So I awakened this morning at about 3 AM
which is about an hour before I usually arise on a workday, and the first thing I thought about was that for all the machinations of the RW, for all their screaming, spending, cursing, vilifying, exhorting, and screeching, not to mention the lying, stealing, and cheating, this guy was the best that they could do? They MUST have known that this was going to happen: that their candidate was seriously flawed in this manner, for this is the one thing that they understand - fiscal prudence. My God, none other than Rick Santorum begged his constituency to consider that Romney was the "worst" candidate who could possibly run. The stupid MSM took that to mean that the Romneycare would be hung around his neck like concrete, but it was really meant that in general, Romney was the only candidate at that time who was so seriously compromised that he couldn't even make it to the Convention. Gingrich echoed this as well: say what you want about these two miscreants, Rick and Newt, but they knew from whence they spoke on these issues, and they knew that Romney was low-hanging internally-rotten fruit with a shiny skin.
If this were a novel, written in the late fifties or early sixties, one would expect the solid, respectable, knight in shining armor a la young-version-of-Senator-Lugar, to rise to the occasion, but alas! there is no one who fits that description these days and given the nature of the process, it would be almost impossible to establish oneself this quickly and win enough electoral votes against a President whom many Independents feel is "not a bad guy" despite policy differences.
So the Rethug primary voters have painted themselves into a corner, even though billionaires like Adelson essentially TOLD them that this would happen, by heavily backing Gingrich in his case, against the flow of the "inevitable" nomination of Romney. Again, if this were a novel written now, I would be awaiting the Master Stroke...and I would submit that I wouldn't even want to hypothesize what that is at this point. I know what I would write, and it would not be a happy ending for the Nation. Let's hope that once again, the Rethuglicans have overplayed their hand and are simply ignorant enough to lose.
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a lot.
Re-Reading Toynbee(Dominant Minority, etc...not necessarily his predictions...more his Taxonomy)
and using those sunglasses to look at things like this
http://sixthpartysystem.wordpress.com/tag/fifth-party-system/)
Wikiwandering through the history of Political Parties in US History.(Dems as Proslavery...and other things we don't like to think about..."Radical Republicans"...(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Republicans) )
There's Big Changes afoot...likely not to be understood, save in hindsight.
I reckon it's still too soon for anyone named Bush.
Republican Party has done a Christopher Walken, in the Prophesy, where he turns into a flock of blackbirds.lol
They pretend to be unified, and monolithic...and in their messaging/Faux, they are...but the Message, itself is more and more bankrupt. They are Exhausted.
Coup de Grace is indicated.
