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- In The Mailbox: 02.28.23 (Afternoon Edition) : The Other McCain on Hey, longtime pw readers…
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A Democrat Majority is inevitable
with that kind of thinking.
Team R with respect to how they handled immigration reform?
that’s just crass ineptitude
I’m embarrassed for them
viva the french republicans (ht levin)!!11!!. the white flag of surrender is rino gold.
– Hey, the newest “winning formula” in the RINO ranks is “chase the Lefty vote otherwise we can’t get elected”. The Pragmatic is the new Progressive.
– They lose every Libritarian/Classic Liberal/Moderate/Conservative, but by not-god they won’t lose the Left.
– Fucking brilliant.
– Mr McAlzheimers should simply retire, and end the embarrissments. Now hes managed to become a pariah in three languages.
– Maybe an email campaign would get his wife or family on the case.
Again grudgingly crediting Demonic here, the most sense I can make of immigration reform is that Republicans are gambling on some kind of judo reversal where they take away the Hispanic vote from the Democrats after passing the reform. What hasn’t been explained is who they have who can pull off a JFK calls Corretta moment in the face of a hostile media who won’t promote the image as JFK’s call was. They will need powerful imagery to appeal to the LIV’s, and they don’t have the machine for that.
The only other possibility is that they are ignoring party, and just trying to bring in more bodies to keep the “other people’s money” model going.
– North Korea? Nope, Arizona.
The Republicans aren’t gambling on shit. They just think they’ll spend less time in the minority by rolling over than they would otherwise spend trying to fight it and being demonized for their troubles.
“being demonized for their troubles.”
well you gotto want to fight back to fight back. the warm embrace of “comrades” is seductive to the stupid. ax lindsey
There ought to be an anthropomorphic R(h)INO in the lower panel cartoon. We need some way to separate the real from the fake.
“- Maybe an email campaign would get his wife or family on the case.”
Sadly not. His slut daughter is even worse. All the RINO without any of the at least slightly redeeming military record.
All the RINO without any of the at least slightly redeeming military record.
I’ve been wondering, at what point (if ever) does the long-term, lasting (and possibly permanent) damage McCain has done and is doing to this country neutralize the credit he gets for his military service?
As a former service member myself (USAF ’82-’86), I am the first one to say “Thank you for your service” to our current and former armed forces, but I gotta wonder what lengths someone has to go to in order to undo that good will.
I’m torn, because I appreciate McCain’s service and his sacrifices for our country, at the same time I hate him with the white hot burning of a thousand suns and want this angry, senile faux “Maverick” to drop into obscurity at the earliest possible opportunity.
some way to separate the real from the fake
For purposes other than depiction in a cartoon (which is only very marginally useful in any case) the actors, real and fake, do a perfectly adequate job of distinguishing themselves by deed. It then only remains that we examine those deeds with care. Which process of sorting is itself the general object of our attendance here.
The general condition of the Republican Party is reasonably well understood today, is it not? The so called Republicans in name only have become by declamation the overwhelming majority of the party’s leaders and Representatives in Congress and the lists for the highest national office of Executive, their ranks in critical positions of party power quite dwarfing those relative few who adhere to an older political intention on behalf of the nation, its political compact, their party, principles and the policy they would pursue.
We see in the Republican Party today a sort of smaller scale echo of Lincoln’s national dilemma expressed in his House divided speech, wherein the unity of purpose founded in the most fundamental principles, the very ground on which to make unity, once abandoned by any portion of the members purporting to keep union, portends the end of any possibility of remaining in union at all, such that either the one or the other must, necessarily, put to the [metaphorical] sword (and thus, to a finish) their partners in contention.
On those grounds, Lincoln understood, we will become either all one thing or all the other. The two cannot co-exist, and any pretense that they can do (in compromise) not only defeats the one and rewards victory upon the other, but, I believe, additionally opens the whole to attack from beyond the borders while the two contending parties focus on their internecine struggles.
So, sever. And once again unite.
Shorter sdferr: Better come to grips with the fact that it is we in the classical liberal/constitutional conservative camp who are the nominal Republicans.
The quadrennial Party of Reagan happy-talk notwithstanding.
I thank ye Ernst (but find a frightful dearth of alliterative p words in your precis, now replaced by hard c).
To my ears it’s better, much, to hear kuh kuh kuh see(?), than puh puh puh pee(?) — and with all the less potential percussive production of spattering spit on delivery.
I think the part of the “strategy” is to not necessarily to win over votes but, to take away attacks from the left, “endorse gay marriage, they can’t call us ‘haters’. Endorse amnesty, the can’t call us ‘racist/anti-immigrant,’ spend like drunken liberals, they cant call us ‘heartless'”.
An obviously stupid strategy since the left gets their way and they also have an unending sack of divisive issues. Besides, if it pays off andt you preserve the party, what exactly have you saved?
“endorse gay marriage, they can’t call us ‘haters’. Endorse amnesty, the can’t call us ‘racist/anti-immigrant,’ spend like drunken liberals, they cant call us ‘heartless’”.
Stupid Republicans. The Left is going to call you those names regardless of what you do (or don’t do).
You could personally lead the Gay Pride parade on Castro Street in San Fran wearing leather fetish gear and they’ll still call you a “hater”. You could personally hand a citizenship certificate and EBT card to each and every illegal alien in this country as well as drive the bulldozer to knock down every inch of US-Mexico border fence and you’ll still be called “racist/anti-immigrant”. You could vote to triple the welfare, food stamp and Medicare programs and push to double the minimum wage and you’d still be called “heartless” and accused of wanting to push old people and children off a cliff.
It’s exactly like how the Latino vote is going to the Democrats no matter how much and how long you pander to them.
Pull your head out of your ass already, would ya?
yeah, I don’t get it dave.
I have never been one of the “cool kids” and I have no intention on becoming one now.
My guess is the reason that establishment Republicans are more interested in quashing attacks is because they agree with their attackers.