The Winter Of GOP Discontent

Elephant army by Ben Harris-Roxas.

The RNC has launched self-help for republicans needing egoboo.  Lame.  John Cole sums up recent GOP failures: 

…America got seduced by the Republican sweet talk, we took them home into our bedroom for some good times, and instead of performance, it turns out the Republicans have a serious case of electile dysfunction. Rather than hold true to their “principles,” they chose to sit on the edge of the bed for eight years and tell us how good it was going to be, and we lost interest and fell asleep.

When we woke up, we realized that…the GOP had kept their word, in a sense – we did get screwed.

Republican government-hating, deregulation-eager, greedy goobers running government? Sucked. Railing about bureaucratic excesses while jiggering internal machinations to line crony pockets? Obama ran on competence, among other themes, because the GOP ran on their own ideological failures and self-dealing corruption.

I’ve enjoyed the GOP mosh pit wallow of finger-pointing excess. Never more so than here:

Norquist’s rebel army is backed by the power gabbers of right-wing talk like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. They blame the Republican catastrophes of 2006 and 2008 on a party that abandoned its values. The party, not its ideology, failed, goes their mantra. It therefore stands to reason that Republicans must return to their core tax-cutting, low-spending ideology, or else die…. 

Do you sense Grover Norquist’s empire crumbling beneath his myriad leadership failures and the stench of his Reed/Abramoff vig connections?  Keep on meeting at Brent Bozell’s house, plotting conservatism’s return to "same as last decades."   

Because nothing says leadership like stagnant repetition of failed ideology, hawking the same loser snakeoil.  Make the dwindling stodgy GOP remnants misty-eyed with faux faded glory.  Paunchy high school jocks still buying rounds on touchdowns past.  Sad.

Except that younger Republicans know this is the path to failure.

There’s an edge of fear of old guard GOP leadership wipe-out.  It’s tradition, after all.  Is the GOP gravy train leaving the station for Grover and pals?  Will it be driven by the egomaniacal Newt remaking himself for a comeback tour?  The Village seems to be setting up the narrative to feed into that with their "center-right" mythos. 

Who does the GOP want to be when it grows up?  The same ole GOP.  Pop yourself some popcorn…

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