Two imminent deaths have been predicted this week, though, we think the demise of both have been greatly exaggerated.
Article here from Ezra Klein (we found it while bumping around Blue Crab Blvd. aka Prelate to the Primates) who lays the possible downfall of the Democrat Party at the feet of Bill and Hillary. The performances of both lately are starting to turn-off even the most ardent of supporters, particularly when viewed in the context that a Hillary win in the general election means Bill is back in the White House.
Aside from the person of Bill Clinton possibly being the First Man(?), we’ve believed all along that Hillary’s biggest obstacle to winning the Presidency was the simple fact that her time in office would represent 24 straight…. 24 consecutive yrs. of either a Bush or Clinton in the White House. tee-hee. sorry, we couldn’t resist. As Americans, the skepticism and distrust of political dynasties is encoded in our DNA and as such her biggest opponent won’t be whoever the Republican candidate is but the collective national aversion to a quarter-century of two-family rule.
Peggy Noonan opines here of the collapse of the Republican Party at the hands of President Bush. Noonan writes: “George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues.”
Again, we enjoyed both articles and agreed to a large extent with both but the two parties aren’t going anywhere. Some personnel shake-ups, some “re-branding”, and perhaps even some gut-wrenching ideological warfare for the “soul” of the Parties are most likely. As (R)s, we believe the last action is one that is long overdue. As Reagan conservatives in Goldwater trim, there has been disgustingly little to distinguish the people we voted into office from their Demo
crat counterparts.
Article here from Ezra Klein (we found it while bumping around Blue Crab Blvd. aka Prelate to the Primates) who lays the possible downfall of the Democrat Party at the feet of Bill and Hillary. The performances of both lately are starting to turn-off even the most ardent of supporters, particularly when viewed in the context that a Hillary win in the general election means Bill is back in the White House.
Aside from the person of Bill Clinton possibly being the First Man(?), we’ve believed all along that Hillary’s biggest obstacle to winning the Presidency was the simple fact that her time in office would represent 24 straight…. 24 consecutive yrs. of either a Bush or Clinton in the White House. tee-hee. sorry, we couldn’t resist. As Americans, the skepticism and distrust of political dynasties is encoded in our DNA and as such her biggest opponent won’t be whoever the Republican candidate is but the collective national aversion to a quarter-century of two-family rule.
Peggy Noonan opines here of the collapse of the Republican Party at the hands of President Bush. Noonan writes: “George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues.”
Again, we enjoyed both articles and agreed to a large extent with both but the two parties aren’t going anywhere. Some personnel shake-ups, some “re-branding”, and perhaps even some gut-wrenching ideological warfare for the “soul” of the Parties are most likely. As (R)s, we believe the last action is one that is long overdue. As Reagan conservatives in Goldwater trim, there has been disgustingly little to distinguish the people we voted into office from their Demo
crat counterparts.
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"In loving memory of... The two party system".
Pour a little out on the ground for our fallen homies, and marvel at the evolutionary miracle that "compassionate evolution" hath wrought, a creature half elephant, all ass, coming to both sides of a ticket near you!
Maybe this is the opening that the Whig party was looking for to launch a comeback?
T-Jeff, I'm interested to see how this all plays out but as I stated, I think its an incorrect prediction.
After the '64 election the Republican Party was left for dead. As it turned out, it was that very ass-kicking that allowed for a transformation within the Party to where a synthesized Conservative ideology became the dominant force in the Party right up until about '02 or '03.
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