Pardon My Politics

The Republican Party has a penchant for nominating “nobodies” for President lately. Let us remind ourselves of some recent disasters.

Anyone who really watched the development of the Tea Party movement, as part of the anti-healthcare reform effort, understands that it was a creation of Fox News and corporate funded Right Wing Republican operatives. Despite many claims to the contrary, it brought very few new faces into the political process.

John LeBoutil­li­er, a for­mer U.S. Con­gress­man and a na­tion­al­ly-rec­og­nized po­lit­i­cal com­men­ta­tor, shares his predictions on Iran, President Obama, 2010 mid term elections, John McCain’s angst, Sarah Palin’s increased popularity, the rise of the Tea Party (along with the fall of the Republican Party), and more.

Mem­bers of the GOP pro­pa­gan­da or­gans were ec­stat­ic when Oba­ma failed to get the Olympics for Chica­go. They will howl that Oba­ma is guilty of the pre-??9/11 think­ing un­less he gets us buried in Afghanistan.

A sim­ple look at past cam­paigns and can­di­dates could pro­vide Re­pub­li­cans with the an­swers they need. Elec­tions are a re­ac­tive/chem­i­cal pro­cess – not a con­form­ing/sci­en­tif­ic one – cam­paigns and elec­tions are more akin to a per­son­al ro­mance than any­thing root­ed in loy­al po­lit­i­cal rea­son­ing.

The idea that Re­pub­li­cans need to find new pol­i­cy ideas – or change their mes­sage to en­tice a cer­tain vot­ing block is wrong. Vot­ers de­cide on their sup­port based on what a can­di­date…