Imagine how different things might be right now if there were a Republican Party. I mean a party like the one led by Ronald Reagan, George Bush or Newt Gingrich; a party with a program, a single set of talking points, and the technological and communications advantages to get their message across. That kind of Republican Party. The kind that doesn't exist right now. Conservative talk radio is on the wane. The Internet, with the exception of the ever-popular Drudge Report, is dominated by the left and the more left. The Democrats, for the first time in this adult's memory, now hold the advantage in terms of technology, organization and communications. Imagine. If there actually were a Republican Party, they'd be having a field day right now. Not a Glenn Beck field day, but the Washington-politics kind, where you hold hearings and press conferences and announce alternate legislation; where you run ads in key districts making clear what's wrong with their approach; where you do radicalthings like unify to oppose earmarks, renounce all of your own and become a party that stands for something. Imagine that. Beck's popularity derives not only from his talent, but also from the vacuum of any other way — like involvement in politics — to voice passionately felt concerns. God knows, you wouldn't write to your Congressman. The Republicans in Congress are irrelevant — either because, in the smallest number, they go along with the Democrats, or because they just say no and lose. Either way, they're part of the problem and not a place to find an answer. Lately, most of the Republican talking heads I see are so busy trying to figure out whether Rush Limbaugh is or is not their leader that they lose any claim to being leaders themselves. Consider this AIG bonus mess. Could the Democrats have done more to assume the position of sitting ducks than they have on this one? Could you get a better symbol to bang over their heads than knowingly allowing hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses to be paid while people are losing their jobs and struggling to hold on to their homes? Sure, I know, the economists will tell you that hundreds of millions don't matter much when we're talking about a bailout in the hundreds of billions. But this is politics, not economics. This turkey is trimmed and stuffed...
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
I don't like this woman but she has a point...
I don't like Susan Estrich but she has a point here...or is this a back door way to insult the Democrat's and their fine mess, but with no one to show them the door?
Also is she right about Conservative talk radio waning?
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Susan Estrich is a very rare bird -- an honest liberal -- at least as she sees the world. She is wrong about conservative talk radio. And, even if she were right, compare it to liberal talk, which hardly exists. She is absolutely right about the Republican Party. They have turned from the powerful entity that fought and crushed slavery and segregation, into a mushy group of leaderless wimps that can't even organize against abortion. Too many cooks spoil the soup, which is why restaurants have master chefs. The Republicans have nobody who is capable of taking charge. That's why I left the party when Reagan left the White House. I knew no good could come of electing Bush Sr. And now I'm just waiting for another messiah.
A rare bird, indeed. I think she has guilt feelings over her trashing of Juanita Brodderick, a woman whose claim to be raped was, in my opinion, more credible than her own. Imagine how troubled your sleep would be if you knew that your claim to be a rape victim helped launch your career as an expert on violence against women, and you used that reputation to trash an obviously genuine victim.
See seems saddened by the sad state of the GOP these days. Almost like she's hoping that some conservative principles make a comeback. Maybe she doesn't trust liberal men to defend women against violence.
Just a hypothesis.
...but an interesting hypothesis.
She is right about the Republicans, however. I know your blog title "Stop the Republicans" was a prime bit sarcasm but, as it turns out, the Democrats didn't have to do anything... the Republicans did it all for them.
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