In defeat, the Republican Party is a house divided. Operatives, obviously fearful and angry about the possibility of a Palin presidency in 2012, have been leaking explosive rumors and information about her. While the other side of the party is still trying to prop her up as the "new face of the Republican party."
Her own party claims she refused to prep for the disastrous Katie Couric interview. She did not know Africa was a continent or that South Africa was a sovereign nation. They have reportedly flown up to Alaska to repossess that $150,000 in clothing. They have even gone so far as to refer to her and her families as "Wasila hillbillies."
The other side keeps pointing back to the spike in the polls immediately after the Republican National Convention when she was picked for the VP slot. They say she mobilized the Republican base. They say McCain would not have gotten as close as he did without her. And that his defeat was more about the economy than Palin or, quite frankly, his opponent, Barack Obama. Why such cold-hearted attacks against their own party? Why such blind and stubborn clinging to a bad candidate? Well, the Republican Party is split in two. And while the far-right wants Palin, the fiscal conservatives are scared to death and angry.
The fiscal conservatives
Fiscal conservatives are affluent, well educated, small government, deregulation and low taxes folks. These folks, by and large, could care less about gay marriage. They could care less about stem cell research. They believe in global warming but only as long as it doesn't interfere with commerce.
They are often fairly pro-immigration, because many depend on immigrant labor, and they believe in free trade. But I think they also sympathize with immigrants, because they value that pull-yourself-up-by-your-boot straps, first generation "work ethic." On principle, they stand with gun rights, because it means less government interference. Above and beyond all else, they are pocket-book conservatives who have lived, breathed and prospered from supply-side economics.
Folks talk about liberal elitism, but these folks have no love for evangelicals. They went along with the inclusion of the far right, only as a means to win elections, not as a blueprint to governing. These folks have since suffered through the reality of having an incompetent president. And they know it is going to take a stroke of genius, not just competence, to get us out of the mess we are currently in.
These are the Republicans — about 79 percent voted for McCain on Tuesday, while 20 percent voted for Obama — who started to question their party shortly after Palin was tapped.
The evangelicals
Then, there are the evangelicals. These are the folks who really came out for Bush in 2000 and 2004. They are often single-issue voters. They are not wealthy or college-educated. They don't mind big government, as long as it is being run their way. They are pro-life, abstinence-only, gun-toting, small-town folks who vote their "values" to the detriment of all others.
They believe in America in its heyday. They believe America is always right. They don't care how much money it takes, as long as America wins in Iraq, as long as their leaders allow them to hold onto the myth of American supremacy.
Pat Robertson, Bay Buchanan and Newt Gingrich are all ideologues from the far right. They have remained loyal to Palin, and have been hawking the "Thrilla from Wasilla" stock since the beginning. She was their pick. And if they have anything to say about it, Palin will be the ticket in 2012.
The break
The Republicans assembled this unlikely coalition very thinly on a federalist premise, but based on their individual self-interest and collected distrust of "liberals."
The rich folks got their tax breaks and loopholes and the far right got abstinence-only education, conservative judicial appointments and a few well-placed anti-gay marriage initiatives.
But then, the Iraq War didn't end. To date, that is about $569 billion, which I am sure does not sit well with the fiscal conservatives. Then, there was a litany of ethics scandals, not to mention a parade of closeted gay politicians propositioning assistants, pages and men in public bathrooms. This, too, was also a little hard for the far right to digest with their Sunday dinner. Then there was immigration, which really shook the foundation of this unlikely union. Finally, there was the financial meltdown, which has in some ways pitted poor against rich. But it has also really re-affirmed that we need to have people in charge who know what they are doing.
This Palin business is less about Palin than the Republican Party's own identity crisis. What will it be in four years when it emerges from the rubble? Who will lead it, and upon what principles will they lead?
I'm kind of rooting for the evangelicals. If they are in charge, they can kiss the White House and majority rule in Congress goodbye. They will become the Dixiecrats of the 21st century.
Devona Walker is The Loop's senior reporter/blogger.
How do we know that the GOP won’t start to be playing footsie with racists, white supremacists, nativists, xenophobes and producerists in rebuilding themselves to try and make themselves more palatable for the midterm elections in 2010?
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Calm whisper of the praying which heighth of the celebration noise you inform: The Exaggerator (…and forget thou not The Exaggerator Collection)
if that happens – WE’LL KNOW! racists, white supremacist, xenophobes tend to expose themselves rather quickly…
“Essentially George Bush sacrificed
popularity to do what he saw
as the right thing.”
-Andrew Klava writer
Uncommon Knowledge interview
Say what we will –
how many others in our political ‘limelight’
would dare do such a thing.
