We know that Republicans are the stupid party…
But apparently they’ve gotten a tad better at countering the “war on women” this election cycle. Good.
My personal observation is that in 2012 the “war on women” caught Republicans flat-footed (what doesn’t?), and it really mattered. Quite a few of my friends/acquaintances seemed to swallow it hook, line, and sinker.
Of course, they were always going to vote Democratic anyway.
I have to disagree that “the Republicans are the stupid party”. Different priorities than its base is the explanation for why the GOP does not more effectively counter the left’s narrative. It is not a lack of intelligence that is responsible for the GOP’s behavior but different priorities, which are first, last and always the maintenance of the financial status quo and the concerns of its big donors.
The GOP leadership has consistently demonstrated that it could care less about limited government, allegiance to Constitutional principles. Its support for comprehensive amnesty speaks volumes. The GOP expressed support for conservatism is simple lip service. Actions still speak louder than words.
A democrat was elected governor in Virginia and young single women voted overwhelmingly for him. They bought the narrative that those evil republicans would take their contraceptives and prohibit abortions. I’m surprised the democrats didn’t claim the republicans wanted to prohibit women from voting, going to school or working outside the home.
“I’m surprised the democrats didn’t claim the republicans wanted to prohibit women from voting, going to school or working outside the home.”
That is the implied subtext of the left’s narrative.
Geoffrey Britain,
Are you sure you’re not an Obama sock puppet — you sound just like him:
“If Republicans win, we know who they’ll be fighting for,” President Obama said on Tuesday. “Once again, the interests of billionaires will come before the needs of the middle class.”
Ann,
I’m confident that if a vote were taken here, I’d be acquitted of the charge of being an “Obama sock puppet”, woman you ‘cut me to the quick’.
I’ve reluctantly reached the conclusion that the single valid charge that the left makes of the GOP leadership is its allegiance to moneyed interests superseding any other consideration. That is in no way an endorsement of the left, just a reluctant conclusion as to the GOP leadership’s motivation.
Geoffrey Britain,
I’m no fan of moneyed interests, but I’d bet those that support Republicans are better than Gwyneth Paltrow and her friends.
I’ve always, sort of, considered the GOP’s support of the moneyed interest as a kind of good politics because we need a moneyed interest against government. Put those two together and individual freedoms disappear. That is today’s scenario: Obama + GM, Google, Facebook = the new fascism. That is why social conservatives can find brook with the likes of utter scumbags found in the likes of Snowden.
But the reason why Republicans normally do not understand the Left is due to the lack of experience with the horrific conditioning that the Left uses and suffers. The Left knows Islam because it is one big dysfunctional family. It starts early.
The Left knows narrative building (lying) because it starts at an early age in the family whether the family is the family, the state, or something in-between.
Normal persons have no reference, not having experienced the traumas, lies and confusion of complete dysfunction (evil). That’s why many “changers” elucidate and articulate the Left having been made privy to their actions.
The story of Cain and Abel is instructive. Cain, although cursed, was given a right to live. It’s a battle this world does not contain. That’s a clue to me that there are other worlds.
The GOP old dons treat the Tea Party like ::
The Democrats treat the Black vote.
IN THE BAG.
BUT… Speeches have to be made.
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There is irony here: virtually every Big Business is aligned with the Democrat party — and has been so since FDR. That’s eighty-years!
Why? It was Big Government that MADE Big Businesses BIG.
No where, and at no time, was this more true than WWII’s defense spending.
The Pentagon famously HATED to deal with small to medium sized contractors. During the crazed build up Marshall and McNair (His right hand and the general that built out the US Army for the war… died in Normandy by mistaken Allied bomb drop.) only had a very limited number of seasoned purchasing officers. Adding on zeros was no problem. Dealing with firms entirely new to War Department forms and procedures was all too much.
GE
AT&T
GM
Ford
Chrysler
ITT
North American
Boeing
Gruman
Martin
Goodyear
Standard Oil
etc.
Every one of them exploded in size.
