2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumObama Romneyizes the Republicans
I was actually smiling when I read this op-ed in the WSJ:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304864504579139371748288010
(copy and paste the title onto google if you cannot open at the link)
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From the House to the Senate, the Republicans look dazed and confused. Three weeks ago, Ted Cruz stood in the Senate chamber for nearly a day, looking like a hero. Today, with the GOP brand in a vertical dive, he looks like a Bozo balloon.
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Republicans complain constantly that the media "lets him get away with it." The media is floating down the electric river. No, theythe message-impoverished Republicanslet him get away with it. The Washington GOP is now a political Gulliver, tied down by tweets and twerps.
A month ago, before the congressional Republicans' General Custer Caucus used "Defund ObamaCare" to vote themselves into their current, bullet-riddled fort, the Obama characterization of the entire GOP as "tea party Republicans" would have been a pathetic stretch. He was the one being laughed at by the whole world for his vanishing red lines in Syria and a foreign policy that even his own defense secretary described as "swinging from vine to vine."
Not anymore. Barack Obama is Romneyizing the Republicans. He's doing to Ted Cruz and the House Republicans what he did to Mitt Romney and the 1%. It may be voter brainwashing, but in the expanded media age in which we all marinate, it works.
Someone in the tea party outside the Beltway had better wake up and smell the smoke. The great nemesis has done it again: He's turning them into political toast.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Clever wordage, alliteration, classical literary reference, all in a knuckle-slap across the GOP's face.
I like this Daniel Henniger chap.
question everything
(47,486 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)What a Side-Show the Republican Party is now....Obama put the Stinkeye on the whole bunch of em! Forced the Republican Party to go to war on each other.....and revealed themselves in the process! What a Rope-A-Dope! I am telling you....Chuck Norris territory! He puts Political Ju Jit Su on his opponents!
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)nt
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)twist and money behind them.
shraby
(21,946 posts)to read. Thanks for posting.
question everything
(47,486 posts)Daniel Henninger is Deputy Editorial Page Director of the Wall Street Journal and a Fox News contributor. He also writes a column named "Wonder Land" which appears every Thursday.
And... in most cases he follows the WSJ and Fox lines. But the Journal led the attack on Cruz and on the Republicans over the fiasco of the past two weeks.
I usually do not bother to read him - why raise my blood pressure? But this one, as I mentioned, above, brought a smile to my face so decided to share..
shraby
(21,946 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)Awesome and well-deserved rant. That guy does have a way with words:
I think Obama has a new moniker.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)was mistaking the Bozo balloon for a "hero."
CBHagman
(16,986 posts)So we've had the "Suicide Caucus" and now "General Custer Caucus." One detects a theme...
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)... but I like the idea of "Romneyize" entering common usage.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)They were nothing in the beginning.
ffr
(22,670 posts)of it. That's what happens when you entertain your own civil war.
Happy day to you GOP. Let your days be few. And thanks for losing $24 billion! Brilliant move there!