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Calm Down

Posted by Bill Lewis on Thursday, February 07, 2008 2:33:22 PM
Talk show hosts and their callers are still going beserk over the presumptive nomination of John McCain. McCain's call  for party members to "calm down" lit their fires all over again. They were insulted that McCain implied that they were acting like children. Well guess what? They are.

They want to adhere to their "principles" as conservatives. If McCain won't come over to their way of thinking, they will "punish him" by sitting out the election, insuring the Democrats win.

Get real. The Democrats are probably going to win anyway. Look at the raw vote count in the primaries. The Democrats outvoted the Republicans two to one, and that was with the conservative favorites on the field. The Republican party is in decline. Making a public spectacle of the sad situation by committing hari-kari in front of the media just makes it all more pathetic.

If the Republicans had a decent conservative candidate, he should have run. The two names I hear batted around the most as possibles to fill that category have been Jeb Bush and George Allen. Neither one is or will be viable as a presidential candidate. Does anyone possibly believe the public will vote a third Bush into the White House? Allen is politically dead. Can you can "macaca"?

So it comes down to rebuilding and redefining the party, but no one seems to have a clue how to do that. Republicans should realistically figure on being out of office for eight (yes, 8) years or more and during that time they should try to figure out who they are. Right now, they are just a mob, trying to self destruct.
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Drink the Kool Aide

Posted by Bill Lewis on Wednesday, February 06, 2008 3:59:57 PM
The fat is in the fire now. Conservative talk show hosts are having a hissy fit over Senator John MaCain's victory on Super Tuesday. It's the worst-case scenario, and they and many of their "dittohead" listeners have drilled themselves into the ground on this one.

After months of beating McCain with a battery of verbal clubs, the hosts have essentially told their listeners that voting for McCain proves you are not a conservative. Without the conservative "base", at least in theory, McCain doesn't stand a chance in November. By vilifying McCain to almost equating him with the anti-Christ, the talkers have helped the Democrats win in November.

Some are trying to play this down, speculating only four years in the wilderness. But even Limbaugh hedged on this today, noting that the conservative period of drought between Barry Goldwater in '64 and Ronald Maximus Reagan in '80 was more like 16 years of wandering.

Some like Sean Hannity are suggesting that a compromise might happen, if John McCain is willing to come to them. (Interesting, the attitude of power brokering). If he doesn't, they seem ready to lead their legions of loyal listeners into a  "sit it out" campaign in the fall. Sort of like destroying the village in order to save it. It's weird and the logic escapes me, but it's like Jim Jones said to his followers "Drink the Kool-Aide".
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Republicans Want to Lose

Posted by Bill Lewis on Friday, February 01, 2008 4:58:59 PM
I'm becoming convinced that the Republicans want to lose the Presidential election. I've been voting since 1964 and have never seen such self-destructive internal fighting in a political party.

The impression I have from talk radio is that the commentators and most of their callers would rather have Hillary or Obama win than John McCain. They prefer to sink the ship rather than have it commanded by a person who lacks their requisite "conservative" credentials. To them, they are the "base" of the party and anyone who does not subscribe totally to their mantra should be thrown overboard, to use another nautical metaphor.

I do not believe that if John McCain wins the nomination, they will suddenly rally around the flag. The damage has been done, and the R's are digging themselves in deeper every day. The talk show hosts and their followers are throwing the game, and trying to take the party along with them.

I confess that I never really noticed the zealotry before John McCain emerged as a front runner. I knew he was disliked by the talking microphones, but I didn't realize the depth of their hatred. I also realized that they think they "own" the Republican party, and that anyone who is not a Reagan conservative is a heretic and should move over to the Democrats. I'm not going there, but they sure have shown me that the crazies on the right are as bad as the crazies on the left.

I can only guess that they hope for the loss so they can say "we told you so", to find an approved candidate for 2012.  I only have one question at this point:

If conservatives are the "base" and majority of the party, why is John McCain in the lead?
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