The GOP: Frozen in time and tactics

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The GOP: Frozen in time and tactics
Submitted by pmcarpenter on Sat, 06/13/2009

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"Who speaks for the GOP?" That's all Gallup asked. Pretty simple. Just pick a name, any name. Yet a majority could not. A majority, wrote Page, were "flummoxe{d}."

As for those who did dare to name names, the results were Voldemortian: in descending order of recognition, Rush Limbaugh, Dick Cheney, John McCain, Newt Gingrich, and George W. Bush. Oh my, a gallery of rogues, demagogues, nitwits and has-beens, or, as Page put it with a bit more dignity, "all men, all white, all conservative and all old enough to join AARP."

"It's a problem," mused former McCain-adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin in a spectacular display of radiant understatement. "We need," he continued, "the perceived leadership of the party to be those who are the future" -- which Mr. Murphy, as noted, has already declared a long and wrenching geological deep freeze, which I would designate, quite fittingly I think, the Bushtocene era.

God knows he had plenty of help -- some of it, appallingly, Democratic -- but for eight years George W. Bush swaggered and stumbled and boasted his way to a cataclysmic end, whose enduring consequences we'll all pay for in exponential time. And when the GOP's obituary is finally written, which may be sooner than we think, it'll be cross-referenced under "B": the party's death and Bush's contributions will be indistinguishable.

For now, however, the party's unperceived nonleadership is intent on whacking away at its funereal image and digging the party out. How does it smartly begin? Why of course. It takes its annual fundraising dinner, an event prominently covered by every media outlet in the cosmos, and makes of it an opportunity for one of its more detested Voldemorts to stand up and bellow that President Obama's economic recovery plan has "already failed."

Now I ask you: Is that really what most Americans want to hear in the fitful grips of the Great Recession? That all is lost? That we're doomed? The GOP tried that nearly 80 years ago, and all it earned them was four terms of FDR and about eight years of Truman -- hence it's only your tactics, Newt, that have "already failed."

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[Wabbajack_]

1. The party out of power always faces the "problem"

of not having a clear cut leader. I think it's good for them they don't cause their past leaders are so easily torn down, cause they suck.