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All of today’s Big Firms are Democrat:
Google
Apple
Oracle
MSFT
GE
Facebook
Intel
Silicon Valley, generally — it’s a bastion of Democrat votes
GM
Big Insurance
Big Medical
Big Pharma
Big Construction
Big Transport ( Rails, Planes, Barges, Truckers )
Big Ag (as in subsidized ag… Big Ag sucks down all the sugar)
Big Chemistry (as in EPA regulated — industrial chemistry)
Big Spying/ Big Hacking (as in NSA/ Department of Commerce)
^^^ Entire industries are Democrat
The government is either their sole customer — or is almost a monopsony.
The GOP has its base in SMALL business and SMALL farms, some medium sized businesses.
Here and there it has outliers like the Koch brothers.
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As to why the GOP is STILL thought of as the party of Big Business — it must be tradition — and agitprop.
The left are more in bed with the so called 1% than gop. That does not let the gop off the hook for pandering to the chamber of commerce and big ag. The gop will never command the respect and support of Nixon’s silent majority until it openly and enthusiastically embraces basic principles that made us the envy of the world.
expat,
In the main I would agree, which changes the motivation of the GOP leadership not in the least. They are a friend to their conservative base, as long as that base does not threaten their prerequisites. Limited government does threaten the political leverage that great financial resources provides and so the GOP’s behavior reveals where their true loyalties lie. As their behavior toward the Tea Party confirms.
waitup,
When the GOP is in power, are the moneyed interests that support the GOP against the government? I think not, the difference between the two parties is that the democrat elite and their moneyed interests primary motivation is power and promoting the ideology that gains them that power, whereas the GOP and their moneyed interests are in it strictly for their own self-aggrandizement. Their primary allegiance is to regulated enterprise because that is the foundation for their power and political leverage.
The problem for Republicans is that they are unable to reconcile diametrically conflicted positions as well as their Democrat counterparts. Despite the common rhetoric, it is dreams of money, sex, and ego which enable Democrats to support devaluation of capital and labor, displacement and replacement of Americans through excessive and illegal immigration, expansion of science to a universal or extra-universal domain, denigration of individual dignity, and devaluation of human life. Unfortunately, there are not a few Republicans with overlapping and convergent interests.
Finally, abortion is critical to securing the the young, ambitious, typically single female and male vote. Abortion was legalized as a faith-based exemption under the First Amendment. The legal right recognizes the practice of a sincerely held faith (i.e. spontaneous conception) in the privacy of an abortion clinic. It is an right granted exclusively to women so that they may commit or contract for abortion/murder of wholly innocent human lives.
Pro-choice is rationalized with a fraudulent faith and is a tenet of a degenerate religion. A human life is not the product of spontaneous conception, but of fertilization, an observable, reproducible event. A human life evolves — a chaotic process — from conception (i.e. source) to a natural, accidental, or premeditated (e.g. abortion) death (i.e. sink). While human life is not a progressive process, legally and morally, civilized societies distinguish between the three causes of death or sinks. Women have been granted a right to commit murder which exceeds the implicit and explicit rights recognized during the prosecution of a war, and the proscribed rights of criminals.
The Democrats are not only beholden to the so-called “1%”, but also the providers and beneficiaries of the multi-trillion dollar welfare economy, the multi-trillion dollar Wall Street economy, and diverse sovereign interests. They have adopted a degenerate religion (i.e. moral philosophy), which includes doctrines of collective and inherited sin, and, notably, a sanction of human sacrifice, which includes the premeditated abortion/murder of around 2 million Americans annually.
The opiate of the masses, and elites, is dissociation of risk. It is not religion per se, which is a philosophy of morality. In fact, traditional religions require self-moderating, responsible behaviors, which includes respect of individual dignity, and recognition of intrinsic value. The degenerative alternative, not only devalues capital and labor, but also denigrates individual dignity, and devalues human life. The Democratic domain, which is, unfortunately, overlapping and convergent with the domain of not a few Republicans.
CO Senate candidate Cory Gardner and supporting PACs have hit back on the War in Women garbage quite effectively. The ads reprimand his opponent Mark Udall for his insulting and disrespectful assumption that they are single-issue voters. About as close to saying “Stop talking about my ladybits as if it’s the only thing I care about!!”as they can get. It works.
