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Why the Republicans Are Smarter Than the Democrats Patricia V. Davis |
...Well, at least their strategists are. Why? One only has to look at the candidates for
the 2008 presidential election to figure out the answer.
It’s no secret that more than 70 percent of Americans (and clearly this includes many
registered Republicans) are, to say the least, “disappointed” with the current
administration. Oil and food prices are up, the U.S. economy is tanked, and people
are getting mighty tired of “Code Orange” propaganda with no end in sight. In fact, a
poll shows many Republicans are now convinced that this administration does not
represent their party beliefs at all.
With that sort of testimonial, one would have thought that a Democrat for the office
of president was a shoo-in come election time. And clearly that’s what the Republican
strategists thought. That’s why they handed us party candidates who were, they
assumed, more than unelectable. Don’t kid yourself- they didn’t imagine for one
minute that John McCain had a chance at becoming the next president. He’s arrogant,
he’s got a bad temper for which he is famous, he’s sided far too many times with the
most liberal Democrats in Congress, (which has made him a pariah with some of his
constituents) he was one of the five senators involved in the Keating Savings and
Loan corruption scandal, and even more troubling than these, he’s old and we’ve
already had one senile old Republican president in office. Apart from all of that,
nobody likes his wife. She smacks of ‘trophy.’ She’s far too young for him, and far
too rich for most Americans. (All reasons why Vogue magazine put her, and not
Michelle Obama on their cover. Vogue loves rich, blonde, ‘trade-up wife’ imperialists.)
Despite all this, John McCain will be the next United States president. Count on it and
plan for it. And the reason for that is, the Democrat strategists are dumb, dumb,
dumb. They are so out of touch with who Joe Average American is. They don’t know
his perceptions, and they don’t consider his fears, or, for that matter, the fears of
Mrs. Joe Average. And fear is what’s running American politics these days.
So when the Democrats had a chance --- hell, more than a chance --- the Republicans
handed them this election due to the incompetence of this last eight years --- did they
take advantage of it? Did they run any viable candidates for the average American,
including those Republicans who’ve been disenfranchised and disenchanted by the
Bush Administration?
Nope. They gave us Hillary, Edwards, and Obama. To anyone outside of the United
States, these all might seem like perfectly fine candidates. But as someone who lives
inside the country, I can tell you why none of them would be acceptable to Americans.
Let’s discuss Edwards first. His wife lamented that he was losing the candidacy
because he “wasn’t a female or black.” Wrong. The fact that he’s white and has a
penis, were two things that worked in his favor. The fact that only last election he was
John Kerry’s running mate worked against him. Maybe Edwards could have
eventually lost the stigma of ‘loser,’ if he’d waited a few more elections. But
Kerry’s limp performance against George Bush in the debates is still fresh in the
mind of most Americans. Think about it--- how in hell does an intelligent man like
Kerry, a veteran, for godssakes,
let a person like George Bush, who’s Daddy’s oil money kept him out of Vietnam,
revile his war record? If Kerry couldn’t stand up against a smear campaign, Kerry just
couldn’t run a country. And Edwards was his running mate. Too bad for Edwards. But
like John Kerry, John Edwards miscalculated people’s perceptions. Edwards needed to
get the taint of 2004 off of him before he ran again. So, that’s him out.
Then there was Hillary. My --- weren’t Democrat women excited that a female was
running for United States president? And that’s all they saw ---Hillary’s sex. What
they didn’t even consider was the country’s perception of Hillary herself. ‘Sex’ is the
word, all right. She’s not feminine enough by the media’s criteria, but she was
‘wimpy’ enough to let Bill cheat on her. I might not agree with either of those two
statements, but the average American does. Just visit chat rooms and listen to how
she’s referred. ‘Sex’ is the word again – a disgusting, demeaning word for the female
sex is Hillary's nickname. How this character assassination gained legs is sad, but
nonetheless, it should not, by any means, have been dismissed by Democrats. I’m not
saying she shouldn’t have run for president, I’m saying there should have been
damage control done the moment Bill was out of office. With most people, everything
is perception. If Americans perceive they are in danger from terrorists, they will act
accordingly. If they perceive Hillary as an unfeminine, immoral, but weak-willed
woman, who ignored the fact that her husband couldn’t keep it in his pants, and did so
for self-aggrandizement of her own; if they perceive of her as a liar and an
opportunist, whether that is the case or otherwise, well, who wants a woman like that
for president? Oprah Winfrey, who is both black and female, would have had a better
chance at getting the nomination than Hillary had.
If I can logic this all out, why couldn’t the Democrat strategists?