Stops you in your tracks -doesn’t it?
XTV. REAL is best
“Anonymous” observed:
Now we may be seeing proof of just such a possibility (via Yahoo! News/AP):
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Calm whisper of the praying which heighth of the celebration noise you inform: The Exaggerator (…and forget thou not The Exaggerator Collection)
Sarah Palin a PRESIDENTIAL contender in 2012? I believe the US Media has been kind to her – contrary to what others have said.
She is an empty vessel. Her tongue runs way ahead of her brain. Talks a lot and says nothing. Her body language and mannerisms demonstrate insincerity. No firmly rooted beliefs. Making stuff up as she responds to questions. Ala Katie Couric…
Why does she think she can get away with it? Simply because she knows can. Really TOUGH and PROBING questions in the media? Doesn’t happen much anymore..
As for XTVs’ comment: “Essentially George Bush sacrificed popularity to do what he saw
as the right thing.”
-Andrew Klava writer
Unbelievable! The right thing??? Utterly ridiculous!! Like going to war based on lies and getting 4193 US soldiers killed? Like 1 millon Iraqis getting killed? Like awarding billions in untendered contracts to Dick Cheneys’ Halliburton/KBR?
Now, if we can only get candidates
who are candid about the unsustainablity
of sprawling, oil-drinking, suburban
strip-malls and grid culture?
Even if the oil supply were not
a never-ending problem -which it is –
-a few more decades of fat-ass,
no-culture shit-think will destroy
the planet.
XTV ALERT:
XTV has been spewing so much about AYERS – and low and behold – AYERS was on Good Morning America and confirmed: Obama’s relationship with him is a MYTH. He further said it was a “profoundly dishonest narrative” that was spewed by the Repugnicans (mccain/palin). AYERS further stated he was glad the American people wasn’t convinced of ‘guilt by association’ and those poliTRICKS were rejected.
So, XTV – your assertion is REJECTED. Just like I rejected you.
REJECTED aka dismissed.
BILL (the ‘heir’) AYERS
and his latest comfort-zone fluff-offs
beside the point –
OBAMA failed catagorically to
definitively denounce a man and
a movement that has cost at least
100 million people their lives
–just in ‘peacetime’.
STILL GOING ON TOO—
Obama and the Far Left continues
to baulkconfronting this ghastly and
still unfolding legacy –even now.
-Even as another 2.6 million
are about to die in our fave
creditor’s neighbor and client-state
of communist North Korea.
SO -keep buying into those PC
fluff-offs –it couldn’t matter less
because —REAL —IS.
XTV
Kanuk, the US media is riding the Palin train reck because of ratings, nothing more. If she chooses to break the Republican party in two by running in 2012 then so be it. If she were in any way representative of any political body that I affailiated myself with I would be going to war with them right now. This ass is an offront to reasonable thinking men and an insult to all women. What a joke.
XTV, you still waffling about Bill Ayers?… the election was 10 days ago. Even the political stratigists who manufactureed this distraction have droped it now there is no use for it.
But the ‘XTV’ sheep still goes ‘baaaaaaaa’
REALITY BREAK
Latest reports out of North Asia
that yet another 2.6 million
may be dying in our fave creditor’s
neighbor and communist client-state
of—North Korea.
This item commanded a whopping
half-inch of margin space in
our major ‘free’ ‘news’ papers.
-And not a peep from FOX.
No -there’s no ‘control’ thing
goin’ on. —nah–
Now, is it true ‘The Partridge Family’s’
really reuniting for the inauguration?!!
XTV. REAL —IS
xtv wrote:
“-And not a peep from FOX.”
NOW i understand your PARROTing…and stupidity. you watch Faux News…bwahahahahahha…i bet you look up to Hannity! hahahahahaaaa…..
ok, palin’s desire to run in 2012 is laughable. she just doesn’t understand that nearly half americans found her ‘unfavorable’. that means, we don’t like you. a NO vote for you. NO. NADA. ZILCH. zero. blank. goodbye!
And did you know –
Sen. Biden, though making triple
Sarah Palin’s income -donates
far, far less than she does.
Check it out for ourself –
Thomas Sowell writer
The Uncommon Knowledge interview
(available online)
Further –
-and even I didn’t know Obama
himself allows a close relative
to live in dire poverty in Africa.
It’s kind of like those daytime TV
talk show people who are paid
hundreds of millions annually
to enmesh and enable their addicted
audiences ‘criticizing’ society
at large.
“Honey, they ARE the society —”
-uhuh—-
DO get beyond the PC bubblegum
n’ check out the interview.
xtv
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