Bring on the GOP!
The awful Obama is pushing terrible things on our country like socialised medicine, big spending, corporate bailouts, affirmative action, and amnesty for illegal aliens. He must be defeated so the Republicans can get in and push socialised medicine, big spending, corporate bailouts, affirmative action, and amnesty for illegal aliens.
Obama is conducting two endless and pointless wars in Asia. He must be stopped so that the Republicans can get in and start another endless and pointless war in Asia.
Obama is making terrible appointments to the Supreme Court. He must be defeated so the Republicans can get in and appoint great conservative jurists like Earl Warren, William J. Brennan, Warren Burger, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, David Souter, and Sandra Day O’Connor.
The Democratic leadership is protecting crooks and perverts in Congress. The Republicans must get a majority so they can protect their crooks and perverts.
The Republican Party has completely failed as an opposition party. It is their turn to get in power so they can be the majority and the Democrats can be a real opposition party.
Obama is too liberal. We must replace him with a conservative Republican like Mitt Romney, Michael Bloomberg, John McCain, Jeb Bush, or Newt Gingrich. (Forget Lindsey Graham and Mike Huckabee because whatever their ambitions, the Republican party never has and never will nominate a Southerner for President; or even for Vice-President.)
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"so they can protect their crooks and perverts."
Just add "enrich" and THAT is what politics in contemporary America is all about
Dr. Wilson,
I agree with all that you have written above but believe you failed to mention the urgency of the matter --- time is money and by November it could be too late!!!
robert @ 2
It was, I hold, too late quite a long time ago.
Gingrich is from Georgia, and Jeb can claim Florida residency. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Gingrich is from Pennsylvania, although I believe hes lived in GA for some time.
Lindsay Graham is the perfect example of a GOP hypocrite. Could someone explain the difference between him and a moderate Democrat? Oh yeah, thats right, hes more enthusiastic about immigration than they are. I also await the day when Graham shows his true 'colors' and starts to show support for gay 'rights'.
#3 Mr. Peters,
Of course I agree with you -- Long before I was ever born the country I would grow to love was changing by disappearing before my father's very eyes. I just thought adding urgency to the silliness and contradictions noted by Dr. Wilson would approach the level of hype that surrounds our politics today.
My father always said, "Throw the rascals out! Elect new rascals!"
Historian Carroll Quigley once wrote to the effect that the purpose of the two-party system was to give the people two varieties of the same elite socio-econommic political program. This will remain true until the current dry-rotted political paradigm buckles under the weight of its many internal inconsistencies. I hope to be alive to enjoy that day.
Speaking of Lindsey Graham, this video of the "Senator" at AIPAC is literally revolting. Make sure to view on an empty stomach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKha6e-f0sI
"Forget Lindsey Graham and Mike Huckabee because whatever their ambitions, the Republican party never has and never will nominate a Southerner for President; or even for Vice-President.)"
Spiro Agnew doesnt count? Maryland was still pretty 'Southern' at the time.
AS I remember, Agnew's acceptance speech was a rehash of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Of course, the Bushes and Gingrich are carpetbaggers.
Ah well, Maryland is self-hating Southern state these days anyway. A couple more examples of shameless GOP carpetbagging are those good ol' Southern boys Winthrop Rockefeller and Jay Rockefeller.
Hmmm, Jay Rockefeller's a Democrat. Guess it just goes to show they can carpetbag just as well as the GOP lot.
I agree that the GOP is/has been nearly worthless. But what realistically is the thinking patriot's alternative? Unfortunately, since the 1960s, bad as the GOP has been, the Democrats have been far worse. This is much more true today under the horrific Obama than in the 90s (that is, the Dems are even worse than before, while the GOP is a bit better, though Shrub set a very low bar).
I would prefer to see the Old America, if it can't be saved (is that Prof Wilson's final judgment?), at least melt away more slowly than not. Our task is the same as it ever was: not to abjure the realm (an untenable if not idiotic prescription), but to continue the Long Fight to "Middle Americanize" the GOP. Having earlier worked in GOP politics, I am not persuaded that the party is unconquerable from within. It just takes more work than carping.
Well Andrew Johnson was technically on the Union Party ticket....but yeah the GOP is not going to save us--and neither will the Southerners who keep voting the likes of Bush, Bush and Bush or such other fine statesmen like Trent Lott, Eric Cantor, Fred Thompson, Mrs. Dole, Lamar!, Piyush (how do you get "Bobby" from that?) Jindal and David Vitter.
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Yes thats right. Not that it would matter; Rockefellers are evil no matter what party they are voting with.
robert @ 6
Understood and agreed upon!
