REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.
GROUCHO MARX

The Republicans are in full cannibal mode. They are eating their young. Reagan’s 11th commandment is ignored. It is easier to fight those closest to you than to fight your real enemy. It is simpler to demand perfection than to accept a principled compromise. When you have a habit of only talking to those who agree with you, you delude yourself into believing it is because nobody else is important enough.

Some think this is better than their usual state of existence which is the “old guard vs. the tea party” or “neo-cons vs. the religious right” or simply “Republican vs. Conservatives”. I live in a state and city which is and has been for far too long a one party environment. People in New York have not been wooed by a Republican or a Conservative running for President for so long that “Nixon’s the One!” signs are still current. The GOP has written off the state for so long that candidates only come here to raise big money from rich people and then leave quickly in the dead of night before a desperate conservative can beg them for a poster or a lawn sign. In fact the last time they had lawns signs they were reserved for Manhattan which tells you every thing you need to know about how serious they are about winning.

Candidates for lesser offices are expected to fund their own campaigns because the party does not “do that any more”! When they lose they are blamed by the ubiquitous consultants who are forced upon them by the state or city organizations, for not raising enough money to pay the very same consultants who in reality never had a plan for them to win and whom merely wanted to use the campaign for a payday in the first place.

New York is not alone in this regard. The party no longer acts like a 50 state party when it runs a Presidential campaign and it has not learned to reach out to a changing America using social media and old fashion grass roots politics to get their message to those who they rarely if ever, talk to. Part of the GOP’s problem is they have to once again begin to act like a party with a continuous presence in every neighborhood in every city, every suburb and every “Middlesex, village and farm”. People need to know that you care about them in good times and bad and they need for you to listen to them and help them when they are in trouble. Republicans need to put on their “big boy” pants on and start acting like a real party or they will be replaced just as the Whigs were in 1852.

The Republicans have become the “D” party. They feel depressed, despondent, dysfunctional, delusional, divided, decrepit, in denial, dilapidated, and diminished but they are not yet damned, demented or dead.

 

And it’s not as if they are facing opponents who are the paragons of virtue and wisdom. The Democratic Party has historically been the “S” party. What do I mean by that ? Well for starters the Democrats in part or in whole over the years have been the party of:

SLAVERY AND SLAVOCRACY
SECESSION
SEDITION
SEGREGATION
SOCIALISM
SOCIALIZED MEDICINE
SPECIAL INTERESTS
SEQUESTRATION
SECULARISM
SECRECY
SANCTIMONY
SCANDAL
STEALING
STATISM
SEXISM
SECOND AMENDMENT PHOBIA
SPENDING
SURRENDER
SCHOOL FAILURE
SEVENTEEN TRILLION IN DEBT
SEX EDUCATION FOR YOUNGER AND YOUNGER CHILDREN
SARCASM
ANTI SEMITISM

STUPID SO CALLED SUSTAINABLE ENERGY LIKE SOLYNDRA
‘SLIMING” OPPONENTS
SCHADENFREUDE
SCOUNDRELS
SWINDLE
SNOBOCRACY
SOPHISTRY AND
SOVIETISING

They are however, not the party of SHAME since they seem not to understand the meaning of the word after over 200 years of existence.

I mean with baggage like this it should not be an insurmountable task for Republicans and Conservatives to begin again to be competitive and even win elections even with their internal problems! Republicans and Conservatives have a choice to either lead the fight or leave the field of battle so that others may take up the standard to restore this country to its former greatness.

ERLANDSSON