Here’s one – not one of the best, but you get the idea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn5GhW2ajpw
parker:
I think both parties have overlapping and convergent interests. The notable difference is that the Republican base is less comfortable and willing to compromise on issues of individual dignity and intrinsic value than their Democrat counterparts. This doesn’t imply that they don’t in practice, but that while all Republicans oppose or should oppose those compromises in principle, the majority oppose them in practice, too. It makes a Republican hegemony difficult to sustain in a diverse population.
n.n.
Its a matter of a long, difficult journey to educate liv to the basic principles that encourage individuals to strive for success via education, training, a strong work ethic, and the pride to make it on your own with the support of family and friends, not the heavy hand of the ‘slave masters’ of big government. That is the American dream, not the bho dreamers who break our laws with impunity and the encouragement of dc.
There will be a great reckoning after a great fall. Then we shall discover which way the wind blows.
The great fall has probably already happened. It has been the fall of Congress to the Executive and the Judiciary. The lingering power of the Constitution has made that fall less than spectacular and more agonizing. Nonetheless, whether over 100 or 10 years, the fall is the same and cannot be said to reside in any other reason than the fall of the people.
The people looked pretty
milled in their villages
waiting to be organized
and stripped of liberty
so important principles
of equality, fraternity
be made and obeyed.
The winds have changed
our lands; transformations
let the devils
in.
In silence, the sewer
carries the refuse away.
We’ve got another
day.
Perhaps we shouldn’t think of the moneyed interest as being monolithic. We are all aware that the Koch brothers are being painted as the face of the evil rich Republicans. But I would bet that a majority of the super rich support the Democrats. Of course we never hear of those because the media filters all such.
Check the blackmail material the Democrats have on Republicans.
You think they went digging around Sarah Palin’s garbage because she was her? No, they do it to every Republican, but not every Republican is clean or incorruptible.
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Part of the Republican party’s problem is that they accept the Democrat’s ground of attack; if true, this means they are merely Democrat lite.
“The great fall has probably already happened.” waitup
Possibly, arguably but I think not. For while it is being increasingly ignored, the Constitution yet stands and as long as it remains fundamentally unchanged, it remains as the legal basis for reform. As long as the Constitution remains unamended, the left’s triumph is not only incomplete but reversible.
IMO, that is why Obama is pushing so hard for amnesty, and has opened the southern borders and literally invited central America to emigrate here. He’s using the flood of illegal children as political and moral leverage to get Congress to pass amnesty, which will include an ‘expedited’ path to citizenship. He needs Congress to pass it, as an executive order granting amnesty is reversible by any future President and would only have risible arguments against its reversal.
Even more ominously, I suspect amnesty is why he’s refusing to ban direct flights from the West African nations fighting the Ebola epidemic. It’s his ‘fallback’ plan. A pandemic in America would provide the perfect crisis for bipartisan support for a declaration of nationwide martial law. Under martial law, Obama could unilaterally and legally grant amnesty and citizenship to the 15-35 million “undocumented” democrats he wishes to register for the vote.
One way or another, the left has to gain its permanent majority because it is the only legal way to “fundamentally transform” the Constitution, which is the only way to permanently finalize the transformation of this country.
…and then will come Hillary. Can already see it, hear it, imagine it: Victim of Victimhood for Victimization. Yep, those sexist bullies of the Republican Party are just dying to pile on El Plumpo of LiarLand. Baaaaad Reeeeps….!!
The left treats politics as war. The right does not, for many reasons, strategic and otherwise. But it gives the left a distinct advantage, because in war there are no rules…
And I add, to them it is not only war, but a holy war.
In war, you only have to kill an enemy once, even AQ suicide bombers.
In politics, people fight the same people over and over.
The Left merely changes the demographics and spikes your water supply, then you lose half your votes to “poison” coincidentally speaking. That is a permanent demographic change, not merely a temporary cease fire.
Israel keeps putting water on the Palestinian fire, by not wiping out the settlements. Thus they continue to breed fighters every few years, during ceasefires.
War as politics and politics as war, either extreme can be utilized for its benefits or detriments.