Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, contends that the GOP is too tied to Southern Republicans. Columnist Kathleen Parker, herself a Southerner, agrees. “It is true that the GOP is fast becoming regionalized below the Mason-Dixon, and becoming increasingly associated with some of the South’s worst ideas,” she wrote. Parker noted a poll showing how only 47 percent of Southerners think Obama was born in America. “Southern Republicans, it seems, have seceded from sanity,” she wrote. But she also recalled how the GOP has been pandering to Southerners for decades, noting Nixon’s Southern political strategy. “Before the party of the Great Emancipator can rise again,” she said, “Republicans will have to face their inner Voinovich and drive a stake through the heart of old Dixie.”
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Only 47% of southerners aren’t birthers? Amazing.
Maybe the confederate flag should be the national symbol for the birther movement.
Are those 47% of southerners also AGW science deniers?
http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2009/08/open-thread-88-3/comment-page-1/#comment-634676
Kathleen Parker is a crow in a cornfield – annoying, a pest and of no use.
William F. Buckley embraced the inclusion of the Dixie-Crats, they both found in the other shared thoughts on race and Society. With the growth of the Evangelicals within the South and the Republican party it is natural that both would turn the party away from its core beliefs to that of their own. The focus becoming not on the proven facts and realistic evaluation to ignoring facts that do not support their agenda and going not on what is provable or disprovable to going on what they believe. If they do not like reality they will simply operate on their own reality.
I think they should stubbornly cling to the past, demand the rest of the population come back to their way of thinking!
When I think of the regional party that almost doesn’t exist outside the deep south, I think of the story about the Mom watching the regiment her son belongs to march past the parade son. She exclaims proudly, “Look, everyone is out of step except my son!”
s/b — march past the parade stand
That’s another area the Republican Party should cling to — if a mistake is made, never admit it! Admitting mistakes, or even reevaluating is a sign of weakness!
Ten Telltale Signs of Republicanism –
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Ten-Telltale-Signs-of-Repu-by-Bob-Burnett-090807-461.html
lindainks55
Posted August 8, 2009 at 10:37 am | Permalink
s/b — march past the parade stand
That’s another area the Republican Party should cling to — if a mistake is made, never admit it! Admitting mistakes, or even reevaluating is a sign of weakness!
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Not true.
From my own point of view, I always thought invading Iraq was a mistake and still do. With that said, there has been some good to come out it and I’m sure Iraqi people that now have their freedom appreciate the effort and sacrifice.
You or I don’t know the answers to everything.
Sometimes history brings the best perspective.
Sometimes history gets skewed when viewed through ideological vision.
You know what could move most areas of contention beyond contention and into action? If we the people could form a consensus, actually have a productive dialogue and compromise. Then together hold our elected official’s feet to the fire. End the days when they count on us not paying attention. Not allow them anonymity and partisanship.
In order to reach a working compromise one must look at both ends, understand well enough to choose the best from both and come up with a better that respects both sides. But today we’ve turned on one another to an extent that reevaluating is like throwing fresh blood to the sharks that want to prove we were wrong. No one is right if we’re stuck! My most fervent political wish is that we could get to a point where we don’t need someone / anyone to be wrong.
Let’s look at the town hall meetings meant to address health-care reform. If either side was sure the information they’ve been given is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth there would be no fear in hearing what the other side has to say. There would be no need to shout down potential questions and their answers. We’d be looking to pay more rental on the hall while our discussion went way past the hours thought to be needed so everyone could get all the information and answers needed to erase fears and anger. If the government was screwing us we’d all know it. And we’d know the direction to go to change that. But if the meetings meant to deliver information and offer question sessions turn into brawls none of us has the opportunity to hear anything. And we’re stuck with what Congress does on our behalf.
In my memory this is the first time the party that suffered election losses didn’t work harder to come up with alternate positions, plans, policies that would showcase what they would do differently. This was always in the past the way back to political power — my plans and policies would be THIS, which is better than THAT.
Instead, we have anger, hate, fear, blame.
The closest we have to an opposition in health-care reform is the blue-dog Democrats. The Democratic Party is doing ALL the work of both the majority and the minority parties on this issue.
Tax cuts was the only opposing policy on keeping our economy from falling into a depression and starting the long road to recovery from the deepest recession since WWII.
Those are some of the reasons the Republican Party has become a regional party. We need a strong (minimum) two-party system and we need all the ideas we can get. Until there are alternate plans there isn’t even the potential for taking the best from both to come up with better.
As a Georgia native I remember all too well Jim Crow and forced Protestant prayer in public schools. I have watched as many ‘Dixiecrats’ changed party affiliation from D to R; it was then that I changed MY party affliation from R to D.
Republicanism is equal to McCarthyism anymore. Fear, hatred, loathing.
I watched a comedian on tv last night saying politics today is like if my friend and I went elephant hunting, and the elephant fell on them, trapping them underneath it. Instead of them both working to figure out how to get the elephant off of them, they’d lay there for 12 hours arguing about whose idea it was to go elephant hunting.
Political_mama
Posted August 8, 2009 at 5:39 pm | Permalink
Republicanism is equal to McCarthyism anymore. Fear, hatred, loathing.
I watched a comedian on tv last night saying politics today is like if my friend and I went elephant hunting, and the elephant fell on them, trapping them underneath it. Instead of them both working to figure out how to get the elephant off of them, they’d lay there for 12 hours arguing about whose idea it was to go elephant hunting.
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Bad platitude – Elephants are the Republicans’ friend. :)
Now, if we were talking about a Jackazz for a party mascot – well you know – they are known to be stubborn, stupid animals. :)
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No, wait a minute. It looks like two geese gazing.
Hold it. I now see a couple Great Lakes bordering …
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Palin emerging ane re-inventing herself as the spokeswoman of the ‘Deathers’.