HI DAn,

On Wed 2037-May-06 04:40, Dan Ceppa (1:138/666) wrote to Richard Webb:

 RW> THe part of it all that scares me as that the REpublicans
 RW> actually thought they'd sell SArah Palin to the people, and
 RW> came close enough to doing just that.  IS there something in the
 RW> modern republican party which precludes anybody running for PREsident
 RW> or Vice PResident that has any integrity or intelligence?

DC> They seem to thonk that appeasing and moving to the winger base is 
DC> the soluyion.  The Republican party is now at 21% and shrinking.  

BUt those remaining are quite zealous and accuse the rest of us of really
picking on poor Sarah, as if she didn't make a
good enough target out of herself.  I still say Barry
GOldwater must be spinning in his grave.

MOdern conservatives in the GOldwater mold will have to do
something to salvage their political identity, and so far
I"m not seeing them make the effort, which is surprising.
After all, with all these internet tools at their disposal
it would be easily enough done, but the ultra rightist wack
jobs are still dominating any discourse coming from that
side of the political fence.  LET's hope maybe the
libertarians can capitalize where these folks keep shooting
themselves in the foot.  Big government and the nanny state
is still not the solution.


DC> ... "Apes were invented because politicians were needed." -- Asimov

Isaac was a pretty sharp man.  REad the rest of the
FOUndation series if you just stopped with the original
FOUndation trilogy.

Regards,
           Richard
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