the Democrats will have five main contenders: Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Andrew Cuomo, Mark Warner, and Evan Bayh. Only Cuomo, at 54, is under the age of 55. Of the current Democratic governors in office, all except Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick are white and only two are female: North Carolina’s Bev Purdue and Washington’s Christine Gregoire — both of whom are retiring due to very poor approval ratings. Which party, did Adams say, lacks diversity in its up and coming ranks?
Absolutely brilliant points. Outstanding response. Beautifully stated.
It misses one point. It doesn’t matter one whit. Everything he says is absolutely true…except, he forgot to factor in the Inversion Narrative.
The leftists are actually less tolerant, less open to new ideas, less racially unbiased, less religiously unbiased, less interested in scientific purity, less progressive, less elite, less “liberal”…not more.
And, the Propaganda and Lies Ministry has the masses believing the opposite. It doesn’t matter what the truth is, because the small c communists don’t give a Tinker’s dam about the truth. The Inversion Narrative is alive and well. The truth is battered, beaten and dying.
10. The Internet and the growing social media phenomenon that strongly tilts in favor of Democrats.
This is not the case. Conservative websites like PJ Media, Hot Air, Drudge, and Townhall all rank fairly high in audience numbers according to Alexa.com, which ranks Internet traffic. Three of them rank higher than the Daily Kos and all rank above Talking Points Memo.
Yeah, this might be a wash. Huffpo is first.
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67 – eBizMBA Rank | 54,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 53 – Compete Rank | 26 – Quantcast Rank | 122 – Alexa Rank.
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2 | Drudge Report
377 – eBizMBA Rank | 14,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 616 – Compete Rank | 71 – Quantcast Rank | 444 – Alexa Rank.
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3 | Politico
769 – eBizMBA Rank | 5,000,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 794 – Compete Rank | 321 – Quantcast Rank | 1,192 – Alexa Rank.
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1,040 – eBizMBA Rank | 4,300,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 1,119 – Compete Rank | 440 – Quantcast Rank | 1,560 – Alexa Rank.
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1,296 – eBizMBA Rank | 4,200,000 – Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 699 – Compete Rank | 608 – Quantcast Rank | 2,581 – Alexa Rank.
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But the major metropolitan newspapers blogs have to be factored in and they spread lies and propaganda for Typhoid Barry.
Adams points to nine swing states that “total 115 electoral votes, of which Romney must win 100 if he is to reach 270.” However, Ace of Spades does a daily projection of the presidential map, and the nine states Adams lists are not the only swing states, excluding liberal leaning states that are up for grabs such as Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Obama must hold those states to have a chance, and all three recently elected Republicans to high office.
I agree with Carl and Ace here. But Myra makes a solid point. Those states are in play and key to this election. The Propaganda and Lies Ministry is going to smear, lie, propagandize, puff up Barry, push down Mitt…it WILL have an impact. Just how much remains to be seen.
Nicely articulated response. (However, don’t forget to capitalize “the South” next time.)
Can’t disagree with a word of that.
Since the GOP represents Democrat positions of previous eras, having Republican administrations is a distinction without a difference. It is a necessary chore for Democrats to elect Republicans periodically and clean up the mess, because Democrats are not capable of taking out their own garbage. They can’t even smell it.
“The coolest guy on campus is not Barack Obama. It is Ron Paul and his message of small government.”
Right there. That’s where you lost me.
Can’t handle the truth? Look up Ron Paul Massive Rallies vids on youtube and see for yourself at the HUGE crowds the media refuses to show you.
Hmm, I don’t recall ever seeing any articles around here about Ron Paul’s Massive Rallies. How come, PJ? Getting thousands and thousands of people time after time is quite impressive.
8500 people at a Ron Paul rally… he’s the real winner of Iowa… he’s won something like eight other states so far… So That’s What “Unelectable” Looks Like!
Pizza Bomb @ Oklahoma state GOP convention! (Daily paul pizza shout out at 1:15)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI1aZ-e1cV4&feature=youtu.be
I wasn’t thrilled with the list of the GOP second-stringers. There are too many on that list who are not natural-born citizens. I will not vote for Romney if he chooses a non-NBC as VP.
The Democrats do not own the women’s vote. NOW is losing members — it never had all that many — although they still have influence in President 0.0′s White House.
The party that nominated John McCain is too stupid to exist. GOP, die and make way for a true conservative party.
And your new “true conservative” party can win an ocassional election in a rural Congressional district in The South and Intermountain West.
To the contrary Art, the conservative GOP will win in Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. It may take California.