Now we have Obama remaining. And he is “young, gifted and Black.” But is he
‘Black’ enough to win? What do I mean by this? I mean, will he get the Black
American vote? I doubt it. Black Americans are their own worst enemies, the worst
racists, because they judge their own race by level of dark skin tone. I.e-
classifications like ‘redbone,’ ‘yellowbone.’ Obama has a white parent. He was
educated in a ‘snooty’ school. Does this make him unelectable to some Blacks?
Pathetically, it just might.
And what about those of us who don’t use terms like ‘redbone’ and ‘yellowbone,’ or
might not even know what a ‘Melungeon’ is, and which groups among a group despise
them for being who they are? Are there enough liberals among us, who, since they
can’t vote in a different sex as president in this election, will at least vote in a
different race, on the merit of race alone? After all, on what else can we judge
Obama? He hasn’t been in politics long enough to have any kind of a track record.
Nonetheless, I’d be the first one to jump up and cheer if the 'old boy network' of
politics were broken in this election. But, I already know I'm not going to be cheering.
Because, to the average American, our ‘safety’ is at stake. Joe wants an ‘experienced’
president, a president who knows how to keep us “safe from terrorism.” Failing that,
they at least want a president who’s not going to raise their taxes. At the end of the
day, that’s what it will come down to --- Mr, and Mrs Joe’s pocketbook. And using the
same dumb strategists, Obama has already shot himself in the foot by saying he’s
going to raise the taxes of the one group whose vote he desperately needs.
Duh.
So, here’s my cynical prediction for the next four years. John McCain will be
president. But since he is disliked by so many Republicans in Congress who never,
ever thought Democrats would be stupid enough to let him get elected, he will be as
ineffective a president as Jimmy Carter was when his fellow Democrats didn’t expect
him to get elected, either. But in a very similar situation, Carter was elected, and
Congress, in a fit of pique, made him as ineffective as they could manage. When
McCain gets elected, he will have no friends in Congress. Never doubt that the first
lined up to see him fail will be the Republicans in Congress, for sure. They will vote
against him every time, if he even tries to get the country on a better track. Nope, the
best John McCain can hope to do when he becomes our next president is keep us at
war with Iraq, strut around with his pretty wife, and eventually tell his grandkids that,
wouldn’t you know it, it’s impossible to believe, but, yes, he was once actually
president of the United States. As if that means anything any more.
That is, if he doesn’t go senile.
June 2008
the 2008 presidential election to figure out the answer.
It’s no secret that more than 70 percent of Americans (and clearly this includes many
registered Republicans) are, to say the least, “disappointed” with the current
administration. Oil and food prices are up, the U.S. economy is tanked, and people
are getting mighty tired of “Code Orange” propaganda with no end in sight. In fact, a
poll shows many Republicans are now convinced that this administration does not
represent their party beliefs at all.
With that sort of testimonial, one would have thought that a Democrat for the office
of president was a shoo-in come election time. And clearly that’s what the Republican
strategists thought. That’s why they handed us party candidates who were, they
assumed, more than unelectable. Don’t kid yourself- they didn’t imagine for one
minute that John McCain had a chance at becoming the next president. He’s arrogant,
he’s got a bad temper for which he is famous, he’s sided far too many times with the
most liberal Democrats in Congress, (which has made him a pariah with some of his
constituents) he was one of the five senators involved in the Keating Savings and
Loan corruption scandal, and even more troubling than these, he’s old and we’ve
already had one senile old Republican president in office. Apart from all of that,
nobody likes his wife. She smacks of ‘trophy.’ She’s far too young for him, and far
too rich for most Americans. (All reasons why Vogue magazine put her, and not
Michelle Obama on their cover. Vogue loves rich, blonde, ‘trade-up wife’ imperialists.)
Despite all this, John McCain will be the next United States president. Count on it and
plan for it. And the reason for that is, the Democrat strategists are dumb, dumb,
dumb. They are so out of touch with who Joe Average American is. They don’t know
his perceptions, and they don’t consider his fears, or, for that matter, the fears of
Mrs. Joe Average. And fear is what’s running American politics these days.
So when the Democrats had a chance --- hell, more than a chance --- the Republicans
handed them this election due to the incompetence of this last eight years --- did they
take advantage of it? Did they run any viable candidates for the average American,
including those Republicans who’ve been disenfranchised and disenchanted by the
Bush Administration?
Nope. They gave us Hillary, Edwards, and Obama. To anyone outside of the United
States, these all might seem like perfectly fine candidates. But as someone who lives
inside the country, I can tell you why none of them would be acceptable to Americans.
