WSJ's Peggy Noonan: The GOP is DYING

[Dave]

From today's Wall Street Journal, conservative Peggy Noonan describes OUR party as dying, with its leaders stupid and detached. She basically predicts the GOP will get it's butt handed to it in November. This article is a great assessment of the status of the national GOP and makes clear the opportunity we have for restoration. Hopefully we're all on our GOP Central Committees by now, and moving into leadership positions and becoming candidates or helping others. We can do it!

http://online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html


DECLARATIONS
By PEGGY NOONAN http://online.wsj.com/img/colhed_Noonan_Peggy.jpg


Pity Party
May 16, 2008

Big picture, May 2008:
The Democrats aren't the ones falling apart, the Republicans are. The Democrats can see daylight ahead. For all their fractious fighting, they're finally resolving their central drama. Hillary Clinton will leave, and Barack Obama will deliver a stirring acceptance speech. Then hand-to-hand in the general, where they see their guy triumphing. You see it when you talk to them: They're busy being born.

The Republicans? Busy dying. The brightest of them see no immediate light. They're frozen, not like a deer in the headlights but a deer in the darkness, his ears stiff at the sound. Crunch. Twig. Hunting party.

The headline Wednesday on Drudge, from Politico, said, "Republicans Stunned by Loss in Mississippi." It was about the eight-point drubbing the Democrat gave the Republican in the special House election. My first thought was: You have to be stupid to be stunned by that. Second thought: Most party leaders in Washington are stupid – detached, played out, stuck in the wisdom they learned when they were coming up, in '78 or '82 or '94. Whatever they learned then, they think pertains now. In politics especially, the first lesson sticks. For Richard Nixon, everything came back to Alger Hiss.

They are also – Hill leaders, lobbyists, party speakers – successful, well-connected, busy and rich. They never guessed, back in '86, how government would pay off! They didn't know they'd stay! They came to make a difference and wound up with their butts in the butter. But affluence detaches, and in time skews thinking. It gives you the illusion you're safe, and that everyone else is. A party can lose its gut this way.

Many are ambivalent, deep inside, about the decisions made the past seven years in the White House. But they've publicly supported it so long they think they . . . support it. They get confused. Late at night they toss and turn in the antique mahogany sleigh bed in the carpeted house in McLean and try to remember what it is they really do think, and what those thoughts imply.

And those are the bright ones. The rest are in Perpetual 1980: We have the country, the troops will rally in the fall.

"This was a real wakeup call for us," someone named Robert M. Duncan, who is chairman of the Republican National Committee, told the New York Times. This was after Mississippi. "We can't let the Democrats take our issues." And those issues would be? "We can't let them pretend to be conservatives," he continued. Why not? Republicans pretend to be conservative every day.

The Bush White House, faced with the series of losses from 2005 through '08, has long claimed the problem is Republicans on the Hill and running for office. They have scandals, bad personalities, don't stand for anything. That's why Republicans are losing: because they're losers.

All true enough!

But this week a House Republican said publicly what many say privately, that there is another truth. "Members and pundits . . . fail to understand the deep seated antipathy toward the president, the war, gas prices, the economy, foreclosures," said Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia in a 20-page memo to House GOP leaders.

The party, Mr. Davis told me, is "an airplane flying right into a mountain." Analyses of its predicament reflect an "investment in the Bush presidency," but "the public has just moved so far past that." "Our leaders go up to the second floor of the White House and they get a case of White House-itis." Mr. Bush has left the party at a disadvantage in terms of communications: "He can't articulate. The only asset we have now is the big microphone, and he swallowed it." The party, said Mr. Davis, must admit its predicament, act independently of the White House, and force Democrats to define themselves. "They should have some ownership for what's going on. They control the budget. They pay no price. . . . Obama has all happy talk, but it's from 30,000 feet. Energy, immigration, what is he gonna do?"

