Re: Bleak numbers for the Grand Old Party....

Christian Williamson <c.willi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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See
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/11/AR20080
11103279.html for a solid argument that Republicans are in trouble in
the presidential race. At the very least George Will points out the
weaknesses of the Republicans this time around even if he doesn't
point out the weaknesses of the Dems when compared to a specific
Republican candidate.

I've always respected George Will's analysis of the political landscape,
though I rarely agree with him. Here he says what I, and others, have
been saying for a long time in this group. The GOP has been sucking on
the wrong teat for too long a time and has lost it's true identity. (I
actually was an early supporter of Barry Goldwater back in 64. But, back
then, I was a callow youth and had not yet had a proper education,
afterwhich I became a Progressive Liberal.) In any case, the republican
party as it exists today cannot stand. I've said it before, specifically
to you Chris, ya gotta change your ways. You are too ideologically
entrenched. You have no flexibility. You can't see that there is
another side of the coin.

Example: Take a coin and hold it out and look at it flat so you only see
the edge. Often, that is the way you look at things. You think that's
all there is. You turn the coin one way and you see a larger object.
Hold it close and you see all kinds of detail. Turn it over. A whole
different picture. And the closer you look at each side the more
differences you see. Look microscopically and there are lots of pits
and scratches. The older the coin, the more wear and more differences
from side to side. And every coin is different. And so with so many
issues in life and very much the way of the Middle East.
.

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