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"If you can't beat Barack Obama with this record, then shut down the Party! Shut it down! Start new! With new people."
-- Laura Ingraham
Going through last night's taped news shows, I am surprised to see that the Republicans seem to be a little nervous. After both conventions, Obama has apparently garnered a five-point lead in the polls. Now, five points in the middle of September is not an irrecoverable catastrophe, but considering the state of the economy, I suppose it can be dumbfounding why their man is only falling further behind.
Um, maybe they should have considered running a moderate rather than an ideologue, but of course the Republican base, including people like Laura Ingraham, would not tolerate anything less than a fire-breathing, gung-ho 'conservative' - promising even more tax cuts for the rich, maybe an extra Mideast war or two, as well as promising to take an axe to what little safety net this country has put up.
But, yeah, it would probably be healthy for America if they did shut down the Republican Party. They have surely ruined whatever good investment Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt put into it. This is not to say that a genuine conservatism does not have a place in this country, but today's Republicans are not it.
-- Laura Ingraham
Going through last night's taped news shows, I am surprised to see that the Republicans seem to be a little nervous. After both conventions, Obama has apparently garnered a five-point lead in the polls. Now, five points in the middle of September is not an irrecoverable catastrophe, but considering the state of the economy, I suppose it can be dumbfounding why their man is only falling further behind.
Um, maybe they should have considered running a moderate rather than an ideologue, but of course the Republican base, including people like Laura Ingraham, would not tolerate anything less than a fire-breathing, gung-ho 'conservative' - promising even more tax cuts for the rich, maybe an extra Mideast war or two, as well as promising to take an axe to what little safety net this country has put up.
But, yeah, it would probably be healthy for America if they did shut down the Republican Party. They have surely ruined whatever good investment Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt put into it. This is not to say that a genuine conservatism does not have a place in this country, but today's Republicans are not it.