* * *
Could the party pivot from the president? I spoke this week to Clarke Reed of Mississippi, one of the great architects of resurgent Republicanism in the South. When he started out, in the 1950s, there were no Republicans in his state. The solid south was solidly Democratic, and Sen. James O. Eastland was thumping the breast pocket of his suit, vowing that civil rights legislation would never leave it. "We're going to build a two-party system in the south," Mr. Reed said. He helped create "the illusion of Southern power" as a friend put it, with the creation of the Southern Republican Chairman's Association. "If you build it they will come." They did.

There are always "lots of excuses," Mr. Reed said of the special-election loss. Poor candidate, local factors. "Having said all that," he continued, "let's just face it: It's not a good time." He meant to be a Republican. "They brought Cheney in, and that was a mistake." He cited "a disenchantment with the generic Republican label, which we always thought was the Good Housekeeping seal."

What's behind it? "American people just won't take a long war. Just – name me a war, even in a pro-military state like this. It's overall disappointment. It's national. No leadership, adrift. Things haven't worked." The future lies in rebuilding locally, not being "distracted" by Washington.

Is the Republican solid South over?

"Yeah. Oh yeah." He said, "I eat lunch every day at Buck's Cafe. Obama's picture is all over the wall."

How to come back? "The basic old conservative principles haven't changed. We got distracted by Washington, we got distracted from having good county organizations."

Should the party attempt to break with Mr. Bush? Mr. Reed said he supports the president. And then he said, simply, "We're past that."

We're past that time.

Mr. Reed said he was "short-term pessimistic, long-term optimistic." He has seen a lot of history. "After Goldwater in '64 we said, 'Let's get practical.' So we got ol' Dick. We got through Watergate. Been through a lot. We've had success a long time."

Throughout the interview this was a Reed refrain: "We got through that." We got through Watergate and Vietnam and changes large and small.

He was holding high the flag, but his refrain implicitly compared the current moment to disaster.

What happens to the Republicans in 2008 will likely be dictated by what didn't happen in 2005, and '06, and '07. The moment when the party could have broken, on principle, with the administration – over the thinking behind and the carrying out of the war, over immigration, spending and the size of government – has passed. What two years ago would have been honorable and wise will now look craven. They're stuck.

Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they had pushed away for serious reasons, they could have separated the party's fortunes from the president's. This would have left a painfully broken party, but they wouldn't be left with a ruined "brand," as they all say, speaking the language of marketing. And they speak that language because they are marketers, not thinkers. Not serious about policy. Not serious about ideas. And not serious about leadership, only followership.

This is and will be the great challenge for John McCain: The Democratic argument, now being market tested by Obama Inc., that a McCain victory will yield nothing more or less than George Bush's third term.

That is going to be powerful, and it is going to get out the vote. And not for Republicans.

[yongrel]

Peggy Noonan is up to something.

[airborne373]

This is our opportunity, the Republican Party is not dying it is in a metamorphosis. The evil Neo-Con Trotskyite larve is going into the cocoon, and will emerge a bright and beautiful RP Constitutional Republican Party.

Love these articles.

[acptulsa]

Peggy Noonan is up to something.

She's telling the truth. Interesting that Murdoch allowed her to do it.

[Bern]

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[Grandson of Liberty]

Gee, if only there had been a Republican candidate that understood this and tried to get the party back to its core principles. Oh, wait. :rolleyes:

[angelatc]

Right here:


How to come back? "The basic old conservative principles haven't changed. We got distracted by Washington, we got distracted from having good county organizations."

[Badger Paul]

This is why it's important to stay in the GOP and rebuild it and dream it all up again. Because it is there for the taking. Because after 2008, there will be nothing else, no real competing visions.

