The flawed logic of a "Permanent Republican Majority".

I read this diary on MyDD and it expressed so succinctly why the right wing is kidding itself bigtime. They bought in to all their talking points, to the utter destruction of their movement as a policy shaping force in this country....



"You won't see much talk of a "permanent Republican majority" anymore. That strategy that brought them to power is now revealing its ultimate weakness. If you run a polarizing strategy, you end any possibility of long-term growth for your coalition. You cannot run a strategy designed to destroy our national consensus and then hope that you will one-day hold the national consensus, especially when the other side catches on and starts building their own Noise Machine. The narrow presidential and congressional victories for Republicans from 2000-2004, often secured without even winning the popular vote, represent the apex of the existing Republican governing coalition. There is absolutely no room for this coalition to grow. They have already effectively demonized everyone who is already voting against them (and many people who are voting with them). Bush's approval rating among Democrats and Independents are now identical to Nixon's. They live in a different world with a different reality produced by a different set of media outlets. You can never become a natural governing majority when that is the case. They have rejected reality, and now reality is rejecting them.

The nation is rejecting Republicans. The nation is rejecting the radical conservative message. We should not have done this well last night considering the problems within our own party and our own leadership, but it is very, very hard to run as a Republican right now. They had the flimsiest, most narrow governing majority in the history of the country. Despite this, they believed their own talking points and thought they had an overwhelming mandate. Well, the gig is up conservatives. The nation is not to you. If you continue to govern in the same extremist, polarizing, and incompetent manner of the past five years any longer, come 2006, indictments of your entire leadership will be the least of your worries".

http://www.mydd.com/story/2005/11/9/1366/49636

Oh how I dream of a dem. president, frist being booted, hastert sent back to be a wrestling coach or whatever he was, shutting up orren hatch, limpballs choking on his vomit, the groppenfurher slinking away with OJ. This is going to be good.

movement" circles the bowl, finally recognized by any ethical and moral American a the sideshow flim flam it really is?

Edit: spelling

Oh, how I worry for Syria, this guy is a one trick pony. "Hey, what if we invade Syria???!!!!"

that is well said :thumbsup:

that they will use the diebold machines and every other trick to cheat there way into keeping their power.

it was the voter turn out that prevented that from fully working

But I think the Diebold fixing will be harder and harder to hide--you know how those things have a way of coming to the surface. Look at Plame, torture, intelligent design (excepting Kansas). It took forever for those travesties to become mainstream. Diebold can't hide it forever--leaks have a way of occurring, especially when a coming majority of voters will sense something is irregular. Call me optimistic.