Are the profiteers all that are left? Ben relishes the self-promotion of one who will go nameless or the other who will go nameless but US conservatives seem to have fallen to the point that these are all there is left. In late 2004, I posted a few half based things about recovering the moral majority and one of the key points was to a regain a communications strategy on message. Obama may have done that with the hope, with the change and now well see how all that plays out in these the days of just the spare change. But those who go nameless are now pinching the last few coins, an echo of the departed, the voices of the hollowed hollow men, those who gifted the globe economic collapse. Having been built up by the cause they have nothing left once the cause is gone - and aren't they, in fact, now more a barrier to the cause? The Flea doesn't see it yet but no one would imagine Bush debating Michael Moore in 2003 out of some confused idea that promoting another's self-promotion equates with national debate. The converse, especially after the collapse, is far less appealing. As Cheney would know, no one debates clowns.
So, how will they be asked to leave? When will their inertia leave them bound to Newton's first law, still drifting along but slowly further away, receding after the tack turns the boat around? Who will be the spokes-folk for the next conservative agenda?
Comments
Hans - March 10, 2009 10:25 AM
Bye bye, shrieking losers!
Alan - March 10, 2009 10:33 AM
Yet, there is a valid conservative position. It has been long lost. Lost to the cause itself. Fiscal prudence small or local government and self-reliance are vital values worth fighting for in the overall discourse. In many ways "conservative" has been co-opted by the profiteers and the authoritarians so that it is hardly recognizable.
Ben (The Tiger) - March 10, 2009 10:56 AM
Your concern for us is truly touching.
Hans - March 10, 2009 10:57 AM
I couldn't agree more.
Hans - March 10, 2009 10:57 AM
With Al, I mean.
Alan - March 10, 2009 10:58 AM
Well, I would not go on about a topic out of spite, would I?
Plus, I am fairly certain I reject the idea of "us" in this context. Conservatism is a tendency in principles, not a homogenized political movement. Hence the success of the Republican party being based on a coalition of separate groups. It is not like trade unionism or being a fan of the Yankees.
Alan - March 10, 2009 2:37 PM
A good discussion of the underlying malaise within the GOP that results in the current coup attempt by the pipsqueeks.
new guy jay - March 10, 2009 9:55 PM
Axelrod ordered it, Carville Begala and Stepanopoulous launched the attack. When the only sustained non-contradictory communications strategy coming out of the Whitehouse is an attack on a radio talk show host, it ain't the cons in trouble.
Alan - March 10, 2009 10:45 PM
And propped him up on the stage at CPAC? Oh dear. And no hand puppetry so identify yourself somehow or you'll be deleted.
new guy jay - March 11, 2009 12:01 AM
I lurk a lot. That was the first post here ever and one of the very few I have ever made. I came here from Tiger's where I have made only a couple of posts as far as I can remember.
Sock puppetry? Deletion? What? The bit about Axelrod is from the New York Times. I made a pretty bland observation and you jump all over me.
Alan - March 11, 2009 12:03 AM
No, you are a hand puppet. No email link? No real name??? Confess! Plus, you seem to think Stepanopoulous squeezed Rush into the black jumpsuit at CPAC. Confess!!!
new guy jay (Jack Marshall) - March 11, 2009 2:27 AM
Your'e just trying to confuse me with technobabble, aren't you? I know that email address is right cause thats the one Macleans is spamming me with right now. And I only sock puppet for the "the pox on all your houses party" . Of course Stepanopoulous didn't have anything to do with rush's suit. Next you will accuse me of believing that Jonah swallowed the whale.
Besides, it's Carville bragging that his polls revealed rush as the second most hated man in the universe. Bush, Rush only need a couple of pieces of tape to change the signs. A great savings, that.
Actually I thought I'd play this like an episode of House and throw up a diversion to divert from your diversion.
How do you think it will play in Peoria when it sinks in that with all the talk of trillions in bailout funds and nationalizing the banks to prevent the collapse of civilization, Citibank just said, oops never mind we're making a profit?
Alan - March 15, 2009 5:16 PM
More conservative confusion! I suppose I would be more on top of this stuff if I cared.