We talk about dying parties but the GOP has been in rough shape before and has always survived. The Dems too. 1932, 36, 1948, 1964, 1976, 1992 were all bad Republican years but they survived. If a group of Republican politicians defected to another party wholesale, where would they go? The Libertarians? The Constitution Party? Highly doubtful. They would not join such highly ideological organizations. The Republicans were never a true third party, they simply replaced the Whigs. The GOP was organized by northern Whigs and added elements to their ranks like Free Soil Democrats and northern industrialists and northern European immigrants. Without its northern wing and the South turning towards Democratic fire-eaters, the Whig party vanished.

In short, the only way the Republican Party would die is if a whole section of its elected leaders, either in the Midwest, the coasts, the Plains, would simply decide, no more. We're going to form a brand new party and leave the main GOP to die in the South as a regional party. I just don't see that happening.

[slacker921]

Peggy Noonan is up to something.

There's a whole lot of Republicans who would run from the GOP if they heard from the media that it was ok to abandon it. The question is what would they run to? If you start seeing the media answering that question for the masses then you'll see a huge defeat in November for the GOP. And how much would the media like to see a massive shift in power which would create juicy stories for years? eh?

[angelatc]

In short, the only way the Republican Party would die is if a whole section of its elected leaders, either in the Midwest, the coasts, the Plains, would simply decide, no more. We're going to form a brand new party and leave the main GOP to die in the South as a regional party. I just don't see that happening.

The laws on the books favor the Republican party. It is political suicide to try to form yet another unorganized third party.

The Republican party is a top-down power structure, but the people at the top largely came up from the bottom. As the people begin to demand fresh and effective leadership, several things will happen.

The old leaders will retire, rather than face re-election.

The old leaders will come around, and begin to represent Conservative values once again.

The old leaders will migrate to the Democratic party.

It isn't going to happen overnight, but I honestly believe that in time, the party will grow up and come home.

[Truth Warrior]

I've respected Peggy's intelligence since the 80's. I think that she has nailed it on the GOP status, in her article.

[Rhys]

dead nutz. throw in a ron paul will save the day and she might as well have been writing my head.

[HOLLYWOOD]

WSJ's Peggy Noonan is just listening to the right republicans: Ron Paul, Tom Davis, etc.

When are those "GOP PARTY FOSSILS" going to get it? It's about the People and this country, not the "PARTY"

Ron Paul was RIGHT AGAIN! The Republican Party has LOST THEIR WAY...

Isn't it amazing that everyone of the GOP Corporate War Mongers start to "Dilute their Stances" and adapt RON PAUL philosophies and polices. As sleaze ball Huckabee and his inside connected CNN Campaign manager Ed Rollins used all of Ron's Campaign stances to quadruple his vote getting... we see John Lieberman McCain now doing the same... McCain is touting 5 years in Iraq instead of his 100 years...wow, 95 year swing, all of a sudden! But don't worry Johnny, people know if he's in office, that 5 years, 1 year past re-election, will turn to 10 in Iraq, then onward. McCain's tune has changed lately, speeches are now about the CONSTITUTION and CIVIL LIBERTIES with matching backdrops, just like Huck. For the GOP candidates that DIDN'T ADAPT like: Fred Thompson with his granddaughter wife, barking "MUSHROOM CLOUDS" on America soil in speeches and commercials, plus little RED truck gimmicks in his campaign commercials, ended his pathetic pandering campaign... Ghouliani and his, I don't have a lot of money, so I'll spin it as, We're waiting for Florida to save us nonsense!

Ron Paul supporters are the critical thinkers or at least the Pragmatic Ones, and don't buy into the gimmicks or violation of the CONSTITUTION! The founding fathers were SO RIGHT, they realized the abuses of government and how fragile and vulnerable TRUE democracies are, so, the founding fathers put laws into effect to protect the PEOPLE from GOVERNMENT, not government from the people... which is how it's all SPUN today by the GOP!

The problem is what the GOP INBREADING "NEOCONs", National Security Council, the White House, Attorney General (let's NOT forget Alberto Gonzalez), Foreign Interest/Lobbyist, State Depart strategies and what they do... "Hey, LET's do what we want for 3, 4, even 7 years and in the last year, then we'll change our strategies/marketing/sales image and "Throw a Bone" to the public.... oh, don't worry, the public will forget all the bad things the GOP did previously to them and the country. NOT ANYMORE!

