Is It Just Me, Or...

[Symarip]

Are we witnessing the implosion of the Republican Party?

Without doing anything, the Republicans have exposed their own rift between fiscal conservatives and social wingnuts. They've basically become a walking contradiction. I keep reflecting on all that's snowballed since the primaries. Let's review:

1. The Righties belly ached over a presidential nominee. All of them were boring and each one represented (and directly contradicted) their 'core'. Romney was a fiscal conservative who masturbated to Bush, but a Mormon (read: Not A Real Christian), Ron Paul a true conservative didn't buy into neoconservatism (he won't make the rich cats richer), Hucklefuck is a religious zealot but well, he's just fucking nuts... Oh, and then there's that old guy - guess he'll do.

2. After clinching the nominee, McCain hits the trail to bore the shit out of people, here and abroad. No one is impressed. He fumbles around the economy and can't even get the factions straight in the Middle East. Needs turncoat Lieberman as a cheat sheet.

3. McCain lies constantly, often contradicting his own past actions and initiatives. Caught often. At least GW was entertaining when confronted on bullshit. This dude is about as captivating as an insurance seminar.

4. McCain uses POW experience to sleep through candidacy. Enough said.

5. Meanwhile, Ron Paul chooses to have his own convention same week as RNC and gets a fair share of publicity.

6. Meanwhile, Bob Barr, a former Republican, runs as a Libertarian and gets a fair share of publicity.

7. McCain is forced (I believe) to pick a female wingnut as a running mate to unite factions within fractured party. Though secretly still has his heart on Lieberman. If this was the 80s and Joe and John met on TV, Chuck Woolery would be saying 'I think we've made a love connection.'

8. Unite? HA. This lady has more baggage than Samsonite. Turns out, she really is adding color to an otherwise boring candidacy. That color? Blood red! She's killing any chance McCain has of reaching out to the moderates and indies. Oddly enough, the fundies love her and have already latched onto the idea of President Palin with full hooks. Dropping her would kill the only chance gramps had at capturing core Right Wing Social voters.

9. Speaking of President Palin, the very idea of nominating her kills any arguing point of the oppositions 'lack of experience'. McCain wins no crossover votes with Dems whatsoever, even Clinton worshippers (all 3 of them).

Has anyone noticed that in all this, not once has Obama had to lift a finger? Forget inspirational speeches and hope and all that business - this shit is self-inflicted. They've fallen on their own sword and no amount of backtracking can put a bandaid on their fundamental problems, the biggest being The Republicans Are At War With Themselves.

Feel free to add reflecting points. These are just the ones on my mind at the moment. I'm sure there are more.

[Orsino]

1. Just a reshuffling.

There's too much money at stake for a reorganized Republican Party not to suck up to it. Count on their return, freshly rebranded, for the 2010 effort to take back Congress and impeach President Obama.

[NightWatcher]

2. the repuke party has walked away from it's past and run towards fundamentalism

and the fundies are nothing to base your beliefs on

[holiday]

3. for once they are in war with themselves.. even convention is messed up

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[blondeatlast]

4. The RNC seems to be following the RW "entertainers" like rush. Kerry said something along

those lines yesterday re the Palin pick.

NO LEADERSHIP.

[givemebackmycountry]

5. Look at their convention...

I'm watching MSNBC - remember last week when crowds were lined up just to watch Tweety?
Cheering and yelling, "Yes we Can"!
There is NO ONE THERE today.
It's empty.
NO-BODY is there.

Our convention was so exciting, so fresh, so much FUN.
The crowds, the music, the city was turned upside down with excitement.

The Neo-Con fest 2008 convention has all the excitement of a bowl of Grape Nuts.

How telling.

[lutherj]

6. At last they've done to themselves what they have done to the country.

These idiots are so maddened with greed their brains are red. They're like bank robbers caught brawling in the bank vault.