These doubts lead O.C.S. sufferers down the path to the question that is the Unholy of the Unholies for Obama-maniacs: How exactly would all this unity he talks about come to pass?All of the talk about Obama unifying and healing the country can be blown apart with these key facts. McCain is reviled by the "true conservative" suicide bombers in the Republican party for doing exactly what Obama claims he will do, but hasn't.
How is a 47-year-old novice going to unify highly polarized 70-something committee chairs? What will happen if the nation’s 261,000 lobbyists don’t see the light, even after the laying on of hands? Does The Changemaker have the guts to take on the special interests in his own party — the trial lawyers, the teachers’ unions, the AARP?
The Gang of 14 created bipartisan unity on judges, but Obama sat it out. Kennedy and McCain created a bipartisan deal on immigration. Obama opted out of the parts that displeased the unions. Sixty-eight senators supported a bipartisan deal on FISA. Obama voted no. And if he were president now, how would the High Deacon of Unity heal the breach that split the House last week?
That's a pretty easy ad campaign to prepare and launch. I think it's devastating, too. Once you unveil Obama's claims of being the Great Faith Healer as a fraud, there's not much left of him.
Update: As the true conservative jihadists get the vapors over McCain, Christopher Buckley wisely suggests that they all breathe into a brown paper bag and calm down.
"suicide bombers...?" Interesting choice of words. You know, I was hoping for a snarky Sam Donaldson "Hezbollah wing of the Republican Party" reference, instead.
ReplyDeleteIf McCain loses this thing he'll have no one but himself to blame as he has held these "suicide bombers" as you refer to them in high disdain in word and deed for years now.
That "revile" has been a two-way street.
Viva Partisanship.
If McCain loses this thing he'll have no one but himself to blame
ReplyDeleteThat implies that only hewing to Rush's concepts of orthodoxy allows one to run as a member of the (R) team.
Instead, I suggest that if Hillary or Obama wins, the true conservative jihadists only have themselves to blame.
Hardly. I give you not one but two George W. Bushes and his “compassionate conservatism” that in practice was nowhere near the Reagan/Gingrich conservative model.
ReplyDeleteYeah, KT… Blame the voters! It will all be their fault if the old man doesn’t win. That’s rich. This is a fascinating construct you’ve developed to where I’m suddenly supposed to forget about the last 8 years of the man dumping on the movement that has been the ideological engine of the Party for the past 40 years and which saved it from its directionless floundering in the 50s and 60s. Remember, elections are equal part reward and punishment.
And cheap, throw-away comments like “suicide bombers” and “jihadists” doing nothing but reinforce the belief that, “Yeah, that’s right – I’d almost forgot. The guy really does despise us”. Keep up the good work.
More Megan. Less Dad.
Dean, what does that have to do with anything? The old #@&^*^* is hardly as compassionate as either Bush. After all he used to bomb the @T&*@^* out of the @T#^&@^&* Commies and he voted to @#*^@( the poor instead of giving them more and more money like Bush did.
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ReplyDelete"Conservative jihadists"? "'True conservative' suicide bombers"?
Did I surf over to DU on accident....?
Most of the folks I know who support Obama aren't interested in facts. He looks nice and makes them feel good.
Cat, please stop writing like this. It's not like you-- frankly, you're starting to sound like some kind of Hillary fan or some junk-- or like listening to CNN, where everything can be used to bash the Accepted Targets.