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Decreed by Fate
ISN'T IT IRONIC?
Re: George Neumayr's Over Before It Began:
Does no one see the irony that America elected a Democrat president to cope with the financial problems caused by a Democrat Congress? That Democrats were elected to the lowest-rated Congress in American history, to fix the problems caused by the selfsame Democrat Congress?
Either most American voters are just plain glue-sniffingly stupid
or...there seems to be no other choice.
-- David Govett
Davis, California
Of the many postmortems of last week's wretched GOP election defeats (particularly the presidential race) that I've read from the conservative Internet and Blogosphere, George Neumayr's "Over Before It Began" is one of the best. He zeros in on two important aspects.
One, John McCain's "brilliant" campaign team of Steve Schmidt, Rick Davis, Fred Davis, Greg Strimple, Bill McInturff and Sarah Simmons, did a beyond woeful job of directing this campaign, which stumbled and bumbled its way to its inevitable conclusion. McCain himself contributed mightily to his own defeat, but it was accelerated by his team of misfits.
Two this same bunch has now started trashing Sarah Palin and what she supposedly did and did not do. They certainly won't accept any blame for this miserable campaign, so they need a whipping boy (or lady, as the case may be). There is more than enough evidence that they prevented Palin from doing her best during the campaign.
This leads me to agree with other postings on two very important points:
One, Schmidt, Davis et al. should NEVER be allowed to direct any sort of campaign for the Republican Party ever again. These incompetent, backbiting turncoats should be expelled with all haste.
Two, in light of the disastrous showing of the GOP in the Congressional races, all thanks to the fact that the party's leading lights refused to learn from the thrashing Republicans received in 2006, I'm in agreement with others who have called for the total demolition of the Republican Party and the formation of a brand new one, with the expulsion of the leaders who have brought us to this point and the governmental RINOs like the Arlen Specters, Chuck Nagles, George Voinoviches and others who are equally guilty.
I'll be contacting my area election board and changing my party
affiliation to "Independent" this week. The GOP will no longer
receive any further support, either monetarily or politically,
from me. I'll be waiting for that new party to appear. I have
this painful suspicion that it may be a long, long wait.
-- Jim Bjaloncik
Stow, Ohio
The Neumayr observations are a major reason why many of us have
left the Republican party -- philosophically and financially.
Additionally discouraging is that this pack of electioneering
failures will be on some foundation's payroll for some time and
trotted out for the next go-round. The somewhat unfair notion
that I keep coming back to is that: 'government is largely safe
harbor for life's losers.'
-- David C. LeMeur
Huntersville, North Carolina
Do we need any more convincing that moderates cannot win? Do we need any more assurance that moderates do more harm to the Republican Party than they would ever inflict on another political enemy? They don’t even have the guts to leave the party they despise so we can get an honest roll call.
Moderates know they are tools, just useful idiots of the left and would, as Democrats, merely be bodies...party-drones that would have little importance after defecting. Thus they hide as Republicans, draining our energies and valuable resources.
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Joseph Baum| 11.10.08 @ 2:38PM
I have been telling everyone who would listen for the past year that if we got an Obama presidency with a liberal congress, we would become Venezuela times ten. It is happening already. With his views on energy, labor, capitalism, and unionism, it is obvious that anyone who works for a living is going to suffer and those who don't work (and don't pay taxes) will reap the rewards of the Obama victory will profit.
I remember when my liberal friends were lamenting the exodus of jobs after the passage of NAFTA, that they seemed to be blithely unaware that NAFTA was the centerpiece of the presidency of one William Jefferson Clinton, the almost unanymous choice of the liberal union members. I'm wondering how long it will take before the 'workingmen' who supposedly make up the democratic party realize that they have launched a strike at the heart of the goose that laid the golden egg.
Jim C| 11.10.08 @ 3:34PM
I have this theory that the Republicans let the Dems win...we lost the election on purpose.
The campaign was stagnant, and they thought Sarah Palin wouldn't do much to help their cause. When it "backfired" and she reenergized the party, McCain states that the economy is fundamentally sound and puts the campaign on hold to help with the bailout. (A loss of momentum) They were losing ground until Joe the plumber asked the right question and McCain started gaining ground. Then the stuff about Palin's clothes is released to cloud the issues.
They never attacked his spending plan or his job creation plan (which consisted of investing in government). They never pointed out when Obama or Biden lied. They didn't make a big enough deal how Obama was wrong about Russia, or how he was being endorsed by terrorist and communist nations. At the debates, he never fought back. Three debates and 4.5 hours on national TV face-to-face with Obama, McCain never mentioned Obama's "bitter clingers" comment; he never mentioned Jeremiah Wright's incendiary sermons; ne never mentioned Obama's breaking his word to use public campaign financing; he never mentioned Obama's plan to "bankrupt" the US coal industry; he never mentioned Obama's "price of arugula" comment; and he never cited the Clinton campaign's many tough arguments against Obama...he could have just quoted Hillary.
Could it have been run this poorly by accident? Conservatives like you and me were saying all the right things and bringing up all the right arguments, and the campaign did virtually nothing until it was too late.
But why would we throw an election? Well, in order to win the war, we had to lose this battle. How much better do you think the economy will be in 2 years? There may be some improvement from where it bottoms out, but I don't think it will be that good by the summer/fall of 2010. Who will the people blame? If McCain is in the White House, he's an easy target. Dems will say, "See, more of the same Bush policies that don't work. More big profits for the oil companies and the middle class is still hurting." We will lose more seats in the House and Senate and the Dems will have a filibuster proof majority. In 2012, a Dem would win the White House and they'd be unstoppable for years and years to come.
By losing, we can be critical of everything Obama does, without his television ads and Hollywood movie sets. The new faces of our party will need to get on all the major networks and be critical of everything, while offering solutions and pointing out how the Conservative approach would have been better. And we must point out that the blaming of Bush ends now. Unlike poker, Obama knew what cards he was being dealt and still decided to play his hand. What happens on his watch is his responsibility.
Republican speculators are betting that he will fail and we'll be there in 2 years to regaining some seats in Congress and hopefully get control back in 2012 when we also retake the White House.
Ms. Know| 11.15.08 @ 7:48PM
When you have to compete with the mainstream media illuminati, you too would run into problems like the GOP, because they're everywhere.