A Glimmer of Hope for the GOP

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1. I’ll take it!

   Comment by jana — April 5, 2009 @ 1:52 am - April 5, 2009

2. Yeah, and up until recently, there had never been a black man named Barack Hussein Obama elected president, either. Too bad for you that the best your party could do was to nominate an elderly stumblebum and a ignorant ditz from Alaska to try to defeat him.

   A glimmer of hope, your gay ass.

   Comment by Ken Primo — April 5, 2009 @ 3:33 am - April 5, 2009

3. Keep grasping at straws…. its all you’ve got.

   Comment by Bernie — April 5, 2009 @ 6:52 am - April 5, 2009

4. Why, Ken, why is it, I wonder that folks like you can’t make their points about their ideological adversaries without insults or name-calling.

   Didn’t know that this post would become one to prove my point about the mean-spirited left, but so it does. Thanks for providing further evidence to buttress that hypothesis.

   Comment by GayPatriotWest — April 5, 2009 @ 6:55 am - April 5, 2009

5. For Obama it’s going to come down to the state of the economy in 2012, as well as who the GOP nominee is. At the present time I’m not very hopeful. The point about Obama breaking precedent by being the first biracial president is valid, though the effect on the electorate in 2012 is unknown. Eh, there are too many variables that can come into play in 4 years so it’s difficult to say for sure. Besides, recall that Bush 43 broke precedent himself by being only the 2nd son of a former president to be elected to the White House, winning re-election after losing the popular vote the first time around (the other 3 presidents in that situation lost big), being re-elected with a majority of the popular vote after not doing so the first time (not many have done this), maintaining control of Congress till the midterm of his 2nd term, etc.

   Comment by John — April 5, 2009 @ 8:23 am - April 5, 2009

6. The only glimmer of hope for the GOP is that the public becomes more aware and fed up with the corruption, out-of-control spending, and assault on normal healthy values that defines the Obamacrat party.

   Comment by V the K — April 5, 2009 @ 10:15 am - April 5, 2009

7. #2 Ken Primo makes a point: Obama is the first President from Chicago and the only President trained in the Kelly-Nash machine of Chicago politics. Mayor Richard J. Daley (1955-1956) presided over white flight as he exploited racial and class antagonisms. Housing, jobs, schools, patronage positions, ethnic division, labor contracts, etc. were all part of the Democrat machine that has kept Republicans out of the Mayor’s office since 1931 and nearly entirely off the city council.

   If Obama and his machine politics squad expect to capture the United States, they will have corrupt and control a multitude existing political opposition. That is where 2012 becomes a sort of bellwether. Can Obama be reelected? Can he keep or increase his margin? Can he hold an adoring press? Will the liberal newspapers even be in existence in 2012?

   The “ignorant ditz from Alaska” keeps threatening the liberals with good reason. They know that Obama is all pie in the sky and mood ring. Palin and Joe the Plumber have the voice of authenticity and they excite the bearers of torches and pitchforks.

   Obama is a race baiter and promotes class warfare. He is the stereotypical European politician who dances on the edge of civil war rhetoric.

   The test in 2012 is whether the United States has become so used to soft democracy that it will settle for the complacency of state hand outs. Why struggle to exceed the guarantee of three squares and a place to flop when all you have to do is lean on a shovel in a government job? ACORN is superb at rounding up those who want to be wards of the state and getting them to vote early and often.

   Machine politics is never about rules and ethics. It is only devoted to raw power and controlled privilege.

   Comment by heliotrope — April 5, 2009 @ 11:00 am - April 5, 2009

8. My current American Daniel Hannan is Paul Ryan.

   Comment by Ignatius — April 5, 2009 @ 11:18 am - April 5, 2009

9. If we’re down to numerology then I don’t hold out much hope.

   #2 Ken: So, instead of an “elderly stumblebum and a ignorant ditz from Alaska”, we got a youngish stumblebum with delusions of grandeur and an elderly ditz from Delaware.

   #6 V: Seems like a long shot. The sad truth is that the much of the public just doesn’t want to know. They want to hear the dulcet tones of the Teleprompter telling them how noble they are, how all their problems are caused by others, and how everything is being done to for the children.

   And the children are being programmed to worship the government and its Dear Leader – ignorant of the fact that their futures are being raped.

   Comment by SoCalRobert — April 5, 2009 @ 12:59 pm - April 5, 2009

10. What we need is a vibrant, charismatic person to head up the GOP and move us to 2012?
    But I will take the odds about USGrant

    Comment by PatriotMom — April 5, 2009 @ 1:29 pm - April 5, 2009

11. Unfortunately, that charismatic leader has to be stupid as seventeen Palins to mouth the kind of idiocies that will get the support of the average Republican these days.

    Comment by Little Boots — April 5, 2009 @ 5:27 pm - April 5, 2009

12. Back in 1980 that’s what they were saying about Reagan. He was the first president in history elected in a year ending in 0 who didn’t die in office. Since Bush made it a whole 8 years too I suppose that one isn’t going to be discussed much from now on.

    Comment by Houndentenor — April 5, 2009 @ 7:43 pm - April 5, 2009

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