Republicans' Legitimacy Crisis
Exactly What Do You Stand For?
When did the Republican party become so paranoid ? As noted by Keith Olbermann, a previous Fox "News" employee, Fox just follows the money. So one could understand their pandering to the base, but that's the issue: the Republican base has become little more than a group of militantly-minded Evangelicals whose biggest fears seem to be communism, gays, Muslims, and 'abortionists.' Watching the Republican party in recent days is akin to watching a train-wreck in slow motion.
The party doesn't really know what it's for, it simply knows what it's against. Without a central message, leader, or plan, the Republican party is in danger of slipping even further into irrelevance, with the majority of America waving it off as nothing more than a haven for gun-toting extremists. And if Limbaugh didn't push it over with his pitiful performance, the party is certainly teetering on the edge. Don't even tempt me to discuss the call for Republicans to "tea bag" Obama.
America has always excelled politically because of its unique, self-checking two-party system. But for the system to truly continue as a two-party one, both parties need to be taken seriously. As the Palin family drama plays out ridiculously across American televisions and Hannity pretends to live in constant fear of America turning into a communist state, Republicans' credibility continues to slide.
My advice to Rep. Bachus (and anyone inclined to follow his lead): For your own good, stop talking.
Published by Chris A. Sosa
Independent media analyst with a background in both media theory and technical production, along with political discourse and legislative writing. View profile
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4 Comments
Post a CommentThis is about as uninformed an article as anything I have seen in awhile. The problem with the R. party is they act too much like Dems. They want to be liked. Look back at Reagan. He wasn't trying to bond with Dems, he was showing the differences between R's & D's. As for your assumption that R's, just disagree and are the party of "NO," should we do what Dems want, even when we disagree? We say NO because we disagree with the Dems. If they keep saying this crap, we will keep disagreeing. The D's disagreed with everything Bush did. Did you Lefties wear "the Party of No," mantra for doing it? Of course not - you sword you were on the proper side of every disagreement, just like we do now. And when we toss out the Dem Congress in 2010, you guys will again disagree with everything we do. Big deal!
Is it me or does the Republican party look like it is drowning in it's own excrement? The picture gives a whole new meaning to the term 'grasping at straws.' Great work, Chris! Oh, and someone please tell them to get rid of Rush, any utterance from his lips is nothing but pure insanity.
Sucks being the minority, doesn't it? I'd like to think that since the more Fascist of the Republicans are in such a position, they would learn some form of compassion and respect for others, but far too many modern-day Republicans are so delusional that they are actually destroying their own party (see photo above). I feel for the moderates in the Republican party, as they are more in tune with their party's roots. What the Republican party needs to do is step back and assess where they are headed and ask if this is really the image and ideal they want to portray to the masses.
As a "kid" I was a Republican. What I see today is not the party I knew then. They have run amuck, hijacked by social extremists who apparently have one common thread--they are all very, very bitter. The more and more I listen, the more and more I hear the background rhetoric exclaiming "do as I say, not as I do." Someone explain to me how the working class, the historic arch enemy of the Republican corporate elite, became the base of this party? The masses, allowing themselves be led around by the nose by any Republican willing to acknowledge they exist, are now rooting for the same people they actually despise. That's some smoke (and mirrors).