The GOP thinks they can institute fear in the public, wrong, Ron Paul told them other wise...

The MSM CORPORATE media thought they could completely blackout the truth... Ron Paul's message is getting through... even to the; thick headed, one way, GOP titans and Leftist fanatics.

The GOP though they could hand massive perks to the Wealthy and Corporations, while the country's standard of living for the masses declines and starves. Noone would notice... Spin "Bad Times" as the Unemployment is low, Very Low (internally revised/fixed) Inflation or it's just tough times, while Washington DC and the insiders "EAT CAKE". thanks Corporations, Lobbyists, Special Interest, Thad Cochran & Gang!

The GOP thought they could spin taking away imported CHEAP drugs up to 90% less, from Canada, UK, France, Europe... passing legislation stating they are UNSAFE, while thousands of Americans are injured or even killed by massive Unsafe Products from CHINA everyday. thanks pharmaceutical/drug corporations & associated Lobbyist and Thad Cochran's "INSIDER legislation!

The US State Depart and Herr "Sword Swinging" George Bush celebrating a birthday and taxpayer monies with Israel/Lobbyist/political Zionists. Hey, what about the other 100+ countries birthdays and their TRUE Democracies compared to Israel multiple subversive infiltrations for GAIN and CONTROL with &/or without the United States of Homeland Security?

Homeland and Fatherland are WAY TOO CLOSE for history to repeat itself.

The GOP's propaganda machine is as old as the 1930's Nazi hoodlums, spinning their garbage, not understanding that people NOW, are capable of critical thought, research, and internet searching/verification and/or passing the truth to others.

The GOP and pro GOP MSM media think with all the Makeup and Lipstick on McCain, Spinning ANTI DEMOCRATIC rumors, instituting fears of all sorts, the GOP NEOCONs can get the fans to bite. Well, the Best Professional Marketing and Sales Corporations cannot conjure-up GIMMICKS and SPINS to help the GOP this year. From the 2006 elections when the GOP MAJORITY purposely, didn't pass any legislation, staling and delaying until after the November elections... BOOM, the people recognized that tactic and voted many GOP OUT. I won't even get into the FED/TREASURY, GOP Monetary policy, Corporate Welfare, NAFTA, CHINA, EMPIRE BUILDING military-industrial complex (MIC)no bid contracts, and INFLATION TAX! The GOP party hands money just as freely as the Democratic Party too, just to different organizations and of course, at the cost of ALL Taxpayers.

So as Peggy Noonan and a few select intelligent republicans (RON PAUL) have been warning all of us, the GOP Elephant has turned itself into a Dinosaur! This has accelerated the GOP ROMAN EMPIRE to come tumbling down!

The people have spoken by word, type, voice, and vote to the GOP... "Not on My Dime or Life!"

The only bad part... the Democrats will take complete control and power in this Washington DC 2 party Political Cess Pool... which is like going from the German SS party to the German SA party. I guess we can just look the 2 party dictatorship as: "The Lesser Of Two Evils".

[stilltrying]

Maybe thats the whole point of GWB and the NWO. To create so much havoc for the GOP by implementing all the bad things GWB has to push people to Democratic party which in principle is way more socialistic in nature and make people believe that its alright so long as its the democratic party without realizing that both sides are pushing for socialism within the USA.
Smoke and mirrors is all it is. GWB has pushed as much as we let him and now its the others parties turn to push some more. Until basically they have implemented full scale socialism/corporatism. Just my opinions as I dont trust either parties as they both scheme like they have to quiet RP.