I well remember you simultaneously claiming there was no establishment which picked Romney, while claiming your long service to the party gave you credibility in speaking where others had none–you are a part of that establishment. You don’t realize your sort own McCain and Dole, but fought Reagan bitterly from the left of him.
If people want to see the states real conservatives will win, just look up the states Ron Paul has Already won in. Like Iowa. Like Maine. Of course, despite the truth, the media still says Paul has never won a state. Look it up for yourself and see!
PJ Media should write an article on all the states “unelectable” Ron Paul has already won. What’s he up to now, eight? Eleven? I bet most of the people reading this post didn’t know that. Look it up for yourself and see!
PJ Media should write an article on all the states “unelectable” Ron Paul has already won. What’s he up to now, eight? Eleven?
Two.
You can’t throw away the brand without throwing away half your customers. Conservatives could take over the GOP with effort. The real problem comes in, as always, in that people are corrupted or corrupt. You will but your Conservatives in the powerful spots, and a few of them will become limp-wristed traitors. That’s always enough to ruin you when you’re in close battles with the other party. Most of the problems Conservatives have been screaming about for 30 years are still with us because of the acts of RINOs.
The Right wins when it makes local elections national in scope and loses when it allows the left to make national elections about local social issues like gay marriage, Trayvon Martin, etc. As long as conservatives beat up the Democratic Machine and can show how local corrupt blue state elites game the system to the detriment of the entire nation they will be in the game and will find minority adherents smart enough to know that they won’t have access to the club if they vote Left.
If we allow the left to personalize local issues in the Alinskyite fashion on national elections we will be having the dialogue about nothing that gives the Left elections.
“Millennials and minorities, who boosted Obama in 2008, are growing, while white working-class voters, Romney’s bread and butter, are declining. But those loyalties could shift in the coming years, analysts tell Eleanor Clift.”
Pigs could evolve wings and learn to fly, but we would be unwise to hold our breath waiting for it to happen.
Moreover, the demographics debate, which claims that one group’s expansion will help or hurt Republicans, is founded solely on stereotypes
Stereotypes are stereotypes because they are based on fact. It is a “stereotype” that various different groups of people tend to vote in certain ways. It is also a rock-hard fact. And these voting patterns are extremely durable, lasting many decades or even centuries. Eighty percent of Jews voted for FDR back in the 1930′s. Eighty years later, eighty percent of Jews voted for Barack Obama.
People behave the way they behave, and not in the fashion which “classical liberals” think they ought to behave. If conservatives believe anything it’s that political philosophy has to be founded an an understanding of people as they actually are and not on some abstract proposal of what they ought to be.
Moreover, the demographics debate, which claims that one group’s expansion will help or hurt Republicans, is founded solely on stereotypes and tends to be proffered by paternalist liberals
Not so.
The Pew Hispanic Center conducts many polls examining the growing Hispanic population in America. They asked respondents if they would “rather have a small government providing fewer services or a bigger government providing more services”.
75% of Hispanics answered that they favored bigger government providing more services. Only 41% of non-Hispanics agreed.
It’s a certainty that making America more Hispanic – an action being deliberately taken by our government – will make this a country with a bigger government. It will make this a more socialist country.
Another poll shows 50% of first generation Mexican immigrants are anti-semites. this figure is slashed in the next generation. It would be good to see a generational breakdown.
All of these predictions are based on big trends. Big trends turn around quickly, in part because of polarized political realities and societal instabilities. They turn also because of the increasing power of the Internet and the deluge of information sources.
The claim that it will go Democrat forever assume that Hispanics, for instance, will always be liberal. There is a hole in that argument, as far as I can tell.
Also, the success of the PC Castes and the seemingly endless bowing to Third World and essentially Islamic narratives do not have endless shelf lives. That’s assuming that many people have common sense.
That Ron Paul is the coolest dude on campus is mildly disturbing but not more than that. When a lot of those kids hit 30 or so, they will outgrow the purity of his message of isolationism. Buchanan never really caught on in the US and neither will Paulism.
Didn’t Gore win the popular vote in 2000?
Just nit picking.
I think it is far more likely that Romney will be the last GOP candidate for the Oval Office Myra Adams and her like can vote for over a long time–or the remainder of their natural lives. They will claim the party has left them, and they will leave it.
The nation is recovering with steady evolution further right, from the leftward focus of FDR towards leftism. Don’t believe it? Look where we’ve come from, with Nixon implementing of all things price-controls. Where’d gun control get the statists? Does any serious person doubt the need for tax and regulatory reform? For the need for Uncle Same to undergo bariatric surgery? How many people think late term abortions for convenience aren’t murder?
