It looks to be about time to start posting some actual content instead of just random mess. I will continue to make some detailed posts about Ubuntu in the near future but there are obvious issues which are more important to confabulate about at the present moment. And seeing as I have such a wide demographic of readership, and my internet prowess is vast, this needs to be heard.
The ability to actually handle another Clinton is the Whitehouse I don't believe is a reality. I remember Rush Limbaugh speaking of a possible Hillary run a few years back, and how he almost wished she would win the primary for the Dems. This would solidify the Rep base as even the most tempered voter is turned off by her.
Possibly so, but with a Clinton/Obama ticket looking likely, I'm not so sure this scenario is quite prophecy anymore. She would rally those of us who did feel disenfranchised from this last election but I think with the addition of Obama's energy, their team would be a bit more...cunning. Maybe attractive to the independent voters out there.
"What needs to be done Derek?" You need to give me all your money so I can pay for my tuition...wait...oh. Fred Thompson needs to lead us. Recognizable, truthful, honorable, are just a few words which come to mind of this potential candidate. Listen, we need a candidate who not only garners the vote of Reagan, but one who believe in his principles.
I have class in a bit, so here it is. We don't need me to recant the positions of the Rep base. I think Fred is the one who can make it happen again. Here are some links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Thompson
http://www.imwithfred.com/
http://draftfredthompson.com/
3 comments:
I'm not sure what you mean by "(t)he ability to actually handle another Clinton is [sic] the Whitehouse I don't believe is a reality." Are you envisioning a collapse of the Republic? What was the awful foundational sin of the original Clinton that would equip a second, by name alone, to topple a 300 million person nation?
Fred Thompson, eh? Recognizable, certainly. Truthful and honorable? I'd like to hear more why you think this, it sounds like a bit of a wooden campaign tagline. I couldn't care less about a politician's personal life, only their politics and ability to execute the office with some semblance of sanity, but I should think Senator Thompson's home life would count against the Republican base's sense of honorability, such as it is.
As for the positions of the base, and I assume you do indeed mean the base, not the citizens they elect, I think perhaps you do need to recount them, though you know I'd prefer you recant them. A limited domestic government, a laissez-faireish market doctrine, and a hint of isolation on the global stage is what I know as lower-case conservative, the capital "R" Republican Party is roughly 180-degrees facing from that. Which is more important, party discipline or ideological purity? That's a question I think all respectable conservatives need to ask themselves and an erudite answer I'd love to hear, from any of my well-meaning friends on the opposite side of the political spectrum.
No hidden meaning about the Clintons. I don't approve of Hillary's vision of a welfare state. And I would never agree to give Clintons the credit for topling our Republic in reality or in rhetoric. Let's be realistic here. The election of 2006 was not a referendum against the republican party but a referendum against the system, albiet congress or the presidency as a unit. Congressional approval is not only low but tanking, Pelosi's agenda is filled with more earmarks and riddled with her own international policy promiscuity.
I don't need to give you talking points about the republicans so I'll just agree with you on principle about them losing thier focus. Disenfranchised some would say; possibly to a degree but not for long. Maybe that is why Fred has received the attention he has. The largest issue people have with this senate record is that he doesn't have a laundry list of bills attached with his name. That isn't a perjorative, rather an attribue he should wear as a badge.
Honestly, when I write these blogs in Windows, my grammer sucks. However in Ubuntu, I get the corrections from "honor" to "honour" etc. Bah, crazy 'nadiens.
I don't think the 2006 backlash was about the system at all. Iraq is the issue of the time, and it's rightfully a disaster attributed to the neo-conservative wing of the Republican party. I don't think the average voter was informed enough to know just how complicit the Democrats were in this tragic mess, and it ended up manifesting itself as a protest vote. The present scenario won't change until there's a symbolically large enough withdrawal from Iraq to stop the (R)s bleeding Congressional seats and an extremely uphill presidential campaign for the Republican nominee in '08.
As for Speaker Pelosi, someone talking foreign policy in actual foreign places? Shocking! I know you didn't care for the visit to Syria, but how else would you suggest we go about diplomacy? Short of unconditional Right of Return and suffrage for Palestinians back to Palestine, it's going to take a lot of talking or a lot of wars to return to normalcy with the Arab world.
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