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Sinergy -> RE: Clinton got a blowjob! (3/11/2007 6:49:32 AM)
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ORIGINAL: BradleytheKajiru
I laugh because they fight SO hard against Bush, even though it's doing absolutely no good. They consume their lives with hatred for Bush. At the end of 2008, what in the WORLD will they do then? Don't say have a huge party; It will be the last thing that they want to do. They're going to feel a very large emptyness. I was once consumed with a similar hatred. When the person in question was gone, I was at a loss with what to do with my life...
Hello A/all,
Might want to read American Theocracy, BradleytheKajiru. After Nixon, the Republican party lost most of the power they held in our country, with a few exceptions (electing Republican presidents like Reagan and Bush Sr.) where those elected had the support of the "Southern Democrats." However, without having party support in Congress these Presidents were hamstrung in their ability to do much.
So the Republicans went searching for more voters. They ended up courting the Religious Right, who had historically voted Democratic in a bloc known as the Southern Democrats. In the past 30 years, the Republican party has become made up of approximately 40% of these theocratic millenarians.
So the problem the Republicans are going to have in 2008 is that the country (to a greater or lesser degree) has become so disenchanted with the Republican congress and their inability to do things like protect us from slow moving intercontinental airplanes running into buildings, standing water soaking a city, etc., as well as their desire to invade sovereign nations and torture their citizens, etc.
Faced with the results of the Yer Fired election, and trying to find somebody in their party untainted by scandal and with a level of popularity which might be acceptable, the Republicans have had to fall back on the popularity of Giuliani, or the political savvy and machine of McCain, etc. The problem is that all of the Republican candidates who could theoretically defeat almost anybody the Democratic party nominates, is that the Religious Right wont support them. Without that support, the Republicans cannot elect a next president. Nominating somebody acceptable to the Religious Right will be somebody that 60% of the party probably wont support, and who will probably not win anyway.
The party is over for the Republicans. When 40% of their people leave that party and form their own theological party, there will be one major party and a host of small parties in our country.
Where this becomes interesting is (the names escape me, see Rolling Stone magazine 2 issues ago if you are interested) that several of the Religious Right leaders have announced that if the Republican party does not nominate somebody acceptable to them, they will stay home and not vote.
When Gore prematurely announced that Shrub had won, many in the western states where polls had not closed stayed home and didnt vote. The results were a surprising number of Republican school board people, mayors, supported bills, were passed.
Do the math about the results of the next election if 40% of the Republicans refuse to vote.
Sinergy
p.s. As far as your comments about Bush bashing. I endlessly malign his idiotic policies, but I dont particularly have any feelings one way or the other about the person.
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