Republicans' saving grace is the man GOP leaders most despise: Ron Paul. And he almost beat Obama in a new head-to-head poll. And will beat him in the next poll.
Mr. Seiler, The Republicans will never, never, let Ron Paul be nominated.
@18
Yes, this would be true if the game were honest but the GOP has never prided itself on running an honest table game.
As Bob Dole said after Pat Buchanan defeated him in New Hampshire,
"Well, now we will need to do it the hard way." The hard way means first the use of character assasination, calumny and lies -- all out, always and every where. Secondly, then media silence and preclusion from public debates whle hyping push polls and merits of the stalwart's candidate and finally if all else fails ....., well let's not go there.
Now it may be that Paul can slide through the first line of defense, afterall he is not a Roman Catholic and is a pretty fine speciman of what the old WASPS were once upon a time. But the second and third are outside his controle but not the Party's.
I think that if Ron Paul or any of his fellow travellers in the House EVER came close to the nomination as a result of populism, I would not be surprised to be an assassination. The idea that the GOP would ever let that go through is like believing Lincolns lie that he would support adding all the anti-corporate welfare clauses in the Confederate Constitution to the US's if it meant the South not seceding. The GOP would rather die than lose corporate welfare and its big business kickbacks.
Daniel@21,
Yes, this is precisely correct. Their thinking would be, Why even have a Grand Ole Party if it cannot oppress its citizens always and every like marxists and democrats do?
What we have seen repeatedly is that the Stupid Party waits ten years to accommodate itself to the depredations of the Evil Party. Then, in the next election year, the Stupid Party becomes the "conservative" party and runs on preserving the wonders of the measures the Evil Party adopted the past decade. One recalls Bush I running in 1992 against Clinton, bragging about getting the Americans with Disabilities Act through a couple of years before, at which time he opposed the act! (Thanks to Sam Francis for the labels!)
#19, Dr. Wilson. You're right. Even though Ron Paul almost beat Obama in a recent Rasmussen poll, and will beat him in the next one, the GOP will never nominate him. The GOP would rather lose with the Soviet Romney than win with the American Ron Paul.
Sometimes I just get deluded.
Dr. Wilson,
FYI: the last operations of the once powerful Guilford Mills closed the other day in Guilford County.
The central North Carolina we both grew up in has been fully wiped clean. The GOP carries much of the blame for the destruction.
McCallum
Dr. Wilson,
Here is confirmation in this morning's news of your entire article--Romney/Palin in 2012!!Read all about it in this mornings Boston Herald. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view.bg?articleid=1247346&format=text
Suppose the GOP got bloody in an attempt to derail Ron Paul. That would make him a martyr and increase the power of his movement. If the GOP is so stupid as to do *anything* to stop Ron Paul, the backlash may take down the corporate powerhouse, and Ron Paul will be smiling from the grave.
Maybe for the first time in our history, right-wing populists and left-wing progressives (of the Ralph Nader and William Greider variety) are united in an extreme distrust of the corporate behemoth. Something good might come of that. It all depends on how angry and undeluded people are. Maybe this time, with the help of the Internet, people will stop being deluded by the financial carpetbaggers.
Texans have a joke about yankees. There are Yankees, they simply come and visit. Then there are damned Yankees, they move to Texas and buy a house and run for office. And lastly there are damned good Yankees, they marry a Mexican and leave. Hello Jeb Bush!
KDZ "Maybe for the first time in our history, right-wing populists and left-wing progressives (of the Ralph Nader and William Greider variety) are united in an extreme distrust of the corporate behemoth. Something good might come of that. It all depends on how angry and undeluded people are. Maybe this time, with the help of the Internet, people will stop being deluded by the financial carpetbaggers."
"Most of what the Federal Frankenstein does is either unconstitutional, immoral, illegal, or all of the above."
Ilana Mercer
Pursuant to Prof Wilson's and others' comments about the Republican Party never running with Ron Paul, I remember one of the last election's GOP primary debates and the so-called conservative commentator Sean Hannity; he wouldn't even acknowledge Paul! He dismissed him out of hand as out of touch, etc until the very end of the night when the online poll results on the screen in the background showed Paul doing very well. Then he simply ignored him until going off the air, while the poll results just quietly disappeared from view. Mikhail Suslov, the crusty old Kremliner in charge of ideology and propaganda for Brezhnev and Andropov would have been very proud!
No, we can count on some version of Romney/Newt or other wholly-owned subsidiary to special interests to be puffed up and trotted out in 2012 as the Republican standard bearer.