Really, I’m Okay With This
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present the “new” Republican Party.
Cheney
Gingrich
Cantor
Jindal
Palin
Limbaugh
Boehner
Beck
Bachmann
Steele
This line up works for me!
*There are plenty more names to add to this list. I have simply chosen the most vocal and most recognizable to the average voter. Pretty sweet.
Tags: Republican Party
Great post, Pandora. I’d also add Huckabee and Ron Paul.
It constantly perplexes me how so-called “moderate” repubs (or “neo-progressive”) can think that leadership is going to suddenly appear to lead them out of their death spiral toward political irrelevancy.
Ain’t. Gonna. Happen.
The thing is, if you are a conservative thinking of entering politics and you have a choice between being a Republican or a Blue-Dog Democrat which would you choose? We’re going to get inundated with these opportunists who do not stand for what we stand for. I think we’d better learn to love primaries.
It’s not only the DE GOP with a shallow bench. There’s not an ounce of integrity or brains in any of them.
O’Reilly?
Hannity?
Oops! I’d forgotten about Huckabee – how telling! And Paul drives Republicans crazy while frightening Democrats… so, he’s actually useful in a chihuahua sort of way – too small to do any real damage, but annoying as hell!
Rebecca, good point. *shudder*
If the Repubs do have a sane moderate governor somewhere who might want to run for President – he’ll never make it past the primaries.
It’s a beautiful thing.
Don’t think that Ron Paul scares many Democrats, especially since Paul doesn’t even get much attention from his own party and much of the core of Paul’s fans are not exactly part of the Dem Big Tent, you know?
I thought the favorite Stooge poll was earlier.
Thanks Pandora.
The other thing this makes me wonder about is Markos’ slogan, First More Democrats Then Better Democrats. There’s no on/off switch here. We’ll keep having to pull to the left. We’ll never be able to say our work is done.
But I really do love primaries!
Hannity probably SHOULD be on there, but something tells me that if he caught wind he was left off a top republicans poll by a delaware lefty blog…. it might make him cry. they guy is more insecure than middle school wanna be cheer leader with overweight parents.
Obama has figured out how to deal with the modern Republican Party: Point & Laugh.
“Even within this imaginative crowd” was a reference to the press corps that takes its marching orders from rightwing pundits.
That was the money quote, IMHO.
did you know Cantor is Jewish?!
I knew it!
A1, just per your request, I am jumping to this thread from ‘bulo’s thread-series.
Dude, now you went and insulted me. Fatslapbaugh is a self-appointed (and lemming-annointed) leader of the neo-cons. THEY…they can have him and his ilk. I will never be a neo-con, and that is for certain.
RSmitty – just look at pandora’s list. Do you see anybody that you could support?
When people learn that you’re a repub, who do you think they immediately think of in terms of defining your ideology? Hint: It isn’t Abraham Lincoln. It is all those men and women.
RSmitty, Limbaugh is the clear leader and major spokesperson for your party – not just the neo-con faction. So when I say “they” are “you,” that’s why.
No insult intended – unless you think that pointing out that Rush owns your party is an insult. If you want to give your party strength by adding to its numbers, so be it. (Protack loves you for that, by the way.) But you can’t have it both ways: remaining a repub but also saying you don’t support the party. Membership equals support. If you can’t support any of the repub leaders, how can you support the party?
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I will fight until they rip the fight from out of me!
RSmitty – just look at pandora’s list. Do you see anybody that you could support?
Assuming that “Beck” is not the musician ( 🙄 ), then, your answer is “no.” Hey, the democrats had a very thin era, too, although we can count how long ago in terms of decades.
Thin era? Oh, Smitty.
I will fight until they rip the fight from out of me!
Fight who? Who is gonna rip the fight out? You think they care? You remind me of a guy trying to breakdown a door when all the walls around the door have collapsed.
Hey, the democrats had a very thin era, too
When? There was never a time in my 50+ year lifetime when there wasn’t a major liberal Democratic leader that I couldn’t point to with pride. I can’t see it from your side now, though, at all. Just look at that list.
Hey, how’d you make that emoticon’s eyes move like that?
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You remind me of a guy trying to breakdown a door when all the walls around the door have collapsed.
Walls? Mother *er! I didn’t know they were a requirement. Damn, back to planning!
On the thin periods, I don’t recall (of course, it was a fuzzy time of my life) there being much democratic joy in the early-80’s, late-80’s and mid-late-90’s, nationally speaking. Yeah, Clinton was President for the latter period, but the picture on the whole wasn’t terrific. Believe me, you can likely prove me wrong, but I just don’t recall those being good overall periods.
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OK, fun is over. colon-roll-colon (colon being “:” and “roll” being what you type)
Oof, my yanking your chain went into moderation.
OK, fun is over. colon-roll-colon (colon being “:” and “roll” being what you type)
I rescued you!
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How do you make the devil face?
evil (with colons around)
the smiling-evil is “twisted” with the colons around
Hey, thanks for the emoticon stuff! (#%@%#^ I can’t get them to work. I’ll google it.)
I know that they were dry from a being-in-power perspective, but my point is that there were individual liberal Democratic leaders that I could support for President (although they usually (well, never actually) won the primaries). Nevertheless, they were passionate promoters of ideas and policies that I agreed with whole heartedly. So I always had a realistic hope that views that I believed in were sincerely shared by some of the top leaders of the Democrats. And I am still trying to pull the Dems to the left.
Given pandora’s list, I don’t see how you can have any hope of that in Limbaugh’s repub party.
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Also, if you use IE (I know Firefox doesn’t do this, not sure about others), if you see an emoticon, drag your pointer to the emoticon and let it stay on top of the emoticon. The description-dialogue box will show you the text that created the emoticon.
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