Some recent posts and resulting comments have gotten me to thinking.
On its face, I suppose, that’s a bad thing.
Because, when I attempt to distill things down to their base elements, I tend to conclude some very discordant things and some of those things result in this:
There isn’t, any more, the huge disparity between the two parties that I originally suspected.
With some clearly differentiated contrasts.
At first blush:
- The Democrats are NOT hesitant to use power in any way that will help them;
- The Republicans are very MUCH hesitant to use power when it is handed to them;
As my CSUS political science professor said way back in 1974: “Democrats don’t win elections; Republicans lose them.”
Now in “power” the Democrats are finding themselves, in the very first 6 months, mired in corruption, stasis, with no new ideas other than the two letters consisting of N and O.
On the other hand, the Republicans to my way of thinking did mostly NOTHING whilst they possessed power prior to the ’06 vote. They left their Conservative power base flagellating and in ventricular fibrillation: moving but not in unison or in concert and subject to any applied electroshock therapy — which was never applied.
- They still haven’t made 9-11 intellectually make sense;
- They still haven’t defined the enemy;
- They still haven’t become a cohesive unit;
- Their fractured beliefs are all over the map; they’ve yet to REDEFINE and REAFFIRM who they actually CLAIM to represent;
- They fail to realize that sovereignty does, in fact, trump a globalist view;
- Their core Conservative base knows what to do;
- They consistently IGNORE their core base;
- When Bush portrayed our Minutemen as “vigilantes,” he lost me. Right then and there.
- Period.
And that was enough for me. I, a longtime contributor the the RNC, have cut off all checks.
Some other blogs, unmentioned here (but they are clearly obvious) tend to portray Republicans and the GOP in only the most shiny chrome of light. That is good of them. There must be someone, somewhere, trotting out the Party Line because that needs to be done — a place for everything and everything in its place.