[The One]

Maybe thats the whole point of GWB and the NWO. To create so much havoc for the GOP by implementing all the bad things GWB has to push people to Democratic party which in principle is way more socialistic in nature and make people believe that its alright so long as its the democratic party without realizing that both sides are pushing for socialism within the USA.
Smoke and mirrors is all it is. GWB has pushed as much as we let him and now its the others parties turn to push some more. Until basically they have implemented full scale socialism/corporatism. Just my opinions as I dont trust either parties as they both scheme like they have to quiet RP.

You came so close to typing the post I was planning that I'm just going to say QFT.

[Cowlesy]

Peggy sure stuck the landing on that article.

[yongrel]

Peggy sure stuck the landing on that article.

Agreed. That makes me suspicious.

[acptulsa]

Agreed. That makes me suspicious.

yongrel suspicious? But you're usually so trusting!

When you figure out what the underlying conspiracy is, be sure to let us know!

[Anti Federalist]

Humbug.

"Save the Party"?

We tried. We threw you a life ring, told you to get in the boats, and you laughed at us, called us paranoid kooks and cranks while saying things like "God himself could not sink this party".

Now they are all thrashing around in the freezing water, dying slowly, and hollering for those of us with enough foresight to stick to sound principles, to bring the boats back and save them.

Fuck 'em says I.

To what end is all this maneuvering within the GOP? To wait another 20-30-40 years to go through the Goldwater-Nixon-Reagan-Bush cycle all over again? To get to where we are now: broke, bloody and bamboozled?

A massive upheaval of some sort is needed, (this could take a multitude of forms that I won't go into right now) in which the old order is swept away, that is the only solution.

[Truth Warrior]

Maybe thats the whole point of GWB and the NWO. To create so much havoc for the GOP by implementing all the bad things GWB has to push people to Democratic party which in principle is way more socialistic in nature and make people believe that its alright so long as its the democratic party without realizing that both sides are pushing for socialism within the USA.
Smoke and mirrors is all it is. GWB has pushed as much as we let him and now its the others parties turn to push some more. Until basically they have implemented full scale socialism/corporatism. Just my opinions as I dont trust either parties as they both scheme like they have to quiet RP.

QFT! :)

[Truth Warrior]

Humbug.

"Save the Party"?

We tried. We threw you a life ring, told you to get in the boats, and you laughed at us, called us paranoid kooks and cranks while saying things like "God himself could not sink this party".

Now they are all thrashing around in the freezing water, dying slowly, and hollering for those of us with enough foresight to stick to sound principles, to bring the boats back and save them.

Fuck 'em says I.

To what end is all this maneuvering within the GOP? To wait another 20-30-40 years to go through the Goldwater-Nixon-Reagan-Bush cycle all over again? To get to where we are now: broke, bloody and bamboozled?

A massive upheaval of some sort is needed, (this could take a multitude of forms that I won't go into right now) in which the old order is swept away, that is the only solution.
Ditto! :D

[literatim]

Anyone want to make a GOP elephant-phoenix logo? :)

[literatim]

Humbug.

"Save the Party"?

We tried. We threw you a life ring, told you to get in the boats, and you laughed at us, called us paranoid kooks and cranks while saying things like "God himself could not sink this party".

Now they are all thrashing around in the freezing water, dying slowly, and hollering for those of us with enough foresight to stick to sound principles, to bring the boats back and save them.

Fuck 'em says I.

To what end is all this maneuvering within the GOP? To wait another 20-30-40 years to go through the Goldwater-Nixon-Reagan-Bush cycle all over again? To get to where we are now: broke, bloody and bamboozled?

A massive upheaval of some sort is needed, (this could take a multitude of forms that I won't go into right now) in which the old order is swept away, that is the only solution.


To what end? To keep the socialists from dominating every aspect of politics. When the Democrats have control of the House, Senate, and White House, they aren't going to make it easier for 3rd parties to get into politics. They will just go on and do what they do until it is clear to the populace that they royally screwed up and then it will be the Republican's turn again to have power. Rinse, repeat.

