You obsessively followed campaign news for months. Now that it's over, what to do? Somebody does not want to go cold turkey. The losers are fighting each other. The network that carries water for the losers is in the middle of it with anchors and reporters taking side. Don't you love Republican infighting with Fox News in the mix?
Frank Rich takes a look at the post-morterm theatre in the Sunday's NYT:
ELECTION junkies in acute withdrawal need suffer no longer. Though the exciting Obama-McCain race is over, the cockfight among the losers has only just begun. The conservative crackup may be ugly, but as entertainment, it's two thumbs up!
Over at Fox News, Greta Van Susteren has been trashing the credibility of her own network's chief political correspondent, Carl Cameron, for his report on Sarah Palin's inability to identify Africa as a continent, while Bill O'Reilly valiantly defends Cameron's honor. At Slate, a post-mortem of conservative intellectuals descended into name-calling, with the writer Ross Douthat of The Atlantic labeling the legal scholar Douglas Kmiec a "useful idiot."
While democrats attempt to solve problems, let them fight each other. Internal fights can be productive if they are on substance. These people are fighting over who "did not know where what Africa was," which makes it comical and really fun to watch. When they are done being silly, a real fight will erupt. Although more about substance it will be fun to watch. They will fight about whether the party needs to move to the center or to Sarah Palin, whether they need to make the next elections against Obama about God, Guns, and Gays since they can't beat him on the economy, or talk about fiscal conservatism with themes centered around Joe the Plumber, Tax and spend liberal.
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Need a break....
"I don't think that they have learned their lesson, yet. I think in the long run, the Republicans are holding on to an America that never existed."
yep
Less taxes, smaller government, end corruption. Sounds great, start practicing it. End corruption in our own damn party first. Show Stevens the door. After that, please tell us how you will fix the roads, bridges, improve education, with less taxes. I would like to pay less, if the quality remains the same. Don't like cheap sfuff.
Right on Alan only they are not going to fix anything if they reorganise except their bank accounts, that all the GOP has ever been for and ever will.
Is the Republican party, or conservatism in general, so bereft of anything intelligent to say that the best they can do is put these (Fox) goons on the air? That the "brain trust" is people like Bill Kristol, AssRocket Hinderaker, or Karl Rove? That the party leadership is people like Fred Thompson, Sarah Palin, or Mike Huckabee?
Despite those who think Obama is some sort of new politics saint or something, his likely cabinet is pretty familiar. That sends out a sign he won't be quite so radical as many Repubs fear and many Dems hope. He is walking into a minefield and with his avowed platform, world situation, and domestic problems-he might be in for some serious cutting down to size. It usually happens to new presidents and Obama is showing no sign of being any different.
LOL!