By Jonathan Bert
The Extreme Moderate
March 5, 2009
The Republican Party is in shambles, only the most delusional right wingers disagree. The worst part is that the party leadership thinks the solution is to go backwards, when they are already backwards enough. They all must be stealing Rush Limbaugh’s Oxycontins!
By my very subjective observation, there are more moderate Republicans than there are moderate Democrats, but the GOP in general persecutes their moderates mercilessly. John McCain got the nomination last fall, but only after standing there testifying how Republican he was, which instantly got him labeled as Bush III. The GOP has got to realize that their ideas have totally lost respect, but they want to continue with the same old ideas, only more so.
Take me to your leader. Who the hell is it? A fellow named Michael Steele was formally chosen as the leader, but a right wing radio “Shock Jock” is the real guy! Steele and Limbaugh butted heads, and it was Steele that blinked. What hope does the party have when the leader is a fat, pill-popping loudmouth? You can walk into any honky-tonk and find dozens of drunks that talk the same way, would you pray to them for guidance?
The first thing the party has to come to grips with is that, with all respects for the dead, Reagan sucked! He was a big disaster for this country. He came up with the “Trickle Down” economic theory, which is haunting us to this day. He ended fiscal responsibility in the Republican Party. He brought the “Moral Majority” into politics, even though, when you consider their disregard for the poor, they aren’t very moral, and by the numbers, aren’t anywhere near a majority. They are, however, very loud and annoying. And sexually obsessed, loaded with self-loathing gays and other perverts. Republican “values” have been found to be bankrupt. On top of that, he spent billions on a land based missile system that was obsolete before it left the drawing board. Then, when you think about the Iran-Contra deal, Reagan and his cronies probably should have been put behind bars.
Reagan’s big talent was using splendid oratory to lead the gullible down a primrose path while doing ungodly things to our country. Sound like Obama? Yes it does! The differences are a different primrose path, (there must be several of them), and I think Obama writes some of his own material. We have give the guy some time before we can assess Obama fairly, but Reagan, we know what he did. His damage was primarily ruining our economy and fouling up our foreign affairs. He is given credit for tearing down the Berlin Wall, but the Soviet Union self-destructed. Gotta give Ronny kudos for good timing, though.
If the GOP wants to go back, go back to the nineteen-fifties, to the last great Republican President. I like Ike. Eisenhower doesn’t get nearly the respect he deserves. The Democrats at the time tried painting Ike as unintelligent, mainly because they were putting an “Egghead” up against him. We’ve had eggheads before, and since, but none of them was very impressive.
Eisenhower was excellent. He was fiscally responsible, but smart! He spent billions on a system of “Interstate and Defense Highways” (we now call them Interstates), which were designed to evacuate cities quickly and to mobilize the National Guard, but had the plus of reducing air pollution and improving intestate commerce. Sound, sensible infrastructure spending. If Ike wasn’t brilliant, I don’t know who is. He wasn’t big on social issues, but back then nobody was. Even the Democrats didn’t care much about social issues until the sixties, (remember the “Dixiecrats?”). His foreign policy? “Don’t Mess With Us!” plain and simple, and he was strong and smart about it, not trying to find ways of funneling money to his buddies. And he did this with an opposing Congress! He warned us about the “Military-Industrial Complex,” but now the GOP is in the pocket of said complex!
The Republicans have to go back to being Republicans. Maybe they need another general. Can you imagine Tommy Franks apologizing to Rush Limbaugh? David Petraeus would send a mortar shell up Rush’s ass if Limbaugh messed with him. The GOP needs a real leader, not comic relief. Let us hope for the best.
I believe in the two party system, but right now we don’t have one. Either a new party emerges, or the GOP has to resurrect itself. Get back to actually practicing fiscal responsibility. Dump your phony “Family Values” crap and clean the perverts out of your system. Care about children after they are born. Fix yourself or we may be at the mercy of the extreme left for a long time.
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I think you might want to re-check your history. Ike (who I agree was a good president but had his share of goofs) had a Republican House. His idea for the interstate system came from Hitler's Autobahn (yep, it was Hitler who had that idea first). Reagan's policies are what triggered the destruction of the Soviet government. Specifically, SDI some say. The policies caused them to try to spend their way into parity (which, for them, meant superiority) and exposed the financial weakness of a communist system. It did not actually fall until Bush the first was in office. Had Dukakis won that election, who knows if the Soviets would have needed to try to reach parity? Perhaps Dukakis would have reduced our military capacity sufficiently for them to achieve that without going bankrupt.
The problems that you see with the GOP will be overcome by the "drunken sailor" spending of the Democrats. The public will rein them in since Obama seems unwilling to do so.
You see, W was a fiscal moderate who was too willing to spend and that is what caused his real downfall. He lost that core part of his party, and the public, who wants a fiscally responsible government. All the GOP has to do is return to that core principle instead of trying to be Democrats pretending to be Republicans.
Most of us want the government to just quit spending our money as if grew on trees. Quit bailing out the banks, the auto makers, and turning us into another Euro-socialist state. If you like 10% unemployment, "free" healthcare that costs you half your pay in taxes (and makes you wait months for operations and important procedures), and crippling strikes by public service workers, well, maybe you'll be happy after the next four years are over.
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Well articulated Jonathan, even if one disagrees with you on various issues. I'll say this about the party, it is troubling from an organizational and management perspective when the formally designated leader finds himself in this situation. It just seems to be that someone, and I'm not saying who, should have insisted on more coordination. The party does not need this dispute.
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Douglas, Dukakis was a putz, one of a long and never ending line of putzes offered by the Dems. As bad as Reagan sucked, it was good that he was retained that year. Obama is looking very putz like so far, he is not doing a very good job of reigning in Pelosi, Reid, etc. He will pay for this. We will pay for this.
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