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GOP Future Funny When Written By Lefty

Posted on | April 19, 2010 | 8 Comments

by Smitty

Salon is quickly becoming a go-to humor site. Ed Kilgore serves up teh funny about the future of the Democratic party, which this blog will both radically paraphrase and condense:

  1. Democratic activists ponder the November elections and wet themselves.
  2. They are hoping that the Elders of CTHULHU will pull the economy out of the toilet in time for 2012, with no real idea of how.
  3. Older and whiter voters dominate midterms [raaaaacism?]. It was inevitable that there be some drawback of Democratic dominance in 2010 irrespective of all the ‘stuff and nonsense’ produced by the 111th Congress.
  4. 2012 will surely be a repeat of 2008: “Republicans have done a lot to brand themselves as the party of angry old white people”, which will backfire “since the radically conservative mood of the Republican base has eliminated any strategic flexibility to reach out to younger and darker (or female) voters”.
  5. The GOP is further painted into a corner by immigration and No Child Left Behind, which the GOP must now “foreswear forever”.
  6. The GOP has an “uninspiring cast of would-be presidents” and then lets out a burst of David Brooks flatus. Not that I have anything against intestinal gasses, mind you.
  7. Then there is some more blah-blah about various names, as if the unwillingness to start a presidential campaign today, 2.5 years from the next POTUS election, was a bad thing. Aside: it’s actually rather smart of the left to attempt to draw people into running too early. Never, never doubt the patience and low animal cunning of the adversary.
  8. “And history suggests that it’s already too late for someone new to emerge.” Ah ha! Hammered if you do, sickled if you don’t.
  9. “Republicans, like or not, are probably stuck with the presidential field they now have. And it’s not a pretty sight.” Yeah, framing: yeah.
  10. Kilgore says something coherent about Romney’s challenges with health care.
  11. Huckabee’s commitment is unknown.
  12. “As for Palin — well, as Brooks says, she’s a circus.” Given that the opposite of whatever Brooks says is true, she could run. Or not. And that ambiguity is a powerful tool for making lefty heads ‘splode.

    But she almost certainly can’t win a general election in any political environment. That, not fear, is why Democrats love to talk about her, all but openly egging her on to run.

  13. “. . .Gingrich, whose prominence in the emerging 2012 field is the best example of how hard-up Republicans really are.”
  14. Then he goes into some other possibilities: Pawlenty; Erik Erickson’s person favorite Mitch McConnell; “Mike Pence, a conservative favorite, could try to become the first sitting House member to win a presidential nomination since 1896”; Thune; Haley Barbour; Rick Perry and Jim DeMint, who have made a recent habit of saying things that are every oppo researcher’s dream; Rick Santorum; and Ron Paul.
  15. We get this howler in the penultimate paragraph: “There may not even be a Bob Dole or a John McCain in this mix — the kind of candidate who can reassert adult control and at least lose gracefully in the general election.”
  16. The concluding paragraph is a watered down Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf outing.

The rebuttal is that the American people are awakening to the devastation caused by a century of Progressivism. There are some broken tools akin to Dole and McCain that are more part of the problem than the solution, but the awareness brought on by blogs, and the energy demonstrated at Tea Parties everywhere cannot be repressed. Is BHO not already the most protested POTUS ever? Should he not hold that dubious honor, he shall by 2012.

Counter-analysis: the 2010 election buys We The People a chance, but only a chance, to set the country on a course for recovery. The Tea Parties et al. continue their pressure and whoever wins in 2012 comes in with a mandate to begin the process of unwinding a century of debt, centralization, and diminished liberty. And the efforts of the Founding Fathers shall not have been in vain.

Category: GOP

Comments

8 Responses to “GOP Future Funny When Written By Lefty”

  1. Steve Burri
    April 19th, 2010 @ 3:56 pm

    Hammered if you do, sickled if you don’t.

    That’s a keeper.

  2. Steve Burri
    April 19th, 2010 @ 10:56 am

    Hammered if you do, sickled if you don’t.

    That’s a keeper.

  3. Adobe Walls
    April 19th, 2010 @ 5:10 pm

    One wonders if Salonistas and other lefty literaturests will enjoy writing obituaries after 2010 as much as they did after ’08.

  4. Adobe Walls
    April 19th, 2010 @ 12:10 pm

    One wonders if Salonistas and other lefty literaturests will enjoy writing obituaries after 2010 as much as they did after ’08.

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  7. Ken
    April 19th, 2010 @ 10:51 pm

    Interestingly, Kilgore in 1999 predicted that the GOP would be hurt by its unwillingness to support gun control. That worked out for the Democrats, didn’t it?

    http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=1187&kaid=119&subid=157

  8. Ken
    April 19th, 2010 @ 5:51 pm

    Interestingly, Kilgore in 1999 predicted that the GOP would be hurt by its unwillingness to support gun control. That worked out for the Democrats, didn’t it?

    http://www.dlc.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=1187&kaid=119&subid=157