The GOP is going to down, our goal is to make sure it rises from its ashes as a party that is a good opposition force against the Democrats instead of returning to its current socialist dominated form.

[Anti Federalist]

Rinse, repeat.

Exactly.

Which is exactly why something different needs to be done.

Insanity = doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

[hypnagogue]

I second the motion to let the GOP die. All of the conservatives will have to go somewhere, and we just need to be ready to receive them. Restoration Party anyone? (RP :D)

[Bern]

The r3VOLution is the Pheonix rising from the GOP's neocon ashes. Stay on target.

[Bruno]

She's telling the truth. Interesting that Murdoch allowed her to do it.


Didn't Murdoch give to Clinton's campaign?

[Truth Warrior]

The few very rare and slight differences between the Reps and the Dems is not enough to get any too excited about. Just Tweedledumber and Tweedledumberer, Republicrats and Demopublicans, Frick and Frack, socialist and socialist slightly lighter. There is not even a lessor evil to choose between them. Essentially it's become just a one party "system" overall. They just exchange sides every so often just to keep the mob interested, entertained, confused and above all to just continue playing their "game". War party becomes peace party, spending party becomes fiscally concerned party, strong party becomes weak party,etc. etc. Periodically switcheroo, just following TPTB agenda and script. Grow Leviathan!

The NWO party.

[Anti Federalist]

The few very rare and slight differences between the Reps and the Dems is not enough to get any too excited about. Just Tweedledumber and Tweedledumberer, Republicrats and Demopublicans, Frick and Frack, socialist and socialist slightly lighter. There is not even a lessor evil to choose between them. Essentially it's become just a one party "system" overall. They just exchange sides every so often just to keep the mob interested, entertained, confused and above all to just continue playing their "game". War party becomes peace party, spending party becomes fiscally concerned party, strong party becomes weak party,etc. etc. Periodically switcheroo, just following TPTB agenda and script. Grow Leviathan!

The NWO party.

The democrats take the freeway to authoritarian socialism, the republicans take the secondary roads, so the old saw goes.

But after these last eight years I'm quite sure that old saw doesn't apply anymore.

Every establishment slut in Washington, regardless of party, is on the Autobahn to serfdom.

Serfdom for all of us anyways.

Which is why a "constitutional representative" such as Ron Paul is considered such an oddity within the slut circles of Washington.

[Truth Warrior]

The democrats take the freeway to authoritarian socialism, the republicans take the secondary roads, so the old saw goes.

But after these last eight years I'm quite sure that old saw doesn't apply anymore.

Every establishment slut in Washington, regardless of party, is on the Autobahn to serfdom.

Serfdom for all of us anyways.

Which is why a "constitutional representative" such as Ron Paul is considered such an oddity within the slut circles of Washington.
Lots of serfdom for most of them too. They just don't believe or know it yet. Maybe we can just explain it all to them in FEMA camp. :eek: :D

[WRellim]

Nah, it's not dying, the GOP is committing suicide.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Lots of serfdom for most of them too. They just don't believe or know it yet. Maybe we can just explain it all to them in FEMA camp. :eek: :D

nice link on Serfdom:

http://www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com/serfdom.htm (http://www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com/serfdom.htm)

GOP party's can put as much "LIPSTICK" on these NEOCONNING PIGS, they're all still PIGS.

Though I think the GOP Elephant is Now a Dinosaur... let's see what political artist picks that SPOOF up and runs a Comical drawing.

[liberteebell]

WSJ's Peggy Noonan is just listening to the right republicans: Ron Paul, Tom Davis, etc.

When are those "GOP PARTY FOSSILS" going to get it? It's about the People and this country, not the "PARTY"

Ron Paul was RIGHT AGAIN! The Republican Party has LOST THEIR WAY...

