5 Reasons to Get Ready for a Republican President and a Republican Supreme Court
I know Democrats want to think that the Presidential elections are ours, but I wouldn’t be so sure. Of course we hope they’ll nominate a complete loser, but they may not. Then where will we be? The fact is, the GOP is building some huge advantages that are going unmatched by the Democrats. Five that come directly to mind are:
5. Republicans get to run against Democrats, and as has been well documented this year – the Democrat Party is a shit mess and with party “leadership” we have now, there is no chance of rallying by 2016. Our candidate will be at a huge disadvantage out of the gate running under the burden of being a “D”.
4. Republicans won all the state legislatures and Governorships. Well, not all of them, but nearly all of them and the biggies like Florida and Ohio.
3. Republicans are eager to cheat and basically don’t give a fuck about propriety and American democratic traditions of fairness. Now that they make all the rules (see #4) they have the resolve to make voting as hard as shit for anybody that they think will vote for whatever Republican-lite candidate the Dems nominate.
2. Money. Thanks to citizens United, they can air drop billions to save any weak looking piece of shit teabag anywhere in the country, as they did in Kansas. They can turn swing districts with similar media tsunamis. Also, they don’t have to waste all day begging for $25.00 donations.
1. Eye of the Tiger! Republicans have it in spades, Dems…not so much. Republicans are charged up to vote for their core values:
- winning elections, and
- making Democrats lose.
Republican leaning voters have been conditioned to vote in the same way junk yard dogs are conditioned to bite. Even when they aren’t hungry, they just get off on inflicting pain. Democratic leaning voters have been conditioned to watch reruns of Gilligan Island, and say “what’s the point?” Because indeed with the Democratic Party we have now – what’s the point?
And this…
I’m not baffled. The Demcorat Party sucks.
I love to come onto your blog and open my eyes to other points of view. Maybe , we should all take a step back, see how we all could work for a better America. It might take time, but I believe we could all live as one. Oh, by the way, it is the United States of America!
Two reasons to disagree (somewhat) with your analysis of the upcoming Presidential election:
1. The focus in a Presidential is on one candidate only. Regardless of how you perceive Obama’s tenure in office he has consistently performed as the best candidate in the race. The GOP has consistently shot itself in the foot by nominating wooden candidates with VP candidates that eventually detracted from the ticket rather than doing the traditional benefit of securing a specific state’s votes. The strong Romney performance in the first debate in 2012 had such an impact because it was such an anomaly. Oddly, when there is an open Presidential seat in play, the Democrats (for all the electoral and message ineptness you cite above) generally manage to select strong candidates (Obama, Bill Clinton). The only loser in that situation in the past two decades was Al Gore (admittedly quite wooden and ran a flawed campaign), but even he got within a whisker of winning the White House.
2. The Democrats (in open seat years without an heir apparent, particularly) are far better at the theater of picking a nominee. In 1992, Bill Clinton managed to emerge from the pack of “the seven dwarves” to create a compelling narrative for himself as the young, successful multi-term governor who was “focused like a laser beam” on “it’s the economy, stupid.” In 2008 the race between Barack and Hillary was successfully portrayed to the base as an embarrassment of riches: we’ve got two candidates, either of whom is capable of winning this thing, which flavor do you like?
Unfortunately for the Dems in 2016, Hillary projects “legacy” rather than creating potential excitement. It’s the Delaware Way writ large: she’s running because it’s her turn. She needs, however, to have the nomination contested by another woman, and the obvious choice–Elizabeth Warren–is smart, articulate, and superficially populist enough to connect with voters. (Some day we should discuss why progressives should try to position themselves more as populists in campaign rhetoric, a distinction that Warren seems to get.)
The fly in the ointment here is that while her rhetoric is exactly what you’re looking for, to get into office she’ll have to kowtow to the wishes of the corporate financiers who have absolutely no intention of returning to FDR-style governance.
Good points, but even your take depends (to some extent) on the GOP fielding a bad candidate. One of these days a good one is going to slip through.
Looks like Ben Carson has thrown his name in the bucket for the GOP.
I think a Carson/Paul ticket would be a challenge for the DNC if either of them made it through the primaries.
Ben Carson’s politics are appropriately wacko, and he has a compelling personal story which seems to embody the Republican approach to “welfare” (helping poor people hurts them).
He could get through the primaries if not for the fact that the GOP base is a bunch of racist motherfuckers who now feel like their racism has been validated by recent history.
… and here comes the race card.
smh
Are you saying that the GOP base is NOT a bunch of racist motherfuckers who now feel like their racism has been validated by recent history?
If so, spit it out.
Yes I am. And unless you have some conclusive evidence to prove otherwise, then your statement carries about as much water as Geezer’s statement about Beau Biden.
Republican Cspan caller “‘Republicans Hate That N***er Obama”
Texas Republican Rep urges border residents to shoot “wetbacks” on site.
I could go on and on, but it is an established fact (for everyone besides you) that the GOP base is a bunch of racists motherfuckers who now feel like their racism has been validated by recent history.
Wow, you’re a special kind of ignorant, aren’t you?
30% (+/-) of all registered voters in the United States are racist?
I wonder if Lincoln was aware of that? Or all of the Republicans that voted for the Civil Rights Act? Hmmm.
Ancient history. I’m talking recent history, and frankly I’m a little surprised that you are having a problem with this notion. One of the things I appreciate about Republicans is that they are unguarded about their party’s racism. I mean Google “southern strategy” sometime.
Are you sure you’re not a Republican because you sure argue like a Fundamentalist Christian? The only difference is when they can’t explain something when supplied with new information they say, because God – your answer, on the other hand is, because racism.
Terry – I like you and hope you keep commenting here. However, on whether or not the Republican Party is racist, we’ll have to agree to disagree. (I’m on the side or evidence-based reason, rationality and common sense though.)
I won’t disagree that racism doesn’t exist – but I will disagree that it’s only an issue within the Republican party. And I also disagree that “the GOP base is a bunch of racist motherfuckers” – that simply is not true.
your take depends (to some extent) on the GOP fielding a bad candidate. One of these days a good one is going to slip through.
And the sun will also rise in the south one of these mornings.
Mr 330 wrote:
Yeah, I’m sure that all of those Republican voters in South Carolina, South Carolina! who voted for Tim Scott were just raving, slavering raaaaacists, and all of those Republicans who elected Mia Love really, deep down, hated her.
Of course, we’re all sexists, too, especially the Republicans who voted for Jodi Ernst and Nikki Haley (and she’s Indian, too! Horrors!) and all of our other women candidates.
It couldn’t be that Republicans will vote for people who believe the same things they do, who present policies that the Republican voters like, regardless of their race or sex.
Mr Newton wrote:
In Alaska, in the winter, it does. 🙂 And everywhere north of the Tropic of Cancer, the sun rises somewhat southeasterly, every day.
And it’s pretty obvious that the GOP has fielded good candidates before, considering that they’ve done radical things like actually win elections.
@Dana- Did you ever study geography or geometry, even at the elementary level?
The sun rises in the east, and sets in the west, regardless of one’s position on the globe. It may be SE (arctic circle) or NE(Antarctica), but the sun rises in the EAST and sets in the WEST. The desert-dwellers of antiquity figured this out, but somehow you think the sun rises in the SOUTH in Alaska. “Somewhat southeasterly” does not equal “the south.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXxRcXHI_tI
Jason, Ben Carson is going to be our nominee, how does that square with your belief that republicans are mostly racist?
Republicans will nominate a black man when the sun rises in the south.