What is that I smell? Could it be desperation? Is it panic?
Could it be the pontifications of a Charlotte Observer associate editor?
Peter St. Onge once again feels compelled to lecture
Republicans and the Tea Partiers about their extreme views. He believes we need to become more “mainstream”
more “moderate.” Basically, he wants us
to become more like him and his progressive minions. And if we don’t change our ways, Romney could
lose the election.
Today’s Republican leaders, though,
gave into the worst among them. Frustration with big government may have
launched the tea party in 2009, but the movement flung open the doors to all
anger, even that which previously lived on the fringe. Offensiveness went
mainstream, and instead of imagining the long-term consequences that might
bring, Republicans leapt at the short-term energy. They joined the crowds
demonizing Obama. They entertained questions about his birthplace. Joe Wilson
yelled “You lie!”
So fearful are some Republicans of
the far right that when a stage full of GOP candidates for president was
famously asked last year if they’d increase taxes one dollar in exchange for
$10 of spending cuts, not one dared raise a hand. Moderate Mitt Romney was among
them, of course, and he’s since invited people to dinner with birther Donald
Trump and told rich fundraisers what they wanted to hear about 47 percent of
Americans. His lurch back to the center was bound to set eyes rolling.
If Romney loses this remarkably
close election Tuesday, some Republicans will insist it was because he wasn’t
conservative enough. But Romney already had the votes to the right. The ones he
lost this election included moderates repulsed at the thought of aligning
themselves with what his party has become. Maybe the best thing that can happen
for them – for all of us – is for extremism to lose, and for hate not to be –
as it never should – a winning strategy
I just want to thank Mr. St. Onge
for his faux concerns. As for hate not
being a winning strategy, maybe he should address his leftist rag of a
paper. An example is the above cartoon
which was published in the Charlotte Observer.
The only thing missing is the noose. Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/11/02/3640637/the-self-inflicted-republican.html#storylink=cpy
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