Isn't it amazing that everyone of the GOP Corporate War Mongers start to "Dilute their Stances" and adapt RON PAUL philosophies and polices. As sleazeball Huckabee and his inside connected CNN Campaign manager Ed Rollins used all of Ron's Campaign stances to quadruple his vote getting... we see John Lieberman McCain now doing the same... McCain is touting 5 years in Iraq instead of his 100 years...wow, 95 year swing, but don't worry Johnny, people know if he's in office that 5 years, 1 year past re-election, will turn to 10, then onward. his tune has changed lately, speeches are now about the CONSTITUTION and CIVIL LIBERTIES with matching backdrops, just like Huck. For the GOP candidates that DIDN'T ADAPT like: Fred Thompson with his granddaughter wife and barking "MUSHROOM CLOUDS" on America soil and little RED truck gimmicks in his campaign commercials ended his pathetic pandering campaign... Ghouliani and his, I don't have a lot of money, so I'll spin it as, We're waiting for Florida to save us!

Ron Paul supporters are the critical thinkers or at least the Pragmatic Ones and don't buy into the gimmicks or violation of the CONSITUTION! The founding fathers were SO RIGHT, the founding fathers put laws into effect to protect the PEOPLE from GOVERNMENT, not government from the people...as it is SPUN today by the GOP!

The problem is what the GOP INBREADING "NEOCONs", National Security Council, the White House, Attorney General (let's NOT forget Alberto Gonzalez) and State Depart strategies and what they do... "LET's do what we want for 3, 4, even 7 years and in the last year, then we'll change our strategies and "Throw a Bone" to the public.... oh, the public will forget all the bad things the GOP did previously to them and the country. NOT ANYMORE!

The GOP thinks they can institute fear in the public, wrong, Ron Paul told them other wise...

The MSM CORPORATE media thought they could completely blackout the truth... Ron Paul's message is getting through... even to the; thick headed, one way, GOP titans.

The GOP though they could hand massive perks to the Wealthy and Corporations, while the country's standard of living for the masses declines and starves. NO One would notice... Spin it as the Unemployment is low, it's just tough times, while Washington DC and the insiders "EAT CAKE". thanks Corporations, Lobbyists, Thad Cochran & Gang!

The GOP thought they could spin taking away imported CHEAP drugs up to 90% less, from Canada, UK, France, Europe... passing legislation stating they are UNSAFE, while thousands of Americans are injured or even killed by massive Unsafe Products from CHINA everyday. thanks pharmaceutical and drug corporations!

The US State Depart and Herr George Bush celebrating birthday and taxpayer monies with Israel/Lobbyist/political Zionists, what about the other 100+ countries birthdays and their TRUE Democracies compared to the United States of Homeland Security?

Homeland and Fatherland are WAY TOO CLOSE for history to repeat itself.

The GOP's proganda machine is as old as the 1930's Nazi hoodlums spinning their garbage not understanding people NOW are capable of critical thought, and internet searching/verification and/or passing the truth to others.

The GOP and pro GOP MSM media think with all the Makeup and Lipstick on McCain, Spinning rumors, instituting fears of all sorts, they can get the fans to bite. Well, the Best Professional Marketing and Sales Corporations cannot help the GOP this year. From the 2006 elections when the GOP MAJORITY didn't pass any legislation, staling and delaying until after the November elections... BOOM, the people recognized that tactic. I won't even get into the FED, GOP Monetary policy, Corporate Welfare, NAFTA, CHINA, EMPIRE BUILDING military-industrial complex (MIC)no bid contracts, and INFLATION TAX... the GOP party hands money freely too at the cost of the Taxpayers.

So as Peggy Noonan and a few select intelligent republicans (RON PAUL) have been warning all of us, the GOP Elephant has turned into Dinosaur... The GOP ROMAN EMPIRE IS tumbling down!

The people have spoken to the GOP... "Not on My Dime or Life!"

The only bad part... the Democrats will take complete control and power... which is like going from the German SS party to the German SA party. I guess we can just look at it as, "The Lesser Of Two Evils".


+2008!

Shouldn't you be writing professionally? :D