Rather than Obama being a continuation of steady leftward movement (recall how Clinton was forced right), or of Romney being the last GOP president, Obama will be the last gasp of the left, and Romney the last GOP President to the left of the current American political center.
Myra, Noonan, Buckley, and Brooks may well not be able to distinguish that fact from his being the last GOP President.
They can cry in their beer with Lugar. In the event the establishment types successfully stab Mourdock in the back, it will not avail them.
The GOP needs to court the rightmost 55% or so of the electorate, apportioned among the electoral college for an Oval Office victory. It should ignore the rest.
You’re right Tom. GWB will not be the last Republican POTUS, but if something isn’t done about the GOP Establishment Ronald Reagan will be the last conservative POTUS. For all the die-hard Republicans here Republican does not = conservative. If anything, Republican & Democrat have come to mean the same thing: preservance of the status quo. “Get as much political power as you can & then glue your butt to your seat in Congress until you breathe your last breath.” In terms of the Presidency it’s become “Do nothing to rile the media or pundits.” Conservatism riles both.
The problem is that we know have a shaky coalition of Conservatives and Libertarians. Differences? Drug laws, Homosexual rights, Border control. Abortion could go either way. The real kicker is foreign policy – does it need to be isolationist? (If they want to be called non-interventionists, they can stop calling us warmongers.)
If the libertarians will accept a pro-life position (if a fetus is human, a libertarian ought to defend it – ask Paul) and moderate on foreign policy (defending the country is not against libertarian priciples) they can win the GOP. Otherwise, the GOP will likely split and the Left will win. And frankly, the Left might be preferable to someone like Paul.
Unconstitutional war is not “defending the country”!
Blowing up deserts so the big-government military industrial complex can get paid billions to rebuild them is not “defending the country”!
How come “conservatives” don’t trust government to oversee their health care, but they do trust government to wiretap, indefinitely detain, and even kill U.S. citizens without transparency or due process?
“The Tea Party formed precisely out of this re-awakening.”
The Tea Party was formed in 2007 by Ron Paul supporters. Anyone who doubts this can look it up on the internet. Heck, there’s even Youtube videos of it.
The Tea Party wasn’t started because of Obama. It was started because of Bush and the establishment big-government fake conservatives of the GOP. The same ones that still bring the party down today and the same ones that alienate everyone else.
For everyone reading this: if you think Paul Ryan from WI is a small-government conservative, then you are either lost or have been duped. Paul Ryan is the poster boy for what is wrong with the Republican Party. TARP, Patriot Act, NDAA, big government banning you from playing poker online after you just got back from fighting one of their unconstitutional wars, budgets that aren’t balanced for 30 years… there’s nothing conservative about that.
Did I mention it looks like Ron Paul won two more states this weekend, despite the establishment GOP breaking their own rules AGAIN, literally turning out the lights on the caucus people so they had to caucus in the parking lot AGAIN, counting ballots in a backroom with no recording devices allowed AGAIN, calling the police AGAIN. etc etc etc. Oh well, at least they didn’t pass out fake delegate slates this time to try to confuse the non-establishment voters and didn’t arrest anyone for “trespassing”.
How about some coverage of this, PJ? How about some coverage of what really goes on by the establishment at these caucuses?
Arizona and Oklahoma caucuses were both recorded on video and the footage is available on ustream, btw. I particularly like the part where the people elect a new Chair after the establishment GOP one breaks the rules as usual, and then a security person starts forcibly pushing the new Chair away from the mic. Democracy at its finest, I guess. Police State says what?
Arizona and Oklahoma have primaries, not caucuses. Romney won the Arizona primary by a hefty margin back in February, while Santorum took a plurality in Oklahoma in March.
My bad, I meant convention. I had caucus on the brain from the corrupted ones like Athens and St. Charles. Regardless, the Chair and company broke their own rules Again last weekend when electing delegates, and everyone can look that up and see for themselves since it’s all on video.
Last I checked, Arizona hasn’t even finished counting the ballots yet that they were counting in a backroom and didn’t allow recording devices into. And here I thought only the Obama administration was that good at “transparency.”
Hi everyone.
Just saw this article from the beach of a Caribbean island where I happen to be for a family wedding. So glad to see that my post from early last week has generated so much discussion! There are many ways to interpret the ten reasons written in my piece. Suffice to repeat now that I have been a strong supporter of Mitt Romney from the beginning and certainly hope that he will be the next Republican president.
Dr. Paulus:
Jimmy Carville make the same points–but with considerably more hubris–that Ms. Adams made! In November of 2008, Carville boldly predicted 40 years of One Party rule. Of course, “Ole Q-ball” was only off by 38 years–for many of the reasons you posted.