Which raises the following question: Is there a Gooper-in-waiting, yet to reveal itself?

There’s always Larry Craig…

HH: Why can’t John McCain win this election?

RS: Well, number one, John McCain will not get the base of the Republican Party. I mean, there was a reason John McCain collapsed last year, and it’s because he was the frontrunner, and everybody in the Republican Party got a chance to look at him. And when they looked at him, they wait well, wait a minute, he’s not with us on almost all of the core issues

The problem with Rick is that he has a good memory. Just for fun, I went over to Progressive Punch’s summary scores of all Senators. Now, just for the sake of perspective, Democrats always have a PP score of 50 or higher. Usually much higher. McCain scores less than 7. There are about 30 senators who have a more progressive score than he does. BUT his lifetime score is almost 14, more than twice his corrent score. And of course it is those old votes in previous congresses that are emblazoned in Santorums little noggin. Of course, a score of 14 falls in with the raging conservatives such as the dynamic duo from Alaska, Ted Stevens and Lisa Murkowski, but is still far below the score of *any* Democrat.

Bob in HI

Words to live by.

I’ve seen this suggestion before. I’m torn between the idea of being a member of a community and being a writer, a very lonesome profession for the most part.

I try to introduce a note of positivity and hope here and you try to show me the door. I think this is saying something that leads me to wonder if misanthropy is actually a keen observer’s natural end state.

With more sorrow than anger, let me offer you some advice. Keep whining, and you’ll never effect change. Or is it that the psychology we see is that some people are never happy unless they are complaining? There’s plenty of Catskill resort jokes about that phenomenon. And the churches in the nation are full of this fire-and-brimstone whining. Maybe I’m seeing the leftie variant of what a mess human nature is here.

Yes we need to focus more on our issues on the MSM and even at the Lefty blogs.

You are conflating two antithetical means of communication. The MSM is and always will be a propaganda tool for the elites. They will never have the will to tell the truths that are the hallmark of our new, vibrant and shall I say revolutionary internet based Committees of Correspondence, aka, the blogosphere and our other wonderful anti-corporatist websites.

The MSM will never, ever focus on “our issues”. They are designed to make them vanish. Will the Wall Street Journal ever have a Labor News section to match its Business News pages? The jaded among us say “don’t be silly”. The wise among us ask: “There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” (Robt. Kennedy)

OK, we’ll never take the Wall Street Journal out of Rupert Murdock’s bloody hands in my lifetime, but shouldn’t we have a vibrant labor press? It’s easy on the internet.

I’ve come to the conclusion that we aren’t going to tame, cajole, seduce or influence the MSM to be honest or to advocate for citizen’s rights. What we need to do is to simply make the MSM irrelevant to zeitgeist of the era.

We can start by avoiding obsessing over how awful it is, and clear those poisonous thoughts out of our minds as we begin to focus on our issues instead of the bald-tire issues that the MSM flogs. The public is ready for change? Are we?

Fire It Up! Let’s Get Ready To Go!

So, if I can make one plea, let’s see if we can do our part to reduce global whining.

Oh. My. God… Pot meet kettle, Ray.
And the solution you seek is here. You can create your own house and say pretty much what you want, instead of coming in here and instructing us what’s wrong with us.

When I visit someone elses home, I wipe my feet BEFORE I enter.
Words to live by.