Is the GOP insane? Recently President Obama let us know that Republican plans to return to economic policies of the Bush years is "madness." He further reminded us that previous Republican presidents would not even recognize today’s Republican party.
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Jeb Bush endorses Mitt Romn…wait…Romney aid shoved his foot in his mouth and in Romney’s with a mind-bloggingly comment that suggested Romney could totally start anew and discard his past positions, including assertions Romney made in an effort to woo conservative voters by moving further to the right. Forget that Jeb Bush finally endorsed Romney because nobody better stepped-up. No, let’s bring on the Etch-a-Sketch!
Is it just me, or are the Republican primaries starting to look like an extended cage fight? In this extreme ideological battle the GOP is left bruised, bloodied, and unenthused. While the combatants are only focused on winning this long match, they are forgetting that the championship is actually about winning the White House. Yet, instead the Republican fight is instead heading to a general-election suicide. But yet, the fight continues – and it’s only half over.
There’s perhaps no better indicator o the tenor of the presidential general election than the new video released by the Obama campaign on Thursday. The campaign video, directed by David Guggenheim of Inconvenient Truth and Waiting for Superman fame, and narrated by actor Tom Hanks, is a 17 minute reprimand for an American public that still feels largely “down and out”. The video, entitled “The Road We’ve Traveled”, attempts to remind viewers that not only could things have been much worse, but they were much worse only a couple of years ago. However, the rosy picture the campaign is trying to paint may be a taffy-pulling treatment of the truth; something closer in character to what we’ve come to expect from the Republican opposition.
A recent campaign video out from the Obama White House has already come under fire for misrepresenting the truth, particularly as it pertains to the auto bailout of 2009. Republican opponents and conservative pundits have blasted the video for insulting voters’ intelligence and trying to mislead voters about the economic reality today. The video’s message is fundamentally true; things are better than they were several years ago. However, it does seem to exaggerate how much better, and definitely overstates the amount to which the auto makers have paid back the auto stimulus. Of course, Republicans are calling the kettle black without wanting their voters to notice. I suppose the GOP campaign strategy, much like Gingrich trying to criticize Romney for being rich, is if you hurl blame long enough and loud enough the public won’t notice you’re just as guilty.
Despite Rick Santorum’s two big wins in the south last night, it seems that Romney has still won the night with the most delegates because of proportional delegation. Yet, last night confirms that Romney will face this frustration throughout the spring – doing just well enough to maintain his delegate lead, but not enough to clear the field and turn his attention to Barack Obama.
Juan Williams does a nice piece at The Hill on the diminishing number of moderates in Congress. Moderates like Olympia Snowe are retiring from elective office out of frustration while others are being driven out of office in primaries and party purification rituals. The result is that voices of moderation, reason and civility continue to ebb. Williams reasons that Congress will become increasingly partisan and shrill despite growing numbers of citizens identifying as independent and moderate.
Whew - Super Tuesday is over and the pundits are now doing their instant historical analysis. The main take from it is this: former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney had the big win: Ohio. But it was not the night that the Republican establishment hoped it would be or that Mitt Romney wanted. Romney remains a flawed front-runner, former Pennsylvania Sen Rick Santorum has risen (somewhat) again, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has enough of a lifeline to hang in there, and Representative Ron Paul isn’t going anywhere.
A few days ago Rick Santorum referred to President Obama as a “snob” because Obama wants students to go to college (or some other post high school education or training). Yet, the GOP have a series of snobs running. Okay, maybe snob isn’t the word – maybe many are just smug. The Chief Smugger seems to be Mitt Romney. As mentioned before, he seems extremely out of touch with main street America. And, his lack of sincerity and regular flip-flopping makes many wonder what principles drive Mitt Romney and his run for the Presidency.