Let’s discuss Edwards first. His wife lamented that he was losing the candidacy
because he “wasn’t a female or black.” Wrong. The fact that he’s white and has a
penis, were two things that worked in his favor. The fact that only last election he was
John Kerry’s running mate worked against him. Maybe Edwards could have
eventually lost the stigma of ‘loser,’ if he’d waited a few more elections. But
Kerry’s limp performance against George Bush in the debates is still fresh in the
mind of most Americans. Think about it--- how in hell does an intelligent man like
Kerry, a veteran, for godssakes,
let a person like George Bush, who’s Daddy’s oil money kept him out of Vietnam,
revile his war record? If Kerry couldn’t stand up against a smear campaign, Kerry just
couldn’t run a country. And Edwards was his running mate. Too bad for Edwards. But
like John Kerry, John Edwards miscalculated people’s perceptions. Edwards needed to
get the taint of 2004 off of him before he ran again. So, that’s him out.
Then there was Hillary. My --- weren’t Democrat women excited that a female was
running for United States president? And that’s all they saw ---Hillary’s sex. What
they didn’t even consider was the country’s perception of Hillary herself. ‘Sex’ is the
word, all right. She’s not feminine enough by the media’s criteria, but she was
‘wimpy’ enough to let Bill cheat on her. I might not agree with either of those two
statements, but the average American does. Just visit chat rooms and listen to how
she’s referred. ‘Sex’ is the word again – a disgusting, demeaning word for the female
sex is Hillary's nickname. How this character assassination gained legs is sad, but
nonetheless, it should not, by any means, have been dismissed by Democrats. I’m not
saying she shouldn’t have run for president, I’m saying there should have been
damage control done the moment Bill was out of office. With most people, everything
is perception. If Americans perceive they are in danger from terrorists, they will act
accordingly. If they perceive Hillary as an unfeminine, immoral, but weak-willed
woman, who ignored the fact that her husband couldn’t keep it in his pants, and did so
for self-aggrandizement of her own; if they perceive of her as a liar and an
opportunist, whether that is the case or otherwise, well, who wants a woman like that
for president? Oprah Winfrey, who is both black and female, would have had a better
chance at getting the nomination than Hillary had.
If I can logic this all out, why couldn’t the Democrat strategists?
Now we have Obama remaining. And he is “young, gifted and Black.” But is he
‘Black’ enough to win? What do I mean by this? I mean, will he get the Black
American vote? I doubt it. Black Americans are their own worst enemies, the worst
racists, because they judge their own race by level of dark skin tone. I.e-
classifications like ‘redbone,’ ‘yellowbone.’ Obama has a white parent. He was
educated in a ‘snooty’ school. Does this make him unelectable to some Blacks?
Pathetically, it just might.
And what about those of us who don’t use terms like ‘redbone’ and ‘yellowbone,’ or
might not even know what a ‘Melungeon’ is, and which groups among a group despise
them for being who they are? Are there enough liberals among us, who, since they
can’t vote in a different sex as president in this election, will at least vote in a
different race, on the merit of race alone? After all, on what else can we judge
Obama? He hasn’t been in politics long enough to have any kind of a track record.
Nonetheless, I’d be the first one to jump up and cheer if the 'old boy network' of
politics were broken in this election. But, I already know I'm not going to be cheering.
Because, to the average American, our ‘safety’ is at stake. Joe wants an ‘experienced’
president, a president who knows how to keep us “safe from terrorism.” Failing that,
they at least want a president who’s not going to raise their taxes. At the end of the
day, that’s what it will come down to --- Mr, and Mrs Joe’s pocketbook. And using the
same dumb strategists, Obama has already shot himself in the foot by saying he’s
going to raise the taxes of the one group whose vote he desperately needs.
Duh.
So, here’s my cynical prediction for the next four years. John McCain will be
president. But since he is disliked by so many Republicans in Congress who never,
ever thought Democrats would be stupid enough to let him get elected, he will be as
ineffective a president as Jimmy Carter was when his fellow Democrats didn’t expect
him to get elected, either. But in a very similar situation, Carter was elected, and
Congress, in a fit of pique, made him as ineffective as they could manage. When
McCain gets elected, he will have no friends in Congress. Never doubt that the first
lined up to see him fail will be the Republicans in Congress, for sure. They will vote
against him every time, if he even tries to get the country on a better track. Nope, the
best John McCain can hope to do when he becomes our next president is keep us at
war with Iraq, strut around with his pretty wife, and eventually tell his grandkids that,
wouldn’t you know it, it’s impossible to believe, but, yes, he was once actually
president of the United States. As if that means anything any more.
That is, if he doesn’t go senile.
June 2008
graphic by Michelle Miranda Solange
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