Finally bringing himself to acknowledge the fact
that if the party fails to regain the White House in 2016 the Republican Party’s
goose will effectively have been cooked, there still seems to be no let up in
the ongoing assault on those of us who are conservatives or who identify with
the stated goals of the Tea Party. The
push still seems to be behind the establishment candidates, or, in other words,
those guaranteed to lose. Look at any of
presidential polls and it’s those guys who are consistently in single digits.
So according to Republican National Committee (RNC)
Chairman Reince Priebus, the Republican Party is "cooked" if it fails
to take back the White House in 2016. It
was in a recent interview with the Washington Examiner that Priebus said,
"We're cooked as a party for quite a while if we don't win in
2016." But then he quickly adds that
he doesn't anticipate a disastrous election for the GOP because "history
is on our side." He said, "Our
job as a national party is to elect Republicans, and it generally means House,
Senate, presidential."
And he went on to say, "However, I think that
we have become, unfortunately, a midterm party that doesn't lose and a
presidential party that's had a really hard time winning. We're seeing more and more that if you don't
hold the White House, it's very difficult to govern in this country, especially
in Washington D.C." Well maybe if those who won elections actually
did what they promised to do it would be easier to win when presidential
elections rolled around. And why do the
Democrat never have a problem driving the bus without possessing the White
House?
And in a Washington Post piece published Thursday
and titled "The GOP was Right to Fear Clinton," columnist Eugene
Robinson said Republicans lack a "compelling" message on many
issues. He writes, "How can government
help the middle class? With a higher minimum wage? With a mandate for
businesses to offer paid family leave? With assistance in paying for higher
education, perhaps even free tuition at public universities? With trade and tax
policies that encourage keeping jobs in the United States?" All wonderfully socialist ideas, but would
accomplish little in getting the country back on track.
Robinson goes on to write, "The Democratic
candidates understand that these are the issues people care most about.
[Donald] Trump gets it, too, in his own bombastic way. A party that goes into
the election without a compelling message on jobs and incomes — I'm talking to
you, GOP establishment — is begging to lose." But I would argue that the burying of our
children under a mountain of debt, the economic destruction that has taken
place during the last 8 years and the opening of the floodgates for illegal
immigrants is a more compelling, realistic, albeit less socialist, message.
I think this election is less about the message than
it is about getting people to listen.
Because what’s keeping folks from listening is the number of promises
made during the 2014 campaign that were broken.
Promises to stop Barry’s insane spending, his assault on the
Constitution regarding his illegal executive orders and the promises made to
get rid of Obamacare. Not one promise was followed through on. Combine that
with how the GOP rolled over in confirming Loretta Lynch and you come up with a
lot of pissed off people who refuse to listen to what they see as the same old
shit.
And to simply say you’re relying on history as the
rationale for your confidence in being able to achieve electoral success is, I
think, rather simplistic if not more than a bit naïve, or even foolish. Because what has effectively taken place in
this country during the time since Barry first strutted his cool self into the
Oval Office is that the playing field has now been changed to the point where
using election trends of the past as your guidepost is no longer
applicable. Historical trends of the
past have become meaningless and to continue to rely on them is foolish.
Because the net result of having had Barry in office
for what will have been eight long years by the time Election Day 2016 rolls
around is that we will have millions more Americans firmly on the government
dole, in some form or another, and millions of Americans who want to get their
fair share and see voting Democrat as being their path to getting lots of ‘free’
stuff, so it’s hard to see any of these folks voting for Republicans who are
less likely to give away ‘free’ stuff, who advocate personal responsibility and
who want to get people back to work.
Hell, who wants that?
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