To Live & Lie in D.C.

More comments I posted at Blogs for Bush yesterday....

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If you approach the American people with your honest views and defend them openly, you may lose...but if you instead approach the American people by obfuscating your views and using attacks on the other side to distract from your opinions, then you will not only lose for sure, but lose very badly.

Not if you're a good enough liar. How else to explain the Clinton detour?

The Dems' biggest problem now is that their leaders are all lightweights (i.e. Pelosi), stiffs (i.e. Reid), and mental ward escapees (i.e. Al Gore), none of whom can think worth a lick, much less on their feet, and all of whom are such knee-jerk reactionaries that it ought to be child's play to manipulate them.

Unfortunately, aside from the President (whose biggest fault is that he's too stubbornly nice), it seems the only leader our party has who isn't a numbnut (i.e. Lugar) or a cringer (i.e. Frist) is Tom DeLay. And look what's happening to him.

If the Democrats were to forthrightly state what they are doing, they'd lose...but for them to foolishly try to hide their real reasons for action is even worse; falsehood comes out, and the people know when they are being conned.

And if Republicans aren't pointing this out, then "the people" will conclude that our party is winking at it, that it's all just the same old game, and resignedly shrug and write it off to "politics as usual."

If people feel like they're being conned but their elected GOP representatives don't seem to be objecting to the con themselves, won't the people throw up their hands in futility and stop paying attention?

All President Bush and the GOP had to do over the past month or so was just wait for the Democrats to saw off the branch they were sitting on. It was a certainty they'd do it; they've been doing it to themselves for better than 10 years now. Unless the Democrats get a sudden attack of honesty, they are going to go on losing - and deservedly so.

Wrong. That's only half the equation. It's our party that has to do the actual sawing. Otherwise, if/when the branch eventually breaks, it'll be the rest of the tree that topples over.

Review the political history of the past forty years. The GOP could claim Wile E. Coyote as a mascot far more credibly than the Donks ever could.

as soon as a GOPer comes along who realises just how fed up most conservatives are with making nice with the other side, that GOPer will steamroller the competition for the GOP nomination in '08 and go on to clobber whomever the Democrats put up. The 2008 theme song will be Nazareth's "Now You're Messing With a Son of a B***".

There is no such GOPer. At least not one that would get within a parsec of the nomination.

Again, among the current leadership, Tom DeLay would come closest, and look what's being done to him. Before him it was Newt Gingrich, and look what was done to him.

If any such Republican looked like a star on the rise, they'd be rototilled long before the snows fell in Iowa and New Hampshire. Which is precisely why no Republican contender would ever take that tack. Heck, remember the 2000 convention? They practically withheld floor passes from anybody who wouldn't lactate on command.

The party hierarchy will never stop being haunted by Pat Buchanan at the 1992 convention in Houston. And he wasn't even the nominee.

With all due respect, I'm not a pessimist; I'm a realist. I only sound pessimistic because studying history will do that to a person.

That said, I'll point out that the Clinton Diversion (perversion?) was an utter disaster for the Democrats and the left...because the left was bamboozled into defending the Clinton's when they should have joined in the impeachment, the Clinton's managed to survive, but the net effect of the 8 years of Clinton was loss after loss for the left.

Yes, but try telling them that. You can't. They drank the koolaid for years. Only instead of killing them, it turned them into raving zombies with astroturf for brains.

Heck, I spent years in online debate forums warning them about this. I told Donks to their "faces" that one day Clinton was going to leave office, and the fantastically intricate propaganda apparatus with which he and his machine spent the '90s playing "Gingerbread Man" with their ponderous GOP foes was going to fly apart spectacularly with nobody remotely competent left to pilot it.

They never listened. And neither, apparently, did their party leaders. So when the propaganda machine started going "punkety-punkety-punkety," they comforted themselves in the "Bush is a dolt" myth. Then they lost the 2002 mid-terms. So they decided to dispense with "nuance" and "spin" and that gave us the Howie Dean phenomenon. Then, like a lush just dimly aware that he's on the brink of explosive liver decompression, they threw the bottle away at the last possible instant in Iowa last year, and turned back to "nuance" in the person of arguably their least competent practitioner of it. And now, having lost again, they're reduced to following a man who looks like Tom Daschle after drinking from the wrong Holy Grail.

That's why I'm so caustic in my ridicule of Bill Frist. Tangling with Dirty Harry should be like watching the Skipper arm-wrestle Gilligan. Yet Frist tip-toes around like he's going up against the political equivalent of Hulk Hogan, circa 1982. It's humiliating even to read about it.

Honesty is always the best policy...and the Democrats have made a fetish out of being dishonest.

Bill Clinton made a political career out of it. And he's the last successful Democrat. That's all the farther his lilliputian followers can see. So they'll follow his example all the way to the bottom, never realizing that it was a parasitic relationship from the very start.

I've always thought that Sick Willie is never truly happy unless he's exploiting somebody. Ironic indeed it is that for all those years, we thought it was only because he was making monkeys out of us.