Oh, GOP ...

"In recent days, there have been misguided criticisms of this plan that echo the failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis -- the notion that tax cuts alone will solve all our problems; that we can meet our enormous tests with half-steps and piecemeal measures; that we can ignore fundamental challenges such as energy independence and the high cost of health care and still expect our economy and our country to thrive.

I reject these theories, and so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change. They know that we have tried it those ways for too long .... we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can pull together and say that in America, our destiny isn't written for us but by us. We can place good ideas ahead of old ideological battles, and a sense of purpose above the same narrow partisanship."

- US President Barrack Obama, February 5th, 2009.


America's Right - you GOP - can't you see, there's more to life than preserving the 'unholy thee'? Avarice, greed, they are passe. Stop trying to relive yesterday.

Again we find you peddling the culture of "me" - with no concern for the average "we". Time and circumstance have passed you by - shouldn't you now stop trying to make flawed logic fly.

Can't you not make more of this chance by the one who is reaching out to you. Can't you make peace with your broken past - and try to start anew?

Yes this man is threatening the status-quo. But with good reason - he's seen your show. He sees how your ideology did lay waste to that 'American Dream' most will now never taste.

You had your run dealing in fear and hate - is it not time for your self-fish protestations to abate?

By clinging to division and the ways of the past your jeopardizing, again, that you have sworn to vouchsafe. The future.

Oh, America's Right, you GOP, it's time for something true.

After all, this life can't always be ... just about you!

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Rich proves columns need not be poor.

Mr. Rich,

Well said. Amid all the daily pundit-dung and dry drivel that tries to pass itself off as legitimate commentary, your columns consistently demonstrates that all is not lost. Your work proves it's possible for those writers willing to put work into the reflective (rather than reactive) phase of political writing can produce reasoned assessments of the partisan landscape that not only engage the reader, but inform the debate. A rare gift - too bad so many of your contemporaries have not set their sights higher to emulate your model.

If the GOP is serious about resurrecting its bankrupt ideological message it should launch a search to find your conservative Doppleganger to articulate its case. Of course, that assumed the GOP right-wing and its moderates can actually unite and come up with something worth articulating?

In the meantime, keep up the campaign calling for the genesis of a cogent and viable opposition to oppose Obama's policies. Not only is an opposition necessary - but were it to both robust and credible - it could only help shape his priorities in ways that could only benefit his presidency.

Kristol & the GOP: Barking up the wrong tree... again

Kristol,

Your column is going to the dogs.

With nary a mention of the real issues facing the GOP, you again cling to the spurious notion that the US is "still a center right country" by saying the election results weren't really as bad as they could have been? Your tea-leaf reading of the voters reported ideological self-identification is not just weak - its absurd. A loss is a loss, and the GOP's demonstrable failure to broaden its base beyond its mostly white, mostly reactionary, old style republicanism is the real issue. Too bad the best advice you could offer your like-minded brethren was that "it wouldn’t hurt" for the "possible 2012 G.O.P. nominees to begin bringing some puppies home for their kids" to broaden their electoral popular appeal? Absurd.

There is only one thing left to say re: your banal analysis.

WOOF!

Kristol's Vulgus - a Crack in need of a viel.

October 20th, 2008 1:30 am

Kristol, so your joining Joe the Plumber in his crusade? Good luck. The only problem is you share little with this unaccredited plumber beyond your hatred for Obama. However, like plumbers the world over, you too have a stereotypical crack that requires covering up - unfortunately though your duplicitous crack has teeth and has a place of prominence on your visage - vulgus indeed!